[keypad beeping]
- [electronic tone] - [door unlocks]
You are about to be privy to something
that only a handful of people in our history have had access to.
[keypad beeping]
- [electronic tone] - [vault unlocks]
After you.
[vault door closes]
- [electronic tones] - [vault door clicks]
That should be enough.
- Where are you keeping the rest of it? - It's safe. Just be careful with it.
[Mark winces]
- [whistles] - Asshole.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
It's not much.
We're Mechanical.
We make a little go a long way, right?
This is gonna make a difference.
Tell 'em that's the last of it.
[Bernard] State your name and new position.
Lukas Kyle.
IT shadow.
[The Algorithm] Verified. Welcome, Lukas Kyle.
[Bernard] The living quarters are that way.
You will live here while you familiarize yourself
with the Legacy.
The food is all right. The bed is comfortable.
[citizens chattering]
[Teddy speaking indistinctly]
- [Martha] That's it. Careful. - [Teddy] All right. Bring it over.
- That's it. - [Martha] Easy.
All set?
[Martha grunts]
[Bernard] The lights in the sky are called--
[Lukas] Stars.
That's what Judge Meadows said.
[inhales sharply] A-All these relics,
where did they come from?
[inhales deeply] Technically, they're not relics.
They are the whole of human history, knowledge, art.
The books you see here are a fraction of the vault's library.
All of these,
and more than you can imagine,
are stored digitally on this.
When I was first handed that,
I searched for answers to the questions that we have all had.
And all I could find was that the Silo was built 352 years ago.
Beyond that, nothing about why it was built or why we are here.
Right now, the only thing that matters
is breaking Salvador Quinn's code.
The stars will have to wait.
So why would I want to decipher the code now?
It implies that there is a problem.
Potentially unsolvable, that you know nothing about.
[breathes shakily] And a problem like that,
especially one which Salvador Quinn went to such great lengths to conceal...
is potentially more dangerous than the rebellion.
Yes.
How-- How do I, um--
Ask it.
Ask it?
Lukas would like information on secret codes and ciphers.
- [tablet beeping] - Lucky you.
Several of those are actual books.
[The Algorithm] Mayor Holland,
there is a Delta event in the central shaft.
[citizens clamoring, screaming]
[citizen 1] Did you see this?
[citizen 2] Is this true?
What was it?
I don't know, but it smells like gunpowder.
[citizens murmuring]
[citizens clamoring]
- [citizen 3] Why is the power on in IT? - [citizen 4] Tell us the truth!
[citizen 5] Tell us the truth!
[Solo] You want my help?
Nope, I just want my fucking suit back.
[Juliette sighs]
[sighs]
The pump you need to restart is eight--
Yeah, it's eight levels underwater.
- Yeah. That-- That's, uh, eight-- - I know.
Okay. [sighs, inhales sharply]
Okay.
Look, if you had 300 feet of waterproof power line lying around
in the vault, that'd be great.
- Mmm. - Or h-how about this?
How about you figure out how to get me a waterproof cable,
300 feet of tubing and then something to push air down
so I don't drown.
And meanwhile you give me my suit and I can go back to my silo.
- No, you know that I can't let you-- - I'll come back.
I promise, when I've saved the people in my silo, I'll come back.
You've got time. They don't.
Come on.
You've got time.
Just-- Please, please. I promise.
Yeah, but what if your suit fails and you die out there?
- No, no. - What if you get there
and they don't let you in and you don't have enough air to get back?
- If they see me coming, they're gonna-- - Or what if--
No, what if they let you in and they kill you?
- They're not gonna kill me. No. - So they don't kill you,
and then you explain to them like, "Oh, it's dangerous outside,"
and not to make the same mistakes that we made here
and then they just let you go back outside.
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Juliette, I'm sorry. I really am, but--
No. We do this now.
[Juliette sighs]
I have the harmonium pedals still. Would that work?
I don't need your fucking harmonium. I need a power washer.
Okay?
What?
It's a pump, and if it can send water, it can send air.
Shit.
You want to tell us what the hell is going on?
We didn't have a choice, okay?
You didn't have a choice? Shooting something up the stairs?
We need to get people on our side. We can't win this fight alone.
You could've gotten someone killed.
It wasn't designed to hurt anyone. We just needed to send a message.
What was the message? "We're insane down here"?
No, an actual message.
I read it,
and the only thing people are gonna care about
is that those assholes from Greasetown turned the power off.
