All through its first season, Fallout tees up what seemingly are a bunch of mysteries which can be both not related in any respect or by the loosest of threads—why is the Ghoul so fascinated when he learns Lucy’s full title? What’s occurring with dwellers from Vault 31? How did Moldaver make her means from the pre-war days to steer the New California Republic, and simply what did she want from Wilzig the Enclave defector? What actually occurred to Lucy’s mother, and can she have the ability to save her dad? Will Maximus have the ability to make his means again to Lucy—and away from the Brotherhood as soon as and for all?
All this smashes collectively within the finale (appropriately referred to as “The Starting”) to disclose that really all the things is far messier, extra private, and interconnected than anybody thought. As Lucy comes nose to nose with what was all the time her objective from the second she left Vault 33, we and he or she alike get to study, due to a flashback to Cooper’s perspective, that it was Vault-Tec itself, spearheading a conglomerate of a number of pro-war corporations, that fired the primary bombs that set off the apocalypse, making certain their merchandise could be used. Additionally, alongside the best way, Vault-Tec froze all of its managers—from the bottom assistants to the very best bosses—to regulate the world that got here after the fallout and make sure that capital stays in their very own fingers. And never solely that, we’ve met a bunch of these Vault-Tec staffers all through the season, like Betty, and naturally, Hank himself—revealed because the assistant to Cooper’s spouse, Henry, in pre-war occasions.
It does so much to clarify the best way the present views Fallout’s world, whereas as soon as once more placing all three of the primary characters collectively, if not ideologically or geographically, in simply how associated to all this mess they every are.
Okay so possibly don’t hit Kyle McLachlan with the CG-deaging-ray however nonetheless, regardless of that, all of it works!