The next comprises heavy spoilers for season 2 of “Silo.”
“Silo” is without doubt one of the finest sci-fi exhibits 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 dwell in an underground silo a whole lot of ranges deep. The present offers with the straightforward thought of information and the way onerous it’s to kill human curiosity regardless of how a lot these on the prime use rules to maintain the inhabitants below management. On the finish of the primary season, former engineer now sheriff, Juliette Nichols (Rebecca Ferguson) left her silo (a loss of life sentence) and truly managed to outlive her stroll outdoors, finally discovering one other silo close by.
Season 2, which cemented “Silo” as top-of-the-line exhibits on AppleTV+, and cause sufficient to subscribe to that platform, considerations Juliette discovering that the brand new silo she encountered had been worn out when the folks revolted and tried to go away for the floor. Again dwelling, nevertheless, revolution is brewing and IT techniques 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 somewhat expansive job explaining what the Safeguard Process is, some folks have the inexplicable pastime of simply spoiling themselves on TV exhibits. Whether or not that is you, you have been watching the present along with your eyes closed, or went to the lavatory after they defined what this security protocol is, fret not. This is your useful 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 loss of life 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 can 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 individual within the silo by way of a pipe stuffed with poison that will get distributed via the vents. It is 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 would not matter how a lot the folks of the silo combat or how they attempt to liberate themselves or study the reality. They have been all the time, and can all the time be one button away from dying horrible deaths. The destiny of the folks of the silos has all the time 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 most effective a part of “Conflict 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 after they tried to revolt. It began when a person wrote “LIES” on the skin digital camera when he left the silo to scrub, which made everybody within the silo imagine 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 — figuring out that everybody on Silo 18 died after they acquire hoped that somebody might 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 riot 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 positive if the Safeguard Process may be stopped, but it surely looks as if 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 solution to cease it. In response to 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 outdoors and never die — at the very least not at first. No matter Solo’s mother and father did, it managed to make it protected to go outdoors. That opens up a complete can of worms that “Silo” must discover come season 3. To date, we have now been led to imagine that the one strong reality within the present’s world was that the floor was radioactive or poisonous, and nobody might 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 folks after 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.
