The Full Story of the Cabot Family and Cabot House - Fallout 4 Lore 

"Do you believe in intelligent life in the universe?" Me: -Currently holding an alien blaster, still dripping with Alien Viscera-...No.

a courier, delivering a highly advanced package on behalf of an incredibly intelligent centuries old man, is intercepted and shot? huh. getting the weirdest feeling of deja vu.

It's always funny when people threaten you in your suit of X-01 Power Armor, isn't it?

I love how Jack deduces that the sole survivor was born before the Great War. Though it’s unfortunate how there is not too much dialogue for this.

This was the only mission my mom sat down and watched with me, she was genuinely impressed and was interested even though she was seeing it through a video game, especially since she was never a fan of video games in the first place.

"We need to rush to the insane assylum" *stops to loot a filing cabinet*

Sole Survivor: Talks about how he is over 200 years old Lorenzo: Are you challenging me?

The entire backstory to this quest is a refrence to "The Nameless City" By H.P.Lovecraft

Edward Deegan is a jerk. He initialized the conversation when I was trying to talk to someone in Bunker Hill, forcing my character to spin 180 degrees and accidentally steal a screwdriver that was lying on the counter. Everyone went hostile and gunned me down in five seconds because I couldn't get them to stop. I was playing on Survival and hadn't saved in 20 min.

"Hey, Cabot... there's an alien in town... he's hiding in a cave."

Oxhorn: "Maybe a foreshadowing of fallout 5" Me: *Cries in 76*

I think it's weird that Jack is unknown to the Institute. Because as they said theres no better kept secret in the Commonwealth than the Institute. So how do they not act on the Cabot family? Like Jack is clearly a genius and that's what they look for. And then theres the immortality of Lorenzo. It typically goes against their plans. It could make their synths useless or even better if they tried. Because theres more prewar specimens readily available that are immortal. I just find it kinda weird that the whole family hasn't even popped up in the Institute's studies.

Wouldn't be a Lore video without the repeated "You are carrying to much and can't run."

i went to the amphitheater before starting jacks quest and killed brother thomas after refusing to join his cult. when i went back to get jacks sister during the quest i found that brother thomas was resurrected from the dead and again tried to get me to join his cult. i guess this quest is just filled with supernatural occurrences.

If you kill some of the mercenaries at the asylum before starting the quest you'll get some pretty funny dialogue from Edward throughout the questline

“We find the Courier’s body” *happy Benny noises*

A few days ago* Me: Ohh, look a channel with Fallout content. Now* Me: subscribed...binge watching

Its really annoying if you first start this quest after you have the crashed Alien encounter you cant tell Cabot. I turned up at Cabot House with Alien Gun in hand, but there was no dialogue options that would allow me to mention it. Shame, would have loved to have seen Cabots face when id casually pull out my alien blaster, and be all, yeah I know, I killed one...

23:03 In my game, I already killed everyone in this movement. By the time I came back for this quest, it was just brother Thomas...u get an option to tell him that you killed the last leader of the movement and aren't afraid to do it again. He backs down real fast lol

Even tho we don't interact with her much, Emogene is probably one of my favorite characters in Fallout 4. The writing on her terminal does so much to make her feel like a real person. Seeing the perspective of someone who, on some level, actually wanted the apocalypse to come and got her "wish" was really captivating. Her line "How selfish must I be to think that I need the world to end as a way to get out of killing myself?" really sticks with me.

I wanna take Lorenzo's brain to the Memory Den. I'd wanna see all dat knowledge...

2:20 there should have been an option to mention the alien random encounter.

Oxhorn you are missing some important details in the conclusion, like the fact that you can come back to the Cabot house a few days later after receiving the lorenzo gun and find Jack and his sister showing effects of the serum withdrawal and their mother is actually dead already because of it, meaning they will die soon too. With this in mind the final dead count is 4 if you choose to kill Lorenzo (the entire Cabot family), and 3 if you chose to help Lorenzo. Also that means there is no chance for a fallout 5 quest involving Jack Cabot and an ancient alien city. Just saying xD

Player: So how does the Sole Survivor potentially being an immortal being allying with eldritch entities fit into the plot about finding Shaun? Todd: It. Just. Works.

