You set him free instead, but not before telling him to go spread his 'message' as a 'torture advocate.' Then the FIB agent tells you/Trevor to kill him. Under torture he does spill information, but you realize quite quickly that he would have talked sooner and probably given better information if you hadn't tortured him. So you torture this man for no reason at all, in spite of the fact that he would gladly tell you anything without being tortured to begin with. The torture victim is perfectly willing to talk before he's tortured, but you are ordered to do it anyway and Trevor happily obliges. Far from glamorizing torture, the scene makes you uncomfortable.

It's not fun at all, and I doubt many people will actually enjoy it. The scene is gruesome, no doubt about it. 'If Rockstar North’s message is a satirical critique of the practice of torture, it’s lost on us.” 'This adds insult to injury for survivors who are left physically and mentally scarred by torture in the real world,' he continued. 'Torture is a reality, not a game and glamourising it in popular culture undoes the work of organisations like Freedom from Torture and survivor activists to campaign against it. “Rockstar North has crossed a line by effectively forcing people to take on the role of a torturer and perform a series of unspeakable acts if they want to achieve success in the game,' said Freedom from Torture chief executive Keith Best, according to a report in The Guardian.

Trevor has been tasked by the FIB to torture a man to get the identity, location, and description of the assassination target Michael is tasked with carrying out the kill. And so we come to the gruesome torture scene, in which players bounce back and forth between Trevor and Michael during a hit job.

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