
There is at least one pressure plate and several tripwire-activated grenade bouquets, set by the Rangers. This will require fighting or sneaking past the super mutants and one of the game's several centaurs.


The signal can be picked up while exploring near the National Archives building at the Mall Northeast map marker, but also on Pennsylvania Avenue and Vernon Square near the Statesman Hotel. Picking up the Ranger emergency frequency, an automated distress call from Rangers stranded on the roof of the Statesman Hotel.

(Speaking to Reilly is the only way to learn about the optional quest involving Theo's ammunition cache since she is the only one who knows the code to unlock it.) Reilly explains that she was wounded by super mutants while trying to ex-filtrate and get help for her team, who are stranded on the roof of the Statesman Hotel. One must either convince Doctor Barrows to wake her ( Speech 78), or do so oneself ( Medicine 60). She is lying unconscious in the Underworld hospital, The Chop Shop. Finding Reilly in Underworld, the ghoul city situated in the Museum of History in D.C.
