Intensive Care

Location
Caligula's Palace, The Strip, Las Venturas
Reward
$5,000, Respect

Ken Rosenberg is caught between the three Mafia families, and the Forellis have learned that Johnny Sindacco is recovering in hospital. You hunt down the ambulance that took Johnny, ram it to take it over and drive Johnny to the meat factory.

Before you start

Take a car you can bear to wreck, because you will be ramming ambulances at speed

Full health helps, as the crashes hurt if you bail out near traffic

Objectives

  1. Find a ride and go pick up Johnny Sindacco from the hospital.
  2. Find the ambulance that contains Johnny.
  3. Ram the ambulance to show the Mafia you mean business.
  4. Take Johnny back to the meat factory.

Intensive Care walkthrough

Ken’s problem

Walk into Caligula’s Palace and up to Ken’s office. Kent Paul persuades Ken to tell CJ his problems. Ken is the middleman for the three Mafia families, who hate each other, so a hit between them could be blamed on him. The Forellis have found out where Johnny Sindacco is recovering from his coma, so CJ offers to move Johnny somewhere safe.

CJ standing in Ken Rosenberg's green office at Caligula's Palace
Ken Rosenberg telling the story of his life in the mob
Ken explaining that Johnny is in a coma at the hospital

Get a ride

Leave the casino and take any car from the street. You are only told to find a ride and go to the hospital, so grab something quick with decent handling. You will need it for the ramming that follows.

CJ running out of the casino grounds to find a car
Driving a white sedan along Harry Gold Parkway

Find the right ambulance

At the hospital the receptionist tells you someone else has already picked Johnny up in an ambulance, so it must have been the Mafia. Three ambulances pull away and only one holds Johnny. Chase each in turn and ram it from behind, and the objective text tells you whether you have the right one. Once you hit a wrong one, the others are warned and speed up, and Forelli gangsters take over one of them.

CJ's car pulling into the hospital car park as ambulances leave
An ambulance ahead as the game warns Johnny may be in the other one
Driving down the road after the second ambulance

Ram it again

Once you hit the ambulance carrying Johnny, the game tells you to ram it again to show the Mafia you mean business. Line up behind it and hit it at speed, but take care not to destroy it. The Forelli men inside are forced out, and the game tells you to get in the ambulance before backup arrives.

Closing in on the ambulance on the Strip
Ramming the ambulance beside Starfish Casino
The ambulance crumpled after the second hit

Back to the meat factory

Climb into the ambulance yourself and drive it to the meat factory in Whitewood Estates. Forelli backup arrives on the way, so keep moving and drive with care, as the ambulance can be wrecked. At the abattoir two Sindacco thugs take Johnny from you in his wheelchair.

CJ driving the ambulance with Johnny aboard
The ambulance racing along Harry Gold Parkway toward the factory
Ken and Johnny outside the ambulance at the end of the mission

What fails this mission

Besides dying or being arrested, the mission ends if any of these happen:

  • Johnny dies
  • The ambulance is destroyed
  • The ambulance escapes

After the mission

You receive $5,000 and Respect. The Meat Business and Misappropriation open.

The mission passed screen showing $5000 and Respect