You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head

 is a Fallout 3 quest. It is also an Xbox 360, PC achievement and a Playstation 3 Trophy.

Background
Allistair Tenpenny once hired five mercenaries--Mister Crowley, Tara, Dave, Jeff Strayer and Dukov--to find a rare gun in Fort Constantine. In order to increase his share of the reward, Dukov trapped Mister Crowley, (a ghoul), in a room with feral ghouls. Crowley, who survived the trap, is now a resident of Underworld. Tara died in Fort Constantine. The three remaining men finished the mission.

Starting the quest
Talk to Mister Crowley in the Ninth Circle or at Carol's Place in Underworld. He gives you the task of finding and killing Dave (at the Republic of Dave), Ted Strayer (in Rivet City), Dukov (at Dukov's Place), and Allistair Tenpenny (at Tenpenny Tower). He says they are ghoul-haters, and he wants them each killed with a shot to the head (as zombies are killed in fiction). For that purpose, he will give the PC a Sniper Rifle and five .308 Caliber Rounds. Crowley offers 100 caps per death by headshot as payment. He says that "word will get around" if Tenpenny is killed, but he wants proof for the others: "something personal... a key or something."
 * Crowley will only pay 25 caps for any killing method other than a head shot.
 * Killing anybody (besides Tenpenny) will land you with bad karma.

Crowley's true motives
Bribing or passing a speech check with any of the named NPCs in Underworld--Ahzrukhal, Carol, Doctor Barrows, Winthrop, Patchwork, Tulip, or Quinn--will raise doubts about the targets' bigotry. Under questioning, Crowley will admit that he actually wants a special key from each target except Tenpenny. He still wants Tenpenny killed with a shot to the head. Instead of 100 caps per headshot, he will sweeten the deal by offering 100 caps up front plus an additional 100 caps for each key.

Mister Crowley's objective is the suit of T-51b Power Armor still stored at Fort Constantine. You can learn about Fort Constantine and the Power Armor from Crowley (with a speech check).


 * Admitting to Crowley that a key was obtained without killing the target lowers the reward to 25 caps. Lying about the method and receiving 100 caps is possible with a speech check.
 * Learning about Crowley's true intentions is not necessary to complete the quest.

Tenpenny's counter offer
Tell Allistair Tenpenny that Crowley sent you to kill him. Tenpenny will offer 300 caps if you agree to kill Crowley instead.
 * Tenpenny pays the 100 caps up front, so it is possible to double-cross him and just pocket the caps.
 * Killing Crowley and returning to Tenpenny for the reward ends the quest.

Getting the keys
The keys may be collected in any order. They may be delivered to Crowley one at a time or all at once.

Three of the keys can be obtained by speech checks, pickpocketing, or by looting the key from the owner's corpse. The fourth key is found in Fort Constantine on Tara's corpse.

Ted Strayer

Jeff Strayer is dead, but his son, Ted Strayer, is now in possession of his father's key. Ted lives in Rivet City.
 * Ted can be paid for his key.
 * He can be convinced with a speech check.
 * He can be threatened (Strength 6+ or Toughness perk).

Dukov

Dukov can be found at Dukov's Place.
 * Dukov can be paid for his key.
 * The Black Widow perk can be used to convince him to give up the key.
 * Male characters with the Lady Killer perk can persuade Fantasia to get the key.
 * Cherry will retrieve the key if the player accepts her quest.
 * With a successful speech check, Dukov can be intimidated into giving up the key.

Dave

Dave can be found at The Republic of Dave.
 * With a speech success, Dave will accept the player as a "Wasteland Ambassador" and present his key as a gift.

Tara

The final key is located on Tara's corpse, in the Fort Constantine Bomb Storage. Tara's key is not necessary for completing the Crowley sections of the quest. It is necessary for getting to the Power Armor.

Obtaining the T-51b Power Armor


Deliver the Keys to Crowley

Kill Allistair Tenpenny and give Mister Crowley all three keys to collect your reward. He will then proceed to Fort Constantine to retrieve the armor. He will return to Underworld after a few days (providing he did not get killed in the Wasteland). At this point you can kill him or use reverse-pickpocketing in order to obtain the armor (he will be wearing it).
 * Reverse-pickpocketing will be difficult, because the armor has a DR of 50.
 * Crowley may get stuck in bomb storage, even if he had all the keys. You need 100% lockpick skill to open the door.
 * Mezzing Crowley will cause him to become hostile, and your companions and other NPC's in the bar will kill him for you. This can be done in the middle of the The Ninth Circle with people in the room, and nobody else becomes hostile to you.

