The player will find an Emperor upside down in a ditch and on fire. Taliana is first seen on a random event found in the Great Ocean Highway around Mount Chiliad and Braddock Pass after the The Jewel Store Job has been completed. Taliana successfully evaded the cops and passed three roadblocks but the remaining gang member pulled a knife on her while she was driving at 100 miles per hour, causing the crash and killing the gang member. Two were captured with one managing to get in the car with her.
After some persuasion by whichever character picked her up, Taliana explains that she was a getaway driver for a gang robbing a pawnshop, but the robbery was a sting. Not much is known about Taliana's past: the only thing known about her is what she tells the player during her random event.