 As Cash escapes the asylum and enters an abandoned apartment complex , he is caught by Ramirez and the Wardogs , who decide to play a little game of cat and mouse ; Cash manages to kill the gang and Ramirez before backup arrives . Upon fleeing the area , the journalist reporting on Cash suddenly arrives in her car and rescues him . She explains that the Director is actually Lionel Starkweather , a former film producer from Los Santos , who was popular in the 90s , but was forced to leave the industry due to a " scandal . " The reporter has been putting together evidence about Starkweather 's snuff movies for months , and now she has enough to expose him . First , however , she needs to retrieve some of this evidence from her apartment . Meanwhile , Starkweather orders the chief of the Carcer City Police Department , Gary Schaffer , to bring both Cash and the journalist to him , blackmailing him that he will expose his corruption to the Liberty City Supreme Court if he does not comply . 
