The ultimate scene of the season takes us again in time, presumably to what humanity was like earlier than the silos have been constructed. We see a dialog happen between a Washington Submit reporter named Helen (Jessica Henwick) and an unnamed Congressman performed by Ashley Zukerman. In accordance with Deadline, Zukerman’s Congressman is known as Daniel, which is probably going an alternative to the character Donald Keene within the books – a freshman Congressman who can be from Georgia and is instrumental within the improvement of the silo program. Helen can be Donald’s spouse within the e book, which is sensible given their considerably flirty encounter within the present.
Shift is a prequel to Wool, and tells the story of the formation of the silos and the way Silo 1 has been monitoring them from a distance over time with key personnel taking shifts by means of cryo sleep, together with Donald Keene. If Zukerman is enjoying this key character from the e book, he might be featured in much more than simply flashbacks. Helen may also possible have an vital function to play, as she is presented a Pez dispenser by the Congressman, the identical Pez dispenser we’ve seen circulating Silo 18 as a relic.
The introduction of those characters is an enormous step in lastly answering Silo’s greatest thriller – why was humanity compelled underground within the first place? I received’t give away an excessive amount of extra of Shift’s secrets and techniques, particularly as a result of we nonetheless don’t know precisely how season 3 will weave these previous and current timelines. It’s uncertain they’ll take us away from Silo 18 for too lengthy, however there’s quite a lot of vital backstory in Shift nonetheless to cowl earlier than the collection dives too far into the following e book, Mud, and it’s possible that Helen and the Congressman can be on the middle of all of it.
What Is the Silo Safeguard Process?
Lukas’ (Avi Nash) quest to search out the solutions left by Salvador Quinn has lastly come to an in depth as he emerges from the mysterious chamber on the backside of Silo 18. He appears like he’s seen a ghost, and is determined to make his approach to the highest of the silo as quick as he can. As soon as he finds Bernard (Tim Robbins) he tells him that he discovered in regards to the “Safeguard” – a manner for some sort of outdoors pressure to kill everybody within the silo immediately in the event that they deem the silo to be a menace. It’s in that second that Bernard realizes that each one of his efforts to save lots of the silo have been futile.
Whereas Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) works to return house to Silo 18, Solo (Steve Zahn) discovers that every silo has one thing known as the Safeguard Process in place that has the flexibility to pump some sort of toxic substance into the silo from someplace outdoors. Whereas in his outdated condo, Solo remembers that his mother and father have been working to attempt to disable this in Silo 17 and tries to assist Juliette discover a fast approach to cease it. They’re on their approach to examine the place the poison pump is in Silo 17, however Juliette has to depart rapidly earlier than they’re capable of get any extra solutions.
Does Juliette Make it Again to Silo 18?
Juliette has been working all season towards making the journey again house to Silo 18. With the assistance of Solo and the youths of Silo 17, she manages to discover a working go well with. They attempt to discover out as a lot as they will in regards to the Safeguard Process, however sounds of an explosion in Silo 18 pressure Juliette to pack up and make her manner again house as rapidly as she will be able to earlier than they will examine additional.
The go well with works lengthy sufficient to get her to the surface of Silo 18. As soon as there, she cleans the sensor with determined haste, unfurling a message telling everybody inside that it’s nonetheless not secure outdoors. She then makes it to the door and frantically tries to pry it open with out success till it immediately opens from the within. As she descends down the steps, she sees a fully-suited Bernard (Tim Robbins) with a gun. Having simply discovered in regards to the Safeguard Protocol from Lukas, Bernard is able to exit on his personal phrases.
