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Plot
The introductory sequence introduces the Lone Wanderer (player character) to their father, James, a doctor and scientist in Vault 101. James frequently makes comments about the player character's deceased mother, Catherine, and her favorite Bible passage, Revelation 21:6, which speaks of "the waters of life." The player grows up alongside their friend Amata Almodovar and a bully, Butch DeLoria. One day, when the Lone Wanderer is 19-years-old, James leaves Vault 101, throwing it into anarchy and causing the paranoid overseer, Amata's father Alphonse Almodovar, to send his security force after the Lone Wanderer, forcing them to flee as well.

The main quest begins; the search for James takes the Wanderer on a journey through the Wasteland, first to the nearby town of Megaton, named for the undetonated atomic bomb at the center of town, then the Galaxy News Radio station, whose enthusiastic DJ, Three Dog gives the player character the moniker of "The Lone Wanderer." From here, the player character travels to Rivet City, a derelict aircraft carrier now serving as a fortified human settlement. Here, they meet Doctor Madison Li, a scientist who worked alongside James. Doctor Li informs the Wanderer of Project Purity, a plan conceived by Catherine and James to purify all the water in the Tidal Basin and eventually the entire Potomac River with a giant water purifier built in the Jefferson Memorial. However, continued delays and Catherine's death during childbirth put an end to the project and James took the player character as a newborn to raise them in the safety of Vault 101.

Behinds the Scenes

 * Todd Howard described the making of this episode.