Fallout season 2 episode 8 is out now on Prime Video – and, whereas it is not as a lot of a *ahem* bombshell finale as the primary season’s was, it nonetheless delivers sufficient leisure worth whereas teasing the place its varied storylines might go subsequent.
In this text, I’ll go over every little thing that occurs within the Amazon TV present’s newest chapter, titled ‘The Strip’, and stay up for what plot threads it seems to arrange for season 3. Full spoilers instantly comply with for this season’s eighth and closing episode. Turn again now if you have not watched it but.
Does Lucy destroy the mainframe in Fallout season 2 episode 8? And what occurs to Hank?
Picking up the place season 2 episode 7 left off, ‘The Strip’ reunites us with Lucy MacLean coming into the management chips’ mainframe room.
Once once more, we’re reminded that the severed head of Diane Welch – aka the US Congresswoman who suggested Cooper Howard to present the chilly fusion diode to the President – is what’s powering the mind-control units Hank has experimented with all through this season.
Approaching the seemingly nonetheless head, Lucy is startled with regards to life. Clearly in ache, Welch’s decapitated head repeatedly asks Lucy to kill her and finish her struggling, which a reluctant Lucy ultimately does with a well-placed crowbar strike to Welch’s cranium.
A visibly upset Lucy leaves the power to understand what she’s completed, however the Prime Video‘s shaken protagonist does not have time to dwell on it. The motive? Her sinister father Hank, who’s by some means escaped being handcuffed to a range by Lucy final episode, seems and, after being questioned by an outraged Lucy, tells her that Welch was chosen because the management chips’ ‘energy supply’ due to her placid demeanor.
As for what Hank’s endgame with the management units is, he explains it was making a sufficiently small model to insert into an individual’s neck. He additionally reveals that Lucy goes to be the guinea pig for this new miniature version of stated chip as a result of, effectively, Hank is uninterested in her having autonomy and railing in opposition to him. In his phrases, he “just wants his little girl back.”
And he’d have succeeded if it wasn’t for Cooper Howard/The Ghoul’s intervention. I’ll focus on his season 2 finale journey afterward however, for now, all it’s good to know is The Ghoul rescues Lucy by killing Hank’s lackey who was subduing Lucy to permit for the chip’s insertion, after which shoots Hank to incapacitate him. From there, The Ghoul says it is as much as Lucy to resolve Hank’s destiny.
A couple of scenes later, we study that Lucy has inserted the chip into Hank’s neck earlier than main him at gunpoint again onto the floor.
There, throughout an emotion-laden chat between dad and daughter, Hank drops one other tease that he is a member of The Enclave. Oh, and the actual experiment that the clandestine US faction has been conducting all alongside is the floor world itself, not the social/scientific take a look at being carried out within the underground bunkers that Vault-Tec constructed. That’s the one new info we get out of Hank, too, earlier than he makes use of his personal secret activation system to activate the chip in his neck, thereby wiping his reminiscence and stopping Lucy from studying the rest.
Emotionally devastated by every little thing that is occurred, Lucy leaves her amnesiac father as she tries to resolve what to do subsequent. Finally, although, a ray of sunshine seems by means of the gloom, as Maximus – extra on him later, too – calls out to her. Reunited for the primary time for the reason that Fallout TV show‘s season 1 finale, they embrace.
But, there isn’t any time to catch up, as a result of the remnants of Caesar’s Legion, who are actually led by Lacerta Legate, march on New Vegas with the intention of taking it for themselves.
As Lucy and Maximus watch their arrival from Robert House’s penthouse on the prime of the Lucky 38 on line casino, Lucy questions if she made the appropriate determination to destroy the mainframe, particularly as a brand new struggle for management of New Vegas is about to erupt. Maximus consoles her by holding her proper hand together with his left earlier than the display cuts to black.
Does Cooper Howard/The Ghoul discover his household within the Fallout season 2 finale?
No, however hope springs everlasting for Cooper Howard/The Ghoul as he learns his household is nonetheless alive.
