Fallout Season 2 begins on December 17, which’ll be 20 months after we noticed Season 1 again in April of 2024. You are forgiven for forgetting particulars of a present that got here out so way back Joe Biden was nonetheless president and Abiotic Issue did not exist. In case you want a refresher, here is a rundown of all eight episodes.
Episode 1: The Finish
Within the 12 months 2077, cowboy actor Cooper Howard performs along with his daughter Janey at a celebration. When Cooper refuses to do a thumbs-up his daughter asks why, and he explains that within the Marines they have been taught to measure mushroom clouds with their thumbs—if it was larger than their thumb it wasn’t value working away. Moments later, whereas Cooper is inside getting a slice of birthday cake, his daughter holds up her thumb to the smoke on the horizon.
219 years later, Lucy Maclean is convincing the council of Vault 33 to let her be the bride in an upcoming commerce with their neighbors Vault 32. On the marriage ceremony her father Hank, who’s the Overseer and a commerce from Vault 31 himself, provides a speech explaining radiation ranges on the floor are dropping to the purpose that Lucy and her new husband Monty’s kids will be capable of recolonize the floor.
“I need to admit I am generally afraid that imply previous world will change us as an alternative,” he says. “However then I take a look at my daughter.” Hank has heard of subtlety and Hank believes it is for cowards.
Lucy’s brother Norm discovers the actual inhabitants of Vault 32 are useless, however earlier than he can warn anybody the marriage company are literally raiders, they assault. Lucy fights again, slicing her new husband’s throat, and Hank coldly drowns him in a pickle barrel. The chief of the raiders, a lady named Moldaver who appears conversant in Hank and Lucy’s late mom, kidnaps Hank and leaves.
We meet our remaining protagonist, Maximus, being overwhelmed up by fellow aspirants in a Brotherhood of Metal coaching camp. Solely Aspirant Dane is pleasant to him. When a squad of knights in T-60 energy armor arrive, Dane is chosen to be a squire for Knight Titus, however is injured by a razorblade hidden of their boot. Maximus is suspected of sabotaging his comrade, however denies it below interrogation and is granted the respect of being squired to Titus as an alternative. They set off on a mission to hunt a member of the Enclave who has a canine companion.
Again in Vault 33, the survivors are rebuilding. The brand new council aren’t in favor of sending a search celebration after Hank, so with assist from Norm and her cousin Chet, Lucy gears up and leaves Vault 33 to seek out her dad alone.
Elsewhere a trio of bounty hunters dig up a possible fourth amigo for a job. The ghoul they’re after is a legend, however one who crossed the mistaken man and was buried in a graveyard. They unearth The Ghoul and suggest he joins them, revealing their bounty is identical man the Brotherhood is after. The Ghoul is not serious about becoming a member of a posse, so he kills the three banditos earlier than quoting one thing Cooper Howard stated to his daughter in case you did not clock they’re the identical man: “Us cowpokes, we take it because it comes.”
Okey-dokey rely: Two. Lucy says it on seeing her new husband bare, and when she units off into the wasteland.
Episode 2: The Goal
That is Dr. Wilzig’s episode, and we meet him saving a pet—a surefire method to earn our sympathy despite the fact that he works for the Enclave. Wilzig retains two secrets and techniques from his bosses, the primary being the canine, designated CX404, and the second a undertaking he retains secure by injecting it into the again of his head.
Shortly after escaping from the Enclave (it has been an extended sufficient time that the Brotherhood and 6 bounty companies are after him, however current sufficient he is nonetheless carrying his lab coat), Wilzig encounters Lucy and spooks her with a warning that being on the floor will change her simply because it modified the radroaches: “Will you continue to need the identical issues when you’ve gotten turn into a special animal altogether?”
Knight Titus will get bored and needs to shoot one thing, as a result of he actually is in a videogame. With Maximus in tow he stumbles right into a yao-guai den and will get mauled, then is such a jerk to his squire that Max lets him bleed to dying and steals the armor, reasoning the Brotherhood will forgive him if he succeeds within the mission to retrieve Wilzig.
Lucy searches for her father in a city constructed on landfill referred to as Filly (no relation to Philadelphia), assembly a dealer named Ma June who is aware of Moldaver however refuses to assist, mocking Lucy for being a Vault Dweller. “The vaults have been nothing greater than a gap within the floor for wealthy people to cover in,” she says.
