Gaming: Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 Recap: 'don't Think Of Them As Human...

The Ghoul relives his own history in "The Handoff."

Warning: Spoilers for absolutely everything in Fallout Season 2 Episode 7!

It's easy to hate on Overseer Steph of Vault 32, but hey, she's been through a lot. Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 kicks off with a Steph flashback set 200 years ago when she was a Canadian citizen sent to an internment camp by the invading Americans (one of whom mockingly called her a hoser, no less) and then watched her Mom die in front of her.

Mom's advice before she expires: "Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as Americans." That's all Steph needs to hear before throat-slashing her way across the border and making her way to Las Vegas where she runs into Cooper Howard and an unconscious Hank MacLean. I guess when Hank woke up he admired her cutthroat (literally) attitude and made her one of Bud's Buds, which secured her a cryopod in the Vault.

Alas, things are not going great for Steph in the present. She's getting a lot of pushback from Overseer Betty of Vault 33, and even worse, from her soon-to-be husband, Chet, who she didn't even bother informing about their impending wedding. Chet has been unsettled for a while, but when he finds the missing Woody's eyeglasses in the garbage disposal, he finally finds his voice, exposing Steph's secret history to the entire Vault.

"Steph was not born in Vault 31. She's 200 years old!" Chet announces to a few scattered gasps. "And she's not even from America. She's Canadian!" Horrified screams erupt. This show definitely has the US attitude toward the rest of the world (and in many cases, its own citizens) perfectly pegged.

Meanwhile, in the secret Vault-Tec HQ beneath New Vegas, present-day Hank MacLean's new workforce is still doing their best Pluribus impression, working in unison to mass-produce mind-control devices with smiles plastered on their faces.

Hank, still handcuffed, helpfully explains that the dial on the device controller determines how much amnesia the subject experiences, while the mainframe implants "new ideas" in their heads. Lucy decides she wants to destroy that mainframe, and Hank is refreshingly helpful (or confident he can still convince her otherwise) by taking her to it, enjoying a nice father-daughter moment as he teaches her to drive a golf cart through the office.

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