Make sure you save before paying the guard. Sometimes it helps to leave the area and come back. If this is the case, the only thing you can do is try to reload the game before and retry it.

PC Sometimes you will pay the guard the fine, the guard will no longer talk to you, but the prisoner will still ask you to help him.

360 PS3 Sometimes, even after his fine is paid and the quest completed, he will still be in his cell.

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Before adding a bug to this list, consider the following: This section contains bugs related to Alik'r Prisoner. Once his fine is paid, the prisoner then reveals that Kematu is at Swindler's Den.

Interrogating him, he will require his bail to be paid 100 will need to be paid to the guard in the dungeon to clear the prisoner's fines. If Saadia is sided with, she will ask the Dragonborn to go to Dragonsreach Dungeon and speak to a prisoner there in order to learn where the Alik'r are hiding. They must choose whether to believe the warriors, and return the woman to custody, or trust the fugitive and kill her pursuers. The Dragonborn encounters some Alik'r warriors in search of a Redguard woman. Even after his bounty is paid, he will remain in jail for the rest of the game. He can be found in the Dragonsreach Dungeon in Whiterun, where he now resides due to being caught attempting to sneak into the city.

The Alik'r Prisoner is part of the band of Redguard Alik'r led by Kematu looking for a Redguard woman in Whiterun.

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