WEBVTT - Fallout | Season 2 Episode 6 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:06.360 Warning. Today's episode contains spoilers for Fallout episode six. The 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:26.680 word Hello, nam is Jason Stephne and I'm Mersey Night 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.560 and welcome back to ext Revision, the podcast where we 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.400 dive deep into your favorite shows, movies, comments, and pop culture. 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:34.720 Coming to you from My Heart Podcast. We're reading you 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.239 three episodes a week. Last news. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:42.920 Today, instead we're talking about a fallout. Can you believe it? 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:44.840 It's going to be Fallout. We get some coupe action, 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:46.560 some Bob action, and me and Jason are going to 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:48.519 be breaking it all down for you. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:54.200 First the recap, episode six, Season two Fallout. We open 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.680 in the past at a Voltech meeting where Barb is 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:06.920 watching a optimistic hypothetical presentation about the effects of a 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:13.039 potential nuclear strike on Los Angeles and the mainland of 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:17.199 the United States. Headline, it's not that big a deal. 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:21.920 You'd shrug it off, you know, hide under a door. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.480 That's what they always used to tell us when we 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.280 were kids. You like put a door like you wouldn't 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:27.839 necessarily gonna help. You know, it's not a big deal. 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.800 We're Vault Tech. You're gonna be in the vault. Everything's 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:34.200 good right down there now, worry about it. The vault 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:41.800 Tech c suite has flagged one issue with the Vaultech hardware, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.240 and that is the water chips, the water filtration chips 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.440 of which overseer Betty has been having such a hard 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.280 time with. They have a thirty percent fail rate. But 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.680 good news, they already know which chips are gonna fail, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:05.000 soh which leads me, why don't they just get rid 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.880 of the ones that we're going to fail and then 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.880 make more and then imagine whatever. They already know which 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:14.480 chips are going to fail, so they can actually decide 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.679 for the future which vault will in the future run 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:29.440 out of water. Meanwhile, corporations are terrible. It's crazy terrible. Meanwhile, 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:35.600 because of more good news, because of Vautech's high tech 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.640 and highly advanced alert system, the company is actually going 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.760 to be able to get their highest paying customers into 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.920 the vault more efficiently and more quickly. So don't worry, 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:51.680 guys about the nuclear holocausts. It's actually gonna be fine. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.360 You'll be okay, and your Amazon Prime will get you 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.680 in that quicker than anyone else. But don't worry. It's 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.919 just before you get in you're gonna find out some more, 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.920 a little bit more fake Bob House time. We're getting 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.799 some more Bob House time, but it's fake Bob House time. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.160 Hank is in there sitting notes, and we see fake 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:16.640 Bob presenting the Automated Man product aka as we know 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.520 it will be the rob Co Mind Control Chip. Bob 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.440 is basically like, hey, cold fusion, ColdFusion. You gotta give 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.519 me the ColdFusion. I need it so I can get 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.679 my shit in Vegas going. I need the cold fusion. Oh, 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.400 it's gonna go find Meanwhile, Bob mission going bad, and 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.640 then the past boom. We're out of it for now, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.560 but we're gonna go back and learn some big stuff 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.280 in the present. Well, the gul is still stuck on 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.920 that pole. Remember that I loved that opening. He's still there. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:49.080 He's rotting, the guts are coming out, giant flagpoles sticking 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.320 out of his guts. And of course the new Vegas 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.560 citizens just could not care less. They don't give a shit. 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:56.720 Who's this guy? Dog Meat shows up because that's Man's 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.280 best friends, their business. They don't care. They're like, why 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.520 it doesn't matter? So Google basically like, hey, dog Meat 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:06.000 ever wanted to be like a drug dealer, Can you 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.440 get me these medicine vials over there? And then I 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.240 won't turn into a ghoul and he passes out into 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.560 blackness and we don't see anything else. 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:21.960 I will. I'm disappointed in dog Meat this season. There's 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.480 a dog Meat is kind of just running away and 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:26.320 not doing much. