Cyberpunk 2077: Killing In The Name Quest Guide

In Cyberpunk 2077, not everyone is content with the way things are in the city. The residents of Night City are not without their ways, raging against the machine by whatever means are available to them.

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Killing in the Name sees V traveling from one corner of the city to the other, looking for clues regarding one Swedenborg Riviera. Completing the job will require looking for contextual clues to find objectives hidden in various locations.

Starting The Side Job

1. Advance the main story until you’ve cleared the main job, “Transmission.” At some point after completing Transmission, you’ll receive a new message from the Bartmoss Collective initiating a new mission called “Killing in the Name.”
2. Travel to V’s apartment in Little China and open the laptop.
3. Go to the Net and open the Bartmoss Collective icon highlighted in the image.
4. Click expand on the first post on top of the page titled: Reward for Any info on Swedenborg!
5. Open your contacts list to find Nancy Hartley’s contact information.

   You will only be able to contact Nancy if you’ve already encountered her and unlocked her contact number during the Second Conflict and A Like Supreme side jobs. Without completing these prerequisites, you won’t be able to progress further.
6. Call Nancy to hear more about the job. Nancy will tell you that the last known location of the signal was from Santo Domingo, near the Almunecar & Jerez fast travel point.
7. A new marker will appear on the map. Travel to the location to progress the quest.

Router #1: Santo Domingo

1. Travel to the first marker on the map after talking to Nancy. It will direct you toward an empty lot.
2. When you enter the area, Johnny will appear, initiating a conversation with V. Exhaust his dialogue.
3. Activate your scanner and look to the right to find a metal box highlighted in yellow. The metal box has a pipe leading up to the building it is next to.

4. Use the fire escape next to the building to reach the third floor.
5. Jump over the metal fence to the far end of the fire escape to find the first router.
6. Activate the router to initiate a breach.
7. An unknown number will send you a message pointing toward the location of the second router.

Router #2: Jackson Plains, Badlands

1. After receiving the message from the unknown number, the quest marker will update to show a new location in the Jackson Plains, Badlands. Travel to this spot to continue the mission.
2. You’ll find an Assault in Progress when you reach this location. Eliminate the enemies.
3. Once the area is clear, activate your scanner to find a power line leading toward the top of the van in the middle of the camp.
4. Climb on top, and you’ll see the router affixed to the top of the van.

5. Activate the router to start another hacking attempt.
6. After a successful breach, you’ll receive another message from the Unknown Number. Read it and talk to Johnny to get the third quest marker.

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Router #3: Biotechnica Flats, Badlands

1. The third marker will lead to a metal bridge in the middle of nowhere.
2. Activate your scanner and look up at the center of the bridge to find the location of the third router.

3. Climb the ladders until you see Johnny looking over the railing.
4. Directly opposite to where Johnny is standing, walk beside the wall to find the router tucked away.
5. Hack the third router to receive another message from the Unknown Number, pointing you towards the next objective.

Router #4: West Wind Estate, Pacifica

1. This quest marker leads toward an amusement park in Pacifica.
2. Travel to the location, and you’ll see a bunch of potential enemies lurking around near the main structure.
3. Directly to the right of this group, you’ll see a fortune teller bot that will activate if you go near it.
4. Reach this bot and talk to Johnny to hear what he has to say.
5. After talking to Johnny, circle around the bot, and you’ll see a terminal on its side. This is the fourth router.

6. Hack the router to find out that Swedenborg Riviera has jigged the machine to spew out anti-establishment propaganda by using the trail of routers you followed to this location.

Completing The Side Job

There are three options available to V to resolve this quest.

1. Disable the bot. You can hack into the interface and disable the fortuneteller bot and make it stop spewing out propaganda. Johnny will not like this.
2. Leave the bot alone. You can also talk to Johnny after he’s finished admiring Swedenborg’s work and tell him that you won’t disable the bot and leave it alone to spread misinformation. Johnny likes this.
3. Supercharge the bot. With 10 Intelligence, you’ll be able to hack the bot and, instead of disabling it, give it access to more misinformation and propaganda to talk about. Johnny loves this.

After choosing what to do with the bot, call Nancy Hartley again to tell her the truth behind Swedenborg (a rogue netrunner) and the propaganda or lie to her directly. Nancy will send over the agreed-upon Eurodollars as the reward either way.

This will mark the “Killing in the Name” Side Job complete in your quest log.

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