FALLOUT Explained: Every Clue That Vault Tec... [SPOILER]

FALLOUT Explained: Every Clue That Vault Tec... [SPOILER]. In this video, we breakdown every clue that told us that Vault Tec were responsible for dropping the bombs to end humanity. We go through all the scenes and set design, all of the dialogue and references that let us know throughout the season who was behind it. Lots of subtle hints dropped throughout so join us as we go through them and break it down for you! lets get into it!
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Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and this video we're breaking down Fallout.
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The series reveals something big at the end and throughout this video I wanna break down the clues. So come with me surfies, Heavy spoilers ahead and if you don't want it ruined then vault out the video. Please drop a thumbs up if you enjoy it and also drop any clues below that you think we might have missed. With that out the way, thank you for clicking this, now let's get into Fallout!
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Ok so let's get into it by breaking the vault open and revealing all the clues that said Vault Tec dropped the nukes.
The episodes contain some subtle set and production design choices as well as callbacks and parallels that give away the clues. We went back through and rewatched the series and there's also a handful of lines of dialogue that play in entirely different ways once you know the twist.
Our first comes in the form of balloons at the party, which are all Vault-Tec colors. While, initially, it looks like it could just be for Cooper’s colors, we are made aware of the connection between them and Vault Tec pretty quickly.
This implies that they have a big brother role and are laced throughout a lot of aspects of society.
The Vault-Tec colors are all over this party, from the balloons, to the cake, to the home’s decor. Tt just sets the tone for this series as one where the lines between capitalism and humanity are incredibly tangled.
Later in the scene, when he’s asked to do the thumbs-up, he doesn’t make eye contact with Bob and looks down.
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[@heavyspoilers]

Thanks for checking out the video and let us know if you spotted any other clues and huge shoutouts to Mo from Streamr at - thestreamr.com/#google_vignette

[@JimmyCas]

Not only is Betty a vault-tec employee; she’s the assistant to Coop’s wife we see in the flashback

[@Unfixingalloy1UA1]

When hank said "I think I know who you are" it has a double meaning. He went and got his kids back from their mom at sandy shores before nuking it. Also, being as vault tech bought the company she was working on cold fusion at, he would likely recognize her from then

[@mrpenguin0001]

I loved the series thought it did a great job of converting the games lore to the series

[@EdenHellCipher]

RobCo. did it. I may have cracked one of Fallout's biggest mysteries. I think, despite the consensus up to this point being that Vault-Tec dropped the bombs, that we will come to discover that RobCo. was the one who actually caused (and benefitted the most) from the Great War. In light of comments made by Tim Cain re: Vault-Tec presumably dropping the bombs, I started thinking about how it wouldn't make sense (in the Prime series at least) for Vault-Tec to be the ultimate perpetrators of the Great War. People have pointed out that it would be pretty inhumane for Barb to have dropped the bombs while her daughter was out and about. And I don't think that she did. I think that the intention of Vault-Tec (and Barb) was to drop one bomb, to scare everyone into the shelters. But I think RobCo. managed to infiltrate Vault-Tec and dropped the bombs. Or perhaps RobCo worked with West Tek in building their own arsenal. Mr. House was the most interested in *how* Vault-Tec was going to "guarantee results." Mr. House knew (or believed) that Vegas was protected from the nukes, securing his empire. Mr. House has a contingency plan for his survival. Mr. House has the most to gain and the least to lose from the nuking. *And* this neatly ties in with Hank McClean's story. How did Hank get a nuke to drop on Shady Sands? Who did Hank go to at the end of Season 1? How did Hank get the job conveniently close to Vault-Tec's upper echelon, conveniently close to the time the bombs were going to drop? The answer to all is the same: RobCo.

[@funkmonk5921]

Hey have u done a break down of taxi driver. De niro. That would be a good one , me thinks

[@Saxtalk.]

Channels weren't ready for the Fallout series to be good now they are scrambling for Info to make breakdowns

[@xandercrews4729]

I admit, I thought it would suck.

[@noneyabizz8337]

Well, to be fair... I was surprised I enjoyed it, "creatives" have a real habit of showing their hate for me.

[@gman3901]

I'll give the show credit as I watched it all, when the I couldn't get into the games. However the time it took to tell the story it did seem a bit stretched out to me. I also found its finale to be no more exciting than any other episode. I'm not enticed enough to get excited about another season either. I think I might rewatch Twisted Metal as I found that to be more satisfying.

[@oBuLLzEyEo1013]

​@@gman3901 I mean anything you say is invalid if it starts with you not playing the games especially if it's you couldn't get into them but to then end the sentence suggesting Twisted Metal was better, come on. You even play those games? I doubt it...

[@BHuang92]

I was very nervous about it. Never watched the trailers and kept myself out of Fallout-related topics until I've watched the show. Being a fan of the franchise, the show blew me away!

[@Treblemaker1279]

There's a sign in Vault 33, Don't Lose Your Head, which basically sums up the whole main plot of the season as everyone is trying to keep track of the head.

