Parsons State Insane Asylum

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

Layout
A multi-level building, relatively in one piece though with trash everywhere as well as bodies. There are a number of locked doors and safes to be found.

Inhabitants

 * Captain Maria
 * Lorenzo Cabot
 * Lefty

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 from Lefty; other raiders at this location may also have one.
 * Mysterious serum, Lefty has four syringes, and three are on a table near Lorenzo.
 * Overdue book - There are potentially two in the filing cabinets in the Control Room. Check the loose draw on top of the cabinets by jumping up a bit, where one book may be found, otherwise hidden out of view. Another book found in the small room access through the short brick tunnel out of the Control room towards the lift used to enter. Also in an open filing cabinet to the west side (left on entering).
 * 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. There is another on the end of a bench on the right side of the first raider-filled hallway.

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 can also be considered another H.P. Lovecraft reference, as Danvers State Insane Asylum is mentioned by name in at least 2 of his works.  Furthermore, H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium was believed to be inspired by Danvers State, which in turn was the inspiration for Batman's Arkham Asylum.  Danvers State has appeared in at least one other video game, it was a level in 2004's Painkiller.
 * 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.
 * The patients records found on Jack's office terminal show that the asylum once held a vigilante named "Nightwar", a woman who only wore black leather, and a murderer who was always laughing. This might be a reference to the characters of Batman, Catwoman, and the Joker.

Bugs

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

Gallery
Психиатрическая больница «Парсонс»