Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. She eventually accepts a deal from the secret Big Bad of the season, Bernard the mayor Tim Robbins , in which he promises no harm will come to her friends and family as long as she accepts her cleaning sentence, which up to this point means certain death. Oh, plus she learns what happened to her boyfriend George Ferdinand Kingsley , who jumped off the railing to keep the hard drive with clues as to what is really going on in the Silo safe.
It brings closure but is also devastating. All in all, Jules has a pretty shitty last day in the Silo, but her story only gets wilder once she steps outside in the last five minutes of the episode. What she discovers moves the series into a whole new gear. But some major discoveries and reveals are happening within the Silo walls, too. This is the big moment that changes the game. To backtrack: The catalyst in Silo is, of course, Allison Rashida Jones and George finding that video of an old cleaning on the holy grail of a hard drive from before the rebellion.
Of course, they assume this means the displays within the Silo are fake to keep people inside when the outside world is safe and lovely. But it sets up a great mystery: What the hell is happening outside? When Juliette steps out to clean, we finally learn the truth, which is a doozy. Those displays are real. The world outside is a nuclear wasteland. The truth is that out in that wasteland are dozens and dozens of other Silos. And beyond those Silos buried in the ground?
Or at least, go freak the hell out of her new Silo neighbors. Heat tape is a main character. Who knew? I love this for heat tape. Heat tape is hiding in plain sight! How many other shows have tried and failed at reveals like this? So many! The first time we see heat tape is when Allison is being suited up for her cleaning in the premiere.
Sure, at one point, I was like, Man, these people are very serious about tape , but I never thought about the implications. But then!! In the finale, Walker does think about the implications. It dawns on her that it makes zero sense for Judicial or the mayor to be so incensed about some rolls of heat tape.
