Quote Originally Posted by Avilan the Grey View Post
Small correction:
The institute wants to Stepford-wife everyone. What you gather from dialogue snippets in the Institute and what they are doing on the surface is actually to kill and replace every human in the Commonwealth with Android dopplegangers. If you listen to some of the people in the lab (close to the synth gorillas) they let it slip that they are months, if not weeks, from unleashing this plan on the Commonwealth.
Really? What do they say? I've searched through most of the nooks and crannies of the Institute and I haven't seen reference to that plan (though on my first playthrough, I assumed that that was what "Phase 3" meant).