Life in Silos 17 and 18 isn’t getting any simpler as we enter the sixth episode of Apple TV+’s “Silo” titled “Barricades.” And that is an apt title for this chapter as all of the traumatized denizens of the bunkers undergo restrictions from barricades, each bodily and emotional, as their unnatural subterranean life appears to be cartwheeling uncontrolled since Juliette took a stroll outdoors.
We kick off this shorter installment than final week with the Down Deepers extremely pissed off on the Raiders on the steps, yelling and chanting by means of an imposing barred partition on Degree 130 with a chaotic refrain of “Allow them to by means of.” Their common meals deliveries are being deliberately held again since they’re harboring Knox and Shirley who’ve been framed for Decide Meadow’s demise.
Over in Walker’s pad, Shirley tends to Knox’s wounds as they pledge to get Carla again, the Head of Provide that is being held in detention and interrogated for being part of Mechanical’s rebellious coalition. Knox and Shirley go to the forge, the place a few of his pals reveal a small arsenal of do-it-yourself pikes, spears, golf equipment, and armored chest protectors. Time to ante up and kick in!
So as to add to their distress, the Down Deeper’s present meals provide is being tainted by somebody inside, as their lettuce, fruit, meat, and eggs are being laced with powdered rat poison. Shirley addresses upset Mechanical residents within the cafeteria and swears they did not homicide Meadows.
Up prime with Bernard and Lukas, the devious IT Head revels in his plan to starve the accomplices out. In a killer line, he relates an fascinating human reality that “Solely 9 missed meals separate a functioning society from chaos.” Watching his large financial institution of video screens with the offended mob clashing with the Raiders, there appears to be greater than a touch of veracity to that intriguing assertion.
In the meantime, Sheriff Billings messages his spouse and orders up a health care provider for Kennedy, who nonetheless has a bullet lodged in his chest. Juliette’s dad, Dr. Nichols, makes his method down previous the barricade underneath false pretenses, previous the Raiders, and administers assist to Kennedy by safely plucking out the offending projectile and bandaging the wound.
With the enforced barricade on Degree 130 stopping their meals provide, Shirley means that they attempt to reposition that barrier on Degree 120, which might give them entry to one of many Decrease Midst agricultural farms on Degree 122. Walker agrees to assist Billings and Deputy Hank concerning the Meadow’s murder however provided that they decide the situation of her beloved Carla.
Over in IT, control-crazed Bernard consults with Lukas who is tough at work making an attempt to decode Salvador Quinn’s cryptic letter by shifting a few of the letters backwards or forwards, however it’s a cussed drawback.
Going through sure hunger, the Down Deepers march up the steps to the barricade with their hand-tooled weapons, an industrial drill, and a concrete-cutting noticed. It is swiftly decided that they are as much as no good! A cable and winch are used to tear down the metal barricade and a surge of rebels storm up the steps because the Raiders fall again. They attain Degree 120, their goal, and there is a tense standoff. A brand new boundary is established and agreed upon by overmatched Safety Head Rick Amundsen.
As promised in alternate for medical consideration, Kennedy spills the beans to Billings on what he is aware of in regards to the outdoors world, together with what was broadcast by Juliette onto each pc for ten seconds at first went darkish and residents had been instructed it was a methods reset. Solely a handful of individuals noticed the picture of a verdant untarnished outdoors world earlier than Bernard pulled the plug. However Kennedy wrongly believes that this picture will not be fabricated, which it clearly is.
Then in a creepy unsettling scene, Bernard has a candid one-sided dialog with Decide Meadows’ corpse within the morgue. He is nervous that over 140 years of stability may immediately crumble underneath his watch, and he breaks down crying, apologizing for what he felt he should do to revive order.
Billings lastly will get the reality from Walker about what Knox and Shirley instructed her on the specifics of the Decide Meadows body job. He has them swear on The Pact that that is one hundred pc true and once they do, Billings radios Bernard to let him know he has the fugitives. However he will not reveal their location till an entire investigation into Meadow’s demise is ordered. Bernard responds by chopping all communication as he now realizes he is misplaced the Sheriff.
Lastly, Lukas has made a breakthrough with the confounding Quinn letter, determining that it is rather more refined than first thought. To have any probability of deciphering it, Bernard swears Lukas in as his official shadow, and mentions that he must see The Legacy. Earlier than we’re proven the key space, we in the reduction of to Silo 17.
Within the final minute, we see that Solo rescued Juliette after she handed out simply when she discovered the helmet. He’s combined her up some antibiotics for her contaminated arm, however he’s not going to offer her again the protection swimsuit and helmet till she helps him repair the groundwater pump that’s flooding the silo!
Whereas the vast majority of “Barricades” happened in Silo 18 surrounding the conflict between Bernard’s Judicial Raiders and the Down Deepers, it was good to drop in on our favourite pair of bickering survivors over in Silo 17 to remind ourselves of the entertaining chemistry these two characters show. This installment was on the transient facet, however as we ramp up the motion towards the ultimate episodes the plot items are being maneuvered into place promising an explosive end.
Till then, kudos to the Down Deepers for his or her short-term victory!