Wilzig then arrives at Ma June’s, having minimize a take care of her—seems he is additionally searching for Moldaver. Sadly, The Ghoul’s been staking the place out to gather the bounty. He shoots Wilzig’s foot off to stop his escape, then stabs CX404. Lucy stands as much as him and is saved by Maximus’ sudden arrival. Whereas the knight and cowboy go at it, Ma June gorily slaps a prosthetic Jim’s Limb onto Wilzig and decides Lucy’s her solely hope to get him to Moldaver, including the co-ordinates to Lucy’s Pip-Boy like she’s handing out a quest.
Maximus, who would not perceive the way to steer energy armor, clumsily jets out of Filly. The Ghoul makes use of a stimpak to save lots of the canine’s life, which looks as if a approach of constructing the character barely extra likeable, till it turns into clear he is doing this so CX404 can lead him to Wilzig.
Wilzig’s leg would not cease bleeding, and he realizes he will not survive the stroll to Moldaver. After popping a cyanide capsule he instructs Lucy to chop off his head as soon as he dies because it incorporates the factor Moldaver wants.
Okey-dokey rely: One, as Lucy commits to the plan and begins up the ripper to sever Wilzig’s head.
Episode 3: The Head
We flash additional again into Cooper’s previous than we beforehand did to see him as a film star being informed why his character must be a bit darker. It is pure uncut foreshadowing: “The viewers, Coop, they already know you are a good man. They wish to see that even an excellent man as your self will be pushed too far generally.”
This can be a marked distinction from the drug-huffing Ghoul we see monitoring Lucy throughout the Wasteland as she jams a tracker up the nostril of Wilzig’s severed head, simply in case. Maximus is struggling too, having to promote a tooth to pay for a spare half for his energy armor, then preventing off scavengers to maintain it.
When he responds to a radio name from the Brotherhood by impersonating Titus and pretending his squire has died, they reply by flying a brand new squire in. It is Thaddeus, one of many bullies who picked on him on the barracks, who proves helpful when he suggests following The Ghoul’s radiation path to seek out the top.
By now Lucy has misplaced the top to a gulper dwelling in a radioactive lake. Studying this, The Ghoul captures her to make use of as bait to attract the gulper out, although she fends it off by grabbing his pack and utilizing it as a weapon. This smashes the vials of a drug The Ghoul’s been taking, and he postpones the top quest to resupply, explaining the golden rule of the Wasteland: “Thou shall get sidetracked by bullshit each goddamn time.”
Maximus and Thaddeus arrive on the lake quickly after, and the gulper tries to eat the squire. Maximus, having grown keen on Thaddeus as a result of the squire feels responsible about choosing on Max and solely did it to take the warmth off himself, wrenches Thaddeus out of the creature’s mouth, which makes it regurgitate the top.
The Ghoul leads a roped-up Lucy by the desert, angrily taking pictures the face of a Vault Boy billboard as they go. We be taught why he hates the factor a lot after we return to the flashback that opened the episode to see Cooper, egged on by his spouse who’s a Vault-Tec government, being photographed for a Vault-Tec business and giving the enduring thumbs up. That face was his.
Episode 4: The Ghouls
The Ghoul’s on a sidequest to replenish the vials of the drug he wants. We be taught what is going to occur if he would not get it when he stops in on a fellow ghoul named Roger. Roger’s additionally run out of vials and is popping feral. The Ghoul places him down, then forces Lucy to chop some prime slices off him for later: “Ass jerky do not make itself.”
In Vault 33, Chet and Norm are punished by the council for serving to Lucy escape. Chet loses his job as Gatekeeper and is lowered to impersonating Steph’s useless husband Burt to offer her solace. Sure, that is the episode the place her water breaks throughout foreplay. Norm, in the meantime, is compelled to feed the raiders being saved prisoner, and when considered one of them drops a touch about Vault 32, Norm begins investigating.
Lucy tries to flee The Ghoul, biting off considered one of his fingers within the wrestle. He cuts off considered one of hers with a knife. Between that and the water breaking it is an actual scream-at-the-screen episode. The Ghoul then takes Lucy to a Tremendous Duper Mart to commerce her for extra vials. It is run by two druggos with a Mr. Helpful they name Snip-Snip who handles the organ-harvesting aspect of their enterprise, whereas they maintain ghouls locked in fridge items—maybe they refine feral suppressor out of them?