[@scrabblesmcjelly8615]

This isn't a connection to that but I did notice that baby Lucy was holding a bright red apple in her flashback about her mom early on. There were no apple trees in the vault.

[@arrogantbandit1]

Betty was also the secretary that greets Cooper.

[@niyaking-khari3515]

One of those awkward moments when the Amazon X-ray feature accidentally gave a massive plot spoiler. Took a look again and it looks like they've removed Betty's name from that scene

[@arrogantbandit1]

@@niyaking-khari3515 Oh, didn't even realise that. But you can hear someone in the background say: "Betty, get in here" or something and then she walks off.

[@robertfolkes389]

I cud tell by her hair tbh lol Afro for Afro

[@FallenGemini]

​@@arrogantbandit1that and the actress who cast as young Betty looks like current day Betty. I feel that unlike Hank/Henry, they didn't de-aged the actress to play yoing Betty because not only CGI is expensive, they probably want audiences like me to slowly realize that Betty in the flashback is the same Betty in vault 33.

[@arrogantbandit1]

@@FallenGemini Honestly, I only heard it on my second viewing. Went straight past me the first time. And yeah, it's a different actress. Interesting though, "future" Betty looks a bit older than Hank but they seem around the same age in "the past". What has Betty been up to?

[@mj4lyfe404]

that line barb said to cooper “ we need to hurry so we can get a good vault” now for me i thought she meant a nice one but after rewatch i think she meant one where there wasnt crazy experiments

[@andystealth88]

Oh she definitely meant "a vault where we won't be subject to terrible experiments" Haven't done a rewatch yet, but have played enough of the games to know most vaults are experiments, and immediately noticed the actress absolutely nail the "oh I shouldn't have said that" look

[@hencewurth4243]

she said she was trying to get them into a “management vault” which is one that manages all other vaults so definitely one where all the elites are living

[@anthonygordon9483]

I find it funny that she was head of their marketing department yet everything vault tec was inspired by was based on her and her husband. The blue and gold jump suits, the thumbs up, and the slongan "War Never Changes". Which it makes sense that Vault Tecs share holders would be brain washed by their own propaganda. Which would coin the phrase for every executive saying "War Never Changes". They are simply brain washed by the propaganda and marketing they created.

[@kaliek5281]

Oh yeah, going into this already KNOWING FO lore...she was talking about getting into a Control Vault. There were not that many of them, but since the Vaults are all a part of one giant experiment, controls are necessary.

[@lauren_e_s]

Like Vault 31?

[@rgirl1243]

I think Vault 33 was the breeding vault because of how free from seggual shame Lucy is. She doesn't even feel awkward when she got married to a guy she didn't know. And just offered to have seggs with Maximus. I think that it is part of Bud's Buds to have the people from vault 31 breed children that become new managers and on and on.

[@stevengreco2075]

The President being gone was already established back in Fallout 2. All the top leaders ended up forming the Enclave and fled to the Oil Rig

[@ethancoster1324]

So the Potus and Vault Tech were in cahoots and bombed themselves.😅😢 WTF.

[@allthingsnerd.4484]

@@ethancoster1324a corporation owning a high ranking government official? Yeah, that science fiction stuff sure is crazy, ain’t it?!😆🤣

[@ethancoster1324]

@@allthingsnerd.4484 Outside of America it is. And why the fck did they nuke themselves?!?!

[@DreamskyDance]

Yeah, as soon as i heard that in episode one i thought "yeah, he should be on poseidon platform by now if i am right."

[@gazwilliams-nc7jp]

I think the line "there you are... little killer" Is because he was after the Doc, and he finds him with his head cut off, he laughs as he assumes it was Lucy, as she was with him last And when she saves him after escaping the shop, he realises she isnt the killer he thought she was

[@DavidAmrod]

I love when the cyclops puts on the pair of glasses.

[@Unfixingalloy1UA1]

Also love the fact that all the nukes we see blow up in the opening scene have no trail behind them, hinting that they were not launched at America, but already there. It gave me the impression that vault tech just buried some nukes around the country, ready to be blown at their command.

[@sedrickalcantara9588]

I believe the explosion force of nukes is more than enough to clear out any trail left behind by their rocket.

[@islander1]

This actually jives with the main quest of Fallout 76 - 'reclaiming' nukes they said were theirs all along.

[@willyum1620]

My working theory is they didnt bomb the american people but the ccp and their retaliation was to bomb america

[@jonartscc968]

If you go through it frame by frame you can see that they detonate in the air, which is how nukes are usually detonated to maximize destructive force. So they were most definitely dropped

[@CollideFan1]

I'll have to rewatch it but the first one is definitely a ground burst. An air burst would have been higher up. Easy way to tell is if there is a huge crater like Shady Sands. An air burst won't leave a huge crater like that. If it was the Chinese they would air burst them because it's the most effective way for damage and destruction. I learned a thing or two after watching atomic bomb and hydrogen bomb test here on YT 😉

[@mwk1]

HOW Moldaver is still up and running after 200 years? She must have cryoslept somewhere as well as the vault-tec staff?