I'm just picturing Lenzo in nuka world. No one fucking with him as he rides the space coaster. Lenzo: I haven't had this much fun since the 1880s Gage: wha Lenzo: IVE BEEN IN A FUCKING GLASS BOX FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS. MORE SODA!!

Lorenzo is clearly the Ice King from Adventure Time.

I always thought it was interesting that Lorenzo couldn't become an endgame option. His artifact is so damn powerful, he could have led an army easily in a world filled with bone-for-brain raiders. And he's immortal so i think that he would be very inclined to start his rise in the fallout world, especially judging by how they made his character

This quest line reminds me of the h.p. Lovecraft short story “the nameless city” where an archeologist finds a strange city buried in the Arabian desert built by an ancient alien civilization Also the yithians who were able to swap minds with other beings through time and space Also I don’t really want the guns, serum, or outfits I just want that neat helmet

Bobbi No Nose wears a gas mask so not to be recognized as a ghoul in Diamond City, whereas Edward Deegan just strolls on in to Dugout Inn and no one bats an eye.....?

OMG That Sentrybot’s only job is to tell you to stay off the grass!? That thing made me terrified to pass Cabot house after being blindsided at the National Guard post, and all it wanted to do was tell me to *STAY. OFF. THE. GRASS!?* *_HALLELUJAH, HOLY SHIT!!!_*

At 4:46 Cabot refers to "carvings that hint at dimensions beyond our own" This might be related to the engravings on the gun of the Mysterious Stranger and also explain his ability to instantly appear and disappear? Maybe Pebbles would know.. ..

Edward: our courier was ambushed Me: ah shit, here we go again

19:43 with captions “thank you hitler I can always count on you”

Edward Deacon has a great voice actor. You really get the sense of his character through the voice actor himself. Bravo to whomever voiced him! Please return for other Fallout games!

Ox: Maybe Fallout 5? Me: 😔 sigh... if only...

Me in Fallout 4: Sees a person older than me Me: confused screaming

"Moon`s Haunted." "What?" Loading a handgun and stepping back into the shuttle: "Moon`s Haunted."

i just wrote a long comment about how it is outrageous that such great content gets so little views, then i saw it was uploaded today...

A family: Has been living for over 400 years Me: Good day Gentlemen, I am here to change the future

Your final argument in saying how Jack Cabot didn’t hesitate when the time came to kill Lorenzo won me over

when you're somewhat into the video & just realized it was an hour.....

Too bad, u can't tell him that's a crashed UFO.

*[You’re carrying too much and can’t run!]*

It would be amazing if I could see jack reaction after i share with him the story with the UFO and the alien...

I do feel Jack is misguided, i don´t think removing the crown will "cure" Lorenzo, because it was not really the crown that was making him do this things, rather by putting on a crown and communicating with the elders he adopted their morals, removing the crown would only make him mad for having lost his access to the elders, but it would not erase the last 400 years of him changing his personality, i don´t think the crown was exactly controlling him, he was just seduced by it´s power and promise of immortality and stuff, and who knows what else.

The Artifact Gun is one of the most OP guns in the game. Get explosive, nuclear physicist 2, science and pistol perks and it absolutely annihilates everything. No joke. Behemoths, deathclaws, fog crawlers...everything. Its insane. And this quest. Holy fuck it was the single most intresting thing ive ever experienced in a fallout game. Such an intirguing lore.

Deacon sounds incredibly tired and depressed. Incredible voice acting.

It's a shame there wasn't an option to get the Cabots working with the institute to study Lorenzo and the mysterious serum

You CAN find Jack and Emogene as old people in the game xD

Lorenzo's blood from Lorenzo himself + soul survivor + soul survivor running the Institute forever= HOLY SHIT

Lorenzo truly couldn't sound more evil or less trustworthy, so I side with Jack. Sure 400 years of trying to cure someone is definitely not entirely kosher, but I believe Jack's intentions at least are good.

Someone should make a sitcom called "keeping up with the Cabots"

I think that originally Jack wanted to save his father but as time passed he realized that immortality is great too and wasnt all that convinced he wanted to save him

A 1 hour Oxhorn video ? This day just got better

I think it's written well because it's not so clear cut which side's truth is actually the truth, though I ended up believing Jack more. The conspiracy that they're just using the father for his blood was a nice twist though. And I liked Emogeen. I found her well written and relatable. I think her reaction, thoughts, and behaviors are realistic for someone who is immortal with super immunity and who was probably kept from doing interesting things. The boredom, trying to fix it by meeting boys, the happiness of fending someone off because it's probably the first time you've actually gotten to take control and not just sit around, the feeling of superiority that one would get from eternal youth and beauty and the inability to forego it, and the depression that comes with immortality.

