Silo season 2 ending explained

It contains the following Spoilers For the season 2 finale of “Silo” “Into the Fire”.

Apple TV+ is home to many of the best sci-fi shows currently hitting the airwaves. Whether it’s the alternate-history fun of “For All Mankind” or the fun of watching Lee Pace as an immortal Emperor fight off a group of assassins completely naked in the more (relatively) static “Foundation” or “Severance” epics, there’s something there. For all science fiction fans on Apple TV+.

Now, one of the best sci-fi shows (and shows in general, for that matter) has finished its second season – “Silo.” Written by Graham Yost and based on the book series of the same name by Hugh Howey, “Silo” is set in a dystopian future where the remnants of humanity live inside a giant underground silo hundreds of stories high. Narratively, the show focuses on Juliet Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson), an engineer who becomes embroiled in a massive conspiracy while slowly uncovering the many secrets of the Silo (also known as Silo 18). It’s an amazing series full of action and fantastic world buildingwith the titular silo feeling like a place to live.

The idea of ​​a show where the remnants of humanity live surrounded by walls and the truth about their world and the origin of their cities is a secret that the heroes must uncover (in the basement, at least) also makes “Silo.” A good spin-off series “Attack on Titan”.

With “Silo” renewed for seasons three and four (with season four set to be its last), there’s still a lot of story to cover if the show intends to fully adapt the rest of Howey’s novels. This is especially true since Season 2 ramped up the mysteries, introducing a major mutiny plot, a new silo (aka Silo 17), artificial intelligence, and even time travel. In short, a lot happened last season, and the Season 2 finale, in particular, offers some answers while raising a lot of questions.

Whether you’re confused about the latest twists and turns in “Silo,” or simply want to relive the shocks, thrills, and surprises, we’ve got you covered.

Arguably the biggest reveal of the Season 2 finale, titled “Into the Fire,” involves what Lucas Kyle (Avi Nash) finds in the tunnel beneath the silo. This is the same tunnel that Juliet’s friend George Wilkins was investigating before his death – a place that only he, Salvador Quinn, and the late Judge Mary Meadows had reached before Lucas. As it turns out, the tunnel leads to a door guarded by the same entity behind the legacy housed in the secret IT vault.

The voice tells Lucas about the security measures, a contingency plan that allows this invisible voice to kill everyone in the silo using an air vent. This changes everything about the show and opens up a whole new can of worms. Who exactly is responsible for determining when the button is pressed? Under what conditions will this happen? Since these are supposed to be the last people on Earth, why would you want to exterminate any chance of repopulating the planet? (Unless this is actually the case A Vault-Tec situation where the silos are just quirky “Fallout” style experiments.)

Meanwhile, in Silo 17, Steve Zahn Solo (aka Jimmy, aka the best character on TV) suddenly remembers that his parents knew about the procedure involving a vent filled with poison and explains the situation to Juliet. He also told her that the people from Silo 17 who came out didn’t die, at least not at first. In fact, his parents not only found a way to stop the toxic vent and make the silo safe in the long run, but they also made it safe to get out.

This is correct. outside. This is groundbreaking. Does this mean that the outside world is not toxic? How would poison inside a silo that isn’t technically in use until a critical moment affect whether or not it’s safe to exit? Unless there is some sort of technological aspect to the virus, that is, something that only kills a person after they leave the house (or when a protection measure is activated). This must remain a mystery for now. Until then, this new information complicates everything and puts the entire history of the Silo 18 in a different context. It seems that the silo’s inhabitants are not survivors after all; They are actually prisoners, or, if you will, ants on a farm sitting on a bomb that anyone could set off on a whim.

Another major story thread that gets mostly resolved in the Season 2 finale concerns the traitor in the mech and the larger rebellion in Silo 18. It turns out that all of the rebels knew that Martha (Harriet Walter) was hiding from Bernard (Tim Robbins) because she literally told them the first chance she got They have to use hand signals that they use to communicate in mechanics. (Bernard, of course, was arrogant enough to assume that the rebels would never think of a way to communicate with each other non-verbally.)

With new reason to hope that Juliet may still be alive, Mechanical prepares for war, finally making good on all of its threats to blow up the engine. Except this is really just a ruse to lure Bernard into sending all of Judicial’s invaders down the lowest levels while everyone in Mechanical storms the stairs and gets to the top – and then blows up the stairs. You read that right: a large portion of the stairs on the lower levels are now gone, trapping all the raiders there.

Now, this has major ramifications for the future of the show. Rebuilding such ladders would take a long time, so what exactly would happen to the mechanics and the engine itself? What about people stuck in the middle levels who can’t move up or down? Whatever happens next season, there will be major shakedowns in Silo 18. Sure, Sheriff Billings (Chinaza Uche) still has all of his deputies on his side, so they can maintain some sort of order, but with so much of the mechanical population now trapped At higher levels, they will have to They deal with their own situation “Snowpiercer”-style in the silo From having too many people and not enough space.

It didn’t help that Bernard upped his job and quit the moment he learned of the security measures, giving the keys to the vault and the position of head of IT to Robert Sims (general). Naturally, though, Robert is once again thwarted from finally getting what he wants. Instead, the moment he enters the bunker with his family, Legacy’s voice recognizes him and sends him away, only willing to talk to his wife Camille (Alexandria Reilly), who appears to be the new person in charge of things.

Just as the rebels were about to burst through the door and die on their way out, they noticed Juliet returning from that fateful hill. Holding a sign in front of the outdoor camera saying it’s not safe to go out, she bumps into Bernard on his way out and convinces him to stay and stop the security measure from happening.

Except it turns out the entrance to the silo is also a crematorium, and we cut to black just as the room Juliette is in catches fire. Now, it’s highly unlikely that Juliet is actually dead because she’s wearing a firefighter’s suit – and why would any show waste Rebecca Ferguson in this way? The better question is what will happen when she reaches the people of Silo 18, because now that she is back, they will have many questions about how she survived without food or water in the wasteland. Will you tell them all about Silo 17, the legacy, the outside world, and the poison? Bernard is likely dead, and any knowledge of the system and the rules of the silo dies with him, so all bets are off as to what they can or should do – as long as they fix the toxic vent first.

Then there’s the finale, the most amazing part of the episode. After Juliet’s fiery ending, we went to Washington, D.C., in what looked like our present, devoid of silos. It turns out that a dirty bomb was detonated in the capital in the recent past, and there’s enough radioactivity that people now have to be screened before entering restaurants. We meet a politician and a reporter on a blind date (except they don’t call them dates in this timeline unless you’re 95), and the season ends with the woman opening a gift, a small thing the politician bought at a convenience store. On the way – the Pez dispenser we saw in Season 1, a relic that still stands in Juliette’s day.

Obviously we will see the origin of the silos, because it is unlikely that Pez was random, and it is unlikely that Pez was somehow passed on from that woman to future generations until they entered the silo. No, this reporter is definitely among the citizens of Silo 18. The question is, how long until we get back to Juliet and the others?

The first two seasons of Silo are now streaming on Apple TV+.