[@geandohumor2174]

Maybe she is a Synth?

[@jonartscc968]

I've been wondering that as well. It's weird that nobody's talking about it

[@byufan]

Clone?

[@ChrisAdamscomedy]

@@byufan My first thought was clone.

[@IsaacKuo]

We don't know yet. Maybe the smelly doctor's elixir?

[@SMENECl]

I just realized that the reason she said no dogs in the vault night be because she was trying to get into vault 31. How terrifying it would be to wake up from cryogenic sleep, to a pack of dogs eating you like a TV dinner.

[@mrbmore410]

Let's not forget, Coop's wife LITERALLY tilted her hand when she said that she's working hard to get them into "one of the good ones" meaning she KNEW ahead of Coop finding out that there were going to be some shady dealings when it came to the vaults and how they would be operated. When he asked what she meant she deflected and subverted into another conversation. That told me all I needed to know about her and Vault-Tec.

[@anthonygordon9483]

I think its pretty cool that she was pretty much head of marketing. She got her husband as the spokeperson of vault tech so you can pretty much say she is responsible for the blue and gold suites and the thumbs up that inspired vault boy . Then the cherry on top. She being responsible for marketing is the first person to pitch the line "War Never Changes". That was the cherry on top. It makes sense that most of vault tecs share holders were inspired by their marketing. Simply to cloud their own judgement.

[@swissarmyknight4306]

One of the Not-Good Vaults: Gary? HAHAHAHA, GARY!

[@zvimur]

5:25, Lucy at that point is unaware of the second nuclear attack on Shady Sands 200 years after the the original nuclear war.

[@Subject_Keter]

He a brit, he cant see the clues.

[@ATVProven]

I wish Micheal Emerson's character arc would have went further, he's a phenomenal actor.

[@colinstu.art.]

I wouldn't rule it out in another season. We saw multiple timelines in this season, so why not for Wilzig?

[@allthingsnerd.4484]

He got to be the head of the series… what more could he ask for?😆🤣

[@joshreichardt2485]

Fallout is setting the world on fire and has started a flame in everyones heart.

[@JereVanderlaan]

Every time you open like this, I think it's going to be another Across the Spoilerverse Podcast. I get excited. Then sad. Then hopeful. Then hungry. Well, I was already hungry. Hungry for Spoilerverse Podcast!

[@heavyspoilers]

!!!!!!

[@THambrough]

I'm definitely going to start using that in my day to day. "Watch for Hank in accounting, he's a sugar bomb." "Why? What do you mean?" "Acts like a sweet guy to your face but he'll destroy your life if you're not careful!" 😅

[@theflamingsubgun]

There are hints to vault-tec being behind the bombs for years now, one of the best and probley easiest to explain as being a hint is Megaton in fallout 3 and the live bomb there having a vault-tec logo on it

[@Unklereek34]

You can also see Stefanie Harper's name on the cryostasis pad.

[@silverbladeTE]

In several of the Fallout games, you get evidence the President wasn't in the Whitehouse for 6 months prior to the war (Fallout 4 in the Boston Bugle office there's info on a terminal entry, and in Fallout 3 you find the Whitehouse)

[@wsconsn]

Theory time: Coop was the one who wanted the divorce, but Barb still loved him. She knew that despite his misgivings he would bring their daughter to her vault but not enter it himself. So before launching the bombs Barb exposed Coop to FEV to ensure he became a ghoul and that the medicine that keeps him from going feral is a modified version of FEV.

[@Subject_Keter]

It seems like something all the ghouls need. And where would he get all that fev drugs for 200 years?

[@britt5650]

Very interesting take! Barb gives me sociopath vibes so I wouldn’t expect her to look after coop after the bombs drop. But your theory makes sense!

[@joshuagiehll3737]

Except Cooper, very clearly does not know which vault his family is in. Fev doesn't make ghouls, at least it never has in the past.

[@zitrone2250]

also no one knew if there even would be ghouls after the bombs it would be interesting to see though how he got separated from his daughter since he was by her when the bombs fell

[@menghao737]

​@@joshuagiehll3737 I've heard the FEV Ghoul theory since a long time ago as a reason for why some become ghouls and regenerate from radiation rather than becoming sick. You are right about Cooper not knowing the location, but he obviously believes his wife is still alive and has their daughter, so she got her from him at some point after the bombs dropped.

[@EraclesK]

My question , If Coopers wife was a high up in vault tech , why would she allow her daughter to be out with Cooper and away from safety when the bombs went off ? Wouldn’t she have made sure her daughter was in a vault or in safe location not risking her dying and been with Cooper ?

[@gekoxbotzu]

Same question I keep asking myself. Didn't make much sense to me

[@Mark-fc7qc]

I just watched this and made the same comment.

