The closing scene of the season takes us again in time, presumably to what humanity was like earlier than the silos had been constructed. We see a dialog happen between a Washington Post reporter named Helen (Jessica Henwick) and an unnamed Congressman performed by Ashley Zukerman. According to Deadline, Zukerman’s Congressman is known as Daniel, which is probably going an alternative choice to the character Donald Keene within the books – a freshman Congressman who can be from Georgia and is instrumental within the improvement of the silo program. Helen can be Donald’s spouse within the e book, which is smart given their considerably flirty encounter within the present.
Shift is a prequel to Wool, and tells the story of the formation of the silos and the way Silo 1 has been monitoring them from a distance through the years with key personnel taking shifts by cryo sleep, together with Donald Keene. If Zukerman is taking part in this key character from the e book, he might be featured in much more than simply flashbacks. Helen may also doubtless have an necessary function to play, as she is presented a Pez dispenser by the Congressman, the identical Pez dispenser we’ve seen circulating Silo 18 as a relic.
The introduction of those characters is a giant step in lastly answering Silo’s greatest thriller – why was humanity pressured underground within the first place? I gained’t give away an excessive amount of extra of Shift’s secrets and techniques, particularly as a result of we nonetheless don’t know precisely how season 3 will weave these previous and current timelines. It’s uncertain they’ll take us away from Silo 18 for too lengthy, however there’s a number of necessary backstory in Shift nonetheless to cowl earlier than the collection dives too far into the following e book, Dust, and it’s doubtless that Helen and the Congressman will probably be on the heart of all of it.
What Is the Silo Safeguard Procedure?
Lukas’ (Avi Nash) quest to seek out the solutions left by Salvador Quinn has lastly come to an in depth as he emerges from the mysterious chamber on the backside of Silo 18. He seems like he’s seen a ghost, and is determined to make his option to the highest of the silo as quick as he can. Once he finds Bernard (Tim Robbins) he tells him that he discovered in regards to the “Safeguard” – a approach for some sort of exterior power to kill everybody within the silo immediately in the event that they deem the silo to be a menace. It’s in that second that Bernard realizes that every one of his efforts to save lots of the silo have been futile.
While Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) works to return house to Silo 18, Solo (Steve Zahn) discovers that every silo has one thing referred to as the Safeguard Procedure in place that has the power to pump some sort of toxic substance into the silo from someplace exterior. While in his outdated condominium, Solo remembers that his mother and father had been working to attempt to disable this in Silo 17 and tries to assist Juliette discover a fast option to cease it. They’re on their option to examine the place the poison pump is in Silo 17, however Juliette has to go away shortly earlier than they’re in a position to get any extra solutions.
Does Juliette Make it Back to Silo 18?
Juliette has been working all season towards making the journey again house to Silo 18. With the assistance of Solo and the youths of Silo 17, she manages to discover a working swimsuit. They attempt to discover out as a lot as they will in regards to the Safeguard Procedure, however sounds of an explosion in Silo 18 power Juliette to pack up and make her approach again house as shortly as she will be able to earlier than they will examine additional.
The swimsuit works lengthy sufficient to get her to the surface of Silo 18. Once there, she cleans the sensor with determined haste, unfurling a message telling everybody inside that it’s nonetheless not secure exterior. She then makes it to the door and frantically tries to pry it open with out success till it all of a sudden opens from the within. As she descends down the steps, she sees a fully-suited Bernard (Tim Robbins) with a gun. Having simply discovered in regards to the Safeguard Protocol from Lukas, Bernard is able to exit on his personal phrases.
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