Who controls Vault-Tec? Cooper Howard asked his wife, Barb, that question more than two hundred years before he met Lucy MacLean. But it’s never been more timely. It’s also never been more exciting or terrifying. A surprise returning character in Fallout season two, episode six, revealed the secret “player” Robert House feared, the one he thought would end the world, really did control both Vault-Tec and the Enclave.
Barbara Howard explained to her husband why she said the world’s most powerful corporations needed to drop the bombs themselves. We saw her reasoning in a series of flashbacks. It began with a series of profoundly evil-yet-mundane presentations about how Vault-Tec planned to make nuclear war profitable. A meeting with (the fake) Mr. House then made her realize just how dangerous cold fusion really was. He was trading his mind control device for that little glowing blue vial of infinite power. Knowing how much House wanted it, combined with learning he had a secret project that was “above her pay grade,” finally scared Barb into action. She told her secretary to find out how Vault-Tec stores the cold fusion diode, how the company secured it, who monitored it, “everything.”
Mere moments after she gave her secretary, future Vault 33 overseer, Betty, the task, an unexpected figure confronted Barb in the elevator at her office. It was Siggi Wilzig. Yes, Wilzig, played by Michael Emerson, returned for a scene in season two of Fallout. In season one of Fallout, the Enclave scientist played a major role in the present timeline. And now, thanks to Fallout season two, we know that Wilzig is alive in the pre-Great War past of the series as well. And what we also know Wilzig will do two centuries after his Fallout season two elevator ride makes this flashback far more sinister and revealing.
In Fallout‘s present timeline, Wilzig will inject himself with the cold-fusion diode. He will then escape the Enclave and make it his mission to get the technology back to its creator, Moldaver. Ultimately, Emerson’s Wilzig will sacrifice himself so Lucy can saw off his head to ensure cold fusion does not fall into the hands of the Enclave or Vault-Tec.
How did Wilzig, a scientist that the secretive Enclave felt was important enough to freeze and wake up two hundred years later, instantly confront a Vault-Tec executive the moment she had second thoughts about her role in destroying the world in Fallout season two? Someone, maybe even Wilzig himself, had to have been spying on Barbara as she spoke to her secretary. Maybe because Wilzig not only works for the Enclave on Fallout, but also for Vault-Tec. Maybe because Fallout season two is telling us that the Enclave and Vault-Tec are more tied together than we previously thought, perhaps even run by the same individual, the one true evil at the table that Mr. House can’t yet see.
Wilzig seemed to be at Vault-Tec specifically to deliver such a tailored message to someone like Barb, a Vault-Tec employee considering going against the grain. (Notably, she did not deny knowing him when Coop asked who threatened her.) Wilzig was on site to warn her, on a moment’s notice, that she was easily replaceable/killed if she stepped out of line. The same was true of Wilzig if he didn’t tell her that. Wilzig also told Barb they were “all in the same boat” because “not one of us can stop” a nuclear war that ultimately did happen. And all of this comes after the Fallout series’ several indications that the two organizations, long thought enemies, were actually working together, even if most (all?) members never knew.
All of which leads us back to the most important question Coop asked his wife in that Vegas hotel. It’s the question that now hangs over all of Fallout: who controls Vault-Tec? Well, thanks to Wilzig’s return on Fallout season two, we know it’s someone who could spy on a Vault-Tec executive and also employ an individual who we know works for the Enclave and knows all about cold fusion. It’s someone powerful enough that they dropped the first bombs.
Who could possibly do all of that? Who is the “player at the table” of world power who could hide their identity from Robert House? All while secretly running both Vault-Tec and the Enclave at the same time. Who is this person who can summon Wilzig up at a moment’s notice to stop Barb’s plans a second after they had begun on Fallout? No matter the answer, there’s never been a scarier figure in all of Fallout, because they not only ended the world, but they might still be controlling it from the shadows.
Fallout season two releases Wednesdays on Prime Video.
Mikey Walsh is a staff writer at Nerdist. You could trust him with cold fusion. Honest. You can follow him on Bluesky at @burgermike. And also anywhere someone is ranking the Targaryen kings.
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