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Spoiler Alert: This list contains spoilers for Silo Season 3, Episode 2.Silo Season 3 is well underway with two of its 10 episodes having streamed for viewers. Already in these first two episodes, a lot has been revealed. We know that Jules (Rebecca Ferguson) is being given drugs that make her forget about her life before, and what happened in the airlock with Bernard (Tim Robbins). We also find out some details about the past with Daniel (Ashley Zukerman) and Helen (Jessica Henwick), with hints at how these two worlds connect.
As the story progresses, those who have read the Hugh Howey novels on which the show is based may have an idea of what’s to come. But the Apple TV sci-fi dystopian drama has taken creative liberties with the story in the past, which means you never know how closely this season will follow the second and third novels Shift and Dust. That said, book readers may have a leg up, but those watching without any prior knowledge of the plot are itching for answers to some big questions.
What Happens Once Jules Gets Her Memory Back?
It’s an inevitability that Jules will eventually get her memory back in this perfect hard sci-fi Apple TV show. We know she’s spitting out the pills to avoid the effects of the drugs, which means they may wear off eventually. The question is how she will remember, when, and what will happen once she does.
The main detail Jules can’t remember is the information about the Safeguard procedure. It dictates that at any given moment, those in charge of another silo can pump poison into any of the silos through pipes in hidden tunnels, killing everyone instantly. That’s a massive piece of information to remember and will surely drive Jules to do something once she does. What happens, however, is the biggest question of the season.
How Does Victor Play Into the Plot?
In Episode 2, we meet Victor (Matt Craven), a doctor treating Charlotte (Jessica Brown Findlay) after her plane crash and traumatic brain injury. He has a very interesting conversation with Daniel about his sister, informing the politician that he is the reason she can’t remember anything. Victor discusses a medication he created that can wipe someone’s memories.
The big clue, however, is that he says by lowering the meds, it becomes easier for memories to come back. While you can implant lies when the person is taking them, which appears to be what happened to Jules, who only knows the narrative that was told to her, you can also bring back old ones. One thing that helps is artifacts, a hint that relics in the silo might help Jules remember. It’s clear Victor’s drug is the very same one being used in the silo. But whether his innovation is just used, or he has more to do with the creation remains to be seen.
What Happened to Orla Kent?
Orla Kent (Quelin Sepulveda) is a new character in Silo Season 3, a newly appointed shadow to the head of supply, Carla (Clare Perkins). We see her interacting with others, and it’s clear she knows what she’s doing and is up for the job. So much so, in fact, that she has noticed that supplies are going missing. She is last seen with Mike (Chris Fulton) down in supply, who appears to be her love interest.
But in Episode 2, it’s revealed that Orla is missing. Camille (Alexandria Riley) reveals at the end of the episode that she plans to put the vitamin compound, the “forgetting drugs,” into the water supply. When Orla was last seen, she asked Mike to take two barrels of D+ to water filtration because it was requested by IT. Whether or not these two things are related, it’s clear Orla’s disappearance will play a role this season, and we need to know what happened to her.
Where Are the Missing Supplies Going?
When Orla is seen talking with leadership, she reveals that she noticed supplies were disappearing from the critical supply area. Having grown up in those bays, she knows the procedures in and out, and it’s clear something isn’t right. She suspects someone is stealing them through the construction department. So, she wants to open an investigation into this, convinced that her predecessor might be involved in what’s going on.
Naturally, finding out who is taking the supplies, where they are going in the silo that no one has found them, and why they’re doing it, is an important question we need answered in this season of the underrated Apple TV show.
Where Is Lukas Kyle?
The last we saw Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash), he was given information that shook him to his core, likely about the safeguard procedure. When he revealed what he learned to Bernard, it caused the head of IT to become completely entranced, like he was a walking zombie. He immediately quit, told Robert Sims (Common) he could take the job, put on a suit, and tried to go outside. Lukas, meanwhile, visited his mother to say goodbye and took off somewhere.
Lukas is referenced in Episode 1 as being a fugitive along with Patrick Kennedy (Rick Gomez), both of whom were presumed dead. But since Patrick is revealed to be alive and with the team of people who warned Jules not to eat the soup, it’s likely that Lukas is, too. When Knox (Shane McRae) tells Jules about Lukas and that he might know something to help jog Jules’ memory, it seems as though things are being set up for just this to happen. But we’ll have to wait and see where Lukas is and what he has been up to since getting information that completely turned his life, and everything he knows, upside down.
How Else Have They Been Using the Drugs?
Knowing more about the memory-suppressing drugs and how they are administered, I can’t help but wonder how else leadership has been using them. Sims once offered them to Patrick to help him forget his deceased wife. Patrick recalls this, realizing that while he didn’t take Sims seriously at the time, he now realizes that he might have been telling him about something that really does exist.
The drugs in this masterpiece show, based on a book, have been used to pacify people like criminals and presumably to keep people docile and compliant when necessary. But have they been implemented more than we know, and if so, how and on whom?
Did Camille Successfully Add the Vitamin Compound to the Water Supply?
Camille reveals at the end of Episode 2 that the plan is to add the vitamin compound to the water supply, which would slowly cause all residents of the silo to forget things. They would basically all become like Jules. It would be like a silo filled with people who have amnesia, not knowing who they are, how they got there, and unable to recognize their own family.
The intent would be to subdue people, perhaps feed them false narratives to reset sentiment and prevent any future rebellions. But unless Camille, Sims, and their son have access to a unique water supply, wouldn’t this put them in the same position? The ultimate goal with this process, beyond preventing the safeguard procedure and whether Camille is successful, is a huge question for this season.
What Are Charlotte, Daniel, and Helen’s Roles in the Creation of the Silos?
The episodes in the Apple TV show I knew would be a masterpiece after the first 10 minutes keep flipping back to the past, hundreds of years ago with Daniel, Helen, and Charlotte. It’s clear they have something to do with the creation of the silos, but whether they were willing parties in its creation, kidnapped and forced to participate, maybe even the ones who orchestrated it, remains to be seen.
While we don’t yet know how the events are shaping up to lead to present day, the puzzle pieces are slowly coming together. Charlotte was being given the amnesia drugs by Victor, the man who created them. Daniel is trying to find out what happened on her mission to Iran, and Helen is furiously trying to uncover a big political news story about a possible terrorist threat. How the pieces all fit is at the crux of the plot.
What Happened to Gloria Hildebrandt?
With this season focusing so much on the drugs, I can’t help but think back to Gloria Hildebrandt (Sophie Thompson). She’s the woman who told Jules about the Flamekeepers, a group of people determined to keep relics from the before times alive, passing them down from generation to generation. While no one in hundreds of years actually lived in that time, they know through stories passed down what it was like. Pictures in books corroborate those stories, as do other items that are secretly in their possession, almost painting pictures of a world they feel like they knew even though they’ve never actually experienced it.
Most interestingly, Gloria caused a ruckus when she discovered that leadership was lying to people, preventing them from being able to conceive. Decades later, she started to provide fertility services to women, even helping Sims and Camille conceive. It was this move that spared Gloria after helping Jules. Sims left her to live out her remaining days in a fantasy state, sedated by drugs required for supposed dementia and hallucinations. Was Gloria ever really sick or were they simply keeping her compliant? As one of the last remaining connections to the Flamekeepers, we need to know what happened to her and if she’s still alive.
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