Editor’s notice: The under recap accommodates spoilers for Silo Season 2 Episode 9.
Silo Season 2 hasn’t completed its run but, however Episode 9 all however ensures this present has defeated the “sophomore stoop” — that dreaded impact when the follow-up to a stellar debut season ranges from disappointing to an all-out fumble. Since that is Season 2’s penultimate episode, I may very well be placing the cart earlier than the horse right here. However having religion in an Apple TV+ sci-fi series is a reasonably protected wager, and this week’s installment raises the bar even the place the consistently superb Silo is anxious. “The Safeguard,” written by Jessica Blaire and directed by Amber Templemore, supplies solutions to sufficient key questions to satiate our theorizing minds whereas nonetheless holding again sufficient for next week’s finale.
‘Silo’ Season 2 Episode 9 Kicks Off With a Severe Twist
Episode 9 opens with a flashback recontextualizing Juliette’s half of the season. First, we see two of the three characters who attacked Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) final week, in addition to a child and an older boy (Reggie Absolom), having fun with some routine domesticity. A warning sign sends the adults hurrying to rendezvous with their third compatriot, who’s noticed an intruder getting into the Silo. From a number of ranges above, the trio — whose names are Audrey (Georgina Sadler), Rick (Orlando Norman), and Eater (Sara Hazemi) — watch a newly entered and quickly asphyxiating Juliette tear off her helmet in Episode 1. As the next scenes progress, we study they have been retaining tabs on Juliette this whole time, with Audrey, the “kill first, ask questions by no means” archer, instantly attempting to land a stealth kill by slicing Juliette’s rope whereas the older lady is dangling a whole bunch of toes above deep water. Sure, this second was sabotage, not Juliette’s pure unhealthy luck. Rick demonstrates extra empathetic leanings by sneaking all the way down to the flooded ranges and tossing Juliette a makeshift flotation system.
After they spot Solo (Steve Zahn) rising from the Vault and begging Juliette to remain, Audrey wonders if he is “the Killer” and asserts they have to pay him the identical courtesy. A quick struggle between Rick and Solo throughout Juliette’s Episode 8 dive ends with Solo alive however unconscious; Rick argues that they hold Solo alive lengthy sufficient for him to get them contained in the Vault. Audrey relents considerably on that rating, however has little interest in retaining Juliette alive and treats Eater with disdain, the latter prompting Eater to go rogue and assault Juliette throughout final week’s last moments. Caught as much as the current, Juliette assures her armed foes that she plans to depart as quickly as she retrieves one thing she wants from Solo. Rick pivots the state of affairs to their mutual benefit, agreeing that Juliette can see Solo, however provided that she breaks into the Vault. Audrey stamps an addendum onto that ultimatum — Juliette solely has up till the subsequent time Audrey’s child cries out for a feeding. If she hasn’t succeeded by then, Solo dies.
Juliette Discovers the Fact About Solo in ‘Silo’ Season 2 Episode 9
After this alternate, Eater semi-latches onto Juliette, asking if she will go exterior along with her and providing to assist Juliette crack the Vault code. Their dynamic echoes the one Juliette and Solo initially shared, with the curious, lonely Eater asking the older lady questions in addition to sharing some essential backstory. These corpses mendacity exterior the Vault entrance belong to Chase, Audrey’s father, and Tess, Rick’s mom. Eater’s mother has been deceased even longer, having requested Chase and Tess to take care of her daughter earlier than passing. Despite the fact that the group would have ultimately run out of meals a method or one other, the opposite kids blame Eater for Chase and Tess’ choice to attempt breaking into the Vault and their subsequent deaths at Solo’s fingers — therefore her derogatory “title,” Eater, the equal of simply one other mouth to feed.
Juliette, whereas not unsympathetic, quizzes Eater for any data she might need that can assist them open the Vault. After listening to that Chase and Tess had written down all of the failed keypad mixtures they tried, Juliette realizes the place: the schoolroom chalkboard from Episode 3. Extrapolating off these information, Juliette calculates different choices and enters in her personal two failed tries. With only one attempt left earlier than she’s locked out for twenty-four hours, Juliette begins piecing collectively Solo’s inconsistent statements. Asking Eater how way back the insurrection occurred and studying that Eater’s mother was a child again then, Juliette deduces that Solo was much more vital than IT head Russell Conroy’s (Nick Haverson) official shadow — Solo was Russell’s son.
Juliette and Eater’s joint efforts persuade Rick to let Juliette go to Solo. Audrey arrives, bow and arrow in hand, however Rick holds her off, wanting to listen to Solo’s rationalization about why he killed their mother and father. Gently, Juliette confronts Solo together with his actual title — Jimmy — and helps the person unpack his trauma. A 12-year-old boy (Cameron Bell) when the insurrection broke out, Jimmy obeyed his father and stayed contained in the Vault, refusing to let anybody inside, even when the Silo’s sheriff (Ross McCall) fatally shot Russell proper exterior the Vault entrance. Russell was only a father defending his little one, not a holier-than-thou Silo servant defending historical secrets and techniques. That revelation softens Audrey; vice versa, listening to {that a} child and its mother and father want meals breaks by the agonized haze of Jimmy’s PTSD. He opens the Vault, the format of which just about identically matches the Legacy from Episode 7. Jimmy returns Juliette’s swimsuit to her and, when prompted by Juliette, acknowledges that he put her by hell making a swimsuit from scratch when there was an outdated, unused one stuffed inside a locker your entire time. As soon as Jimmy realizes Juliette stayed to save his life, each of them barely keep away from crying.
