Escape From Tarkov “TerraGroup Employee” Quest Guide

Where to find Sanitar's room, the keycard it requires, and the flash drive you must extract with.

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TerraGroup Employee sends you into The Lab for a flash drive, which you lose if you fail to extract with it. Bring the required keycard, collect the drive from Sanitar’s room, then hand it over to Peacekeeper after extracting.

Requirements and objectives

Peacekeeper Loyalty Level 4 is required to start the quest. The flash drive is only available to find while the quest is active.

Locate Sanitar’s workplace in The Lab.
Locate and obtain information about Sanitar’s work.
Hand over the recovered intel.

Required equipment

1 Keycard with a blue marking, required to open Sanitar’s room.
1 Flash drive marked with blue tape, the hand-in item. It counts as found in raid and moves to your quest-item inventory when picked up.

How to complete TerraGroup Employee

The Lab second-level plan highlighting Sanitar's small room between the Green laboratory and Servers. — Sanitar’s room is on the second level of The Lab, next to Servers and across from the Green laboratory. Use the Keycard with a blue marking, not the Blue keycard.

Start the quest and bring the Keycard with a blue marking into The Lab.
Go to the second floor and find Sanitar’s room directly across from laboratory block G22. Use the blue-marked keycard to enter.
Inside, check the laptop on the left-hand desk. The Flash drive marked with blue tape is plugged into it.
Extract with the drive, then hand it over to Peacekeeper. Failing to extract with it means you lose the item.

Rewards

Reward	Details
Experience	65,000 EXP
Skills	+4 Submachine Guns skill levels and +2 Stress Resistance skill levels
Peacekeeper reputation	+1.5
Money	2,750 Dollars, increased to 2,888 with Intelligence Center Level 1 or 3,162 with Intelligence Center Level 2
Items	1 Mesa Tactical Crosshair Hydraulic buffer tube, 1 AR-15 Magpul ACS Carbine stock, and 1 AR-15 Magpul ACS Carbine stock (FDE)
Purchase unlocks	Purchase of the Mesa Tactical Crosshair Hydraulic buffer tube and both AR-15 Magpul ACS Carbine stocks from Peacekeeper at Loyalty Level 4

Source: Escape from Tarkov Wiki.

Escape from Tarkov is a hardcore and realistic online first-person action RPG/Simulator with MMO features and story-driven walkthrough.

Genre Shooter, Role-playing (RPG), Simulator, Tactical
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows)
Perspective First person
Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)
Release November 15, 2025
Publisher Battlestate Games