Again, selecting up the place final episode left off, The Ghoul and Robert House – or, fairly, the latter’s consciousness that he uploaded to a supercomputer – conform to kind to an uneasy alliance. The Ghoul will depart the chilly fusion diode, which he got here into possession of once more in season 2 episode 7, with House if House helps The Ghoul find his household within the management-only vault that sits beneath the Lucky 38.
Guided by House through a Pip-Boy, aka considered one of Fallout‘s iconic wrist-mounted units, The Ghoul ultimately arrives on the identical facility the place Lucy and Hank are. There, he stumbles upon the pair’s newest familial reckoning and interjects himself into proceedings by serving to Lucy – one thing The Ghoul did not need to do after, you already know, she left him for useless on this season’s fifth chapter.
Anyway, after leaving Lucy and Hank, The Ghoul locates the biorepository chamber the place Barbara and Janey, aka his spouse and daughter, are. At his behest, House opens their cryochambers… to disclose that they are empty. However, as a dejected Howard listens to House babbling some hole phrases, he spots a ‘Greetings from Colorado’ postcard in Barb’s chamber. Picking it up and turning it over, he sees that she’s written “Colorado was a great idea” on the again. Remember, the pair mentioned beginning over in Colorado earlier this season, so this isn’t solely a transparent call-back to that second, but in addition means that Barb and Janey are someplace in that state.
Despite House’s protestations that he works for House now, The Ghoul removes the Pip-Boy and leaves the power. The closing shot we see of Howard is him overlooking an unlimited desert space – don’t fret, Dogmeat is with him – as he prepares to embark on yet one more lengthy trek throughout The Wasteland to search out his family members.
Does Maximus defeat the Deathclaws in Fallout’s season 2 finale?
He does, however he will get greater than a serving to hand alongside the best way.
With the pack of New Vegas-based Deathclaws having damaged by means of one of many Freeside barricades final episode, Maximus realizes he is the one one standing between the survival of its townsfolk and them changing into the beasts’ subsequent meal.
As Thaddeus leads the Freesiders to security, Maximus mounts a one-man stand in opposition to the Deathclaws. However, whereas he kills a variety of them with the occasional assist from Thaddeus, the NCR Power Armor go well with Maximus is carrying quickly malfunctions as a result of harm inflicted upon it by the Deathclaws.
Exhausted however impressed by his closing reminiscence of his father, Maximus exits his power-suit, grabs a close-by sword and defend (learn: pool cue and blackjack desk prime), and prepares to battle the remaining Deathclaws to guard the Freeside folks.
Just when it looks as if Maximus is a goner, although, two extra Deathclaws are taken out not by Thaddeus, however a New California Republic (NCR) ranger. NCR captain Rodriguez, who we have intermittently reunited with all through Fallout season 2, has rocked up with a squad of troopers and, after telling Maximus they’re going to cope with the remainder of the Deathclaws, he heads off to search out Lucy, which he duly does.
Does Norm survive within the closing episode of Fallout season 2?
Yes, however solely simply. Frog-marched by means of Vault-Tec’s headquarters by the junior executives of Vault-33, it appears Norm is on borrowed time. That’s till Claudia, the one govt who’s on his facet, tries to intervene, is pushed apart by the group’s defacto chief Ronnie, and falls again onto an elevator name button.
Seems innocuous, proper? Well, bear in mind when the group got here throughout Ma June and Barv, and had been warned that the elevator shafts had been barricaded due to the radroaches? Yeah, effectively, that.
Long story quick: the radroaches fly out of the shaft and assault the group. Norm manages to battle one off earlier than rescuing an govt from one other radroach. However, when the duo attempt to achieve entry to an workplace that the others have taken shelter in, Ronnie pushes Norm apart and seemingly leaves him to develop into radroach meals. Luckily, Norm finds a desk to cover beneath and, with their consideration drawn to the terrified executives within the aforementioned workplace, the radroaches break in and proceed their deadly assault on their human prey.
