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This page is about the miscellaneous quest in Fallout 4. For the Fallout Shelter quest, see Detective Case Files (Fallout Shelter). |
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Detective Case Files is a miscellaneous quest in Fallout 4.
Quick walkthrough[]
| Miscellaneous Quest: Detective Case Files | |||||||||||||
| Complete Unlikely Valentine by rescuing Nick Valentine from the Triggermen in Vault 114. | |||||||||||||
| Enter the Valentine Detective Agency in Diamond City and speak with Ellie Perkins. | |||||||||||||
| Accept Ellie's request to help solve some cases. | |||||||||||||
| Obtain and read the Earl Sterling case notes. | Obtain and listen to Marty Bullfinch's holotape. | ||||||||||||
| Leads to: The Disappearing Act | Leads to: The Gilded Grasshopper | ||||||||||||
Detailed walkthrough[]
This quest serves as a guideline to starting a pair of side quests related to Nick Valentine and the Valentine Detective Agency. To start these quests, one must first complete the main quest Unlikely Valentine which requires entering Park Street station near Boston Common and rescuing the detective from his imprisonment by Skinny Malone and the Triggermen; this quest can be started as early as leaving Vault 111 by going directly to the station's surface entrance, or by following the early main quests up to completing Jewel of the Commonwealth by reaching Diamond City and speaking with the agency's secretary, Ellie Perkins to learn about Nick's disappearance.
Upon returning to the agency after rescuing Nick, Ellie will suggest having the Sole Survivor partner up with Nick in his detective work, giving them a set of a worn fedora and faded trench coat like Nick's, though Nick will put the matter aside initially in order to focus on helping the player character with finding the missing Shaun during Getting a Clue.
Detective work[]
The pair of quests can be started by looking around the work area of the agency building and obtaining an item related to their respective quest: the Earl Sterling case notes will trigger The Disappearing Act while Marty Bullfinch's holotape will trigger The Gilded Grasshopper, with one or both able to be obtained immediately. The former quest deals with an investigation into the disappearance of a DC resident, Earl Sterling, while the latter involves looking into Marty Bullfinch, an old associate of Nick's that came up with a scheme to pilfer the old gilded grasshopper statue on top of Faneuil Hall, which is infested with super mutants.
Long Time Coming[]
While separate from this quest, if the player character raises their affinity with Nick Valentine to a certain threshold, it will trigger his companion quest Long Time Coming. In this quest, he asks for their help resolving a case from long before, since the time of the pre-War era: eliminating Eddie Winter, a notorious Boston crime boss with ties to Nick's past that he believes survived the bombs and lived well into the 23rd century by way of becoming a ghoul.
