Cyberpunk 2077 Letter of the Law Stuck at 16/17 Cyberpsychos: Laptop Bug Fix

Letter of the Law is one of Regina Jones's 17 Cyberpsycho Sightings, tracked by the Psycho Killer side job. The target is Gaston Phillips, in the southern part of Wellsprings in Heywood, inside a fenced area. The ground there is mined: deal with the mines before or during the approach, because they deal more damage than the cyberpsycho fight itself in the reports. Defeat Phillips, then investigate the area and collect both relevant shards before touching the laptop. Like the other sightings, the job is not finished by the kill alone: you must send the findings to Regina, and that final step is exactly what the laptop bug blocks.

The symptoms are consistent across reports: both shards collected, the laptop opened, the emails read, and still the objective reads Search the area for clues. Regina's expected follow-up does not become available, and Letter of the Law stays unfinished while you are chasing all 17 sightings. The laptop-message interaction is responsible for many of these cases. Reading an email through the usual interaction sequence may not always register the event the quest needs to advance. The quest-fix mod author describes the mechanism more precisely: the job waits for the laptop mail read counter to be exactly 1, but the game adds to that counter every time the mail is opened, and a single open can add twice. Once the counter is at 2, the quest waits forever. That explanation comes from a mod author, not from CD PROJEKT RED, so treat it as the best available account of the mechanism, not as an official statement. Before trying a recovery method, make sure you have collected the relevant evidence and checked for unread messages: not every unfinished investigation is this bug.

Try this first, because it needs no mods and no save editing. It only works while the laptop emails are still unread, so do not open them normally just to test it: doing so may leave you unable to repeat the workaround on that save.

If you opened the laptop emails normally and the quest stayed stuck, the game may have recorded them as read without advancing the investigation, and selecting the same messages again may not trigger the missing event. The safest recovery is a save from before you first investigated the laptop. Load it, return to Letter of the Law, collect the evidence again, and follow the cursor workaround above. Confirm that the quest advances before continuing with other activities. If your last save is several hours old, weigh the lost progress first: on PC, the dedicated quest-fix mod below may be worth trying on a backed-up copy of your save before you reload. On PS5 and Xbox, restoring an earlier save is generally the more practical recovery option when the messages have already been read.

PC players can try the Letter of the Law - Cyberpsycho Quest Fix mod on Nexus Mods, updated October 27, 2026 for patch 2.5. It is designed to keep the laptop mail read counter at 1 so the job moves on however many times the laptop is read, and it is reported to repair saves that are already stuck. It requires redscript. Before installing, back up your save files, check the mod page for compatibility with your current game version, install the redscript dependency, and follow the mod author's installation instructions (manual install directory: r6/scripts/LetterOfTheLaw/). After installing, launch the game, load the affected save, return to the Letter of the Law laptop, and check whether the investigation advances and Regina's follow-up appears. It is a targeted workaround, not a guaranteed repair: some saves may remain stuck even after installation. Console players cannot install this PC script mod.

Some PC players use Simple Menu or a similar in-game UI to force a stuck quest to end. That can remove the immediate blocker, but it is not necessarily a complete solution. Regina's cyberpsycho questline tracks progression across all 17 sightings, and forcing Letter of the Law to finish without triggering its expected quest events can leave the individual job looking completed while the overall progression remains incomplete: you can still be stuck at 16/17. Repair the laptop interaction or restore a save where the quest can advance normally instead. If you already forced the quest to end, inspect the journal and Regina's overall progression before overwriting a working backup.

After the laptop step registers, the objective should leave Search the area for clues, Regina's follow-up message should become available, and you should be able to send her the report. Check the Psycho Killer counter as well: it should move to 17/17 once all sightings are reported. After all 17 reports are sent, Regina calls you back for an in-person meeting at her office in Kabuki, and the series unlocks the I Am the Law! trophy and achievement. If the job looks complete in the journal but the counter has not moved, the progression flag did not update: do not overwrite your backup save, and go back to the repair methods above.

In southern Wellsprings, Heywood, inside a fenced area. The target is the cyberpsycho Gaston Phillips. Clear the mines around the area first, then defeat Phillips and investigate the laptop.

Most often because Letter of the Law did not register its laptop step. Reading the laptop emails through the normal interaction can fail to advance the investigation, so the job stays open and the Psycho Killer counter never reaches 17/17.

It is worth attempting on PS5 and Xbox as long as the laptop emails are still unread, using the same sequence: open the laptop, leave without reading, then select the unread message directly with the on-screen cursor. The PC-only mod and save editors are not available on console, so an earlier save is the fallback there.