WEBVTT - Fallout Season 2 Episode 5 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:05.640 Warning. Today's episode cadate spoilers for Fallout episode five of 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:23.680 season two. Be warned. Hello, my name is Jason Cantepcio 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.920 and I'm Rosey Night and welcome back to ExtraVision of 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.520 the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comics, 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.400 and pop culture. I read you buy our podcast. We're 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.080 bringing you three episodes plus new. 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:38.200 In this episode, we are headed back into the Wasteland 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.479 and to the vaults, where things are going very very badly. 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:43.800 But I gotta be honest, things not looking that much 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.360 greater in the Wasteland either, and we are going to 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.640 deep dive into it and talk all about it and 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.840 see where we're headed as we head into the final 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.120 act of Fallout season two. 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:02.120 Fallout Season two episode five, we open up right after 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.520 the events of the previous episode, where the Death Claw 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:12.480 has emerged from the front of a building, blocking Lucy 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:15.520 and the Ghul's forward progress as they search for Hank. 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:20.800 Lucy's father actually make the three death clause three satanic 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:24.640 looking dinosaur thingies. The Gul is, of course, much more 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:29.440 experienced with these creatures than Lucy is, and it's pretty 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:33.840 concerning when a hard ass guy like the Goul suggests, like, 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.120 let's get out of here, let's run, because honestly, nothing 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.240 short of a rocket launcher will do personally, if I'm 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.080 in the game, tell me a rocket launcher, it's a 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.080 fat Man nuclear bomb launcher, or it's at the very 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.560 least a modified combat shotgun that's fully automatic. 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:56.000 So I guess, is there a way somebody survives fighting 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:59.640 a death Claw without like some kind of weapon the 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.000 it's a magic weapon, Like, is that someone who's that 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:03.600 good that could like kill it with. 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.840 Like a broken ball or whatever you can find around. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:11.239 I mean there's some there's a notable death Claw introduction 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:16.840 early in Fallout four where you meet one like in 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:22.840 town right before a meeting with some of the some 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:27.240 figures from the Minutemen, and you're kind of like on 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:30.600 the street and there's a lot of cover and so 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.640 you can like plink away at the death Claw and 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.600 kill it. Lost of us early in the game, low level, 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.519 but it's it is like a five to ten minute 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.639 fight of you just like shoot run away, shoot runaway, 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:49.519 Like it'll take a while anyway, dog Meat books books, 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.600 it gets out of there, and eventually the Ghoul and 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.799 Lucy managed to escape when the Ghul creates a distraction 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.600 and they just basically run for it. 0:03:00.600 --> 0:03:05.320 And it's then that we basically make our way finally 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:08.519 to the strip, which I love because. 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.840 It just looks so cool and I think they really 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:12.640 brought it to life. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:12.880 Well. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.640 I also think we've been talking a lot. 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.639 About like, wehn do you seek New Vegas, and they've 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.840 done a great job of like building in the visuals, 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.040 but we really get these moments here, and this is 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.240 a big moment for Lucy where she's kind of like, well, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.200 why does my why did my dad come in? Now, 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:29.720 we obviously have insight that Bob House was planning, but 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.800 we know now through Lucy's eyes that the guld explains 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.240 there was a plan for a special vulte only for management, 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.040 and that is where he believes his wife and daughter are. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.600 He has found a couple of them in the past 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:44.960 raided him, but they were empty, and now he thinks 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:49.720 the right one must be Vegas, but sadly the entrance 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:50.920 is somewhere beyond those. 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:55.160 Terrifying death clause. Lucy is still. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.080 High as fuck, in case you didn't remember, she is 0:03:57.160 --> 0:04:00.320 absolutely tweaking and she's still on the like, well. 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.000 I just killed everyone. I killed all those eldest guys. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.080 I killed the greases, Like, let's do it. And also 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.120 like where's more drugs? How do we get more drugs? 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.440 And the goal is like, Okay, wait a minute, maybe 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.360 I made a mistake. I think you need to get clean, 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:14.520 like you're not for this drug life. He's like, you're 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.640 too addicted. You go to the doctor, get clean. I'm 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.400 gonna go get fucked up. He goes to the bar, 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.640 drinks the whiskey, starts to ask some questions. And this 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.440 is very interesting because we see that the Bomban is 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.760 basically like I don't give a shit, Like whoever runs 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.440 New Vegas, it fucking sucks for me. And that is 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.080 going to establish what we learn about the beginnings of 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:37.719 New Vegas. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:44.640 Through a newsreel flashback, we see the reason for in 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:50.800 the past Cooper's wife Barbes visit to Vegas. At the time, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.080 it was hosting a summit of all the major US 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:59.800 corporations Valtik, Robco, etc. Chaired by rob co CEO Robert 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:03.280 ha House, in order to discuss what to do about 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:07.279 the Communist threat. This is kind of in the final 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:11.120 days of the war against the against the Communist Chinese, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.320 and it seems like the government is kind of floundering, 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.960 and so the corporations are thinking, okay, uh, maybe we 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.640 need to pick up the baton and figure out what 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.080 to do on our own. On the Vegas trip, Coop 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.800 and Barb meet Hank. It's kind of shocking. He's got 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.120 a Voltech case handcuffed to his arm and he's there 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:32.920 to meet Barb about something. Cooper goes off to a 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:38.440 payphone and has a very secret meeting with Moldaver, who 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:42.080 is there. She leaves a vial of some kind of 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.680 drug in the chainshoot of Cooper's payphone, which he is 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:46.640 to use. I guess to. 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:50.080 Tell question Mark or do you think he's meant to 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.000 use it to kill Hank, like to drop him. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.600 I don't know. It's it's clearly he's meant to drug somebody, 0:05:55.640 --> 0:06:01.279 either Hank or House or somebody with it. Basically, mould 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:04.640 Average's like listen, House has to die before rob Co 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:09.800 acquires cold Fusion, which is what Barb and Voltech are 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.760 offering to rob Co, because if they get the you know, 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:19.800 an endless source of power, they will just be too 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.599 powerful of a company. Coop says, okay, I'll get the 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.240 fusion cell. But I'm not a killer, Like I'm not 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.520 just gonna I haven't killed anybody since the war, and 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.200 I'm not going to just kill the CEO of a 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:35.159 major American company for no reason. On the strip, you 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.800 see that it's power and protest. There's protesters there, there 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:45.120 are rich people swaning around with their champagne. There's the 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:49.640 congress woman from Glendale is there protesting the steady accretion 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.880 of power to corporate interest. She gets thrown down the stairs. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.760 Nobody cares except Cooper, who basically goes over and is like, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.600 I'm so sorry about this. And I thought it was 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:04.599 a quite a biting commentary on on current politics in 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:10.200 which you know that's your that's your opposition party. Right, 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.840 there is this very weak and meek lady who's getting 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:15.240 thrown down the steps. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.720 And is supporting like no one cares about her, Like 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:19.800 she's also an. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.200 It's not it's not inspiring. Also, like if you're trying 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.240 to drum up some opposition to this, maybe it's get 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.480 somebody who can speak about this. 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:37.000 This is Glendale who we saw talking at the putting. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.320 Everyone's asleep, So there's kind of this like she might 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:41.600 be right, but she doesn't have the fight in her, 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.640 you know. And we see that in the hotel there 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.920 is this like huge party. This is you know, as 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.360 we've often imagined. This is not some kind of great 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.960 save the World convention. It is a corporate shindig. Bob 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.040 has to go and speak to some people about bombing 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.200 America probably, and Coop is like, fuck, like, I gotta 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.440 go speak to go find Hank. He then goes to 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.200 see Robert House. But this is very interesting because it 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.760 is a different guy. It is not our Robert House 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.760 that he met in the elevator. And then he says, 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.960 mister House would like to see you. He's grounded at 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.760 the penthouse entrance by a robot. Mister House, the real 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.000 one is still in front of a massive workstation, and 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.200 he knows Cooper's that to kill him. Jay said, the 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.240 fact there was a robot, mister House, were you very 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.240 excited when you saw that? 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:29.040 Because I feel like it does support you. 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.280 Yes. I mean, we learn a lot about the various 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:39.320 doubles that mister House employs in this episode, so good, 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.320 and it's clear that mister House has been, you know, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.600 doing this for quite a while. In the present we 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:50.319 catch up again with Snake oil salesman John Daly. Live 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.560 somewhere in my neighborhood or at least an igor Rock. 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.240 I see him all the time at the dog park. 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.480 John Daly, he's, you know, approaching Vegas. He's on the 0:08:57.559 --> 0:08:59.959 road to Vegas with a little skip in his step, 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:04.480 carrying his suitcase of fake medicines or whatever it is. 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.360 And he has to kill a rad roach on the way, 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.600 which is like, you know, that's normal for anybody who's 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:15.360 you know, flying the wasteland. He goes into town where 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.360 he is apparently like having a hot date with a robot. 