The Big Score

Driller

Protagonist
Any available character
Location
Triggered by the Obvious approach
Gold objectives
2

Requires Planning the Big Score (Obvious)

Gold medal objectives

Steal a Cutter from a yard full of guards for the Obvious approach.

Objectives

  1. Steal the Cutter.
  2. Get the driller out of the yard.
  3. Go to the parking lot.

Mission walkthrough

Lester sends you to a yard in East Los Santos, where the Cutter sits on a truck’s trailer. If you enter the truck while any guard is alive, they all see you. That won’t fail the mission, but you’ll have a fight on your hands.

Michael walks past the blue truck with the yellow cutter on its trailer in the rail yard
Objective Get the driller out of the yard is on screen above the yellow cutter in the yard

The cleanest way is to go up the ramp on to the roof, south of the west entrance, with a suppressed sniper rifle. Clear the workers one at a time, leaving the two talking together until last. Then go down, get in the truck and drive out. Lester sends you to a parking lot near the Union Depository. Leave the truck and you’re finished.

Michael in a gray suit climbs a yellow ladder up the side of a brick building to the roof
Michael in a gray suit runs along a rooftop past white air units
The blue truck pulling the yellow cutter drives down a wide city highway
The blue truck with the yellow cutter is parked in an open lot beside a building
Mission Passed on screen as Michael in a white suit walks past the blue truck in a garage

What fails this mission

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

  • Cutter is destroyed.
  • Truck is destroyed.
  • Truck is stuck.
  • Parking lot contact is killed.
  • Driller is abandoned.

Gold Medal requirements

Use a suppressed sniper rifle from the roof, reached by the ramp south of the west entrance. Pick off the workers one at a time, from the east towards the middle, leaving the two talking together for last. Take them at the same time so neither can raise the alarm. You have 05:00 in total.

Michael stands at a roof ledge holding a rifle, looking down on the yard below
Michael on a rooftop edge holds a rifle over the yard, with a Tractor sign below

Part of Heist setupThe Big Score in the story walkthrough.