WEBVTT - Fallout Season 2 Episode 4 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.760 Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for the fourth episode of 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:24.000 Fallout season two. Be warned. Hell my name is Jason Concepcion. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.720 And on Mersday Night and welcome back to x revision 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:30.000 of the podcast where we dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:31.800 comics of pop culture, cover to you from my Heart 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:34.080 podcast where we read three up a week plus news 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:34.600 on Saturday. 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:39.880 In today's episode, we are getting addicted to drugs, seeing 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:44.480 some scary creatures. Yeah, making it to Vegas and Fallout 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:45.720 two O four. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:51.040 Let's get into it all right. Fourth episode of fall Up. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.480 Very interesting episode. We open in a flashback to the 0:00:54.480 --> 0:01:00.160 Alaskan Front as part of the major war that has 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.080 led us to this dystopian reality. A soldier and damaged 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:08.320 power armor walks the battlefield. It's Cooper, later to be 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.560 the Ghoul. He and the remainder of his squad are 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:15.039 experiencing technical issues with their I think it's the T 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:20.360 fifty two power armor and Coop calls h Q and 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.160 is like, can we turn back. We're having problems with 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.840 our suits and they're like, no, you got a hold there, 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.440 So Coop thinking this looks like a suicide mission to me, 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:33.640 tells his like a direct underling, to like, you go 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.640 back to base and I'll be right behind you. And 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.319 the guy's like, Okay, you better be right behind me, 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.360 and he's like, yeah, I promise, but we know he 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.520 won't be. And then you hear like a roaring sound 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:49.560 over by the wreckage of a whirlerbird, and before he 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.960 can really figure out what that is, he is raked 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.280 by enemy fire. His suit locks up, he goes down. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.640 It's the Chinese army. They come over to inspect this 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.200 cool power armor and they're talking about like that it's 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.400 going to happen when they get power armour of their own. 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:08.200 But before they can either kill Coop or take him prisoner, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:13.200 a death claw attacks and absolutely shreds the Chinese with ease. 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.840 This is our first I was gonna say, vaunted monster 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.880 from the Fallout games. And it sniffs Cooper but for 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.320 some reason leaves him alone. And then moments later Cooper 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.480 hears that the battle is won, the Alaskan front has 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.959 been stabilized, and everybody, I guess can go home. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.920 Great good news for them. Yeah, I was really excited 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:35.920 to see the death Claw. This was actually something. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:39.200 They teased in the fallout maze at Universal Horranites. They 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.280 kind of had a shadow at the end because they 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.600 wanted to let people know, so that was very fun. 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:46.040 I mean, Jason, how many death Claws have you killed? 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.040 I've killed many death Claus Because you get seahb regular. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.240 It gets easier, it gets yeah, it gets easier, but 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.680 it's very difficult. Like they are. They have a million 0:02:57.760 --> 0:03:02.280 hit points. They're vicious and as you see in this episode, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:06.400 they're really strong and then throw you yeah. 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.080 Yeah. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.680 We flash forward back to the moments after the events 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:15.360 of episode three. Alas Harkness is dead as Jason correctly 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:20.520 called what happened sorry, Kamail, and Max caved his head in. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:24.000 With his super sledge. Then we're like, okay. 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:27.440 So I guess it's time to go, and FAD's like, yeah, great, 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.320 I'll just put my kids back to bottling this sasparilla 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:35.680 caprilla and then bomba boom. No you won't because they've 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:40.120 followed Max there and there's a pounding and he knows that. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.280 There's gonna be war and they're gonna kill all these kids. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:47.400 So in one of the most insanely bad plans, This 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:49.760 is Stranger Things level bad planning, but I love it 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:53.840 because it is really the only option. Maximus convinces Thaddius 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:56.000 to put on the armor and just pretend to be Harkness, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.360 but he doesn't really tell him anything about that him 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.800 or like give him any you know, directions. So Thaddeus 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.480 is like fuck it. He puts on the suit and 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.320 they attempt to. 