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The holding cells are where you start Mothership Zeta. There are many holding cells, with only a few people occupying them. One has the Lone Wanderer and Somah, one has an insane Rivet City security guard (not able to talk, but able to kill), one has a dead Enclave officer, and another has a small girl named Sally, who is extremely knowledgeable about the ship.
In this first area you will be able to retrieve all the inventory items you were carrying before you were abducted. The container is inside a small room to the left, after Sally opens the locked door for you. In a room to the left of your holding cell, there are alien captive recorded logs 14, 15 and 22; in the room to the right are recordings 1, 3 and 12.
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