- Mon May 09, 2016 12:36 pm
#59742
You steal a cop car to then hijack a limo. What baffles me is why is the cop car necessary to do this, story-wise?
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helegad wrote:Tanner would have been well-known to Vasquez at that point in the story, thus a disguise/surprise would have been necessary, otherwise the limo driver probably would have lead Tanner on a chase, and wrecked the limo in the process. If that happened, the heist would have been much harder to pull off. The element of surprise was everything. You have a window of about 1:45 after taking the limo to pick up the cash; it needs to be pulled off before anybody realizes what happened.I was thinking of this possibility, but it's still a really weak scenario. I mean, considering what the limo is picking up at Vasquez' mansion, you'd think the sight of cops would scare the driver, too. Honestly, it would have made more sense to tail the limo, let it do the pickup and then intercept it. Even if leaves the mansion in a convoy, it wouldn't matter; a chase would have ensued either way.
driverretro wrote:The sight of cops would have made the driver nervous, sure, but he would have stopped for the cop to keep things kosher. If he runs, next minute he has another five on his tail and the pickup doesn't happen. If the limo driver fucked up the cash pickup, he would then probably have been on Vasquez's shitlist.helegad wrote:Tanner would have been well-known to Vasquez at that point in the story, thus a disguise/surprise would have been necessary, otherwise the limo driver probably would have lead Tanner on a chase, and wrecked the limo in the process. If that happened, the heist would have been much harder to pull off. The element of surprise was everything. You have a window of about 1:45 after taking the limo to pick up the cash; it needs to be pulled off before anybody realizes what happened.I was thinking of this possibility, but it's still a really weak scenario. I mean, considering what the limo is picking up at Vasquez' mansion, you'd think the sight of cops would scare the driver, too. Honestly, it would have made more sense to tail the limo, let it do the pickup and then intercept it. Even if leaves the mansion in a convoy, it wouldn't matter; a chase would have ensued either way.
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