By the Book

We're going through how to get Gold in the most controversial GTA 5 Mission By the Book; where we find out that Trevor really is a big softie.

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Grand Theft Auto is a truly massive game. Between GTA 5 and the constant updates from Rockstar for GTA Online; there’s no shortage of new content and interesting things to do.

Join me, then, in our continuing series, getting gold in every damn mission, in GTA 5 as we look at Grand Theft Auto Mission, By the Book.

…and don’t forget to hang about until the end, so you can catch our bonus tips, on keeping Kerimov alive.

Before we start, a quick warning. This mission was controversial when GTA was released, and is still confronting today. The following contains images of stylised torture. Some viewers may find this distressing.

Getting gold in this mission is rough. We’ll need to keep a real eye on the welfare of our prisoner; and make sure we take out the right target.

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Haines wants Michael to assassinate Tahir Javan, an Azerbaijani man who Haines and Norton claim has ties to terrorism.

Kerimov previously set up an audio-visual system for Javan and so is the FIB’s only source of information.

Haines orders Michael to go with Norton to locate Javan, while Trevor and Haines remain in the warehouse with Kerimov.

Kerimov lives in Morningwood, Los Santos, with his family.

The IAA kidnapped Kerimov six weeks earlier and faked his death to “Remove him from the record”, then hold him as an intelligence asset and possible jihadist for “Debrief”.

Michael is ordered to verify the identity of his corpse at the Los Santos County Coroner Office in Davis and has to fight his way out of the building after discovering the cadaver is a “Large black woman” instead. Under the orders of Steve Haines, Michael, Franklin Clinton and Trevor Philips extract him from the 36th floor of the IAA Headquarters in the midst of a violent interrogation session led by Karen Daniels.

Kerimov is then brutally tortured by Trevor under Steve’s supervision, until he gives them enough information so that Michael and Dave Norton can locate and kill Tahir Javan.

Steve gives Trevor the order to kill Kerimov, claiming that he is no longer useful.

Trevor decides instead to let Kerimov live, because he doesn’t like taking orders from government types, and also because Kerimov must “Deliver a message” about the pointlessness of torture.

Once dropped off at the airport, Kerimov attempts to run away.

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hi in this video we’re going through how to get gold in the most controversial gta mission
by the book we will find out that trevor really is a big softie
hi and welcome back my name’s Dan and i’m an old grumpy gamer grand theft auto is a truly massive
game between gta 5 and the constant updates from rockstar for gta online there’s no shortage of new
content and interesting things to do join me then in our continuing series getting gold in every
damn mission in gta 5. as we look at grand theft auto mission buy the book and don’t forget to hang
about until the end so you can catch our bonus tips on keeping karemov alive before we dive in
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ringing the bell to start today before we start a quick warning this mission was controversial when
gta was released and is still confronting today the following contains images of stylized torture
and some viewers may find this distressing getting gold in this mission is rough we need
to keep a real eye on the welfare of our prisoner and make sure we get to take out the right target
to get gold we’ll need to use all of our torture techniques and keep karimov’s heart from giving
out so let’s pick up the action as we’re about to head off to the first destination
okay so we’ll head out to davey’s car jump in the driver’s seat
and head off to the first place so we’re just following the gps around to the first destination
now while we’re in here again important exposition between uh dave and michael
uh so it’s worth having the sound up and having a listen on the first run through
be sure not to collect the train it’s there every time and off we go
all right so we’ll pull in to the left here around to the left again and pull up to the
marker and there’s our first stop where it is clearly apparent that that is not a terrorist
so back over to trevor where we get to pick our first set of tools once
we’ve been through the briefing we’re going to grab the wrench
and
i cannot imagine how much that would hurt
okay so steve jumps on the phone with dave
and we pick up at the cafe so the next thing to do is uh just wait for this skip the cutscene and
jump in dave’s beamer again and we’re off to the next destination which apparently is the right one
so once we’re in follow the gps looks like it’s going to be a nice sunset in los santos
this evening so that means that we’ll be able to do our work uh under the cover of darkness
all right so we want to pull into that truck stop there
jump out and then we’re lined up across the street grab the pliers next
and this one’s a little painful to watch and it’s even more painful to do so uh
using your controller just start whizzing that right button or
sorry that white stick around and around and eventually it’ll come out there we go
and skip to steve where he’ll get the next bit of information okay so now we just line up as michael
stay zoomed in and we can actually find out boy that’s him there
but uh we’re not meant to know that yet just do a quick scan michael will talk through some stuff
and then eventually we’ll get the swap back to trevor
there we go so swap back over and this time we’re after the jumper cables
press that a bit quick sorry so jumper cables this time around
okay connect up
and the trick here is shorter bursts and we just need to keep an eye on uh caramel’s heartbeat
there we don’t want it going up anywhere near that sort of 180 mark at the moment
steve will grab the next bit of information
back to michael and it is getting a bit dark so it can get a little bit hard to see
but we just do another quick scan zoom in on a couple of fellow smoking
and swap back again
okay last round this time and we are going to be
waterboarding so grab the jerry can up the top left
now the trick here is to make sure that teremov’s heart stays at a roundabout less
than that uh that 180 190 mark if we can get there 200 is is just gonna ko him so
short bursts again this might take a little bit extra and really keep an eye on that heart monitor
all right so starting at 180.
very short bursts and keep a really close eye on their heart monitor
takes a little bit longer but absolutely worth it for gold
last bit of information all right and go for another scan
right now our guy is normally on the far right ground or bottom floor we’ll
do a quick scan anyway to keep dave happy right so red shirt left hand smoking beard
and just take your time because there’s no rush and pull the trigger when you’re ready there we go
so i’ll swap back over to trevor again in a moment
steve packs himself up and off for a game of racquetball and then trevor needs to um get rid of
karemov and he does that by driving him to the airport which is genuinely unexpected
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so we’re just following the gps all the way to the airport trevor is explaining how torture
doesn’t work and it’s for the torturers and showing some real genuine enlightenment there
and karemov is reeling and of course is he’s just essentially lost his his life he can never go back
to see his family he can never go back to see his friends he has to just pack up go somewhere else
otherwise steve will track him down so we’re just pulling up to the airport now
swing over to the right hand side you’ll see the marker there there we go
not entirely sure how we expect scaramov to take a flight given that he’s covered
in blood he’s very broken and has no money or identification on him but yep that’s all good
and that’s gold so thanks for watching to the end here are my top tips for keeping caramel for life
keep a really close eye on that ecg and dial back on trevor’s work if it’s getting close to 200
and use the devices at trevor’s disposal in the following order wrench pliers
jumper cable and water can so what are your thoughts do you have any tips for other viewers
or could this have been done differently leave your comment down below and check out the video
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