The next incorporates heavy spoilers for season 2 of “Silo.”
“Silo” is likely one of the finest 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 straightforward concept of information and the way onerous it’s to kill human curiosity regardless of how a lot these on the high use laws to maintain the inhabitants underneath management. On the finish of the primary season, former engineer now sheriff, Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) left her silo (a demise sentence) and truly managed to outlive her stroll exterior, ultimately discovering one other silo close by.
Season 2, which cemented “Silo” as among the finest reveals on AppleTV+, and purpose 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 depart for the floor. Again residence, nonetheless, revolution is brewing and IT techniques analyst Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) begins discovering the key previous of their very own silo, till he learns concerning 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 folks have the inexplicable pastime of simply spoiling themselves on TV reveals. Whether or not that is you, you had been watching the present together with your eyes closed, or went to the lavatory once they defined what this security protocol is, fret not. This 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 right 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 demise 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 actually 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. This can be 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 struggle 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 folks of the silos has at all times been out of their fingers.
When was the Safeguard Process final used?
Similtaneously Lukas learns concerning 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 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 imagine that it was secure to go exterior. This prompted a revolution that led to everybody deciding to depart their silo — and die attempting.
That is the crux of the season, as Juliette — figuring out that everybody on Silo 18 died once they achieve hoped that somebody may survive exterior like she has — realizes that Silo 17 is about to undergo the identical destiny as Silo 18. Certainly, a giant a part of the season’s story is the aftermath of Juliette’s miraculous stroll exterior, which sparks a revolt that just about tears the silo aside till Juliette comes again within the season finale.
Can the Safeguard Process be stopped?
We do not know for certain if the Safeguard Process could 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. Based on 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 — at the very least not at first. No matter Solo’s mother and father did, it managed to make it secure to go exterior. That opens up a complete can of worms that “Silo” must discover come season 3. Up to now, now we have been led to imagine that the one strong 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 secure to go exterior or not, does it imply it’s one thing from contained in the silos that kill folks once they go away 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.
