Michael's Murder Mystery Side-Mission Guide — Unlocking Vintage Filters

When you enter the office, you will find a letter on the desk. You need to approach the letter and simply read it in order to successfully complete this part of the mystery. Upon exiting the letter screen, and after reading it, you will again hear the film reel and bass impact sound effect indicating successful completion of this clue discovery. The letter is addressed to David Richards, father of Solomon Richards, by an individual named Fred Quincy.

The Letter reads:

Vinewood,
August 14th, 1949
Dear David,
I think by now you know that I made some mistakes I mean, we all have. We are flawed men, and me, who has focused so much on perfection, perhaps the most flawed of all.
I know you know the whole story, or enough of it, and I am sure you must be sick to your stomach with me, but let me ask you, what choice did I have? To have some strumpet, good for nothing three dollar whore behind a type writer threaten me and my legacy! It was the best choice I could have made. It was the only choice I could have made. And I know it was an ugly choice but that is the problem with sin. Sin begets sin, and my sins have multiplied.
I know you know the business about Isaac. Well, that was a couple of years ago and things were just getting back to normal. Nobody knew about it. Just you, me, my lawyers, Abe Schwartzman over at Browne Canyon, nobody who didn't have their own, perhaps more allegorical skeletons in the closet. Isaac betrayed me, in the worst way possible. Not that business with Maureen. The honest truth is that when I met her she was turning tricks to buy hot dogs, so what could I expect? No, Isaac betrayed me in the worst way possible. He did not give his all on the Bip The Dog movie. I warned him, but I knew he was already flirting with Abe about a live action gig at BC. He even shot a short for him. On my film stock. I'd been drinking and we got into it. We've all done it. I buried him in mine up in the hills, then called Abe and offered him a deal to forget about Isaac. Abe's made a few mistakes himself, including that nasty business with the busboy, so he shut up, as far as I know.
I hope you understand how much I value our friendship, and trust nothing would ever encourage you to gossip inappropriately about me. Let me be quite frank for a second. Were you to do that, well, clearly I am quite prepared to make difficult decisions and I'd make them again. But just to solidify what has always been a very important relationship to me, I wanted to help you out of sport of bother. Freds will buy a 5% stale in Richards Majestic for $450,000. We both know this is significantly over market rate and we both know that this ties us together, as the brothers we truly are. You're a talented man who needs to get back to doing what he does best. Less of this artistic nonsense. Action, and plenty of it. When people think of Richards Majestic they think broads, hoods and Tommy Guns. So give them what they want.
We make dreams come true. It's an incredible responsibility.
Your friend.
Fred Quincy

The Abandoned Mineshaft Location

After you've read the letter, you discover that in the hills there is a mine where Fred dumped Isaac's body. In order to find the body you need to get access to the abandoned mine shaft located up in the hills in Great Chaparral. In order to enter the mine shaft, you need to blow open the entrance door. You can do this using any explosive weapon such as sticky bombs, grenades, RPG or even a Railgun. Make sure to have a flashlight attachment on one of your guns as it is pitch dark inside the shaft and you won't be able to see anything without it.

After you blow open the door, you can enter the mine. You need to keep walking for a couple of seconds until you come across an intersection leading to either left direction or right direction. You don't need to go to either of these directions. You will find a dead body at this intersection with a film reel next to it. This is Isaac's body which was dumped here by David Richards friend Fred Quincy. Once you've found the body, the same bass impact sound with a film reel sound effect will play in the background indicating successful discovery of the dead body.

When you are standing close to the film reel near Isaac's dead body, you will see an option on the top left corner of your screen which will say "Press button to cycle Vintage filters". When you press the button, which is Right D-pad on the consoles, a vintage filter will be applied on your screen.

Another way of accessing these filters is through your phone. Isaac will be added as a contact in your phone. You can call him up in order to change the filter. Call him once to apply the first Vintage filter. Calling him again will change it to the next vintage filter and after you call him for the third time the filter will be removed and the display will change back to normal.

Vintage Filters

There are two Vintage Filters which are unlocked after successful completion of this murder mystery side mission. They are shown below.