| The Rocket's Red Glare
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| Tapped Out Quest Information
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The Rocket's Red Glare is a temporary questline in The Simpsons: Tapped Out. It was introduced in the 4th July 2013 content update. It unlocks All-American Apu.
Dialogue
Pt. 1
| After starting the update
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The Fourth of July is coming! When Americans celebrate their country by brazenly flaunting their contempt for its anti-fireworks ordinances!
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nd Apu’s All-American Kwik-E-Mart and Fireworks Megastore leads the way! I’d better get in costume.
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You'll find a new outfit for Apu in your inventory!
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| New Skin: All-American Apu
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Quest reward:  100 and  10
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Pt. 2
| After tapping on All-American Apu's exclamation mark
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My fireworks customers demand the biggest explosions, triggered by the most unpredictable fuses money can buy!
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If this town doesn’t lose at least three fingers every year, I haven’t done my job.
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| Task: "Make All-American Apu Stock Up on Illegal Fireworks". The task takes place at the Kwik-E-Mart and takes 24 hours.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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Pt. 3
| After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark
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Stocking this many explosives in such close proximity to cigarette-smoking twelve-year-olds is dangerous.
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I better sell these fireworks fast!
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| Tasks: "Make All-American Apu Turn a Profit" and "Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks" (x15). Both takes take place at the Kwik-E-Mart. Apu's task takes 12 hours and the Springfield Residents' task takes 60 minutes.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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Pt. 4
| After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark
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*yawn* I can’t sleep -- the noise from all these fireworks is keeping me awake.
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You’re the one lighting them! You can stop any time you like!
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If I stop blowing up M-80s even for a moment, then the Soviet Union wins and our Founding Fathers got their heads chopped off for nothing.
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Maybe some coffee will wake you up. And help you make some sense.
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| Task: "Build the Nighthawk Diner". It takes 24 hours.
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| Build: Nighthawk Diner
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| New Character: Rex Banner
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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Pt. 5
| After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark
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Citizens of Springfield, fear not! No longer will airborne displays of Technicolor splendor haunt your nights!
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Federal agent Rex Banner!?
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Here to stop the flow of illegal fireworks into Springfield and bring the Bottle Rocket Barons to their knees.
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Well, that’ll be nice. They’re kind of a nuisance.
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Nuisance? You call sporadic incidents of mild to moderate noise pollution a NUISANCE?
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It’s the greatest threat to the American way of life since loitering! Time to round up the likely suspects.
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| Task: "Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders". The task requires Ned and takes 8 hours.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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Pt. 6
| After tapping on Apu's exclamation mark
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This holiday is proving most profitable!
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I’ve traced the fireworks to this Kwik-E-Mart. Time to see what we can see…
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Great Ganesh! Super-cop Rex Banner is hot on my trail! I’d better hide the evidence.
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| Tasks: "Make All-American Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor" and "Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart". The tasks take place at the Kwik-E-Mart. All-American Apu's task takes 4 hours and Rex Banner's task takes 12 hours.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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Pt. 7
| After tapping on Rex Banner's exclamation mark
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Reach for the sky, Nahasapeemapetilon! I know you’re the gunpowder-drunk mastermind of this fireworks racket!
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Come clean -- you’re the one they call the Rocket Rajah. The Bengal Blaster. Pyrotechnic ‘Pu.
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I see. Because of my ethnicity and name, you assume this person must be me. That, sir, is profiling!
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I’m an old-timey cop. Profiling is ninety percent of my skill set.
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And we call it by its proper name: good ol' red-blooded, American racism.
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| Tasks: "Make All-American Apu Hide the Fireworks Behind the Malt Liquor" and "Make Rex Banner Stake Out the Kwik-E-Mart". The tasks take place at the Kwik-E-Mart. All-American Apu's task takes 4 hours and Rex Banner's task takes 12 hours.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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Pt. 8
| After tapping on Homer's exclamation mark
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Rex Banner! I’ve discovered the identity of the fireworks smuggler. It’s Ned Flanders! Quick, drag him down to the station and interrogate him for hours!
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Let’s go, boys!
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And… he’s gone. Woo-hoo! Come on, everybody -- the coast is clear! Let’s buy some boom!
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| Tasks: "Make Rex Banner Interrogate Flanders" and "Send Springfield Residents to Buy Fireworks" (x15). Rex Banner's task requires Ned and takes 8 hours. The Springfield Residents' task takes place at the Kwik-E-Mart and takes 60 minutes.
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| Quest reward: 100 and 10
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