Return to Sender

Return to Sender is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.
==Quick walkthrough==
==Detailed walkthrough==
Speak with Sergeant Reyes at the Camp Forlorn Hope command center to begin this quest. You are asked to deliver several radio security upgrade codes by speaking to the Communications Officer at each of the Ranger stations. (If the Officer in charge was killed in any way, interact with the Ham Radio to deliver the code.)
* Upgrade Ranger Station Alpha
* Upgrade Ranger Station Bravo
* Upgrade Ranger Station Charlie (if Ranger Station Charlie has already been wiped out, even though it is still stated as a quest objective, one does not need to visit it).
* Upgrade Ranger Station Delta
* Upgrade Ranger Station Echo
* Upgrade Ranger Station Foxtrot
Upon returning to Reyes, she will inform you of some confusing intel reports, and you're sent back out to three stations to double-check the validity of the reports. Speak to Ranger Pason at station Delta, Ranger Lineholm at station Alpha, and Ranger Kudlow at station Foxtrot. If you've spoken to them, walk out of the tent and then back in, and speak to Reyes. After her suspicions have been justified, she asks you to go to Camp Golf and confront Chief Hanlon about it. He can be found on the balcony above the entrance to the House Resort during the day. Upon asking him about the intel reports, he tells you he wants to discuss it in a more private setting and will head to his office. The office is located on the first floor of the resort, past the front desk, and to the left of the vending machines. Once there, Hanlon will discuss his motives with you, and eventually leads to you having to make a choice. Note your choice will impact the ending you receive.
* If you decide to turn him in, he will tell you to go get a ranger to make it official. Once you step out of the office, the door closes and locks, and Hanlon delivers a speech to the stationed rangers via the intercom. Once his speech is over, he commits suicide with his revolver. A nearby ranger will rush into the room to see what happened. Hanlon drops his Ranger Sequoia revolver (which is marked as owned and therefore can only be stolen with the loss of Karma), and you'll gain 500 XP.
* If you let Hanlon continue his plan without informing the NCR, he tells you that you no longer have anything to discuss and walks off. You get 500XP.
* You can choose to kill Hanlon yourself, which he warns you is a bad idea due to being in the middle of a ranger base. If you insist on doing so after his warning, Hanlon will turn hostile.
* If you have killed Caesar, you can convince Hanlon to come back to his senses and cease falsifying the reports, and you get 500XP.
Regardless of the choice you make, the quest ends there.
==Quest stages==
==Notes==
*It is possible for a ranger to be present in the room across the hall from Hanlon's office, meaning you can talk to a ranger without getting far enough from Hanlon for the door to shut. Despite this, you will not get any dialogue options for getting the ranger into Hanlon's office.
* According to in-game files, there is an existing dialogue option whereby Hanlon could be convinced to stop falsifying the reports if the Courier had learned about Caesar's illness. However, since the only way to learn of Caesar's illness is to advance far enough into the Render Unto Caesar quest that the NCR would already be hostile and it would impossible to advance their quests, making the option extremely difficult to get should the player wish to side with the NCR.
** For a while, this was believed to be a bug in the game, as Silus can give a hint towards Caesar's illness if he is beaten into talking in Silus Treatment. However, this was later proven false, as the dialogue option with Hanlon is impossible to activate, as evident by its peripherals in the game's code.
** This option is possible to obtain if Caesar is killed in The Fort before talking to Hanlon. However, it also unlocks the option to convince him with Caesar's death, making it obsolete.
** There is also an ending the player can obtain which requires Hanlon to be convinced to stop falsifying the records, completing Veni, Vidi, Vici, while Caesar is still alive while Et Tumor, Brute? is active. It can be presumed that the requirements to meet this ending are to learn of Caesar's illness and inform Hanlon that way, having disguised oneself in NCR armor in order to prevent hostility. But due to the dialogue option being cut, the ending is impossible to obtain.
* If a non-player character capable of receiving the upgraded codes is dead, the player can manually upgrade the stations by interacting with the ham radio. This contingency is there in case the station is wiped out by wandering creatures (such as Foxtrot and its Cazador problem) or the player. This does not include Charlie, however, because the radio will have been destroyed by the Legion. If any non-player character who must be questioned to double-check intel reports is dead, the report can be looted from their body.
* If Hanlon is already dead, the quest will end upon returning to Reyes, who will say "Since Hanlon is dead, we will never really know". 300 caps and 720 XP as a reward for this method.
* Hanlon will not discuss quest matters unless he is outside on the balcony.
* The unmarked quest Andy and Charlie, which is obtained from Ranger Andy in Novac, also requires investigating Ranger Station Charlie, and can be accomplished at the same time as this one. Alternatively, completing Andy and Charlie beforehand will eliminate the requirement to visit Charlie for this quest, even though it will still be listed in the objectives.
* If playing in favor of Caesar's Legion, this quest can still be completed alongside We Are Legion (which requires killing all senior officers in Forlorn Hope, one of them being Sergeant Reyes). To be able to do this, upgrade the ranger stations and double-check the intel reports, then kill all the officers and, at the same time, talk with chief Hanlon, which will successfully complete this quest.
==Behind the scenes==
* The quest content was implemented by Jeff Husges and Matt MacLean. Chief Hanlon was written by Joshua Sawyer.
* "Return to Sender" is a 1962 rock and roll hit single by American singer Elvis Presley. The song was written by Winfield Scott and Otis Blackwell.
==Bugs==
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