It’s time for the Fallout season finale! How will “The Beginning” answer the burning questions from the season? How will Lucy rescue her father? What is the Ghoul’s big secret? Time to find out in this doozy of a finale!
Back to the Brotherhood | Maximus (Aaron Moten) is being transported back to the town by men in power armor suits. When he arrives, he finds that the Brotherhood has taken over the town and the Elder Cleric (Michael Cristofer) is waiting for him, along with Dane (Xelia Mendes-Jones). The Cleric immediately realizes that the head Maximus gave him is not Wilzig’s and orders his execution, but Dane requests that they spare him.
The Cleric demands that Maximus lead them to the real head and that he will be the sword of the new Brotherhood. Lucy (Ella Purnell) arrives at the Griffith Observatory, where Moldaver is hiding out and enters the camp set up there, as The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) treks through the desert with Wilzig’s dog. As he does, we flashback to Cooper (Goggins) dropping his wife (Frances Turner) off at Vault-Tec’s offices, but when his listening device malfunctions, he follows her inside.
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Lucy enters the main office of the Observatory, where she sees her father (Kyle MacLachlan) in a cage and Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury) waiting for her. Lucy hands over the head and Moldaver removes the chip from the head and then tells Lucy that she knows her father and that he was not born in a vault. Back in Vault 31, Norm (Moises Arias) sees a human brain hooked up to a motorized device that tries to inject him with a syringe, but Norm simply steps out of the way.
Controlling the War | Back in the past with Cooper, he enters the Vault-Tec office and picks up the listening device’s feed. He hears Vault-Tec’s board, including Barb, talking about how the Vaults can outlive a potential apocalypse and how the war will wipe out all competition. Norm investigates the Vault and sees a hall full of cryogenic pods with people inside, including empty pods with Betty and Hank’s names on them.
The brain in the jar tells him that the pods belong to Vault-Tec management from before the war and that they were brought out to breed with Vault Dwellers. The brain also locks Norm in the Vault and says that the only way he can survive is to get in an empty cryopod. Cooper overhears Barb telling the board that they will drop a nuke on the surface to ensure that the Vaults will succeed, while Moldaver tells Lucy that Hank was one of Vault-Tec’s managers as a younger Hank meets Cooper in the past.
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Secrets Revealed | Maximus tells Dane about Lucy and that he’s going to go live in the Vault with her, but Dane tells him that no matter what, there’s no leaving the Brotherhood. Moldaver tells Lucy that her mother took her outside the Vault, but Hank found them and destroyed the whole town and killed her mother. She also says that the hidden chip in Wilzig’s head is a cold fusion core that could rebuild civilization and only Hank has the access code. A devastated Lucy orders Hank to give Moldaver the code, which he does, but before she can activate the fusion core, the Brotherhood arrive and Moldaver’s men fire on the airships.
The Brotherhood, Maximus and Dane included, storm the Observatory, but they’re met by The Ghoul, who starts mowing them down. Maximus manages to make it to Lucy and immediately frees Hank, but Lucy tells him that he was the one who destroyed his hometown. Unfortunately, Hank has already made his way inside the armor and knocks out Maximus. The Ghoul then arrives and shoots Hank in the mouth and demands to know where his family is, but Hank escapes in the armor.
The Ghoul asks Lucy if she’s coming with him to track down Hank and Lucy promises the unconscious Maximus that she’ll find him before she heads off with him. Maximus comes to and sees a wounded Moldaver activate the cold fusion and generate power to the city below. Moldaver dies from her wounds just as Dane arrives and assumes that Maximus killed her and all the soldiers hail him.
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