10 Questions In The Fallout TV Series We NEED Answers To 

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Norm is going to start unplugging pods until he is let out.. he's a g

I think Cooper raced to Barbara’s vault and dropped his daughter off but he couldn’t get in himself

His daughter running Vault Tec would be an epic twist

Who cleaned up vault 32? Seems like it was done pretty fast and only a few would be allowed to see what actually happened in there.

I'm figuring Moldaver was one of Bud's Buds. Otherwise Hank would have known she wasn't the real 32 Overseer at the wedding.

How Cooper was separated from his daughter.... Cooper is divorced from Barb(one of the dads that was taking pictures of him at the birthday party mentions alimony) so I think after they escaped he brought his daughter to Barb, but some for some reason didn't get to go with them to wherever Barb and his daughter went.

My biggest question is why didn't Maximus just tell everyone the (half) truth? "A Yao Guai killed Titus so I took the armour to carry on the mission. The radio was damaged so I couldn't call in." You can leave out the fact you let him bleed out, then Thaddeus doesn't steal the FC and you don't risk death with the Brotherhood.

Why didn't Hank recognize Moldaver when she shows up (maybe like Superman she took off her glasses so nobody could tell it was her?) and why did nobody's pip boys register any surface radiation on the Raiders until very late in the evening when they started slaughtering everyone?

"It looks like it effects ghouls differently since it kept Cooper going longer than the other one" .....because he ran out. He ran out of the vials. Not because they are effected differently. He ran out. You even put it in the clip "you don't have any vials do ya?"

I think when vault 32 found out about vault 31. They released some kind of toxic gas into the vault 32 to make them all go crazy.

Why was Moldovar portrayed as a sympathetic villain at the end when the show started with her raiders slaughtering dozens of people?

Moldaver said Hank "burned down" Shady Sands because his wife took the kids there to live. Maximus was there when it happened and in the aftermath. It's highly likely that Lucy and Maximus crossed paths while there as kids.

Wish we could’ve seen more backstory on the enclave scientists who trained and raised Dogmeat. The intro of that episode was interesting

Wasn't it the chosen one that destroyed the enclave and not the vault dweller?

If Hank had met Moldaver when he went after and killed his wife, how did he not recognize her when she pretended to be the overseer of 32?

I think the end of season 2 will be Ron Perlman stepping out of the shadows as the big bad of Vault tec with the spine chilling line "remember coop....war....never changes"

Barb was probably just a mouthpiece, there was a figure in the shadows during that scene, one probably not as charismatic or as comely as Barb. Just knowing the plan makes her evil, and Coop's decision once he finds her interesting. Coop probably got Janey to Barb early after the bomb, pumped full of rad-away and put on ice.

You should have ended with “Okey-dokey!” 😜

I was under the impression that Wilzig had always been Muldever's inside man to continue her work on cold fusion. Which is why he waited for Hank to be captured before he made a break for it. At least, that's what all the evidence points to.

I think the Ghoul Vials are a way to STOP a ghoul from going feral, and if they aren't able to dose, they go feral, in which case the vials only SLOW the process down.

I think Maximus might try to head back to Lucy’s vault anyway while cooper and Lucy look for after her dad. Then we’ll get the most awkward and possibility funniest moments when Maximus meets Norman 😂

Moldaver did not discover Shady Sands. Former residents of Vault 15 did. As for her forces? Likely people who want revenge for Shady Sands. NCR covered a lot of land at their apex and spread all around. Likely some stayed behind with her.

How did Hank/Henry get a bomb to drop on Shady Sands? And what will Dogmeat do now that no one is carrying around Wilzig’s head?

Norm is crying in the thumbnail because stuck at the final boss in the final dungeon an he's underleveled. Dude didn't want to do any sidequets, and went straight to the end.

I think moldaver survived by cloning herself. My theory won't have any weight till we see the casting for season 2 but based on everything she said during season 1 and the lore I remember from the game I think this would be an interesting way to bring the character back. "Gary?!?"

My question is who cleaned up all of Vault 32 for resettlement day? Vault 33's population was decimated by the raiders and most of the people involved in Vault 31 are still in cryogenic suspension. The amount of time, manpower and work needed to clean up Vault 32 completely to show no evidence of anything happening would’ve been a massive undertaking. My only thought would be robots. Update: My only other theory is there were allot more Vault 31 people in Vault 33 then were led to believe, and they may have went over the cleaned up the evidence.

