Malcom Latimer

Malcom Latimer is a character appearing in Fallout 4.

Background
Malcom Latimer is the wealthy father of Nelson Latimer. He can be found outside of the Colonial Taphouse during the daytime. After the quest Diamond City Blues is completed Malcom will try and approach the player character to ask if they had involvement in the death of his son. If the player character fails the speech check Malcom will periodically send Triggermen to kill the player character.

Effects of player's actions

 * If saying Marowski killed his son, he will offer four hundred caps to kill him and the player character will lose approval with John Hancock. Preston Garvey dislikes this. The Sole Survivor then gets the option to ask for 200 more caps.
 * If accusing Paul of the murder, he will offer two hundred caps instead and the player character will lose approval with John Hancock.
 * If the player character admits to the murder and then passes a persuasion check, Malcolm will not do either of the above and the player character will gain approval from Piper, Curie, Codsworth, Nick Valentine and Preston. Cait dislikes this.

Other interactions

 * If the player character succeeds in the speech check, Malcolm asks if the Sole Survivor knows who killed his son.
 * He will cease to send the Triggermen if a fee of two thousand caps is paid.
 * An alternate method of halting the Triggermen attacks is to kill Malcolm in a manner that will not prompt hostility from other characters, such as utilizing the Mister Sandman perk or simply killing him at night in his room after gaining the keys to his house from Nelson Latimer's body.

Appearances
Malcolm Latimer appears only in Fallout 4.

Bugs

 * In the game code, his EditorID is spelled MalcolmLatimer with the second 'l', but in the Name category, it is spelled Malcom without the second 'l', and thus ingame he is seen spelled Malcom despite other code references to him spelled Malcolm.