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The wasteland awaits! Before diving into the next chapter of Amazon's post-apocalyptic adventure, join us as we explore the essential plot points from season one of "Fallout." Our countdown includes Knight Maximus's promotion, the truth about Vault-Tec's sinister plans, and Hank's shocking betrayal. What conspiracy theories are you hoping get resolved in New Vegas?
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00:00A nuclear event would be a tragedy, but also an opportunity.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 things to remember before watching Season 2 of Fallout.
00:15You coming?
00:18Number 10, Knight Maximus.
00:20There's nowhere safe, Max. And there's no leaving. I wish there was.
00:26We seriously doubt that Maximus will have a villain arc in Season 2, but we have to be honest, things aren't looking good.
00:33In the finale, Maximus leads the Brotherhood assault on the observatory, where he observes Moldaver's cold fusion reaction.
00:40Before dying, Moldaver tells Maximus that the Brotherhood is not to be trusted, that they will likely utilize the cold fusion for their own gains, and that he should attempt to sabotage their efforts from within.
00:50What do you suppose your Brotherhood would do with infinite power?
00:56Maybe you can stop them. Maybe you can't.
01:06Maybe all you can do is try.
01:08She then dies from a gunshot wound, and other Brotherhood members falsely deduce that Maximus killed her.
01:13With that, Maximus is promoted, his brothers-in-arms hailing him as Knight Maximus.
01:18How will his newfound power come into play? And will he heed Moldaver's warnings?
01:22All hail Maximus! That shall be Knight hereafter!
01:26All hail Knight Maximus!
01:28All hail Knight Maximus!
01:31All hail Knight Maximus!
01:32Number 9, New Vegas.
01:35But when his tin can sold, friends take this place, and they gonna take this place.
01:40They will kill you and everybody here.
01:43Or you could come meet your makers.
01:56It's kind of hard to forget, considering the powerful final image, the promotional material, and the legacy of the game.
02:02But we're heading to New Vegas.
02:04Viva New Vegas!
02:05The very last scene of Season 1 shows Hank McClain observing the city from a distance, the lucky 38 unmistakable in the orange horizon.
02:12Why he's going there remains unknown, but it almost certainly has something to do with Vault-Tec.
02:16You look out at this wasteland, it looks like chaos.
02:26But there's always somebody behind the wheel.
02:30And that's who I want to talk to.
02:32That's where your daddy is headed.
02:37We won't spoil anything here, but non-game players are in for a treat, as New Vegas is filled with rich lore, gorgeous locations, and unforgettable characters.
02:45And as this show is canon with the game, we can guarantee that they'll be included.
02:49Like yourself, I am the very best at what I do.
02:53And what I do...
02:58Is I know everything.
03:04Number 8. Thaddeus
03:05I've seen this condition before.
03:08Someone stepped on my foot.
03:10Yes, sometimes fatal.
03:12But you're in luck, because I've got the cure.
03:14Johnny Pemberton memorably portrays Thaddeus, Maximus' squire.
03:18Well, Knight Titus' squire, technically.
03:20But Maximus is assuming his identity.
03:22His storyline ends quite memorably, as he trades Maximus' fusion core for a mysterious yellow serum in order to heal his mangled foot.
03:30The serum salesman critically tells Thaddeus that after consuming the liquid, he will no longer need to worry about radiation.
03:36This, combined with his newfound healing ability, strongly suggests that the serum is turning him into a ghoul.
03:51Some fans disagree, arguing that this is just an obvious red herring, and that Thaddeus is turning into something far more horrific.
03:58Some think that the serum is actually a variety of the forced evolutionary virus, and that Thaddeus is becoming a super mutant.
04:04Thaddeus.
04:06I think you might be a ghoul.
04:10Oh, no.
04:12Number 7.
04:13Vault-Tec.
04:14Time is the apex predator.
04:17And in the event of an incident, time is the weapon with which we will defeat all of our enemies.
04:24That is how we will win the great game of capitalism, not by outfighting anyone, but by outliving them.
04:31Fallout tackles a variety of genres, including conspiracy thriller.
04:34Throughout the series, we learn that Vault-Tec is far more nefarious than it lets on, and that it may have even destroyed the world for the sake of its own shareholders.