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.960 And that's how it would be in the game. Right 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:29.720 in the. 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.880 Game, dog meat has been I'm not the dog meat 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.880 is not your best companion, but dog meat is there 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:42.159 for you. Dog Meat will carry extra junk and gear 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:43.800 if you need dog meat to do that. Dog Meat 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.760 will attack. Dog Meat will help you. Dog Meat in 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.160 the in the in the show, not not doing very 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:53.679 much and it's upsetting to me. We go back to Vegas, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.600 we go back to the recollection of the Summit. Cooper 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.840 is upset. He's in the hotel room. He's asked bar Blake, 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.720 were you always a monster or did you just become 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.240 a Oh what? He's like, I know that you plan 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.280 to nuke the world. You're gonna drop the fucking bomb. 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.200 Fun hotel conversation, pillow talk. 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:20.240 Yeah. Meanwhile, Lucy wakes up all healed up in a 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:26.960 nice vault bed. Clearly in the vault tech subterranean headquarters 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:31.039 under New Vegas that her father Hank, has been lurking 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.240 in and working in for low these past weeks. She 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.160 sneaks out. She finds a room with all these mind 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:44.120 controlled you know, machine man robo chip people in there, 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.800 and they're all working in this very kind of pluribus 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:49.960 type high ho high ho off to work we go 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:56.360 type choreography. Hank is there and you know, they they chat. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:59.560 He's preparing a meal for her. He's like, hey, remember 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.719 back of the well, you were gonna read all quite 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:03.720 on the Western Front, and we never talked about it. 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.880 And she's like, oh, well, I am. You know, I 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:09.800 didn't finish it. Also, I found the book, you know, 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:15.680 and the and the depiction of soulless, remorseless warfare that 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:21.880 destroys everything beautiful about humanity very disturbing, and hands like, oh, 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.520 let's talk about it more. He's like, I found, uh, 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.320 you know, I also found it troubling that it seemed 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.880 like the soldiers were fighting for nothing. And you know 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.280 what that reminds me of life on the surface, nothing 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:38.839 like life in a vault where life has meaning. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.720 Oh, life has meaning in the vault. Lucy's like absolutely 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.880 fucking not. And just like Jabs, a pair of sys 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.360 is his throat, which I love. I have to say 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.839 I think that Lucy Hank Costing is so good in 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:54.240 this show because we get this great moment where Hank 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:58.159 is just completely nonplus, like he believes still that he 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.400 can get Lucy on his side, and she says, you know, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.320 I'm gonna take you to justice. She sort of starts 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.640 to march him out, and he's like, no, you got 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:07.080 to understand, like I did it for you. I love you. 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:09.920 You're my special little girl. And and by the way, 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.080 I'm making the world a better place. No one will 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.600 be fighting each other anymore. Everyone's gonna get along, Like please, 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.280 just just come with me, and she's like no, and 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:22.480 then we slam over to area fifty one, where we 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:26.600 see Thaddeus in the stock coming out of the stolen 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:28.880 power armor, one of my favorite scenes with him pretending 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:34.160 that he was, you know, the very fancy Undaddius like 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.960 Commonwealth power armor. Max stays at the fusion cores and 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.840 Daddius is like, fuck it, we're gonna sell it. We 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.640 can do it. This is great and Max is like. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:43.800 No, I want to save the world. 