Do You Have Protection?

Type	MISSION
Do You Have Protection?
Appears in	IV
For	Mikhail Faustin
Location	Faustin's Mansion, Beachgate
Target	Joseph Kaplan
Conditions of mission failure
Wasted Busted Dimitri dies Brett dies before Joseph talks
Rewards
Rewards	Micro-SMG
Missions
Unlocks	Final Destination Shadow
Unlocked by	Crime and Punishment
Technical Information
Time of day	In-game time

Faustin: "Where would we be if I was calm like you?"

Dimitri: "Let me guess. In a prison camp in Siberia, or selling hash to tourists in Red Square, or still in the Navy. Which is it today?"

― Mikhail Faustin argues with his partner, Dimitri Rascalov

Do You Have Protection? is the first mission given by Mikhail Faustin. However, the person who is assisting you in the mission is Faustin's best friend and second-in-command of the Russian Mafia, Dimitri Rascalov. This is the mission where Dimitri introduces back-alley gun shops and organized crime to Niko.

Plot

Mikhail Faustin collects protection money from all the businesses in Hove Beach, but one porn producer (Joseph) refuses to pay Faustin. While Faustin sends Dimitri Rascalov and Niko Bellic to kill Joseph, Dimitri tells Niko it's better to keep him alive so they can collect more money from Joseph in the future, to which Nikon has no objections. After beating up Joseph, shooting one of his actors in the leg and taking the money, Dimitri introduces Niko to the Underground Gun Shops and to organized crime.

Mission objectives

In order to complete the mission the player must:

• Take Dimitri to the sex shop on Delware Avenue
• Enter the shop
• Target Joseph to intimidate him
• Target Joseph's buddy
• Shoot Joseph's buddy in the leg
• Follow Dimitri out of the shop
• Go with Dimitri to the gun store
• Head into the gun store
• Purchase a Micro-SMG
• Get back to Dimitri
• Take Dimitri to Faustin's house

Enemies

• Joseph Kaplan
• Brett

Walkthrough

Once the cutscene closes, you should be outside with Dimitri. Get in a car with Dimitri. Drive him to the porn shop in Hove Beach. On the way, Dimitri will explain that Faustin does not receive a cut of the money of a porn video that Joseph and his buddies are working on. Faustin wants Bellic and Rascalov to take out Joseph and his buddies and steal their cut. Dimitri plans to partner with them instead. 

Go down the stairs and watch the cutscene. After the cutscene, target Joseph with the new pistol Dimitri lent you. After their talk, move left and target one of Joseph's buddies. Shoot him in the leg to show Joseph that Dimitri means business. Joseph walks up to Rascalov, gives him the cut, then Dimitri knocks out Joseph.

If you want, shoot the last guy that kneels on the floor and begs for forgiveness. Either way, lead Dimitri out of the shop and back into the car. Drive to the Gun Shop in Downtown Broker. Buy a Micro-SMG(or ammo if one is already held). Niko won't be charged for the purchase, it will come out of Mikhail Faustin's credit card.

Drive Dimitri back to Faustin's mansion in Beachgate, Broker and collect a small earning for a good job.

Video Walkthrough

Deaths

• Joseph Kaplan (optional) - Can be killed by Niko after Dimitri knocks him out.
• Brett (optional) - Can be killed by Niko.
• One of Joseph's associates (optional) - Can be killed by Niko.

Afterwords

Story continuation

Before completion, Dimitri will ask for you to visit Mr. Faustin at his club, Perestroika. Little Jacob will call you and ask for you to help Badman.

Rewards

• Use of gun shops
• Micro-SMG 
• $400

Trivia

• Joseph's shop is open at all times, before the mission and after. It has a wide selection of magazine covers and several TV monitors, all of which have sexy images. A player character can't buy anything, but can hide from the cops at a one-star wanted level (although a cop may wander in after a few minutes). If the player attacks or threatens anyone, cops will come quickly. They will also be quick to search the shop at a wanted level of two stars or more. The dildos on the shelf inside the shop when you first enter can be freely picked up and thrown. So you can get a dildo as a weapon technically.
• Brett must be shot in the leg in order for the mission to progress. Shooting him in the arm will lead to a mission failure (even if the shot wasn't lethal).
• If you walk into the person who is pleading after Dimitri leaves the shop, he will die immediately. The reason for this is unknown.
• Dimitri instructs Niko to walk into the gun shop and purchase a Micro-SMG, and to tell the store attendant to charge it to Dimitri. It shows negative money as if the gun is being charged to Niko, but his money isn't actually spent.
• Killing the gun shop owner will lead to mission failure.
• The mission title refers to condoms.
  • It is also a reference to the mission Got Protection? in the previous game, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
• If Dimitri is killed during the mission, Niko will call Faustin and tell him. Faustin will then tell Niko to come back to his house and explain, though the mission is replayed as usual.
• Although Dimitri says that the player can buy anything from the gun shop, only the Micro-SMG and the armor are available to buy. It is possible that Niko was fond of the gun and bought it because he liked it.

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