- And turned it back on. - That's like some asshole saying,
"Yeah, I hit you, but hey, look, I stopped." It's not how we make friends.
If either of you have a better idea, we'd love to hear it.
We are not your allies. We're the Sheriff's Department.
Then how about you do your job and find out who poisoned our food?
Or does that seem like you're being too helpful to us?
[door opens]
[door closes]
I understand you won't speak to my head of Security?
Look at me.
I'm ancient.
I don't have time for middlemen.
Fair enough.
[inhales deeply]
So, let's not waste any more of whatever time you have left.
What can you tell me about the gunpowder in Mechanical?
What happened to the people I came up top with?
Knox and Shirley.
Walk.
You put my mind at ease about those idiots
and I'll tell you exactly how much gunpowder
you have to worry about.
No.
[Sims] There you go.
- You all right, little man? - [Sims] He's fine.
Aren't you, big guy?
[Camille] You know, this wasn't like the big blackout a few weeks ago.
This was just a teeny, tiny glitch.
That's exactly what I told him.
[Camille] What's that you have there?
[Anthony] Daddy said in the before times, people held on to it
when things were scary.
That's right.
And what else?
It kept them safe.
Wow.
Sounds pretty special, huh?
You're not hungry?
It's okay.
[inhales sharply] Why don't you go to your room?
Dad'll save the rest of the batter for later, okay?
- You gave him a relic? - It calmed him down.
- So he's not okay? - Scared shitless.
Like the rest of the Silo.
People aren't just scared, Rob. They're impressed.
It was dramatic.
And now they're asking questions.
Where's Bernard?
IT. Why?
[Sims] Amundsen clearly isn't up to the job,
and Bernard needs to know we saved those raiders yesterday.
Without us-- Without you,
they could have taken the stairs to the top,
used that gunpowder on the door to the outside instead of on some stunt.
Bernard needs my help.
You went to his office yesterday to try to talk to him.
He knows that.
Has he reached out to you?
No.
What are you thinking?
I'm thinking they have a point.
Their message said look to IT.
The power everywhere else was out except for IT.
I was there. Bernard came running back in and then the lights in IT went out.
I think he turned them off because he was afraid people would see that they were on.
I know you're not defending the rebels right now.
No, of course not. But they've put the pressure on Bernard.
All the more reason for me to go talk to him.
If you go to him, you're doing him a kindness.
If you wait for him to come to you, you're doing business.
[Solo grunting]
[panting]
Got it waterproofed just like you asked.
So, um-- [stammers]
Okay, so after you plug the power cord into the pump,
you pull on the escape line and this little bell is gonna ring.
- [bell ringing] - Yeah.
It's gonna-- It's gonna t-- It's, um-- Tell me that it's okay to--
to plug into IT power, and then you turn on the pump.
Then I'm gonna-- I'm gonna... [stammers] ...attach the escape line to the winch,
and I'm gonna reel you in just like a fish.
But this is-- this is important, okay?
[sighs] I can't reel you in all at once. We gotta go slow.
The-- This thing called "the bends." Yeah.
After I read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, I went on this whole ocean kick.
And turns out, if you're deep underwater and you come up too fast,
all these bubbles start building up in your joints.
It can make you really sick. It can even kill you.
- What? - Yeah, that's why you gotta go slow.
Well, what if I don't come up slow?
Then you're dead.
- What? - Oh, but if you feel bad,
you could go back down under, but you gotta go at least 20 feet.
- And do what? - [stammers]
You would... [stammers] ...just hang out there
until you don't feel like you're dying anymore, I guess.
[chuckles]
- Yeah, sure. I'll do that. - [chuckles]
No, I'm not gonna do that. You do that.
- What? - This is your silo, so you save it.
But you're the engineer!
You seem to know exactly what needs to be done.
- No, but I can't. - Why?
Why can't you? Are you scared?
'Cause I'm scared. So why are you making me do it, huh?
[stammers] Look, because I'm the head of IT.
Silo 17 is my priority.
You're not head of IT! Stop!
- You're not even Solo! - I-- [breathing heavily]
[stammers]
Please. Please. Please, I'm the last one left.
I'm a failure. If I go in the water, I'll--
[stammers] I'll die. I'm a fuck up, you're not.
You-- C-Come on. Do it, please. Will you do it?
You can help-- help save the whole silo.
You can-- You can-- You can keep me from ruining everything.
Please. Please.
[breathes shakily]
Please.
