Fallout Season 2's Vault 24 Explained

This article contains SPOILERS for Fallout Season 2 Episode 1.

Everyone's spooky highlight Fallout game and a major story reveal in Season 1 of Amazon's Fallout show that the Vault-Tec Corporation used the mask of security to conduct a wide variety of social and scientific experiments. These experiments often led to terrifying and horrifying results for those living inside FalloutVaults.

After 20 months of long wait, Amazon's live event Fallout the adaptation is back and returned with the tradition of a demanding premiere. The first episode Fallout Season 2 underscores the importance of fan-favorite Fallout: New Vegas character, sees Lucy and the Ghoul kill members of The Great Khans, setting up this new season's MacGuffin: a high-tech chip that appears to have brainwashing capabilities. The trace for this chip leads Fallout's protagonists to Vault 24, link to Fallout: New Vegas' cut content and a place with a disturbing secret at its center.

The Mystery of Fallout Season 2's Vault 24 Explained

A brief overview of Fallout's Sino-American War

To fully understand the mystery of Vault 24, fans need to understand it in general terms FalloutSino-American War. This event is probably the most important Fallouthistory in space, and as you might expect, the lore surrounding this event is extremely thick. But here's the most essential thing fans need to know:

Following FalloutAn alternate history version of World War II sees the United States and China emerging as the world's two leading superpowers
As natural resources become increasingly scarce over the next century, tensions between the US and China are also escalating
This eventually leads to a short but vicious war between the two nations, known as the Sino-American War.
As the Sino-American War progressed, the American government became more reliant on corporations like Vault-Tec, eventually leading to the corporations becoming the nation's de facto leaders.
To keep civilians in line, corporations fanned the flames of paranoia and perfected the communist belief of the People's Republic of China as the primary fear factor.
The anti-communist propaganda of the corporations worked, capitalism was embraced more harshly than ever, and the Sino-American war continued until the bombs were dropped and the old world was destroyed.

What Lucy and the Ghoul find in Fallout's Vault 24

IN Fallout Season 2 Episode 1 Lucy and the Ghoul are hot on the trail of Hank MacLean, Lucy's father and former Vault-Tec employee before the Great War. This trail takes them to Vault 24, which is hidden behind the screen of the Starlight Drive-In Cinema. The unlikely duo spot a hat emblazoned with communist symbols on the floor of Vault 24's entrance and break in.

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Inside Vault 24, Lucy and The Ghoul come across a room full of long-dead bodies, all wearing communist clothing. Lucy questions why the Vault-Tec would provide security to their enemies, to which the Ghoul says he doesn't think they would, and pulls some kind of computer chip from one of the communist remains. The duo then enter a lab where a projector plays communist propaganda on a loop. Bodies also fill this room, and Lucy discovers that they were Americans who somehow turned communist while in the Vault.

The Vault 24 suit can technically be found in Fallout: New Vegas' game files, p New Vegas director Josh Sawyer explained in 2019 that the Vault itself was probably not planned to appear in the game, but that the suit may have been created for Sarah Weintraub's quest and cut from the game before launch.

Fallout's brain-computer chip explained

The very first scene Fallout Season 2, Episode 1 takes place before the Great War and shows a man with a mustache forcibly inserting a high-tech chip into the neck of a bar patron he has provoked into a fistfight. Once inserted, the man uses a remote control to activate the chip and use it to force the patron to physically attack his friends. The chip-controlled man tries to resist, resulting in his head exploding.

This mustachioed man with a remote control is Robert House, the founder and CEO of RobCo Industries, who seemingly uses a doppelganger to conduct any business with the public. Fallout: New Vegas fans will remember him as the president of the New Vegas Strip, presented as a face on a computer screen.

Robert House made a brief appearance Fallout Season 1 where he was played by Rafi Silver. IN Fallout Season 2, House has been recast, with Justin Theroux now taking over the role.

Based on the context stated in Fallout Season 2, Episode 1, it appears that Mr. House and RobCo have created a Brain-Computer Interface chip capable of hijacking a person's mind. Vault 24 appears to be where this chip was perfected, with American citizens being given the chip and shown Communist propaganda until they believed it, quite a feat given their indoctrinated hatred of those beliefs.