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Father Elijah

A scribe of the Brotherhood of Steel, Elijah defied convention and rose to the rank of elder, an
honor usually reserved exclusively for paladins. An exception was granted for him, on the
grounds of him being a genius, able to figure out the workings of a device just by looking at it.[1]
[2] His scientific acumen was matched only by his drive to recover and develop technology. His
approach towards technology, iterating and improving, rather than simply preserving it, was
considered unorthodox by his peers.[3] Elijah often dispatched scribes on tech retrieval missions,
chasing all the leads he found.[4][5] His drive to develop new technologies put him at odds with
the more conservative members of the Brotherhood, particularly other elders. The conflict
developed as Elijah pushed for developing new technologies and new, ethically questionable
weapons. The elders, rather than deal with him, decided to send him away, east, to form a new
chapter of the Brotherhood in the Mojave.[5]
Elijah revealed himself as a brutally pragmatic and altogether unpleasant leader. A pathological
control freak, he would often view the people under him as mere equipment, expecting them to
carry out his orders and requests unquestionably, while dissent or unpredictability on their part
would not just annoy, but even outright infuriate him. By far the only person with whom he had
any kind of working relationship was Scribe Veronica Santangelo, his pupil. Elijah used his
status to end her relationship with Christine Royce, so that she would follow him into the
Mojave. Veronica was kept in the dark about the affair, and her reverence of Elijah only
increased.[6][7]
Elijah had partly been sent east to investigate the Hoover Dam and the possibility of bringing it
back to functionality. However, the Brotherhood was not quick enough and the New California
Republic had claimed it shortly prior. Elijah was furious, likening it to "children playing with a
bomb."[8] Instead of the dam, Elijah turned the Brotherhood's focus onto the HELIOS One solar
power facility. Elijah's obsession with Helios and the need to defend against NCR forces
deploying into the Mojave resulted in the Brotherhood ignoring the expansion of the Van Graff
family into the Mojave, despite them distributing pre-War energy weapons. The elder's orders
were clear.[9]
Desertionedit | edit source
It was not until Operation: Sunburst that Elijah's true nature became apparent to the rest of the
Brotherhood. It was clear that the Brotherhood were on the losing end of the conflict, but Elijah
refused to accept defeat and became obsessed with finding the technology required to defeat the
NCR. Operating from the Brotherhood's HELIOS One base, he sent paladins out on a number of
missions that could be considered tactically questionable in efforts to secure vital technologies he
was adamant would swing things in their favor. He eventually discovered that the secret to
victory lay on his own doorstep, with the ARCHIMEDES II weapon. Though the Brotherhood
position was tactically unsustainable, Elijah felt that if he could just
get ARCHIMEDES functional the NCR could finally be pushed back.[8] He stubbornly refused to
give ground but salvation never came and when NCR finally overran the perimeter, Elijah
simply disappeared into the wastes without a warning to anyone, not even Veronica, and was
assumed to have deserted the Brotherhood. His successor, Nolan McNamara, wasted no time in
gathering up the few that survived the battle at the facility and retreated to Hidden Valley.[10][11]
But Elijah had not truly abandoned the Brotherhood nor his desire to see it dominant, but had in
fact left to find new technologies that would save them; to find what he believed were treasures
of the Old World.[12] For Elijah, the Brotherhood was doomed; they needed to begin again and
he would do whatever was needed, no matter how morally questionable, to ensure that came to
pass. He traveled throughout the wasteland, going as far as the Divide and spending time among
the Ciphers.[13]
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Eventually, Elijah stumbled across the Big Empty in his travels, where he found an incredible
amount of rare pre-War technology. Captured temporarily by the Think Tank upon his arrival, he
managed to escape in seconds, much to the shock of the brain bots.[14] In the great expanse of
Big MT, Elijah ran into another human, a courier named Ulysses, who spoke to him of the
legend of the Sierra Madre and convinced Elijah to journey there to find what he sought.
[15] Before he could embark upon the Sierra Madre, Elijah had to make a few preparations.
Making his way to Little Yangtze, he experimented on the survivors of the prison camp
with explosive collars while, curiosity getting the better of him, seeking out the radio frequency
until finally tracking down a faint broadcast.[16] Avoiding the local robots and suffering from
migraines through the overuse of Mentats, Elijah fine-tuned both the collars and the radio signal.
[16] Now, with the location of the mythical casino and his collars ready, his grand plan to defeat
the New California Republic was ever so close to fruition.
However, the trail of crimes he had left across the wastes in the years preceding his arrival had
