Full spoilers immediately follow for To fall season 2 episode 4.
To fall Season 2 Episode 4 has arrived on Prime Video – and a seemingly throwaway line of dialogue has sparked a major new fan theory about the ongoing mystery surrounding Vaults 31, 32, and 33.
Entitled “The Demon in the Snow”, To fall The final chapter of season 2 is full of surprises. The long-awaited arrival of an icon To fall monster in Deathclaw, to this revelation about Vault 32’s recently installed overseer Steph, and much more, this is certainly an incident-packed episode.
It’s a moment in the Norm-focused storyline, however, that got tongues wagging among viewers following the release of Episode 4 of Season 2. And, as I hinted above, it’s one that might hold the key to solving the riddle of the aforementioned underground shelters.
About 19 minutes after start To fall The final entry in the TV show, we find Norm MacLean, originally from Vault 33, and Bud’s Buds. The latter group consists of trainee Vault-Tec managers who were cryogenically frozen in Vault 31 before the Great War, and who were awakened by Norm after being trapped in Vault 31 by Bud Askins – a junior vice president of Vault-Tec – during last season’s finale.
After Norm tricked Bud’s Buds into helping him escape Vault 31 in the second chapter of this season, he now leads them through the Wasteland under the guise that he is part of a “race of super-managers” who have been genetically engineered over the past 200 years in order to rule Vault-Tec. This way, Norm can continue to entice them to work for him while trying to figure out what’s really going on between the three vaults.
That brings us to the latest episode of the Prime Video show and what suddenly had its audience pissed off. During a conversation with Ronnie McCurtry, Bud’s personal assistant Norm – and, by proxy, us – learned about a new Vault-Tec program called Future Enterprise Ventures. Or, to shorten it to its primary initials, FEV
Why is this important? These are the same initials that represent another extremely important thing in the world. To fall universe: the virus with forced evolution.
What is the Forced Evolution Virus in the Fallout franchise?
I won’t get into the weeds of To fallbut, essentially, the forced evolution virus is an artificial contagion created before the Great War.
Developed by the NBC division of West-Tek, a major US defense contractor and research organization, it is a biological weapon that, as its name suggests, has the ability to forcibly alter the genetic makeup of organic matter.
Indeed, the virus has been used as a superweapon by many antagonists around the world. To fall franchise, including the Master, aka the leader of the Unit, who created super mutants using it. The Enclave, a recurring and clandestine villainous faction in Bethesda’s video game series, has also used it for genocidal purposes. In case you forgot, the Clave is the faction that Siggi Wilzig defaults to early on. To fall season 1 and sets into motion one of the show’s main storylines – one based on cold fusion technology.
Now, none of this guarantees that the Master, the Clave, or the super mutants will appear in the second season of the Amazon TV Original. It’s also possible that Forced Evolutionary Virus and Future Enterprise Ventures simply share the same primary initials.
Full of To fall Fans don’t think the latter is a coincidence, however. A quick scan of threads on Reddit pages like r/Fallout and r/Fotv, as well as a Season 2 thread on the ResetEra forums, are full of comments from viewers speculating on the possibility that the two are related.
If this turns out to be the case, it could solve the mystery of the experiments being conducted between Vaults 31, 32, and 33. We already know that the trio are part of an ongoing experiment in which, every so often, one of Bud’s Buds emerges from cryogenic sleep to congratulate him on top of Vaults 32 and 33, and breeds with the general population to create future Vault-Tec managers.
What if there is a secondary goal that the inhabitants of the triumvirate must achieve – namely the creation of the FEV to recreate said virus for nefarious reasons –? Vault-Tec is nothing more than a sinister, omnipresent megacorporation hell-bent on ruling the planet, so I wouldn’t be surprised if we eventually learn that the FEV had something to do with rebooting the Forced Evolutionary Virus program to create the “super managers” Norm mentions in the second episode of this season. Hopefully we’ll know more soon.
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