The best sidequest in Fallout 4 and one of the best in the whole franchise. Having an immortality serum and outliving the apocalipse is surely one hell of a life history.

It's sad that this character will not die of super mutants, raiders, nor feral ghouls but of lung cancer

Ultimate Fallout 4 theory: The Sole Survivor became IMMORTAL after siding with Lorenzo

Funny thing is when you meet the pillars of the community before this quest, and kill everybody, brother Thomas will be sitting there alone and it’s kinda funny because it’s like someone trying to continue a faulty movement

Those “Carvings” Jack said could be the ones on the Old Revolver that the Mysterious Stranger uses in Fallout 3

I agree. Killing Lorenzo is the better option for "good" players. I constantly encountered Lorenzo surrounded by dead ghoul settlers, not ferals, just because he found them fascinating. He's a danger to everyone in the Commonwealth.

I am so satisfied because this video is exactly 1 hour long

"The war was over 200 years ago" Ghouls, the freezing pod and cybernetic techonlogy: am I a joke to you

Watching this video years later, there’s also a chance of meeting Jack Cabot as a wandering trader later down the road. I encountered him right outside Abernathy Farms. Only way I got it though was freeing Lorenzo and killing him soon after so Jack could spawn at Cabot House. He sells junk and some chems but it’s still interesting to talk to him for the first time, since he says he’ll be traveling to the Mojave

In the future, years or decades after, one man, Jack Cabot will find out truly if patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

The Cabot family should have had more children and employed more Ghouls.

Oxhorns storytelling is next level

[ You're carrying too much and can't run! ]

I’ve watched this whole video without skipping a part and I didn’t even realize it was an hour long 💀💀

Cabot is just an older Chris Ray Gun

I really loved the quest line for the Cabot House myself. I did end up siding with Jack, for the same reasons outlined here. Really heart wrenching. And frankly I am a sucker for the various magical elements of Fallout like this quest line. Immortals, psychic powers, strange cult relics and ancient cities in the desert. Heck if they did go back to the Mojave for Fallout 5 and did have a quest line about Jack and a mysterious magical city in the desert? I'd be down for it. Edit: To be clear? I don't think that stuff like this isn't 'magic' like the various magical powers of Fallout just because they kind of handwave and say "Aliens" at a few points. I mean it's still clearly supernatural, beyond the abilities of science, even in game. Where despite nearly 400 years of study Jack Cabot as the leading authority on this phenomena as it were still lacks understanding of it. Whatever is going on? It's not science per se. It's like when the Star Wars prequels mentioned Midichlorians. Did the fact that they threw in a line about some organism in the blood really make The Force any more Space Magic than it was? Not really. The things I've seen fans call "Psykers" but never actually saw that mention in game, the cults, the clearly odd supernatural events. They're all fine for me. They're very Fallout. Heck they're very Americana of the periods they're usually trying to pull from as Spiritualism and Occult wonder and such was an American tradition that was pretty mainstream. I kinda hope they continue to lean on it, and keep it mysterious rather than say, what they tried to do with some of the Cryptids like the Grafton Monster and provide a distinct, concrete origin rooted in the mundane. It's just... part of Fallout to me. It's not quite the same without it.

Even when emotions and tensions were high Jack still cared for his father he's a good guy though I do like Lorenzo the chaotic neutral type of character is really enjoyable to me!

if you go with Lorenzo , you can randomly see him in commonwealth killing ppl:P

Does anyone else like watching stories and missions about fallout 4 while playing fallout 4?😂

18:09 guess this is what happens when you don’t buy mojave express...

Imagine the son getting the serum just so he can stay in control of the institute

I always turn to Oxhorn's videos whenever I come across a point where I have to make a difficult decision. He goes so well in depth into the lore, and explains everything so well to the nitty-gritty that it makes the decisions so much easier to make. Very informative as well as interesting and entertaining. These videos are so well done.