[@nathanmiller9918]

She might not have known exactly when it was going to happen.

[@CollideFan1]

The one in charge of VT might have sped up the plans if the peace negotiations were looking good. That person may or may not have informed his executives in the change of plans. But the President was informed because he couldn't be reached.

[@Nik202_]

The show mentions that she grew up in vault 33, she wouldn't know initially but after going to the surface and meeting Moldaver she learned the truth and Hank felt threatened and blew up shady sands in an attempt of damage control and getting his kids back. Unless you're referring to Cooper/The Ghoul, in which case, that hasn't been answered yet, but might be in season 2.

[@ohandanotheronebitesthedus6247]

i think the cooper and nukes scene is his dream after he hears the truth. i had this thought because I'm high that's all

[@cap350125]

I find it interesting that Fallout is getting all polished up during these interesting times in the real world.

[@Mark-fc7qc]

If Vault Tec dropped the first bomb/s, there's no way Barb and Coop's daughter would be at a birthday party with Coop. She'd be safe inside a vault.

[@FalconsRays8]

Yeah the child would have been safe for sure that’s a fair point.

[@jasonburry7829]

Not necessarily, I don’t believe betraying barb is above vault-tec

[@SwagDuhBuh]

Vault tec didn’t drop the bombs

[@swissarmyknight4306]

Because while Vault Tec had plans to start the war, the war started on its own (possibly due to Vault Tec actions, but we don't have answers yet).

[@jeromeobrien8757]

Hey Paul - big fan of your content, been watching a significant amount of your content for years now. Thought I’d drop in and say that I like the subtle change to your recording style where you added more shots of yourself in to the video. The hand gestures sold me. Keep putting out solid content, I’ve always enjoyed and look forward to it and can probably say you’re my favorite KZbinr.

[@theneonlobster]

Seconded. He’s not just a pretty voice. What’s the sleeve, Paul?

[@Rabbit640]

One more thing, Hank Bomb Shady Sands, he and the other executives from vault 31. So Betty was probably in on it as well.

[@USASP]

You keep making fallout videos, and I’ve re-watched fallout three times! ❤

[@Bman32x]

Me too! Makes rewatching the earlier episodes more compelling. Same with x-men 97

[@Belgarathe]

I thought Betty leader of the vault was also the secretary from way back

[@allthingsnerd.4484]

Yup

[@LovelySingerTV]

I've been following you since before you changed the name to Heavy Spoilers. I had to jump on and tell how great it is to be seeing your face more! Your channel gets better and better all of the time. Congrats to you. Looking forward to the next one. Much love 💙

[@heavyspoilers]

Ah thank you so much, I’m always nervous trying new things so I appreciate that. Thanks for sticking with me for like 5 years as well. That really means a lot.

[@marc21256]

For 10 years I've been saying that Vault-Tec was involved in the use of nuclear bombs. They had to have known the date years in advance. How? Every vault completed on time was completed before the bombs fell. Every uncompleted vault was delayed. No on-time vaults were only partially completed. So if someone came up with a vault idea in August, it would have been rejected as a waste of resources, because Vault-Tec knew the dates the bombs would be falling. I have challenged anyone to come up with a single vault that was not complete which didn't have a story of delays. So far nobody could name one. But I'm happy for anyone to prove me wrong. The only way this could have happened is if Vault-Tec had some knowledge of the bomb's date, months or years in advance. And the only way that would happen is if Vault-Tec was playing both sides. So, just like Wal-Mart is HQ'd in the US and "big" in China, Vault-Tec was in both. Vault-Tec is an international company. They have a "national" HQ in the US, but no "world" HQ in the US. PRobably no "world" HQ anywhere, because like most multi-nationals they HQ in Bahamas and have a world HQ on paper in Ireland, for a double irish dutch sandwich (a tax avoidance scheme). And the large makers of devices seen all over fallout have names like GAI (General Atomics INTERNATIONAL), also implying a global presence. Different embargo rules, more countries willing to bypass embargos, or other things would allow the Fallout world to be more "global" than we are now. Today, large companies like Apple and others have large facilities in China. It wouldn't be that big of a stretch to think that enough economic activity would link the US and China, even when they are at "war". The American Flags in patriotic Wal-Mart are made in China, so why can't my GAI Mr. Handy be made in China? With QA failures being sold locally in China? That happens now. So China could have Vaults, Power Armor (from units captured in Anchorage), GAI robots, and lots of other "American" influences. And China could have been steered by these large corps for the good of the corps. So the corps were in a position to know when the resource wars were coming, and steered the "demand" for specific resources to lean towards places which caused conflict, and have local places from which to spy and influence, on both sides. It just works best when Vault-Tec and others were playing both sides.