8:00 she didn’t work for vault tech she had her own company where she came up with all types of genius inventions, one of which being the artifact, this is why she knows so much about it she created it. Then vault tech bought the company she works for along with all the research, she knew how to make cryo chambers, she knew the bombs we’re coming she also knew how to make infinite energy it’s pretty obvious she just made another cryo chamber for herself possibly even for the other members of that group

Vault Tech = The Enclave I have heard this speculated for many years, at least to how deep the link is, if there is one. I am thinking it's possible they are just one in the same. As we saw in this show, Vault Tech planned to preserves their own lives, much like The Enclave.

The ghoul backstory confirms something big and that is that vault tech did not drop the first bomb. I say this because you really think that cooper's wife would allow her daughter to go with her father that day if she knew the bombs were gonna be dropped. Part of me thinks that his backstory might be false. The part that I believe he is miss remembering is that his daughter was with him that day. I say this because it doesn't make sense that his daughter is still alive with his ex wife but he doesn't know where they are. He would have had to hand his daughter to the mother so that they can get in the vault. A good plot twist would be that Moldova met up with him and took his child and ex wife to a secret vault that she had. This would explain why he wants to find her again

Moldaver is confirmed for season 2. So we will get more backstory. My thoughts are she worked for vault tec but, had a side group as a resistance leader.

One that occurred to me concerning the Goul is when the Bubba Gump shrimp guy digs up the Goul he says "There a big bounty come up, back from where you from, California." Where the hell were they when they dug him up? His wording suggests they are not in California. When the guard took the baby leg to the chest the location looked like (don't laugh, I know it sounds ridiculous)THE CASTLE. Would have been a helluva walk from the Commonwealth to the west coast but that is what the location reminded me of.

If the enclave poke their head out, they will get ripped apart by everyone. They're weak and not at all widespread anymore. The remnants of the enclave in NV were so afraid of being found out they were enclave that they kept it hidden. It didn't even seem like the enclave had much forces other than a mark I turret and not even a person in their power armor. Just a few guys with helmets and a laser rifle... Yeah they're weak. So they'd have to contract out to get Wilzig. Wilzigs history could be interesting though, he used a pipboy, knew the vaults very well.

7:40 - the founder of Shady Sands? What?! Aradesh is the Founder of Shady Sands in Fallout 1.

I hope that Maximus ends up reforming the West Coast Brotherhood of Steel, as opposed to simply turning against them. It would be a waste to see his character turn into Finn from Star Wars. And the best part about the Brotherhood as an organization is the constant tug-of-war between its two separate ideologies of preserving technology and helping people.

I have questions too... 1. Why didn't Moldaver just take Lucy with her when she raided vault 33? 2. Moldaver goes to Vault 33, but pays 3 different people to pick up Wilzig and deliver him to her even when she and her raider band are going right past Philly?

My theory is that Cooper took his daughter to the vault where her Mother was at before taking off to wherever.

I just finished the show and I’m very familiar with the games this plot was very insane all the Fallout Game Vaults were big human experiments but I think this is the first time that a Specific Vault is a master mind behind it all, it answers all of my questions back then like when I was younger “Why would they do human experiments, how does it benefit them if pre war people are dead”

I think the Vault 32 mystery is solved. They learned of the plan, and those that were from 31 were attacked by the native 32 dwellers.

Why did Moldaver tell Hank he had to decide between a group of Vault dwellers or his daughter and then he just shoves Lucy in a broom closet and then leaves with Moldaver? That made no sense. He didh't choose either one. I also wonder if that small group all came over from Vault 31? Also at the end when L.A. lights up from the power supplied by the cold fusion I had to wonder how all that wiring and transformers and other power systems were still functioning after 219 years of no maintenance and how would there be liines going out from Griffith Observatory to the rest of the city to deliver the power? I doubt they will address any of this stuff but it is frustrating. Oh, they definitely should hire the architect that built Randy's Donut shop to build Vaults cause after all that time and those nukes that iconic little shop is still standing. Impressive. Everything else is dust.

What happens with squire thaddeus? Why didn't overseer Maclean not realize that Moldaver was not from vault 31 at the beginning? Are we going to see the quack doctor again?

Ok... my question is this... If Muldaver is the leader of a NCR cell... why did she use waste landers to infiltrate 32... and then play along with the marriage ruse? She had the pip boy... guns... and trained soldiers at her command. If the idea was to rush 32 it would have been a much more reliable crew to run with. Then after discovering 32 was empty all they had to do was get 33 to open the doors (if the pip boy wouldn't have opened it the same way) then nabbed McClain as soon as they did. Did they all just really want cake?

Maybe it is a specific vector of ghoulification. Harold didn't need any meds to avoid going feral, but he had a tree growing out of his head. so who knows.