not gone unnoticed, and the internal affairs of the Brotherhood soon dispatched assassins to stop
him, Christine Royce being one of them. As the Think Tank sent robots to contain him and,
catching a glimmer from a sniper scope, Elijah instinctively sensed the worst.[17] Strategically
detonating his subjects' collars to make his getaway as she attempted her assassination, Elijah
defeated Royce. She became a subject for medical experimentation after being dragged away to
the Y-17 medical facility.[18] He then moved on and set up a camp on the roof of the Signal Hills
transmitter and later on the cliffs near the Big MT north tunnel where the uncontrollable broken
and berserk Securitrons provided him defense.[19] Hacking into the Think Tank mainframe as the
Big MT's robots closed in, Elijah fried Doctor 8's voice module and rerouted Doctor 0's
processors to take control of the train network. Via remote control, he directed a train into one of
the tunnels, creating a path for his escape through the wreckage.[14] Leaving his retrofitted LAER
rifles and jury-rigged Tesla cannon behind, he then set off towards the Sierra Madre with
a Gauss rifle and, crucially, the knowledge that could make the Mojave his, and his alone.
To prepare for his expedition, he renovated an abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker as a base
of operations in the Mojave, setting it up for when he managed to get his hands on the
technologies it offered. In making round trips around the Sierra Madre to his bunker, he
performed analyses of the Cloud and the Sierra Madre's environment. Once ready to go to the
Sierra Madre, he left a final message for Veronica in the event he did not return.[20]
Sierra Madreedit | edit source
Upon reaching the Sierra Madre, he found everything that he had hoped for and more. The Cloud
had somehow preserved the pristine nature of the casino and prevented it from decaying in all its
centuries of disuse, in addition to serving as a deadly deterrent to potential intruders. He
marveled at the casino's automated security systems: the invulnerable holograms, perfected
versions of the technology he had found at the Big Empty. A single one of these holograms,
deployed in the right place, would become a one-man army, massively powerful and almost
impossible to defeat with conventional weapons.[21] However, the potential of these paled in
comparison to a relatively innocuous technology: the Sierra Madre vending machines.
These machines functioned as a sort of molecular assembler, taking Sierra Madre chips and
using the raw material in their composition to assemble various alcohols and clothes as rewards
for gamblers. The potential for these had already been partially realized before the War, as
medical staff and construction crews had used them to generate medical supplies and explosives;
but Elijah had grander ideas. He could use the vending machines to create everything necessary
for building a new nation: food, supplies, ammunition, collars, even currency. His ultimate plan
was to cleanse the Mojave with the Cloud and create a new world, using the holograms for
defense, the collars to ensure compliance, and the vending machines for resources.[22]
However, Elijah also found that he could not unlock the secrets of the casino's vault alone. He
used his explosive collars to coerce captives into trapping other fortune seekers lured by the
Sierra Madre's signal, forming a chain that eventually grew into teams conscripted to do Elijah's
bidding or die. Eventually, he found a new way of starting the chain in the form of Dog,
a nightkin whose overwhelming need for a master figure allowed Elijah to bend him easily to his
will even without an explosive collar. Human nature got the better of these teams though, and as
soon as they became close to the treasure they all felt they could take it for themselves,
inevitably turning on one another.[23] One team managed to actually get Elijah into the heart of
the casino, but after their deaths, Elijah found himself trapped and alone.[24] In response, he
modified the signals controlling the collars to add an extra condition: if one person died, they all
would die. Unable to communicate with Dog and the outside, Elijah assumed this would be his
end, until Dog, automatically acting on orders given to him long ago, brought to the casino
a prisoner with a Pip-Boy 3000, someone with who Elijah was capable of communicating.
[25] Elijah would be free to go, assuming he could bear to leave behind the casino and all its
secrets.
He guided the Courier and the three remaining collars of the Sierra Madre: Dog, his
unquestioning nightkin servant; Christine Royce, the same Circle of Steel knight that was
dispatched to the Big MT to kill Elijah; and Dean Domino, a ghoulified, pre-War lounge singer
who has been trapped in the Sierra Madre since the War. There, he ordered them to trigger the
Gala Event to reopen the doors of the Sierra Madre Casino & Resort.[26] Once inside, the Courier
managed with Elijah's instruction to arrive in the Sierra Madre vault, where Elijah came out of
hiding and a confrontation ensued.
Interactions with the player characteredit | edit source
Interactions overviewedit | edit source
 Find Collar 8: "Dog"
 Find Collar 12: Christine
This character starts quests.  Find Collar 14: Dean
Domino
 Heist of the Centuries

