When Michael finds his wife Amanda sleeping with her tennis coach, he and Franklin chase the coach to a mansion, which Michael destroys in anger.
Across town, gang-banger Franklin Clinton is working for a corrupt Armenian car salesman and meets Michael while attempting to fraudulently repossess his son’s car the two later become friends.
Nine years later, Michael is living under witness protectionwith his family in Los Santos, under the alias Michael De Santa. Michael Townley, Trevor Philips, and Brad Snider partake in a botched robbery in Ludendorff, North Yankton.