01x08 - The Beginning

[bunniefuu]

[staticky ringing builds]

You are my world.

- [w*apon fires]
- [Lucy] Where are you taking him?

To the real world.
You should see it sometime.

You can change the future
if you can bring me to Moldaver.

- Just my head.
- Ow.

[Wilzig] This is the only way
to get your dad back.

- [screams]
- [Quintus] Aspirant Dane?

You're aware of their injury?

[Titus] sh**t it!

You stupid m*therf*cker,
you know this is all your fault.

They'll k*ll you for this.

[Maximus] They don't have to find out.

It's the Brotherhood.

- They'll find out.
- [distant whirring]

They want a head, we give them a head.

You're supposed to come with me.

They're never gonna stop looking.
Trust me.

[Miss Williams] America has been locked
in a resource w*r.

Vault-Tec bought the means
to end that w*r.

Cold fusion. Infinite energy.

- [Snake Oil Salesman] Is-is that a...
- [Thaddeus] Fusion core?

You don't see those around much
anymore, do you?

What is the ultimate w*apon
to destroy your competition?

It's time.

[Cooper] You ever think
about working somewhere else?

Vault-Tec exists with or without me.

It doesn't do anyone any good to complain
from the sidelines.

- It's a listening device.
- You want me to spy on my wife?

[Norm] When my mother d*ed,
what happened to her Pip-Boy?

It was buried with her.

I buried her myself.

Me... and your father.

[dramatic music playing]

[clanking and hissing]

[Norm] Hello?

[static crackling]

[Vertibird approaching]

[dramatic music playing]

Find me.

I will.

[indistinct radio chatter]

[officer over radio] Filly clear
for landing.

The locals put up a fight, but so did we.
[laughs]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

You're wearing the Knight's red.

Where's your Knight?

He's dead.

This is not the first time
a Brother in your company

has fallen into misfortune...

...is it?

- [device whirring]
- I fear you lied then.

[cleric] No artifact, m'lord.

Just as you lie now.

Wait, wait, wait!

- [groans] Wait, wait, wait.
- [chanting last rites]

[Maximus] Please, listen to me!

I can get you the real head.

[Quintus] Confess.

[Maximus] Don't k*ll me
and I can lead you to it!

[panting]

[Maximus groaning]

[groans] I can help you!

Please, m'lord.

My injury was my own doing. Not his.

Please...
Please, I know where the head is!

For the sake of the Brotherhood,
please listen to him!

[Maximus panting]

Such a display of loyalty.

Don't see that much anymore.

[somber music playing]

[Quintus] You think you're the first
squire who coveted his Knight's armor?

How did Titus die?

He d*ed running.

[sighs softly]

The Brotherhood has lost its way.

We once ruled the Wasteland...

And yet power is taken, not given.

A lesson you seem to have learned.

So, if what you say is true,

and you can lead us to the relic,

then together, you and I,

we will take power.

And with it...

we will start a new Brotherhood.

With me as its head,
and the likes of you as its sword.

Your entire life,
you've been looking for a home.

[dramatic music playing]

♪ ♪

Build one with me.

♪ ♪

[w*apon cocks]

[suspenseful music playing]

[giggling]

It's her.

♪ ♪

[barking]

[intriguing music playing]

[wind gusting]

[gentle music playing]

[Barb] Well, thank you for the ride.

[Cooper] Well, it's the least I could do
after I bungled your oil change.

[chuckles] Well, I appreciate you trying.

You know, most guys with a ride this nice,

they wouldn't be willing
to get their hands dirty.

Okay.

- I love you.
- Love you, too.

- Have a great day.
- Thank you, Coop.

Okay.

[grunts softly]

[festive music playing over radio]

Coop!

- [chuckling]
- Ah.

- Good to see you, buddy.
- Yeah.

- What's wrong?
- Uh, my Pip-Boy.

It's been acting strange.
The transmitter is always activated...

[Bud] Well, maybe take it over to the boys
in IT, have them take a look...

