Could Lester Work For The FIB? | GTAO Lore

Lester is a character who needs no introduction, he is unquestionably one of the most influential characters in both GTA 5 and GTAO. But I always thought that for a fragile old man, he just has too much power. Then I thought about the possibility of him working with some organization like the FIB, I will go through many thoughts of that possibility in today’s episode of GTAO Lore.
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[@DeusOmmuim]

He is a elite hacker 💀It’s very common sense that it’s suggested he’s very computer smart in the story mode

[@holad-jlsegovia-423]

I mean, just the fact that Lester plans the FIB attack in story mode already kinda debunks this whole thing It's always interesting to think how Lester has so much power and connections tho

[@v_Falls_v]

Didn’t think about that, rockstar is known to contradict themselves tho 🤷

[@JessicaJTS]

The raid was an inside job to hide info about the sketchy and less than legal dealings of Steve Haines and probably Dave Norton, Agent Sanchez, and Devin Weston too. Protecting them meant protecting Michael as well as if they found out about Dave's deal with Michael, they would both go down. Michael is a good financial stream for Lester as well as someone who can protect him. Getting rid of Haines and Weston protects Michael, further helping secure Lester's security if he needed it. So it is possible Lester is an agent as they wanted to get rid of Haines, questioning his methods. Not all US government officials live crime free, probably the opposite,, so I think Lester has power in the government and the criminal world and his usefulness to both keeps both sides using his services but also protecting him from the other side if they turn against him. But that's just a theory...

[@MattWentAway]

Lester is quite literally the hacker elite, very well explained in the story mode

[@DeusOmmuim]

Nice copy

[@MattWentAway]

@@DeusOmmuim whatevs

[@unknownel6174]

Lester being able to get the cops off you in almost any situation is 🧢 😂. I don’t even bother calling his ass he’s so unreliable 😂

[@Haux.]

it would be fun that the last update being, all the enemies Lester ever made like the FIB, IAA and Foreign governments getting tipped off by the AI clifford about his location. And we basically have Lester's version of GTA5's ending where Micheal, Franklin, Trevor and Lamar gets rid of their enemies. It could be setup like Heist missions but it would be so much fun if it's like the Short Trip missions where we take a final control of Micheal, Franklin, Trevor...and Lamar(4 online players) to pull one Last favour for Lester to off all his enemies so he can retire.

[@wedoalittletrolling723]

That's never gonna happen (or maybe it will if we keep believing it will never happen?)

[@Ghost83110]

bro can you please tell me what is the name of the background music please?????

[@Dbouakhob]

Honestly he could have ties with certain organizations and probably corrupted officials. Who knows. As you said in the video on Online he worked with the IAA (Doomsday Heist) for a brief time alongside your online Character.

[@JackMarston.1895]

This is a terrible theory. As you said, Lester literally helped the IAA numerous times and many of the stuff he helped with was against the FIB. He also pretty much organized the entire FIB raid, which was all about getting into their server room and wiping data. Lester could of easily wiped it himself if he worked there. Steve & Davey also had no clue who Lester really was. Steve 100% would of known who Lester was if he worked alongside him. Lester has also said multiple times that he despises the FIB. There is absolutely no way he would of worked for them all these years, willing helping people setup scores that includes hundreds of police and FIB casualties without EVER being caught or suspected of anything. As a side note, Lester is 1000000% an elite hacker. This has been stated so many times during story, and it's kind of obvious that he is. Overall, absolutely nothing suggests that he would work with the FIB, all he does is occasionally work alongside the IAA

[@Jim_bob721]

Each time you post a new video it makes my day

[@HariGill]

Very viable theories, would love to see another of these!

[@danpp6175]

I like how people never played the story there is a line if not fuel lines from Dave Norton to Michael Michael has ties to the FIB play the casino job online are you buying the arcade for the first time and do the job this will help further into a theory that Lester is not fib

[@orynx2835]

Next thing you are going to say is that lester is brad 💀 bro wtf . I know its a theory but it just doesn't make any sense at all for lester working with FIB . He literally plans a heist against FIB just because they want to remove some files from Michaels' life etc. Just play the story mode and you will understand

[@wedoalittletrolling723]

Michael was also in witness protection

[@Kintsussi]

I think Agent 14 has some kind of dirt on Lester because there would be no other reason why they would know each other, so knowing Lester’s ability to hack and manipulate our player characters to do anything as long as we get paid, Agent 14 wouldn’t throw Lester in prison as long as Lester plays nice with 14.

[@TheRealRedAce]

The question is: Is GERALD secretly FIB? He does a lot to break up drug activities. He SAYS its to eliminate the opposition, but.... Which brings me to Trevor..... :D

[@shibanbai]

what's the name of the music in the background?

[@user-ih5pz3sd7u]

sometimes agencies need people outside their control. so... I do think he works WITH an agency... the doomsday heist kinda points to this.