[breathing deeply]
[Juliette breathing deeply]
[whispers] Fuck.
This morning, the rebels launched an assault on our Silo.
You all deserve to be commended for keeping the peace
and doing so without the assistance of radio communication.
I made the decision to shut down the radios
during a conversation with Sheriff Billings last night.
It is my belief that Paul Billings has been taken hostage
and is being forced to say the things he said.
[citizens murmuring]
[Bernard] No doubt, this will be cleared up when the rebellion is over
and Sheriff Billings returns to the Up Top, where he belongs.
Till then, all radio communication throughout the Silo remains disabled.
What does this mean?
"IT lies to us"?
I heard that power stayed on in IT
while the rest of the Silo was in the dark.
Mechanical controls where the power goes.
They left IT powered up for a few minutes to cast doubt on my department and on me.
Make no mistake, we are under attack.
Because of this, all things rebellion-related
will be handled by Judicial.
Your job, as always, is to keep the peace on your levels.
Judicial will take care of everything else.
That is all for now.
Thank you for your service.
[citizens murmuring]
I don't know why you guys brought me in here.
[Hank] Sure you do.
A little bite? Refresh your memory.
I had nothing to do with poisoning the food.
[Hank] There we go.
See, I told you that you knew.
Now, here's the thing, Martin.
If you didn't poison the food supply, who did?
I-- [chuckles]
I don't know who the other listeners are.
- I swear. I-- - He swears, Hank.
[Hank] Huh. Yeah, I believe him.
Do you?
Leaning towards yes.
But I also think Martin here may be able to tell us a little bit more.
And if he helps us, maybe we won't tell everyone he's been ratting them out
to Judicial this whole time.
- [Martin sighs] - [Hank] Hmm?
[Hank] What do you think about that, Martin?
[sighs] T-There's a place where someone leaves notes for us in the scavenge room.
One of the collection bins has a hollow handle,
and I don't know who leaves the notes either.
Are we getting to the helpful part soon or--
There was a note in there today.
An order.
What kind of order?
I think we need to consider what we'll do if we are in this alone.
We need a backup plan.
Are you gonna tell me why you kissed me?
I didn't kiss you. You kissed me.
And my point is, we need to be prepared. Something big--
Why are you looking at me like that?
[Hank] Sorry to interrupt.
[Shirley] What is it?
We need to take you and Knox into custody.
- Are we doing this again? - [Shirley sighs]
- I thought we-- - [Hank] We're not here to arrest you.
We just talked to a listener. There is a plot to--
[sighs]
Well, to kill you.
Make sure we don't have any problems with the deputies.
I will, sir.
Did you get anywhere with McLain?
Nowhere, but even if she did talk,
we wouldn't be able to rely on the information.
Where are we on the warrant to search Supply?
Do we need one? The Pact would say that this falls under emergency powers--
Of course I don't need one, but I want one
to maintain at least the appearance of order.
So, again, do you have the warrant?
Judge Sims has not signed off on it.
Why not?
He sent word. [sighs]
He wants to speak to you first in his chambers.
[Bernard breathes deeply]
[whirring, rattling]
[blows]
You finish the boots?
- Yep. - Okay.
I put weights in 'em just like you asked.
So that-- [sighs] You know, that should keep you on your feet.
Um, in the before times,
they used to do this thing called swimming,
where they would pull with their arms and kick with their legs
to move through the water just like a fish.
Except--
Except fish don't have arms or legs, but--
They also figured out a way of, um, seeing underwater.
They figured if they looked through glass that it wouldn't be blurry.
So...
I made you these.
S-Surprise.
I made 'em out of, uh, welders' goggles.
Great. Thanks.
Okay. Can you pull that through?
[metal creaking, squeaking]
How long are you gonna stay mad at me?
If the people in my silo die...
Just check the lines and make sure the power washer's running.
You don't understand how this works, do you?
[Sharon] I'm sorry. He just barged in. I couldn't make him stop.
[Sims] It's all right, Sharon. You can go.
[Bernard] I assigned you this position-- this promotion--
because I never wanted to see your face again.
There are no more conversations between us.
No discussions.
You sign what I tell you to sign.
You sit behind that desk, you pretend to have power,
and then you go home.
That's it. That's the rest of your life.
Now get out your rubber stamp and give me my fucking search warrant.
[Sims breathes deeply]
No.
No?
I gave you a decade of my life,
my loyalty, my faith.
The problems I've solved for you, you don't think I paid a price for that?
And why?