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.320 My guy like, and Daddius is like, oh, we could 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:48.920 just sell it and like live happily with these ghoul 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:53.080 children that you saved. The discussion continues by a campfire, 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.720 and honestly, you can really see that this is like 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.280 a true friendship in this very fucked up, messed up 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.480 world of four well out. I recently chatted to Francis 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.400 turn who plays Bob, and we were kind of talking 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.160 about one of the reasons the show's hits is these 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.200 kind of quiet character moments you get, and we get 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.320 that here where Max sort of reveals that he thinks 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.440 the best thing to do is give the Fusion Core 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.200 to Lucy, because he thinks Lucy is a good person, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.680 and thats is like, well, wouldn't you also be a 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.840 good person if you fucking grew up in the vault 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.000 and had water and food and all these incredible things 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.600 and safety and the idea that there were things around you. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.960 He thinks good people are really people with the means 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.880 to be good, and I love that read. I think 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.320 it's really interesting Max. Of course, he disagrees, and he 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.440 recalls his time in Shady Sands, where there was a 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.440 true community, or working class community, and he still has 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.280 that inside him and wants to bring that back. And 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.240 I love that it's such a good, well written interaction 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.560 because they're both right. It's so good. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:54.920 Yeah, they are on some level both right. Max is 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.040 right that you can build a community of people who 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.040 are trying to do the right thing. And I think 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.840 that is is us so correct in that this is 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.640 a dogg eat dog world. And Shady Sands got blown 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:10.560 up and they're gone now exactly back on the strip, 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.800 it's nighttime. The ghoul is still stuck on the pole. 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:16.559 He is thinking of his daughter, He's thinking of her 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:20.960 somewhere alive in a cryotube. And he gin's up enough 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:26.320 strength to like get it at the top of the bowl. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.960 And he gets to the part of the top of 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.480 the flagpole that has that big ball on top of it. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.400 I don't know what that ball is called, but at 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.240 the top of the flag pole. Yeah, and he's trying 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:43.600 to now he's got to get his wound past that 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.080 big ball, and he can't do it. He can't do it, 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.320 and he slides back down the pole and the death 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:54.640 claws are circling now. But then something huge approaches and 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.120 with a little flick of the back of its hand 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.720 knocks the top of the pole off just like Bink bink, 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:06.079 and picks Cooper off the pole and carries them away, 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.480 and it's very clearly a super mutant of some kind. 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:14.000 The supermutans finally arrive in the game. Back in thirty three, 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:20.040 Regges in Bread support group parties are like have reached 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:26.400 full roaring twenties type fervor where it's like, fuck everything, 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.480 who cares what's going on in the wire vault. We 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.679 are eating snacks, we've got full recent, we've got soda, 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:37.560 we've got water flowing into the soda string creating the water. 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:39.880 It's going great. We love it. We're soaking up all 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:43.240 the resources. Fuck everybody outside. It's great and here in 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.120 this party, and that party is just popping off. When 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.600 overseer Betty arrives with the cops to finally put an 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:53.599 end to the madness, she's like snack budget gone, group dissolved, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.559 that's it, it's over. And redg then tries to negotiate, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.760 and you know, basic talking about how this is like 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.400 his right as an American and all of their rights 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.840 is in bred Americans, so like, you know, never stop 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.000 dreaming of a better day. Where the snacks are endless 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:15.080 and the water flows like like water. Betty reiterates that, Listen, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.080 we're running out of water like wet water. All the 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.320 water in this place is in here, and you're wasting 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:26.079 rations and there's no time for this. And then Reg 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.800 launches into like basically like a Vault thirty three first 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.079 type agenda where he's like, you originally for thirty one, 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.320 you're a weirdo. I don't trust anybody from thirty one. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.880 You don't get the culture of thirty three, and Betty 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.160 basically goes soft and let's get it, like, why did 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.120 you come here with all these cops. I'm just gonna 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:47.320 get walk the fuck away. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:49.320 I was trying to work out, do you think in 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.600 that moment she's just trying to like stop it from 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.840 blowing up, Like I don't know what her plan was, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.320 but I feel like I got to know more about 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.600 what Betty's thinking because she's making some bad decision. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.959 She's a fucking she's soft, she's a freezers. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:06.520 Jason said, she saw be tough on crime. 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:06.839 Bitch. 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.839 Come on, Betty, you're the overseer that's a tough on 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:12.839 crime type of name. Meanwhile, in thirty two. Oh, poor Chet. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.160 When will Check get some justice for Chet? That's what 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.360 I want to know. Chet learns that Woody has gone 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:21.640 missing after his ominous meeting with Steph that he oversaw, 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.800 and then he learns that he himself. Chat is getting 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:27.920 married to Steph tomorrow and there are flyers everywhere and 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.520 he has no bloody idea. That is not the only 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.520 exciting news though, because the Ghoul wakes up on a rack. 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.480 Ghol girlies, I know you're going to be loving this 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:42.319 one because he's shirtless and the supermutant played by the 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:48.280 original inspirer of all monster fuckers everywhere, Ron Perlman. Incredible casting. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:51.000 They kept this one a secret. I love this so much. Yes, 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.680 who obviously played Beating the Beast, Hellboy many different monsters 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.400 that many women have wanted to make love to. I 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.280 love that they put him in here and now he 0:12:58.400 --> 0:12:59.160 is fixing the. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:03.679 Ghuls, gaping Torso Hole, Thunder, the Hunchback in name of 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.960 the Rose, like He's sea have lost children when it 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:14.440 comes to like possibly deformed outcasts. No one has that 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.960 corner lockdown like Ron Perlman. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.400 That man has got his niche un lock and we 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.640 love him and he's like seventy and all the monster 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:23.600 fucker girl. He still love him and they still gonna 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.560 love him even more after this. So guess what great news. 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.280 There's gonna be more monsters and more mutants because the 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.280 reason the super mutant is helping the Goal is he 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.120 tells him that there is a war coming and we 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:40.240 need you healthy. The Supermuni explains that the Gul basically 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:43.280 like he's now essentially one of the last of his kind. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.400 They have hunted supermutants to extinction, but he is on 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:50.400 a mission of revenge against Bomb but a bump bump bump, 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:54.240 the Enclave, which we have kind of been talking about 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:56.440 in the lead up. We haven't seen yet, but we 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.319 thought they might come, and he basically wants to enlist 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.680 the Goal in the fight, which I think very fucking clever, honestly, 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.720 because the Goal can survive anything like this man is 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.960 a different level of legendary kill, a legendary kind of assassin. 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.040 It makes sense to have him on this. And then 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:15.840 we're going to be going back to New Vegas for 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.320 a little emotional flashback, which I will hand back over 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.640 to Jason because Bob and Coop shit is getting crazy 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:33.120 Barbari coopshit is getting crazy. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:38.400 We flash back again Cooper and barb arguing about whether 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:44.080 it's bad or good to start a nuclear war question 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:49.200 in the bombs yourself in a false flag operation of 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:54.640 genocidal proportions. We learn in another flashback within a flashback crazy. 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:57.400 It's like a nesting doll of flashbacks, which I have 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.920 to say, inception, Yeah, you and I are are our 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.360 experienced TV and story watchers agree. I think this was 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.560 a little bit of a confusing structure. I think this 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:12.520 is a little can people follow this or people following this? 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.880 Like I'm not saying that obviously audiences are very smart, 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.920 but I think this is like a little this is 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:21.240 hat within a hat, said arm hat. This is like 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:22.640 hat inside of hat. 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:27.000 I fully agree because people were confused by the time 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.440 shifts at the beginning of Heat had rivalry, which if 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.240 you were not on your phone, were easy to follow. 