Fallout Season 1 – TV Series

Episodes 01

“The End”

In 2077, actor Cooper Howard and his daughter Janey are caught in the middle of a nuclear attack against Los Angeles. 219 years later, Vault 33 dweller Lucy MacLean volunteers for an arranged marriage with a dweller from Vault 32. After the wedding, the Vault 32 visitors are revealed to be raiders led by Lee Moldaver. Lucy’s father and overseer of Vault 33, Hank MacLean, is forced to leave with them. In defiance of Vault regulations, Lucy decides to go to the surface by herself to search for her father. Meanwhile, Brotherhood of Steel aspirant Maximus is promoted to the rank of squire and joins Knight Titus in hunting for a member of the Enclave. Elsewhere, several bounty hunters locate Howard, who has been transformed by radiation into a Ghoul, and attempt to recruit him to find the same Enclave member. Instead, Howard kills them all and pursues the bounty alone.

Episodes 02

“The Target”

In an Enclave facility, Dr. Siggi Wilzig develops a mysterious blue device before injecting it into his neck. He flees the facility with his experimental dog, CX404. In the wasteland, Lucy encounters Wilzig, who urges her to return to Vault 33. Maximus and Titus begin their search and are attacked by a mutant bear. Titus is wounded, but his mistreatment of Maximus prompts the squire to let him bleed out before taking the knight’s power armor for himself. Lucy reunites with Wilzig in Filly, where he attempts to arrange safe passage to Moldaver. Seeking the bounty, Howard attacks them but is distracted by Maximus, allowing Lucy to escape with Wilzig. A wounded CX404 is left behind, but Howard heals the dog and uses him to track Wilzig. Mortally wounded, Wilzig ingests cyanide as he believes he will slow Lucy down, instructing her to deliver his head to Moldaver in exchange for Hank.

Episodes 03

“The Head”

Maximus assumes Titus’s identity, and the Brotherhood sends a new squire, Thaddeus, believing Maximus dead. Lucy is attacked by a gulper which swallows Wilzig’s head. Howard arrives with CX404 and uses Lucy as bait to lure out the gulper but the chems which maintain his health are destroyed in the attempt. Leaving CX404 behind, Howard departs with Lucy as his prisoner. Maximus and Thaddeus track the head to the same location and defeat the gulper, recovering the head and taking custody of CX404. Back in Vault 33, Norm asks the council to execute several captured raiders for murder, but he is rebuffed. 219 years earlier, Howard becomes a celebrity spokesman for Vault-Tec at the encouragement of his wife, a top company executive.

Episodes 04

“The Ghouls”

In Vault 33, Norm becomes suspicious after an exchange with a captive raider. He and Chet explore Vault 32, discovering that its residents died two years prior as a consequence of infighting and that someone used his mother Rose’s Pip-Boy to let the raiders in. Howard sells Lucy to a gang of organ harvesters in exchange for chems before collapsing. About to be cut open, Lucy fights back and frees the captive ghouls held by the harvesters. The few feral ghouls attack them, and Lucy is forced to kill for the first time. She leaves, but not before giving Howard some chems.

Episodes 05

“The Past”

Maximus confesses his true identity to Thaddeus; disgusted, Thaddeus disables his power armor and leaves with Wilzig’s head and CX404. Lucy finds Maximus and they agree to work together to retrieve the head. The pair stumble upon the ruins of Shady Sands, a once thriving post-war city, and Maximus’ former home, in their pursuit. Maximus is injured by a Fiend, and while searching for medical supplies in an abandoned Vault-Tec building, the two accidentally fall into Vault 4. Back in Vault 33, council president Betty Johnson is elected as overseer. Norm hacks Vault 32’s central computer and finds that Vault 31 has provided the overseers (including his father) for 32 and 33 since the day the bombs fell. Betty orders that Vault 32 be repopulated by 33 once cleaned of the deceased dwellers.

Episodes 06

“The Trap”

Lucy and Maximus are greeted by Birdie, a Shady Sands survivor, and Bob, the Vault 4 overseer. They explain that Vault 4 has opened itself to the surface, taking in many refugees from Shady Sands and the surrounding area. While Maximus slowly acclimates to the Vault, Lucy is horrified over the refugees’ eccentric rituals and worship of Moldaver as “The Flame Mother”. Convinced that Vault 4 is hiding something, she ventures to the forbidden level 12. She uncovers human experiments before getting caught, but it is explained to her that Vault 4 citizens fought back against these scientists and now live in peace. Pre-War, Howard becomes conflicted over the secrecy of Barb’s association with Vault-Tec. He is invited to a covert meeting to discuss the conspiracy behind Vault-Tec, hosted by a younger Moldaver.

Episodes 07

“The Radio”

Residents of Vault 4 gather as Lucy is prepped for expulsion from the vault. Maximus leaves with her, after a brief conflict with the vault residents. Thaddeus abandons CX404 and makes contact with the Brotherhood. Lucy and Maximus eventually catch up with Thaddeus; after learning that he is turning into a ghoul, for which the Brotherhood would put him to death, Thaddeus relinquishes the head. Lucy continues her journey alone while Maximus stays behind to distract the Brotherhood. Norm secretly enters Vault 31. Meanwhile, Howard, having determined Moldaver’s location, reunites with CX404. In 2077, a younger Moldaver (then named Ms. Williams) reveals that the war-profiting conglomerate behind Vault-Tec shelved her cold fusion research despite its potential to provide unlimited energy and prevent impending war. She persuades Howard that he cannot trust his wife and should record all her conversations with the company board.

Episodes 08

“The Beginning”

Lucy and Norm, independently, learn the truth of the war, while Howard also reminisces about that truth. Pre-War, Howard eavesdrops on Barb and her colleague, Bud Askins, learning they are explicitly managing Vault-Tec’s plans to start a nuclear war to delete its competitors – ensuring peace-by-monopoly over the vault humans. Howard also meets Vault-Tec’s Betty Pearson and Hank MacLean. Norm discovers Vault 31 contains the cryogenically stored Junior executives of Vault-Tec, overseen by the cyborg brain-on-wheels of Bud, who traps Norm in Vault 31. Lucy turns the head over to Moldaver, who reveals: when Hank is from; that Rose left the vault with infants Lucy and Norm; that Hank found her and took the kids back; Hank nuclear bombed Shady Sands, turning Rose into a feral ghoul. Maximus is forgiven by the Brotherhood, joining the upcoming battle against Moldaver’s forces. Lucy convinces Hank to give Moldaver the code activating her fusion reactor, which activates just as the Brotherhood claims victory. Maximus makes his way to Lucy and frees her father. Hank is driven off by Howard after Lucy disowns him for his actions. Howard, believing his family might still be alive, offers to guide Lucy east to find him. Maximus is be-knighted, as the presumed killer of Moldaver.