Fallout (2024) s01e07 Episode Script

1
[Thaddeus] I cannot wait
to see the look on everyone's faces
when they see us
return with the target.
Maximus.
[screams]
- [grunts]
- [powering down]
[Thaddeus] This stinky old head's
mine now!
You don't think it's weird that we always
elect an overseer from Vault 31?
[Betty] Some of us will be
moving into Vault 32
to start anew.
[Steph] They killed my husband.
If your father were here, he
he'd do the right thing.
[Sebastian] I'm telling you,
radicalism is sweeping through Hollywood.
You should come to a meeting.
You should learn the truth
about where your wife works.
[Miss Williams] Mr. Howard?
I'm a big fan.
Welcome to Vault 4.
Stay out of Level 12.
[Maximus] Where do you guys get
your power from?
[Birdie] I see you've found
our fusion core.
[alarm blaring]
- [hisses]
- [screams]
[atmospheric music playing]
♪
[beeping]
♪
[Adam] Sandra, we're home.
[wind whistling]
[dark music playing]
Sandra?
[footsteps approach]
[Ghoul] Thank you, darling.
Oh, wait.
You thought?
[laughs]
Come on, now.
Sandra, wait outside.
Lead farming, huh?
Why, hell, I probably still got
some of your lead in me somewhere.
[sighs] But today
I'm just looking for information.
I'll tell you anything,
as long as you leave us in peace.
Say, am I out of date,
or did I hear you had three kids?
I had an older son, but he's gone.
He took up with that madwoman
in the hills two years ago.
We haven't heard from him since.
Hmm.
There's always some new little faction,
ain't there?
Brand-new team of believers
with their own dumbass ideas
about how they gonna save the world.
What did you say the name
of your eldest was?
Was it Roofus?
- I didn't say
- That must make you Tommy.
What did you do?
- What is that envelope?
- [Ghoul] Well, you see, daddy-o
now, from what I can tell
[clears throat]
Old Roofus got Tommy here mixed up
with that madwoman, too.
Now, according to this,
Roofus sent Tommy
a stash of caps to pay a courier
for "the safe transport
of an Enclave defector"
to that very same madwoman in the hills.
Moldaver.
But my problem is,
by the time I got this letter
off your brother,
it was a little bit hard to read.
[tense music playing]
For some reason,
I just can't make out her location.
Now, you give me that location,
and I'll be on my way.
[whispers] I'm sorry.
Tell him, son.
Just tell him.
[Tommy] I didn't want to spend my life
digging through dirt.
I want to build something,
and we have the chance
[Adam] Tell him what he wants to know!
Or else he's gonna kill us all!
Including your little sister.
Huh.
[Tommy] She's
she's at the Observatory.
[exhales]
Now, please, leave us.
[exhales]
[dark music playing]
So, what you think, Tommy?
Am I really walking out of here today,
or are you gonna try and draw on me
for what I did to your big brother?
- He won't.
- [Ghoul] Maybe not today,
but maybe someday.
Tommy!
[exhales]
[somber music playing]
♪
[Miss Williams] What is it
about California,
that we all came to this place?
[inhales deeply]
[Miss Williams] Maybe it's the sunshine.
Maybe it's the friendly people.
When you think of the promise
of the American Dream,
you think of California.
But it is just a dream. It's not real.
We were told the atom bomb
meant the end of war.
That didn't work out, did it?
We were told
America's always getting better,
it's always moving toward a better future.
But the future is getting closer,
and we can see it.
Their "better future" is a cliff's edge.
And it's coming up fast, isn't it?
- [sighs]
- These soldiers that we're fighting abroad,
their families,
we have more in common with them
than we do with the people
here in power, the real enemy.
That's about all the horseshit
I can take.
Coop. Coop, come on.
- [indistinct whispers]
- Mr. Howard?
- [sighs]
- I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you said.
I said that, um
this is about all the horseshit
I can take.
- [murmuring]
- I didn't realize that America's favorite gunslinger
- was so sensitive.
- [soft laughter]
I have my principles,
Miss Williams, that's all.
