Wharfmaster's Office

The Wharfmaster's Office is the headquarters of the Security Fores in Neptune's Bounty. Jack travels here in order to find and use the Research Camera to research Spider Splicers.



History
The Wharfmaster and his staff oversaw the managment, operations, and upkeep of Neptune's Bounty and the businesses therein including Fontaine Fisheries, The Fighting McDonagh's Tavern, and Jet-Postal Substation II. Located on the top floor of the Upper Wharf, the Wharfmaster's Office contained work areas for the office staff members and two small jail cells intended to hold the occasional stevedore who got into a fight or an argumentative bar parton who had one too many and needed to sober up.

Frank Fontaine established Fontaine Fisheries as a front for smuggling contraband from the surface into Rapture. Due to the secrecy of the smuggling ring, or because of Fontaine's power and influence, the Wharfmaster's forces either didn't know about or were unable to control the transportation of the smuggled goods.

As Ryan became more and more desperate to stop Fontaine's operations, he had Chief of Security Sullivan personally step in to take care of the smuggling operation. The Wharfmaster's Office was taken over by Rapture Security as their base of operations. From the Office, the police began arresting, interviewing, and interrogating suspected smugglers, seizing contraband, and gathering evidence. However, due to the smuggler's extreme fear of Fontaine, it was difficult to build a case against him. Several turrets and cameras were set up for extra security.

At some point before Jack's arrival to Rapture, the Wharfmaster closed the entire Upper Wharf, locking off access to the Mcdonagh's and the Jet Postal. Even the entrance to the Office itself was locked off.



Bioshock
Peach Wilkins barters entrance to Fontaine Fisheries for photographs of three Spider Splicers. He tells Jack that a Research Camera needed to take these pictures is located in the Wharfmaster's Office.

Jack journeys to the Upper Wharf, finding a RPG turret besides the locked entrance to the Wharfmaster's office. Up the stairs are a pair of Security Cameras and some frag grenades hidden behind some crates near the second camera. The Wharfmaster's Office is under high security; there are two RPG turrets and two machine gun turrets as well as a security camera that keeps watch over the jail cells. A dead Big Daddy is in the left cell and a Ducky model Splicer corpse is in the right one. It's clear upon entering that the Wharfmaster's Office was the sight of an extreme firefight; there is severe structural damage beyond that of the normal deterioration in Rapture. The room on the left corner has two machine guns and a grenade launcher in front of a safe which contains three antipersonnel pistol rounds, two heat-seeking rpgs, and twenty three dollars.

The door to the Interrogation Room is blocked off, but, according to the light, someone is in there. After smashing the lock to the back area, Jack finds that the hall is blocked by debris, but there is a whole in the wall. The hallway leads to Sullivan's office and the elusive camera is on his desk. Through the two-way mirror, Jack can see the corpse of an interrogator and the Spider Splicer who killed him. After taking a few pictures, he leaps through a whole in the ceiling. While heading back, an explosion rocks the Office. The way back is blocked off, but a new path to the rest of the Upper Wharf is opened