Fallout Season 2 teases unknown prewar force behind the apocalypse

Collider reports that in Fallout Season 2 episode "The Wrangler" Robert House (Justin Theroux) tells Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins) he knows the end of the world is coming but suspects “another player at the table,” an “unknown entity” responsible for the nuclear holocaust rather than the corporate powers.

The episode has House pointing to signs such as a Deathclaw sighting in Alaska and saying “the bombs will not be dropped by me or any of the idiots at that meeting,” a line that contrasts with the series’ earlier implication that corporate interests favoured detonating the bombs. The piece notes that the Deathclaws’ origin is usually linked to prewar U.S. military projects in the games, making House’s admitted ignorance notable, and highlights the Enclave — a secretive, prewar faction from which Dr. Siggi Wilzig (Michael Emerson) defects — as a plausible candidate for the unknown entity.

The article also raises the possibility that Barbara Howard (Frances Turner) could be a key variable: House says the apocalypse will coincide with his daughter Janey’s birthday, Vault‑Tec cryo pods for Barb and Janey are shown in the New Vegas facility, and House claims Cooper’s trip to Las Vegas made the apocalypse jump forward one month. Fallout is available to stream on Prime Video, and new episodes air weekly on Wednesdays.

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Culture, Fallout, Robert House, Cooper Howard, Enclave, Deathclaws