Joseph Kaplan

"Alright, alright already. Brett was just trying to be friendly."

- Joseph Kaplan.

Joseph Kaplan is a minor character in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Background
Joseph is a Czech immigrant who lives in Hove Beach, Broker. He is a known associate of Mikhail Faustin and other Russian criminals in the area. Although he has only one conviction (in 2003 for sexual assault) he is suspected by police of running a prostitution ring in a Hove Beach Sex Shop and also making low budget pornographic movies in its basement. Several young women have filed reports against Kaplan, including prostitute Marnie Allen, claiming that they were conned into appearing in his films.

Events of GTA IV
Kaplan is seen in the mission Do You Have Protection? in which Niko Bellic shoots his employee Brett as a warning for not paying Faustin a cut of his profits from the movies he makes and he is knocked out cold with a hit to the head with a gun by Dimitri Rascalov.

Mission Appearances

 * Do You Have Protection? (Can be killed)

Trivia

 * Joseph can be killed in "Do You Have Protection" but only after Dimitri knocks him out with his gun, otherwise the mission will fail.
 * There is a random character model of Joseph Kaplan that can be found in Middle Park East.
 * Despite originally being from Czechoslovakia, Kaplan speaks with an American accent, suggesting he has lived in the United States for a number of years.
 * There is a line of dialogue Joseph speaks that is usually cut off due to Dimitri knocking him out with the gun. The line is "Fine, here you go. We ain't gonna have the resources to make any more movies, but here!" The line usually cuts off after "the". Even if the line is said in full, the subtitles still shorten the sentence. Niko standing in the way of Joseph's walking path is one way to hear the full line.

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