There are many entities with nefarious schemes on Fallout. And one of the most nefarious is Kyle MacLachlan’s Hank MacLean. At first, we thought that Hank was a straightforward company man simp for Vault-Tec. But Fallout season two has made Hank’s aims, plans, and allegiances A LOT more complicated. In Fallout season two, episode six, we get to see Hank MacLean’s proposal for how to take care of the “problem” plaguing every single faction out there in Fallout‘s Wasteland, how to control the many people who just do not wish to be controlled. Let’s take a look at what Hank MacLean’s plan to assert control is in Fallout season two and consider whether he’s working with Mr. House, Vault-Tec, or anyone else.
Hank MacLean Has Perfected Mr. House’s Brain-Computer Interface Implant Chip, a.k.a Mind Control Device on Fallout Season 2
After a season’s worth of work, Hank MacLean finally cracked it: Mr. House’s Brain-Computer Interface Implant Chip, a.k.a. his mind-control device. We see from Mr. House’s Fallout introduction and Hank’s various experiments with mice and people that when this device works properly, it allows the wielder to control the actions, and perhaps even the thoughts, of those who have had it implanted in their necks. In the past timeline of Fallout season two, we see Mr. House’s fake double tell Barb Howard that this is his “automated man.” He notes, “He spent a lot of time trying to make his machines more lifelike, but hey, it works the other way around too.”
But whatever happens with the Brain-Computer Interface Implant Chip after that moment, neither Mr. House nor Vault-Tec ever perfects the mind-control device. Instead, the Brain-Computer Interface Implant Chip continues to make the wearer’s head explode before their mind can be controlled too much. But after much testing and many splats, Hank MacLean is finally able to get the Brain-Computer Interface Implant Chip to work without killing the person the mind-control device is controlling. Hurray for him…
What Does Hank MacLean Plan to Do with the Mind Control Device Now That It Works
Now that the mind control device is working without exploding any heads on Fallout season two, it feels like Hank MacLean’s plan is to implant the it into literally every single person in the Wasteland. Using the device’s powers of suggestion, Hank intends to turn every soul in the Wasteland into what we’ll call “Vault Clones.” By that, we mean people drenched in saccharine sweetness with no personality to speak of at all, who placidly accept their fates, but always say “Please and Thank You.” The audience and Lucy witness this firsthand in Hank MacLean’s “Vault for Managers,” which has turned into a mind-control device factory.
In it, Hank has plucked a variety of Wastelanders who were previously living rough, violent lives and turned them into cheerful employees who are glued to their desks and just love to make more computer-interface implant chips for him. Isn’t life swell when your thoughts have been stolen? Some of them belonged to Caesar’s Legion beforehand, while others were criminals and murderers. Now they cheerfully sharpen pencils and make trail mix for their co-workers. Hank may imagine this is a Utopia, but he is the one with his finger on the button, after all.
Hank MacLean’s Plan Is Terrifying in Fallout Season 2
It’s easy to get lulled into the charm of Hank MacLean’s mind-control plan on Fallout season two. After all, isn’t life better when all the violence has been removed from it? When everyone is getting along? When there is “peace”? This sanitized existence might seem charming in a vacuum, as it clearly does to Lucy MacLean as she begins to doubt herself and her mission. But fascism with the face of benevolence always is. Order in exchange for control might feel tempting on the face of it, but how long before control means that certain groups who don’t fit into a vision of normativeness no longer get to exist?
How long before it means no one can have any personality at all? How long before the person with the finger on the button decides to order something truly awful? And when that person is Fallout‘s Hank MacLean, a man who we know has personally dropped a nuclear bomb out of rage, jealousy, and the fear that free will could overcome his and his employer’s power-hungry ways, we know it’s not long at all.
Like Hank hopes she might, Lucy succumbs to the idea of order in the face of violence and presses the button to activate the mind-control device at the end of Fallout season two, episode six. But we truly hope all her time in the Wasteland reminds her what it is to be truly human. If no one has any free will, if everyone is exactly the same, then humanity ends because there are no longer any individual experiences to define us. And, if worse, that is because someone is controlling all of humanity; bad things will happen, indeed
Is Hank MacLean Working with Vault-Tec on This Plan?
But is Hank MacLean the person who intends to control all of humanity, or does he remain an executive assistant? In season one of Fallout, it seemed like Hank MacLean felt wildly passionate and obsessed with his job and being Barb’s helper. But in season two, we see a slightly different picture. Hank MacLean seems obsessed with Mr. House’s Computer-Interface Implant chip from the very moment he sees it. And while Vault-Tec is buying the technology, it’s not totally clear whether the company decided to pursue it as part of its plans. We certainly know the mind-control device was not in the plans for Vaults 32 and 33, the ones Hank was a part of. Through Norm’s storyline, we learn that the FEV, or Forced Evolutionary Virus, was the experiment there. We get the feeling Hank’s bid for control of the Wasteland here isn’t necessarily coming from Vault-Tec.
Is Hank MacLean Working with Mr. House on This Plan?
And that leads us to the next question. Did Hank MacLean abandon Vault-Tec to work with Mr. House instead? The mind-control technology is, after all, House’s. And we see it primarily tested in vaults in and around New Vegas, vaults that Vault-Tec ostensibly gave to Mr. House to run his experiments in. Although in fake Mr. House’s exchange with Barb, it doesn’t feel too much like Mr. House wanted to test the Brain-Computer Interface Implant Chip in his vaults.
Still, when Hank MacLean first got to New Vegas, he called a mysterious person who appeared to be Mr. House. He told that person:
This is Hank MacLean, reporting for duty sir. Nobody in Vault-Tec knows I’m here. Nobody in Vault-Tec knows much of anything anymore. Wanted to let you know I’m still alive. I hope you are too. I don’t doubt that you are. You spent so much time calculating how to survive all possible contingencies. I’ve been keeping busy, I’m Vegas these days, back in your old stomping grounds, actually. Trying to pick up where you all left off.
Looks like a couple of the Vault experiments ran into some speed bumps. 24 made progress on the brain/computer interface. This one, minituratization. What it all needs is integrating. And I’m confident if I just roll up my sleeves I can bring it all home for you. Then we can finally talk about my promotion. I’m gonna complete the work you started. And when this is all over, you will be begging me to help you.
That certainly makes it sound like Hank MacLean has abandoned Vault-Tec and would very much like to work for Mr. House. But can’t be totally sure who Hank was calling exactly.
Has Hank MacLean Gone Rogue in His Bid to Control the Wasteland on Fallout Season 2?
If we’re honest, Hank MacLean’s vision of a Utopia where everyone is unbearably happy all the time and always says cheerful things to one another… helped along by a mind-control device, doesn’t feel like Vault-Tec OR Mr. House. In the end, it really feels like Hank MacLean, tired of being underestimated by those in charge, has gone rogue with his evil. He is a middle manager no more—now he is in control, dammit.
And honestly, no one scares us more than Hank MacLean. We feel like if Lucy continues to disagree with her father, he’ll just slap a mind-control device on her as well, for her own good. And the vision of that and how easily we see Hank doing it is absolutely chilling. If there’s one thing that Fallout knows how to do, it’s add naunce to its vision of evil. And with Hank MacLean’s plan unfolding before us, all wrapped up in a warm smile and a cup of coffee, we feel truly terrified.
Fallout season two is streaming now on Prime Video.
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