Uh-huh. And those principles of yours
how much did Vault-Tec pay
to take them off your hands?
Well, this is America.
Everybody has a sponsor,
and, uh, I'm not ashamed to earn a living.
[Miss Williams] Vault-Tec is
the largest company in America.
There's a lot of money
in selling the end of the world.
Well, I'm sure there's a lot of money
in selling a political ideology
- that ends in breadlines.
- [woman] Fascist.
Okay, uh, sorry, this was a mistake.
We'll be leaving.
Oh, no, I'm-I'm quite glad
you brought Mr. Howard today.
You see, it happens
that I know your wife.
And perhaps a side of her you don't.
[contemplative music playing]
[chuckles]
How do you know my wife?
My research company
was acquired by her division.
We were developing this kind of technology
that's difficult to monetize.
Cold fusion. Infinite energy.
That's what I was
on the verge of achieving
when Vault-Tec swept in and bought up
every company I'd ever worked for.
Every one of them?
So, what are you, a millionaire communist?
Hypocrisy is like violence in your movies.
If you only let the bad guys use it,
the bad guys win.
Yeah? I, uh, I got
a little showbiz secret for you.
A good bad guy doesn't
see themselves as the bad guy.
America has been locked in a resource war
for over a decade.
Vault-Tec bought the means
to end that war,
the same war you fought in,
so they could put it on the shelf.
All because it didn't fit
into their business model.
I want your help in getting it back.
- [Cooper] What is it?
- It's a listening device.
A listening device. You
you want me to spy on my wife?
[soft chuckle]
- Good luck with the revolution.
- You can keep it.
As a token.
I'm not a communist, Mr. Howard.
That's just a dirty word they use
to describe people who aren't insane.
♪
[eerie music playing]
[monitor beeping steadily]
We let you into our home.
Tended to your wounds,
gave you food and water.
But you had to go to Level 12.
I saw what you were doing
to those poor women.
You're experimenting on them.
It's it's sick.
- She needs to see the holotape.
- [sighs]
All right. Play the tape.
[panting] Okay.
[Cassandra yelps]
What is this?
- Your history.
- [Lloyd] Overseer Hawthorne,
final log entry.
At this point,
it would be irrational of me
not to acknowledge that these may be
- my last words.
- [crash]
But despite our results here,
I want to reiterate that a society
governed by scientists
- Honey! Hey!
- really is the ideal social structure. - [pounding on door]
What happened here
should not be used as a case study
for what happens when scientists
are given unregulated control.
- Lloyd, gimme a little help!
- And-and
and-and hybridizing humans
with radioactive-resistant species
still has potential.
[thudding]
Our test subjects were
less compliant than we expected.
[creature roars]
[dramatic music playing]
- [screaming]
- Cassandra! Oh, no!
- No, no, no! [shouts]
- [creature growling]
[screams] No!
[static]
[static stops]
[sniffles] Sorry, I haven't, uh,
seen that footage in a long time.
But it's a stirring reminder
of what this place is all about.
I-I don't understand, I
In the lab, I-I saw your doctors
Trying to ease the pain of the poor souls
your people lured into this place.
His ancestors were used as lab rats
by the original residents of Vault 4.
- Until the lab rats rebelled.
- [Benjamin] The, uh,
creature in the video was actually
my Great-Uncle Peter on my mom's side.
I'm so sorry.
I
I had no idea the original vault dwellers
here were so so weird.
I mean, my vault's not like this.
What was the experiment in 33?
W-Well, there is no experiment.
[tense music playing]
Your ignorance cannot excuse your cruelty.
You have infected our home with violence
and now you must pay the price.
[Lucy] No!
Please. Please, I'm a good person.
[grunting]
- [Jack Shaindlin: "I'm Tickled Pink" playing on TV]
- I'm tickled pink ♪
That things are rosy ♪
- And skies are blue ♪
- [Lucy] Please!
- Once again ♪♪
- Please let me go. Let me go!
