‘Fallout’ Season 1 Ending Explained: That Major Video Game Easter Egg, Who Dropped the Nuke and What’s Next in Season 2?
12.04.2024 - 22:27
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Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers for the finale of “Fallout,” now streaming on Prime Video. Fans of the “Fallout” video games and newcomers alike are enjoying Prime Video’s adaptation, as it tells a completely original story in the post-apocalyptic wasteland. Set in a retro-futuristic 2296 after nuclear bombs decimated America, the Season 1 finale reveals some crucial information about who dropped the nukes and also teases at some video game Easter eggs that could appear in a future season.
In the Season 1 finale, cleverly titled “The Beginning” after the series premiere “The End,” escaped vault dweller Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) discovers who dropped the first nuclear bombs back in 2077. It was Vault-Tec, the creators of the underground bunkers that Lucy and her family grew up in. In another twist, her father Overseer Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan) is revealed to be a former Vault-Tec employee who had been cryogenically frozen and reanimated hundreds of years later.
A flashback to pre-nuclear 2077 shows a secret meeting between Vault-Tec and other vault companies scheming about keeping their businesses afloat. The cabal is worried that that current peace talks would render their products useless, so they decide to drop nukes themselves to guarantee their vaults will become moneymakers. Walton Goggins’ Cooper Howard, who later survives the nuclear war as a ghoulish bounty hunter, also realizes his wife is one of the Vault-Tec executives who pitches the diabolical idea.
Cooper runs into a young Hank in the flashback, setting up his quest, as the Ghoul, to find Hank years later. The mysterious origins behind Vaults 31, 32 and 33 are also revealed. Vault-Tec planned for the latter two
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