[Barb] No, no, I can fix it myself.

I just need to figure out where
the Pip-Boy is trying to transmit to...

I-I'm heading out. I promised Janey
that I would teach her some roping.

Oh, yeah? I don't have kids myself.

But I do have a training program
for up-and-coming executives,

and that's basically
the same thing. [laughs]

I imagine Barb told you about it?

- Uh... no. No.
- Oh.

Well, I call it Bud's Buds.

The basic idea is
that the biggest obstacle to achievement

has been the brevity
of the human lifespan.

It's prevented us from working
on projects that require centuries,

maybe even millennia, to see through.

So ideally, Bud's Buds will keep
my project on track

- centuries into the future. Nifty, huh?
- Bud.

- We're getting late.
- Oh, yes.

- Let's go.
- Big day today.

- [taps on car]
- Yeah.

Good luck.

[sighs]

[Bud] Hey, maybe, uh, maybe we could
all go to Café Cabana sometime?

You, me and Coop?

Oh! Sorry.

[Barb] Has your Pip-Boy
been acting strangely?

[Bud] No. Why?
What's wrong with yours?

[Barb] I'm not sure yet.

- [loud static]
- [clicks tongue]

f*ck.

[sighs]

[tense music playing]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[wind blowing]

Lucy.

Dad.

[sighs]

[ghoul snarling softly]

[breathing heavily]

[Moldaver] Welcome.

[ghoul snarling]

[growling]

[Moldaver] Join us.

It's my turn to host, isn't it?

[snarling]

I've had a lot of time
to think about this moment.

You wouldn't believe the things
that went through my head.

[ghoul snarling]

One night, I...

actually tried to stuff an old grenade
into the neck hole.

Guess I... [inhales deeply]

was gonna walk in here and...

blow everybody up.

But it's...

not really how I was raised.

So...

if you don't mind,

I'm gonna keep things civil.

[ghoul snarling]

Brought you your friend.

Just like he asked.

[snarls]

[tool whirring]

Now, please...

...give me my dad back.

[ghoul snarls]

Very well.

[dramatic music playing]

♪ ♪

But, first...

...what if I tell you
how I know your father?

Who he really is?

[Hank] No. Lucy,

- don't listen to her.
- You think your father

was born in a vault.

Like you.

Like your brother.

- [male voice] The key to the future of...
- [clanking and whirring]

- No, no, I'll get it this time.
- Hello?

The key to the future of humanity...

- [clanking]
- Oh!

The-the-the key to the future of human...

- [clanking]
- [laughing] Oh, no.

This is ridiculous.

The key to the future of humanity...

- [clanking]
- Nope. Try.

- [Norm] Hello?
- Nope.

The key to the future of humanity...

- [clanking]
- Ugh, I'm gonna get it.

[chuckles] I'll get it. Don't you worry.

[chuckles] The key to...
the key to the future of humanity...

- [clanking]
- Oh! [chuckles]

Now this is just ridiculous.

A great game of the...

[mutters] Oh.

[laughs] All right, all right,
this one's it. I'll get it this time.

The key to the future of humanity is a...

Uh, nope. Just maybe I have to...

Oh. Ah.

Thank you, Betty.

Wait, you're not Betty.

Or Hank.

You share only 50% of Hank MacLean's DNA.

I'm...

- his son.
- No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

What are you?

Initiate Protocol 53.

[dramatic music playing]

[sighs] Now, sorry, just hold still.

- Who are you?
- Wait.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
I won't answer your questions

unless you let me inject you with this.

All right, don't move.
The secret must be guarded.

Don't-don't go in there.

Don't you go in there!

Don't read anything in there!
Or turn on the lights.

Don't you access the info tree
or look at the terminal.

Wait! Just...

stay right there. Stop.

I'm coming!

What is this place?

[Cooper] Any idea when Barb will be back?

I'm sorry. She's in a meeting.

Something about vertical integration or...

Above my pay grade.

- Mine, too. [chuckles]
- Ha.