Did his wife ditch him and their daughter for a secure spot in a good vault? I didn't see her at the start.

Pretty sure the ghoul medicine is RadAway, the iv to cooper’s grave looks the same as the RadAway the Maximus gives Lucy

Well Cooper and Barb clearly get divorced as the dad of the kid tells his friend when he asks how they got Cooper there, that it was “Alimony” ?? But deffo questions as to how they got separated just after the bombs fell, maybe Vault Tec stepped in somehow and took her or Barb does idk, we need some answers to that as well 🤷🏻‍♂️ loads of un answered questions to head into season 2 with!

I swear that somewhere in my FO3/NV playing, my brain wants to say its in Raul's dialogue, he talks about how Ghouls use chems to keep their brains buzzing and stop them from going feral. The context I remember is they do Psycho/Jet/Steady/Med-X/etc just to keep their cognition amplified. Almost described like how Dark Souls describes "going hollow". In Dark Souls, keep fighting, don't go hollow. In Fallout, for ghouls, keep chugging chems, stay lucid, don't go feral. The show, however, definitely makes it look like there are specific "vials" that prevent a ghoul from going feral, not just the "stay fucked up on any chem available" that I remember NV describing.

I've got a theory about Cooper and the other Ghoul. When Cooper was talking to Bud, Bud talked about how time was the problem. And we're made to assume that he was working on the cryo tanks. What if they were also working on a way to lengthen the human lifespan. But since it was still in the testing phase, it had side effects. Namely, slowly turning people into Ghouls.

Young Betty was Cooper Howard's wife secretary and she worked with hank, you see Betty become an overseer in the vault she is part of management.

"The Enclave's real?" says a member of the faction that went to war with them twice.

Why Moldaver come with Raiders and not NCR soldiers to Vault 33? It's kind of strange to go to the vault with raiders just to capture Hank. It can be done with NCR and minimal casualties

Isn't the ghoul medicine just Rad way and Rad x . Never mention it and would be logical on keeping them sane still

Learning the backstory about Moldaver in the end, it didn't make much sense that she was so ruthless to the people of vault 33. I mean yes, her end goal was to change the future for the better, but she set some psycho killers on those peaceful vault dwellers who where totally oblivious to the workings of the world. Uncool Moldaver!

I mean the vials are pretty self-explanatory. You drink the vials and you don't go feral. We can also assume that the longer you wait to drink one, the more you will need, based on Cooper's reaction to finally getting vials when he was near death. Cooper's friend was out of vials and had likely gone quite some time without one. Vials are also expensive, based on the conversation they had and he was unable to afford them. Cooper, on the other hand, was able to keep vials around by completing his bounties and having the money to do so.

The real question is: "Is Robert House alive?"

i like the theories presented here; ie. That cooper's daughter is in charge (after her mom) But like what some of the theories i seen online which makes sense. - the vials from the super duper market, were probably some kind of spinal / fluid extracted from the existing ghouls captured (that is why they have tons n tons of supplies there). that would help maintain the sanity, and that it would be constantly available for "harvest" from fellow ghouls. Also partially explains why cooper cannibalizes the ghoul he killed, right immediately, to extend abit of the timeframe of not having any vials. personally i have these: - norm is definitely alive as he can threaten the brain to let him out, or find a way out. cryo pod being last resort. - Either: cooper definitely got his daughter into a vault whereby his wife was in charge, and he himself did not manage to get in, while being irradiated and mutated into ghoul. OR Alternative reasoning: he actually got into the vault with a cryopod, but it was sabotaged by someone, and he ended up in the wasteland irradiated and mutated. while the status of his family remain unknown. and he survived the ghoul/mutation while trying to find answers. Additional detail: his wife may or may not be in charge , as she may have been betrayed as well by vault-tec. - vault 32, was definitely induced with a form of gas which made them hallucinate/ kill each other. This is not new, even in FO universe's vaults. So this is not much of a mystery IMO. as each vaults had their own experiments they wanted to carry out.

I got a couple. How can the power armor fly, when in fallout 4 you needed a massive jetpack just to do big jumps? Why did they depict all the corporate bigwigs talking to each other about their potential experiments, therefore giving each other blackmail material? How come Hank didn't know about vault 32 being long dead before they did that exchange? If the NCR had an estimated 1 million people by the events of New Vegas, what happened to it to only have a few dozen to a hundred people left?

Moldaver is a scientist so maybe she was part of vault 4 scientist team and used one of the vault's cryopods to freeze her self or it could be a part of the vault's program to freeze some scientists. This also maybe explains how Shady Sands survivors found a refuge in vault 4.

