The Yellow Jack Inn is a mythical location in Grand Theft Auto V.
Niko Bellic's wanted poster
Overview[]
The bar is located in the Grand Senora Desert, northeast of Bolingbroke Penitentiary, southeast of Sandy Shores, and west of Thomson Scrapyard. It is run by a woman named Janet.
From the outside, the bar has a rustic and aged view, with visible wear and tear cluttering it's dark green walls and it's sullen red awning. Various signs decorate the building, including advertisements and the bar's name itself. On the front porch lies various amenities, such as a sofa and an ice cooler. An inaccessible second floor is visible and is presumably where Janet lives. In front of the inn is a small, slightly decayed parking lot. Around the inn is mostly garbage and nothing else.
Inside the bar houses tons of decorations all over the walls, as well as shelves stocked to the brim with alcohol. Amenities include a pool table, a dart board, and a cigarette machine, among other luxuries.
Niko's signature brown jacket
Picture of Niko in a tow truck
The same exact XXX poster seen in Niko's first apartment
This is where things become interesting, as evidence begins to arise that the bar may have a connection to none other than Niko Bellic, the protagonist of GTA IV. Leaving the Yellow Jack for a while, one can drive out to an abandoned house somewhere in the desert, where they will find a wanted poster of Niko, suggesting that he moved to San Andreas to escape Liberty City but relapsed back into a life of crime. At some point, Niko acquired the Yellow Jack Inn and began selling liquor there, decorating the bar with various pictures and artwork that held sentimental value to him, such as an old photo of him driving a truck and even the porn poster from Niko and Roman's first apartment. He would also commonly hang his brown jacket near the entrance of the inn. Niko ran the tavern in honor of a dream that Roman once had, where they ran a bar where people came to eat and relax. It is unknown if Roman accompanied Niko to San Andreas and ran the Yellow Jack Inn with him. Sometime later, however, Niko became enemies with a criminal, who promptly murdered him in his own bar. A woman named Janet would later take ownership of the bar. The crime scene can still be investigated, as Niko's blood stains are littered across the bar.
Niko's bloodstains littered across the bar
Some hunters have theorized that Trevor Philips was responsible for the murder, as Janet warns Trevor not to cause any more deaths in the bar. Since Trevor is a criminal, he may have come into conflict with Niko and killed him. This could also allude to Janet being a co-owner of the bar, or she also could've been the landlady, taking over the bar for herself once Niko and possibly Roman were gone.
However, this may all simply be untrue. If Trevor killed Niko in the Yellow Jack Inn, it would have been before the main storyline - otherwise, an article would be found in-game about the incident — and if so, the staff would have cleaned up such bloodstains. But as seen when entering, the stains are still there, and those might not even be bloodstains but just dirt stains, because it’s an inn, after all. While the stains near the pool table are definitely blood prints, those might simply be a tie-in to The Infinity Killer, since Merle Abrahams went to the inn very often, and the prints appear near an “Eight-ball” table. Furthermore, the picture of Niko and his jacket are probably just simple Easter eggs, which the inn contains a lot of — not just about Niko and GTA IV, but also about Red Dead Redemption and GTA: San Andreas. It’s highly unlikely that Trevor killed Niko in the inn without it being directly mentioned in the story, and Niko’s fate remains unknown. If he were deceased, Rockstar would probably have elaborated on it instead of just implying it in very obscure lore. This theory has also mostly been supported by clickbait YouTubers such as NoughtPointFour and Marko Pegan, which makes this myth lack credibility. There is no real evidence for this theory to be true, nor that Niko has/had the ownership of the Inn, which makes this myth unlikely.