[@peterh3889]

Another good one Paul.. I loved the fallout series especially having zero knowledge of the games.. I started watching as I love post apocalyptic genre and this didn’t disappoint.. really enjoying all the additional commentary filling in all my gaps of knowledge 😜 cheers from 🇦🇺 mate

[@heavyspoilers]

Thank you, much appreciated

[@lauren_e_s]

When Lucy says that the light in the corn room in Vault 33 felt like the actual sun when she was a child, it's because it actually was the sun, and that memory was actually from when she was living at Shady Sands.

[@crimsonraen]

Thanks for the extended breakdown, Paul! So excited about the show, and I can't wait for S2!

[@S1L3NTG4M3R]

7:49 - - This is also Betty from Vault 33 (she got voted to be the new overseer)

[@camojones8952]

The thing I noticed in the very first episode was you don't actually see any bombs drop. Now I chalked this up to them being small enough to not be visible from the distance from impact that the party was, but it was implied that Vault Tec might have done it, I now think it's equally possibly that it could be because they were never dropped but planted.

[@frool76]

I don't think those would be visible at all from that distance. Those were quite small explosions for the technology available, likely the whole nuke is smaller than a trash can.

[@jjfed11]

Meh seems pretty obvious to me that vault tec shot first. I just love that as a story element

[@johnnyrivas2619]

Something's wrong, this isn't another Deadpool trailer analysis.

[@Surge44]

lets hope Earth doesn't end up a wasteland

[@SteefPip]

I think Chet killed the imprisioned raiders, in this scenario Steph would have talked him into doing it after Norm showed no signs of interest in following through. Of course I believe Steph was directed by Betty to get it done in exchange for appointing her as overseer in Vault 32. I also believe that the Ghoul's wife is in Vault 31 and that his daughter is sadly dead. I have an idea that maybe Coop got her to the Vault Tek building and was betrayed by either his wife or Bud, that would mean the daughter is also alive as I would assume they would have a way to get her to Vault 31 underground from the main building (for the daughter surviving it needs to be that way though because otherwise Coop would know where they are). My biggest reach theory is that Thaddius is going to show back up when he's a bit more ghoulified and conveniently remember reading something about VATS while back at the Brotherhood and teach Lucy how to use it. Finally, I think Muldaver isn't dead, at least part of her wont be dead the next time we see her. She was gut shot, so it's possible she survived and was just passed out and not dead. It would be in the Brotherhoods interest to keep her alive because of her knowledge of the cold fusion device, and if the wound is mortal there are a couple ways they could preserve her brain. Either as a robobrain or in a computer.

[@Kensen_Ackles]

One of the ironic lines from Lucy I was after her and Max leave Vault 4, she says something to the effects of "If my dad found out I destroyed a community to save him, it would break his heart." When his deeds do confirm Vault-Tec does have nuclear arsenal technology.

[@wisemoon40]

As a fan of the games, I have to point out that while Vault-Tec was sketchy, and obviously willing to do whatever was needed to ensure they fulfilled their "fiduciary responsibility", it was China who started the Great War. Vault-Tec definitely had connections in the government, and there are lots of clues that Vault-Tec employees knew something was going to happen, but China beat them to the punch unexpectedly. It's also important to know that "the Enclave" were actually people from the US government bureaucracy who did the same kind of thing that Vault-Tec did (making sure their highest people were protected and could survive). I think the show is setting the Enclave against Vault-Tec, which I'm sure will become more obvious in seasons moving forward. It's been super fun to see how the show supports the games' canon while pushing deeper into the lore and uncovering new information.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

China had spies throughout the US government, and businesses too. Combine the 'missing' president and reports that Vault Tec might be willing to drop the bomb themselves, they may have concluded that the only chance for them to survive is to strike first.

[@leflyxdvd]

yeh i feel like these breakdown channels are forgetting the entire lore behind fallout and only focus on the series, there is enough to know that china launched nukes after losing anchorage, and yes it might have been that vault-tec helped a bit by nuking certain areas to speed to up the shelter progress but its well known the entire world got nuked by that point.

[@andresv.9365]

@@leflyxdvd actually that's not entirely true. There are whole threads of discussion about this in the Fallot lore reddit. While it was heavily implied, it was never 100% confirmed that China dropped the first nukes. And even if they did, there's also the posibility that Vault-Tec somehow managed to make the chinese fire their bombs, maybe faking an attack or disrupting their sensors, who knows.

[@libertyprime2013]

I think they triggered the war

[@swissarmyknight4306]

@@leflyxdvd China may have nuked the US pre-emptively due to learning of Vault Tec's plans to start a nuclear war.

[@CherryNobel]

Love the background of your studio..

[@tuckerluke80]

I’m not a gamer, I don’t know anything about the games, started watching this by chance and now hooked!

[@MrJLCharbonneau]

Bud talking with Cooper about the flaws in the power armor, that dialogue from a report found in one of the terminals in Fallout 4.

[@logansnow1854]

Will you be doing a breakdown of boy kills world?? It was a great thriller, action-packed movie (lots of gore), but man was it a lot better than I expected going into it.

