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 is a Fallout 3 quest. It is also a Xbox 360/PC achievement and PlayStation 3 Trophy

A small boy called Bryan Wilks will approach you as soon as you are in the vicinity of Grayditch - this includes Super-Duper Mart or Sewer Waystation, or as far as Wilhelm's Wharf.

He will ask you to help him find his father, who seems to be trapped in Grayditch infested with fire-spitting giant ants.

Objectives and Walkthrough
During two first stages of the mission Bryan will be hiding in the Pulowski Preservation Shelter near the diner.

Find Bryan Wilks's father
The boy will approach you in the area outside Grayditch. The boy, his dad, and the other dwellers were attacked by fire ants. The father's body can be later found in his house by the shack, killed by the ants. You can loot a Chinese Assault Rifle and some ammo off the shelf in the house and the shack's key from Bryan's father body. In the shack you can find Doctor Lesko's equipment and terminal. Read the notes on the terminal to receive the Marigold Station location and the option to proceed there to locate the source of the fire ants.

Find the source of fire ants
In the Marigold Metro Station you need to find the cause of fire ant infestation. Instead you will find Doctor Lesko working down in a maintenance room. He explains to you the reason of ant's behavior and how they gained ability to "spit fire". You can choose to help him reverse the effect or deal with the queen yourself.


 * You will find the Queen through the other door in Dr. Lesko's lab, in the Queen Ant's Hatchery.

If you follow his instructions and kill only the Fire Ant Nest Protectors guarding the queen you will receive a prize - a choice of either the Ant Might or the Ant Sight perk. With a speech check you can kill the Ant Queen and still get the perks. You can also hold off killing the queen until after you choose your prize, then run down to the queen and kill her if you want to. At that point Doctor Lesko will also be running around in the queen's chamber, making a possible second target. Afterward, if you talk to Doctor Lesko he seems oblivious to the queen's death and not upset at all toward you. If you frenzy the queen she will attack the robot and he will help you kill her. Another easy way to kill the Ant Queen is to get close to her with a melee weapon and continue circling around her behind while attacking.

When speaking with Doctor Lesko about doing the ants task, if you ask for a "serious incentive", he will offer his old lab coat along with the ant perks. Lesko's Lab Coat provides +20 Radiation Resistance and +10 Science.

If you kill Doctor Lesko you lose Karma. On his corpse is a 10mm pistol and the password to his computer, as well as a +5 Science lab coat.

If you hack Doctor Lesko's terminal near the ant queen (don't forget to grab the Big Book of Science beside the terminal), you can send the Inhibitor Pulse yourself and destroy the mutagen sample he is using (FEV). If you choose to destroy the mutagen sample, you will need to tell him coming back. You can convince him with a Speech check, or sufficient science skill, that it was for the best. The rewards for the quest seem to be the same, although you gain more karma for destroying the sample and convincing Doctor Lesko that it was the right thing to do. If you miss the Speech Check Doctor Lesko voids your reward, to which you can promptly answer with a minor dose of lead. potential side effects include negative karma and dislocated brain matter. Consult your doctor before eating lead.

Find a place for Bryan Wilks to stay
First, talk to Bryan to tell him about his father and the ants, he is located in the small container to the left of the diner in Grayditch. You can then also decide to help him find a place to live. Bryan will tell you his aunt Vera Weatherly owns the hotel in Rivet City. You just need to ask her about Bryan Wilks and she'll agree to take him in. You will need to go back to Grayditch and tell Bryan he can move in with his aunt.

It's also possible to convince the mayor of Little Lamplight to let him stay there. Be forewarned that discussing this option with the mayor will prevent the dialogue option for Bryan's relocation from appearing with Vera Weatherly, closing off that path even if Bryan has not been told of his potential new home.

Alternately you can go to Paradise Falls. Talk to Eulogy Jones, and tell him you have a child for sale. He will offer 100 caps initially, but you can give him a Speech for 300. He will give you a collar to put on the person. You then trick Bryan into putting on the collar, and explain that it will guide him home. The quest will be completed, XP given, and caps from Eulogy. This however obviously gives a good bit of negative karma.

Bugs

 * None of the Fire Ants inside Marigold station are affected by the Inhibitor Pulse.
 * Sometimes you will not have the option of talking about Bryan with Vera Weatherly. Upon first confronting her, the option is available. However, after attempting to use your speech skill to start the rumor-mill, the option disappears. Even after reloading from previous saves the option about Bryan can be missing.
 * If you locate Bryan Wilks' father before you find Bryan Wilks and then tell him you'll look for his father instead of picking the option to give him the bad news you won't be able to 'find' his father.
 * You could kill the Ant Queen, Doctor Lesko's robot, and destroy the sample after finish the quest. However, these will not affect Doctor Lesko at all if you already finish the quest.
 * You should get the Ant Might / Ant Sight perk immediately when offered by Doctor Lesko. If you delay getting it until Doctor Lesko is back in his shack, you might not get the dialogue option to get the Ant Might / Ant Sight perk.
 * Dr. Lesko's dialogue trigger radius extends through his office door. Thus, his whole dialogue tree can happen before you even open his door.  This seems to be due to him standing near his computer a lot, which is near the door.

Behind the scenes

 * This quest was inspired by the 1954 SciFi horror film Them! A story about early New Mexico atomic tests that cause common ants to mutate into giant man eating monsters