Three Leaf Clover

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Three Leaf Clover

For Packie McReary
Target Bank of Liberty, NOOSE & LCPD Officers
Location The Bank of Liberty and Subway in Algonquin
Fail Packie, Derrick or Niko die, too many bank hostages killed, or the money is shot in the safe
Reward $250,000
Unlocks The state of Alderney,
"Full Exploration" achievement & Balaclava
Unlocked by Waste Not Want Knots

Three Leaf Clover is the third and final mission offered by Packie McReary, involving robbing the Bank of Liberty in Chinatown, Algonquin. Packie and Niko take along their friend Michael and Packie's brother Derrick for extra protection.


Niko drives the group to the Bank of Liberty which is located in Chinatown, Algonquin. They rob the bank of $1 million USD and make their escape through the streets and subways of Chinatown, Algonquin. Packie is proud that he and his gang, including Niko, kept their heads and managed to get the money to split between themselves.


"Get on the floor!" In this picture, Niko, Derrick, and Packie threaten all the customers down to the floor.


Find a vehicle with four door and drive to the Southern Algonquin branch of the Bank of Liberty. A cutscene will show Niko, Packie, Derrick, and Michael threatening all the customers to get on the floor of the bank. Derrick and Packie have an argument, giving one of the hostages (Eugene Reaper), the chance to shoot Michael and kill him. Packie and Derrick kill Eugene in retaliation. The team then blows up the vault door.

Head down into the vault as inquired and grab $1 million for your teammates. NOOSE and FIB police officers arrive at the scene with helicopters and cars, prompting Packie to decide that they need to leave now with the money they have already collected.

Niko, Derrick, and Packie take cover at the front of the bank and begin to gun their way out of a five-star wanted level level. Due to the heavy presence of heavily armed officers and vehicles, you must be careful with your Health and Armor. There are roughly 16 standard cops spread out over the street. The best way to take these and other officers in this mission out is to shoot at the police cars' gas tanks, located behind the rear wheels. If flames start coming out of the gas tanks, they will blow up in short time, but you may continue firing to cause an immediate explosion. The explosion from the cars will kill any nearby officers and knock others to the ground, and possibly ignite other cars. Any remaining officers are best dispatched by a shot to the head, especially so for the otherwise heavily-armored NOOSE officers.

Help your remaining teammates shoot their way through an alleyway. Gain protective cover and blind fire the 12 men of authority. You must then proceed through three streets in Chinatown, but not before shooting a loaded cop car that obstructs their path to the three streets. The first street you come will have two cars (one NOOSE and one normal police car) with about 6 men in total. Get cover in a side alleyway like your teammates and pick off the men with a headshot. The second street has the most amount of cops in the level, so it is wise to take excellent cover, possibly behind a burnt out car. There are cops on fire exits above the streets, and several men on the ground, totalling 22 cops. You can just spray them with a Micro SMG or regular SMG so as not to waste M4A1 bullets. The final street is the easiest as there are almost no men, and you can quickly run across the street and into the alleyway ahead of schedule. There are several cops on the street, but as you are sprinting it is unlikely they will hit you. Cutscene. The trio are trapped out in an open alleyway by an police helicopter and the team attempts to shoot it down. It stays hovering, leading Packie to save the crew by taking them into a Subway Station.






The terrorist threat separating both sides of the West River is lifted subsequent to completion of this mission, opening up the Booth Tunnel and Hickey Bridge. Consequently Niko is able to travel to Alderney legally, with the entire map now open to the player.



The balaclava is now available in your wardrobe.


  • The outfit Niko wears during this mission (suits with balaclavas), the weapons you use (M4A1's), the large black bags of money slung over your back and the general set-up of the mission may be a homage to the 1995 film Heat, in which Robert De Niro and his henchmen rob a bank in similar fashion, including a subsequent running shootout in the surrounding city streets of Downtown L.A. In both heists member of gang named Michael dies.
  • The section of the cutscene that features Eugene and Luis talking to each other on the floor of the bank while the robbery is in progress is a homage to a similar scene in the 1991 Film "Point Break" which similarly ends in a man shooting one of the robbers in an act of heroism only to be gunned down by the others.
  • The amount of Money stolen is one million dollars.
  • The mission is seen again in the final DLC The Ballad of Gay Tony. This time, it is the opening cutscene of the DLC, which starts where Eugene and Luis talking while lying down. And, like popular belief, Luis was there to pick up money for "Gay" Tony Prince.
  • On the PlayStation 3 version after the cutscene where Eugene Reaper is shot, if the player exams the floor by Luis Lopez, Eugene is still alive with his hands on his head, and instead, there is a dead fat bearded man beside them.
  • It is possible to kill Luis before escaping the bank, which would logically make the events in TBOGT impossible. However, you face no penalty for this.
  • In mission of DLC "The Ballad of Gay Tony" you can see that Packie spent the money from the heist on a red comet.