“Alright, the courier's moving the plates from the docks today. I'm gonna go intercept them, grab the plates, lose any heat, and make my way back here. Now. Depending how well this goes, we may have five minutes to print the money before the counterfeit syndicate finds us, or we may have all year. Either way, I want green rolling off the presses five minutes after I get back. Got it?”
Hit the Courier is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City given to protagonist Tommy Vercetti by Earnest Kelly from the Print Works in Little Haiti, Vice City.
Mission
After finding out about the counterfeit plates, Tommy sets out to intercept them from a courier landing in Viceport. After a brief conversation with Lance and Earnest, he leaves for Viceport. Upon arriving at the docks, he is attacked by several armed women, whom he kills. He then waits for the courier, who arrives in a Maverick with another bodyguard. He kills both of them and grabs the chips. Afterwards, he returns to the Print Works. After the mission has been completed, the Printworks will earn $8000 a day.
Mission Objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- The counterfeit plates courier is arriving at the docks in a helicopter any second now.
- The courier with the plates has arrived at the docks.
- The courier has died and dropped the plates, get to them before anyone else.
- You have the counterfeit plates. Take them to the print works.
Transcript
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Post-Mission Phone Call
Ken Rosenberg: Tommy, Tommy, Tommy, I had Sonny on the phone, OK, are you with me? I don't know about you, but there's something about a man threatening to murder my family which really scares the crap out of me. What are you gonna do?
Tommy Vercetti: Ken, take it easy.
Ken Rosenberg: I AM calm, calm as a man can be when he's fearing for his life!
Tommy Vercetti: Stay off the idiot fuel and look after yourself. No one's gonna take us out. I'll see you later.
Ken Rosenberg: I am calm. Don't I sound calm? Must be impending death that is doing this to my voice.
Walkthrough
Video Walkthroughs
Gallery
Trivia
- The _target in this mission drives a unique black Sentinel. This is very difficult to obtain due to the large amount of people guarding her, and because the doors are locked, which means that the player has to snipe her out of the car in order to be able to get in.
- If Tommy shoots the helicopter, the mission will fail. Strangely, the game will say "The plates were destroyed by the explosion", even if it didn't explode.
- This is the only mission in the game where all the enemies are female.
- Ironically, the place where Tommy ambushes the deal is the same place where the deal at the beginning of the game unfolds; the location is notable for being the place Victor Vance is killed at.
- Cubans are hostile to the women, but they have poor equipment against the women.
- Even if the player doesn't go to the docks, the female guards will still be triggered and go for Tommy.
- Interestingly, if the player folllows the courier instead of killing her, she will eventually arrive at a building in Little Haiti (the same one containing Hidden Package #66). Here the door will open and four women armed with Shotguns will walk out and attack the player. The door will remain open after killing everyone, allowing the player to enter. The interior consists of a small interior with a printer as seen as in the interior of Print Works. After completing the mission the door will close and cannot be opened again. The player can also skip going to the docks entirely and wait for them to arrive at the building. Note that the mission fails if the courier enters the building, they should be picked up by the player before exploring the building. A video of this can be seen here.
- Strangely, pedestrians and Haitians can spawn inside the building at any time, leaving them completely trapped.
