Parsons State Insane Asylum

The Parsons State Insane Asylum is a location in the Commonwealth in Fallout 4.

Notable loot

 * The Charisma bobblehead is located on Jack Cabot's office desk, close to elevator, administration area.
 * A Syringer in the last room on the left at the end of the block of cells in the basement (before reaching Lorenzo by dropping down through a square hole full of exposed rebar in the floor).
 * It is possible to acquire a Deathclaw gauntlet (Fallout 4) from Lefty, other raiders at this location may also have one.
 * Mysterious serum, Lefty has one syringe, and three are on a table near Lorenzo.
 * Overdue book - There are potentially two in the filing cabinets in the Control Room.
 * A Massachusetts Surgical Journal can be found on a table in Lorenzo Cabot's cell.
 * There is a Vault-Tec lunchbox on a shelf to the left of the ramp in the room just before the control room.

Related quests

 * Special Delivery
 * The Secret of Cabot House

Appearances
The Parsons State Insane Asylum only appears in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes

 * The Parsons State Insane Asylum is based on the real life Danvers State Insane Asylum.
 * This could be a reference to the song "(The System of) Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" by The Alan Parsons Project. Based on the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name, the story revolves around the inhabitants of an insane asylum.
 * The name of the asylum could also be a reference to the insanity defense. In 1887, the case Parsons v State of Alabama, it was said that an insanity defense could also succeed if the person ‘‘has lost the power to choose between the right and wrong and to avoid doing the act in question, such that free agency is destroyed’’. A clear reference to Lorenzo Cabot and the artifact that took over his brain.

Bugs

 * If you visited the asylum before meeting any of the persons involved in The Secret of Cabot House, Edward Deegan will eventually approach you at Bunker Hill to start the questline. During this conversation and later ones it might be possible depending on your prior actions, that he will act like you shot up the place even if you heeded the asylum guards' warnings and left in time to avoid a fight with them.

Gallery
Психиатрическая больница «Парсонс»