Fallout Season 2 Episode 4 Recap: 'more Matching Jackets' 2026

Please note: major spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 4!

Remember the Operation Anchorage DLC for Fallout 3? Remember how it kind of sucked? Well, it sucks even more for Cooper Howard and Charlie Whiteknife to actually live through instead of experiencing it via a virtual reality machine that will let them take an overpowered stealth suit at the end. Instead, they're in malfunctioning T-45 power armor (thanks, Bud), fighting on the Alaskan Front with sparks shooting out of their limbs.

Coop radios in to complain about their armor and request a return to base. When that's denied he creatively reinterprets his orders to send Charlie back, promising he'll be right behind. As soon as he's alone though, Coop hears mysterious growling coming from the other side of some mysterious wreckage. We're finally going to see a living deathclaw.

Walton Goggins spends a lot of time as Coop reacting to things that are shocking and it's a credit to his acting that, even after so many episodes of seeing him be surprised by awful stuff, he really sells the deathclaw as uniquely scary. But first he has to deal with a trio of Chinese soldiers who get the jump on him. His gun jams and leg freezes immediately, and while he's lying on his side the soldiers menace him, unaware of the deathclaw approaching from behind.

It massacres the three in no time, but seems to spare Coop after giving him the full Ellen Ripley treatment—is it distracted by gunfire elsewhere, or does it have another reason for sparing an American soldier? Maybe it's just a big fan of his cowboy movies. As Coop hears congratulations over the radio for victory on the Alaskan Front, he says, "It wasn't us. It was something else."

Going from one power-armor casualty to another, Paladin Xander Harkness lies dead on the floor of the Sunset Sarsaparilla plant. The sound of a vertibird outside announces the arrival of the Brotherhood, who Max realizes must put trackers in their armor. If the Brotherhood finds out what happened here they'll kill the ghoul kids and enlist the rest, a fact Max uses to convince Thaddeus to put on Xander's armor and impersonate him. What could possibly go wrong?

Lucy wakes up from her ordeal at the hands of the Legion to find she's in the NCR camp, hooked up to an intravenous buffout drip. Like everyone in TV and movies she immediately rips that needle right out of her arm. Then she thanks the troopers for their help: "Meeting you has been a welcome change of pace."

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Source: PC Gamer