[@BryanGomez-jl2uf]

What is the name of the music in the background

[@Ghost83110]

i asked that too last year i think but never get a reply

[@shibanbai]

@@Ghost83110 same , I guess we're not worthy knowing the anwser

[@Ghost83110]

@@shibanbai yeah i dont understand whats the problem in just telling us whats the name of the song and also he replies to other comments but comments like this no

[@shibanbai]

@@Ghost83110 Literally , he replies to every single comment except these who simply ask for the background music

[@Ghost83110]

@@shibanbai true

[@pentalarclikesit822]

I don't think that Lester is working for the FIB, at least before the events of the Doomsday heist. I think part of the reason why it seems he can do so much, is because we are assuming that the FIB and IAA in the GTA universe have the same power as the organizations they are based on in the real world. THe evidence simply shows they don't. For many reasons hinted at in the lore, the powerful criminal syndicates/mob families/gangs/private militias are all on the same approximate power level. It's actaully very much like a classic cyberpunk background without the technological elements, the corporations/criminal groups are more powerful than the government (definately en masse). Think about it, we've seen Merryweather, IAA, FIB, Madrazo, the Duggans, all around the same top level. The other criminal groups just below that, and then below that, a lot of nameless minor groups (That we normally steal supplies, nightclub goods, heist gear, etc from.) We know from the Cluckin' Bell heist that the local police,. are not only involved, but openly, almost casualy, involved with the criminal underworld, and that Effenburger has little to no difficulty betraying them and getting a lot of the same kind of resources. This is because he is not really betraying an actual police force with government backing as he is in our world, he is simply betraying his "gang" working with another "gang." It's the same thing. If the FIB goes after Madrazo, it's not a criminal investigation, it's a gang war. The same way with the group Georgina is from (can't remember which one, I want to say Triads, but I think they are on the other side) and Lester/the main group teaming up to go after the Duggans. So basically, it's a situation where "the cartels are more powerful than the government" which, should not really be a set-up that would be all that unknowable to us. The next bit, I admit, is my own head-cannon, but it makes perfect sense from what I see. No one in the big three/four from story mode ever got (fully) out of the game after the events of ending C (which is the cannon ending at this point) . Lester makes no qualms about the fact that he is going to continue in whati s basically his chosen career and lifestyle at this point. Franklin is most concerning with moving up in the world, and in the GTA background, heading up a criminal organization is the way to do it. By this point in store mode, he's running the Agency which is part of our organization. Trevor is absolutely sure that is going to continue to go around causing chaos and doing whatever the hell he wants, but he is the most open as describing crime as bascially his career, a career he takes seriously and will defend to be people who detract from it. At this point, he may or may not have left and moved on something/somewhere else, but he coudl aslo just have had a falling out with Ron who is still working with our group, and Trevor could very well be either dead or have moved on to blow thigns up elsewhere. (We know from dialog in the Contract that he is still alive and at least still in contact to some degree with Franklin, though the exact extent or where he a based is unknown. Michael is the only one who really seemed to want to actually retire, rumors about the next DLC notwithstanding, and in my opinion is probably in a pleasant semi-retirement, maybe running some thigns quietly in the background. Now that he fixed (at least to a degree) his family life, but even that partialyl accepting that he, Amanda, Tracy, and Jimmy are all just as screwed up as he is, this fits both is character and his motivations from the beginning. But you can't tell me that if someone were threatening a member of the family, he wouldn't pick up the phone call someone (probable Franklin or Lester) and suddenly we've got a payphone hit or we're doing Headhunters or some other activity. The thing is, our character is the same: At this point in the game, no matter how much an individual player might want to full Trevor, dress in a bikini and a mask and go around causing general chaos, that dosen't make them lower-ranking, it makes them/the player/the character, a Trevor-style character. I'm a grinder, so I'm more the Franklin style criminal. (Just with a less posh style, since I dress my character randomly every time) Securiserve, Disruption Logistics, The Open Road, the Arcade, our biker businesses, the nightclub (Tony pretty much states outright that the only way he can run a club in this world is with the help of organized crime.) etc are all fronts. And who would run the finances/covers for those fronts? Lester. Jimmy is employed in some nebulous way at our Arcade. Why? Wasn't he going to get a real job at the end of story mode? Well, he did. In this background, working for a criminal syndicate *is* a normal job. He just decided to go into the family business. To me it seems like the thing is run by a cadre of either three to six powerful crimelords, Lester Crest, Franklin Clinton, and the online protagonist, with likely Michael DeSanta in a leadership role somewhere in the shadows and possibly Trevor Philips as well (or maybe Ron took over his spot in running Blaine County, its' unclear. (Dax may have taken his role type-wise, but does not seem interested in rising any higher in rank than he is, and does not have the same drive for it as the other questgivers. It often looks like there are two "sides" to it. Their side has Merryweather, the Professionals, the Ballas, the Vagos, the Korean mob (don't feel like looking up how to spell it). the bikers (I think they were originally supposed to be the Angels and Death, and making the Lost was a (stupid) change so they could make the (stupid) decision of pointlessly killing Johnny et al off) several "redneck" gangs, and others, including the majority of the local police. Our side has the protagonists, the story-mode characters, the Madrazo cartel, Georgina's group (don't feel like looking it up), the Families, Tony, Yusef, Securiserve, Hao, the Armenian mob (through Simeon, who ironically, almost certainly now works *for* Franklin rather than the other way around) etc. And from what it seems, when the two sides come into conflict, our side just about always wins. Because we own Los Santos. And that is the point of the game.

[@defrag220]

What gets me is, why does Jimmy look like Lester? and not Mike?

[@Milkymilky-hq2ft]

Lesters just lester hes creepy he can do almost anything he wants hes the best hacker in the gta franchise

[@guardian_900]

Also Lester want us to buy the facility, an apartment with our own money and he will live there without any player knowing. I only find out about cause Lester have all that money and still want us to drive a slow ahhh car Better the first apartment heist he'll talk about threatening the player. The casino heist he doesn't care if someone died doing the mission and still going to talk 50% of the money the player stole. There more but I forgot which mission with Lester threatening the player.

[@sergiopiece]

Or it could just be a video game where you get shot, ran over, blown up etc and it’s all fantasy