Norm and Chet sneak into Vault 32, discovering its inhabitants died two years in the past, having turned on one another and themselves. Norm learns the Vault door was opened from the skin by a Pip-Boy—the one belonging to his mom, Rose MacLean.
After Snip-Snip supplies Lucy with a brand new finger he tries to take her internals, which she objects to, electrocuting him with defrib pads earlier than filling his tranq-gun with abraxo cleaner and turning him on the drug chemists. She forces them to free the imprisoned ghouls, even the feral ones, who kill their captors. Passing The Ghoul, who has collapsed outdoors, she provides him a handful of vials to show she’ll by no means sink to his degree.
Episode 5: The Previous
Round a campfire, Maximus confesses to Thaddeus he is probably not Titus. Thaddeus reacts badly, and Maximus tries to kill him to maintain him silent, however succeeds solely in crushing his foot earlier than the squire deactivates Max’s energy armor, takes the top, and limps away.
Hours later, Lucy rescues Maximus from radroaches, however he is realized his lesson and would not give her his actual title. They crew as much as go seeking the top.
Again within the vault, Norm and Chet discover out a number of the inhabitants of Vault 32 have been attempting to get into Vault 31 once they died. Norm additionally realizes each overseer of each Vaults 32 and 33 has been a commerce from Vault 31, simply as Betty Pearson—one other commerce from 31—is elected overseer of Vault 33.
Betty broadcasts a plan to resettle Vault 32, which has been cleaned with unnerving velocity, and responds to Norm’s query about his mom’s Pip-Boy by claiming it was buried along with her.
Lucy and Maximus get in a shootout with a few fiends, considered one of whom has the identical style sense as Cricket from Fallout 4, and Maximus is shot. He tries to downplay it, main Lucy to the ruins of his hometown of Shady Sands.
Lucy’s shocked to be taught it had a inhabitants of greater than 34,000 at its peak, that civilization—within the type of the New California Republic—restarted with out her vault’s assist. Maximus factors out it did not final. “Everybody needs to save lots of the world. They simply… they disagree on how.”
His harm will not cease bleeding, and Lucy leads him to a medical centre. It seems to be a lure, however Lucy is not involved once they get up in “the most effective place on the planet. A vault.”
Episode 6: The Lure
Within the pre-war timeline, Coop movies an advert for Vault-Tec the place he meets volunteer scientists who’re already dwelling in Vault 4 as a part of a trial. On the wrap celebration he sees a pleasant face in his previous pal Sebastian “Seabass” Leslie, the actor who supplied the voice for the Mr. Helpful robots. “The longer term is merchandise,” he tells Coop. I am a product, you are a product. The tip of the world is a product.”
Sooner or later, Coop’s not in such a fantastic place—waking from a bender, The Ghoul is arrested by sheriffs who declare to be a part of the federal government.
In the meantime, we see the Vault that Maximus and Lucy discover themselves in is the aforementioned Vault 4. We additionally be taught that Maximus would not know what intercourse is. (If it ruins your view of the Brotherhood of Metal to have them be idiots like this, then you’ve gotten missed the purpose of the Brotherhood of Metal, which is that they’re idiots.) After Max’s harm is handled, the 2 are set free into the final inhabitants of the Vault—a few of whom are mutants.
Again up to now, Coop’s actor pal Charlie Whiteknife tries to inform him Vault-Tec is harmful by explaining fiduciary accountability and welcoming him to a gathering of a bunch he is a part of. At dwelling, Coop’s spouse Barb explains she’s getting the entire household right into a particular vault for administration.
Lucy tries to determine what is going on on in Vault 4 by speaking to the Overseer, a one-eyed mutant who’s sort of racist concerning the non-mutated floor dwellers who’ve moved in. He warns her to not go to degree 12, however would not clarify why. Maximus considers stealing Vault 4’s fusion core to energy his armor, however then is given a Pip-Boy and room of his personal and settles into consolation.
As he turns into much less suspicious, Lucy turns into extra so, becoming a member of a surface-dweller assembly the place refugees from Shady Sands worship the “Flame Mom”. As she sees a banner revealing the Flame Mom is Moldaver, we minimize to the pre-war timeline the place Coop attends a gathering of Vault-Tec’s critics, and meets their chief—who can be Moldaver, one way or the other trying the identical age 200 years up to now.