The Billings and Sims Households Choose a Aspect in ‘Silo’ Season 2 Episode 9
Again within the outdated Silo, Paul (Chinaza Uche) and Kathleen Billings (Caitlin Zoz) focus on the ramifications of that unlawful vacationer advert for the Blue Ridge Mountains. Each agree they should know what occurred to their planet, Pact guidelines or no Pact guidelines. Paul, refusing to fall consistent with what the Up Prime expects from him, affords his unconditional assist to Knox (Shane McRae) and Shirley (Remmie Milner). Sadly, the latter properly factors out {that a} sheriff who publicly made Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) his enemy cannot present a lot actual assist. Camille Sims (Alexandria Riley), nonetheless, is likely to be a invaluable ally; so long as they provide her one thing tempting sufficient to danger her sticking her neck out once more, like she did when she helped Knox and Shirley escape, she may very well be an ally value cautiously pursuing.
Realizing that tempting Robert Sims (Common) with the promise of a relic could be simpler than getting Camille to satisfy at the barricade for a face-to-face assembly, Paul slips Robert the image of the mountains. Of their quarters, the Sims determine if there’s any likelihood a wholesome world exists exterior the Silo, then they owe it to their son to throw of their lot with the rebels. Plus, Mechanical stands likelihood of overthrowing Holland if the Sims maintain up their finish of the discount, and if Bernard’s out of the image, then management has an influence vacuum prepared for the Sims to step into.
An unlucky aspect impact of Mechanical gaining Paul’s assist, nonetheless, is the way it prompts Knox to drop by Martha’s (Harriet Walter) workshop. He shares Billings’ change of coronary heart with Martha and guarantees that, with the sheriff’s assist, they plan to rescue Carla (Clare Perkins) as quickly as they’ve gained a bonus over Holland. Courtesy of Martha’s re-activated room digicam, a smirking Holland hears the whole lot. Throughout a later scene, Billings’ skill to sneak a notice previous the barricade prompts Knox to appreciate the identification of Mechanical’s mole — or so he claims. Cue him paying Martha one other go to and crediting Teddy’s (Olatunji Ayofe) mom because the traitor, however they cannot blame her when she’s simply attempting to guard her beloved one, proper? Oh, and since Shirley’s too busy to brainstorm proper then, here is how the insurrection plans to make use of the remainder of the gunpowder they took from Provide. Place our bets now whether or not that is earnest innocence or Knox laying a entice for Bernard.
Lukas Makes a Jaw-Dropping Discovery in ‘Silo’ Season 2 Episode 9
Talking of the IT division — Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) nonetheless hasn’t solved Salvador Quinn’s code. After additional digging appears to provide a constructive end result, Kyle hides Quinn’s copy of the Pact together with his mom earlier than speaking his approach by the barricade. He earns Shirley’s consideration by dropping Juliette’s title and her relationship with George Wilkins (Ferdinand Kingsley), and he’ll clarify the why and the place of Juliette’s potential survival in alternate for Shirley escorting him all the way down to the Silo’s lowest protected degree. Uncertain about his sincerity, Shirley however agrees. After Kyle shares the data he is just lately gleaned from Holland in regards to the digicam inside Juliette’s helmet (however failing to say she arrived at one other Silo earlier than they misplaced the digicam’s sign), Shirley and Kyle briefly memory about Juliette. Then, Kyle shares his suspicion that the water ranges on the Silo’s very backside aren’t excessive sufficient to drown in; that is a lie supposed to discourage curious individuals from poking round and discovering a top-secret tunnel.
Shirley leaves Kyle to his spelunking, and his hunch proves appropriate. When he is a number of toes down the tunnel and inches away from a large door, a disembodied, digital voice calls for to know why he is snooping round. Kyle replies he is following directions from Salvador Quinn. After a pause, the voice states, “Earlier than you, solely three individuals have reached this door: Salvador Quinn, Mary Meadows, and George Wilkins. I didn’t communicate with Wilkins. Quinn and Meadows have been each given the identical directive you’ll now obtain. In case you communicate to anybody about this dialog or what you’ve seen down right here, we can have no alternative however to provoke the Safeguard.” Prompted to reply whether or not he is aware of what the Safeguard is, Kyle solutions within the affirmative.
New episodes of Silo Season 2 premiere weekly on Fridays and can be found to stream on Apple TV+.
This week’s episode raises the bar even the place the constantly very good Silo is anxious.
- This week’s revelations about season-long mysteries are riveting to look at unfold whether or not viewers picked up on the foreshadowing or not, elevating Season 2’s constant, cohesive writing to a different degree.
- Steve Zahn’s delicate efficiency makes Solo/Jimmy’s scenes this week extremely shifting, particularly since Solo’s nuances might simply be overplayed.
- Audrey, Rick, and Eater are welcome additions to the solid who make a fancy impression with minimal shared screentime.
