This article contains SPOILERS for Fall-out Season 2, Episode 1.
A macabre highlight of each Fall-out game and a major story revelation in Season 1 of Amazon's Fall-out shows that the Vault-Tec Corporation used the guise of the shelter to conduct a large number of social and scientific experiments. These experiments often led to terrible and gruesome results for those living inside Fall-outs arch.
After a 20-month long wait, Amazon's live-action Fall-out the adaptation is back and it has returned with an educational premiere. First episode of Fall-out Season 2 teases the importance of a fan favorite Fallout: New Vegas character, sees Lucy and The Ghoul kill members of The Great Khans, setting up the MacGuffin for this new season: a high-tech chip that appears to have brainwashing powers. The track for this chip takes Fall-outs protagonists of Vault 24, a reference to Fallout: New Vegas' clipped content and a location with a disturbing mystery at its center.
The Mystery of Fallout Season 2's Vault 24 Explained
A brief overview of Fallout's Sino-American War
To fully understand the mystery of Vault 24, fans must have a general understanding of Fall-outs Sino-American War. This event is undoubtedly the most important in Fall-outsi history of the universe, and as you might expect, the knowledge surrounding the event is extremely dense. But here's what fans need to know:
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Following Fall-outs alternate history version of World War II, the United States and China emerge as the world's two leading superpowers
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As natural resources become increasingly scarce over the next century, tensions between the US and China will also heat up
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This eventually leads to a short but vicious war breaking out between the two nations, known as the Sino-American War
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As the Sino-American War progressed, the US government relied more on companies such as Vault-Tec, eventually leading companies to become the de facto leaders of the nation
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To keep the civilian population in line, the companies fanned the flames of paranoia and latched onto the People's Republic of China's communist beliefs as the primary fear factor
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Corporate anti-communist propaganda worked, capitalism was embraced more fiercely than ever and the Sino-American War continued until the bombs were dropped and the old world was destroyed
What Lucy and The Ghoul Find in Fallout's Vault 24
IN Fall-out Season 2 Episode 1 Lucy and The Ghoul are hot on the trail of Hank MacLean, Lucy's father and a former Vault-Tec employee before the Great War. This trail takes them to Vault 24, which is hidden behind the screen of a Starlight Drive-In Cinema. The unlikely duo spot a hat emblazoned with communist symbols on the floor of Vault 24's entrance and make their way inside.
Inside Vault 24, Lucy and The Ghoul stumble upon a room full of long-dead bodies, all dressed in communist garb. Lucy asks why Vault-Tec would provide security to their enemies, which The Ghoul says he doesn't think they would, and pulls some kind of computer chip from one of the communist's remains. The duo then enter a laboratory where a projector plays communist propaganda on a loop. Bodies also fill this room, and Lucy notes that these were Americans who somehow turned into communists while in the vault.
A Vault 24 jumpsuit can technically be found in Fallout: New Vegas' game files, with New Vegas director Josh Sawyer explained in 2019 that the vault itself was probably not planned to appear in the game, but that the suit could have been created for Sarah Weintraub's mission and cut from the game before launch.
Fallout's brain computer chip explained
The very first scene of Fall-out Season 2, Episode 1 is set before the Great War and features a man with a mustache forcing a high-tech chip into the throat of a bar patron he punched. Once inserted, the man uses a remote control to activate the chip and uses it to force the patron to physically assault his friends. The chip-controlled man tries to resist, resulting in his head exploding.
This mustachioed man with the remote control is Robert House, the founder and CEO of RobCo Industries, who apparently uses a body double to conduct all public business. Fallout: New Vegas fans will remember him as the president of the New Vegas Strip, presented as a face on a computer screen.
Robert House appeared briefly in Fall-out Season 1, where he was played by Rafi Silver. IN Fall-out Season 2, House has been remade, with Justin Theroux now taking on the role.
Based on the context given in Fall-out Season 2 Episode 1 It seems that Mr. House and RobCo have created a brain-computer interface chip that can hijack a person's mind. Vault 24 seems to be where this chip was refined, with American citizens being given the chip and shown communist propaganda until they believed it, which is pretty good considering their indoctrinated hatred of those beliefs.
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October 19, 2010
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M for adult: blood and gore, intense violence, sexual content, strong language, use of drugs
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Gamebryo
