Mission: “Rescue Alvarez”
Talk to Donovan About Alvarez
Prerequisite: Secure Both Rackets in Southdowns
Travel to the tac-ops center in the Blue Gulf Motel (1) back in Delray Hollow to hear Donovan’s latest intel on Sal’s plan to use the Federal Reserve plates to print money. Marcano’s Cuban counterfeiter, Alvarez, has gotten cold feet and wants to go back home. He’s waiting down at the Bayou Fantom lighthouse for a boat. But Sal has gotten wind of this, and things won’t turn out well for Alvarez unless Lincoln can intervene.
Go to the Lighthouse
Make sure you have a fast, nimble car for this mission. Follow the long trip route from Southdowns into the Bayou Fantom. Before you approach the lighthouse, wiretap the sector Junction Box (circled in our shot) on the wall of the Best Oil garage next door to the Trago Full Service gas station. (We marked the box location on our map too.) It helps to have enhanced Intel View because this is a night mission.
Continue down the road and across the bridge to the lighthouse compound (2). As you approach, the game automatically cycles the time to nightfall.
Save Alvarez
Cross the bridge and move past the first buildings to the pickup truck in the lane. Take cover behind the truck and do an Intel View scan to see the first pair of guards highlighted red up ahead, both with their backs to you. Both are easy takedowns.
Push forward through the huts and use Intel View to spot two more guards up on the raised walkway leading to the lighthouse. When they split up, take down the guard who paces toward you, then hustle down the walkway to the barrel for cover. The other guard climbs stairs to the porch of the hut at the base of the lighthouse.
Two more of Marcano’s men are on that porch trying to break down the door, calling for Alvarez to come out. These are the last enemies of this segment, so the odds are good if you want to just open fire and pick them off.
Approach the hut door and kick it open to trigger a cutscene: Lincoln convinces Alvarez he’s come to help, and in return the Cuban spills the beans on Marcano’s counterfeiting operation, located in “a boxing ring that Tommy Marcano owns.” As they leave the hut, several truckloads of Marcano’s men arrive down in the lane.
Escape with Alvarez
It’s dark, so use Intel View to help find targets. The porch railing provides good cover and high ground for the early part of this gun battle, so let the first wave of goons come to you and pick them off. Then start pushing across the bridge walkway, diving forward from cover to cover.
Once you get across the bridge, you can work your way up the left side of the compound to a hut with a ladder on the porch. Climb the ladder to reach a balcony overlook with good cover, providing excellent firing angles at the thugs below. When the area is clear, you can hop in any vehicle to escape; Alvarez will join Lincoln in the passenger seat. Unfortunately, the mob arrived in clunky pickup trucks, so if you drove a good car and parked it here, use it now. Drive across the bridge to exit the lighthouse compound.
Two things happen after you drive across the exit bridge:
- First, when you reach the light pole on the far side, a timer appears onscreen next to your Minimap. It starts counting down from 8:00 minutes. You must reach Father James’ parish house in the French Ward within that amount of time or else you fail the objective and jump back to the checkpoint at the bridge to try again.
- Second, as you approach the intersection (3) at the Trago gas station, three more carloads of Marcano’s men converge on you. Two pull up in front to cut off your escape, and another pulls up behind you.
- Even though the timer is running, a good tactic here is to hop out of your vehicle and toss grenades, then open fire with a rifle at the cars. Or (if you’re stuck driving one of the lumbering pickup trucks) you can sling grenades at two cars, let the shooters climb out of the third car, gun them down…and then borrow their car, since they don’t need it anymore. Remember to wait until Alvarez joins Lincoln inside the car before accelerating away.
Get Alvarez to Father James
Time Limit: 8:00 Minutes
Now it’s a controlled race against time. Again, the timer started the moment you crossed the bridge from the lighthouse compound. Follow the trip route, accelerating hard on the open stretches of road. If you make every turn as directed and avoid accidents, you should make it with time to spare.
Your arrival on Father James’ doorstep (4) triggers a cinematic: Lincoln appreciates the Father’s generosity, but the wedge driven between them has clearly grown wider.
