Gaming: Fallout Season 2 Episode 6 Recap: 'the People Who Set All This In...

Please note: major spoilers for Fallout Season 2 Episode 6!

Barb's having a lot of meetings that could have just been emails—grim emails about how an accurate depiction of bombs hitting Los Angeles would look "too busy" on a billboard, about how 30% of the water chips will fail, and about how premium customers should have access to special freeway lanes to get to their vaults faster. Her blank horror at these corporate plans for the apocalypse is the most sympathetic Barb's been in a while.

Young Hank's here to take notes on Barb's next meeting, with Mr. House. (Not the real one, of course.) "RobCo presents the automated man," he says, presenting the mind-control device. Barb's surprised to learn this is something Vault-Tec commissioned, in return for giving House access to cold fusion for a mysterious personal project of his own.

In Freeside, nobody looks twice at The Ghoul impaled on a pole by the side of the road. He can't reach his vials and is starting to turn feral. After this brief reminder of the future we return to the past, where Coop finally tells his wife he knows what Vault-Tec is up to.

Lucy wakes up in Vault-Tec's office, where her dad has left out a nice dress. That's not creepy at all. Two Legionaries patrol the corridor outside, but when she goes to ambush them with a fire hydrant they're disarmingly friendly. After passing through an office full of surface dwellers working together pleasantly, she finds her father in a simulated vault. He acts as if nothing's changed, launching into a book club conversation about All Quiet on the Western Front, but quickly turns to how similar it was to the situation on the surface: "People fighting over the most petty things. Like bottlecaps."

Sometimes Fallout's developers act surprised when people suggest it has anti-capitalist themes, but they're the people who made a game where post-apocalyptic society decides it can't function without money even though they have to substitute the lids from bottles of fizzy drink for coinage. Fallout's critique of society is and the things it clings to has always been there, even if it was included subconsciously.

Hank surrenders himself to Lucy's custody, placing himself in handcuffs that are apparently just part of the vault package. They do think of everything at Vault-Tec.

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