[@websurfer8670]

Great very nice. Lets see definitions analysis

[@rotojakku]

Moldaver learned about vaultec wanting to drop the bombs, sucked up to bud, got frozen, broke out, left clues in vault 32.

[@danbauer3669]

Hey, Paul! Maybe you should get a few more funko pops. I think I saw some empty shelf space back there.

[@aaronrodgers9202]

Idk why norm doesn't just threaten to awake all the frozen people or just threaten bud himself lol. That brain in a jar wouldn't stand a chance against even norm. He doesn't have to freeze himself like bud says (granted we don't see his choice)

[@diddlingdoom3133]

I think Bettys gonna come to the rescue. Him saying they should kill the raiders really impressed Betty which is why norm stayed in 33 while all the other cowardly types went into 32.

[@aaronrodgers9202]

@@diddlingdoom3133 true just funny if he let's a brain n a jar give him an ultimatum.. Like no open the door or ill smash your liitle jar wide open then how do u plan to manage?

[@jeremygeorge5334]

@@diddlingdoom3133I can def see it going that way for sure. I got more of the feeling that she’s keeping him close to stay under her thumb and separating him from Chet. Now thinking about it, I wouldn’t be surprised if Stephanie chose to seduce Chet to keep an eye on him as well. Both of them are already on their radar after helping Lucy escape.

[@Pop_Shepski]

We don’t know what Norm is going to do yet. It left off with him just standing there

[@aaronrodgers9202]

@@Pop_Shepski yeah that's what I said at the end we don't see what he does.. I would just threaten to smash the cryo machine hub forcing the people in cryo sleep to be stuck forever if he didn't let me go lol

[@Boomken76]

I follow that clues and one is the nuke in Megaton is made by Vault-tec

[@EvolvedWizard]

I never quite understood why Cooper cut the other ghoul up for food. Were they that desperate for something to eat, or is that drug that keeps you from going feral made from ground up ghouls?

[@jeremygeorge5334]

The super duper mart scene definitely hints at something like that. The ghouls locked in cages, the organ harvesting Mr. Helper bot, and those tweakers trading out the drug easily enough like it’s not hard to come by or produce. We don’t know the exact process yet, but the clues are there for sure.

[@vkdeen7570]

because he's a hardened survivor... Rodger was his friend. he's dead now, if he doesn't eat him something else in the wasteland will. his friend is dead, its just food now. "a man's gotta eat". he just does whatever he has to. it shows how broken he is, the humanity is faded. he doesn't see ppl any more ur either useful to him or you're not and when your not ur just a resource

[@midniteoyl8913]

Cannibal Perk.

[@IsaacKuo]

​@@vkdeen7570 I think Cooper's humanity hasn't faded. He proved it right there in that scene. He shot Rodger in the head without warning, letting his last thoughts be happy ones. Those of us watching the show can see it, because we're familiar with the idea of mercy killing. Lucy can't see it, because she simply has no idea of it. (But Lucy learns.) One thing that sharp-eyed viewers have noticed is that Cooper still wears his Sheriff shirt underneath his outer garments. They've interpreted this to mean that his original nature is still down there somewhere. My own interpretation is that he still has the same humanity, but he's purposefully hiding it. He's an actor. He knows how to pretend to be something he's not, when he has to. And he has to. He pretended to be after "the artifact" when he was really after Hank. And then he makes it seem, to Hank, that he's after his family. Another deception, I think. If Vault-Tec thinks he's just a dad looking out for his family, they won't realize what he's really after and what sort of threat he really is. After Hank leaves, Cooper doesn't mention his family at all, to Lucy. Instead, he talks about how there's someone else pulling the strings, and he's going after that one - the head of Vault-Tec. Cooper realizes that Vault-Tec is a voracious feral ghoul that needs a shot in the head. I think that's his true goal, and he could use Lucy's help. I recall that Cooper said at some point ... "Everyone wants to save the world, they just disagree on how." He says it dismissively enough that you think he's just cynical all around, but ... he didn't explicitly exclude himself. I think he's got a very specific idea of how to try to save the world, but he keeps his secret plan to himself ... until Lucy. By episode 8 he knows Lucy is unusually capable, despite her inexperience. And he walks in to see she's pulled a gun to her father's face. So he knows Lucy has found out the truth, and she's got the right sense of morality. Family always comes first? Nope. Lucy gets it. She just needs to know ... there's someone even worse higher up than Hank. So I don't think Cooper has lost his humanity. And I think he isn't worried about Lucy losing her humanity, because he sees himself in her.

[@vkdeen7570]

@IsaacKuo its not fully faded but he's become jaded. like u see with the dog as well... sorta there but not there. u see it more when he watches himself in the movie. he's struggling to retain his humanity vs cold hard survivor

[@johndiaz6431]

Thank you so much for not spoiling things in your title. I wish other channels would follow suit.

[@bab3947]

Pretty sure Betty was coopers wife’s assistant

[@user-wz7dp2xs4c]

Can you do a breakdown of the film platoon, please?

