Well alright, looks like the 'leak' WAS right and Gat is also alive outside of the simulator, which is awesome. But how the hell he managed that, I have no idea....
Gotta love those knife moves though. They were happening in gameplay but only Gat was using them....I hope we're able to do that stuff with the knife too. Also as an aside hope we can do stealth kills with the knife in freeroam like in the first mission, it was completely absurd watching a man in a gimp suit crouch-walking down the street in broad daylight shanking pedestrians like it's normal in GTASA =P