“No, I’d say that’s fair. Prize of thing, this zeppelin.” He almost sounds approving. 

He goes to join Amy, Edward following. 

"I can talk through the bots though," a bot tells James on his way in.

"Yes, I hear that," James says with a half-laugh. He heads deeper into the Memorial.

"Heya," Amy says from by the purifier's door.

"Hiya. Good job," he replies, gesturing at the bodies of vaguely char-grilled super mutants.

"Can't take the credit for that one. Did you pop a Rad-X?"

"You know me, ever prepared." 

He inspects the door. "Locked tight, seemingly since we left. Impressive for pre-war tec."

"Well, super mutants aren't very smart. A very big lock can hold 'em off for a while."

“Let’s crack them open.” He grins at Amy.

Amy grins back, and plugs her Pip-boy into one receptacle. 

James plugs his into the other one, and the door starts to churn, and slowly the doors open. 

“Home sweet home.”

The robots with lots of guns and battle damage stay outside. Only one follows them in. "Swanky place."

It’s run down, James will be the first to admit, but he’s surprised by how much it hurts that it is. 

“She needs a lot of work.”

Amy, poking around in a desk, pockets a tape she finds when no one is looking. 

Beep.

(Robots beep sometimes, right? It's probably a coincidence. Especially since Nick is talking tech with James through this 'bot.)

"Want me to send in some heavy lifters to help?"

“Yes, thank you. And send a message to Madison that it’s clear, please.”

Amy is now poking around in the systems of the purifier, curiously. She’s not too good at this kind of engineering. Or any good at all. 

Edward settles at the foot of the stairs, staring curiously at everything. 

"Will do, I have the codes."

Some robots outside start gathering up shattered fragments of Flamethrower Bot.

James joins Amy in inspecting the inner workings until the bots are done. 

The man himself walks inside cautiously, once most of his army is out by the blimp again. "I can't say I'm a fan of what the super mutants did with the decor. Impressive gear, though."

"Only purifier of it's kind in all the Wasteland. Once we get it running, that's free and clean water for all."

James pauses, his hand on the glass staring into the muddied water. "One step forward to normalcy."

"Sounds too good to be true."

"All good things take time."

He turns to Nick. "All right. Come with me, we'll look through the control systems."

"The hard part is defending it from every vulture out there once it's running, and rebuilding more... Yeah, I'm good at control systems, let's check it out."