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:09.520 Save the kids. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.880 One of Max's squad comes and there's like, hey, Aldoquences 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:15.160 is annoyed you and Zander h went off and you 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:15.720 are scheming? 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:17.719 Were you making plans? And where is he? 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:18.800 Could? 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.599 He like, that's a really important guy from the Commonwealth. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.880 And there he comes, but alas he's a he's tripping 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.400 over and stuff, but manages to sell it as. 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:31.000 He trips over and he falls over, but he kind 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:32.560 of goes, oh, just joking, just joking. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:37.400 And also I would say everyone is like so stressed 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:40.000 about the potential civil war that he gets away with 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:41.160 it a little bit more. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.680 Than he would have done. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.800 Lucy wakes up there at an NCR that and that 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:53.320 raggedy NCR base with the kind of like near elderly 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:56.680 NCR personnel who have no idea what's been going on. 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.960 New Calvernia Republic and are awaiting resupply any day now 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:07.240 from the base home base. The NCR scout insists that yeah, 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.039 there's like a you know, there's more of us, like 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:14.240 back of cheety sands of the new California Republic. There's 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.240 just like a lot of us. It's great. They have 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.400 no idea it's been destroyed. They try to convince Lucy 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.080 to stick around because you know, maybe you need to 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.279 join the NCR, you know, like we can work together here. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.080 But she's like, I got to go look for someone. 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.800 And they ask like, oh, it's someone you like or 0:05:30.839 --> 0:05:33.480 someone you hate, and she's like someone that's hurt a 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:35.880 lot of people, and she plans to bring him to justice. 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:37.760 And the NCR is like, hey, that's what we do 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:43.240 in case you're ever thinking about again joining us, and people. Yeah, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.560 the NCR officer gives Lucy access to whatever supplies they 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.320 have and she opens up a big chest and there's 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.279 like honey rifles, there's Ammo, lots of good stuff. Lucy 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.760 and the goal head off and the ghoul, you know, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:01.719 wonders what these NCR or Snell might have done or 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:04.960 might feel if they knew that Lucy's dad had blown 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:05.839 up shady stands. 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.080 I wonder how they would have felt well. In Vault 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.000 thirty three, things are bad. 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.960 Reggie's inbreeding shame group has grown, which you think is 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.680 like it's good, but there is a big. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:18.760 Snack budget, and. 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:22.480 Suddenly this is highlighting issues that are going on within 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:27.960 the rest of the struggling vaults. The crops are dying, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.039 the waters are being wasted. 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:32.040 Overseer Betty takes. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.920 Reg to task and is like, hey, why are you 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.800 wasting these resources on parties? Like we need them. There's 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.760 a short, serious shortage of clean water. But Reggie's like, hey, like, 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:44.680 I have a massive subculture here, and within it you 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.400 are very unpopular, so be careful. And Betty's like, yeah, 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.240 but that's because i'm you know, I run a government. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:54.760 And Reggie's like, well, finally we have our own group, 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.560 we have our own advocacy. We're not going to give 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.279 it up, and we want snacks and uh, the king 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.080 of people who are hungry. Lucy's feeling pretty cranky out 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.279 in the wasteland and the girls like, yeah, it's because 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.480 you're addicted to drugs and yeah, and he's and she's 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.640 like what and he's like yeah, Joseph Bubba, you've been 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:15.960 on it for days, like you you. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.960 Know you can. You can go through cold Turkey. It'll 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:19.360 take you a few days, it'll be horrible. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:23.880 Or just do some drugs and of course has more 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.480 drugs and she's like, yeah, am minute. 