[percussive music playing]
[Merle Travis: "Sixteen Tons"]
[panting]
Some ♪
- People say a man is made out of mud ♪
- [CX404 barking]
But a poor man's
made out of muscle and blood ♪
Muscle and blood
and skin and bones ♪
With a mind that's weak
and a back that's strong ♪
You load 16 tons
and what do you get? ♪
- You get another day older and deeper in debt
- [sighs]
Are you done?
St. Peter, don't you call me
'cause I can't go ♪
- I owe my soul to the company store ♪♪
- Okay, okay, here we go.
[gasps]
[groans]
Oh, shit.
I'm gonna fucking die.
Ow, hey! That's my foot,
it's not food, okay?
You know what?
If you were a person, you wouldn't
have any friends, you realize that?
- [whines]
- [sighs]
Okay, I got to reevaluate here.
What do I need, what do I need?
This fucking stupid thing.
Oh, you want this too, huh?
Everybody wants this.
Guess what? It's mine.
You think everything's for you.
It's pretty selfish, actually,
you know that?
Bite what you want to bite,
go where you want to go.
It's always something.
Okay.
Oh, hell yeah.
You can't eat this.
[sighs]
[intriguing music playing]
You know what?
[grunts]
Oh, yeah, this is great.
Lot of space.
You're a loose cannon, all right?
This is a very important mission
and I can't have you jeopardizing it.
It's bigger than you.
It's bigger than all of us.
[imitates beeping sounds]
- Great.
- [whining]
Oh, see? You got a little window
and everything.
You'll be fine.
[scratching]
You can breathe in there, right?
All right, got a radio tower to find.
Got to contact the Brotherhood,
get them this head,
- and get me some glory.
- [choppy, indistinct radio chatter]
[all chanting indistinctly]
[Birdie] We are all survivors here.
- Lucky enough to have found
- [grunting]
this sanctum of peace.
Of tolerance.
It doesn't matter
- where you come from or what you believe.
- [grunting]
You deserve safety.
- [can clatters]
- [woman sneezes]
Unless
[ominous music playing]
you threaten that peace.
For causing harm
to a fellow survivor,
you are hereby sentenced to death
[whimpers]
by banishment to the surface!
[gentle sawing]
It's almost there.
Need to get that sharpened, please.
[clears throat]
[straining]
[grunts]
[cheering]
[triumphant music playing]
Yeah! [whoops]
You're just letting me go?
Well, that's certainly
an optimistic perspective.
You'll be killed almost immediately
on the surface
by Lord knows what.
That's why we're giving you
two weeks of supplies to take with you.
- Thank you, Cathy.
- [Cathy] Sure.
After that, you are on your own, Goosey.
Uh
That's, uh
That's really nice of you guys.
Okay, and now it is time
to be moving along.
Can I just ask you one thing?
Obviously, someone will carry the supplies
to the surface for you.
My friend really likes it here.
And he's a good person.
He deserves to be somewhere nice and safe,
like this.
I know that I'm not really
in the position to be asking favors.
[chuckles] But
[suspenseful music playing]
can he stay?
[crowd gasping]
[automated voice on P.A.] Backup power
initiated.
[soaring music playing]
[Maximus] [distorted] Let her go!
- [The Platters: "Only You"]
- Only you ♪
Can make all this world ♪
- Seem bright ♪
- [muffled] Titus, stop!
Only you ♪
Can make ♪
The darkness bright ♪
Only you ♪
And you alone ♪
Can thrill me like you do ♪♪
Titus, stop.
They're letting me go.
Really?
Yeah.
Oops.
Sorry.
- Somebody maybe check on him.
- [groaning]
["Bossa Angela" playing on speakers]
What?
We stole their fusion core.
Well, yeah, but
You know, I needed it for the armor.
Well, without their fusion core,
their auxiliary power
will only last a few days, and
and then what?
No No.
- Yes.
- No.
Giving it back is the right thing to do.
Without the fusion core,
this armor is useless.
I can't be a knight.
Well
you can't be a knight
by stealing from people either.
Yeah, but I can help people
with this armor.
- [sighs]
- All right?
You, for example. I want to help you.
You really want give them
their fusion core back
if it means you don't get your dad?
