Joseph Kaplan

Background

Joseph Kaplan is a Czech immigrant born around 1975 who lives in Hove Beach, Broker. He is a known associate of Mikhail Faustin and the Russian criminals in the area. His only conviction is a 2003 sexual assault, but police suspect him of running a prostitution ring out of a Hove Beach sex shop and shooting low-budget pornographic films in its basement. Several young women, including the prostitute Marnie Allen, have complained that he tricked them into appearing in his films.

Events of Grand Theft Auto IV

Kaplan appears in Do You Have Protection?, when Dimitri Rascalov and Niko Bellic visit him because he has not been paying Faustin a share of his film profits. Niko shoots Kaplan's employee Brett as a warning, and Dimitri knocks Kaplan out with a blow from his gun.

Kaplan can be killed during the mission, but only after Dimitri has knocked him out. Killing him any earlier fails the mission.

Trivia

• He has no credited voice actor, and he speaks with an American accent despite being from Czechoslovakia.
• A pedestrian using his model can be found in Middle Park East.
• He has a longer line that is usually cut short when Dimitri hits him. Blocking his path with Niko lets it play in full.