the opening scene of this episode, with Erik Estrada (from CHiPs), is very similar to that of the villain's introduction in the 1966 film "the good, the bad and the ugly".
Lots of good callouts to the games in this episode. The two guys harvesting lead in old NCR veteran ranger armor (the most iconic armor from new vegas) , the hacking mini game. Also was playing Fo4 recently and Hancock mentioned that he became a ghoul when he took a chem. I don't think that was in the game canon until that point (it used to be exposure to radiation was the only way to become a ghoul)
I didn't remember Hancock with that dialogue. I was also not aware you could intentionally create a ghoul with chemicals. Maybe its just radioactive chemicals, so both are still true?
Yep, that's Erik Estrada. Can't you tell by those perfect white teeth? Norm did not poison the prisoner's food. My guess it was Betty, Stephanie or both of them just to get Betty's resettlement plans moving. There could also be a longshot chance that Stephanie coerced Chet into poisoning the food. The one part I don't understand when Norm went to vault 31s door is WHY the opening of the door didn't alert Betty's pip-boy.
I think they only get notified when it opens wrong. This was an authorized opening from the other side, so it shouldn't have alerted her maybe. I thought Norm was going to poison them the very first time he brought them food, but probably Betty arranged it.