If my dad found out
that I destroyed an entire community
to save him
that'd break his heart.
I can't.
[melancholy music playing]
[armor powers down]
♪
Come on.
♪
[alert blares]
[janitor] Thank you!
Thinking 'bout those oysters?
Mm-hmm.
We don't have oysters in my vault.
We have canned tuna.
[chuckles ] But if you like oysters,
I'm pretty sure you'll like canned tuna.
[chuckles softly]
I was supposed to marry a stranger
from another vault.
It didn't turn out so good.
I don't have the best luck
when it comes to strangers.
But
Titus
I can honestly say
you are the best stranger
that I've ever met.
You're a good person, Titus.
And if you wanted to,
when all of this is over, you could come
and live with us in Vault 33.
[tranquil music playing]
With me.
There's something I should tell you.
Just say yes.
My name isn't Titus. It's Maximus.
Titus is the name of the knight
who owned this suit before me.
He was threatening me, so instead
of helping him I watched him die.
And I took his armor and I lied to you.
So, all that stuff you were saying,
you know, about, um,
about me being a good person
I just threw acid
in an innocent man's face.
And I've only been up here two weeks.
The wasteland sucks.
Yeah. Sometimes.
Do you want to come
live with me in my vault?
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
[chuckles]
[laughs]
Let's go find that head.
[DJ Carl] Hey-yo, this Is DJ Carl at KPSS,
broadcasting from the base
of the once-beautiful Hollywood Hills.
Like most weeks here at KPSS,
this week is fiddle week,
when all of my airtime
will be spent luxuriating
in my small but mighty collection
of fiddle tunes.
So, I'd encourage you to sit back
and enjoy the folksy, gutsy sound
of bygone fiddlers.
And, if you don't like what you hear,
just a reminder that
I don't take visitors at the station.
A simple postcard will suffice.
That said, enjoy the fiddling.
[gentle fiddle music playing]
[music continuing in distance]
- Excuse me!
- Aah!
Don't kill me. I'm a doctor.
I can help you.
Haven't run into many people
traveling with a human head.
Oh, this? It's not
It's nothing really, it's more of a
I have to
It's a souvenir kind of thing.
Oh, yeah?
Welcome to my humble pharmacy.
- [grunts]
- [snake oil salesman] Have a seat, my dear boy,
and let's take a look at that
tattered tootsy of yours.
[groaning]
[shuddering groans]
Oh
Oh.
I've seen this condition before.
Uh, someone stepped on my foot.
Yes. Sometimes fatal.
But you're in luck,
'cause I've got the cure.
I have, in my possession,
serums and potions
for every malady and misfortune
that could possibly beset
a wandering traveler such as yourself.
[hammer clicks]
What's stopping me from just killing you
and taking your whole thing of drugs?
Well, when it comes to serums,
not many people know the difference
between the noxious and the benign.
A murky hue of green could aid the humors.
A brackish tint of shamrock, and
[blows raspberry]
That's the sound of your lower intestine
falling right the fuck out.
But which is which?
- Which is which
- Fine.
- Just give me the right one.
- Okay.
Before we start,
there's the small matter of my fee.
I don't have caps, but
[short chuckle]
Oh, my.
- Is-is that a
- Fusion core?
You don't see those around
much anymore, do you?
[haunting music playing]
But, if you do want to survive
not a bad trade.
Okay, here.
Okay, let's get started.
This elixir I have concocted heals all.
And I mean everything.
But I must warn you, the taste: not great.
- Just give it.
- Okay.
- [chuckles]
- [gags]
[laughing] I'm sorry!
[hacking cough]
[laughs]
But the results
Yes? The results.
[Thaddeus gasps]
Holy shit. Holy shit!
Ah, thank you.
- Sure thing, buddy boy.
- Ah
[case lock clicks]
Do you know where
I can find a radio tower?
I have to make contact with my base.
Yes, I believe there's one yonward.
Past the big crater
in the middle of the Shithole.
It's near a town
that used to be called Shady Sands.
Shady Sands?
That place is radioactive as hell.