Questsedit | edit source
 Find Collar 8: "Dog": Elijah sends the player character out to recruit Dog in the Villa
police station.
 Find Collar 12: Christine: Elijah sends the player character out to recruit Christine
Royce in the Villa clinic.
 Find Collar 14: Dean Domino: Elijah sends the player character out to recruit Dean
Domino in the Residential District.
 Heist of the Centuries: The Courier can either kill, join forces or imprison Elijah inside
the Sierra Madre vault.
Endingsedit | edit source
This section is transcluded from Dead Money endings. To change it, please edit the transcluded
page.

# Slide Voice-over narration

1 In the years that followed, the legend of the Sierra Madre faded, and there were no... new visitors to the city. Y
when a mysterious blood red cloud began to roll across the Mojave, then West toward the Republic, no one kn
had come from. Only that it brought death in its wake. Attempts to find the source of the toxic cloud failed. Th
was cut off. Through the Cloud, lights were seen from HELIOS One. There were stories of ghosts immune to g
struck down anyone they saw with rays of light. The last chapter of the Mojave came when a modified REPCO
struck Hoover Dam, releasing a blood-red cloud, killing all stationed there. All attempts to penetrate the Cloud
the Dam failed, and both the NCR and Legion finally turned away from it, citing the place as cursed. In the yea
followed, communities across the West began to die as traces of the Cloud began to drift over lands held by the
Only two remained alive in the depths of the Cloud, at the Sierra Madre, waiting for their new world to begin a

Elijah is killed fighting the Courier


Elijah meets his end abruptly in the vault, where he fights the Courier and falls in single
combat. His corpse, along with that of Frederick Sinclair, lies in the now totally
inaccessible vault forever.
Elijah is locked in the vault
Elijah, lured by the promise of the Sierra Madre, cannot escape. Once inside the vault, the
casino does not let go. When Elijah finally passes away, the casino creates a new
hologram to walk with the other ghosts that fill its casino. It is a pre-programmed homage
intended for another. It assumes a new meaning in the likeness of Elijah. A means of
allowing even the dead to begin again.
Inventoryedit | edit source
Apparel Weapon Other items On death

Father Elijah's robes Gauss rifle* Stimpak


Microfusion cell
*Elijah carries two Gauss rifles; a normal one which he will drop upon death, and a special non-player
character-only version which he will use if his regular Gauss rifle is dropped. Elijah's non-player character-
only Gauss rifle is coded as a companion weapon; it does not use ammunition, cannot be disarmed and
cannot be looted.

