Julie Langford

Professor Julie Langford, Ph.D., is the scientist responsible for creating and maintaining Arcadia, a garden and arboretum that supplied oxygen to Rapture and the owner of Langford Research Laboratories. Unlike most residents of Rapture, she does not seem to be spliced or have an affliction from ADAM abuse, and seems relatively normal, despite her dangerous environment.
==History==
Before her descent to the underwater city, Langford was a renowned botanist and professor at the University of California Berkeley, where she had worked since the 1920s. Her research attracted both praise for its groundbreaking findings, and controversy for her "radical theories". For a time she worked for the United States government, offering assistance with various defoliation projects during the Second World War, including use against the Japanese on Iwo Jima.Julie Langford's Audio Diary: The Lazarus Vector
Her disappearance after leaving for Rapture did not go unnoticed on the surface. A newspaper article from January 7, 1949 commented that she was still missing by that date, despite an "intensive investigation".Newspaper article: Noted Botanist Still Missing
Although truly loving the plants and her work on the gardens of Arcadia, she eventually was forced into making it a commodity, available only to paying visitors. Andrew Ryan decided to charge citizens not only for taking a stroll in Arcadia, but also to sell the vital oxygen created by the arboretum. She accepted such decisions, as in a later audio diary she states that she would have complained, but then remembered who signed her paychecks.Julie Langford's Audio Diary: Arcadia ClosedJulie Langford's Audio Diary: Arcadia and Oxygen
As the use of Plasmids caused society in Rapture to deteriorate, Langford kept to her work, using the scientific advances of ADAM in her projects. One such project was the Lazarus Vector, a concoction that would be able to bring trees back from the dead.Julie Langford's Audio Diary: Teaching an Old Hound During this time, Langford had trouble with the Saturnine, a group of Splicers who stole many of her materials for use in their nature worshipping cult.Julie Langford's Audio Diary: What Won't They Steal Frequent lockdowns also slowed down her progress.Julie Langford's Audio Diary: Early Tests Promising During the Rapture Civil War, when Ryan closed Arcadia for good, Langford continued to make trips to her office there as she was close to a breakthrough in her project.
==BioShock==
When Andrew Ryan releases a chemical into the atmosphere that threatens to destroy the plant life in Arcadia, Jack, spurred on by Atlas, seeks out Langford to see if she can help. As Jack approaches the locked laboratory, Langford appears on television monitors outside the entrance and is startled by what has happened to her trees. She accuses Jack for the death of them but quickly realizes that it was done by Ryan's hands, and asks Jack to find her a sample of Rosa Gallica while she continues working. When Jack gives Julie the rose he is granted access to her lab, but once he finally reaches her, Ryan floods her office with a toxic gas, while reminding her about how he holds property rights to Arcadia and the contract for the manufacture of the Lazarus Vector. Just before dying, Julie scrawls the combination to her safe on the window of her office. Within the safe, the player finds the formula for the Lazarus Vector, a concoction invented by Langford that promises to revive Arcadia's trees and other plant life.
==BioShock 2 Multiplayer==
One of Julie Langford's quotes is used for the multiplayer loading screen, commenting on the Saturnine. A redesigned version of her lab is located in the multiplayer version of Arcadia.
*"The Saturnine? Please… they dress up in leaves… drinking human blood… An aging bunch of frat boys…"
==Audio Diaries==
===BioShock===
*Arcadia
**Arcadia Closed
**The Saturnine
**Early Tests Promising
**What Won't They Steal
**Teaching an Old Hound
**Lazarus Vector Formula
**The Lazarus Vector
**Arcadia and Oxygen
==Quotes==
===Intercom===
*"You got the chlorophyll, what else do you Saturnines want?! Leave me alone or I'll sick my turrets on the whole damn lot of you!"
*"My trees! It wasn't you, was it? No… Ryan…! I think I've got a way to save the trees, it's a genetic vector that- Oh, look who I'm talking to… Could you find me a sample of Rosa Gallica for me? Look in the Grotto… I've got to keep working while there's still time…"
*"You've brought the Rosa Gallica? Well, what you waiting for? An engraved invitation? Send it through the Pneumo! (when the player does so) Yes, this is perfect… Perfect… Come on up to my office… I'm letting you in now… I think I've got just the thing to put the green back in this forest."
*"I've got the security system in this joint hacked, so those turrets won't bite. Come on up to my office."
===In Person===
*"Mr. Ryan? No… Wait… No! Please! (begins choking) MR. RYAN! (chokes to death)"
==Gallery==
Julie Langford-Choking.jpg|Julie Langford taking her last breath.
BioShock Rapture Sticker Sheet.jpg|BioShock-themed real-world stickers, featuring Julie Langford.
==Behind the Scenes==
*Julie Langford uses a variant of Lady Smith Splicer model. Her outfit is made to look like a teal dress worn under an open lab coat, though the fur shrug is unconvincingly incorporated. As listed above, they also share the same voice actress, Susanne Blakeslee.
*Even though Julie's hair is blonde in her in-game pictures and in real world art (see the official stickers above), her character model's hair is colored brown.
*Her eyes are green in BioShock Remastered, while they are brown in the original release.
*Langford was originally a male character named Holden Langford, but Ken Levine felt that they didn't have enough female characters in the game and so the change was made.BioShock commentary with Jean-Paul LeBreton Every sign for her research lab still reads "Holden Langford" if one would look at them with the art subtitles on.
*In her audio diary The Lazarus Vector, a character named "Becky" is mentioned. It is unclear if this is Langford's daughter, a colleague, a significant other, or even her pet.
==References==
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