Fallout Season 1 Recap: What You Need To Know Before Watching Season 2

Fallout Season 2 begins on December 17, which'll be 20 months after we saw Season 1 back in April of 2024. You're forgiven for forgetting details of a show that came out so long ago Joe Biden was still president and Abiotic Factor didn't exist. If you need a refresher, here's a rundown of all eight episodes.

In the year 2077, cowboy actor Cooper Howard performs with his daughter Janey at a birthday party. When Cooper refuses to do a thumbs-up his daughter asks why, and he explains that in the Marines they were taught to measure mushroom clouds with their thumbs—if it was bigger than their thumb it wasn't worth running away. Moments later, while Cooper is inside getting a slice of birthday cake, his daughter holds up her thumb to the smoke on the horizon.

219 years later, Lucy Maclean is convincing the council of Vault 33 to let her be the bride in an upcoming trade with their neighbors Vault 32. At the wedding her father Hank, who is the Overseer and a trade from Vault 31 himself, gives a speech explaining radiation levels on the surface are dropping to the point that Lucy and her new husband Monty's children will be able to recolonize the surface.

"I must admit I'm sometimes afraid that mean old world will change us instead," he says. "But then I look at my daughter." Hank has heard of subtlety and Hank believes it's for cowards.

Lucy's brother Norm discovers the real inhabitants of Vault 32 are dead, but before he can warn anyone the wedding guests are actually raiders, they attack. Lucy fights back, cutting her new husband's throat, and Hank coldly drowns him in a pickle barrel. The leader of the raiders, a woman named Moldaver who seems familiar with Hank and Lucy's late mother, kidnaps Hank and leaves.

We meet our final protagonist, Maximus, being beaten up by fellow aspirants in a Brotherhood of Steel training camp. Only Aspirant Dane is friendly to him. When a squad of knights in T-60 power armor arrive, Dane is chosen to be a squire for Knight Titus, but is injured by a razorblade hidden in their boot. Maximus is suspected of sabotaging his comrade, but denies it under interrogation and is granted the honor of being squired to Titus instead. They set off on a mission to hunt a member of the Enclave who has a dog companion.

Back in Vault 33, the survivors are rebuilding. The new council aren't in favor of sending a search party after Hank, so with help from Norm and her cousin Chet, Lucy gears up and leaves Vault 33 to find her dad alone.

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Source: PC Gamer