S.C.I. - Special Criminal Investigation/Stage 3

Once Gibson and Broady's red Nissan 300ZX has reappeared on the screen you will have to step on the gas pedal to accelerate it as you pass between four barriers, then turn to the left, and pass between two more barriers (while driving around a fallen boulder on the right side of the track), pass between four more barriers (while driving around two more fallen boulders on both sides of the track) and shift it into high gear once it has reached 200 km/h; you shall now drive into a tunnel. Once you've come out of the tunnel you will have to turn to the right (while trying to avoid falling off the left side of the track, and it was also possible to do this where the waves were lapping against its sides on the previous stage) and drive into another tunnel - and once you've come out of this second tunnel, you'll have to turn to the left (while trying to avoid falling off the right side of the track), and drive into a third tunnel. Once you've come out of this third tunnel, a right-pointing arrow will appear on the screen, as you come to a forked junction; once you have turned to the right, you will have to turn to the left and go into a fourth tunnel, and once you have come out of it you will come to the point where both paths meet. However, if you chose to turn left at the forked junction instead you shall have to turn to the right as you come to the point where both paths meet - and regardless of which path you took you will then have to drive around a fourth fallen boulder on the left side of the track and into a fifth (or fourth, if you chose to turn left at the forked junction) tunnel. Once you have come out of it you will have to turn to the left as you drive into a sixth (or fifth if you chose to turn left at the forked junction) tunnel; once you have come out of it you will have to turn to the right as you drive into a seventh (or sixth, if you chose to turn to the left at the forked junction) tunnel. You'll then receive a bonus of 10000 points for every second you have remaining as your time is extended (by 55, 60, 65, or 70 seconds), the target car's damage meter appears on the left side of the screen as you come up to it (it is, once again, indicated by an arrow in its colour and the text "CRIMINAL" over it), and the red light reappears on top of the Nissan 300ZX as its siren starts to be heard from the Yamaha YM-2610 for what is now the third time in this game (the six brown limousines that are escorting the target one are also worth 5000 points if you should ram them and force them to crash) - and once the target car's damage meter is at 10%, the helicopter that appeared in the two previous stages will fly down into view from the top of the screen and airdrop a third rocket launcher onto the Nissan 300ZX. Once it lands on it, its ammunition of five shots (that will once again further damage the target car by 10% when fired) will appear in the bottom of the screen and disappear when each one gets fired; once the target car's damage meter has been completely filled it'll burst into flames and stop. The screen shall now cut to a shot of Gibson and Broady arresting the target car's driver (Bob Black) and passenger, as the text "STAGE 3 COMPLETED" appears above it, and you receive a bonus of 10000 points for every second you have remaining - but Bob Black does not stay arrested for long as shown in the next message received by Taito Monitoring System.

The Taito Monitoring System shall then come back up into view from the bottom of the screen again as it adjusts its channel to 4 and volume to almost maximum (and a picture of a six-wheeled coach, with a left-pointing arrow, and the text "LOOK OUT! WILL APPEAR THREE TIMES" to its right under it); its green "BUSY" light shall then come on, as Nancy (World: "Halen") appears upon its square blue screen, followed by the fourth stage's target car (which is a khaki patrol wagon, but like the second stage's it again bears a resemblance to a van) as the following text appears letter-by-letter under it:

A PATROL WAGON WITH BOB BLACK ABOARD HAS BEEN STOLEN BY AN UNKNOWN PERPETRATOR. YOU MAY USE THE SHOT GUN NOW. OVER.

The game shall now proceed to the fourth stage (which features, as the warning below the Taito Monitoring System implied, three six-wheeled coaches).