Resident Evil Requiem: How to Unlock Jojo’s Locker (S.T.A.R.S. Hunt)

Jojo’s locker is unlocked by finishing Barry Burton’s small S.T.A.R.S. scavenger hunt inside the RPD, in this exact order: collect and inspect both photos in the S.T.A.R.S. Office (2F west) → climb the pallets in the Operations Room (1F west) and take Jojo’s Locker Key off the hanging TV → open the locker marked “JoJo” in the West Office. The whole thing takes 10–15 minutes. The reward is the S.T.A.R.S. Emblem Charm, which raises firepower on automatic weapons at the cost of extra weapon sway, plus a couple of pieces of Barry flavour including two tickets to the Raccoon City Zoo. The one thing that breaks the hunt: the key does not exist until you have picked up and inspected both photos. Go to the Operations Room first and the TV gives you nothing, no matter how well you know the solution.

Status check: is this still how it works?

Yes. Resident Evil Requiem released on 27 February 2026 for PS5, Xbox Series X|S, PC and Switch 2, and cleared seven million copies by 24 April, the fastest start in series history. Capcom’s documented post-launch updates are a Photo Mode patch on 27 March 2026 and the free Leon Must Die Forever bonus mode on 8 May 2026. Neither touched the RPD scavenger hunt: no patch note or major guide documents a change to the photo triggers, the Operations Room key spawn, the locker location, or the charm’s effects. The route below is current.

Step 1 — start Barry’s treasure hunt properly

The Jojo Locker Key only spawns after you have both of Barry’s photos and Leon has looked at them. Skip this and the rest of the puzzle silently refuses to progress.

Getting to the S.T.A.R.S. Office

The S.T.A.R.S. Office is on the second floor, west side of the RPD. Once the west wing opens up, head up and follow the corridor facing the statue — the office sits at the end of that hallway. Do not loot the obvious pickups and leave; this room is where the entire hunt is set up.

Photo #1 — the locker on your right

As soon as you enter, turn to your immediate right. There is an open locker against the wall. Interact with it to take the first photograph. It shows a chalkboard, an American flag and a hanging TV, with the TV area circled or marked. Barry’s note on the reverse points you downstairs.

Photo #2 — Barry’s leather jacket

Move deeper into the room, in among the desks. A brown leather S.T.A.R.S. jacket hangs near the back of the office — a very Barry touch. Search it for the second photograph, a closer, zoomed-in shot of the same TV and chalkboard setup with the flag visible.

Inspect both. Sources and player reports agree the key will not spawn unless Leon has actually looked at the photographs, not merely picked them up. It costs five seconds; do it.

Checklist before you leave

• Opened the locker on the right and taken the photo?
• Interacted with the hanging leather jacket and taken the second photo?
• Examined both so Leon comments on the clue?

While you are in this room, note that there is a second, separate puzzle here — the three-letter briefcase, which is not part of the Jojo hunt but is required for the No Safe is Safe trophy. Its solution and every other combination in the game is in our full safe codes and trophy guide. Solving both while you are in the office saves a return trip.

Step 2 — find Jojo’s Locker Key in the Operations Room

The Operations Room is on the first floor, west side, near the West Office. Depending on how much chaos you have left behind, the walk there is more dangerous than the puzzle.

Getting there safely

• From the main hall, head back into the west corridor.
• Follow the hallway to the clearly labelled Operations Room door.
• Clear or stagger any zombies in the hallway before you start searching. You need a few uninterrupted seconds to climb and interact.

Carry at least one healing item and some spare pistol rounds. The room itself is usually quiet; the routes in and out are not.

Climbing to the TV and spawning the key

1. As you enter, look to your right-hand side. You will see a chalkboard and, beside it, a stack of pallets or crates.
2. Approach the pallets until the climb prompt appears, then climb up.
3. From on top, turn toward the high-mounted TV or monitor that matches Barry’s second photo.
4. Move the camera until the interaction prompt appears on or beside the TV housing, then interact.

If you have both photos, Jojo’s Locker Key is sitting on or beside the monitor. If nothing appears, run down the checklist: both photos collected and inspected on this playthrough, correct room (Operations Room, not the West Office or Observation Room), and actually standing on the pallets rather than on the floor.

