Mister Burke

Mister Burke is Allistair Tenpenny's assistant, staying in Moriarty's Saloon at Megaton $$

Background
Entering the service of Allistair Tenpenny within the last twenty years, Mister Burke has made his life considerably easier.

Following Tenpenny complaining about the sight of Megaton on the horizon, Mister Burke offered to handle the situation. Burke intends to recruit an assistant to detonate the undetonated atomic bomb at the center of town. He has approached Andy Stahl about his plan, promising to move his restaurant, The Brass Lantern, to a safer area if he assists him.

Appearances

 * Burke appears in Fallout 3 and Fallout Shelter.

Behind the scenes

 * Mr. Burke's script was written by Emil Pagliarulo with the voice of Wes Johnson in mind. Johnson ended up voicing the character by taking the sinister undertones from his performance as Lucien Lachance in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, but subtracting Lucien's accent and adding a more "corporate" tone.
 * Mister Burke does not exist in the Japanese version of Fallout 3, thus disabling the "detonate the bomb" option in The Power of the Atom as the Lone Wanderer cannot get the fusion pulse charge under any circumstances, which was done for cultural reasons.

Bugs

 * If the Lone Wanderer kills Burke, after a long while he may respawn, and can be found standing beside the bomb if it is disarmed, though he cannot be engaged in conversation.
 * If the Lone Wanderer kills Burke and disarms the bomb, they will still encounter hitmen. If their bodies are looted, they will have contracts instructing them, signed "-B", as if the Lone Wanderer had not already killed Burke.
 * If Lucas Simms is told about Burke and one pickpockets Burke's ammo before Simms confronts him, Burke may enter into his draw sidearm animation and loop indefinitely. Simms may still drop dead however, as if Burke had killed him, possibly after leaving the saloon.