Fallout‘s second season answered a whole bunch of questions, including some we didn’t even know to ask. But while we learned a whole lot from the show’s sophomore outing, there’s still so much more we don’t yet know. These are the biggest questions we have going into Fallout season three.
Our Fallout Season 2 Burning Questions, Jump To:
- Who (or What) Controls the Enclave?
- What Orders Are Hank’s Minions Following in the Wasteland?
- Why did the Enclave Destroy the World? What Was the Actual Experiment?
- Where Is the Enclave Headquarters? Did Barb and Janey Go There?
- What Has Been Going on With Barb and Janey Howard?
- What Was Coop’s Role in the End of the World?
- What Really Happened With the Last President of the United States?
- Who Was the Shadowy Figure at Barb’s Vault-Tec Meeting About Dropping the Bombs?
- Why Was Siggi Wilzig Woken Up from His Cryo-pod?
- What Will Happen to Digitized Mr. House? How Much Power Does He Still Have Over New Vegas?
- What Will “Phase II” Mean for Vaults 32 and 33 in Fallout Season 3?
- What Is Stephanie Harper’s Endgame?
- Did Stephanie Actually Kill Woody in Fallout Season 2?
- How Strong Is the Revived NCR Really? What About the Legion ?
- Who Is the First Target of “Quintus the Destroyer”?
- What Kind of Mutant Fate Awaits Good Old Thaddeus?
Who (or What) Controls the Enclave?
Fallout‘s second season made the video games’ most evil organization its own big bad. The Enclave was/is controlled by the same entity leading Vault-Tec. It also created Deathclaws, monsters it used to controlnew vegas. The Enclave also appears to be responsible for starting The Great War, blowing up Shady Sands, and making sure the surface world continued to suffer in a dystopian wasteland. It’s also listening in on every message that goes out into the world, it continues to shape and control with a shadowy hand.
But who does that hand belong to? That person, seemingly the most powerful in the world both before the bombs dropped and forever since, sits at the top of the Enclave. The person/persons/thing(?) so smart and conniving that they managed to elude even Robert House’s gaze for centuries. And their plans have only just begun.
What Orders Are Hank’s Minions Following in the Wasteland?
Vault-Tex executive Hank MacLean was always working for The Enclave. He had a secret Enclave Pip-Boy with him in his vault, the one his first wife Stephanie used to call for the group’s help. He had also been working in the Vegas vault to perfect miniaturization of the mind control device Vault-Tec had acquired from Mr. House centuries earlier. Hank succeeded. Not only did he turn wastelanders into pleasant, compliant slaves (via poor Diane Welch’s brain), in the Fallout season two he told Lucy his new R&D was already out in the world. He’d implanted people and sent them off to fulfill orders given centuries ago by the Enclave.
What exactly are those orders? What are Hank’s minions supposed to do for the Enclave? And how does it tie into maybe the biggest question we have for the Enclave’s secret ruler?
Why did the Enclave Destroy the World? What Was the Actual Experiment?
Hank told his daughter Lucy many horrible things before he erased his own memory to protect the Enclave’s secrets. That includes that “the surface” is the experiment, not the vaults. The Enclave ruler blew up the world to see what would happen. Why? What were they hoping to learn? What was the experiment actually about? Why kill billions to see how the survivors would respond? To see what would become of society? Especially if you were then going to constantly interfere with the experiment?
Where Is the Enclave Headquarters? Did Barb and Janey Go There?
The Enclave headquarters, the same one scientist Siggi Wilzig escaped in season one, is high up in some snow mountains that sure look like the Rocky Mountains. Is that Colorado, or at least somewhere close by? It’s a huge question, given that Barb and Janey left a note for Coop saying they were going to the state. It raises the possibility that the Enclave HQ is exactly where they did go. If so, it raises a whole lot more questions about two people who already have us wondering about many different things.
What Has Been Going on With Barb and Janey Howard?
The good news for Coop is that he knows his family is alive on Fallout. But that’s about all we know of the two women. We don’t know who let them out of their pods in Vegas, when they did, or why. We don’t know why they headed to Colorado or if they ever actually ended up there. Season two revealed Barb wasn’t the monster we thought and that her and Coop always loved each other. But we still don’t know much about her. And we definitely don’t know why Janey’s birth began a countdown to the end of the world.
What Was Coop’s Role in the End of the World?
In the pre-bomb years, Robert House couldn’t understand how Cooper Howard factored into his algorithms’ calculations regarding the end of the world. But House suspected Coop was “a killer.” We still don’t know exactly why Coop was so important to the end of the world. Was it merely a matter of his accidentally giving the Enclave the cold fusion diode? Or did it go beyond that?
What Really Happened With the Last President of the United States?
The Last President of the United States has long been a strange figure in Fallout. The games revealed the secret Enclave member disappeared six months before the bombs dropped. Now we, thanks to Fallout season two, the last Commander-in-Chief, who betrayed the country and the world after getting the diode, has a face. But we have even more questions about him, like whether POTUS dropped the first bombs. If so, was it his choice or did he follow the commands of the Enclave’s true leader? Or was the leader? Also, did the Last President end up in Colorado? Is he still alive now? Was he ever even on the Enclave oil rig in the Pacific like long thought? His part in the end of the world now seems bigger than ever. We just don’t know exactly what he did or why.
