The GTA 6 leak campaign reached nine clips on August 23, and this one carries two firsts. A file labelled "gas2" reportedly ends with the series' iconic Wasted screen, the first time any of the leaked material has shown a death state, and it closes on an on-screen objective reading "Return to Lucia" with a heart icon beside it. Nine clips in, that is the first time Lucia Caminos has surfaced in any of them.
None of this comes from Rockstar. The studio has not authenticated a single frame, has not commented on the contents, and has now gone since August 6, 2026 without a public statement of any kind. Everything below is reported by outlets watching the material, from a build most coverage dates to 2023, three days before the Extended Look premieres on Netflix.
What Clip Nine Reportedly Shows
The video runs roughly two minutes and is the second gas station clip in the run, hence the "gas2" label. Per RockstarINTEL, Game Rant, Notebookcheck, TechWiser, Beebom, Dexerto and GameFragger, the sequence goes something like this:
- Jason arrives at a gas station where an NPC has backed in a pickup truck with a bathtub sitting in the bed and is calmly filling the tub with gasoline. Coverage has universally read the character as a conspiracy theorist stockpiling fuel.
- Jason takes the truck. The theft goes badly.
- There is an explosion, and Jason dies.
- The screen cuts to Wasted.
- A short cutscene follows in which Jason finishes at a urinal, and the objective "Return to Lucia" appears with a heart icon on the right side of the frame.
The bathtub detail is the part that has travelled furthest, and it is easy to see why. It reads as a self-contained joke about the game's setting rather than a systems demo, which is a different kind of signal from the driving and combat material in earlier clips. We wrote about how deep this vein runs in our piece on Florida Man satire in GTA 6.
The Wasted Screen: Real, but Treat It as Placeholder
This is the first look at how the build handles player death, and it matters mostly because it is a UI element rather than a gameplay one. UI is among the last things a studio locks. Coverage has been careful to flag that what appears here may be temporary art, and that caution is warranted: menus, fonts, fail states and transition screens routinely change late in Rockstar development because they are cheap to swap and heavily play-tested.
What it does establish is that the classic wording survived into at least one build. "Wasted" has been the series' death card since GTA III, dropped for a plain fade in Red Dead Redemption 2, and its presence here suggests Rockstar is not retiring the term. For the wider franchise history of death, respawn cost and hospital penalties, see our breakdown of how death and respawning work in GTA.
"Return to Lucia" Is the More Interesting Line
Until this clip, the leaked material was a Jason-only affair: driving, flight, melee, a taser, a hypercar theft, a robbery, a strip club. No mission structure, no menus beyond the radio wheel, and no Lucia.
An objective marker naming her, paired with a heart icon, changes very little about what is confirmed and quite a lot about what the leaker apparently has. It implies a build in which the partner relationship is expressed through the HUD, not just through cutscenes. Whether that is a one-off waypoint or evidence of a persistent companion system is not something a two-minute clip can settle. We have laid out the possibilities and the franchise precedents separately in what "Return to Lucia" suggests about GTA 6's partner structure.
It also undercuts a theory that had been circulating: that the leaker's build was somehow limited to Jason's portion of the game. It evidently is not.
The Context Around Clip Nine
Three things are running at once, and they should not be conflated.
Rockstar remains silent. No statement, no authentication, no denial. The only visible actions are DMCA takedown notices and continued paid promotion of the August 27 Extended Look. The takedowns function as backhanded authentication, because you do not file copyright claims on footage that is not yours.
Take-Two has moved legally. On August 20 the publisher filed subpoena requests in the Southern District of New York seeking records from Microsoft and Discord, with a reported response deadline of September 4. That is a discovery instrument, not a lawsuit and not a criminal charge, and nobody has been identified or arrested. Full detail is in our report on the Take-Two subpoenas.
The leaker is monetising all of it. Every clip in this run carries watermarks and QR codes pointing at a cryptocurrency token that launched three days before the first leak. That is covered in full in our piece on the CYBERLEEK token, and it is the strongest reason to treat this campaign as a commercial operation rather than a whistleblowing one.
What Clip Nine Does Not Prove
A leaked clip from a 2023 build establishes that something existed in 2023. It does not establish that the Wasted art ships, that the heart icon means what people think it means, or that the gas station encounter is anything more than an ambient event that got cut. Rockstar has published nothing about mission structure, HUD design or companion systems for this title.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the ninth GTA 6 leak clip real?
No outlet has authenticated it and Rockstar has not commented. The persistent DMCA takedowns across this run are the closest thing to confirmation, and they are indirect. Treat it as credible but unverified.
Does the Wasted screen in the leak look final?
Coverage has flagged it as possibly placeholder art. UI elements are among the last things locked in development, so the wording surviving is a better signal than the specific look.
Is this the first Lucia footage?
Not footage. It is an objective marker naming her, plus a heart icon, appearing after a short cutscene. No leaked clip has shown Lucia gameplay.
Does this change the August 27 Extended Look?
There is no schedule change. The Extended Look still premieres on Netflix at 3:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, August 27, and free on Rockstar's YouTube channel and the GTA VI site at 9:00 p.m. ET the same day.
The Bottom Line
Clip nine is the run's most narratively suggestive material so far, and its most obviously comic. The Wasted screen is a nice piece of continuity and probably placeholder. The "Return to Lucia" objective is the genuinely new information, because it tells us the leaker's build reaches further into the game than the previous eight clips implied. Everything else is a 2023 snapshot with a crypto watermark on it, and the only footage that will settle any of this arrives on Thursday.