Distraction Action!

Location
red phone in The Village, Residential District
Reward
$70,000, +1 score multiplier, Zaibatsu respect

Red Valdez needs the cops looking elsewhere while he pulls a job. You break into the Central Cop HQ, destroy its generator, steal the Truck Cab with the Transporter and keep the police busy for one minute.

Before you start

Needs maximum respect with the Zaibatsu (red phone).

Bring a good weapon, Molotov Cocktails if you have them, and expect armed guards on the walkways.

Objectives

  1. Go to the Video Store in Morton for further instructions.
  2. Head up the steps and across the pipes to get inside the Cop Station.
  3. Destroy the rooftop Generator to open the exit gates.
  4. Steal the Truck Cab.
  5. Distract the Cops and avoid getting arrested for one minute.

Distraction Action! walkthrough

To Morton

Valdez tells you to meet his contact at the Video Store in Morton. At the store you are told to climb up and make your way to the Central Cop HQ.

Valdez asking Claude to distract the cops
Driving through Xenoton toward Morton
Reaching Morton

Across the pipes

Take the steps to the roof and cross the pipes into the Cop Station. Security guards patrol the walkways and fire as you approach, so shoot first. Keep going until you are inside.

Message to head up the steps and across the pipes
A police car turning a corner past a neon-lit building
Gunfire flaring beside a dark pipe walkway as a car passes

The generator

Inside Central Cop HQ, go to the north side, where the generator sits on the roof. Destroy it with Molotov Cocktails. That opens the exit gates, but it sets off an alarm and the cops start shooting.

Entering the Central Cop HQ roof
Valdez warning that destroying the generator set off an alarm
A rooftop with a stairway and a patterned square

Take the truck

Get downstairs to the parking lot, dodging the cops’ shots. The Truck Cab and Transporter trailer are parked there. Take the cab and drive out of the open gates.

Gunfire across a dark Central Cop HQ rooftop
Cars standing in a marked parking lot
Valdez telling Claude to distract the cops for one minute

One minute

Now just stay free for a minute. Drive around Morton and the neighboring streets and keep the cops chasing you. A timer counts down. Avoid dead ends and being boxed in, since being arrested ends the mission.

A police car among pink cars on a SLOW-marked street, timer showing
A police car and other cars on a crowded SLOW-marked street, timer running
A cop car and a green car crossing a paved lot, timer running

What fails this mission

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

  • The Truck Cab is destroyed
  • The Transporter is destroyed

After the mission

When the minute ends, Valdez pays $70,000 and your multiplier rises by one. The Zaibatsu gang jobs in this area are complete.

The MISSION COMPLETE notice with Valdez's $70,000 reward message