In Fallout‘s third episode, appropriately titled “The Head,” Lucy, The Ghoul and Maximus all converge on the titular head, as Norm faces a moral quandary back in the Vault. Lucy finds herself in big trouble, as Maximus makes an unexpected new ally.
How the Mighty Have Fallen | In a flashback, Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) is filming a Western, but is complaining about the rewrites that call for his character to kill a guy. He is told that the film’s writer was fired for being a communist before he runs into his wife, Barb (Frances Turner) and his daughter, Janey (Teagan Meredith) and they head off to their next job. In the Wasteland, The Ghoul (Goggins) sees Wilzig’s now headless body, having been led to it by the dog, and takes a shot of some kind of drug before following Lucy’s (Ella Purnell) tracks through the sand.
Speaking of whom, Lucy, now carrying Wilzig’s severed head, continues her trek and puts a tracker up the nose of Wilzig’s head. Elsewhere, Maximus (Aaron Moten) hears a transmission through the armor from a soldier of the Brotherhood, demanding to know where he is. Maximus pretends to be Titus and answers, but lies and says that his squire died in battle. When they insist on sending a replacement, Maximus rips the communication device out of the armor. After convincing someone in town to fix the key component of the armor, he returns to see a group of scavengers picking the armor, who subsequently kick his ass. That doesn’t stop him from beating them with a crowbar and using the armor’s metal hand to crush one guy’s skull.
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Replacements | Moments later, a helicopter drops Thaddeus (Johnny Pemberton), one of Maximus’s fellow squires, into the town. He immediately offers to serve Maximus, who is in the armor and pretending to be Titus, and relays new orders that they must kill whoever stands in their way. Lucy arrives at the ruins of Hollywood Boulevard and offers to feed a baby deer, before it is snatched up by a monster. which then grabs Wilzig’s head off of her. Before she can pursue, The Ghoul arrives and demands the head, but she admits that she just lost it.
Back at Lucy’s Vault, Norm (Moises Arias) is interrogated by the Vault council over his role in Lucy’s escape. They blame him for letting Lucy escape and demote him to feeding the raider prisoners that attacked their Vault. In the desert outside, Thaddeus uses a device to track the radiation left by The Ghoul and they run into Wilzig’s headless body and follow Lucy’s tracks. Meanwhile, The Ghoul ties Lucy to a winch and lowers her into the lake to lure out the monster that took the head. The monster bites onto the rope around Lucy’s neck and they both end up on shore, where Lucy throws The Ghoul’s bag into the monsters mouth to escape. Unfortunately, The Ghoul’s drugs inside the bag get destroyed and The Ghoul ties a rope around Lucy’s neck and drags her off.
Rehabilitation | As Thaddeus is replacing parts on Maximus’s armor, he talks about how bad he felt for beating up on Maximus as a new recruit, not realizing that Maximus can hear every word. Back at the Vault, one of the Councilmen, Woody (Zach Cherry) tells the group that they need to rehabilitate the raiders and make them part of the Vault, which doesn’t sit well with Norm. He proposes simply killing the prisoners, which gets shut down immediately, and to make matters worse, someone announces that the Vault only has enough water for two more months. As Norm is leaving, Steph (Annabel O’Hagen), now with an eyepatch, tells him that she agrees with him.
Thaddeus and Maximus track down the monster that ate Wilzig’s head and make it throw up the head after it tries to kill Thaddeus. The Ghoul makes Lucy walk through the desert, minus a shoe that the monster ate, and refuses to give her water. They end up in the ruins of the movie studio where Cooper used to work, as we flashback to Cooper dressed in the same jumpsuit that the Vault Dwellers wear, about to film a commercial for Vault-Tec.
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