It was a heist, Gavins heist. It was obvious that it was gavins heist since people dressed in yellow like firemen came to rob a gas station and blew up a gas tanker at the start and held all the people hostage. The entire story go's like this: Gavin forced the rest of achievement hunter to dress in yellow like firemen and steal a gas tanker and 3 fire trucks and an ambulance. that was just the apparatus. they started with the gas tanker full of sticky bombs parked next to the gas station, michael gets out with a minigun and starts intimidating the store owner and the customers for all their money and any weapons while jack ignites the tanker and blows the entire place up. and on cue everyone else comes in the fire trucks and ambulance and starts to put out the fire and knocking the police over with the hoses and the water pressure while the ambulance driver runs them over and kills them to make time for michael to get the money when michael got the money he killed everyone but a 2 random guys and shoves them in a car with gavin and drives off while the others die in an chain explosion caused by a flaming car. michael gavin and the hostage drive off in a sandking XL. ryan driving the ambulance survived the chain explosion but got prosectuted. In the end Michael gave the police a chance of ransom. He sent a letter to the police saying he would give up the 2 hostages if he would pay 50 million and give back his prosecuted ally ryan haywood. he gave a time and place