The next incorporates heavy spoilers for season 2 of “Silo.”
“Silo” is among the greatest sci-fi exhibits of the previous decade, one with a compelling thriller and beautiful worldbuilding that feels just like the fixed lore drops and plot twists of “Assault on Titan.”
The present takes place in a dystopian future the place many of the world has been destroyed and humanity worn out. The one remnants of civilization dwell in an underground silo tons of of ranges deep. The present offers with the straightforward thought of data and the way exhausting it’s to kill human curiosity irrespective of how a lot these on the high use rules to maintain the inhabitants beneath management. On the finish of the primary season, former engineer now sheriff, Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) left her silo (a loss of life sentence) and really managed to outlive her stroll exterior, ultimately discovering one other silo close by.
Season 2, which cemented “Silo” as the most effective exhibits on AppleTV+, and motive sufficient to subscribe to that platform, issues Juliette discovering that the brand new silo she encountered had been worn out when the folks revolted and tried to go away for the floor. Again dwelling, nonetheless, revolution is brewing and IT programs analyst Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) begins discovering the key previous of their very own silo, till he learns concerning the horrific security protocol often called the Safeguard Process.
Although the season 2 finale of “Silo” already did a slightly expansive job explaining what the Safeguard Process is, some folks have the inexplicable passion of simply spoiling themselves on TV exhibits. Whether or not that is you, you have been watching the present along with your eyes closed, or went to the toilet once they defined what this security protocol is, fret not. Here is your helpful information as to what the Safeguard Process is in “Silo.”
What’s the Safeguard Process in Silo?
Within the penultimate episode of “Silo” season 2, Lukas Kyle dives all the way down to the very backside of the silo and finds a mysterious tunnel — the identical one Juliette’s boyfriend George (Ferdinand Kingsley) was wanting into earlier than his loss of life within the first season. The tunnel results in a door that’s guarded by some AI-sounding voice that talks concerning the Safeguard Process that can kick into place if anybody dares cross that door or discuss to anybody about what they discovered down there.
The Safeguard Process is basically a contingency plan in case the silo revolts, and it permits some unseen entity to kill each single particular person within the silo through a pipe filled with poison that will get distributed by the vents. It is a last-ditch effort to forestall the residents of a silo from escaping and alerting the opposite silos of their existence.
When Lukas learns about this within the season 2 finale, it wrecks his worldview as he realizes it does not matter how a lot the folks of the silo battle or how they attempt to liberate themselves or study the reality. They have been at all times, and can at all times be one button away from dying horrible deaths. The destiny of the folks of the silos has at all times been out of their arms.
When was the Safeguard Process final used?
Concurrently Lukas learns concerning the Safeguard Process in Silo 18, Juliete over in Silo 17 hears from Solo (performed by Steve Zahn, the most effective a part of “Battle For the Planet of the Apes”) that his mother and father did know concerning the process that poured poison out of a vent.
Seems, Silo 17 had been a sufferer of the Safeguard Process once they tried to revolt. It began when a person wrote “LIES” on the skin digicam when he left the silo to wash, which made everybody within the silo consider that it was protected to go exterior. This prompted a revolution that led to everybody deciding to go away their silo — and die making an attempt.
That is the crux of the season, as Juliette — understanding that everybody on Silo 18 died once they achieve hoped that somebody might survive exterior like she has — realizes that Silo 17 is about to undergo the identical destiny as Silo 18. Certainly, an enormous a part of the season’s story is the aftermath of Juliette’s miraculous stroll exterior, which sparks a riot that almost tears the silo aside till Juliette comes again within the season finale.
Can the Safeguard Process be stopped?
We do not know for positive if the Safeguard Process might be stopped, but it surely looks as if it may possibly. Whereas speaking to Juliette, Solo remembers the day his silo died, and the way his mother and father supposedly found the Safeguard Process and managed to discover a technique to cease it. In line with Solo, his mother and father merely put a cap on the vent, stopping the process from killing everybody.
What’s extra, it appears folks from Silo 17 managed to go exterior and never die — not less than not at first. No matter Solo’s mother and father did, it managed to make it protected to go exterior. That opens up an entire can of worms that “Silo” must discover come season 3. To date, now we have been led to consider that the one strong reality within the present’s world was that the floor was radioactive or poisonous, and nobody might survive on the market. If the poison from the Safeguard Process can impression whether or not it is protected to go exterior or not, does it imply it’s one thing from contained in the silos that kill folks once they depart for the floor? If that’s the case and it may be stopped, we’re in for an enormous reckoning in season 3 of this Stephen King-certified present.