Tommy Vercetti:
“The cops are gonna be going over that building with a fine toothed comb, right? But that takes time. We gotta go in and torch that place ourselves.”
Mike:
“Yeah, but...”
Lance Vance:
“No one but a cop could get within a mile of that place!”
Tommy Vercetti:
“So we go as cops. We gotta get uniforms - and we're gonna need a squad car.”
— Tommy and Lance decides they can detonate the bomb at the Tarbrush Café themselves by posing as police officers, after Mike failed to detonate it.
Cop Land is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City which protagonist Tommy Vercetti performs independently. The mission is triggered from the Vercetti Estate on Starfish Island.
Mission[]
At the Vercetti Estate, Mike and Lance are arguing about a failed bomb detonation at the Tarbrush Café in the North Point Mall. Tommy arrives and Lance explains the situation. Lance wants to abandon the detonation, as the police are now surrounding the area, and leave Vice City, but Tommy decides they can detonate the bomb themselves by posing as police officers to get to the mall.
Over at Vice Point, Tommy and Lance ambush two officers and steal their uniforms. The duo head to the mall, where Tommy walks past the police and military presence at the café. Tommy detonates the bomb and the café blows up. This explosion alerts the FBI (thus causing a five-star wanted level), but Tommy manages to evade them and heads back to the Vercetti Estate with Lance.
Mission Objectives[]
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get a wanted level so the cops will follow you into the lock-up.
- Get two cops to follow you into the garage.
- Take a cop car and go and plant the bomb at the Tarbush Coffee Shop in the Mall.
- Get back to Vercetti Estate on Starfish Island.
Reward[]
The reward for completing this mission is $10,000, and the mission Cap the Collector is unlocked provided the asset missions for the Print Works and at least five other properties are completed. This mission completes the asset strand for the Vercetti Estate, which will now generate a revenue of up to $5,000 a day. The player can also obtain the Cop Outfit from the Washington Beach Police Station.
Transcript[]
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Post-Mission Phone Calls[]
- First Note: The first Rosenberg call only happens if The Job and Hit the Courier are completed first.
- Second Note: The Second Rosenberg call only happens if Hit the Courier and at least five other assets are completed first.
Phone Call 1[]
- Lance Vance: Tommy, it's me, Lance. Keep your mouth shut there Tommy, 'cause I ain't got time to talk. I ain't interested in what you got to say. Why should I be? You don't care about me, do you? You gotta look after me a bit better. Give me a fair slice. You know... Tommy man... oh, look, man, I'm sorry. It's just that... People patronize me all my life, treat me like a little kid. My brother would do that. Please, man, don't do that. I gotta go.
Phone Call 2[]
- 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 going to 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.
Phone Call 3[]
- Ken Rosenberg: Ssssnniiiiffffff Hey! Hello, Tommy? Tommy! We got a situation over at the Print Works. You better go and check it out. Some kind of mess or other. Things are messed up. I gotta go.
Walkthrough[]
Lance says that because of Mike's mistake, all of their operations could go down.
Mike says that the timer must have gotten jacked up, as the bomb he was sent to plant was wired correctly.
Mike says that somebody must have called the police and informed them of what was going to go down.
Tommy stumbles onto the scene and asks why Lance and Mike are arguing.
Lance says that he and Tommy must go there, collect everything Mike left behind and get out of there as fast as they can.
Tommy asks Lance and Mike to give him a second to think about what their next move should be.
Tommy says that there must be a better solution than to just take everything and run.
Tommy deduces that while the police investigation will be thorough, it will also be slow.
Tommy says they will go in and torch the place themselves.
Lance interrupts Mike, telling Tommy that the mall is on lockdown and nobody that is not a VCPD officer and get near it, let alone enter it.
If nobody but cops can enter, then Tommy says they need to go as cops. He says that all they need are uniforms and a patrol car.
Lance suggests luring some cops into a lock-up in Vice Point where they could take their outfits and cars.
Tommy agress to the plan and the three head off.
Tommy and Lance now must do anything they can to gain the cops' attention.
