Scattered across the Vice City map, shipping containers can apparently be opened and robbed, hiding cash, supplies, weapons, and even bikes inside.
That last one is the kicker. A bike. Tucked inside a container. The kind of find that rewards players who actually poke at the world instead of following the yellow dot.
According to footage and details surfaced in the September 2018 alpha leak (community-sourced, so treat it as very likely rather than gospel), the containers aren't set dressing. They're interactive. You walk up, you crack one open, and the contents are real loot — not a scripted reward, not a mission drop.
The popular assumption is that secret loot in GTA lives inside buildings or behind mission triggers. Wrong framing. The containers suggest Rockstar is dressing the open world with unmarked, repeatable finds that have nothing to do with the story.
Here's why the CCTV detail matters: the same leak notes that committing crimes in front of a camera alerts cops, but doing the same in an isolated area might not. Port Gellhorn, the outlying location visible on in-game police car signage, sits far enough from Vice City's core that you're potentially operating in a low-surveillance zone. A shipping yard on the edges of the map, away from cameras, away from witnesses. Open containers, grab the loot, walk out clean.
Jason's special ability (the near-black-and-white highlighting mode) is built precisely for moments like this — scanning a container interior for the item worth grabbing before you commit the time.
No mission marker. No prompt telling you to go there. Just a container door that opens if you try it.
That's the whole find. The world is quietly full of these, and most players will drive past every single one.