Retrieve the Armor Yourself

Proceed to Fort Constantine after obtaining the keys. Fort Constantine is located near the northern edge of the map, east of Raven Rock. When you arrive at the fort you will encounter some Brotherhood of Steel Outcasts fighting Protectrons and Mister Gutsys. Go to the small house called the "The CO Quarters" and head downstairs. In the basement you will find a dead Wastelander by an open safe. The door by the safe requires Strayer's key, and allows you access to the Launch Control Bunker. Don't forget to grab the "Bobblehead - Big Guns" from the safe! Continue down to the bomb storage, where you will find Tara's body, on the opposite of the two Very Hard locked doors. Go to the nearby door and open it with your key and disable the stasis field to acquire the T-51b Power Armor and T-51b Power Helmet.

Deliver the Keys to Crowley and Retrieve the Armor Yourself

Kill Allistair Tenpenny and give Mister Crowley all three keys to collect your reward. Then follow Crowley on his long journey to Fort Constantine. He will require a lot of protection from enemies in the Wasteland or else he will die along the way. Crowley will become hostile upon reaching Fort Constantine, at which point you can kill him to retrieve the keys.

If you don't want to follow Crowley, you can give him the keys and pickpocket them back. You can also go to Fort Constantine first if you've been there already, open all the doors but don't grab the armor, and give Crowley the keys to get the reward. Then fast travel back and grab the armor.


 * If you have Broken Steel installed when giving the keys to Crowley, he will not appear outside the Museum of History. You can fix this problem by waiting by the entrance and skipping 2 in-game hours. Crowley should appear at the entrance and proceed to Fort Constantine.

Completing the quest
The quest is marked as completed and the Achievement/Trophy given under any of the following conditions.
 * The player delivers the keys from Dukov, Ted Strayer, and Dave to Mr. Crowley.
 * The player acquires the Power Armor in Fort Constantine.
 * The player kills Crowley after having been hired by Tenpenny.
 * The player equips the Winterized T-51b Power Armor that was gained from the Anchorage Simulation. (glitch)

Videos
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Bugs

 * Pathing Issues, patched PC version. Mr. Crowley often gets "stuck" while traveling, particularly when swimming.
 * Weird scene in Andale while following Mr. Crowley: when entering town (which I hadn't yet discovered), we found the Residents armed and grouped together. Involuntary dialog tree basically said "You're busted." Crowley ignored them, but I was chased by, and eventually had to kill, the Residents. Guess that side-quest is broken now!
 * While doing option 3, Mr. Crowley may track you down at your Megaton house. He meets you outside and, whether or not you speak to him, acts friendly and enters your house as soon as you do. He stands there for about a week. When speaking with him he acts as if he's still in Underworld ("Good to see you," "Hey"). However, once he exits the house and you speak to him as he exits Megaton, he begins saying, "You took what was rightfully mine," without becoming hostile. He then disappears from the game. (Confirmed on Xbox 360)


 * If for some reason you kill or take a key from one of the targets before you get the quest, and then talk to Mister Crowley, he will act as if you have already accepted the quest, give you the caps and tell you to go for the next person on the list.


 * Taking Ted Strayer's Special Key before meeting Crowley may result in being unable to begin the quest.


 * After accepting Allistair's offer and killing Mr. Crowley, Allistair may not have a speech option to finish the quest. If this happens, you can:
 * Repeatedly talk to Tenpenny and he will eventually recognize that Crowley is dead and give you your reward.
 * Take the T-51b Power Armor from Fort Constantine and complete the quest. If you do this, you will miss out on the reward for killing Crowley.


 * Killing Tenpenny before you accept this quest may cause Mr. Crowley to give you only 25 caps as a reward (even if you scored a headshot).


 * If you kill Dave, Ted Strayer, or Dukov and their body disappears before you nab their key, you can no longer complete the quest. However the keys can be obtained via the console commands. See Dave's Special Key, Dukov's Special Key and Ted Strayer's Special Key for the item codes.


 * If you killed Dave before starting the quest and giving the key to Mr Crowley then pickpocketing the key back from him, you will be unable to finish the quest as it says on your Quest Journal "Give Dave's key to Mr Crowley" and there are no speech options for that.


 * Mr. Crowley may ask for a key you have already given him. If this happens, you will need to pickpocket Crowley to get the key back, and then give it to him again.


 * Even if you completed this quest in a non-violent way, Three Dog may report in his Galaxy News Radio Broadcasts that you did murder the Crowley's targets.


 * A speech check allows you to get the location of Fort Constantine from Mister Crowley. You can use this check twice: once before completing the quest, and once after.


