The Vice Assassination
Lester's contract: take out Jackson Skinner, Facade's head of product development, who sold customer data.
The setup: Fruit is this world's Apple. Facade is its Microsoft. They compete.
What the hit does: when Facade executive Jackson Skinner dies, Facade stock drops and rival Fruit stock jumps. That move can pay out on the two stocks in turn.
- Set the in-game day to Monday morning right before you meet Lester (the L icon). (Open the save screen from bed and cancel repeatedly to pass time.)
- Open your phone: Internet → Money and Services → BAWSAQ.
- Log in as Michael, Franklin, and Trevor, and dump every dollar into Fruit (ticker: FRT).
- Start the mission as Franklin.
- At the scene, wait wherever you like — just don't get too close to the prostitute.
- Kill the driver of the car she's about to get into.
- After the mission, wait about 6–8 hours of game time. Check the stock portfolio when Fruit is near its high.
- When Fruit (FRT) is up around 50%, sell all three characters' shares.
- The moment Fruit (FRT) is sold, put that cash straight into Facade (ticker: FAC) on BAWSAQ with all three. The target is dead and the price is on the floor.
- Sleep in bed to pass about 48 hours (two days).
- When the crashed stock recovers and Facade (FAC) is up around 30–33%, sell.