Boulder City Showdown

 is a quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Quick walkthrough
Jessup is holding NCR troops hostage in the Boulder City Ruins. The player must either stop him and free the soldiers or clear the way for the Great Khans by killing all the NCR troops in the area.

1. Meet with Jessup, leader of the Great Khans in Boulder City.

2. Negotiate for the release of the NCR hostages.

3. (optional)Bribe the NCR troops into letting the Great Khans escape.

4. Tell Jessup the Great Khans are free to go.


 * By choosing this route, you will gain favor with the Great Khans.

Or

1.Kill all of the Great Khans standing guard.

2.Go inside the building (theres a door to a building where the group of Great Khans where standing) kill the 2 remaining Khans.

3. Go outside and release the hostages.


 * By choosing this route, you will lose favor with the Great Khans but gain favor with the NCR

Or

1. Kill all the NCR troops in the area, including Lieutenant Monroe. There are about 5 soldiers when you enter the ruins. You can either go in guns blazin', which will cause the Khans to assist you or you can stealthily take all the NCR soldiers out without the others becoming hostile to you.

2. Once all soldiers are dead, inform Jessup the Khans are free to go. He will reward you with Benny's Engraved Cigarette Lighter.

3. Note that the hostages will remain tied up in the ruins. You can either leave them be or kill them for extra XP (and bad NCR reputation). However, the Great Khans will attack you if you engage the hostages so wait for them to leave the area.


 * By choosing this route, you will gain favor with the Great Khans.

Detailed walkthrough
1. Talk to Lieutenant Moore to get the mission started, then, walk through the door that is right behind him.

2. Enter the Boulder City Ruins and go into the great khans hideout. Talk to Jessup. He's the guy on the right.

3. If you have a good speech skill(45) you can convince him to just try and walk out, shoot his way out, or release the hostages. Otherwise, refer to 3. If you don't feel like finishing this quest you don't need to. The rewards aren't great and after you talk to Jessup he tells you where the man in the checkered suit went so you don't need to do this to continue the main quest.

4. Go back and speak with Lieutenant Monroe. He says that he's been given orders to kill the Great Khans, hostages or not. If you negotiated the release of the hostages, question his integrity and he'll let the Khans go, which increases your standing with the Great Khans. If your barter skill is high enough, you can offer to give him 500 caps(or if you have 45 barter skill you can make it less) to let the Khans escape.

5. Go back to Jessup and tell him he can leave. He gives you his blessings in the hunt for the man in the checkered suit and he leaves.

Upon completion you will be accepted by the Khans as well as the NCR if you weren't already, and gain 300xp. You will gain 400xp if you choose to appeal to Lieutenant Monroe's integrety and honor the deal. If you engage in hostile action with the Great Khans as they leave the Boulder City Ruins, the NCR will attack, and likely kill them, allowing you to loot the corpses. You will still be accepted with both factions.

Bugs
If you go to New Vegas and circumvent the entire Boulder City main-quest arc, Jessup's only dialog response will be to say Goodbye, making the quest impossible by diplomatic means.

Sometimes if you provoke a firefight between the NCR and the Khans and kill them all, the lieutenant will keep saying "Can't talk now--we haven't gotten all the Great Khans".