Heist Prep: Gather Intel

Heist Prep: Gather Intel, is the third mission in The Cayo Perico Heist. It consists of Gerald flying to the island, and scoping it out.

Description
Players are tasked by Miguel Madrazo to visiting the island undercover as the tour manager for Keinemusik, who are providing music for a beach party on Cayo Perico, arranged by Juan Strickler. Players first travel to the Peglust Concierge hangar at NCIA, to reach the island, where they are joined by English Dave. Upon arrival, they travel to the West Beach, driving Dave and Strickler to the party, and must wait for Pavel to contact them in regards to leaving the area.

After players have escaped from the party, Pavel will guide players over certain tasks they must conduct. They must first travel to the southern half of the island and to a security checkpoint that guards the passage to Strickler's Compound. After a short while, Pavel will instruct them to find and visit the island's Communications Tower, and hack into a switchbox at the site. Doing so grants access to view the compound's CCTV system from anywhere on the island via Trackme.

After witnessing a scene involving Strickler executing his head of security with his pet panther, players must switch camera feeds to find the primary target (the Madrazo Cartel files) and the access route to it. This requires searching for the feeds in the Basement and the Office to find each, and then searching through the camera feeds for the Main Gate, North and South Wall, and North and South Gate to mark down one of the entry points to the compound that these feeds cover.

After the player have found an entry point, Pavel sends them to the North Dock to scope it out, find and locate a secondary target and a point of interest (POI) - a set of bolt cutters - photographing each and sending the image to Pavel (if done correctly). At this point, players are given the freedom to continue exploring the island for other sites to scope out and photograph; with exception to items in the compound, which simply are located via the CCTV feeds. If the player travels close to the Airstrip, Pavel will instruct them to find and photograph the control tower. After they have completed as much as they wish to do, players must visit the pilot for their plane at the Airstrip, in which a cutscene plays out with Dave seeing them off before returning to the party.

This will unlock the Heist Preparations.

Gather Additional Intel
As the mission is repeatable, while the heist strand is active, players can return to Cayo Perico to scope out any additional targets that they missed, and will conduct it under the same conditions and leave via the same route as before. For the first playthrough, they must visit VIP Charter Jets at LSIA, whereupon they will be met at the airfield by Enrique and transported to the dance party, which they must escape from.