[@NebMunb]

I can't believe they pulled it off. A good Fallout tv show. I'm so happy.

[@halfxue]

great detailed breakdown

[@Zenn3k]

Like 90% of these are big stretches, seeing nuclear stuff all over the place doesn't "hint at vault-tec", in the Fallout universe CARS have nuclear engines, nuclear tech is everywhere.

[@ebonypegasus9864]

It's possible that someone at Vault Tec panicked and let off the nukes earlier than expected or, that some enemy of the USA bombed first even though vault Tec intended to, they may not have had a chance to nuke first? It leaves an open ended element to it all, as in, maybe it wasn't VT after all, thus giving the viewer room to have their own head canon on the topic. Cooper also rode off towards, quite possibly a vault, to put his little girl in so it's highly possible that she's in a cryogenic chamber somewhere with her mother. Why else would Cooper still be looking for them 200 years later? If they weren't being put in pods, he'd figure they were dead. Also.... Who put cooper in the grave and gave him the serum to keep him from being feral? If they were going to bury him alive, why bother to give him the serum at all? Its possible it was someone who did care about him? As if they didn't care, they would have just let him go feral underground in the grave. He knows Lucy is from vault 33, and that Hank was also living there, yet he's not asking Lucy to take him there to look for his family. He must know they are somewhere else?

[@JMsolidsnake]

It wasnt confirmed that Vault-Tec actually dropped the bomb (if im recalling correctly) they only said they would do it themselves if things dont appear to being going their way.

[@jo2952]

someone else gets it!

[@ChozoSR388]

We've kinda known that Vault-Tec did it since 2008; Fallout 3, the evidence is literally all over Megaton's defining feature.

[@Pop_Shepski]

Rewatching the first ep today, I had a theory that after Coop overheard the meeting, he eventually split up with Barb and ended up getting that plot of land in the country. Which is where he likely ran off to after the bombs dropped

[@vectorwolf]

Looking forward to a synopsis when this is all wrapped up. I don't have streaming so this is how I get to enjoy shows like thìs.

[@Pop_Shepski]

Do you need a website to watch for free?

[@16ktsgamma]

I think Moldaver is a Synth made by the real Moldaver.

[@3vil6enius]

DO EPISODE BREAKDOWNS

[@EverythingBattletech]

Yea for the most part it seems that they were not prepared for when the bombs dropped. I guess Mr. House will confirm it if we have him in Season 2 and he is still alive.

[@jandraelune1]

The president's disappearance actually had nothing to do with vault-tec, it was to do with the Enclave. The Enclave had its own plan running in alignment with an apocalypse, but not parallel with vault-tec's plan. As for who shot first, that would be China, Vault-tec might have had a proxy hand in China. But Vault-tec senior members were not warned they were dropping as they were still in stages of preparing themselves and caught outside their own vaults, except for House who only had 1 part remaining.

[@JohnSmith-wg7yf]

TV show actually does not indicate who shot first nukes. The actual reason is still not known. Vault tec does not have many Nukes, if any at all.

[@cpljimmyneutron]

So, you need to tie in this show with New Vegas. As Robert House is seen in this show, in the board room, planning to drop the bombs... and in New Vegas you can talk to him about how he "saved" vegas from the bombs.

[@markbeards4441]

Who shrunk fusion technology? I believe that was the split point in the timeline.

[@KismetBP]

They left who drops the bombs open. 1) No Way she would of left her daughter at a party when they dropped. 2) Mr House would of gotten his chip delivered a day earlier. Both indicate that Vault Tec didn’t know the exact time & day they where going to drop. ❤🤘 Rock on Vault Dwellers

[@smeghead3835]

I mean this in the best way possible....when I hear your voice I don't picture you looking the way you do.

[@A_N1ne]

So about the President going "missing" and who shot first, this isn't new information given to us by the show. In Fallout 2, we find out that the pre war US government (or at least the Enclave portion) new the bombs were going to drop and its heavily implied that they were the ones who fired first. The news report is referencing that the heads of the Enclave were evacuated to Control Station Enclave located just off the cost of California. Also its confirmed in Fallout 2 that the Vault program and Vault Tec were created by the Enclave, so those shadowy figures in the Vault Tec war room are probably Enclave. As for the bombs, my guess and I hope I'm right about this, as if I'm not it just makes the Enclave from Fallout 2 and 3 even dumber then they're already shown to be. I think the bombs seen in the first episode are small "suitcase" nukes, as they look to be ground detonated and less then 1 or 2 kt. These could be easily transported by people to specific locations to control the damage, leaving the Vault Tec building and evacuation routes to the Vaults untouched (important if they want to do their experiments). It would also explain how Hank as access to Nuclear weapons but the Enclave never used Nuclear missiles in combat. If they are suitcase nukes they could have a stockpile of them in Vault 31. If they aren't suitcase nukes and they were missiles that's where I have a problem. Why didn't the Enclave nuke Shady Sands earlier in the timeline, like right after Fallout 2 as revenge for Control Station Enclave and the NCR Enclave war. Also I'm saying Enclave here, as I don't believe Vault Tec would have their own (as in not also being controlled by the Enclave) stockpile of nuclear missiles.

