'Fallout' Season 2 Ending Explained: Dissecting the Biggest Moments From the Finale

Fallout season 2 is now over, however the present has much more gas in the tank. Amazon renewed the hit online game adaptation for a 3rd season forward of the premiere of the finale episode, which dropped on Prime Video this night, leaving a bunch of narrative breadcrumbs to invest over.

The eighth and closing episode closed the loop on the main storylines of the season with Maximus (Aaron Moten), Lucy (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) all discovering what they have been trying to find this whole time. However, as I’ll get to beneath, not each final result was all sunshine and rainbows.

Radroaches and Demise Claws have been out in full power on this episode, reminding viewers that this place ain’t known as The Wasteland for nothing. However, as with many issues, the actual risk lies in the folks vying for management. Let’s get into the largest moments in the Fallout season 2 finale. 

Earlier than you proceed, let this be your warning: there are main story spoilers beneath.

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Maximus

Season 2 of Fallout discovered Maximus straying from the Brotherhood of Metal as the closely armored faction’s model of justice did not sit proper with him. As a substitute, he targeted on discovering Lucy, whom he had been separated from in the season 1 finale. 

Maximus stepped into his energy this season. This is not the identical Maximus who was launched in the first season. He is grow to be battle-tested, and that attribute was on full show throughout his brawl with the Demise Claws in New Vegas. Finally, amongst all the storylines tied up on this episode, Maximus’s feels the most hopeful — his was a mission of honor and love. And he completed each.

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Lucy

For over half the season, Lucy made the trek to New Vegas with the Ghoul. Each of them shared the identical mission: to seek out Lucy’s dad, Hank, and cease him from hurting folks. Nevertheless, Lucy discovered Hank earlier than the Ghoul did, and, main as much as this episode, she found firsthand the twisted experiments he was acting on folks. Extra on that in a bit.

Like Maximus, the Wasteland modified Lucy. She was now not a simple mark to consider any and each lie Hank threw her means. His drive to finish this work and reprogram the number of violent folks discovered roaming the desert did not sit proper with Lucy. In the finish, she did not get the decision she was in search of. As a substitute, her closing second along with her dad foreshadowed an even bigger play he had up his sleeve this whole time: battle. 

Hank

As dastardly as Hank’s actions have been, I’ve steadily discovered Kyle MacLachlan’s efficiency completely compelling. Is Hank a villain? I suppose so. However the character has constantly rooted all his choices in the love he has for his daughter and in the so-called concept of the higher good. 

Hank’s work in miniaturizing the tech that turns folks into compliant greens is a small a part of an even bigger image that Fallout has but to completely reveal. The Enclave had been spoken of a number of instances all through these episodes, however it wasn’t till the finale episode that we obtained a glimpse of the compound.

The Ghoul

Watching Walton Goggins swagger by means of the Wasteland as the Ghoul is one thing I am going to by no means tire of. Nevertheless, one among the season’s extra compelling elements has been the espionage-laden backstory of his pre-mutant character, Hollywood actor and Vault-Tec spokesperson Cooper Howard. 

Everyone knows the world suffers a nuclear apocalypse. Nonetheless, the stakes of those flashbacks have been surprisingly excessive, providing deeper perception into why all of it occurred in the first place. It is a disturbing factor to sort, however the concept right here is {that a} group of rich buyers and shadowy figures put a plan into movement to construct Vaults for them to reside in whereas they blow up the world as a way to reshape it to match their twisted utopian imaginative and prescient.

That group of oligarchs and authorities energy gamers is also referred to as The Enclave. Episode 7 discovered Howard handing over that little vial of chilly fusion to the president (Clancy Brown), as he had nobody else he might belief, just for the realization to hit him in the finale that he handed that weapon/supply of energy on to the aforementioned shadow authorities company.

Cooper finally ends up taking the fall, and he is taken away in handcuffs. I saved questioning precisely the place in the timeline we’re, since we already know that when the bomb drops, he’ll be at his daughter’s birthday celebration. I suppose extra solutions will arrive subsequent season.

Again to the Ghoul. His journey this season introduced him to New Vegas, to not confront Hank, however to seek out his spouse and daughter. He had been working on the concept that they’d been alive and protected in the Vault that was allotted particularly to administration. Nevertheless, when he lastly arrived, he discovered their cryochambers empty and a postcard from Colorado on the ground.

With renewed hope, he ventured again out into the desert along with his canine to proceed his mission to seek out his household. 

What’s the take care of Stephanie?

Stephanie Harper has confused me as a personality. It seems that, like the Ghoul, she, too, is over 200 years outdated. She seems in Cooper’s flashbacks and finally ends up marrying Hank, however her entire deal continues to be shrouded in thriller. However, it does appear that she’s in cahoots with the Enclave, as her closing second in the episode finds her talking right into a Pip-Boy to provoke Section 2.

The query is, what is that this a second section of, anyway?

About that post-credit scene

I discussed earlier that battle was coming. The ultimate moments of the episode discover Maximus and Lucy searching at a horde of Legion troopers making their option to New Vegas. I wasn’t a fan of the Legion storyline, to be trustworthy, however ending the episode with a battle on the horizon opens up all kinds of story potentialities for season 3.

This brings me to the post-credit scene. In it, Dane rushes the remnants to Elder Cleric Quintus, the chief of the Brotherhood of Metal, the faction Maximus as soon as belonged to. Sounds of battle encompass their compound, and we discover Quintus bloody and crushed. 

“Out of the advantage in my coronary heart, I attempted to unify the Brotherhood,” Quintus tells Dane. “Now look the place it obtained me. Regardless of. Quintus, the Unifier, is lifeless. Quintus, the Destroyer, is born.”

The remnants are revealed to be a schematic for Liberty Prime Alpha, a large and highly effective fight robotic that was utilized by the authorities earlier than the bomb was dropped. This tease alludes to a key plot level in the online game Fallout 3, by which the Brotherhood of Metal makes use of this weapon in its battle towards the Commonwealth.

Fallout season 2 is streaming in full on Prime Video.