04:42In one meaningful flashback, we see Cooper's wife, Barb Howard, meet with a number of Vault-Tec investors.
04:49Here, she discusses the great plan, which begins with dropping various nukes and instigating the great war themselves.
04:55It's a fun idea.
04:57There's a lot of earning potential with the end of the world.
05:01But we're talking about making a significant investment based on a hypothetical.
05:07How can you guarantee results?
05:10By dropping the bomb ourselves.
05:12They will then hide in the Vaults, use them as testing grounds for social experiments, and then repopulate the world with themselves entirely in control.
05:20Put simply, Vault-Tec wants to inherit the Earth, and they are absolutely not to be trusted going forward.
05:24We have over a hundred Vaults spread across America.
05:30Enough for each of you to claim several, where you can play out your own ideas for how to create the perfect conditions for humanity, whatever you want to do.
05:42Number six, Moldaver's past.
05:45Where are you taking it?
05:48To the real world.
05:50You should see it sometime.
05:51When we're introduced to Lee Moldaver, it's 2296, and she is raiding Vault 33.
05:57But then we're thrown a bit of a twist in episode six.
06:00Moldaver predates the great war.
06:02She was around in 2077, going by what is presumably her real name of Miss Williams.
06:07She was a scientist working on cold fusion, but Vault-Tec purchased and then buried her technology,
06:12fearing that infinite energy would undermine their business opportunities.
06:15My research company was acquired by her division.
06:18We were developing this kind of technology that's difficult to monetize.
06:23Cold fusion, infinite energy.
06:26That's what I was on the verge of achieving when Vault-Tec swept in and bought up every company I'd ever worked for.
06:32She also met with pre-war Cooper and gave him the listening device that he later used to spy on Barb and learn the truth of Vault-Tec's ambitions.
06:40Hopefully season two will answer one burning question on everyone's minds.
06:43How did Moldaver not only survive, but not even age over the last two centuries?
06:48America has been locked in a resource war for over a decade.
06:52Vault-Tec bought the means to end that war.
06:55The same war you fought in.
06:57So they could put it on the shelf?
06:59All because it didn't fit into their business model.
07:01Number five, Betty and Hank in 2077.
07:04You want to know how I know your daddy, don't you?
07:07Let's just say that everything about your whole little world was decided over 200 years ago.
07:13And speaking of people's pasts, we learn that both Hank and Betty were Vault-Tec employees in the pre-war era.
07:18Hank used to work as an assistant to Cooper's wife, Barb, and Cooper even met Hank in person, albeit in a much younger form.
07:25Mr. Howard, huge fan.
07:28I'm Henry, but everyone calls me Hank.
07:30He was then put into cryosleep, we'll get to that later, reawakened in 2268, and sent to Vault-33, where he became overseer.
07:41Suffice to say, his loyalties still lay with Vault-Tec.
07:44And if you don't remember, Betty Pearson is the present-day overseer of Vault-33, having taken the mantle after Hank was kidnapped by Moldaver.
07:51Like Hank, she was also an assistant of Barb, and she also met Cooper before the Great War.
07:56By the way, Mr. Howard, there's a new guy who works with Barb, Henry.
08:02He's a really big fan of yours.
08:04Yes, Henry.
08:06He has called the house a few times.
08:09Do you mind if I bring him by, just to meet you for a moment?
08:12Number four, Hank newt Shady Sands.
08:15And when she decided not to return home,
08:19he took the children,
08:20and he burned that city to the ground.
08:26For much of season one, Hank is depicted as a sympathetic character,
08:30but that is entirely thrown out the window in the twist-filled finale.
08:33Not only do we learn about his loyalties to Vault-Tec,
08:36but we learn that he is responsible for the biggest loss of life this side of the Great War.
08:40Probably.
08:41That's how Vault-Tec deals with competition.
08:44Just like they did 200 years ago.
08:46Hank's wife Rose fled to the surface, deducing that civilization had returned.
08:51She took their children, Lucy and Norman,
08:52and fled to a nearby settlement called Shady Sands.
08:56Realizing that the city was becoming its own stable government under the new California Republic,
09:00Hank had the city nuked.
09:02It ensured Vault-Tec's supremacy,
09:04and killed who knows how many people,
09:05including Rose,
09:07who turned into a ghoul from the resulting radiation.