[@RoweRowe]

2 months into my membership and it’s worth it you guys

[@478Johnnyboy]

Its gonna be even more devastating if coop’s wife never really loved him and only looked to start a family with him to better vault tech.

[@raycharles704]

I love how people are just surviving nuclear holocaust left and right in this world meanwhile, anybody who was in contact with the radiation at Chernobyl their faces fell off and they died

[@joshparis7705]

Leave it to the Brit to make this channel worth the subscription 😂

[@Subject_Keter]

If the Vaults were more militaristic and focused on actually reclaiming the Wasteland i can see.. but homeboy, them blues would die seeing a Deathclaw with 2 broken legs lol.

[@RantingMonkey]

The president being missing is a callback to the games.

[@tgatt5759]

Pretty sure it's not in your investor's best interest to nuke them 😂

[@rykil7808]

Am I mistaking that the assistant at Vaultec was Betty? I swear they called her Betty when young Hank was introduced

[@denzil_red]

EpicNate did a deepdive into the Vault Tec conspiracy almost three years ago. Give it a watch guys

[@NadJebrone]

I wonder if they’ll reveal who the BOS Knight is in the armor that finds Maximus?

[@docattacks]

Betty was the secretary also when hank walked in at end

[@earlbedfordjr83]

Vault tec dropped the nukes for multiple reasons. The FEV was distributed before during and after. According to the fallout bible written after 2.

[@zvimur]

7:49, the secretary's name is... BETTY!!

[@THambrough]

I know I was surprised he didn't mention this

[@CrumpetMode]

Are the ads popping up every minute just this channel or all of youtube now?

[@blairhaffly1777]

All of KZbin. Worse on channels that don't toggle off the ads that are at their discretion. The ads you can skip after a few seconds coming in pairs now is particularly annoying.

[@jaykaye594]

Mr Spoilers out here drop bombs like his Mr House on Pyscho.

[@Linkfin]

I noticed when Vault tec is having a meeting with the other companies, the map of the US with the ring light above looks like a mushroom cloud

[@tera_xoxo]

Will you go over Dead Boy Detectives?!

[@Stordyr]

I am not even sure, there was a divorce, honestly. I think, she fell over the event of him spying. We don't know (there is no way of knowing) what happened after the meeting at Vault Tec office. I mean, Bud had to get from the sleezy exec to a brain in a jar. So there was SOME time. Barb is NOT in Vault 31. So where is she?

[@chucklandau1349]

If Vault Tec knew exactly when the bomb would drop Barb would have had Janey safe in a vault, not out with Dad and a horse.

[@ljbachert2887]

I was thinking the same thing

[@R.O.T.C._SEEM]

Exactly what in saying. People ignore this big fact. She would never let Cooper take the child for a birthday party if she knew it was happening. People think that she wouldn't know when, which is ridiculous. Why would vault tech tell her that they will drop the bomb but not tell her when. Doing that would only make her panic and snitch on vault tech because her life would be in jeopardy

[@vkdeen7570]

couple of possibilities they were planning to but someone beat them to it something happened and thr timescale got drastically moved

[@midniteoyl8913]

Unless they were dropped early. And Janey is obviously with Barb or Cooper wouldn't be looking for them and asking Hank where they are.

[@joshuaparr6810]

here for all things Fallout

[@TheHxctacomassacure]

All the new fans looking at vault tek. Og fans: laughing knowing who the real bad guys in charge are....

[@wowgrl6397]

I think the vault and factions mentioned in the bigt meeting all represent the different evolutions of BoS, Vault Tec, etc. And where was Betty? The Brain-on-a-roomba is trapped in such a way I doubt it was an accident.

[@guysmiley8223]

But if Vault tech was behind the nukes why wouldn't the ghouls wife let him on it and her daughter when they dropped?

[@Valefrescoyabish]

I read that he ended up going to Bakersfield by himself or with his daughter and unfortunately he was exposed to nuclear radiation. I believe the vault was volt 12 or a volt that intentionally was left slightly open to see the causes of radiation and that caused his ghoul appearance. As well with his daughter

[@honeysweet4804]

they divorced i’m ep 1 he mentioned alimony

[@benjin3993]

A massive clue is the design of the explosions from episode 1. They were all ground explosions. Nukes from rockets are areal detonations. Meaning the explosion happens before it hits. Unless the governments are using gravity bombs still. Also there was no jet streams leading down. That was my biggest clue to it as Vault Tech blowing it up

[@user-cq5kb3oe7q]

u missed vault tec building didnt fall as aliens are in charge and its got a force field played all the games bought a gamer pc just for these games and farcry in mega detail