Episode 7: The Radio
A farmer who wears scavenged NCR ranger armor whereas digging bullets out of the bottom returns dwelling along with his son to seek out The Ghoul at their desk with a letter from his different son, who ran away from dwelling. On condition that the letter has a bullet gap in it and is smeared with blood, it is clear he isn’t coming again.
The absent son was apparently one of many folks The Ghoul shot in Filly, and had been working with Wilzig to get him safely to Moldaver. The Ghoul needs to know the place Moldaver is, and after the youthful son says she’s on the observatory, The Ghoul goads him into reaching for a weapon earlier than taking pictures him as effectively.
Pre-war, Moldaver goes by the title Miss Williams and tells Coop she was a researcher on the verge of discovering chilly fusion when Vault-Tec purchased out each firm she’d labored for to get the tech for itself. She needs her invention again, and offers Coop a listening gadget to spy on his spouse with. He’s, in fact, conflicted about this.
Lucy investigates degree 12, studying that individuals have been experimented on there. She’s caught snooping and will get in a struggle with the Vault dwellers. After she’s restrained they clarify the scientists who initially ran Vault 4 used it to create mutant hybrids who may survive excessive radiation, just like the gulper. These mutants rebelled and took over, and now their descendents look after a number of the remaining check topics on degree 12, whereas welcoming refugees into their Vault.
Lucy is horrified to be taught an experiment was being carried out on Vault dwellers, and is much more shook when requested what experiment was being performed in Vault 33.
Maximus sees Lucy being dragged away for punishment and decides to surrender his new lifetime of caviar and Radiation King TV to rescue her. Lucy’s punishment seems to only be banishment, since life on the floor will little question kill her. Maximus would not know this when he arrives, stolen fusion core in his energy armor, and wallops a number of Vault guards earlier than realizing his mistake. Now they’re each banished.
After they depart, Lucy convinces Max to offer again the fusion core and invitations him to remain in her vault when all that is performed. He lastly admits he isn’t Knight Titus and, trying again at every little thing that is led them right here, they arrive to the conclusion that “The Wasteland sucks.” It is troublesome to argue with.
With regards to fusion cores, Thaddeus trades his to a snakeoil salesman in return for an elixir that proves mysteriously efficient in therapeutic his foot. Thaddeus units off for a radio station, the place he hopes to contact the Brotherhood.
In Vault 33 the imprisoned raiders have all dropped useless, based on Overseer Betty, as a result of they have been poisoned. This conveniently places to relaxation the concept of rehabilitating them, and implies that to repopulate Vault 32 half the inhabitants of Vault 33 will must be despatched over. The utterly random lottery to decide on who goes occurs to separate the troublemakers, with Chet despatched to 32 with Steph (who shall be its overseer) whereas Norm stays in 33.
The Ghoul finds CX404 in a nuka-cola cooler at a Purple Rocket the place Thaddeus had ditched her, rescuing the canine to make use of as a tracker as soon as once more. Again within the pre-war occasions, Coop caves in and hooks up the listening gadget to his spouse’s Pip-Boy.
The radio station, which is enjoying nothing however fiddle music like Agatha’s Station from Fallout 3, performs host to a confrontation between Thaddeus, Maximus, and Lucy. After Thaddeus misses each shot he takes, he journeys one of many radio DJ’s traps and will get an arrow by the neck. He survives, although the wound instantly necrotizes and Maximus realizes he is turn into a ghoul. This can be a drawback as a result of the Brotherhood of Metal hates ghouls, and that is them coming over the horizon in a homicide of vertibirds proper now in response to Thaddeus’ name.
Maximus tells Thaddeus he’ll stall the Brotherhood in return for the top, then lets him escape. He instantly fingers the top over to Lucy, taking a spare from a close-by corpse that fell to one of many DJ’s traps, smashing its face in to render it unrecognizable. After this romantic gesture, he and Lucy kiss earlier than she leaves to seek out her father.
Again within the Vault, Norm makes use of the departure of the brand new 32ers to sneak into the Overseer’s workplace and play the hacking minigame so he could make contact with Vault 31 whereas impersonating Betty, demanding they open the door.
