We’re Not Safe — We’re Just Alive

Previously On – GTA IV

We came to Liberty City chasing the American Dream.
Instead, we found debt, bullets, and lies stacked on top of lies.

Fresh off the boat, Niko Bellic tried doing things clean — working for his cousin Roman, driving cabs, pretending this city wasn’t already chewing him up. That fantasy died fast. Loan sharks, small-time hoods, and street-level scumbags pulled us into the same old cycle: do a job, get paid just enough to survive, get dirtier every time.

Things really went sideways when we crossed paths with Manny Escuela and his camera crew — clowns pretending they were cleaning up the streets while feeding us straight into gang wars. That circus ended in blood, and it didn’t take long for Liberty City to remind us that no good deed goes unpunished.

Then Michelle happened.
Turns out she wasn’t who she said she was. Federal agent. Informant. Another smiling face with a knife behind her back. She disappeared, Manny ended up dead, and suddenly we weren’t just another immigrant with a past — we were on the government’s radar.

Enter Packie McReary — unstable, loyal, and somehow one of the few honest criminals in this city. Through him, we got pulled deeper into Liberty City’s rotten core: jobs for Ray Boccino, chasing rumors, and tracking down Florian Cravic — a ghost from Niko’s past who confirmed what we already knew… the betrayal that destroyed our old unit wasn’t just history. It’s still haunting us.

That trail led us to “Trespass.”
A deal gone bad. An ambush waiting to happen. Guns out, trust gone, and another reminder that in Liberty City, stepping onto the wrong turf doesn’t just get you warned — it gets you hunted.

We survived. Barely.
But now the city knows our name, the mobs are circling, and the past we ran from is catching up fast.

Liberty City isn’t testing us anymore.
It’s deciding whether we belong… or if we’re just another body waiting to drop.