Step 3 — open Jojo’s locker in the West Office

Jojo’s locker is back on 1F west, in the West Office bullpen — the room with grouped desks and workstations. Exit the Operations Room, head to the West Office, and check the locker bank at the back of the room. One intact locker is marked JoJo. With the key in your inventory, interact and confirm. There is no combination and no second trick.

What is inside

• S.T.A.R.S. Emblem Charm — the mechanical reward, detailed below.
• Barry’s note — a message left for the S.T.A.R.S. recruits with his usual warmth and dad-joke energy.
• Two tickets to the Raccoon City Zoo — pure flavour, and a very good joke given where the city ends up.

S.T.A.R.S. Emblem Charm: what it actually does

Capcom does not publish numbers for this one, and neither do the major guides — the charm is described qualitatively, so anyone quoting you a precise percentage is guessing. What every source agrees on:

Effect	Detail
Applies to	Automatic weapons, explicitly including SMGs such as the Gal SMG
Upside	Increased firepower — a straight damage boost on the equipped auto
Downside	Increased weapon and aim sway; reduced steadiness, more reticle movement

In practice that reads as a close-quarters DPS modifier. Enemies fold in fewer bullets when you spray, but consistent weak-point shots get harder unless you close distance first. On higher difficulties the damage is genuinely worth having; the accuracy cost barely matters inside a hallway and matters a lot across a room. Pair it with a high-capacity SMG and change how you approach fights rather than trying to snipe with a shaky reticle.

Common mistakes

• Going to the Operations Room first. You can stand under that TV and mash interact forever — no photos, no key.
• Grabbing only one photo. Easy to take the locker photo and miss the jacket, or the reverse. Locker on the right, jacket among the desks.
• Picking the photos up without examining them. Collection alone is not reliably enough; look at both.
• Not climbing the pallets. The TV interaction point is finicky and often will not show from ground level.
• Hunting the wrong locker bank. The RPD has several. Jojo’s is in the West Office bullpen, not the hallway and not the armoury.

Speed route for replays and challenge runs

• Hit S.T.A.R.S. the moment 2F west opens. Straight in, both photos, out — and solve the briefcase while you are standing there.
• Route the Operations Room into an existing objective. Several story beats already send you past it, so the key costs almost no extra walking.
• Equip the charm immediately. Attach it to your main automatic at the next typewriter or customisation point to get value across the whole chapter rather than the last third of it.
• Adjust playstyle, not aim. Treat it as close-quarters high DPS. Step in before you fire.

FAQ

Where is Jojo’s Locker Key in Resident Evil Requiem?

On the high-mounted TV in the Operations Room (1F west). Climb the pallet stack to the right of the entrance and interact with the monitor. It only appears after you have collected and inspected both S.T.A.R.S. Office photos.

Is Jojo’s locker missable?

It is tied to the RPD section, and Requiem has no chapter select, so if you leave the police station without doing it you cannot return on that save. Do it while you are there.

Does Jojo’s locker count toward the No Safe is Safe trophy?

No. That trophy needs the five numeric safes plus the three-letter briefcase in the S.T.A.R.S. Office — a different container in the same room. Jojo’s locker is a standalone Easter egg.

Is the S.T.A.R.S. Emblem Charm worth the sway penalty?

On an SMG or other automatic used at short range, yes. On a weapon you fire at distance, the sway costs you more than the damage returns — the charm is a build choice, not a straight upgrade.

Wrap-up

Once you understand that Barry’s photos are the trigger, Jojo’s locker goes from “is this bugged?” to a neatly designed side puzzle. Follow the order — S.T.A.R.S. Office photos, Operations Room TV, West Office locker — and it is a clean 10-minute detour that pays out lore and a real gameplay modifier. From there, the safe codes guide cleans up the rest of the RPD’s locked containers, golden spiders in Leon Must Die Forever is where the charm gets a workout, and if the RPD is too dark to spot a hanging TV in the first place, our brightness calibration guide fixes that without killing the atmosphere. Everything else lives on the Resident Evil hub.