Fallout Episode 10 Plot Summary
Introduction
I went back and reread the summaries from last season and realized that I forgot how Max’s story ended. They left a huge plot hole open in that first episode from this season. However, they make up for it in this one. It centers mostly around Max, with brief interludes for The Ghoul and Lucy, Hank, and Norm. Somehow, I completely forgot most of this episode, but damn it was a good one. Continue reading for my Fallout Episode 10 plot summary.
Shady Sands Ends and Young Max Begins
Open on idyllic life and focus on young Maximus. NCR troops walk through the streets. Max’s dad is working on a water pump/filter. His mother comes out of the house to join him. They test the water. No trace of rads. Mom tries the water. There’s more down there than we though. No worries about rationing. More crops. Another kid? When you figure out how to push a baby out of my. “Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter” over and over from a passing merchant.
Max and his Dad have a conversation and approach the man who was muttering to himself. His eyes are bleeding and he’s still repeating that line. Oh shit, he’s got one of the devices on his neck. There’s a nuclear warhead in his cart. Max’s Dad tells everyone to run and sends Max off to his mother. Max runs, clearly distraught. His father tries to defuse the bomb. He nervously cuts a wire and sighs. Nope. Failsafe activated. He runs, too. Three minutes with a smiling vault boy. Max’s father makes it back and tells Max to get his kit. He cleans out the fridge. “Don’t be scared now. Listen. Someone will come to get you out, but until then..I need you to eat and drink very slowly.” Max is crying. His parents try to console him. “It could be tough out there but as long as we leave it a little bit better than we found it..” “No, Daddy” as he closes the door. They embrace. Flash of light and a mushroom cloud and the blast.
Fallout Episode 10 Plot Summary (Okie Dokie)
Overseer Hank is washing his hands. Young Lucy calls to him to read to her as he looks at himself in the mirror. “Okie Dokie”. ON his PipBoy, “Detonation successful.”
The Conquering Hero Returns
| Max in his armor. Making his way through and murdering ghouls, humans, anything that gets in their way. They are relentless. I think it’s mostly, if not all ghouls. They come to an office. A ghoul rises from the corner very dramatically. They waste it. A power core. “That’s what we came for?” “Doesn’t matter. Pack it up and report to the Vertibird.” Max looks forlornly out into the Wasteland from the vehicle. They land on a huge Brotherhood blimplike flying vessel. This whole scene is slow and deliberate. Very well shot and acted. “All hail Knight Maximus!” The conquering hero again returns. |
| Two people make their way thorough an old playground in the Wasteland. They put a fusion core into something and “Good. We got power.” A vertibird takes off. Maximus hands over the “key to our new home” to the Elder Cleric. He starts to wax about the Brotherhood becoming scattered. But they may now be able to reunite over one banner again. The people on the ground get a signal from the brotherhood and turn the key. Several huge turbines come out of the sand and start spinning. Quintus shows it off to Max. The fans blow the sand away and reveal Area 51 military base. “Together, we will fullfill our promise to make better—this fallen world.” Max smiles. “My son.” Max smiles more. |
Just Like You. Stupid
Back to the Ghoul and Lucy. She drinks. “Water” he demands. “Were you always this rude? I’m guessing not.” “Your family may be out there. *paraphrased* crazier things have happened. But I’m sure they wouldn’t appreciate the person you’ve become.” The Ghoul stares. “You want them to like you right?” That seems to hit. “I’m just saying a little kindness goes a long way. Charles Dickens even wrote a book about it. I can tell you if you want to know.” “Nope”. “Cut to her talking about the third ghost and he’s pretty much cured! “Uh huh.”
As they pass a hospital, there’s someone screaming for help.
“I think it’s coming from inside.” “Empathy’s like mud. You can lose your boots in the stuff.” He keeps walking. “Well, I’m not going to let someone die while I listen to them scream.” “Folks have been screaming for 200 fucking years.” “Did it ever occur to you that if you help them, they might stop?” “You want to know what I was like before the war?” Just like you. Stupid. Shouting continues. Lucy goes to help. The Ghouls sighs, but follows. Screaming continues.
“Waste of time.” “Doing the right thing is never a waste of time.”
They enter the hospita, following the voice. Dogmeat leads them to the preson screaming. A woman in a toga. “We need medicine.” Lucy: “What happened here?” Ghoul: “Tunics. A little far west, ain’t ya?” The woman shows a knowing look. Lucy offers a stimpak. “That would be a profound misallocation of resources. Folks dressed like that don’t deserve saving.” Lucy gives him a stare. Offers water. Another one over here. Ghoul slits his throat and takes a bite. “But you did lead us to dinner.” The Ghoul spits out the flesh. The dude has wounds all over his body.
*skittering* Lucy: What is that? *more skittering*
Boom, then clanging. The woman breathes harder. “They’re back”
Something in the duct. Radscorpions! Two attack. The Ghoul blasts on. Lucy squishes another. Something bangs on the door. A massive one and it looks hungry. Yep, eats a little one and advances on the Ghoul. The radscorp gets its stinger caught. The Ghoul fights off the big one while Lucy kills two more. The Ghoul uses the woman as a shield when the thing attacks with its stinger. The Ghoul shoves a grenade inside the thing, tosses it aside. “So long, Sweetheart.” It explodes. The Ghoul and the woman now need the stimpak. Lucy administers it to her. “Fuck you.” “She’ll die without it.” “We’ll get you home to your people.” “Golden rule motherfucker.” “That rule is for people. You’re disgusting. Cruel. I’m nothing like you. Which is why after I get her home, I will come back. But you’ll have time to think about the consequences of your actions.” They leave. Great line here: “Don’t worry about him. He’s durable. He’ll be fine.”
