Victoria Watts

Victoria Watts is a resident of Rivet City and a field agent of the Railroad in 2277.

Background
This mysterious woman is allied with a clandestine group of ex-slaves, Abolitionists, working together with them and her like-minded colleagues up north to form a new type of underground railroad. She is forceful and bright and doesn't tolerate foolishness.

The Railroad, like its namesake, works to protect escaped synths, who are akin to slaves. In January 2276, she volunteered to track a courser, who attempt to reclaim escaped synths, that was traveling south, for Railroad leader Pinky Thompson.

A year later, she lives in the Capital Wasteland, registered as a resident of Rivet City. She stays to serve as a bodyguard for Harkness, helping to safeguard his true identity after the arrival of the head of the Synth Retention Bureau, Dr. Zimmer, and his synth bodyguard Armitage, searching for their missing "property."

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

After delivering her quest-related message, Victoria will remain in the general vicinity where she first encountered the Lone Wanderer. She may attempt to travel to Rivet City, but she is incapable of fast-traveling and only moves position if the Lone Wanderer 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 performs a generic Rivet City citizen's daily schedule. She can be spoken to again but has no additional dialogue.

Quests

 * The Replicated Man: After the Lone Wanderer is asked by Dr. Zimmer to track down Harkness' location for the Institute, Watts will request that they feign his death using an android component. If she is assisted in saving Harkness, she will later ask the Lone Wanderer to not speak to her again, for the safety of the Railroad.

Other interactions

 * Victoria searches out anyone looking to identify the android hiding out with Rivet City. Once the Replicated Man quest has started, Watts will begin actively tracking down the sleuth outside her home within Rivet City. She can potentially be met anywhere, including rather incongruous locations and situations, such as inside of the Arlington Library or even underwater.

Appearances
Victoria Watts appears only in Fallout 3.

Bugs

 * Victoria can sometimes fail to recognize the completion of 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 Zimmer and tell him Harkness is dead..
 * This bug can be fixed by using console commands. First, reset both quest objects ("~resetquest 14e9b" then "~resetquest 63bf3"). Talk to Victoria and receive the component. Then, if Zimmer is nowhere to be found, create a clone of him in front of you ("~player.placeleveledactoratme 156b9"). He will speak to you as if for the first time, so just show him the component and talk to Victoria again.
 * 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 a non-player character's dialogue list take priority over ones below it.
 * Victoria may use a swimming animation if the Lone Wanderer first sees her underwater (such as in Pinkerton's hideout), doesn't speak to her, but then speaks to her out of the water after fast traveling.