Victoria Watts

Victoria Watts is a resident of Rivet City and member of The Railroad in 2277.

Background
This mysterious woman is allied with a clandestine group of ex-slaves, Abolitionists, working together to form a new type of Underground Railroad. She is forceful and bright, and she doesn't suffer fools gladly.

The Railroad, like its namesake, works to protect escaped android slaves. She has traveled to Rivet City to protect the identity of Harkness.

Daily schedule
Prior to the beginning of the Replicated Man quest, Victoria Watts lives as a generic citizen of Rivet City.

After delivering her quest-related message, Victoria Watts will remain in the general area in which she first encountered you. She may attempt to travel to Rivet City, but she is incapable of fast-traveling and only moves position if the player is in the same active map cell as her. As a result, she is almost certain to be killed in the Wasteland if encountered far away from Rivet City.

If Victoria Watts reaches Rivet City, she will join the population there and perform a generic Rivet City citizen daily schedule. She can be spoken to again by the player, but has no additional dialogue.

Quests

 * The Replicated Man: After you are asked by Zimmer to track down Harkness' location, for The Institute, Watts will request that you feign his death using an Android Component that she gives to you. If you assist her in saving Harkness, she will later ask you to not speak to her again, for the safety of The Railroad.

Other interactions
Victoria searches out the player character:

Once you have triggered the Replicated Man quest, Watts starts running towards you from Rivet City. Thus, the time and place of the encounter depend on where you were when you triggered her and where you happen to be by the time she's covered the distance to you. As such, you can potentially meet her anywhere, including rather incongruous locations and situations (such as inside of Arlington Library or even underwater). She can go through any door.

Appearances
Victoria Watts only appears in Fallout 3.

Bugs

 * Victoria can sometimes fail to recognize the completion of the The Replicated Man quest. If you agree to help her, then subsequently resolve the quest otherwise, she will continue to goad you to turn the component over to Dr. Zimmer and tell him Harkness is dead.
 * The GECK reveals that this bug occurs due to faulty dialogue ordering and conditioning. She should instead say "Nothing Stops the Railroad" but the dialogue string is BELOW "Don't you have a component to deliver" whereas it should be ABOVE it since the former has additional conditions. Dialogue strings near the top of an non-player character's dialogue list take priority over ones below it.