 Having just get out of jail, a hitman for a mob family is about to be sent home to Liberty City to be with the family. But fearing his arrival, his boss, Sonny Forelli, sends him down south to Vice City to expand the Forelli Crime Empire. But when he arrives, he is set up and loses his money, cocaine, and two partners. Sonny then wants his money back and the bastards who set this ambush up. Tommy then meets Lance Vance, the supplier of the coke, who s brother was iced in the ambush. Together, these two criminals set out to rid the people who stole from them and build their own drug empire.