Because I trusted you.
I thought we had an understanding you'd make me your shadow.
I did want you to be my shadow, Robert.
And then I never really got around to it, did I?
Deep down, I must've had reservations.
And then, finally, I realized what it was.
You're very good at solving problems, but you lack curiosity.
And that's something the head of IT must have,
and therefore, something that his shadow must have.
It's something my old shadow had and something my new shadow has.
You made Lukas Kyle your shadow?
Glad you have such a strong team at your side.
Lukas Kyle, Amundsen, but the list ends there.
You lost the sheriff.
Every deputy on duty heard Billings undermine you.
How long till you lose the entire department and Judicial?
Graffiti on the stairs, in the Up Top no less,
and you didn't pay someone to paint it.
That's not part of the plan, is it, Bernie?
And we both know that Amundsen is useless.
You had no idea about the gunpowder, did you?
Because he doesn't know what to look for.
The only reason he was able to save those raiders yesterday
was because of me and Camille.
Now, you gotta be wondering, "What else am I missing?"
I'll tell you.
You're running out of allies, and you're running out of moves.
What are you missing, Rob?
After you put me in a position where I had no choice
but to take the life of a woman I had some affection for,
we both agreed that the two people coming to meet her from Mechanical
would be blamed for her death, and then they got away.
Now, your wife may have helped save those raiders yesterday,
but she's also the reason those fugitives made it safely back to the Down Deep.
But you knew that already, didn't you,
considering how close the two of you are?
[knocking]
[clicks tongue] What do you want?
We've got a rat problem down here, Frances,
and I was hoping you'd be able to help me a little bit more than Marty Glynn.
Oh, why's that?
Come on, Frances. We both know the kind of company you keep.
Somebody tried to poison the food supply,
it's only gonna get worse.
- This is serious. - Oh, it's serious?
You hear that?
He said it's serious.
Well, it sounds serious.
- Ow. - Sorry.
Seriously, Hank. If you think I know any rats,
- you can fuck off. - Come on--
No.
[Shirley] Told you Frances was a waste of time.
Yeah. Well, you were right. [sighs]
[Paul sighs, mutters]
[Hank] What are you looking for?
We know the listeners get notes in the scavenge room,
so we need a list of people who have access.
- Next drawer down. - [Paul] What did you file it under?
They're sending messages to have us killed.
Let's send a message back.
Like what? [sighs]
We already used gunpowder to shoot something up the shaft.
If we had enough of it, we could send you.
You ever think that maybe they want you dead
because you're such a pain in the ass?
You two look like you're having fun.
What can we do for you, Walk?
[Martha] You can tell me about Judicial seclusion.
- You worked there. - I worked in Judicial, yes.
Walk, come on, this isn't gonna help.
Can you please--
And?
Very few people in Judicial even know about it,
let alone have access to it.
I know people who went into seclusion usually didn't come out.
And I know that Shirley's right.
This line of questioning won't lead you anywhere good.
McLain is in a fortress.
There's no way.
[Martha stammers] Could I at least get a message to her?
They're not allowing porters anywhere near the barricades.
You could-- You could radio one of your friends.
Come on, you could call in a favor.
You heard anything on your radio today, Walk?
[stammers] No. Why?
The mayor shut it down because he didn't like
what the sheriff here was saying.
[Martha stammers] Send a computer message.
[Shirley] Shut that down too.
Twenty-five years ago, I didn't do enough. That's how I lost her in the first place.
[inhales sharply] I'll be damned if I don't do enough this time.
- [Hank] Walk. - [Martha] No.
Is there anyone on the other side of the barrier
that you can trust enough to get a note to?
About Judicial seclusion?
[scoffs] No.
[sighs]
Show me-- Show me atbash again.
- [tablet beeping] - Right. You just-- [groans]
No, it-it doesn't make any sense.
Go-- Go back to the original.
What if they aren't letters?
Show me everything about numeric ciphers.
[tablet beeping]
[clangs, creaks]
[grunts]
You recognize any of these names from your Judicial days?
Not yet.
[Shirley] I always thought Lorelei was a listener.
Lorelei's an asshole, not a listener.
We can't be guaranteed it's the only place where listeners get their orders.
Kat?
You've got a problem.
What?
After you left, Frances said she had to go somewhere.
I was pretty sure she was lying, so I followed her.
- [Hank] You followed her? - [Kathleen] To the cafeteria.
- Things are getting out of hand. - [Knox] Sheriff.