 * If you have Bloody Mess and/or the body's head explodes, it will not be registered as a head shot, and you will not be able to receive the full 100 caps for the kill. There is a small chance the body will not explode with the Bloody Mess perk, so it might take multiple attempts for it to register as a clean head shot. (confirmed on xbox 360,PC)


 * Taking the Winterized T-51b Power Armor from the vault in the Outcast Outpost (After successfully completing the Operation: Anchorage simulation) completes this quest in the same fashion as taking the normal T-51b Power Armor from Fort Constantine. However, Mister Crowley doesn't seem to forge a vendetta against you as he would with the latter, but when you speak to him in Underworld he will still comment that you stole what is rightfully his.


 * If you succeed in the speech challenge with Cherry to get her to steal the key from Dukov there is no facial animation and no voiced dialogue you can only read her response in text. Once her response is over you can hear the voiced dialogue again with her talking to Dukov and everything continues as normal.


 * The quest will complete itself sometimes when switching to a different quest, granting the achievement and registering that you have killed people that you have never met, and in a reported 360 case taking all items from a container.
 * If you kill Tenpenny, then kill Mr. Crowley, you will not fail the quest. It will tell you to talk to Tenpenney, and then to talk to Crowley, making it impossible to finish the quest. (Confirmed on all consoles.)
 * In dialogue with Tenpenny, you may not have an option to say that you killed Crowley. In this case, the only way to finish the quest is retrieving the power armor from Fort Constantine. Killing Tenpenny does not work.
 * Tenpenny says he will pay you, but for some reason you do not get anything in your inventory.
 * Pip-Boy may not acknowledge you talked to Tenpenny, making it impossible to finish your quest.
 * Mister Crowley may never return to Underworld, and might be found just standing (wearing the T-51b PA) in the building labeled Bomb Storage, on a hill just to the north of the CO's quarters. This can be very frustrating for players who do not have 100 Lockpick skill, because, without the keys, the only way to enter the building is through a very hard locked door. If this happens, he will speak to the player as if they are in Underworld. (Xbox 360, unconfirmed)
 * It might happen that, if you have taken this quest but haven't finished it by the time you go to The Pitt, it completes itself upon finishing the DLC, just by picking up any item when back at the Capital Wasteland. There's a Youtube Video illustrating this glitch.
 * After getting the armor and leaving the bunker to the wasteland, the game freezes. (X-Box 360)
 * If it is your first time visiting the Republic of Dave after starting the quest, and have chosen the option to be led to Dave, if you run ahead of the girl to Dave and kill him no one else will become hostile but they will not give dialogue options to you. (UPDATE) The girl that lets you in has to say something to the others in the village. Then run ahead to kill Dave. (360 only, tested once)
 * If you purchase Charon's contract in "The Ninth Circle" when Mr Crowley is in there wearing the armor (obviously having returned from Fort Constantine) if you and Charon kill all the ghouls in the room including Mr Crowley, steal the armor off him, give it to Charon as it will make him invincible and any damage he receives will regenerate straight away, then once you leave "The Ninth Circle" the rest of the Underworld settlement will NOT be hostile to you! (360, tested once)
 * if you have finished both the operation anchorage DLC and the pitt DLC and you have started the quest by speaking with Mr. Crowley if ether continue through the main quest until you are captured by the enclave, or go through the DLC quest Mothership Zeta, upon retrieving all you equipment from the locker in your cell you will be given a notice saying that you have completed the quest "you gotta shoot'em in the head" you will recieve ted strayer's, dukov's and dave's special key and upon interaction Mr.Crowley will will say either "you stole from me" or "you took what was rightfully mine"
 * Even if you have killed Allistair Tenpenny with a shot to the head, you have a dialouge option with Mister Crowley that will say that you killed Tenpenny, but not by a shot to the head. He will say what he would say if you shot him in the head, but only give you the 25 caps for killing him somewhere else. (Xbox 360, not confirmed)
 * With the point lookout DLC installed, Mr Crowley may appear at the lighthouse when you wait nearby. He has the same dialogue as in the wasteland.
 * Having Operation Anchorage Installed Might Automatically Complete the quest upon exiting the pod.
 * It is possible that after completing the quest, crowley can show up in the mobile crawler in the broken steel add on but not hostile towards the player even if he took the armor. (Xbox 360 confirmed)

Trivia

 * The title is a reference to a line from the original Dawn of the Dead.
 * This quest is similar to the Oblivion quest A Brotherhood Betrayed,in the way that people are killed for their keys to get treasure