Fallout season 2's ending secretly turned out to be a Fallout 4 adaptation

Fallout season 2 closed with reunions, explosions, deathclaws and a post-credits scene, and several narrative beats throughout the season felt strikingly familiar to Fallout 4 despite much of the season taking place in New Vegas and the Mojave. The season follows Lucy MacLean teaming with the Ghoul to find her father Hank, who in a Vault‑Tec laboratory beneath New Vegas has been carrying out mind‑control experiments.

A device inserted at the base of the neck pacifies individuals — even a member of Caesar’s Legion — and Hank reveals that chips have been placed in an unspecified number of people across the Wasteland before using Lucy’s chip to erase his own memory. Those plot points echo Fallout 4’s Institute, a reclusive group of scientists who replace people with synths to monitor or exploit the population; both the Institute and Hank’s organization treat people as fodder for experiments, and both present hard choices with high consequences for the wider Wasteland.

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