Notesedit | edit source
 Elijah claims to have made more holorifles, but he does not use any, nor are there any
others in Dead Money. However, by listening to his broadcast while in Salida del Sol, the
Courier can overhear him bemoan giving up the holorifle.
 If he is trapped in the Sierra Madre vault, he can be heard mumbling to himself on his
radio signal.
 If the Courier has exhausted all dialogue about him with Veronica, they can bring her up
in conversation in the vault's chamber.
 Speaking to Veronica about Elijah with Dead Money installed, before leaving for the
Sierra Madre, also adds additional dialogue with Elijah.
 Elijah is a challenging combatant. Besides his powerful Gauss rifle, he has a high amount
of Hit Points for a human character, more than most companions with the exception
of Dog and God and Lily Bowen.
 Elijah has a Pip-Boy himself, despite the fact that he belittles the Courier's use of one on
several occasions. This is best seen with a Stealth Boy and closely looking while inside the
vault. He also uses it to control the force fields in the casino vault.
 When talking to Brotherhood paladins in the Hidden Valley bunker they will sometimes
talk about Elijah and how he used to be their elder. Unlike Veronica, however, they cannot
be informed of his fate in the Sierra Madre.
 His in-game appearance differs from his holographic representation.
 Locations visited by Elijah in Old World Blues can be identified by scattered drained
microfusion cells left in the area.
 Elijah appears to have been capable of reprogramming the Sierra Madre vending
machines, and adding new items to their production lists, as evidenced by the machine's
ability to produce holorifle modifications.
 Elijah is an exceptionally hardy man; despite a combination of
arthritis, Mentats addiction-induced migraines, drinking, smoking and old age, he is not
only still alive, but mobile and combat-ready, having traveled hundreds of miles in his
quest to restore the Brotherhood and is no pushover when confronted in the Sierra Madre
vault.
Notable quotesedit | edit source
 "Finding it, though, that's not the hard part. It's letting go." – Elijah on the Sierra Madre

 "Sources of food, supplies, medical assistance, ammo, make more collars, even print
currency! Make a nation. The Cloud allows me to wipe the slate clean. Collars ensure
cooperation. Holograms - defense. The Vending Machines provide everything else. The
Sierra Madre can kill nations and build them, using its technology with the right
applications."

 "Attack? No, not attack them. Wipe the slate clean. Make the Mojave like it was meant to
be: undisturbed by man. I'll send the Cloud, the Holograms. Bring ruin in my hands until
only I stand atop the HELIOS One tower again. I'll scour Hoover Dam with the Cloud,
rain its walls with spears from the sun - with an army of Old World ghosts behind me,
Holograms all. I'll kill them until it's only me, me alone in a quiet world. In a world that's
nothing like what happened at HELIOS One."

 - in response to the Courier saying "You want to attack NCR? All of NCR?"
 "You think you've escaped?! You can't outrun me, you were always under my control! Do
you hear me? Do you hear me?!"

 "Play stupid, play clever, make the mistake of saying "no?" That collar on your neck'll go
off and take your head with it."
More
Appearancesedit | edit source
Father Elijah is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas, Old World Blues, Lonesome Road, and
appears in the add-on Dead Money.
Behind the scenesedit | edit source
The following is based on   Fallout: New Vegas cut
content .
In the base game, Veronica's responses to the Courier's description of Elijah's fate are disguised
to avoid revealing plot elements of Dead Money before it was released. Dialogue in this
conversation refers to a ghoul named "Abraham" who was presumed dead but healed in "the
Crater" and has now "gone north, into ghoul country," and another ghoul named "Monte" who
the Courier had to either kill or trap in a subway tunnel in order to retrieve an
"accelerator." Dead Money overwrites the Courier's lines with ones about Elijah.
End of information based on   Fallout: New Vegas cut
content .

Galleryedit | edit source
Christine and dead Elijah in the cut endings slide

As depicted in Cash Out.

