Just Business is the last mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, given to Carl Johnson by Big Smoke at Big Smoke's house in the Idlewood district of Los Santos.
Mission
CJ drops by Smoke's house and finds him in the garage. They agree to take a ride somewhere Smoke has business to take care of. They head to Commerce and Smoke enters the Atrium there. After a brief moment, a shoot-out is heard inside and CJ quickly rushes inside and protects Smoke from attacking Russian Mafia goons.
Once all the Russians are dead, CJ and Smoke hop on a BF-400 and start to escape. CJ acts as the shooter and kills as many enemies and on the way they jump above a ramp of a Packer to escape a roadblock and all the Russians die in a huge explosion while the bike survives.
After a long chase, Smoke rides through an alley and in East Beach, as they have lost all the Russians, split up.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Take Big Smoke to Downtown
- Protect Big Smoke from the Russians
- Follow Big Smoke and protect him from the Russians
- Protect the bike from the Russians
Script
See /Script
Trivia
- A scene in the mission featuring a Packer jumping off a surface road in slow motion into a storm drain channel which Smoke and CJ are using to escape is a nod to a similar scene in 1991 film Terminator 2: Judgment Day, where a large towtruck (driven by a Terminator) executes a similar stunt as it is pursuit of John Connor (also riding a motorcycle).
- The BF-400 in this mission has the numberplate reading "IMY AK" (Similiar to the Feltzer in End of the Line and Cheetah when player bought it at Easter Basin Docks).
- Using the Health and Armor cheat while on the bike causes it to explode.
- Just Business is the only mission for Big Smoke that does not involve Vagos.
- There is a glitch where, if the bike explodes in the sewer control paths and kills Smoke before it says the bike is totaled you will get to keep all of you weapons for the rest of the game (even when you die and get arrested) and you have unlimited ammo for SMG, Micro-SMG, or TEC9 until you complete the mission.
- The song at the start of the cutscene is Biz Markie - The Vapors. This song can also be heard on Playback FM.
- Some of Smoke's bike jumps will win you a few dollars in insane stunt bonuses and add to your stats in those areas, even though you're not driving.
- The cutscene outside the atrium "guest stars" the blonde pedestrian based upon Sharon Stone's character from Basic Instinct.
- In the PS2 version of the game you are given a Tec-9 with unlimited ammo at the start of the gunfight, though you have the option to changing to another gun during this segment. Once the bike chase begins, however, only a Micro-SMG is available.
- Just Business becomes slightly easier if the player works CJ's Micro-SMG skill level up to 100% before undertaking the mission, allowing CJ to wield dual guns during the mission.
- On the ride to the atrium, Smoke tells you that the reason he is pursuing these Russians is because they kidnapped his cousin after the Berlin Wall came down. However, during The Green Sabre, it is revealed that Smoke had been running a massive drugs operation with C.R.A.S.H, allowing the player to safely assume that this was the true reason they pursued the Russians.
- After Just Business, you will be left with a Micro SMG with few ammo.
See also
Video walkthroughs
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