Panopticon

The **Panopticon** is a location in the Containment Sector of the Oldest House. Founded by Zachariah Trench, it is the Federal Bureau of Control's repository for Altered Items and Objects of Power. The Panopticon has eight labeled floors with hundreds of cells known as crucibles where Altered Items are kept. It connects to the Firebreak, the Archives, Fortified Units, and the P6 Cell. The current Panopticon Supervisor is Frederick Langston.

A number of floors are listed:

1. Firebreak
2. Archives
3. [REDACTED]
4. A.I. Containment
5. P6 Cell

### 01: Firebreak

This floor contains the Firebreak and Langston's monitoring room through which one accesses the Panopticon.

The following items are stored here:

* Unit 13: Jasper Post Box
* Unit 14: Bremen Basket
* Unit 15: The Oscillator
* Unit 16: The Game Hammer

### 02. Archives

The following items are stored here:

* Unit 6: Holiday Memories Tree
* Unit 9: Wolff Globe
* Unit 11: The Smoking Pram

### 03. [REDACTED]

The following items are stored here:

* Unit 5: Guru Surfboard
* Unit 6: Rubber Duck
* Unit 7: Ocelot's Anchor

### 4. A.I. Containment

The following items are stored here:

* Unit 9: Moving Letters
* Unit 10: Red Light
* Unit 11: Waist Mannequin
* Unit 12: Human Hand Chair
* Unit 13: Ramen Lantern
* Unit 15: The Arctic Queen Refrigerator
* Unit 16: Pink Flamingo

The Benicoff TV Object of Power can be found in Fortified Unit 716.

### 5. P6 Cell

The cell for P6, Dylan Faden, can be found here.

Additionally, the following items are stored here:

* Unit 5: Oh Deer Diner Coffee Thermos
* Unit 6: Typewritten Page
* Unit 9: "Get Well" Balloon
* Unit 10: Swan Boat
* Unit 11: Simulacrum (currently in the form of a watercooler)
* Unit 12: Crowbar

### Unknown

The Merry-Go-Round Horse had formerly been stored in the Panopticon before escaping. After being bound by Jesse Faden, like other bound Objects of Power, it vanishes, so its storage location within the Panopticon is unknown.

## Hidden Locations

* On the fifth floor of the Panopticon, there is a hole in the wall from Jesse can get into. Inside contains both the Typewritten Page and the Oh Deer Diner Coffee Thermos in their individual Unit cells. When she first enters, Jesse will receive an apparition of Alan Wake, similar to the apparitions she receives from the Hotline. Accessing this area requires the use of the Levitate ability.

## Trivia

* The name and basic design of the Panopticon are derived from the work of 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who proposed a "panopticon" or "all-seeing" prison in which the cells were arrayed around the inside of a circular facility with a single guard looking out on them from the center. Bentham's idea was that while the guard could not monitor all the prisoners at once, each prisoner would know that they *could* be under surveillance at any time, and therefore have to act properly at all times. In the FBC version, the same concept serves to ensure that the altered items are stored safely, because (according to Langston) they tend to be more calm when they're being observed.
* Langston can be heard commenting that the "Sudden Stop hits theaters tonight" and that he "can't believe" he is "missing an Alex Casey movie for this." This is a reference to Alan Wake's final Alex Casey novel, *The Sudden Stop*.
* The redacted signage for the third floor appears to read "Remedy Offices" under the censoring stroke.
* There are two separate Fortified Units labeled 714 and two labeled 715 - one of each on level 1 and one of each on level 4. It is not clear whether this is intended to be the result of some kind of in-universe duplicative effect similar to that of the Waist Mannequin altered item, or just an oversight by the developers.
* Due to an invisible "ceiling" it is not possible to access the floors above 5 even with the Levitate ability.