What's a more fun ending? Getting a repulser gun and a suit with a brilliant man and his family aging to dust, or becoming an immortal super-soldier ally to an immortal man-turned-superhuman in a post-apocalyptic world without law and order? I'd pay good for a comic series about the latter, just saying.

I scrolled through quite a few comments and no one has voiced a thought I had after the quest. I sided with Jack and Lorenzo didn't make it out of Parsons. So what does Jack do after his father is unalived? He takes the helmet and..... Makes a gun out of it. Really!!?? Why didn't he take the artifact, have Edward grab a scavver or anyone that wouldn't be missed and plop the helmet on them. It would probably cure anything that was wrong with them and supply more of that precious serum that he and his family need to live forever. My talking to Jack informed him of cryogenic pods so he could of dumped his serum mule into a cryo pod and thawed him out when he needed more serum. Plus, there would be little chance of the subject learning the artifact's powers while frozen. That's just my outside of the box thinking though.

The parsons asylum is an amazing spot to farm .45 rounds and combat rifles/shotguns and combat armor with all dif mods for your settlers. I never do this line due to that if you start the quest the mercenaries stop respawning.

*Loots crown artifact from Lorenzo's body* Artifact: A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON! Sole: FUUU-...

I found Edward at diamond city.... The goul free place

Weird, I gave Edward the serum and killed Lorenzo, yet when I left had three mysterious serums’. I assumed I missed something where they gave it to me but I guess not 🤔

I really like all the inspiration of lovecraft's work shown in this quest line

This is one of the rare side quests in FO4 that rises to the level of New Vegas

Oddly enough I met Edward in Diamond City recently. At the Dug-Out Inn, I guess he's such a badass the DC guards just let him do as he pleases, being a ghoul.

you know it's a bethesda quest guide when there's a progress-breaking bug

Fun fact, if you cane here before the quest and talk to the preacher and kill him, brother thomas will be the new preacher and you can threaten him to bring you to emogene by telling him you killed the last guy who ran the place

i wonder if Ben, the courier with the serum that was shot, is a karma-related joke to Benny from NV xD

"Emogene runs off with a new bow" But... but there's no arrows in this game. For me, without question, this was the best line of quests in the entire game. Sure, only 3 or so quests but each was long and thought out with more bits of info for the back story & with multiple options and outcomes at every step of the way.

The Sanguinaire Vampire mod makes the Asylum quest a truly unsettling experience.....

Probably one of the most interesting quest lines in the game

If you side with jack after a wile you can fined him walking on the roads with his guard and he looks really old and tells you that his mum and sister are dead and asked for some parts for something he is building

Ox, when Jack Cabot brings up possible alien artifacts in the Mojave Desert, he's referencing Fallout: New Vegas, where you can also find a group of alien sif you have thw Wild Wasteland trait.

Lorenzo’s kids definitely loved him. Jack has definitely been trying to cure his father, especially since he’s willing to kill his father is everyone is at risk. For Emogene, I think she was curious about the world which led to her returning to the serum. She’s bored, but the apocalypse is interesting to her. Wilhelmina… I think she chose her kids over her husband, and since Lorenzo was different, she may have simply just fallen out of love for him or has realised how dangerous he is and has emotionally distanced herself from him. Lorenzo is definitely crazy, but with knowledge. He knows too much for his mind to handle.

Man I really liked this quest and was really heart broken when they had to let me go. Also why isn't Edward a companion? Seems like a chill dude.

When I freed Lorenzo in my Institute play through, I started to see Lorenzo in the waste land one in game month later. My first random in counter with him was with Gunners. He killed them and came to talk to me. Then through the in game months I saw him more and more. He destroyed a settlement that I did not own. He attack a random set of brotherhood of steel group. After about one in game year, he appeared in Diamond city and started to kill everyone. If you free him, he will start to kill every slowly. When I later brought the Nuka world DLC and went back to that character, Lorenzo started to kill all my Raiders at my raider settlements. No allies talked about Lorenzo. It must of took about three in game years for him to reach the Brotherhood of steel location. Again it takes awhile but Lorenzo will eventually start killing out in the commonwealth.

Every time he says “artifact” pour a drink

1:10 The Guardian of Grass with him around no grass shall be harmed

Oxhorn, did you know you find Jack walking the comonwealth and you can see he is quickly aging without the serum