GTA 5 Friend Request Mission Walkthrough

Michael meets Lester, infiltrates Lifeinvader and rigs a prototype phone. This also opens the stock market.

Objectives

Go to the Suburban store in Vinewood.
Go to the Lifeinvader offices.
Go to the rear entrance.
Follow the programmer.
Close the popups to reveal the antivirus shortcut.
Run the antivirus software.
Rig the prototype.
Exit the building.
Watch the keynote at Michael’s house.
Wait for Jay Norris to pull out the prototype phone and then give him a call.

Mission walkthrough

Lester’s plan

Michael visits Lester and gets a backpack containing a device. Buy the outfit at the Suburban store on Power Street. If you’re broke, Lester gives you $200.

Michael in a gray suit waits at a green house door marked with camera and no-trespassing signs.

Michael in a gray suit with a blue backpack in a cluttered room, objective to go to the Suburban store.

Michael in a gray suit with a blue backpack walks into the Suburban clothing store entrance.

Shop menu in Suburban with the Rearwall Brown Gilet highlighted while Michael wears it.

Inside Lifeinvader

Drive to the Lifeinvader offices and wait at the rear entrance for the programmer’s smoke break. He thinks you’re tech support. Follow him to his desk. Close every pop-up on the screen and then run the antivirus shortcut, which doesn’t work until they’re all gone.

A man in shorts gets out of a black car beside an ivy-covered building, with "Go to the rear entrance" on screen.

Michael in a brown vest talks with a man in a green T-shirt and lanyard outside a building.

Michael in a brown vest and blue backpack follows a man in green down a hallway, with "Follow the programmer" on screen.

Michael walks through a Lifeinvader office floor behind the man in green toward the desks.

Find the prototype in the demo room, plant the device and walk out the way you came in.

A man in a green sweater points across an office and asks Michael if he has seen the prototype.

Michael walks through the Lifeinvader office past a lounge, with "Rig the prototype" on screen.

Michael leans over a desk where his blue backpack sits beside a Lifeinvader monitor.

Michael in a brown vest walks down a Lifeinvader hallway, with "Exit the building" on screen.

The keynote

Go home, sit on the sofa and turn on the keynote. Wait for Jay Norris to hold up the phone, then dial the number from your own phone. Lester calls afterwards and tells you about the stock market. Clothing stores and the stock market open up after this.

Michael in a brown vest walks up to the front door of a large house.

On the living room TV, Jay Norris holds up a phone during the Weazel News keynote.

Michael sits on the sofa with his phone, Jay Norris highlighted in the contacts list.

What fails this mission

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

Michael’s cover was blown.
Michael was unable to obtain the disguise.
Michael couldn’t afford the disguise.
Michael left before planting the bomb.
Michael failed to detonate the phone.
Too much heat to carry out the job.
Scaring Tracey.

Gold Medal requirements

Use Michael’s ability just before the computer scene to clear the pop-ups inside the 32 seconds. The antivirus will not run until every pop-up is closed. Use the rear exit on the way out and skip cutscenes to stay inside 08:30.