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:30.480 We covered the drugs of Fallout back in our season 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.640 in one coverage, but just as a quick update, A 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:38.320 buff out is like a supersteroid slash amphetamine that increases, 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:48.680 like dramatically increases, reflects time, endurance, strength, and makes you 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.320 feel real good and at least in the game. I 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.840 believe it's like a twenty five percent addiction rate. Every 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.160 time you use it, you have a twenty five percent 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.640 chance of getting addicted. And then when the drug wears 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:05.240 off addiction, unless you get treated for addiction, it lasts, 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.040 just like the ghoul said, like about a week, and 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:14.080 during that time your character will have like minus two 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.360 or three strength durance and just be weaker, dramatically weaker. 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.800 Back on the Brotherhood Ship, Max hears from Dane that 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.520 just as we thought, his trip with Xander Harkness has 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.160 caused a big stir. Dane, however, gets a look at 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.640 the fake Xander in the armor and and is like, okay, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:39.000 what's going Like what happened? He really realizes immediately, They 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.000 realize immediately as something's off. Max admits that he killed 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:48.320 the Commonwealth emissary and this means war, which he knows, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.839 and he knows that this means probably his own execution, 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.400 and that's why he knows that what he has to 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:58.200 do next is plan a coup and so he shares 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.559 this with Dane and they and they have something cooking. Meanwhile, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.240 on the surface, after their escape from the deep down 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:12.679 vault of Bud and his middle management project team, Norm 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:17.439 Lucy's brother and his team of young recently defrosted middle 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.760 managers are looting the area. They're eating like the any 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.080 kind of food that they find, just anything. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.240 Yeah, it's well for them, and it's only gags. 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.160 It's only getting worse. And some of the you know, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.200 one woman is trying to process the fact that like 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.840 to her because she's been frozen to her like she 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.040 had just been on the surface, like she had just 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:42.880 been in this on this intersection and it's now it's 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:47.560 all ruined. Ronnie, one of the recently defrosted, comes up 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:51.200 and he is a real go getter, very ambitious type 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:55.680 and it's seemingly in a dangerous way. He introduces himself 0:09:55.760 --> 0:10:01.800 to Norm as the former personal assistant to Bud aka 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.959 the brain jar, who is running the whole future Manager's project, 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:12.320 and he basically hints that he knows the secret like 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.560 breeding plans that were going on involved thirty one, thirty two, 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:20.640 and thirty three, and knows about the you know, the 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:26.320 role of Bud's secret to your middle manager training program. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:32.040 And Norm is like, how do you know this? And 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.320 Ronnie is like, well, because you know, I did lunch 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.240 orders for Bud, and so like I heard a lot 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.240 of things, and I saw the lists of people who 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:43.600 were receiving lunch, and basically I know what's going on. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.640 It's clear right away that this guy is going to 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:46.960 be a problem. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:52.400 Meanwhile, in the Annex tunnel, Betty and Steph are less 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.640 than happy about the fact that Steph found Bud, that 0:10:55.679 --> 0:11:02.480 Betty found Bud Atkins Bud Atkins upside down in a bucket, 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.760 and thirty one is now apparently abandoned and they are 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:10.800 officially the only two overseers left that they know of, 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.280 which is not good, as we will see. Because a 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.080 power vacuum leads to people being corrupt, but Betty asked 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.080 for help with thirty three's water issue. STEP's like, go 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.680 fuck yourself. Go the like I've got a baby, I 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:24.920 will fucking let you burn. 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.440 And thirty three is like, come on. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.400 The way we treat each other, the things that we do, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.240 the humanity that we bring, that's all that we have 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:37.280 in these spaces. But that's already clearly fallen off. And 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:39.560 Steph is like, Okay, I got a deal. Go do 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.000 a little quest for me. Go find a locked keepsake 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.320 box of Hanks. If you bring it back to me, 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.600 I will potentially think about sharing my water with you. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:53.600 And Betty's like, wait a minute, you basically just holding 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.040 us hostage, eh, And she's like, well, maybe I am, 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.200 but she doesn't seem to care. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.720 The Ghoul and Lucy are, you know, basically at the 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.640 gates of New Vegas, and the Ghul doesn't like the vibes. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.120 He looks around the area and he sees a gang 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.240 of greasers. This is a gang from New Vegas, although 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.080 unlike in the show, they are not goals in the 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:35.560 In the game, they're human beings, unradiated human beings, and 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.160 the gang is called the Kings and the gul is like, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.840 it's gonna be a big problem. We detour, but Lucy 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:45.600 is cracked out fully on. She is soaring, flying high, 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:47.960 and she's like no, no, no, no, no, we could do it. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.240 And the goul is like, okay, I kind of love it. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:54.760 Lucy goes in and just tears through the kings with 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:59.640 without any kind of problem. The increased increased speed, the 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.959 increase strength, her ability to just like shoot people off 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:09.959 reflex like snap snapshoot people is impressive. The only problem 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.080 is it's also very clear that Lucy's buff out addiction 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:14.640 is like spiral laying out of control. Like after that 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.520 she after she wipes them out, her hands are shaking 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:22.400 and she's not feeling particularly great. Meanwhile, and the cafeteria 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:28.680 of the Brotherhood ship, Thaddeus is you know, in Xander's armor, 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:34.600 not realizing that his mic and voice module are on, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:41.560 and he keeps saying to himself like I love this 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:44.600 is everyone loves me. This is great. Nobody nobody knows anything. 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:48.120 My name is Sander. Everybody can hear him again. And 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:51.600 while this is happening, Elder McCrae from one of the 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:56.160 other factions comes up to speak to who who she 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:00.240 thinks is emissary Harkness, but is in huge alice like, 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:03.320 I don't want to do this is basically like, hey, 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:09.920 we're ready to back you against Quintus, just let us know. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:14.440 And meanwhile, Dane is putting the plan into motion and 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.200 has taken all the young Paladins and move them to 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.960 like a safe spot, like some storage room and tells 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:21.880 them stay here until the shooting stops. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:25.600 Yeah, it's really interesting to me that we're getting to 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.720 see here that there's just no question that Max and 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:32.920 you know, Dane are better potential leaders when it comes 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.880 to like the future of the actual people in the Brotherhood, 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.320 but that is irrelevant to the Brotherhood. So I'm very 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:43.520 interested to see where this goes. He obviously, Max decides 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:45.360 the only thing he can do is go to Quintus, 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.800 and this has really been boiling for a while, so 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.120 he's basically like, hey, accidentally killed Xander. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:52.920 I got my gun out, and. 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.200 Uh, I guess this is I guess it's a little standoff. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:57.000 You don't have a gun. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.400 And then we head back out into the CAF materia 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:05.200 where everyone's pitching Thad Hearkness and it's really funny. We 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.880 have McCrae, we have the elder of the Coronado chapter, 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:12.000 and they're making their alliance pictures. They'll kill Quintus, don't worry. 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.120 Dane goes to the Fusion core as this is heading out. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.560 We're getting the plan parts coming together now. The tension 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:25.760 rises and Maximus explains how he and why he killed Harkness, 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.520 trying to get some empathy for the fact that there 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.520 were these school kids and he didn't want them to 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.200 die and they had his children, the little kid man, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.560 but he is not happy about that. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.800 Quintus is like, fuck you the Abominations. 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.040 They have a shootout and in the cafeteria we get 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:47.200 this absolutely great moment as McCrae stabs the Coronado leader 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.520 in the side of the mouth, going right here here 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.960 his tongue, and it's just about the Civil Wars just 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:53.760 about to pop off. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:54.400 But we get this. 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.800 Really great delivery from one of the other leaders that 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.520 he goes, oh, that was really cool, and it was 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.240 really cool, and just everything fucking pulps off. 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:09.080 So max does not. He basically chickens out of killing 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.880 Elder Quintas the shootout happens, he has to flee. Dane 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:18.800 finds him and says, here's a Fusion Core. Get out 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.400 of here, Like, just leave because it's going to get crazy. 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.640 As Max and Thaddeus flee across the desert, they see 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.160 that the Civil War has indeed begun because the different 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.360 faction ships are firing on each other and their ship 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:35.040 appears to be in flames and crashing wood. He reports 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:42.320 Steph's goes to oversee your Steph and basically says, Hey, 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:48.160 I have a report to file, an issue of something 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.200 that was improper that we need to put, you know, 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:56.760 on the books, and it involves your own behavior. The 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:01.360 rules state of the rules the Vault state that no 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:07.360 one is supposed to be in the intervault tunnels unless 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:11.160 they are there for trade purposes, and you were there 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:16.240 clearly there was no trade being done. Talking about weird 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.359 stuff like what were you doing there? And Steph basically says, 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.600 you mean overseers stuff and like, basically as a way 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:25.560 of saying, like, I actually don't need to answer your 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:34.440 question while that's happening, Chet, Steph's like indentured stuff in Duntur. Yeah, 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.800 that's a great way to put it. Indentured husband is 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.640 going through Steph's things just trying to be like, what's 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:46.159 up with this lady? And he finds her Canadian sports, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:50.640 Canadian drivers like Canadian American drivers. We'll get it. We'll 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:53.520 get more into like that whole thing later. And what 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.560 could this mean, Well, well, it clearly means that Steph 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.760 has had a life previous to the war and to 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:04.480 the vault reality and had some sort of you know, 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.479 basically grew to adulthood before the war outside and then 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.600 was frozen, which he knew nothing about. Woody presses like 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.320 one last time, what experiment? You know, what were you doing? 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.199 What were you what were you talking about? Like you 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.160 were talking about experiment? What was that? And she basically 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.919 tells me to fuck off. Meanwhile, on the streets of 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:24.200 New Vegas, it's empty Lucy's. They're walking around Lucy's like Dad, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.879 Da Dad, There's no one around it, but there's like 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:34.200 significant levels of radiation just concerning Lucy finds an egg coop. 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.840 The ghoul knows exactly what that means. It means a 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.640 death claw, and a death claw like comes the roars, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:43.439 and it like steps out of this doorway and stands 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.840 to its height and it's like a head crushes the 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:50.560 concrete like above its head just like shatters the side 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.200 of the building. It steps out, and Lucy's like, oh, 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.600 this is the problem. We got it right, and then 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:59.240 when she sees it, it's very clear that no, this 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.119 is gonna be a big problem. It's the kind exact 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.200 that in an episode. 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.160 You don't want to walk into just when you're high 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.200 on drugs, you know, even in the game, Like She's 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.560 my favorite thing is the way I think they do 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:13.560 a really good good job were at the beginning, the 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:16.720 death Clomate looks more like what you would expect from 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.600 like an evil dystopian creature. It's kind of like on 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.280 a fours it's right in Coop's face. But what I 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.160 love is that here we get to see it more 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.600 as this kind of like towering minotare demon that just 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.600 looks like there's no fucking way you're ever gonna defeat it, 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:35.280 like ever, And I love the once again we you know, 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.360 we end on Lucy's Oki Dookie. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.159 But honestly, if they get her a little bit more 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.359 buff out, she will take that thing. I believe it. 