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:37.080 This will baffle, but once you rewatch, it's cool because, 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.800 like I was speaking to Francis, You're gonna be able 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.080 to tell that on our news episode, there is an 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:44.440 element of mystery box to Bob and Coop's relationship that 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.160 we start to unravel hair but yeah, no, I agree 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:49.680 that the I had to double check that this was 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.320 a flashback within a flashback, and it was a flashback, 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:53.240 so a flashback. 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.280 We got to a flashback within a flashback. And what 0:15:55.320 --> 0:16:03.400 we learn is that earlier barbed about the way things 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:09.480 geopolitically and potentially like with regards to corporate leadership of 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:15.920 the United States, is going asks young Betty about the 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:20.600 cold fusion diode, how it stored security around it, and 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:24.840 basically clearly is plotting to steal the diode so that 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.080 she could give it to Bob House and Rob Co, 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:32.600 thus stealing the deal. The cold Fusion doll Ben from 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:33.800 Lost shows. 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:35.880 Up, like where did that come from? 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:46.760 Sure, it's young or the same doctor Siggy Willzig who 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:51.520 we saw in season one as dog Meat's original owner 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:58.920 and a kind of I guess indentured scientist working in 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:04.400 the in the working for the Enclave somehow doing research 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.520 for the Enclave. He shows up and is like, listen, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.720 you don't know me. I'm not going to introduce myself, 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:17.120 but you have to get the cold fusion and give 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.320 it to Bob House, and you have to do it 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.320 or your whole family will die. Just as I had 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.800 to deliver this message to you or my entire family 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:26.320 would die. 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:28.000 Uh oh. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:33.119 And then we flash minutely forward again to the summit 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.840 in Vegas, where Barb is at the meeting with fake 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:41.880 rob House. Bob House. Fake Bob House, you know, is like, hey, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.040 the robotic man, here's this mind control chip. It's great 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.640 and this you know, we will supply this in return 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:54.199 for the cold fusion. And then Barb immediately because of 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.440 this exchange, it seems that pushed her over the edge 0:17:56.480 --> 0:18:00.199 with doctor Wilzig says, you know what, what if we 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:04.040 drop the bomb? What if we drop the bombs? What? Meanwhile, 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.800 so then we flash all the way forward within the 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:13.399 flashback back to Coop and Barb in Vegas having this argument. 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.280 She's so this lets us know that this flashback within 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:21.960 a flashback, Barb has told Cooper right, and so she's 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.640 now saying, you know, I don't know who runs vall Tech, 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.680 but somebody is running it secretly who I didn't. I 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.080 don't know who they are, but there's some other secretive 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:34.760 force that's behind Valltech. Coop wants to find out, but 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.879 he is told that he can't stop what's coming. A 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:44.080 little confusing within the show section there, and we hope 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.080 this makes it more clear, but it's what we've basically 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:53.479 learned is that there is some kind of secretive group 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:59.680 or person that is running Vault Tech and making decisions 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.760 that are unaccountable to anybody. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.440 Yes, and it does seem like this kind of implication 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:11.480 here of finally getting to understand that Bob and Cooper 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.960 ironically have kind of been doing the same thing in 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:17.119 different timelines, like he is going around killing everyone for 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:19.119 his family and she was willing to do the same. 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:23.399 Really interesting stuff, speaking of messed up family relationships, we 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:27.399 have Lucy marching Hank through the Vault offices where we 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:31.560 see his very creepy mind control work office just toiling 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.960 like there were workers of wastelanders. They've clearly been made 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:40.600 up into these weird mind controlled worker drones. Hank is 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:43.120 obviously like, their lives are so much better now. Look 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:45.879 at them. They they don't have scars on they've got 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:47.560 scars on their faces, but they're not trying to kill 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.800 each other. And Lucy is trying to free them. She's like, hey, guys, 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:54.800 you