Legal Trouble

Player notes

• ◆The cut mission Blow Back contained events that would later turn into the story for Legal Trouble. In the mission, Trevor Philips was supposed to meet with Tao Cheng's translator, only to discover that he is wearing a wire. This leads to a car chase throughout Los Santos, ending at LSIA, where the translator is sucked into an airplane engine and killed.
• ◆As found in the game files, the blood and ground up body parts used for Molly originally contained half of the translator's face still intact.
• ◆As a result of the original mission, multiple files related to this "Legal Trouble" are titled "t", "trv" and "trev".
• ◆This is likely a developer mistake in the file naming - inside the HUD text data file, mission fail reasons "Wade died. " and "Floyd died. " are found alongside Legal Trouble's data, likely being a mismatch of mission data.
• ◆Also, on the original PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions, if after completing the mission the player pauses the game and goes to the General section of Trevor's statistics, it will say that his last completed mission was "Legal Trouble".
• ◆The airport chase is a clear reference to the in Casino Royale, where the protagonist chases the target through the airport runway, followed by police, creating havoc along the way and ends up killing the target.
• ◆The chase scene is briefly seen during Michael's trailer. In the trailer, the scene is set in the evening, while in the final game the mission is set in the morning.
• ◆According to the Rockstar Games Social Club image for Legal Trouble, regular Police Cruisers were used during the pursuit instead of the Interceptor-style Cruisers used in the final game.
• ◆The news report seen through the Weazel News heli camera saying "Police find missing submarine and unrefined uranium intact" references a mission earlier in the game's story.
• ◆An unused cutscene found in the game's files shows that the airport worker running around the hangar in the final game was originally meant to tackle Michael in order to protect him from the aircraft engine which sucks Molly in.
• ◆A yellow Grotti Carbonizzare , a black Benefactor Surano , and a white Dewbauchee Rapid GT spawn at the studio and can be kept post mission. The former two are indestructible before the mission.
• ◆These three vehicles have reinforced axles for the mission, meaning they can withstand more frontal and rear chassis damage and won't cause the wheels to become stuck, nor causing them to suffer from deformed wheels, although the vehicles' wheels will still appear deformed, and the vehicles themselves aren't any more durable to engine damage, explosives or gunfire.
• ◆One way to keep them is to backtrack via the corridor leading to the hangar Michael and Molly entered once the film is retrieved and use it to escape the cops. Another way is to retrieve it from the impound garage at the Mission Row Police Station for $250.
• ◆Molly's car, a red Enus Cognoscenti Cabrio , cannot be obtained as it despawns after collecting the film reel.
• ◆Furthermore, the car cannot be overtaken during the mission. It will dramatically speed up if the player manages to do so. Its physics also mean nothing can stop the vehicle, i.e, if a police car manages to get in front of it, the car will act heavy and will simply push the vehicle out of the way with ease.
• ◆There are two variations to each dialogue by both the police and Michael during the chase sequence. Neither can be heard when viewing the footage from the news chopper.
• ◆During the chase, when the plane lands on a runway at the airport, several police cars will be jet-blasted backwards. Oddly, neither Michael nor Molly will be jet-blasted by the plane no matter how close they are to it. The same applies for Franklin and Trevor outside of the mission, as the jet blast does not affect the characters.
• ◆At the point where Molly crashes her car, an officer yells, "On the floor lady! On the fucking floor!". This same quote is said by Gustavo Mota in The Jewel Store Job if the loud approach is chosen.
• ◆If the police car is destroyed before reaching the hangar side-door, Molly will still shout "He wants to kill me!" despite the police officers not being present.
• ◆Furthermore, the scripted megaphone quotes yelled by the police throughout the entire chase will play regardless of whether the police vehicles have been destroyed or not.
• ◆Using any of the soda machines inside Devin's hangar will automatically trigger a mission fail, stating that "Molly escaped". Strangely enough, this also happens after Molly's death, using the soda machines on the way out will still fail the mission with the same message.