Scene
Where’s Bud Askins?
Back in vault 31 with Norm and the rapidly thawing Bud’s Buds. They are a bit disoriented and take some time to exit their pods. Norm meets them after they’ve had a chance to get their suits on. “Where’s Bud Askins? Has anyone seen Bud?” “I thought this was going to be more of a one by one situation.” Norm: There’s been a change of plans.” One person is still blind (a change of plans, duh). Another falls out of her pod, but she’s fine. Fine folks.
Norm addresses them to explain. It must be Reclamation Day! Norm lies. It is reclamation day. Bud Askins is dead. That much is true. Remain calm. We need to figure out a way to get out of here. Are we trapped? They panic. Norm tries to calm them. They continue to panic.
Fallout Episode 10 Plot Summary (Kablooey)
Vault Tec HQ with Hank. He drives a golf cart while swinging his yoyo. Cryogenic depository. Then stops at livestock and brings a mouse back with him. Heads back u while cradling the mouse. Uses a pair of tweezers to attach a device to the mouse. Puts the mouse into a glass box with a tiny cubicle after giving it a little pet. Presses the button. Turns the dial. Smiles. Turns again. Kablooey. Rinse and repeat a few times. Takes notes after each one. A few more times. And more times. He’s exasperated. Wait, have we figured it out? It’s going to the computer. Kablooey. Nope. “Okay”
Fuck the Commonwealth
Back on the airship above the base.
They enter the base in their armor. Teeming with equipment that looks in pretty good shape. An alien in an ice box, but they’re more impressed with the ice box.
They make their way through to see everything that’s there, sorting and “Please don’t play with grenades inside.” They take a car out into the Wasteland to “see what it can do” re: shooting it until it explodes. Cold fusion hooked up and ready. “What will he do with it? Nothing good.”
Max is speaking with an aspirant. Better ourselves to better the world. He admires the armor and starts to polish it. Dane: “Just gonna get dirty again.” They talk about the codex, how the Brotherhood may be the best of a bad situation. What about that girl? She left. Then they move on to the Brotherhood and the brewing civil war. More airships arrive.
There’s a meeting between the various heads of state in the Brotherhood. They share a meal. “Where’s the Commonwealth?” This would lead to civil war. With the Commonwealth. They’d kick our asses. Not if we fight together. Under a common banner. Yeah, your banner. They chatter and fight. Quintus brings them back to order. There’s some talk of robot fucking and how the different factions rule. Quintus shows them small boy nukes. This gives them the spine they need to agree, “Fuck the Commonwealth”.
Fudge
Lucy and the woman walk. She compiments her and the woman answers in Latin. I’m headed to Las Vegas. You shouldn’t. Well, I’m looking for someone. You should go home. They pass some weirdos in the mountains holding torches. “Fudge.” The woman abandons her.
Bud’s Final Test
| Back in Vault 31. Norm shouts to get their attention because some of them want to go back. “I’m the product of 200 years of genetic engineering. Part of a group of super managers…did Bud Askins make mistakes? Well… This is Bud’s final test. If I can lead you out of here, we will prove ourselves worth and carry on Vault-Tec’s strategy.” They start to brainstorm ways to get water. Norm looks proud of himself. |
Try, Try Again
Back with Hank. Hes in the “Premium Elite Plus” section. Wings the Yoyo. Thawed someone out. The guy is disoriented. His neck itches. There’s a device in there. “Is it reclamation day?” “Yes, just not in the way you think. I’ve been running an experiment here. But the mice are so tiny. It’s finnicky.” The guy tries to point to the fine print. But, Hank never read it. The man had a family but only bought a ticket for one. Expensive. You can’t put a price on family… “What are you doing?” “Improving a bit of outdated technology. Civilization. It hasn’t worked out so far. But, if at first you don’t succeed.” Kablooey “try. Try. Again.”
Fallout Episode 10 Plot Summary (Who are these weirdos?)
Lucy stumbles on a settlement. She’s surrounded by weirdos with torches, pigs heads on sticks. She tries to talk her way out of it by proclaiming herself “nice”
The Mall’s Gone
The Vault 31ers continue to work together as Norm looks on. They make it to the ventilation systems and open the door. “I found a ladder!” To Norm” :Lead the way, boss. He makes his way up with their help. He climbs up into the shaft and up the later. It leads out into the Wasteland. They all climb out of the duct and follow Norm, who is blown away everything. “It’s so dirty.” they say. “And the mall’s gone.” Norm: It’s so beautiful. |
Commonwealth Fucks Back
| Back with the Brotherhood. Two knights fight in their armor while the others watch. Max is disillusioned by the spectacle and turns away. He gets challenged by someone who knows about his escapades with Moldaver. “Bet I could mash you.” “Probably” Quintus nods. “Let me get my armor.” “No armor” The guy takes a cheap shot while Max takes off his coat and proceeds to beat the ever loving piss out of the poor guy. Max nut shots him and throws his jacket. The guy pulls a knife. They cirlce one another. Max fights him and takes the knife. The guy lunges. Max guts him. The guy chokes him. Max finishes him off and the guy falls limp. His initiate cheers with the rest. Dane walks off. A vertibird approaches and lands. Out walks Kumail “Sorry to interrupt. Paladin Harkness. Liason from the Commonwealth. I understand we are discussing a civil war. I must not have gotten my invitation.” “And yet, here you are. “Welcome.” Harkness gives Max an approving nod. Max weakly returns the nod. |