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1. ↑ The Courier: Tell me about your last Elder."
Edgar Hardin: "Elijah was a strange one. His even becoming Elder was highly questionable, seeing as how he was a Scribe.
Typically, only Paladins are eligible. But an exception was made in his case, on account of him being a genius. Unfortunately,
whatever scientific acumen he had didn't extend to tactics. Trying to defend HELIOS was a blunder of the worst kind, and many
brothers lost their lives because of it. Many of the senior paladins, myself included, advised him to fight a retreating action, but
he refused to budge. Said he almost "had it working". We never did find out exactly what he was talking about. When the
perimeter was finally overrun, the Elder had simply vanished."
(Edgar Hardin's dialogue)
2. ↑ The Courier: "What did you learn from him?"
Veronica: "Elijah could look at an old device and immediately understand what made it work. And he could see its potential.
Where it fit with other technology. It's not something you can teach, but he tried with me.  Some of it stuck. But that's what he
taught me. You asked what I learned from him."
The Courier: "How is that different? What did you learn from him?"
Veronica Santangelo: "I learned what I don't want to become. In the end, there was just him and his vision. Nothing and no one
else."
(Veronica Santangelo's dialogue)
3. ↑ The Courier: "Who is Elijah?"
Ramos: "Who was Elijah, more like. He was our Elder before McNamara. Bright guy, but just between you and me he was a
little off. Our mission is to recover and preserve the technology of the past, but Elijah wanted more. He sought ways to improve
upon technology, make it better. When we found HELIOS One, he was like a kid in a candy store. He kept talking about the
potential, and a "grand design, never realized." He even insisted we set up our base there, against the objection of nearly every
paladin. What followed is a whole other story."
(Ramos' dialogue)
4. ↑ The Courier: "Father Elijah?"
Veronica Santangelo: "Our Elder before McNamara. He had a nose for recovering lost technology. He'd send Scribes out into
the desert chasing whatever leads he found. There were a few he only trusted me with. I can think of at least one that'd prove my
point, if it still exists. There's a comm terminal not too far from here I'd use to access messages from him. If we go there I can
pull up his research on it."
(Veronica Santangelo's dialogue)
5. ↑ Jump up to:5.0 5.1 The Courier: "Who is Father Elijah?"
Veronica: "He was our Elder when we came East. A wizard with technology, really. His mind just worked that way naturally.
Learned a lot from him. But he started having disagreements with the other Elders. The Brotherhood's interest is in old
technology. He wanted to explore developing new tech. And there were other ways he wanted to push. Other weapons. Ones
with ethics questions attached. Rather than deal with him, they sent him East."
(Veronica Santangelo's dialogue)
6. ↑ The Courier: "Ever been in love?"
Veronica: "Ever been nosy?  I was, once. We were pretty young, but I like to think it was love."
The Courier: "What happened?"
Veronica: "She left the Brotherhood. Wanted to put some distance between herself and her parents. Since our membership isn't
open to outsiders, some members think that obligates all of us to procreate. You can guess which camp her parents belonged
to."
The Courier: "You didn't go with her?"
Veronica Santangelo: "No. Couldn't bring myself to leave everyone else behind. Couldn't convince her to stay, either. I'd hoped
love would be enough to influence her decision, but it wasn't. We were both too stubborn. I don't know where she is now, but I'm
sure she's moved on. I still think about her, though. Once in a while."
(Veronica Santangelo's dialogue)
7. ↑ The Courier: "You were looking for someone?"
Christine Royce: [She nods and raises a finger.]
The Courier: "A robot?"
Christine Royce: [She shakes her head and pumps her fist near her chest.]
The Courier: "Man?"
Christine Royce: [She nods. She makes a motion with her hands around her chin, drawing it down, and then she raises her
hands and clenches them at the sky.]
The Courier: "Or a woman?"
Christine Royce: [She shakes her head... then stops mid-way, frowns... then tilts her head, as if thinking. She seems lost in