09:09My mother.
09:14What happened to her?
09:19I think you know.
09:20Number 3.
09:21The Ghoul's Family.
09:22Can I have a slice, Dad?
09:24Let me see.
09:26If I can't wrestle you up, please.
09:29One major storyline that season two will, or should be tackling,
09:33is the search for the ghoul's family.
09:34As we learn in the finale,
09:36it's highly probable that his family is still alive,
09:38and out there somewhere,
09:39likely under Vault-Tec's control.
09:41The last time we saw Barb was in that meeting with Vault-Tec investors,
09:45and we learned that she and Cooper had gotten a divorce.
09:47Why the hell is Cooper Howard working kids' birthday parties?
09:51What else?
09:52Alimony.
09:53And while we assume that his daughter Janie died in the Great War,
09:56it's heavily insinuated that she is also alive.
09:58As it stands,
09:59both the ghoul and Hank's daughter Lucy
10:01are now following him to New Vegas,
10:03hoping that he will lead them to other Vault-Tec executives,
10:06and maybe the ghoul's long-lost family.
10:08But you let him go.
10:09Well, it's easier to track a stuck pig
10:11than to ask it where it's off to.
10:13Number 2.
10:14Vault 32.
10:15So if they were already dead,
10:17and the Raiders got here,
10:19who killed them?
10:21I mean, it looks like they strangled each other
10:24with their hands.
10:25We've been having all this fun on the irradiated surface,
10:28but we mustn't forget the conspiracy going on underground.
10:31As Norman eventually discovers,
10:33Vault 32 was once used as a breeding ground
10:35for fault tech executives,
10:37a eugenics project meant to create loyal and devoted managers.
10:41So what's Vault 32 and 33?
10:42Just people to be controlled?
10:45What?
10:46Oh.
10:46When you put it like that,
10:47sounds downright morally questionable.
10:49They're our breeding pool.
10:51The ultimate expression of HRRD,
10:54genetically selected to breed with my buds
10:56to create a class of supermanagers.
10:58Vault 32 eventually learned of this,
11:00and led a violent rebellion,
11:02which eventually led to a civil war,
11:04and the complete decimation of the Vault's population.
11:06Moldaver then used Rose Pip-Boy
11:08to gain access to 32,
11:10and it's through here that she infiltrated 33.
11:13As of now,
11:14Vault 32 is currently being re-inhabitated
11:16under the orders of Betty,
11:17with Stephanie Harper being elected as its overseer.
11:19And with that,
11:21now our friends become neighbors.
11:26Good luck, 32ers.
11:29Hit it.
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11:43Number 1.
11:46Vault 31 and Bud's Buds.
11:48People with positivity.
11:50People who make lemonade.
11:52People who will inherit the earth
11:53after we've wiped the surface clean.
11:55The whole conspiracy traces back to Vault 31
11:58and its system of Bud's Buds.
12:00These are named after Vault Tech Senior Junior Vice President
12:03Bud Askins,
12:04who hoped to create the perfect Vault Tech Society
12:06by freezing a select group of devoted employees.
12:09These are Bud's Buds,
12:11and they include both Hank and Betty.
12:13I call it Bud's Buds.
12:15The basic idea is that the biggest obstacle to achievement
12:17has been the brevity of the human lifespan.
12:19It's prevented us from working on projects
12:21that require centuries,
12:22maybe even millennia to see through.
12:23So ideally,
12:25Bud's Buds will keep my project on track
12:26centuries into the future.
12:28These employees were preserved in cryostasis
12:30and stored inside Vault 31.
12:32They would then be thawed and integrated
12:34into the societies of Vaults 32 and 33,
12:37becoming their overseers
12:38and ensuring the continuation
12:39of Vault Tech's complete control.
12:41The hope was
12:42that this would create a perfect society
12:44and allow Vault Tech to take over the world.
12:46Oh, and season one ends
12:47with Norm stuck inside Vault 31,
12:49having been trapped by Bud's preserved brain.
12:52Well, it was great meeting you.
12:53I actually have to get back home.
12:55You can't go home, son of Hank.
13:03Not with what you've learned.
13:04What do you think the new season has in store?
13:06Let us know in the comments below.
13:08Let's go.
13:17We're back home.
13:17Let's make it happen.
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