Well, you don't have to worry about that
anymore, do you, buddy boy?
Toodles and anon.
[Dinah Washington:
"What a Difference a Day Made"]
What a difference ♪
A day made ♪
Twenty-four little hours ♪
[indistinct shouting]
Brought the sun and the flowers ♪
Mmm ♪
Where there used to be rain
[P.A. system chimes]
[Reg] Hello, Vault 33.
In preparation for repopulating
our neighboring Vault 32,
Overseer Betty will be sending out
vault assignments later today.
Remember, wherever you end up,
that's where you belong.
What a difference ♪
A day made ♪
And the difference ♪
Is you ♪♪
[sinister music playing]
What happened?
We don't know.
The medic says it looks like rat poison.
We'll find out who was behind it.
Get off of me!
I wouldn't
I wouldn't do something like that!
Ugh. More death.
I wish it would end.
What did I tell you, Norman?
Words have meaning.
People are gonna be upset
when they hear about this.
People like to have
something to fuss about.
[Mozart: "Così fan tutte (overture)"]
[playing]
Oh, fuck.
- [Pip-Boys ding]
- Oh
[ding]
Yes.
[ding]
[baby cries]
- [sighs]
- [ding]
[music ends]
[latch clicks]
Oh, hi, Norm.
Oh, it-it's just terrible
about the raiders, isn't it?
Don't be too long.
I'm holding the baby,
so you have to pack everything.
We'll miss you, Norm.
Hmm.
You're going too?
Yeah.
Steph and I were given
a starter home unit.
Just the three of us.
Oh.
So you're just gonna
forget about everything we've seen?
I feel like this is a good moment
for a fresh start.
You think so?
Someone obviously does.
Chet.
You're a coward.
You know that, Chet?
[soft chuckles]
We all are, Norm.
That's why we live in a vault.
[mournful music playing]
[ominous music playing]
♪
[CX404 whimpering]
[sighs]
All right.
Let's go find your daddy.
- [Cool Papa Jarvis: "Yeah Yeah Baby"]
- Baby ♪
Why you treat me like you do? ♪
Hey ♪
Baby ♪
Why you treat me like you do? ♪♪
[intriguing music playing]
[short feedback]
[Barb] I've got three hot cocoas on deck,
two marshmallow, one plain.
Three? You have one for me?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
I'll be out there in just a minute.
Okay.
[Barb sighs]
[over earpiece] Got your hot cocoa,
sweet pea.
If you'd like,
you can have the marshmallows
off of the top of mine.
[Janey] Where's Daddy?
He'll be out in a minute.
- What've you got there?
- [whimpers]
[conversation continues indistinctly]
[whines]
[both laughing]
You're right, Roosevelt.
What are you thinking?
[haunting music playing]
[Cooper] Lloyd and Cassandra here
are both scientists,
specializing in the effects
of radiation on human DNA.
[Cassandra] That's right,
and we'll be living and working
right here in Vault 4, leading a community
governed entirely by scientists.
Well, I may be a hero in the movies,
but you all are heroes in real life.
[sighs]
No dogs in the vault, huh?
[whines]
♪
[whines]
I'm sorry, Dogmeat, but you ain't him.
[whimpers]
[sighs]
[fiddle music playing]
[music warbling over speakers]
Yeah, my, uh, ride
should be getting here any minute.
Thanks again for letting me
use your radio. That was really nice.
Nah, no problem.
[sighs]
So, you were saying earlier
that some people,
they don't, uh, like the sound
of this music, really?
Oh, people get fully mad.
- Oh.
- The thing no one appreciates is
these are the original recordings.
Oh. Uh-huh.
You can't get that warm sound anymore.
You know, the bass, the treble,
the mids.
Oh, that
Right, yeah. Oh.
Here.
Oh, that Okay, yeah.
[chuckles] That's the, uh,
that's mids, right?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Yeah.
Wow, that's really got that
- Yeah.
- thing on it.
Well, it's not on it, it's in it.
Oh, yeah, I like it. A lot, yeah.
Some people,
they're just so ignorant to music,
it's kind of sad, I would say.
