Catherine (Fallout 3)

	For other characters in the Fallout universe named Catherine, see Catherine.

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	Fallout 3/Fallout: New Vegas character Catherine
	Face shot of Catherine; not intended to be seen during normal gameplay.
	Biography and appearance Race Human, African American Gender Female Eye Color Dark Brown (EyeDarkBrown) Affiliation Project Purity Role Project Purity scientist Location Jefferson Memorial Family James (husband) Lone Wanderer (child) Dialogue File Catherine's dialogue (Fallout 3) Gameplay Combat Style Default aggression Unaggressive confidence Cowardly assistance Helps Nobody Statistics Alignment 500 Good SPECIAL Strength: 3 Perception: 6 Endurance: 3 Charisma: 4 Intelligence: 8 Agility: 6 Luck: 5 Derived Stats Hit Points: 10 Fatigue: 50 Critical chance: Melee damage: Unarmed damage: Poison resistance: Radiation resistance: Tag Skills Scientist (Scientist) Barter: 13 Big Guns: 11 Energy Weapons: 17 Explosives: 32 Lockpick: 17 Medicine: 36 Melee Weapons: 11 Repair: 21 Science: 36 Small Guns: 17 Sneak: 17 Speech: 13 Throwing, unused: 0 Unarmed: 11 Level 1 Technical Editor Race African American Old Editor ID CG00Mom Base ID 0005eddf Ref ID 0005ede0 Script SCRI - Script: SCPT - Script [0005EDDD] <CG00MomSCRIPT> Packages Packages Package 0006B243 (CG00MomSection5) Package 0006B242 (CG00MomSection4) Package 0006B241 (CG00MomSection3) Package 0006B24C (CG00MomSection2) Package 0006B244 (CG00MomSection1) Package 0008F77A (CG00MomSection0) Package 0005EDDE (CG00MomDefault) Actor Karen Carbone (FemaleUniqueMom)
	Character flags: Female, Auto-calc stats

 

“

Ohhh... Very strapping... Ha ha ha...

”— Catherine, the first time she sees the Lone Wanderer.

Catherine was the wife of James and mother of the child later known to the Capital Wasteland's residents as the Lone Wanderer. She was a scientist who worked on Project Purity with James. She is "encountered" during the character generation sequence of Fallout 3.

Background

In the mid—2250s, as a member of the science team involved in Project Purity, Catherine befriended and fell in love with the project's chief scientist, James. In late 2257, the two lovers conceived a child. Nine months later, on July 13, 2258, Catherine gave birth to a child. After seeing her child, Catherine suffered from cardiac arrest and, despite the attempts of James to save her life, she died. Her death affected James deeply, causing him to abandon Project Purity soon after and travel with his child to raise him or her in Vault 101.

Interactions with the player character

Interactions overview

This character has no special interactions.

Inventory

	Apparel	Birth skirt
	Weapon
	Carried items
	Drops on death	empty

Notes

• Her favorite quote from the Bible is Revelation 21:6.
• Catherine died in the prologue of the game. She appeared during a cutscene that showed the player character's birth, but the player only saw her legs and could hear her voice. A holodisk recording of James flirting with her called "better days" could be located in the Jefferson Memorial's lower levels.
• In Point Lookout, while intoxicated on the Mother Punga, you will find one of the many giant bobbleheads on a medical examination table with a skeleton marked "Mom", balloons, and a party hat. Activating the bobblehead will say "Blech. If my kid looked like that, I’d abandon it too." The skeleton is Catherine, reflecting the lack of maternal presence in the Lone Wanderer's life. Furthermore, the last bobblehead in the vision says, "Dead mother, life in a post-nuclear Wasteland and not a friend in it. Yeah, you aren't exactly blessed."

Notable quotes

• "Oh... Oh James... We did it... A son/daughter... Our beautiful son/daughter..."
• "Ohhh... Beautiful... just like their Daddy... Ha ha ha..."
• "James? James... Something's... Something's..."

Behind the scenes

Using the console commands (tfc and teofis), the player can see that Catherine's character model was an older African American with a "No Nonsense" hairstyle, and James was Caucasian with a "Smooth Wave" hairstyle, regardless of what race or tone is used. If the player enters the console command tfc without going into third person view first, they could get a good look at Catherine up close just as the first cutscene ends.

Appearances

Catherine appears only in Fallout 3.

Gallery

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  Catherine (not seen during normal gameplay).
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  A closer look at Catherine (not meant to be seen during normal gameplay).
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  Photograph of the Lone Wanderer's parents in the Jefferson Memorial in Fallout 3 (cut content, not seen during normal gameplay) and in Vault 21 in Fallout: New Vegas.
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