A Home in the Hills

A Home in the Hills is the last mission in the Las Venturas mission strand of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and brings the player back to Los Santos. It is given to CJ by the rapper, Madd Dogg at The Four Dragons Casino.

Mission
Kendl, Carl and Woozie are in Woozie's office in the Four Dragons Casino, judging auditions for casino talent. After a while, Madd Dogg appears and tells everyone that he wants to returns to his mansion in Los Santos. However, it has been seized by the Los Santos Vagos, namely their leader Big Poppa, in exchange for drugs. Carl furiously questions Madd Dogg's decision then tells Woozie and Kendl to come with him as they return to Los Santos to reclaim Madd Dogg's crib, which CJ wishes to use as a new base of operations in Los Santos since Grove Street is no longer safe. The scene changes to him and a couple of Triad gang members seen in an Andromada plane, preparing to battle the Vagos as Carl receives a phone call from Kendl.

Kendl says she, Madd Dogg and Cesar have gone to San Fierro to see if everything is in place before returning to Los Santos. When the plane reaches its destination, the Triads and Carl all jump out, parachute to the helipad on the roof of Madd Dogg's mansion and kill all of the Vagos on the rooftop before the rest of the team arrives, including Guppy.

Once all the Vagos outside are dead, the team shoot their way inside the mansion and finally find Big Poppa. Guppy and another Triad secure the balcony and Carl's rear from more Vagos while Carl chases Big Poppa down through the mansion until they reach the exit, where Big Poppa enters his Phoenix and escapes with Carl following him in a pink Windsor. After a chase around the city, Carl kills Big Poppa and officially takes back the mansion for Madd Dogg.

Mission Objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
 * Try to land on the mansion roof with the Triads
 * Help keep the roof clear until the Triads arrive
 * Take the Triads inside the mansion
 * Search the mansion for Big Poppa and kill anyone who gets in your way
 * Big Poppa is downstairs, take him out
 * Big Poppa is making a run for it, chase after him
 * Big Poppa has left the mansion, follow him
 * Chase down Big Poppa and run him off the road

Deaths

 * Big Poppa - Killed by Carl Johnson in order to take back Madd Dogg's Crib.
 * Numerous members of the Los Santos Vagos - Killed by Carl Johnson and several members of the San Fierro Triads for getting in their way of chasing after and killing Big Poppa and taking back Madd Dogg's Crib.
 * Numerous members of the San Fierro Triads - Killed by several members of the Los Santos Vagos.

Reward
The reward for completing this mission is increased respect and the mission Vertical Bird unlocking. The player can also use Madd Dogg's Crib as a safehouse, but beware of the basketball glitch that can occur.

Note: Madd Dogg's house does not offer a storage garage, so utilize the nearby Mulholland Safehouse for storing vehicles (such as the newly acquired pink Windsor).

Glitches

 * If the host computer is running around 1-10 frames per second, the Triads will miss the roof. However, another one will spawn on the roof if this happens.
 * In the Android version, it has been noted that sometimes Big Poppa will stop running and try to fight CJ in melee combat, however beating him inside the mansion will not finish the mission; instead the body will just stay on the ground as inside the mansion Big Poppa has infinite health so the game does not count him as being deceased. The only way to get past this is to die and restart the mission.

Trivia

 * Inside the mansion, some girls using the same pedestrian model as Denise Robinson, can appear. Killing them doesn't affect any progress with Denise whatsoever.
 * During the mission, Madd Dogg says his mansion has 19 bedrooms, however the actual in-game model features only six.
 * During the short cutscene in which the Triads and Carl enter the mansion, one of the Triads gets decapitated by an SMG shot, despite SMGs not being able to behead pedestrians during normal gameplay. This was probably done to show the player that the member was actually killed by a headshot and to be the punchline of the joke:
 * His last words before being decapitated were "We're heavily outnumbered, but if we all keep our heads, we should kick ass!"
 * Big Poppa's Phoenix is an extremely rare car and can be obtained by the player, despite the fact that the vehicle is locked in the mission. The player can block the Phoenix and kill Big Poppa to complete the mission. The vehicle can then be obtained by pushing it to a Pay 'n' Spray or to the nearby garage at the Mulholland Safehouse (sniping Big Poppa will make his body fall out if there is enough space for the driver's door to open, unlocking the Phoenix).
 * Bounce FM is the default radio station for the Windsor given during the mission, as opposed to the usual Master Sounds 98.3.
 * The song that plays on Bounce FM after CJ gets in the car to chase Big Poppa is "Between The Sheets" by The Isley Brothers. This song was sampled in  by The Notorious B.I.G., which was released in 1994, two years after the setting of GTA SA.
 * The pink Windsor has a unique license plate which reads "J LOMAX". The player can keep the Windsor after the mission is completed.
 * While preparing to parachute from the plane, Carl will jump out of it automatically without being controlled by the player.
 * If Carl fails to land on the roof of Madd Dogg's mansion, the mission will not be failed. Carl then needs to find an alternative route to it.
 * Also, if Carl lands close to the mansion roof looking the same way to the Vagos as the Triads and shoots the Vagos from the grass to the left of the mansion, he can gain a 5-star wanted level without being detected by any cops and/or FBI agents (either in Police Mavericks or News Choppers).
 * For some reason, the parachute that the Triads have is unique, as it has a different shape, texture, and seems to be an altogether different parachute. This parachute is unobtainable through normal gameplay.
 * Furthermore, the Triads land properly, unlike CJ, who always does the glitched diving animation when reaching the reef.
 * After Big Poppa goes outside, the player can also exit the house through the other exit. The rest of the mission will be the same (tested on the iPad version).
 * If Big Poppa dies before he exits the mansion, then the game soft-locks and the mission cannot be completed. The only way to exit this situation is to reload a save file or to die. Getting busted isn't an option since the wanted level is locked at zero stars (tested on Remastered PlayStation 3 and iOS version).
 * The short person who auditions in front of Woozie, Carl and Kendl may be related to a ‘Carpenter Chris’ featured on the talk show ‘Lonely Hearts’ on WCTR who is roughly the same height and also constantly drunk.
 * The interior of the Andromada Carl and the Triads are in before parachuting is actually floating in the air above Madd Dogg's mansion, and it disappears once Carl starts parachuting towards the mansion.

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