- Totally.
- Yep.
Great job on these booby traps,
by the way.
Really good.
Hey, thanks.
[Thaddeus sighs] Yeah.
That one's crazy. [chuckles]
[sighs] Critics.
Yeah.
People just, uh, can't be nice. [chuckles]
Hey, is this your ride?
Huh?
Oh, shit.
Guess not. Okay.
[percussive music playing]
Mm.
God, I suck without a scope.
We just want the head.
Who are you?
I'm the person who cut it off.
Okay, um
[grunts]
[moaning]
[wheezes]
Uh
Oh
[gasps]
Why am I not dead?
Uh, I I-I wouldn't do that.
Well, I'm not just gonna leave it there.
Oh.
- Oh. Oh!
- No.
Oh
- Uh
- [eerie music playing]
Uh
Thaddeus.
I-I think you might be a ghoul.
Oh, no.
Aw.
I'm so stupid. I should've never trusted
a doctor that smelled like that.
[helicopter blades whirring in distance]
Oh, boy.
The Brotherhood.
Oh, fuck.
Shit.
Oh, fuck! Oh, fuck.
- They'll kill me if they find out.
- What?
This-this is good, no?
The Brotherhood is the good guys?
Uh, it's a complicated organization.
- Thaddeus, give me the head.
- Huh?
I'll slow them down.
You'll have time to run.
You'd do that for me?
Give it to me.
Oh, thank you.
Uh, I'm sorry about
a lot of things and I didn't mean for
Okay. Ni-Nice meeting you. Bye.
- What are you doing?
- [grunting]
If they want a head,
I'm gonna give them a head.
Find your dad.
- Go home. That's what I want for you.
- No.
You're supposed to come with me.
They're never gonna stop
looking for the artifact.
I'm-I'm not leaving. I'm not leaving.
Trust me.
- [The Danleers: "You're Everything"]
- You're my world ♪
You're the song I sing ♪
You're my guiding light ♪
You're everything ♪
You're my star ♪
You're a diamond leaf ♪
You're my miracle ♪
You're everything
I'll wait for you.
Okay? In Vault 33.
Find me.
I will.
I will.
[helicopters approaching]
[tense music playing]
[Betty] And now
we say goodbye to all those
who are leaving us for Vault 32.
Each of them have been chosen
for their agreeability,
stick-to-itiveness,
and all of the other qualities
that make for a successful pioneer.
- And, of course, every vault
- I'm not going.
I'm not going.
I'm not going.
I'm not going, I'm not going.
I'm not going. I'm not Um, excuse me.
Uh, I don't-I don't live there.
I live-I live there.
[murmuring]
Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
That was weird. Um, sorry.
I'm fine.
Proceed.
Thank you.
And of course, every vault
needs an overseer.
Which is why I have conferred
with the high council.
And we are proud to announce
as interim overseer of Vault 32,
Stephanie Harper.
[applause]
And with that,
now our friends
become neighbors.
Good luck, 32ers.
Hit it.
[alert blaring]
- [Jane Morgan: "From the First Hello to the Last Goodbye"]
- From the first ♪
Hello ♪
To the last ♪
Goodbye ♪
From the first ♪
Hello ♪
To the last ♪
Goodbye ♪
It's been awfully nice ♪
To know you ♪
So excuse ♪
The parting sigh ♪
And I'll watch ♪
- You go ♪
- Yep.
With my chin ♪
Held high ♪
You've been dear and sweet ♪
A pleasure to meet ♪
A special treat ♪
Say I ♪
From the first ♪
Hello ♪
To the last ♪
Goodbye ♪♪
[suspenseful music playing]
[computer beeps]
[typing]
[typing]
[typing]
[suspenseful music playing]
♪
♪
Hello?
[louder] Hello?
[alert blaring]
♪
♪
Hello?
Hello?
- [machinery quietly revving]
- [circus music playing in distance]
Hello?
[machinery quietly revving]
[metal clanking]
[ominous music playing]
[fiddle music playing]
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♪
[atmospheric music playing]
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♪