The Drop the show, much like the Bethesda games it’s based on, is set in an apocalypse caused by the dropping of nuclear bombs.
The resulting post-apocalyptic world Drop is full of inappropriate creatures and characters, including Walton Goggins’ Ghoul – an irradiated mutant human and an example of what happens to those exposed to nuclear waste.
The series also introduces Ella Purnell as Lucy, who lives in Vault-Tec’s Vault 33, just one of many nuclear fallout shelters created to protect humanity after a nuclear war.
But how did this nuclear war start? Amazon Prime Videos Drop The TV show finally reveals who was responsible for dropping the bombs.
Why did bombs drop in Fallout?
Warning – The rest of this article contains spoilers Drop.
Nukes in Drop are central to the series’ story, but the mystery of who started the nuclear apocalypse is even more complicated.
Like Drop explained in its eighth episode, Vault-Tec, the company that created 122 vaults to protect paying customers in case of nuclear war, is responsible for starting the war.
The reason is that if Vault-Tec wanted to guarantee itself and its partners a return on investment in expensive vault technology, it needed people to buy space in its vaults.
The best way to guarantee that was to increase the threat of nuclear war and encourage people to secure their future, which they could secure by dropping nuclear bombs on the world themselves.
Did Vault-Tec drop bombs?
Boardroom scene inside Fallout In the finale, many of the world’s most powerful companies meet with the leaders of Vault-Tec, where they try to sell them on their vaults.
This scene reveals that the government’s peace talks are reducing the ongoing threat of nuclear war, which means that interest in buying the vaults is decreasing.
At this point, Barbara Howard (Frances Turner), the wife of Cooper Howard’s director of Vault-Tec, suggests that they guarantee the result by dropping the bombs themselves, creating a complete monopoly on the next nuclear accident.
However, Vault-Tec didn’t drop nukes just once. all the time Dropit is revealed that a city known as Shady Sands was constantly rebuilding civilization above ground in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles until it was destroyed by another bomb.
Fallout episode eight revealed that this bomb was dropped by Vault-Tec director and Vault 33 supervisor Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan). MacLean decided to destroy Shady Sands because its population boom threatened to lure people out of the vaults, affecting Vault-Tec’s monopoly on the wasteland.
MacLean also had a personal vendetta against Shady Sands because his wife Rose had fled there with their children Lucy and Norm. Therefore, he decided to drop another nuclear bomb and dumped the waste in the Shady Sands.
When did the bombs drop in Fallout?
Nukes can be seen falling as they unfold Drop Episode 1.
The series begins before the end of the world in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, where movie star Cooper Howard is having a children’s birthday party. Cooper and his daughter Janie watch at the party as mushroom clouds appear over the city, signaling the start of nuclear war.
These events take place in the year 2077, nearly 200 years before the current timeline studied in most Drop series and video games.
Drop now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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