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Lester's Assassination Missions

The Bus Assassination

Protagonist
Franklin
Location
Payphone, Hawick Avenue
Gold objectives
1

Requires The Vice Assassination

Gold medal objectives

Franklin takes over a bus route to reach a tight-fisted billionaire who rides the bus to work.

Objectives

  1. Collect the Bus from the Bus Station
  2. Stop at each Bus Stop until the target is found
  3. Assassinate the target
  4. Leave the area
  5. Lose the cops. (Only if any wanted level has been obtained)

Mission walkthrough

Don’t buy anything first on this one. Take Lester’s call at the Hawick Avenue payphone, then pick up the bus at the bus station. Drive the route like a real driver and stop at each marked stop. Hitting a pedestrian or a police car brings stars, which makes everything harder.

Franklin on a call at a 25-cent payphone on a Los Santos street.
Franklin walks toward a Los Santos Transit bus parked in the Downtown bus station lot.
The bus pulls out of the station as the objective says to drive to each bus stop.

At Isaac Penny’s stop, he realizes something’s wrong and runs. Chase him down and kill him, running him over with the bus if you can. Now buy Vapid on BAWSAQ. It can double within a couple of in-game days. Sleep as Trevor to speed this up, then sell.

A man in a beige suit stands inside the bus near the doors, with Franklin in the foreground.
The bus rolls under an overpass while a shouted line asks why a passenger is bailing out.
Franklin runs down a city sidewalk with a pistol in his hand.
The BAWSAQ site on the phone shows the Vapid stock page with its buy controls.

What fails this mission

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

  • Target escaped.
  • Bus destroyed or abandoned.
  • Cover blown.
  • Franklin kills a pedestrian and the police are alerted.
  • Franklin kills a cop or shoots at a Cop Car and gets a wanted level.
  • Mission abandoned.

Gold Medal requirements

Run Penny over with the bus. This adds a cash bonus too.

Blue city bus in a parking lot, with the objective to drive to each bus stop until the target is located
Blue city bus turns down a Los Santos street, a pedestrian on the sidewalk and a subtitle about a short detour

Part of Lester CrestLester’s Assassination Missions in the story walkthrough.