I think in season 2 we’ll see that Barb wouldn’t let Cooper and the dog in cause she knew they’d fuck it up, (maybe they made her choose.) Whoever her shadowy boss was is probably still in charge but I certainly hope to see her or their daughter awakened in season 2. It’s Chekov’s Daughter.

they could easily spin the "ghoulification" process being different depending on not just exposure variation but also genetic makeup ... similar to how certain gene pools during the black plague avoided getting sick from a specific dna makeup

4:07 I mean you literally answered your own question, Cooper likely spends decades at a time down in his coffin having the chems directly mainlined into him. When he's out and about, he needs to be stiming himself with the stuff every couple hours at least.

10:56 The dude literally saw all of civilization fall to shit and watched the rest of humanity have to scrounge around like cockroaches to survive for 200 goddamn years. I think literally anyone would turn into a nihilist after seeing that much awfulness for that long.

"We haven't seen the Enclave since Fallout 2." Somebody hasn't played 3 or New Vegas.

I thought Moldaver was cryogenically frozen in the vault Lucy and Maximus fall in to? That’s why she’s worshipped there

why was Steph thrilled to be going to vault 32 like how are they gonna survive there when there's no supplies? is vault 31 like the management vault or is there another one that's like higher level management? was Hank actually authorized and equipped enough to bomb shady sands on his own? - like the end sort of set him up as a decent bad guy, but the flashback and if he's not in the upper management vault had him as like exec admin.

You pretty much raised the same questions I had, except for the blonde Stephanie Harper who comes from vault 31. My guess is that she was born before the nuclear explosions. And now she manages vault 32.

Remember the scene with the Dads talking about him having to pay child support? I think she left him.

My biggest question was when they open the vault for the wedding, why didn’t all of their wrist thingies start beeping with the detection of radiation? And couldn’t they SMELL these people who hadn’t bathed in seemingly months??

I LOVE the character of Cooper and his badass wasteland skills, but I think he was a touch OP in the first season. It makes a certain amount of sense given that he's had a couple centuries to build up those skills, but I would like to see some characters that challenge his utter dominance in combat in season 2.

How Cooper became a ghoul…. He raced to his wife Barb with their daughter, but refused to stay in her vault because of his moral compass. Barb gave him some technology and a supply of the radiation medicine so he had a chance of survival outside of the vaults. She didn’t tell him about the side effects though, because she knew he wouldn’t take it otherwise.. Obviously now he knows the side effects, and is looking for answers. Thus he has been roaming the wasteland all this time, hoping to reunite with his daughter and wife.

My biggest question was who and how did they clean up vault 32 so quick when the night before they were there and saw all the blood and death. But then very next day it’s perfect. So who did all the cleaning?

When Bud's brain tells Norman that there isn't much food in Vault 31 it would have been funny if Norm said "Oh, I don't know. Looks like a buffet to me" as he gazes at all the frozen execs. He might actually be a cannibal (remember that crack he made about Lucy's potential husband being a cannabal?) He could just smash Bud's little tank open and that would take care of him and then he could just eat one exec at a time as he needed substance. End of Vault-Tec problem. BTW, does Vault-Tec even still exist in the future that they are living in? Do these execs actually feel an obligation to anybody higher up still to keep doing their "job"? The vault dwellers don't really work for Vault-Tec. They just bought their homes in the vaults so where do the execs get off thinking they are managing anybody? Lots of interesting questions.

11. Why didn't the master go after vaults 31, 32, and 33, if they were in such close proximity to Shady Sands, and ultimately so close to where Los Angeles used to be?

Norm can threaten to destroy every cryo pod unless he is released from Vault 31.

Since vault-tech is still going to be main antagonist of season 2. If the fallout show gets a season 3 i wonder if the enclave will be the primary villains, since we briefly see them at the beginning of the first season. It will depend on how season 2 goes when it comes out.

My theory is that cooper was put into a bad vault because of the divorce. He found out about the corruption and betrayed with vault-tec still using his face. Seeing his image survive his face must be heartbreaking when they are the opposite characters

I started replaying Fallout after watching the series. And I still suck at the game! 😂 I love the game though (I'm playing Fallout 3 btw).

Seems like Hank would've known Moldaver instantly in the first episode as she took in his wife and daughter in Shady Sands and he ended up nuking the place. It was personal. He knew who she was. Was he still just playing the unknowing overseer for the other vault dwellers benefit, or an oversight in continuity?

