Abhiroop Das
Created by Graham Yost, season 3 of ‘Silo’ diverges from the Hugh Howey book series by quite a lot, jumping back and forth in time to tell us about how this story started. While Daniel and Helen team up to uncover the many secrets the world is keeping from the masses, several centuries in the future, Juliette returns from the forced cleaning mission, alive, but with no memories of what happened. By episode 6 of the season, however, she not only remembers everything but also has a plan in place to save Silo 18. Still, the plan almost falls apart when Lucas Kyle and Patrick Kennedy are attacked by unseen forces on their way to Silo 18. This episode, titled ‘Gray Goo,’ answers one of the biggest mysteries of this world thus far. SPOILERS AHEAD.
Kennedy and Lucas Survive and Make it to Silo 17
‘Silo’ season 3 episode 7 begins by taking us back to the outer world, where both Kennedy and Lucas seem to have survived the barrage of bullets. However, Lucas is still shot in the chest and bleeding, which means that Kennedy has to lead the way and somehow bring them to safety. As the duo walks over a pile of rotten corpses, they eventually make it to the gates of Silo 17, where the teens eventually let them in. While none of them have any medical training, the good old book seems to have enough instructions to at least get the bullet out of Lucas’ body, and from there, it’s a waiting game. Meanwhile, Solo manages to fix the duo’s broken radio, and with that, contact with the crew back home is reinitiated.
With the radio coming back to life, Juliette has her long-awaited reunion with Solo, albeit under a layer of codespeak. Years ago, Solo’s mother sacrificed her own life to stop the poison from spreading all across Silo 17, and now, Juliette needs to know the exact spot so that a similar feat can be pulled off in Silo 18. As Solo’s crew begins working with Kennedy, back home, Camille is backed into a corner. With her husband outed as one of the rebels, she realizes that an emotional angle can be pursued to get to the truth. However, Robert proves to be too smart for this, and whatever was left of their relationship is lost in the process. In only a few short months, the Algorithm has had a profound effect on Camille’s consciousness to the point that she is hardly recognizable. However, she is still losing the information game, and the only way to get to the truth now is through Juliette.
Stensen Reveals the Real Threat to the World
Elsewhere, Knox meets up with his abusive father, Gus, in prison. This is not exactly a friendly reunion, though, as Knox is here to learn more about Harwood and his potential connection to Orla Kent‘s death. The talk gets very aggressive very soon, as Knox punches his dad as payback for everything he’s had to endure over the years. Meanwhile, at Silo 17, Kennedy and company are able to locate a vent that seems suspiciously welded shut, and opening it reveals a dead human in a cleaning suit, armed with a welding machine. This person is almost certainly Solo’s mother, who welded herself in the vent and sacrificed her life to stop the poison. The problem, though, is that her remains have to be removed in order to access the exact poison pipe, and that isn’t something Solo feels comfortable with.
From there, the story abruptly jumps back to the past, with Daniel and Helen still stuck somewhere in remote Virginia with an all-powerful senator and the world’s richest scientist. The drills they saw from afar turn out to be even larger up close, and Stensen confirms that they are indeed being used to build massive silos. Curiously enough, he claims that these are being used to preserve seeds, but it’s only later that the senator reveals that these are not just plant seeds, but also the next generation of humans.
As it turns out, Stensen’s claim to fame, nanotechnology, is being recreated by both America and other nations for military purposes. While the nuclear threat is one thing, Stensen believes that nanotech bombs can bring the complete elimination of humanity sooner. When Helen doesn’t get convinced by just words, Stensen confirms that the grey substance that brought down Charlene’s jet, killing several pilots, was actually Iranian-developed nanotech. When Charlene resists by reminding them that her plane never even got close to Iranian borders, the senator confirms that their real plan was always to bomb a facility outside of Iran, a revelation that shakes up Charlene’s reality yet again.
Juliette Gets Arrested Just as Lucas and Kennedy Find the Right Vent
Back in the present, Gus is questioned by the sheriff yet again, and this time he confesses to something major. Many years ago, Gus and Harwood joked about crafting an invention by using some of the critical supplies, but when Harwood came back with a renewed interest in the project, Gus gave in and drew up the designs. Armed with this knowledge, the sheriff strikes Harwood’s department yet again, and this time, the man is caught red-handed. As it turns out, Orla Kent had discovered where the critical supplies were being smuggled, but it’s not Harwood who took her life, but her own partner, who is arrested at long last.
In Silo 17, Kennedy finds Solo alone and mourning his mother, and asks if this silo has, or rather, had, any culture for sending off the dead. While Solo doesn’t remember anything like that, he finds peace in Kennedy’s description of how the dead are ceremoniously covered and buried underground. With this, Solo gives the go-ahead for his mother to be brought out of the vent, and Lucas, now recovered, correctly identifies the pipe that is the source of it all. However, trouble seems afoot at Silo 18, as Juliette is arrested the moment she makes it back to the upper chambers.
With Bernard now in charge, a new choice appears: whether to wait for Lucas to return, or blow up the Judicial Department, as per the original plan. Meanwhile, back in the past, Stensen offers Daniel, Helen, and Charlene their respective roles to play in this giant project. While Charlene accepts the role of being a pilot for the supplies, Helen rejects the proposal of being the first to break the news to the world, in two years’ time. Meanwhile, Daniel, asked to join as an engineer, decides to go back with Helen, confessing to having feelings for her in the process. As they kiss and board the chopper out of this place, a grim future awaits, one we are all too familiar with.
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