Who Was the Shadowy Figure at Barb’s Vault-Tec Meeting About Dropping the Bombs?
The fake Robert House—a.k.a. Bobby Apartment in the hearts of Fallout season two fans—attended the infamous Vault-Tec meeting with tech CEOs where Barb said they’d drop the bombs themselves. She only said that because the secret Enclave ruler threatened her. In season two we saw a shadowy figure watching that meeting. Barb glanced at the mystery person right before delivering the horrifying message. We assumed at the time it was the real Robert House, but was it? It doesn’t look like him. It doesn’t seem like it was him, either.
Was it someone like Siggi Wilzig, the man tasked with giving her the Enclave message? Or was is even the secret Enclave ruler overseeing everything from the literal shadows? The fact that Barb looked up right before she said they’d drop the bombs themselves now feels even more ominous than before.
Why Was Siggi Wilzig Woken Up from His Cryo-pod?
Before the bombs dropped Siggi Wilzig worked for the Enclave’s secret ruler. Two hundred years later, someone woke him up from his cryo-pod at the Enclave HQ to work on cold fusion. Only he stole it and smuggled it out all to get it to Moldaver.
Why did any of that happen? Why did the Enclave ruler trust him in the first place? What led to him being put under and then woken up two centuries later? And how could the Enclave not know realized he’d have a total change of heart about his role at the company? For someone who has appeared so little, and who also died quickly in the present timeline, Wilzig is a vital character we know so little about.
What Will Happen to Digitized Mr. House? How Much Power Does He Still Have Over New Vegas?
House is alive! Sort of! Thanks to cold fusion, which he now finally controls after Fallout season two, he’s alive again in the computer where he can ostensibly live forever, so long as he’s powered by cold fusion. And even though Coop left his House Pip-Boy deep in the vault of Vegas, House’s “signal” is not lost. We saw his face flash across the big monitor in his penthouse in the season’s final moments.
He’s still a big player in the game, but how strong is he? Strong enough to protect his city from the Legion? To keep the NCR out? Or will he instead maybe use one of his Securitron robots to follow Coop on his adventure to Colorado? House might not have a body, but he can now go anywhere with good wifi.
What Will “Phase II” Mean for Vaults 32 and 33 in Fallout Season 3?
Phase II for Vaults 32 and 33 involves FEV. It turns people into super mutants. Some of them become disgusting monsters, others big giant green fighting machines. What exactly did the Enclave, the “investors” in Vault-Tec, have planned for the vaults Stephanie now wants to destroy? Just how horrific are those plans?
What Is Stephanie Harper’s Endgame?
Steph’s dying mother told her to survive by climbing the tallest branch. She did that by marrying Hank, getting a job with Vault-Tec, and therefore an executive pod in a vault. But she’s still full of rage and vengeance and wants to destroy America. But…America is essentially gone. The naive goobers in the Vaults think of themselves as Americans, but even if she kills all of them/turns them into FEV monsters, then what? Is she going to go after more people until she dies? What exactly does she hope to achieve and how? Does she even have a plan? And if she did, how did the discovery of her Canadian heritage change that? Can Phase II commence without also infecting her with FEV?
Did Stephanie Actually Kill Woody in Fallout Season 2?
Speaking of Steph, did she…did she actually kill Woody? How else did the missing vault dweller’s glasses end up in her sink? If she didn’t, where is he? What did she do to him?
How Strong Is the Revived NCR Really? What About the Legion?
The New California Republic is back. It saved Maximus and New Vegas from Deathclaws with a triumphant surprise appearance. Turns out there were many members in the desert waiting for someone to reunite them. But the NCR used to control states’ worth of territory, so how strong is this revived version really?
The same question applies to its old enemy which also found renewed strength in the season two finale. The Legion’s new Caesar is marching on Vegas, but after their own bloody civil war how dangerous is the group really?
Who Is the First Target of “Quintus the Destroyer”?
Speaking of once-powerful groups weakened by civil strife, the Brotherhood of Steel’s destructive war with itself left multiple factions weak. But Quintus, now calling himself “the Destroyer,” has a plan. He wants to use the superweapon robot Liberty Prime Alpha to conquer his foes. He has many, as he hopes to rule and reshape the entire wasteland. So who is his first target? The most powerful Brotherhood sect, the Commonwealth? New Vegas? The NCR? Quintus is angry and self-righteous. With Liberty Prime Alpha robots leading his army he would also be very dangerous.
What Kind of Mutant Fate Awaits Good Old Thaddeus?
So…like…what’s going to grow into the spot that used to have Thaddeus’ arm? Cause we’re not confident he’s going to turn into a super mutant warrior like Ron Perlman’s green character. So just how bad might things get for Thaddeus as his mutant shape takes form?
Well, those are all the questions we have after Fallout season two. We can’t wait to get some answers whenever season three comes our way.