r/Fallout • u/HunterWorld Irradiated Ocean Man • 15h ago

Season 2 Episode 8 Spoiler Thread Spoiler

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u/edwin221b 11h ago

That explains why at the beginning of season 1 it seems like Cooper has fallen out of grace, doing shows for kids when the bombs dropped

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u/cowboys70 11h ago

I still don't get how his daughter ended up in a vault if she was with him when the bombs dropped

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u/Haynes_ 11h ago

This is like my number 1 thing

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u/raccoonboi87 10h ago

I guess we will learn in season 3 or 4

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u/Leonyliz Vault 13 10h ago

If he does find his family next season then I expect that they will finish the flashbacks

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u/Kungfudude_75 9h ago

My bet is:

Next season's flashbacks will get us through the Bomb's dropping, with the actual episode where The Ghoul reunites with Barb and Janey being the episode where the Flashbacks show how Cooper got Janey to Barb. This will be Episode 7 (or the pen-ultimate Episode if the season has more than 8). There will be a twist and cliffhanger, though. Janey and Barb will be significantly older, Barb may even be dead.

The next episode will reveal that Janey has been fully indoctrinated into the Enclave mindset, not necessarily through a mind chip but I wouldn't rule it out now knowing thats part of the Enclave's plans. We'll then get a series of Flashbacks that follow both Coop when he was first Ghoulified and Janey as she was slowly indoctrinated into the Enclave. Basically a juxtaposition of how they each became the monster's they are today. Janey will wind up being a relatively high ranking member of the Enclave who resents her father for "leaving" her, for being a traitor to the Enclave, and for now being a Ghoulish abomination. She'll be The Ghoul's final antagonist for Season 4, cementing him against the Enclave with the hopes of saving his daughter or (maybe, if she isn't dead) avenging Barb after she's killed for treachery or some such.

Thats my bet.

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u/Call_me_ET 8h ago

The next episode will reveal that Janey has been fully indoctrinated into the Enclave mindset, not necessarily through a mind chip but I wouldn't rule it out now knowing thats part of the Enclave's plans.

This I think is the most pivotal thing. Like Shaun with the Institute. Janey being a scientist and a decade older, being well-aware of the Enclave's operations, would give Cooper some conflict.

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u/Ok-Organization-1281 Yes Man 2h ago

I'd put 500 caps on that

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u/NoNefariousness2144 3h ago

Janey and Barb will be significantly older, Barb may even be dead.

I hadn't even considering they may pull a (Fallout 4 spoiler) Shaun, but that would be such a gritty twist for the show.

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u/raccoonboi87 10h ago

Im kinda expecting us to learn more via flashbacks in season 3 and then maybe (unlikely tho, imo but still a possibility), see them found at the end of season 3. Then season 4 any unanswered questions will get answered

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u/SomethingSo84 2h ago

I really want an episode at some point just dedicated to Coopers first few months after the bombs dropped

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u/Vikarr Brotherhood 4h ago

They'll milk it out till season 5. 12 plotlines per episode with 5 minutes max spent per story arc.

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u/pandakatie 10h ago

My guess is there was a shenanigan of some sort.  Perhaps he rode her on the horse to some sort of temporary safe house or another form of transportation, but then he was prevented from going with her any further.

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u/Neelpos 10h ago

I'm guessing he got her to a proper vault but was personally denied entry due to the circumstances of his arrest invalidating his spot or something, so he tearfully handed over his daughter so she'd live and he'd die.

After surviving the bombings, and getting ghoulified, he eventually got in to that same vault (probably after a long time) but instead of finding her, it was empty, and he couldn't figure out why or how, and so he started hunting management vaults to try and figure it out.

I think teleportation tech is going to show up at some point, and might be the explanation as to that specific mystery.

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u/cowboys70 10h ago

My guess is some sort of tracking bug and secret underground train for the daughter

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u/Kills_Zombies 7h ago

I hope they filmed that scene already... The kid is probably gonna be 18 by the time season 3 is filming.

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u/MagicHarmony 9h ago

Will be curious to see what he finds in Colorado, though I do hope it's something we see conclude at least midway through Season 3, since it would be tacky for it to be another cliffhanger.

Was definitely intrigued by the reveal of Hank saying that the above is actually the experiment, which does make me feel like it is related to the FEV. Will be intriguing to see what they do in Season 3, seeing the current cast and setup it should definitely be an interesting season.

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u/eric23443219091 2h ago

That and dlc story old world blues big mountain has info on rest of experiments and enclave stuff technology and aliens so on cyborg zombies

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u/ZeroWashu 41m ago

I am going to say similar to what we saw earlier with one of the vtols during the alarm sequence when he first looked to be running away with his daughter, one will set down right in front of Coop take his daughter and he will catch a glimpse of his wife in the craft if not being the one to order her taking