Fallout Season 2’s post-credit scene is all about the robots, baby. While the second season may not have ended with a bang. it did leave us with some major questions about what is on the horizon. The metaphorical horizon, that is, not the one that The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) walks off toward in the final moment of the episode.
**Spoiler alert: This article contains details about Season 2, Episode 8 of Fallout, now streaming on Prime Video**
According to producers Todd Howard and Jonathan Nolan, if you’re looking for a long-winded and thoughtful explanation of that Season 2 post-credit scene, you might want to look elsewhere. For them, that scene with the Brotherhood comes down strictly to what they wanted to their own personal interests.
“It’s always a fun idea, you have all these wonderful storylines and to figure out what’s the last little morsel to leave the audience with. I, for one — and Todd, I think we share this — have a big affection for giant robots. I just love giant robots,” Nolan told DECIDER in a Season 2 post-mortem. “And so the prospect of it is a little daunting, trying to figure out how we’re going to do it. But the prospect of figuring out how to bring Liberty Prime Alpha to life on the screen is something I’m very excited about.”
After a somewhat happy ending for Maximus (Aaron Moten) and Lucy (Ella Purnell), finally reunited after being separated at the end of Season 1, Season 2 ends with war about to break out between the factions of The Brotherhood, and Caesar’s Legion — led by the newly (and self appointed) Caesar, Lacerta Legate (Macaulay Culkin) — headed to New Vegas. Flash through the credits to a headscratcher scene amid the first days of war, where Dane (Xelia Mendes-Jones) hobbles through a base operated by The Brotherhood and approaches Elder Quintus (Michael Cristofer) with a rolled-up scroll.
“The remnants you requested,” Dane says as Quintus orders him to open it. As Dane asks what the unearthed blueprint is for, the elder tells him that what he has retrieved is the way forward for the next stage of the war.
“Out of the virtue of my heart, I tried to unify the brotherhood, and look what it got me,” Quintus says, looking bloody and disheveled. “No matter, Quintus the unifier is dead. Quintus the destroyer is born.”
Just then, the camera flashes to the schematics for the Liberty Prime Alpha super-robot, which makes the traditional suit worn by select members of The Brotherhood look like child’s play.
In the Fallout video game the show is based on, the Liberty Prime Alpha is a combat robot and superweapon first created by the U.S. Army. It appears that the robot has now been drafted by the show as they look to the third season and start to build, literally, the show out.
“Jonah likes to build everything practically, so I’ve decided that the whole excuse for having a Fallout TV show is to watch him build a giant robot for me,” joked Howard, discussing the Liberty Prime Alpha model appearing in the finale.
“We can argue about who gets to keep it in their backyard when it’s done,” added Nolan.
It sounds like things are about to ramp up in Season 3. Fallout Season 2 is now streaming on Prime Video.
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