I'll Take Her is a mission in Grand Theft Auto IV given to protagonist Niko Bellic by Irish gangster Gerald McReary from the Alderney State Correctional Facility in Acter Industrial Park, Alderney.
This mission is considered a two-part mission, with the continuation mission, "Ransom", being unlocked at a later point.
Mission Objectives[]
In order to complete the mission the player must:
I'll Take Her...
- Go to a computer terminal.
- View an ad for a pink Feltzer.
...I'll Take Her
- Contact the Mob Daughter.
- Go and meet Gracie Ancelotti at her house.
- Test drive the car to the coast.
- Time to initiate the kidnapping. Take Gracie to the safehouse.
- You have spooked Gracie. Take her to the safehouse. (If the player scared her)
- Lose your wanted level. (If Niko passes a police vehicle)
Description[]
Gerald McReary has recently been sent back to prison for racketeering offences, and he phones Niko Bellic and requests that Niko meet him at the prison.
During the visit, Gerald instructs Niko to phone Patrick McReary outside, who instructs him to kidnap Gracie Ancelotti, the daughter of Ancelotti Family Don Giovanni. In order to do so, Niko contacts Gracie in response to an advert she placed online, advertising her car for sale. Niko books a viewing and arranges to meet Gracie the following day.
The following day, Niko arrives at Gracie's house in Alderney and takes the car for a "test drive". During the test drive, Gracie flirts with Niko, until halfway through the drive, Niko turns the car around and informs Gracie that he is kidnapping her.
Gracie attempts to phone her father, but Niko snatches her phone from her and throws it onto the road. During the drive to the building where Gracie will be held hostage, Gracie grabs the steering wheel multiple times in an attempt to throw Niko off course or will eventually try to escape, forcing Niko to keep her in the car, until Niko eventually punches Gracie, knocking her unconscious.
After reaching the hideout, Gracie is led inside by Gordon and tied up in an upstairs room. Another man drives Gracie's pink Feltzer away, while Niko phones Packie and informs him that Gracie has been transported to the hideout.
Reward[]
The reward for completing this mission is $9,500, and the mission Ransom is unlocked.
Trivia[]
- The name "Seymour Fani" is on the prison officer's shift timetable behind Gerry, it is a play on 'see more fanny'.
- The computer in the lobby of Playboy X's safehouse cannot be used to find Gracie's phone number.
- The first three digits in Gracie's phone number (662) translates to "MOB".
- Gracie's pink Feltzer can be stolen and saved after the mission. Just quickly kill the guy driving it away. If the player steals it before the mission by spooking or killing Gracie, the vehicle will be locked once the player parks it at their safehouse, and will eventually disappear from the safehouse's parking space.
- The NPC at the end of the mission who takes the pink Feltzer is named Stevie; he shares this name with Stevie, who texts the player to steal unique vehicles for him (Stevie's Car Thefts), presumably for selling parts. However, this Stevie is told by Gordon to "dump the car", to which he complies silently. Stevie is also silent, only communicating through text messages. Killing Stevie will not affect Stevie's Car Thefts. Or this just means that they are not the same person.
- In the mission Not So Fast in The Ballad of Gay Tony, Tony Prince will wonder why she has not shown up to Hercules yet. As that mission corresponds with Museum Piece from GTA IV, it is likely that I'll Take Her canonically takes place before Museum Piece.
- Respraying the Feltzer after stealing it will change the pink color and regardless of how many times you respray it, the pink color won't come back, meaning that the color is unique.
- Little Jacob calls during the mission asking if Niko wants to go to the strip club, to which Niko responds, "No can do Jacob, I'm already hanging out with a girl." The call serves no purpose other than as an ironic joke, similar to Little Jacob's other call in Have a Heart, Brucie's call in Undress to Kill and Dining Out and Roman's calls in Rigged to Blow and Shadow. However, the call can be skipped if the player is fast enough to go to the hideout in Alderney while driving with Gracie.
- This is one of two occasions in the game where Niko hits a woman without the player's control (the other being Ransom). In addition, in the mission Ladies Half Price in TBOGT, Gracie is also hit in a similar manner by another protagonist – Luis Fernando Lopez.
- Niko can call Roman after this mission. He will ask Roman how he behaved during his kidnapping, to which Roman will reply that he did everything his captors wanted, except give his cousin up. Niko will then talk about how he has kidnapped a girl who's been "a fucking nightmare", which makes Roman berate him. Niko will then reveal that the girl is Gracie Ancelotti, which makes Roman worryingly tell him to return her, before hanging up.
- In the ending cutscene of the first part of the mission, one can see that Gracie's Feltzer has a grille when the car isn't supposed to have one fitted.
- At the end of the mission, if the player is fast enough, they can blow up the Pink Feltzer while it's driving away with an RPG, killing the driver instantly, but this has no effect on the story.
- After Niko starts kidnapping Gracie, stopping the car near police officers for too long results in her alerting them that she’s being kidnapped, causing Niko to obtain a one-star wanted level.
- The concept of Irish criminals kidnapping the daughter of a mob boss could possibly have been inspired by the 1972 kidnapping of Carlo Gambino's nephew, Manny, by Irish gangster James McBratney (whose surname is similar to the McRearey's).