Yeah, if anyone were to beat the "Save Lance" mission the first time without failing then I'd personally make them my Hero. Same thing with a dozen of the other missions in the game. Some are simply impossible to beat the first time...a few of them require memorizing the entire city to get through in under the time limit. I'll admit that I did beat the game with every mission in under a week, but that's not saying I didn't play some of the missions dozens of times each.
-Lasereth