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:43.480 I saw the way she took down though she says 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.199 she's gonna she's gonna have to take more buff to 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:47.240 take down this death car. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.600 Okay, Jason, let's go to a break and then I 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.240 have many questions to ask you. 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:11.199 And we are back. Okay, Yeah, fun episode, So fun, Jason. 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.959 If you were going to kill any kind of gang 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:20.000 based on a Vegas trope, and obviously Lucy kills the 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.480 greases here, she's sick of Elvis's who would what zombified 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.800 people would you kill? I would kill zombified people drinking 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:30.040 those really giant like boozy containers. 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.200 Because I think it would just be really dangerous. 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:34.840 I think they would not be well like these Elvis 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.520 guys still got the Elvis has still got the Elvis 0:20:38.080 --> 0:20:41.399 guitar on, so I feel like the giant booze cup 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:45.199 slushy zombies, they still be drunk. That's my That's my 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.520 Vegas trope that I would I think I could take. 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.320 I think it was out. I think it'd probably be 0:20:50.320 --> 0:20:54.760 the MMA fans who are there incredible whenever there's a 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.560 big fight. It's always like just real thick neck guys 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:03.240 in m a year who are kind of quietly the worst. 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:09.440 That said, here's what I found interesting about this episode. 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:11.199 First of all, I love the death claw coming in 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:17.920 I love that the civil war is starting. I on STEP's, so, 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:23.000 Steph's let's let's quickly like run through the timeline of 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:27.119 the war that led to where we are now. So 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.960 and all of this comes again directly from the increasingly 0:21:34.000 --> 0:21:38.080 prophetic Fallout video game series. So in twenty fifty nine, 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:43.480 the US began because of a loss of the kind 0:21:43.520 --> 0:21:47.719 of using up of all the resources, natural resources that 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:51.879 the US had easy access to, there began to be 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.919 resource wars, and at that point the US began the 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:59.120 process of trying to annex Canada, which eventually they did 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:06.840 manage to do, and so by like twenties, the twenty sixties, 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:13.399 the twenty seventies, Canada is technically part of the US 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:18.200 and is called Little quote Little America and yeling prescient. 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:26.199 It's feeling disturbingly concerningly prescient. I found that to be 0:22:26.800 --> 0:22:31.720 quite interesting. And another thing I found that I quite 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.080 enjoyed is that we're starting to see some of the 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:39.359 plot lines converge. Now It's like Davy and Woody. I 0:22:39.400 --> 0:22:41.919 love them, They're really fun, but they feel a little 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:46.400 bit like a tertiary to what's going on. But now 0:22:46.440 --> 0:22:51.000 that Woody is starting to try to unravel like what 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:53.479 Steph is up to and potentially get to the bottom 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:57.520 of her involvement in the young in the bud Atkins 0:22:57.520 --> 0:23:01.919 like manager project and the general kind of breeding scheme 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:05.520 that was going on here. I think that's really interesting, 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:08.520 and I love that Max. It certainly appears that Max 0:23:08.600 --> 0:23:10.960 is going to be back with the main group soon. 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:13.919 Yeah, I definitely think so. I also am happy to 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:17.120 see the civil war happening. I think this episode highlighted 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:22.240 why the first season struck so hard, which is the 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:26.000 humor between the horror and the comedy is so well balanced, 0:23:26.200 --> 0:23:30.320 Like that sequence of Lucy killing those greaser gruls, like 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:33.919 this kind of new version of the Kings is so grotesque, 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:37.960 but we also get these moments with like Woody where 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:40.280 you get these broad comedy moments but that have this 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:42.840 little emotion in them. I think those character beats are 0:23:42.880 --> 0:23:45.800 so good. There were so many moments like the stabbing 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:48.040 in the face with the Brotherhood and stuff, where there's 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:52.520 just this tongue in cheek humor that really really sticks 0:23:52.560 --> 0:23:56.480 the landing and then doubles up when something emotional happens. 0:23:56.520 --> 0:23:59.480 I love Woody obviously, we love that acting incredible and Sverance. 0:24:00.560 --> 0:24:02.639 I want to see him team up with Chet. I 0:24:02.680 --> 0:24:05.679 want to see that takedown of Steph. Like I'm starting 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:08.080 to root for them now that everything in the Vaults 0:24:08.119 --> 0:24:11.480 is folding apap, the Vaults are now way more interesting 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:12.679 to me than they were before. 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:17.200