Thank You Ive been looking for this for a while. I had a feeling you,d do h eventually. Also I know uou did Mr House already bur with the Fallout show out, now would be a perfect time to do the other factions in that Universe. Especially Vault Tec.

I want to know how hank could operate power armor so efficiently when he made his escape. I don’t think he was in the military pre war and he spent the last few decades in a vault. We see how much Maximus struggles at first with the armor so this seems like an oversight to me.

Did Betsy and the Roomba clean up the vault? I think its hilarious Vault Tec Bud was described in the captions as Brain on a Roomba, considering Amazon was trying to buy the company when this was being produced.

I like how the whole corn and picnic thing is en homage to the film A Boy and his Dog, a major fallout influence

1. Why didn’t copper shoot Maximus in the t60s week spot? 2. How the hell did the scribe get regenerated limbs? Not even ghouls can do this. Wild wastelander perk? 3. When will we see aliens?

I'm curious if we get to visit another vault in season 2. Will it be one of the vaults in the New Vegas game, or a new one. Also, I imagine Lucy would be the one that would make the encounter disastrous (thinking it might be the same as Vault 4).

To the question regarding whether the drug affects different ghouls differently: The Ghoul described the connection between having a well-paid job - like his - with the capability of paying for the anti-feral drugs. It is logical to think that you have to take them regularly, and the other ghoul clearly did not have the funds for the drug to take it every time needed.

The only thing that puzzled me was Moldaver being alive and not a ghoul. Looking forward to finding out how, next season.

Cooper was divorced at the time of the party scene. They mention he is doing kid's parties for alimony. Even as a bit of a joke but Cooper's reaction appeared to give merit to the statement.

I wonder if Courier Six will play a role in whatever they’ll do to New Vegas in season 2, as well as gain any confirmation on the other protagonists and what became of them or their whereabouts.

I think the scientist head will end up being a Synth since the show is popular now and they would probably like to use that great actor again, and also because the showmakers have a history with Westworld.

When Wilzig left the Enclave, the turret gun missed him the whole way? Come on, unless it was rigged to happen that way...

The ghoul medicine is fairly clear. he's always been good at earning. So he was always able to supply himself, Roger, not so much

05:30 Or did they try to? Yes, it does seem like a bit of a plot hole, but with the overseers all being from 31, they had the communication between the vaults under their control, and would probably very carefully pick who was in charge of the connecting doors. The revelation that everyone was dead and apparently had been for a while was something I didn't expect though so I might have to rewatch it, to see when that info officially reached Vault 32. If literally everyone died in the initial uprising, I'd assume there was some kind of fail-safe that got triggered to make sure everyone was dead. As for 1 & 2: If you only watched the series, "The Enclave" is a big question in itself. We see some of it in Wilzigs backstory, we hear them mentioned by the Brotherhood, but if you haven't played the games, that's all you know about them.

My questions, with both their capital and seemingly an important leader now off the map, what is the state of the NCR across the Western Commonwealths (at least as far out as Four States based on NV). They had a wider presence than just the South West Commonwealth so how is that impacted by the loss of HQ? If next season is going to New Vegas, that requires answering what the canon events and ending of that game was. Is House dead or alive and who controls the Hoover Dam? What was the stuff Thaddeus took that turned him into a ghoul? Was it the FEV amd is it possible we will see him hulk into a supermutant? What was the deal with Vault 4, the stuff on level 12 as it exists now and their weird cult mentality about Moldaver?

5:16 I've got to imagine learning that your entire existence was a lie and that you only exist to be breeding stock for a group of sociopathic billionaires isn’t exactly a pleasant thing to be told.

If Vault 4, and Vaults 31-33 were all within spitting distance of where the Master's Cathedral used to be, and all had easily identifiable exits that led directly to the surface, then how did the Master never find these places? It's a huge plot point in the first game that the Master is seeking prime normals (i.e. people with little to no radiation exposure) to dip into the vats. This is why both he and the Lieutenant are eager to learn the location of Vault 13.

I think the ghoul medicine is a new game mechanic. To be able to play as a ghoul in game. Not any current fallout games but maybe the next

Be cool if Vault 1 is where Vault tec is calling all the shots, maybe where Cooper’s family is. I know Vault 1 was going to appear in Fallout Van Buren but since that’s scrapped they can use here.

The Enclave wasn't wiped out in fallout 2, they were the primary antagonist of fallout 3 as well.

A big question I have after watching the whole season is, After 200 years, "how are Cooper’s teeth still relatively ok?"

I love Cooper’s character.This is what the Mandalorian should have been.A cold hearted SOB who might do “good” when he feels like it.Not a goody two shoes straight from the get go.