So i was assigned the task of talking to z1-14 in the railroad version of The Nuclear Option. There is no quest marker and the npc is nowhere to be seen in the institute. Using .placeatme gets me the npc, but talking to him just gives me a generic line and does not advance the quest. trying to use .setstage does nothing, even though i'm pretty sure my syntax is correct. I've heard that wearing power armor while fast traveling to the institute causes problems here, so I loaded a save and tried without with the same results. What can I do about this?

did another quest and the problem fixed itself, all is well