However, Tommy's first medication bargain turns sour, leaving him with no cash, no cocaine, and no thought who violated him. Tommy's first thing to take care of in Vice City is to score a lot of cocaine to work with. The mob - all the more explicitly, the Forelli family, appreciates Tommy's refusal to screech in return for a lesser sentence, so they send him down to Vice City to set up some new activities. It is 1986, and Tommy Vercetti has recently been set free from jail in the wake of doing a 15-year stretch for the mob.

The GTA game is set in an anecdotal interpretation of Miami, Florida, known as Vice City.