thought for a moment.] [She glances at you, as if caught, then she smiles slightly, but there's an edge to it. Then she shakes her
head, slowly, once.]
(Christine Royce's dialogue)
8. ↑ Jump up to:8.0 8.1 The Courier: "What changed?"
Veronica: "He did. For years, he fought with the Council. Taught me to question our direction. Meanwhile he'd become more
out-of-touch than all of them. On our way East he demanded we stop at HELIOS One to examine it. While we were there, we
received word that the NCR had taken the Dam. He was furious. Called it "children playing with a bomb." But he was mad
because we'd lost its power. What we'd use it for... he didn't even care."
(Veronica Santangelo's dialogue)
9. ↑ The Courier: "Yes, what is the task?"
Edgar Hardin: "Back when we were stationed at HELIOS, our scouts reported that a group was establishing itself in the area as
a distributor of Pre-War weapons. Our Elder at the time, Elijah, was too concerned with getting HELIOS running and fending
off the NCR, so he ordered us to leave them alone. It's time that we correct that oversight, and show this region that the
Brotherhood is still a force to be reckoned with. I want you to visit these weapons dealers, this Van Graff family, and make an
example of them. Leave no one alive. When the job is done, report back and I'll arrange for a team to clean up the site and
retrieve the weapons."
(Edgar Hardin's dialogue)
10. ↑ The Courier: "Tell me about what happened at HELIOS."
Nolan McNamara: "We were overrun, plain and simple. My Brothers fought with great courage, but in the end the enemy was
just too many. When the tide of the battle turned for the worse, our Elder was nowhere to be found, and everything was chaos.
Fully half of our forces had already fallen. I gathered up those I could find and we fought our way here. This place had been
briefly discussed as a fallback point, though at the time none really believed that could possibly become necessary. That's it,
really. There was nothing glorious about the battle, just a nightmare of screams, blood, and death."
(Nolan McNamara's dialogue)
11. ↑ The Courier: "Where is he now?"
Veronica Santangelo: "I don't know. Last time anyone saw him was in the battle at HELIOS One. I wasn't there. He gave orders
to hold the plant until it could be reactivated. But he ran out of time. The NCR overran it. Everyone thought he was dead. But I
got a note from him at a comm station. That's... how he liked to talk, even to me. He wasn't good at face-to-face."
(Veronica Santangelo's dialogue)
12. ↑ The Courier: "I've never heard of the place you're talking about."
Elijah: "Big Empty's a treasure box, a scientific graveyard of Old World misery. Like the Sierra Madre... there's treasures there,
sleeping. Some, awake.  The Holorifle, the Saturnite alloy... the hologram technology, hibernation chambers, Securitrons, the
collars... ...even the suits attached to those things stalking the Villa... that's only the surface of what's there. Right now, the
Sierra Madre is what I want."
(Elijah's dialogue)
13. ↑ The Courier: "What happened next?"
Elijah: "After that... I wandered, alone. Saw the storms of the Divide, walked among the Ciphers of the West. Traveled  to the
Big Empty. I heard the signal. The woman's voice, the Sierra Madre, promising a chance to begin again, reverse my
fortunes.  All... nonsense. I tracked the signal. Came here, scouted the city... using other hands. Kept dying on me, killing each
other. You - you got the farthest of all."
(Elijah's dialogue)
14. ↑ Jump up to:14.0 14.1 The Courier: "I heard you and 8 were attacked by previous visitors."
Doctor 0: "*I don't like to talk about it. 8... he can't talk about it, they fried his voice module something good.* *It wasn't all the
visitors, though - only one of them got out of control. He's the one that took control of Little Yangtze, our old human farm.*"
The Courier: "Tell me what happened."
0: "*This human... I can't believe it... he broke out of the Think Tank. In seconds.* *Then he went for Yangtze, got bomb collars,
and started practicing on the subjects that were still there until he got the right frequency.* *We were sending robots to stop
him and he was slicing and cutting through their shells with some suped-up laser gun like they were cheese... paper.* *When he
hacked into the mainframe, 8 tried to stop him and got fried. Me? He rerouted my processors to take control of the train