Waiting lengthy sufficient till the coast is evident, Norm emerges from his hiding spot and, coming into the workplace, is met with a scene of bloody carnage. But, wait, somebody’s alive – it is Claudia! Helping her to her toes, Norm vows to get her residence. Where house is and the way they plan to get there, although, is unclear. The final we see of them, Norm is pulling a seemingly injured Claudia on a makeshift gurney. We’ll have to attend for season 3 – extra on that shortly – to learn how they plan to traverse the Wasteland with few rations and no sense of the place they’re.
What occurs in Vault 32 in Fallout season 2 episode 8?
Reuniting us with those that dwell in Vault 32, we meet up with its overseer Stephanie, who’s locked herself in her workplace after Chet revealed to the remainder of the group that she’s Canadian, not American. As Vault 32’s dwellers bang on her workplace door and chant for her loss of life – the latter of which a clearly uncomfortable Chet does not agree with – Steph makes use of her last-resort card.
Opening the field (one owned by Hank MacLean, do not forget) that Betty gave to her on this season’s penultimate episode, we study that it comprises a jet black-colored Pip-Boy. Activating it, Steph makes use of its intercom characteristic to contact – yep, you have most likely guessed it – The Enclave.
Once the road is linked, she tells The Enclave that she’s one other of Hank’s wives. It seems she was Hank’s secret beau – the pair having met all the best way again in 2077 after Steph helped an unconscious Hank again to his resort room after Cooper had drugged him. So, whereas Hank was additionally married to Lucy and Norm’s mother, he had one other spouse in Steph. You sly canine, Hank…
Anyway, utilizing The Enclave’s secret communications frequency, she ominously tells them to “initiate Phase Two”. Unfortunately, we’re given no indication as to what this a part of The Enclave’s plan entails. Does it have one thing to do with a big fan theory about Vaults 31, 32, and 33 that was confirmed on this season’s sixth chapter? We’ll have to attend for season 3 (don’t fret, we’re attending to it!).
Does Fallout season 2 episode 8 have a mid-credits or post-credits scene? And what’s Liberty Prime Alpha?
Yes, like its forebear, Fallout season 2 has an end-credits scene.
This time, it reveals us the *ahem* fallout from the battle between the Brotherhood of Steel’s varied factions that Maximus and Thaddeus inadvertently brought about in season 2 episode 4.
Reunited with Maximus’ pal Dane, we see them ship one thing to Elder Cleric Quintus, who tells Dane that “Quintus the Unifier is dead” and, in his place, “Quintus the Destroyer” has risen. As the digital camera pans down, we see that Dane has given Quintus a sequence of blueprints for one thing referred to as the Liberty Prime Alpha go well with.
So, what’s it? For the uninitiated, Liberty Prime is a huge fight robotic that the US military initially constructed as a superweapon to attempt to win the Sino-American War that it waged with China. However, as a result of an appropriate energy supply was by no means positioned for it, it was by no means utilized in battle.
Now that the Brotherhood is in possession of its blueprint, plus the truth that chilly fusion – a limiteless vitality supply – exists, although, I would not put it previous Quintus attempting to trace down the diode, which we all know is in New Vegas, and utilizing it to energy his model of Liberty Prime. That’ll possible be considered one of many storylines that subsequent season will deal with. Speaking of which…
Has Fallout season 3 been introduced but?
Yes! Amazon renewed Fallout for a third season in May 2025, so we have recognized about it for some time now.
Unsurprisingly, Fallout season 3 does not have a launch date but, however govt producer Jonathan Nolan has stated (through IGN) that he hopes filming will start in mid-2026. It’s not not possible, then, that we might be reunited with Lucy and firm in late 2027 or early 2028.
Want extra particulars on the present’s subsequent chapter? My Fallout season 3 information, which can go dwell later right now, will inform you every little thing we all know to this point, so verify again in with us quickly to learn it.
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