Secret identities are enjoyable for superheroes however not essentially for suspicious and evasive characters on “Silo”, resembling Steve Zahn’s Solo character. This childlike oddball whom Juliette found locked within the server vault within the deserted Silo 17 has been tap-dancing round his backstory for the previous three weeks, resulting in all types of hypothesis as to who he actually is, how a lot he is aware of, and the way lengthy he is been current there (most likely since he was a child!)
Earlier than we reveal one other layer of his secret, or add to the thriller even additional on this new episode, “Descent”, let’s sprint again to the tip of “The Harmonium.” Final week ended with Bernard poisoning Choose Meadows and pinning her homicide on the Mechanical delegation of Knox, Shirley, Walker, and Carla hoping to speak with the Choose about going exterior. With Sims’ assist, they staged it to seem like she’d been stabbed within the chest and now the foursome is on the lam desperately attempting to get again within the Down Deep earlier than the mad mob catches them.
Raiders are scorching on their heels and there is a profitable worth on their heads so no place is protected, not even previous porter good friend pretending to supply shelter. Sims’ longtime raider affiliate, Rick Amundsen, is now head of Judicial Safety as a result of Bernard has reassigned Sims to exchange Meadows since he cannot belief him anymore for beginning the disruptive “Impeach Meadows” marketing campaign. Silo 18 is nearing a breaking level with Bernard attempting to forestall a full-scale riot, and Sheriff Billings and Juliette’s dad, Dr. Nichols, slowly aligning themselves towards Bernard and Sims.
Over in Silo 17, Juliette and Solo try and work out a option to repair the damaged groundwater pump that has precipitated the vast majority of it to flood and can ultimately engulf all the solo, together with Solo’s IT lair. However Juliette would not have time for that mission as she wants a helmet to connect to the firefighter go well with she discovered final week so she will get again to her residence, Silo 18, to let everybody know that she’s nonetheless alive and forestall a Silo 17-like disaster.
Whereas trying to find a survival go well with helmet, Solo casually reveals his true identify to be Cole Myers. However Juliette later finds a sketch of the particular Solo subsequent to a lady named Tiny and an worker listing with Cole Myers’ photograph and it is apparent that it isn’t him. Juliette confronts him concerning the discrepancy and he erupts in anger, insisting emphatically that he’s Solo and the shadow of the previous IT Head, Russell. It is fairly obvious that he is nonetheless not able to reveal himself totally and is hiding a darkish deed.
Over at Silo 18, Bernard wants the wrongly-accused fugitives caught (or killed) to revive order within the wake of the “Juliette Lives” turmoil. Knox and Shirley are nabbed by Sims’ spouse Camille after the mob catches them on the steps. However she’s really serving to them keep protected and gives them sanctuary in an affiliate’s house. Whereas they’re holed up they resolve to not wait till Camille returns and flee, hatching a dangerous plan to make use of a porters’ winch and pulley system to drop over the aspect of the staircase again down into Mechanical.
Lukas Kyle is introduced up from the mines by Bernard and given a activity to reconstruct the smashed “pink stage relic” onerous drive that Juliette was discovered with. Bernard makes use of his five-year sentence as leverage to get Lukas to repair the contents of its recordsdata. A lot of the information is corrupted however Lucas does discover silo blueprints that point out a tunnel beneath the construction, and a scan of a coded love letter from Salvador Quinn, the identify Meadows mentions to Bernard earlier than dying. That is the letter she managed to partially decipher however would not reveal its contents.
Is it extra info concerning what the moon, solar, stars, and planets are within the sky? These eye-opening revelations of the heavens point out simply how little silo dwellers find out about Earth. Lukas additionally discovered “strains” extending from a silo schematic that seem like communication conduits or entry factors extending horizontally, hinting at linking factors and a community resulting in a important management silo.
Lastly, Billings finds a wounded Patrick Kennedy, who earlier firebombed the deputies at Sims’ urging to start out a riot. In trade for correct medical consideration for his bullet wound, Kennedy agrees to inform Billings all the pieces he is aware of concerning the exterior world and what he noticed when Juliette first accessed the onerous drive again in Season 1. To realize Kennedy’s belief, Billings reveals him the contraband journal web page displaying pictures of a contemporary inexperienced Earth, and the stage is ready for extra reveals.
One final detour over to Silo 17 finds Juliette calming Solo down from his identification tirade however she feels faint and bolts away to keep away from extra battle. She enters an historical house whereas in apparent ache from an contaminated arm wound. Whereas scavenging she finds the helmet underneath a mattress, however then passes out. This nasty minimize is one thing she suffered again in Season 1 throughout an ill-fated fall right down to Mechanical.
With Sims now stripped of his energy and discovering himself on the skin together with his personal spouse aiding Knox and Shirley, is journey his about to hit a crossroads that intersects with Billings, Kennedy, and Dr. Nichols? Will Juliette return to Silo 18 or a minimum of ship phrase that she’s nonetheless alive? And what are the astro-secrets inside Quinn’s letter? Simply 5 extra chapters to go as we excavate extra mysteries!
