Get Junior

Get Junior is the main quest where Geralt goes after Whoreson Junior, the most hated crime boss in Novigrad, in The Witcher 3. Junior’s men were chasing Dandelion, and Junior knows something about Ciri. Getting to him means going through the city’s underworld, the Big Four crime lords, a Temerian partisan and a king.

How to start Get Junior

The quest follows Broken Flowers, when Priscilla tells Geralt that Junior was after Dandelion. Go to Sigi Reuven’s bathhouse. It is a level 12 quest worth 1,100 XP in total.

The Big Four

At the bathhouse, Geralt has to strip down to a towel before meeting Sigi Reuven, who turns out to be Sigismund Dijkstra, together with Francis Bedlam and Carlo “Cleaver” Varese. They have all had enough of Junior. Then Junior’s assassins burst in, and Geralt fights them in his towel. Dijkstra points him to three of Junior’s haunts: his house, his casino and his arena. Ask Dijkstra about Dandelion too, which starts Count Reuven’s Treasure.

The house, the arena and the casino

The house: Cleaver’s men got there first. Three clues tell Geralt the place has been scrubbed clean.
The arena: get in by impersonating Zdenek (take his certificate after Junior’s men kill him outside), paying 100 crowns, using Axii or fighting. Play along with the manager, Igor, and you fight a string of opponents: Gustav Roene, the Hairy Brothers, a wyvern, endregas and a bear called Boris. It ends in a brawl either way. Igor’s key and a hidden stash behind a torch lead to a letter.
The casino: get in by making a deal, paying 200 crowns, using Axii or fighting. Win two gwent games upstairs to be invited to the “high stakes room”, which also ends in a fight. A tied-up halfling on the top floor talks, and starts Honor Among Thieves.

Both leads point the same way: Junior works for the Redanians.

Roche, Radovid and Junior

Dijkstra sends Geralt to Vernon Roche at the Temerian partisan hideout, where Ves also shows up. Roche has a Redanian contact at the Oxenfurt chess club, but the man waiting there is King Radovid himself, who reveals where Junior is hiding. At Junior’s hideout, Geralt fights his way to the second floor, finds a grim scene and gets Junior to talk, which plays out as Ciri’s Story: Visiting Junior. Afterwards, you decide what happens to Junior.

Tips and missable content

Do not attack anyone or ask about Junior at the arena and casino if you want to use the secret passage into his hideout. The guards will tell you about it if you pretend to be bringing girls.
Visit all three locations before meeting Radovid. Afterwards, any unfinished ones fail, and so does The Gangs of Novigrad.
Maximise your earnings at the casino: enter peacefully, win the gwent games, kill everyone but one henchman, then bring in Cleaver’s men. That can add up to around 350 crowns.
Do not fast travel out of Junior’s compound at the end. Radovid’s soldiers need to find you there to start A Favor for Radovid.
If you go to the arena first, wait to read the letter until the casino is done, or one objective fails.

Walkthrough

Go to Sigi Reuven’s bathhouse, change into a towel and follow Happen to the private room.
Meet Dijkstra, Bedlam and Cleaver, then kill Junior’s assassins (150 XP).
Talk to Dijkstra about Junior (and Dandelion, to start Count Reuven’s Treasure).
Optional: talk to Cleaver to start The Gangs of Novigrad.
Junior’s house: examine the three clues with your witcher senses.
Arena: enter as Zdenek, pay 100 crowns, use Axii or fight. Fight in the ring (Gustav Roene, dogs, the Hairy Brothers, a wyvern, endregas and the bear Boris) or signal Cleaver’s men. Kill Junior’s thugs.
Take Igor’s key, open the box by his throne, find the torch near the dragging marks on the bottom level and loot the secret stash. Read the letter (150 XP).
Casino: make a deal, pay 200 crowns, use Axii or fight. Win two gwent games upstairs and accept or refuse the high stakes room. Kill Junior’s thugs.
Talk to the tied-up halfling in the top-floor interrogation room and free him (150 XP).
Report to Dijkstra, who sends you to Vernon Roche.
Talk to Roche at the Temerian partisan hideout (150 XP).
Meet Roche by the bridge in Oxenfurt and enter the chess club. Talk to Radovid (150 XP).
Go to Junior’s hideout. Use the secret passage if the guards offer it, or fight them and use the key from their bodies.
Fight through the estate to the second floor and confront Junior. Play Ciri’s Story: Visiting Junior.
Kill or spare Junior (500 XP).
Leave through the front door and go with Radovid’s soldiers.

Quest Consequences & Choices

Killing or sparing Junior only changes a small flashback later in the game, but you must kill him to complete every objective. Entering the arena and casino peacefully keeps the secret passage open. Meeting Radovid fails any of the three locations you have not visited and The Gangs of Novigrad. The quest unlocks Count Reuven’s Treasure, An Eye for an Eye, Honor Among Thieves, A Favor for Radovid and The Play’s the Thing.