network here.* *If you see the tunnels with the trains plowed into them, you can thank our visitor for that. He wrecked the
whole place.* *While we were trying to keep containment on the surface, turns out he used one train to punch out a tunnel and
escape... sealed now, but...*"
(Doctor 0's dialogue)
15. ↑ Patient log: Y-17.9
16. ↑ Jump up to:16.0 16.1 Little Yangtze terminals; Little Yangtze Log Terminal, Elijah's Journal
17. ↑ Little Yangtze terminals; Little Yangtze Log Terminal, Elijah's Journal - Day 4 - Addendum
18. ↑ Patient log: Y-17.0
19. ↑ Elijah's Watch journal
20. ↑ Elijah's holomessage
21. ↑ The Courier: "I don't understand how an Old World casino helps you do any of that."
Elijah: "The Cloud is unique in my travels. Its proximity to the Sierra Madre isn't a coincidence.  Right now it protects this
casino, preserves it.  It can be used to preserve other Old World relics - and cleanse them, at the same time. And as much as
I've researched hologram technology, the Big Empty facility was clear - only the Sierra Madre got Holograms working...
properly.
The Courier: "Properly? Are you kidding me?"
Elijah:  "The Holograms here kill trespassers. That's what I want. Dump one of those emitters in the middle of any battle, there's
no defense. It's like holding light in your hands. Can't fight it... only watch it burn. Just one is a portable army. Arm it - anyone
stands against you, dies."
(Elijah's dialogue)
22. ↑ The Courier: "If you secure that, that's all you want?"
Elijah: "No, there is one last thing I want from the Sierra Madre. Its bounty. The machines that fill its streets, its corridors. They
provide, provide almost anything. Perhaps in the Pre-War era, they were commonplace, things to dismiss. Now, they are far
more valuable. You know it. They helped keep you alive.
The Courier: "I can't argue that."
Elijah: "Sources of food, supplies... medical assistance, ammo... make more collars, even print currency.  Make a nation.  The
Cloud allows me to wipe the slate clean. Collars ensure cooperation. Holograms - defense. The Vending Machines provide...
everything else. The Sierra Madre can kill nations and build them, using its technology with the right applications."
(Elijah's dialogue)
23. ↑ The Courier: "Why would you do that?"
Elijah: "Because in some respects, breaking in to the Sierra Madre is easier than breaking human instinct.  Greed. The Villa is
filled with corpses. Some killed by the dangers here, some by me. Others... turned on each other. Once they realized the Sierra
Madre could be theirs, they cared nothing for their freedom... their survival... or each other."
The Courier: "Are they all dead?"
Elijah: The ones brought here live on only in what they've left behind, their marks - graffiti on the walls. And victims they've
killed.  Some tried to help... left supplies and healing for others who came. Their reward? They were tracked down, killed by
others with baser instincts. Some of these murderers went as far as to leave traps behind them... turning markers for help into
deathtraps for anyone following them. It killed some of them when they forgot where the traps lay... or when they desperately
needed the assistance they had cut others off from."
(Elijah's dialogue)
24. ↑ The Courier: "Still hiding behind images and screens, I see."
Elijah: "Hiding? Hardly. Trapped.  You think you were the first one to unlock the casino door? No, I did it... with other hands,
other bodies.  After that, the casino wouldn't let go. Once I was locked in, no way out...  until your Pip-Boy signal came to life in
the Villa. Then... then, uh, things changed. And here you are."
(Elijah's dialogue)
25. ↑ The Courier: "If Dog put a collar on me, why didn't he say so?"
Elijah: "Dog? Hnh. Appropriate. It's what I called him.  You've met him. You know why he forgot - his brain was ruined by FEV,
his memory, wreckage. He may know the way back, somewhere, deep down. I doubt it. He tracks by smell and instinct. Still, he
could be trained."
(Elijah's dialogue)
26. ↑ The Courier: "What do you need me to do now?"
Elijah: "Gather the three others needed for this job, return them here. After that, I'll have more instructions for you. Take the
others to their positions to trigger the Gala Event. After that, the doors of the Sierra Madre should open."
(Elijah's dialogue)
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