Getaway: collect the Banshee, follow the pager change and reach 8-Ball

Prerequisite and the crucial destination change

Getaway follows Fake IDs. Vinnie has called Mike to Chinatown, but he is absent from the meeting. His message first sends you to the prepared getaway vehicle and then to Callahan Point. This walkthrough reveals the story event there. The crucial change afterwards is that Mike’s initial plan to return to the old hideout is replaced by 8-Ball’s warning. The final state requires no wanted level and a meeting with 8-Ball. The explosion alone does not complete the mission, and it is not a bomb-disposal objective you can prevent by arriving faster.

Distinguish locations, vehicles and markers

The route remains on Portland. You do not need to cross Callahan Bridge to another island for this assignment.

Step by step

Keep the required vehicle collection separate from the later freedom to choose another escape vehicle.

1. Reach Vinnie’s Chinatown mission marker. After the short scene, read his pager instruction: the changed plan requires the getaway car from the hideout and a meeting in Callahan Point.
2. Go a few blocks north to the hideout and enter the waiting Banshee. Use the specified car for this section rather than continuing straight to the new meeting in your initial approach vehicle.
3. Head south to the Callahan Point car park. Follow the pink radar destination and stop in the blue square on the southern side of the lot. You are looking for Vinnie’s car, not an island crossing.
4. Let the explosion sequence play. When control returns, get Mike clear and use a drivable car. The contemporary walkthrough explicitly allows changing vehicles after this event.
5. Observe the initial instruction towards the hideout. If the change has not appeared yet, head that way until Mike’s warning comment or 8-Ball’s pager updates the assignment. Do not treat the old house as the final handover point.
6. Read 8-Ball’s revised instructions completely: avoid the hideout, lose the police and visit him. Check the active wanted display rather than following an obsolete destination alone.
7. Clear police attention through Pay ’n’ Spray or suitable police-bribe pickups. Use an appropriate ordinary vehicle for the spray shop. Avoid additional collisions with people or attacks that create fresh police attention.
8. Once your wanted level is zero, drive to the premises marked 8, already familiar from Fake IDs. Stop, get out and walk into its blue contact circle to trigger the meeting with 8-Ball.
9. Wait for Mission Passed after the conversation. The following pager leads to Twisted Metal. Entering the contact circle again starts that next assignment rather than satisfying an additional Getaway objective.

The pager and Pay ’n’ Spray: an important sequencing limit

Sources describe the warning and workshop visit in different orders. One contemporary FAQ goes straight to the respray; Area GTA reports that the shop initially will not accept you and first follows the return-home warning. Do not rely on a universal shortcut. If the shop does not respond during the early escape, follow the current objective until the warning and redirection appear. The well-supported finishing conditions remain the same: clear your wanted level completely and reach the 8-Ball contact. Differing published counts of the initial wanted stars are not needed for this route.

Troubleshooting

For an apparently blocked sequence, check both the destination and the active mission state.

Saving and a controlled retry

A normal save between Fake IDs and Getaway is a useful starting point for a repeat attempt. Distinguish a mission contact from normal hideout saving: 8-Ball’s blue circle triggers conversations and does not automatically open a hideout save menu. The original manual also describes Start → Quit Game with a saving option for interruption. That does not make an active escape a completed mission; this guide does not promise exact resumption from an arbitrary intermediate state. Emulator save states are a separate feature.

Short FAQ and GBA boundaries

Can you prevent the explosion? It is the intended story transition; escaping afterwards is the objective. Must the Banshee survive afterwards? No: changing vehicles is documented after the explosion. Where is 8-Ball? Follow the same 8 marker as in Fake IDs. The pager calls the area Portland Beach, so a map from GTA III can mislead you. Which buttons apply? Original GBA: L enters/exits, A accelerates in a car, B brakes/reverses. Map emulator keyboard inputs to those GBA functions.