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In the Fallout TV series season 2 finale, a swarm of irradiated bloatflies overpowers Vault-Tec executives, delivering a gruesome moment that underscores how even seemingly harmless wasteland creatures can become deadly and highlighting the show’s horror-forward take on the franchise.
In Fallout season 2, episode 7, Lucy uncovers a head—Representative Diane Welch—embedded in Hank’s Vault-Tec mainframe, with wires feeding into a brain-chip system that can erase memories and implant new ideas. The reveal suggests Enclave-backed experiments to mold wastelanders into “good” people and hints at broader implications for the finale, including how the President and cold fusion plotlines might unfold.
Tim Cain, co-creator of the Fallout series, has revealed that the true purpose of the vaults was to help scientists figure out how humans might survive interstellar travel. The idea was conceived after Fallout 1 came out in 1997. The head of the Enclave and the US government hatched a plan to build a starship that would take "our best and brightest" to a distant solar system in the hope of colonising a suitable planet. The starship would have to be multi-generational, and Vault-Tec thought it could use the vaults to figure out the technology that would get the job done.