haven't been mind controlled, Like, please let these guys go, Hank, 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.040 and a scuffle breaks out, Lucy has to kill one 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.960 of the guys to stop the guy killing the other guy. Lucy, 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.359 he presses the button and raises their brains and in 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:07.720 that moment does exactly what Hank wants. And then as 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:11.760 we see our supermutant dragging the ghoul somewhere, Cooper remembers 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.720 how back in Vegas he took Hank opt his room 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.719 and tried to slip him the stuff that Moldava passed 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.000 him the mystery du so we know it wasn't to kill, 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.280 We now know it was to drug. It works. Hank 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.400 blacks out and boom. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:32.320 Coop then opens the case that's attached to Hank's wrist 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:34.920 that he's been wearing for the last couple of episodes, 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:39.000 and he finds like this weird injector thing that's actually 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:44.800 like a it's actually like a revealer, not quite an injector. 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.440 It's for taking something out of something. Barb comes back. 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:50.720 She takes the injector, she shoots it into Hank's skull 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:56.920 and it removes the cold fusion diale that Rais's head. 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:02.040 So her heists is successful and she now has the 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:06.240 coin by which she can start the nuclear war. The 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:11.320 thing that Bob House wants so dearly this cold fusion diode. Meanwhile, 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:14.159 back in the way sat dog Ney it carries the 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.600 ghules hat to Max and Fattius, who are then led 0:21:17.720 --> 0:21:20.400 in turn to the Ghul who is recovering in some 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:24.440 shack somewhere. Our band is getting back together, Rosie. Let's 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.200 take a quick break and discuss this episode when we return. 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:43.760 How we're back? Okay, Wow, So a lot to unpack here, 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:50.199 because again I think an unnecessarily overly convoluted episode. But 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.919 we learned some important things. One that Voltech there's some 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:59.879 conspiracy behind Vaal Tech that and two that Barb was 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.240 has been much more active in events than we understood, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.000 and that Barb might have some other secret plan that 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.440 she has enacted and that is running somewhere in the 0:22:12.440 --> 0:22:16.560 background that we don't know about. And we learn that 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:20.680 ben Lionis is in the show. 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:26.800 We learn the on claim as a thing. 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:32.040 Maybe the Enclave is a thing. That's right, the Enclave 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.919 is a thing. So let's talk about these, Rosie. What's 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:37.800 what your thoughts on this episode and what struck you. 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.680 My biggest standout and this is why we we really 0:22:40.720 --> 0:22:42.400 work to get Francis on the show, you'll be able 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:45.119 to go on Sunday on Saturday with news. I just 0:22:45.200 --> 0:22:48.199 really wanted to know more about Bob. I think that 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:50.199 the show has done such a great job of building 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:53.920 in all these really interesting characters, even the ancillary characters, 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:57.280 you know, Betsy, people like that. Norm All these kind 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:01.240 of stories often center around these interactions, but we don't 0:23:01.280 --> 0:23:03.760 really get to have any personal interactions with Bob. In 0:23:03.800 --> 0:23:05.920 season one, we thought she was just kind of a homemaker, 0:23:05.920 --> 0:23:08.879 and then we got that huge reveal, and then in 0:23:08.960 --> 0:23:11.720 season two, now I was like, come on, okay, I 0:23:11.720 --> 0:23:13.480 need to know what motivates her. And I love that 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:15.880 they have just made it textually like hey, if you've 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:18.480 been judging her, but you've been supporting Coop on his 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.680 way to find her, then you basically are hypocrite. And 0:23:21.760 --> 0:23:24.200 I love when stories do something like that to us. 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:26.680 So that really struck me. I think you're right. When 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:28.720 I was rewatching the episode, I was thinking a lot 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:31.159 about the flashback usage, and I think it was a 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:34.120 way for them to not do lots of like exposition 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:37.000 of them just talking about what happened. But I also 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:40.320 do think it is a little bit inceptiony, like Paprikrey 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:42.399 dream in a Dream, in a Dream in a Dream. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.960 I love Ron Palman, obviously, I love that casting. I 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:50.520 love the suit immutants. Jason, what are your thoughts on 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:53.160 this episode and now where do you see the last 0:23:53.160 --> 0:23:58.480 three episodes going, because we're in big third act territory 0:23:58.520 --> 0:24:00.320 here with a lot of stuff being set up. 0:24:01.720 --> 0:24:05.840 Well, my thoughts are, first of all, you know, this 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:09.800