Big Smoke

Carl Johnson with Big Smoke

While C.J. looks around the Johnson house in mourning, he remembers his Mom and sister talking with him years ago, and takes a picture of his Mom to hold and look at as he sits at the living room table. Big Smoke, the chubby fellow with glasses, a goatee, and a derby-like fedora, comes from the kitchen with a baseball bat, thinking C.J. is a burglar. He recognizes him and they hug. Big Smoke has C.J. drive them in Big Smoke's Perennial station wagon to the cemetery.

At the cemetery, C.J. meets his sister Kendl, their brother Sweet (he has a cap and a beard), and his friend Ryder (he has a cap, mustache, and a blunt--a cigar filled with marijuana). Sweet, Ryder, and Big Smoke all wear green, the Grove Street Families gang color. Sweet is PO'ed: he doesn't like that C.J. ran off for five years so he gives him a hard time. Kendl walks off to see Cesar, and Sweet gives her a hard time about that and berates Cesar as unprincipled. He points to several nearby graves of people they knew, like their brother Brian, and tells C.J. the local fighting put them there. As the four guys go to Big Smoke's station wagon, some Ballas do a drive-by on it and blow it up.

Have C.J. get on a bicycle and follow Sweet then Ryder. The one to follow has a blue cone pointed down at his head and is represented by a blue dot on the radar. C.J. will probably run into less trouble from the pursuing red Voodoo, from which a Balla tries to shoot him, if he rides at a regular pace, ready to brake, on the left side of the road, leading the Voodoo into telephone poles, etc., on the left. Once Sweet splits off from them, the Voodoo won't be following C.J. till after he goes through the bicycle park and makes the jump down to the highway. Keep following saving yourself

Ryder wants C.J. to dress in green (which C.J. can do a few main missions later).

C.J. can enter the Johnson house to save the game at a floppy disk from now on, and there's a Camera in the bedroom.

Sweet Johnson calls to warn C.J. that their old gang has split up into warring factions.