Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2, episode 3.
Siloseason 2’s episode 3 raises many questions about Bernard’s long-term plan to extinguish the rebellion, Meadows' underlying motives, and Solo’s history in Silo 17. While the episode avoids answering many questions, it perfectly paves the way for a gripping season. Instead of following the first two episodes' format,Siloseason 2’s episode 3 goes back and forth between the two central overarching stories. While Juliette’s side of the narrative focuses on developing her relationship with Solo, Bernard’s arc highlights how he grows increasingly worried about the future of Silo 18.
UnlikeSiloseason 2’s episodes 1and 2, episode 3 leaves a lot to unpack and finally givesSteven Zahn’s character, Solo, a proper introduction. By highlighting how characters like Dr. Nichols are also starting to defy the rules of the Silo,Siloseason 2’s episode 3 gives a glimpse of how the seeds of the rebellion are gradually beginning to sprout. As characters like Judge Meadows prepare to leave while Juliette plans her return home, theSiloseason 2 episodeends on a tense and suspenseful note, leaving viewers with more questions than answers.
Why Solo Finally Leaves His Vault In Silo Season 2 Episode 3’s Ending
The Pain Of Isolation Gets The Best Of Him
When Juliette initially asks Solo for help inSiloseason 2’s episode 3, he refuses to leave his vault. After trying to convince him to leave, Juliette eventually gives in and walks away. That is when Solo finally steps out of his vault and yells, “Don’t go!” The fear in Solo’s voice highlights thatafter spending years, if not decades, in isolation, he craves human connection. Although Juliette notices dead bodies outside his vault, it seems evident that Juliette is the only person he has had a friendly conversation with in years.
Why The Tape Is So Important In Silo Season 2
After being a primary driver of Juliette’s narrative in Silo season 1’s ending, the heat tape continues to play a crucial role in season 2’s story.
Solo initially seems hostile toward Juliette and refuses to trust her, but he, too, gradually warms to her as season 2’s episode 3 progresses. He realizes that Juliette means no harm and only wishes to return to her own Silo. Therefore, when Juliette decides to press on alone, his yearning for connection gets the best of him, encouraging him to walk out of the vault and join Juliette on her quest.
Who Tried To Break Into Solo’s Vault?
Two Possibilities Seem To Exist
Juliette notices that a few dead bodies in the hall outside Solo’s vault are not as old as the others. When she questions him about it, he just ignores her and shuts the peephole in his door. While only time will tell who the bodies belong to and why Solo killed them, they could be people sent by the higher authorities of the Silos to kill Silo 17’s sole survivor, Solo. Since everyone else in Solo’s Silo died,Silo 17 was probably deemed a lost cause by the authorities, making Solo an inconvenient anomaly.
Siloseason 2 is adapting the second half ofHugh Howey’s firstSilobook,Wool, albeit with many significant changes.
To erase all traces of life in Silo 17, the authorities sent people to kill Solo. However, Solo seemingly defended himself by murdering them before they could get him. This would explain why Solo seems so defensive when he first encounters Juliette inSiloseason 2’s episode 1. He warns her he will kill her if she tries to open the door of his vault because he fears she is one of the people sent to murder him.
Why Juliette Worries About Silo 18’s People After Hearing Solo’s Ron Tucker Story
She Realizes Silo 18 Could Meet The Same Fate As Silo 17
When Juliette asks Solo what happened in his Silo, he tells her the story of a man named Ron Tucker. He recalls that Ron Tucker was sent out to clean. However, like Juliette, he broke the cleaning rule because he probably saw right through the lies projected by his suit’s helmet. According to Solo’s account, the man also seemingly survived outside and walked beyond the hill surrounding Silo 17. His survival convinced many people in Silo 17 that the world outside was safe for humans.
She fears that, like Silo 17’s citizens, people from Silo 18 may also wage war against the authorities and walk outside to what they believe is freedom, only to face doom.
As a result, many started rebelling against the Silo’s authorities to eventually make their way out and die. After learning about the parallels between her cleaning incident and Ron Tucker’s,Juliette realizes that people of Silo 18 might have also assumed that the world outside is safe. She fears that, like Silo 17’s citizens, people from Silo 18 may also wage war against the authorities and walk outside to what they believe is freedom, only to face doom.
Bernard’s Plan To Help Meadows Leave Silo 18 Explained
He Plans To Get Her Out Of The Silo Secretly
Bernard tries to keep his promise of letting Judge Meadows leave Silo 18 after she helps him extinguish the brewing rebellion. He tells her that he intends to secretly get her out of the Silo by switching off the projection on the screen to ensure no one else learns about her departure. He also assures her that once she crosses the hill and is out of the camera’s field of view, he will switch on the projection again. Bernard also takes her body measurements, so the Supply team can prepare her suit.
However,it is hard to believe that Bernard is letting her go so easily. It seems likely that Bernard will betray her by either getting her a defective suit or using low-grade tape to insulate the edges of her suit. Even if Meadows manages to get past the hill outside Silo 18, her survival seems unlikely because she will have to break into a neighboring Silo like Juliette before she runs out of air.
The Memory-Erasing Drug In Silo Explained
The Drug Could Answer A Major Silo 18 Mystery
InSiloseason 2’s episode 3, Bernard tells Sims that he plans to put Patrick Kennedy on a memory-erasing medication because he saw the video on the hard drive Juliette had acquired. When he proposes the idea to Kennedy, he willingly accepts it and asks him to erase his memories from the last so that he remembers nothing about his late wife and gets rid of his grief. The way Sims casually refers to the memory-erasing drug suggests it has been used in the Silo before.
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It could explain how the people in the Silo have gradually forgotten everythingabout the outside world and do not even know what birds are. The drug could also explain why the people from the Silo have little to no memories of a past rebellion, even though many story developments fromSiloseason 1 suggest that Juliette’s mother and other Flamekeepers had started questioning Silo 18’s authorities. Even the Silo’s water supply might be spiked with the drug to ensure the citizens remain compliant and docile.
Meadows' Theory About The Syndrome Explained
She Believes It Is A Mental Health Condition
Paul Billings tells Judge Meadows that he hasThe Syndrome inSiloseason 2’s episode 3. Since the Silo’s mysterious pact suggests that someone with The Syndrome cannot hold a position of authority, Billings expects to be demoted from the role. However, Meadows supports the idea of making exceptions and presents a common theory surrounding the Syndrome.She labels it as a mental health conditionin theSiloseason 2 episode, explaining that it is caused by the pressures and psychological distress of living confined within the walls of their Silo.
Silo
In a dystopian future, men and women reside in a vast underground silo governed by strict regulations, believed to shield them from the hazardous world above. The series delves into the complex social order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean existence.