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.440 I know, when lots of robot action this week, like 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.200 Vegas really kept the robots going. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.160 When in the middle of this, he's knocked out cold, 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:34.079 and he's knocked out cold by Hank Lucy's father, who 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:38.959 carries him back to the secret Vault Tech underground headquarters, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.280 where we see him walk by the cryo tubes of 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:50.679 Barbs and Cooper and Barb's daughter. Yes they are there, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:51.480 frozen there. 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.760 Hank's just the insane, insane pitch from Hank care where 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:01.040 he's basically, oh my god, hey, so u yeah, complete 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.240 brainwashing into mind control how do you feel about that? 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.839 And the state you're that's great? 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.160 Yeah, he has already. Of course, the Snake oil guy 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:11.280 had been fitted with the neck chip, and Hank turns 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:15.400 it all the way up. And whether it's the Snake 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:21.920 Oil salesman's innate resistance to mind control technology or that Hank, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:28.680 after blowing up dozens honey brains, has finally perfected technology. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.160 Whatever the case, Hank turns that dial all the way up. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:36.240 Max is it out, and Snake oil salesman is fine. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.719 So he's got his first mind controlled zombie. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.440 Incredible. We're going to take a quick break and we'll 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:43.000 be right back. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.400 We're back and Norm we then go back to and 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:08.319 join our group of middle managers, allegedly along with. 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:09.800 Ronnie and the rest of the group. 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.079 They arrive at a vault tech building and they find, unfortunately, 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.960 the corpses of some of their former co workers. Then 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.720 Mark June appears with shotguns and a couple of friends 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:24.880 and is like, oh more volt dollars dwellers, and later 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.600 we kind of learned that hey, they run a roach 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:32.079 farm here, and Norm asks like, you. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.280 Know anything we'd been going on? What's been going on? 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.880 And Mar's like well, I did did meet this girl, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.360 Lucy did meet your sister? 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:43.240 And how's that going? What's going on there? And by 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:43.600 the way. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.360 Lucy's dead and Norm's like fixo and Mar's like, I 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.640 don't know, it's pretty rough out here, man, just just leave. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:54.280 I have to say, weird, fake middle managers. I'm rooting 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.199 for them. I like this party, and it's he's kind 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:58.839 of I think it's fun. I think that's like a 0:11:58.920 --> 0:11:59.400 weird like. 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.400 I think it's I think it's like, it's good to 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.520 have a plot line. Isn't just people who are really 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.080 good in the apocalypse, because I think like that is 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:08.600 the cause of the game, is you have to be 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.560 really good to survive. So it's kind of fun to 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:12.160 be like, well, what would it be like if you 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.760 were the people who were absolutely not meant to survive this? 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.080 That's like enjoying enjoyable to me. 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.480 Lucy goes over to the store and she sees from 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.640 the sign of the window that the price of addict Doll, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.800 which is the drug in game and in show drug 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:32.280 that cleanses one of addictions to various drugs, has ballooned 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:35.840 in recent days from one hundred and twenty five caps 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:41.800 to over a thousand cows and which you know, mirroring 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:46.240 our current healthcare system. See instead decides, well, I guess 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.640 I'll just rob the store. She finds the back door entrance, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.560 she goes in. She grabs the addictll She sees a 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.240 beautiful power fist, one of my personal favorite weapons from Fallout, 0:12:55.240 --> 0:13:00.280 which is a kind of like a hydraulic fist that 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.240 has like this punching engine on it, so like as 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.760 you punch, the fist goes to June and just like 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.760 one punch Man's people like through the chest. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:11.400 Incredible. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.719 Anyway, Lucy sees it at in the window. She's like, 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.040 let me grab that as well. Correct And then she 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.040 turns around and she meets the clerk. Only the clerk 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:24.400 is wearing clothes that don't fit him and his face 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:27.920 does not in any way match the painting of the 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.320 owner of the store, which hangs in the store. Lucy 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:36.080 immediately realizes, based on the chopped up corpse that's in 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:40.360 a barrel right next to her, that this guy has 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.480 has murdered the store owner and is currently pretending to 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.920 be the store owner. She calls attention to this. He 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.960 pulls guns, so Lucy shoots him and kills him. She's 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:51.439 a killer. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.079 She's a stunt called killer Baby. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:58.640 Back at the bar, whoa the Ghoul is reminiscing about 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.960 his meeting with Robert House back in the past, and 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.280 we go and see that meeting in the pehouse, where 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.960 we learn, along with Coop, that House has been body 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.840 doubling himself for at least a decade. The guy that 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.920 you see on TV that we saw in episode one 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.720 has been doubling House for like ten years at least. 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:19.800 Wow. 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.680 House says that did you know that I watched your 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.520 battle in Alaska? Coop's like, there's no way that's possible, 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.920 and He's like, oh, yes, there's a piece of software 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.320 in the TB Power Armor that lets me watch I guess, 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:40.000 live streams of whatever's happening through the armor. And House 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:44.440 then goes on to say that he believes that the 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.000 death Claw that Cooper encountered in Alaska is going to 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:52.840 be important to the future of the world as well 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.200 as to the future of Cooper's wife and family. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:15:02.000 Interesting, and House basically tells him his philosophy, which, again, 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.160 can we just give some props so the prescient nature 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.040 of Fallout the video game series and it's a painfully 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:15.440 timely television adaptation. Hooper's House is basically, hey, Coop, I 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.880 buy every technology and every company at just the perfect time. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.440 This time, it's confusion from your wife. 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:23.920 I need it. I need to survive forever. I need 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.000 to survive the nuclear war and your wife's gonna start it. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:31.360 And basically the end of the world's already coming. So 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.880 I'm doing all of this because my little AI companion 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.440 told me, Hey, this is the day the world's gonna die. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.239 And guess what, it's Coop's daughter's birthday. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.080 Very interesting, very interesting, especially with all this thing of 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.600 like there's you are the most important thing, like your family. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.960 So I'm very interested to see where this goes. Coop 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.200 also basically is like, look, this is what the rebels think. 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.720 He tries to reason with him, which I love because 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.040 I feel like it's such a Coop mentality, like especially 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.040 old Coop poet post war pre ghoul Coop. He's like, look, 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:05.720 I gotta they sent me it to kill you for 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:07.880 a real reason. They think you're gonna launch the nukes 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.800 and start a world war, and houses like, look, there's 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.960 another player on the board, and that's the thing that 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.080 we need to focus on here. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:16.280 It's the person. 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:20.960 Responsible for the death Claw that you saw in Alaska 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:25.280 and House here has a very interesting, rare vulnerable moment 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.720 where he's essentially like I thought I was running the game, 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:33.440 but I now think I'm maybe a player in somebody 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:38.440 else's more important, more dangerous game. And then of course 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:42.000 goes on like a Tony Stark esque you know, suit 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.080 of arm around the world. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.720 Really, he's doing all of this to help everyone. He's 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.560 gonna nukee everyone to help everyone. 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.920 He's gonna, you know, uh, trap everyone's families in like 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.480 fucking cold fusion storage to help everyone. 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:55.800 Like sure, my guy, whatever you say. 0:16:57.480 --> 0:16:59.800 This was quite interesting to me because I do wonder, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.160 you know, we've been theorizing that maybe the Institute is 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:05.399 going to show up. I wonder if I wonder if 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:10.640 this clearly is is hinting at another faction being kind 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.040 of lurking in the background, and I do wonder which 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:18.199 one it's going to be. In another one of the 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:24.480 Vault Tech buildings back on back in the California area, 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:31.560 Ronnie and and Norm are going through there. They're you know, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:37.040 turning on terminals, turning on communications equipment in a bid 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:41.119 to try and contact management, Vault Management, Valltech Management and 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.120 basically update them about what's going on and get some help. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:49.480 Norm is concerned about this. Norm wants to know more 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.879 about what he learned from Bud Atkins in the vault 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:58.199 about this future enterprise ventures plan, the breeding program that 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.960 you know, people in Volts thirty one, thirty two, and 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.240 thirty three were all mixed up in. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:08.560 And we obviously know what FUV could stand for, so 0:18:08.600 --> 0:18:10.679 we know that we have a little bit dramatic irony. 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:16.720 So he learns that Barb Howard Coop's wife was of 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.399 course she's like a high ranking VP at Voltak and 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.720 she was across stuff like that. He learns this from 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.520 the the lady that he talked to last episode, who 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.280 I'm not sure if we ever got her name, who 0:18:27.440 --> 0:18:30.280 was just kind of discombobulated at the fact that, like 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.080 to her, last week was the regular pre war world 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.600 extreme marking the streets a week ago. Yeah, So they 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.440 go to Barb's office, he and this woman to hack 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:42.399 her terminal and kind of figure out what's going on. 