The next comprises heavy spoilers for season 2 of “Silo.”
“Silo” is without doubt one of the greatest sci-fi reveals 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 reside in an underground silo tons of of ranges deep. The present offers with the easy concept of data and the way onerous it’s to kill human curiosity regardless 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 dying sentence) and really managed to outlive her stroll outdoors, finally discovering one other silo close by.
Season 2, which cemented “Silo” as the most effective reveals 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 individuals revolted and tried to go away for the floor. Again house, nonetheless, revolution is brewing and IT methods analyst Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) begins discovering the key previous of their very own silo, till he learns in regards to the horrific security protocol referred to as the Safeguard Process.
Although the season 2 finale of “Silo” already did a moderately expansive job explaining what the Safeguard Process is, some individuals have the inexplicable pastime of simply spoiling themselves on TV reveals. Whether or not that is you, you had 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 trying into earlier than his dying within the first season. The tunnel results in a door that’s guarded by some AI-sounding voice that talks in regards to the Safeguard Process that may kick into place if anybody dares cross that door or speak to anybody about what they discovered down there.
The Safeguard Process is actually a contingency plan in case the silo revolts, and it permits some unseen entity to kill each single particular person within the silo by way of a pipe filled with poison that will get distributed via the vents. This can be a last-ditch effort to stop 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 individuals of the silo combat or how they attempt to liberate themselves or study the reality. They had been at all times, and can at all times be one button away from dying horrible deaths. The destiny of the individuals of the silos has at all times been out of their fingers.
When was the Safeguard Process final used?
Similtaneously Lukas learns in regards to the Safeguard Process in Silo 18, Juliete over in Silo 17 hears from Solo (performed by Steve Zahn, the perfect a part of “Battle For the Planet of the Apes”) that his mother and father did know in regards to 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 surface digicam when he left the silo to scrub, which made everybody within the silo consider that it was protected to go outdoors. This prompted a revolution that led to everybody deciding to go away their silo — and die attempting.
That is the crux of the season, as Juliette — understanding that everybody on Silo 18 died once they acquire hoped that somebody may survive outdoors like she has — realizes that Silo 17 is about to endure the identical destiny as Silo 18. Certainly, a giant a part of the season’s story is the aftermath of Juliette’s miraculous stroll outdoors, which sparks a insurrection 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 like it could 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 approach 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 individuals from Silo 17 managed to go outdoors and never die — a minimum of not at first. No matter Solo’s mother and father did, it managed to make it protected to go outdoors. That opens up an entire can of worms that “Silo” must discover come season 3. To date, we’ve been led to consider that the one stable reality within the present’s world was that the floor was radioactive or poisonous, and nobody may survive on the market. If the poison from the Safeguard Process can impression whether or not it is protected to go outdoors or not, does it imply it’s one thing from contained in the silos that kill individuals once they depart for the floor? If that’s the case and it may be stopped, we’re in for a giant reckoning in season 3 of this Stephen King-certified present.
