‘Fallout’ Season 2 ending explained: Dissecting the biggest moments from the finale

He falls Season 2 is now over, but the show has a lot of fuel in the tank. Amazon renewed Hit video game adaptation for Season 3 before the final episode premieres, which dropped on Prime Video this evening, leaving a bunch of narrative breadcrumbs to speculate about.

The eighth and final episode closed out the major storylines of the season as Maximus (Aaron Moten), Lucy (Ella Purnell), and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) found what they had been searching for all this time. But, as I’ll explain below, the results weren’t all sunshine and rainbows.

Cockroaches and death claws appeared in full force in this episode, reminding viewers that this place wasn’t called the “Wasteland” for nothing. But, as with many things, the real threat is people competing for control. Let’s get into the biggest moments in the Fallout Season 2 finale.

Before we continue, let this be your warning: there is Main story spoilers below.

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Maximus

Fallout Season 2 found Maximus turning away from the Brotherhood because the heavily armored faction’s version of justice didn’t suit him. Instead, he focused on finding Lucy, whom he broke up with at the end of the first season.

Maximus has stepped into his own power this season. This is not the same Maximus who was introduced in the first season. He has been battle tested, and this quality was on full display during his brawl with the Deathclaws in New Vegas. Ultimately, of all the storylines associated with this episode, Maximus feels the most hopeful — his mission was one of honor and love. He achieved both.

Lucy

For more than half the season, Lucy has taken a trip to New Vegas with the ghouls. They both share the same mission: to find Lucy’s father, Hank, and stop him from hurting people. However, Lucy found Hank before the ghoul did, and in the lead-up to this episode, she found out firsthand about the twisted experiments he was performing on people. More on that shortly.

Like Maximus, the wasteland changed Lucy. It’s no longer an easy sign to believe any lie Hank throws her way. His motivation to complete this work and reprogram the motley group of violent people found wandering the desert did not sit well with Lucy. In the end, she didn’t get the solution she was looking for. Instead, her final moment with her father was a foreshadowing of the larger drama he had in mind all along: war.

Hank

Despite the vileness of Hank’s actions, I consistently found Kyle MacLachlan’s performance to be quite convincing. Is Hank evil? I think so. But the character has always based all of her decisions in the love he has for her daughter and in the so-called idea of ​​the common good.

Hank’s work miniaturizing the technology that turns people into compliant vegetables is a small part of the bigger picture that Fallout has yet to fully reveal. The Enclave was talked about several times throughout these episodes, but it wasn’t until the final episode that we got a look at the complex.

Ogre

Watching Walton Goggins strut across the wasteland like a ghoul is something I will never tire of. However, one of the most compelling aspects of the season was the espionage-filled backstory of his pre-mutation character, Hollywood actor and Vault-Tec spokesman Cooper Howard.

We all know that the world is experiencing a nuclear apocalypse. However, the stakes of these flashbacks were surprisingly high, providing deeper insight into why it all happened in the first place. It’s an annoying thing to write, but the idea here is that a group of wealthy investors and shadowy characters put a plan into action to build vaults for them to reside in while they blow up the world in order to reshape it to fit their twisted utopian vision.

This group of oligarchs and government players is also known as The Enclave. Episode 7 found Howard delivering that little vial of cold fusion to the President (Clancy Brown), having no one else he could trust, only to eventually realize that he had delivered that weapon/power source directly to the aforementioned shadow government agency.

Cooper ended up falling and was taken away in handcuffs. I kept wondering where exactly we were in the timeline, because we already know that when the bomb drops, he’ll be at his daughter’s birthday party. I assume more answers will arrive next season.

Back to the ghoul. His journey this season brought him to New Vegas, not to confront Hank, but to find his wife and daughter. He was operating on the idea that they were alive and safe in the vault specially designated for the administration. However, when he finally arrived, he found their cold rooms empty and a postcard from Colorado on the floor.

With renewed hope, he ventured back into the desert with his dog to continue his mission to find his family.

What’s the deal with Stephanie?

Stephanie Harper confused me as a character. It turns out that she, like the ghoul, is over 200 years old. She appears in Cooper’s flashbacks and ends up marrying Hank, but her entire deal remains shrouded in mystery. But she appears to be teaming up with the Enclave, as her final moment in the episode finds her talking to the Pip-Boy to start the second phase.

The question is, what is this second stage, anyway?

About the post-credit scene

I mentioned earlier that war is coming. The final moments of the episode find Maximus and Lucy looking on at a crowd of Legionnaires making their way to New Vegas. To be honest, I wasn’t a fan of the Legion story, but ending the episode with a war on the horizon opens up all kinds of story possibilities for season three.

This brings me to the post-credit scene. In it, Dane rushes the remains to Elder Cleric Quintus, leader of the Brotherhood of Steel, the faction to which Maximus once belonged. The sounds of battle surround their compound, and we find Quintus bloodied and defeated.

“Out of the virtue in my heart, I have tried to unite the Brotherhood,” Quintus told Dain. “Now look where it’s gotten me. It doesn’t matter. Quintus, the Unifier, is dead. Quintus, the Destroyer, is born.”

The remains are revealed to be a blueprint for Liberty Prime Alpha, a giant and powerful combat robot used by the government before the bomb was dropped. This teaser references a major plot point in the video game Fallout 3, as the Brotherhood of Steel uses this weapon in their war against the Commonwealth.

Fallout Season 2 is streaming in its entirety on Prime Video.