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.520 While they're doing this, Ronnie is spying on them, and 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:51.080 he listens to Norm talk about everything He learned about 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.720 Bud Atkins. Down in Buddy Atkins's secret future manager's vault. 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:01.679 He learns you know that Norm is it really Bud's 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:05.119 successor that he's lying about this, and he's, you know, 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:10.040 this whole thing is a ruse for some other reason, 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.119 which we know is because Norm is looking for his 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.040 sister and wants to know what happened to his dad, Hank. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.560 Norm is, you know, working on the terminal. He finds 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.640 a database labeled FEV forced Evolutionary Virus, and that's exactly 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.560 when Ronnie strikes. There's a big fight. Ronnie strangles Norman 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:28.959 until he passes out. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.280 O Dunk Dunk Dune. I knew Ronnie was going to 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:33.920 be trouble in Vegas. 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.440 Lucy takes the dictal and immediately just pukes. She's like, 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.639 it's like it's like really quick, Iahwaska, but she's feeling okay. 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:43.040 She meets the ghoul back at the hotel, and now 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:45.240 she's clean and sworn off drugs forever, which I kind 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.199 of love because that's like such a Lucy arc. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.200 She's like, okay, okay, I'll just never do them again. 0:19:49.359 --> 0:19:52.040 Terrible and that's not really artworks, but I love the 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:53.040 I love the motivation. 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:53.800 Uh. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.480 The Ghul introduces Lucy to a man with one of 0:19:56.520 --> 0:19:58.640 the mind controlled patches on the back of his neck, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.360 and of course it is the Snake oil guy, now 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:02.560 fully mind wiped. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.560 With a message from Hank. Don't worry, darling, Lucy. 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.720 I'm in a secure underground facility and I'm completely safe. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:13.359 They'll never get to me because guess what. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.120 Guess what Hank can offer to Coop the one thing 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.560 that would make him betray Lucy. And what I think 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.960 is an incredibly heartbreaking scene that I honestly still was 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.760 not one hundred percent short on what he would do. 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:31.679 But it turns out that. 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:36.520 Hank has the ghouls family in the stasis tube and 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:41.560 it is crazy leverage. So Hank's basically like, look, if 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:44.600 you give me my daughter, I will give you your door. 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.480 Isn't that a good deal? And the Gul agrees. He 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.520 tranks Lucy takes her in and look, I will say, 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:53.040 does feel really bad about it, like you can tell, 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.199 not happy he betrayed her, like this was not the 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.000 plan that he had wanted to do. But he's kind 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:02.760 of thinking about how he should have killed well house obviously, 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:09.679 sorry babe, and then boom, unexpected, Lucy gets up and 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.760 she's got that fucking sick ass power fist on. She 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.840 punches Coop right out of the window and he's impaled 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:20.000 onto a broken light pole. She blacks out sadly so 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.240 does not get away, and we end the episode with 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:23.960 Hank coming to get her. 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:28.720 What a fun episode. 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:29.840 Very very fun. Let's take a quick break and then 0:21:30.000 --> 0:21:31.600 we'll be back to. 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:49.399 Just discussomer other thoughts about what we learned in this episode. 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:56.440 And we're back. Okay, So lots to talk about. The 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:59.640 thing I want to talk about first though, is this 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:04.800 idea that Robert House has where you know, everybody from 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:08.639 the outside looking in the rebels led by moldever the 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:13.800 other corporate interests, the regular man on the street during 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:15.720 this pre war time would look at Robert House and 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:17.560 think that's the guy who's kind of running the country 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:21.400 right now, like his money power, et cetera. Very interesting 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:27.200 to hear Robert House say that the death claw number one, 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:32.359 it was evidence of someone else, some other power being 0:22:32.440 --> 0:22:35.480 active in this kind of geopolitical power play. And the 0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:40.000 two he doesn't know if he's a pawn of them, 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.439 of that person, or if he's actually an opponent of 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.680 that person. So it left me wondering, like, Okay, who 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:49.639 is who could that be? 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:52.960 That's why I was gonna say, who are your thoughts 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.639 hypothetically on who this could set up? 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:57.719 I'm guessing for season three? 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:04.160 Okay, Yes, so let's go through some of the factions 0:23:04.480 --> 0:23:09.800 that So if we just go at Fallout New Vegas, 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:12.600 it's certainly here's the factions that are available in the 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:15.760 game New California Republic. We've seen them. They're basically in 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:19.400 tatters right now. It's not Jesus lesions. We saw them. 0:23:19.480 --> 0:23:22.880 They don't have the kind of they didn't exist pre war. 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:25.960 Very hard to believe. I find it very hard to 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:28.520 believe that it would be them. I'm going to ignore 0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:36.000