Episode 8: The Starting
The Brotherhood has taken Filly by power to make use of as a ahead base. Maximus is introduced earlier than the Elder, who rapidly realizes the top is a pretend. As Maximus is about to be executed, he guarantees to make them the actual relic. The Elder would not consider him, as a result of Max is carrying Titus’ outfit and that is the second time a brother has been injured in his firm. Dane begs for Maximus’ life, admitting they have been the one who injured themselves with the razor as a result of they have been afraid of turning into a squire.
Lucy lastly meets Moldaver, who has been main the remnants of the New California Republic who survived Shady Sands all this time. She has Hank in a cage and is sitting right down to dinner with a chained-up ghoul, which is odd, however that does not gradual Lucy down. She needs her dad again and is right here to commerce the relic in Wilzig’s head for him. Moldaver accepts the deal, however first needs to inform Lucy who her father is. For starters, he did not come from a vault.
Talking of vaults, Norm explores Vault 31, which appears empty aside from a clumsy brainbot that tries to kill him after realizing he is not Betty or Hank.
Pre-war, Coop realizes his listening gadget has a brief vary; he must comply with his spouse into the workplace to spy on her. He is sitting in a ready room whereas Barb and her annoying co-worker Bud meet the CEOs of Rob-Co, Huge MT, West-Tek, and Repconn to collaborate on a possibility. Peace negotiations have set Vault-Tec again, however they’ve a plan.
Norm learns why Vault 31 appears empty. It is filled with cryopods the place younger executives from pre-war Vault-Tec are saved in stasis, ready to be thawed and take their flip as Overseer. The folks of Vaults 32 and 33 have been genetically chosen to be breeding inventory, crossed with executives to create supermanagers. Diabolical.
Barb gives the CEOs a vault of their very own to run an experiment in, every competing to make the most effective colonists for the post-apocalyptic future. How will Vault-Tec guarantee this future comes about? “By dropping the bombs ourselves,” Barb explains whereas Coop listens in shock. On the similar time, he is being launched to Henry, a giant fan among the many Vault-Tec employees. Barb’s secretary Betty brings in Henry, and it is a younger model of Hank.
Moldaver tells Lucy that her mom, Rose MacLean, found out Hank was mendacity concerning the state of the floor. She took the younger children and escaped to Shady Sands the place she met Moldaver.
There is a trace the 2 girls have been greater than pals, however their completely satisfied life did not final lengthy. Hank adopted and took the youngsters again then destroyed Shady Sands. Rose’s mom grew to become a feral ghoul, and that is her chained up on the desk. Hank tries to persuade Lucy to not pay attention, reminding her Moldaver is a assassin.
The relic seems to comprise the key to chilly fusion, primarily based on analysis Vault-Tec stole from Moldaver. It wants a Vault-Tec government to unlock, which is why Moldaver kidnapped Hank. He capitulates, and offers her the code.
Again at Vault 31 the brainbot, who’s Barb’s coworker Bud, locks Norm in, suggesting he use his father’s empty pod to attend out nevertheless lengthy it takes for somebody to seek out him.
The Brotherhood assaults Shady Sands and Moldaver leads the NCR protection. The Ghoul’s right here as effectively, and Maximus survives the gauntlet to achieve Lucy, releasing Hank earlier than she has time to inform him Hank’s liable for bombing his dwelling city. Hank’s climbed right into a useless knight’s energy armor by the point she does, and he knocks Max unconscious.
The Ghoul arrives on the scene, acknowledges Hank, and calls for to know the place Barb and his daughter are—seems he is been searching for them this entire time. Hank escapes within the energy armor, and The Ghoul asks Lucy if she’d like to hitch him in searching Hank down since her different is to remain right here till the Brotherhood take over. She has one little bit of enterprise to complete first: taking pictures her mom useless.
Moldaver, bleeding from a gunshot, returns as Maximus regains consciousness. She makes use of Hank’s code to activate the ability supply, lighting up the stays of Shady Sands earlier than she dies. When the Brotherhood arrive they discover Max and the relic, and declare him a hero.
Lucy and The Ghoul cease to choose up the canine, then comply with Hank, who has made all of it the way in which to the desert. He walks previous a deathclaw cranium and on to his vacation spot: New Vegas, and Season 2.
Okey-dokey rely: One. It is the very last thing Lucy says earlier than setting off.