No offense to either one of you, but if it's already out of hand,
you're gonna need someone they might actually listen to.
[bell ringing]
[machinery whirring]
[citizens shouting, clamoring]
Get away from me!
Stick together!
Move! Hey! Calm down!
- Get back! - She tried to kill us.
She poisoned our food.
[Maeve] No, I didn't, I swear! Ask them!
I showed them the poisoned food. I didn't.
- You are a filthy liar! - [Maeve] I am not lying!
- Stay back! - [Knox] It's true. It's true.
Maeve told us the food was poisoned.
You see? You crazy bitch.
- [clamoring] - [Paul] Okay! All right! Stay back!
All right! All right! Back!
It was nice of you to make sure nobody got hurt.
[breathes shakily] What?
Hey.
How's your mom these days, Maeve?
The meds--
They were pretty scarce before, but since the blockade,
I can't imagine things have been easy.
[breathes shakily]
She's in Medical. [breathes shakily]
Above the blockade.
[cries]
I had to.
If I didn't do what they said--
You were afraid they'd do something to her.
I didn't have a choice.
But I made sure that nobody got hurt.
What about the kill order on Knox and Shirley?
[breathes shakily] They told me to plant that note.
They said that it would upset people.
Turn them against each other.
Well, I guess it worked.
Please.
[breathes shakily] Don't kill me.
[breathes shakily] I'm one of you.
That still means something.
[Maeve breathes shakily]
We're not gonna kill you.
We're not gonna send you to the mines like they do up top.
We're gonna give you some tough jobs, right here in your home.
We're gonna give you shit for a little while.
Remind you of who you are.
We're gonna make sure your mom is okay.
And you'll never turn your back on Mechanical again, will you?
[sighs] No, never.
[breathes shakily]
[door opens, closes]
It's a book cipher.
Okay, the letters weren't letters, they were numbers.
So, each one corresponds to the appearance of a word
on a specific page of a specific book.
And I think the page is number 77
because seven is the only number that Quinn used
in the portion of his message that wasn't in code and he used it twice.
[chuckles]
Did you test your theory against the books in the Legacy?
Yes, there weren't any matches in the Legacy.
- Then you're wrong. - I'm not wrong.
All it means is that Quinn didn't use a book from the Legacy to create his code,
which makes sense because he wanted his code to be solved.
Only two people have access to that vault, to those books.
So, he used a relic.
A book that is out in the Silo.
Exactly.
We need a book that's over 140 years old.
Maybe even something that belonged to Quinn himself.
Do you know anyone in the Silo that might have such a relic?
One person.
Knew.
[inhales sharply]
And I have the book that you can start with.
[Camille] You're gonna strain your eyes sitting in the dark like this.
You spoke to Bernard.
He told you about the two Mechanicals I helped get away.
You had just been sworn in as Judge.
You were still trying to win Bernard back over, which was smart.
But making friends?
That's smart too.
- So you went behind my back? - No. I-- I was trying to protect you.
I knew that Bernard would find out one way or another.
He needed to think I was taking matters into my own hands.
Bernard couldn't think you had anything to do with the two escaping,
and he still doesn't.
[Sims] You want to make friends with the rebels, Camille?
You know how dangerous they are?
[Camille] And Bernard isn't?
We don't know how this is going to end.
So until we do, we play both sides.
Yeah.
But we don't play each other.
What you tried to do at breakfast,
tried to keep me from talking to Bernard, from finding out--
[breathes deeply]
We make moves together or not at all.
No more secrets.
[machinery whirring]
[bell ringing]
[grunts]
[inhales deeply]
[grunts]
[groans]
[Martha] No way to get a message up top?
No way.
[sighs]
[grunts]
[pants]
[gasping]
[coughing]
[gasping]
[coughs]
[gasping]
[coughing]
[sighs]
[breathes deeply]
Sir, the camera in Martha Walker's workshop just went live for 30 seconds.
We're trying to get it back online.
How was it reactivated in the first place?
[Amundsen] We believe she turned it on.
Why would she do that?
[Amundsen] I used the cameras to track McLain the last few days,
to see if we could figure out how she moved the gunpowder.
No luck there, but then I saw this.
This is from when you had the Mechanical deputy take her
and McLain into custody while you gave your speech to the Silo.
I checked their records.
They divorced 25 years ago.
But they still mean something to each other.
Hmm.
This is very good work, Mr. Amundsen.
[Juliette] Solo?
[panting]