After causing enough havoc in the streets of Vice City, Tommy and Lance head to the lock-up.
Two cops run into the lock-up, hoping to get Tommy and Lance...
The lock-up's door closes, as Tommy and Lance begin beating down the two officers and taking their clothes.
After acquiring new outfits, Tommy and Lance need to get a patrol car and head to the mall.
Tommy and Lance getting into the patrol car parked behind the wall near the lock-up.
Tommy and Lance driving to the mall in Vice Point.
Tommy parking the vehicle.
Tommy and Lance walking into the mall.
Upon entering the mall, Tommy and Lance need to head into the cafe and wire the bomb correctly.
Tommy walking into the cafe.
Tommy rewiring the bomb.
Tommy sets the timer for five seconds and tells Lance that they need to get clear of the area quickly.
Tarbrush Café exploding.
After the cafe explodes, Tommy and Lance need to get back to the mansion as quick as possible.
Tommy and Lance speeding back to the mansion while being chased by police forces.
After arriving back at the mansion, Tommy and Lance head inside to get rid of their police uniforms.
After changing back to his usual threads, Tommy heads back outside.
Exploding the cafe in the mall has solidified Tommy's reputation as the head of the top protection racket.
Tommy's protection racket will now generate a revenue of $5,000, and Tommy is reminded to collect his tribute regularly.
Mission passed.
Video Walkthroughs[]
Gallery[]
Tommy Vercetti and Lance Vance in police uniforms.
Tommy wearing the police uniform in The Definitive Edition.
The bomb inside the Tarbrush Café.
The Tarbrush Café after the explosion.
Oversights[]
- If the player completes Two Bit Hit before this mission, the Havana Outfit will be put behind an invisible wall and will become unobtainable. To avoid this, Cop Land, No Escape? and The Job missions should be completed before Two Bit Hit. This was patched on the Mac version and the mobile ports of the game.
- In The Definitive Edition by Netflix, once Tommy and Lance lure the cops into the lock-up, the door stays open, as all assets and characters disappear for a few seconds and appear back with Tommy and Lance dressed in police uniforms. Lance will revert to his original PS2 character model while wearing the police uniform. The latter oversight was patched in update 1.112.
Trivia[]
General[]
- Lance carrying a Stubby Shotgun is a reference to Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs from Miami Vice, who was played by Lance's voice actor, Philip Michael Thomas, and occasionally carries the same model shotgun.
- This was intentionally referenced by the developers as the gun's textures are labeled as "gun_shotgun_tubbs" in the game files.
- The name of the mission is likely a nod towards the 1997 Sylvester Stallone film Cop Land, which starred Ray Liotta, the actor who voiced Tommy Vercetti, as well as Debbie Harry who also had a role in Vice City.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
- Mike's lips do not move during the opening cutscene.
- This was fixed in The Definitive Edition.
- Even though Mike is seen following Tommy and Lance at the end of the opening cutscene, he does not appear in the mission. However, there is a police car ready near the garage Tommy and Lance use to put on police uniforms. It can be assumed that the car was brought by Mike off-screen.
- No matter what clothes Tommy is wearing when the mission is triggered, he will be wearing the Street Outfit in the initial cutscene.
- If the player enters the mall before trapping two cops in the garage and getting the Cop Outfit, they will receive a five-star wanted level and the two soldiers will start shooting at Tommy.
- If Tommy and Lance are still inside the café when it explodes, they will safely respawn outside of it when gameplay resumes.
- During the short cutscene at the end, when heading back to the mansion with the police uniform, Tommy uses the running animation of some pedestrians. When he exits with his default clothing, he reverts to his usual running animation.
- After the mission, the katana inside the Tarbrush Café will be no longer obtainable, as entering the café will be impossible as a result of the explosion.
- In the original version, there are four unused audio files in the game data, implying that the bomb was supposed to be detonated in 10 and 15 seconds respectively.
- Despite the instruction asking the player to take a cop car after changing uniforms, any car can be used to go to the mall, and the police will not be hostile.
