Episode 8 of Silo season 2 almost felt like the lights went off during the series, on top of the Silo itself been all dim out, green and dark orange we got this very very dark scenes on Silo 17 that to be honest most TVs going to have a hard time pulling that kind of darkness on a scene. The story does continue with interesting revelations although some of them I kinda predicted or expected, nothing that truly amaze me, tension did rise on both Silo 17 and Silo 18, on top of betrayal in the mix from someone very unexpected, over all the episode felt a bit boring to be honest, reason why I only gave it a 7/10 but still knowing this series its just down shifting before going full throttle again on the final episodes to keep things interesting for next season.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28100087/
- Platform: AppleTV+
Juliette finds herself dealing with a serious medical condition called "the bends" after she wend up too fast to the surface as expected her body couldn't adapt fast enough to the pressure and she went deep to turn on the pump so rising fast gave her this cramps and from what I saw probably her leg went numb and wasn't responding, when she got out discovers Solo is missing and there is blood on the ground, immediately making things tense she start looking for him with no luck, while fighting through severe joint pain that forces her to return to the water to stabilize her condition by staying under water for some time so her body could adapt but I'm not so sure that is the way it works or was it just a wild best guess from her, and now she's paying the price with a potentially fatal case of decompression sickness.
The story about Salvador Quinn's true role in the Silo 18 starts to unfold as Bernard tells Lukas that Quinn was actually a hero, he destroyed historical records and introduced memory suppressing drugs into the water supply to stop future rebellions, every 20 years or so there would be uprisings that threatened to breach the airlock and kill everyone, so Quinn took drastic measures to ensure peace, even to the point of taking the blame for the destruction he caused to protect the greater good, this is the only part of the episode that really got me thinking because at first I thought he was part of the rebellion that only cause a ton of trouble, my next question would be who else knew about his plan? its been too many years and his descendants are actually ashamed of what Quinn did, all this makes things more complex to what I thought I knew about the Silo's past and makes me question everything that went down during that rebellion, was Salvador Quinn was a spy within the rebellion?
Lukas is now looking for a book, he doesn't know exactly what book but first visits Meadows ex apartment flashing his new Blue Batch as he is now officially Bernard shadow, Bernard had too so he could give Lukas all the access he needed to decode Quinn letter but I'm still curious why? my only guess is that they don't have the serum to make people forget anymore, they did mention it on an episode but I haven't seen them using it and by now they probably use it to start to calm down everyone. Lukas eventually after questioning Quinn's descendants, finds out Meadows had a copy of The Pact that was Quinn's personal copy and its here when he decode part of message “If you’ve gotten this far you already know the game is rigged.”
Juliette's search for Solo takes her into a confrontation with more survivors from Silo 17, well I think they are from Silo 17, who knows if they are actually from other Silo who got there just like Juliette?. At first she confront someone who look like had an armor, she flash light Juliette and shoot her an arrow that hurt Juliette badly. This is one of those scenes where the lighting was really problematic, making it hard to enjoy and see whats going on, Juliette manage to get to a meds kid and try to stop the bleeding, seem it was only superficial and nothing critical as she goes out again because its do or die for her, eventually finds out its just kids who attack her, they are survivors.
As always this is a survivors game, we got Walker betraying her friends to protect Carla, Lukas discovering dangerous truths while trying to remain in Bernard's good graces, and Juliette fighting through injury and illness to get back to Silo 18 and find Solo, and of course, the million dollar question, was it justified for Quinn to erase history and drug the water supply? Did it save everyone, or did it just create a different prison?
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