By the way, Mr. Howard,

there's a new guy who works with Barb.

Henry.

He's a really big fan of yours.

Yes. Henry.

He has called the house a few times.

Do you mind if I bring him by?

Just to meet you for a moment?

Of course.

Yeah. Always happy to meet a fan.

[sighs]

[door opens]

- [door closes]
- [exhales]

- [exhales sharply]
- [beeps]

[Bud] All of our work,
everything that we've accomplished

is the result
of this fruit-bearing collaboration

between like-minded corporations
that make America great.

On behalf of everyone here at Vault-Tec...

...welcome.

Let's call this what it is, Bud.

Your sales aren't up to snuff,

and you need money.

You're one to talk, Freddy boy.
You could lose money running a casino.

[laughing]

[Bud] Our sales are fine.

Sure, rumors of the peace
negotiations have set us back a bit,

but we're here
to offer you an opportunity.

We'd like to collaborate
on some of our vaults.

[Leon] I-I don't get the vaults.

When it's time to come out,

what if people are still alive
on the surface?

They'll be Stone Age creatures.

Probably eat whoever
steps out of your vaults.

That isn't an issue.

Our vaults have the resources
to survive for centuries.

Meanwhile, our competitors... you know,

every other human who isn't us...
will be dead on the surface.

Because after all,

what is the ultimate w*apon
of mass destruction?

Time.

Time.

Time is the apex predator.

And in the event of an incident,

time is the w*apon with which
we will defeat all of our enemies.

That is how we will win
the great game of capitalism.

Not by outfighting anyone,

but by outliving them.

[Robert] Even if you outlive

all external threats,
here's my problem with the vaults.

You confine a bunch of rats

in a nest for a long time,
they end up eating each other.

So who's to say your rats
are gonna survive

better than those animals on the surface?

And you still haven't addressed
the fundamental question...

That is a little shortsighted,
I would say.

I don't need rats
for people on the surface.

[overlapping chatter]

- [chuckles]
- [overlapping chatter]

- [overlapping chatter continues]
- [suspenseful music playing]

- [beeps]
- [overlapping chatter continues]

If I could perhaps
refocus the conversation.

[chatter stops]

Come on, Barb. Set 'em straight.

When I think about the future,

I think about my daughter...

Janey.

[sighs]

How do I provide her

with a better future?

That's what we've invited you here
to discuss.

Yes. [sighs]

And how do we design

our vault societies
so our children have that better future?

I suggest we hedge our bets.

[Brain-on-a-Roomba] Wait!
I am the Overseer here!

My orders must be followed!

Why isn't this working?
This is conflict resolution 101.

[Norm] Where's the rest of the vault?

This is the rest of the vault.

Is this where my dad's from?

You'll never find out.

- [lights clack on]
- Oh. He's gonna find out.

[machines powering up]

[suspenseful music playing]

[Brain-on-a-Roomba] These are Bud's Buds.

My Buds. America outsourced the survival
of this country to the private sector.

But it would have been insane
to keep a failed nation alive.

So, we kept Vault-Tec alive instead.

A well-trained staff
of highly supervised junior executives

from my own assistant training program.

Because the future of humanity
comes down to one word:

Management.

[Barb] Bud here has an idea for

three interconnected vaults.

But we need more ideas.
We need your ideas.

Because it was the spirit of competition
that made our companies great,

and I propose we bring that same spirit
of competition to our solution.

[map dinging]

We have over a hundred vaults
spread across America.

Enough for each of you to claim several,

where you can play out your own ideas

for how to create the perfect conditions
for humanity.

Whatever you want to do,
no one needs to know.

And may the best idea win.

[whirring]

So what's Vault 32 and 33?
Just people to be controlled?

What? No! When you put it like that,
it sounds downright morally questionable.

They're our breeding pool,
the ultimate expression of HR R&D.

Genetically selected to breed with my Buds
to create a class of super managers.

People with positivity,
people who make lemonade.

People who will inherit the Earth
after we've wiped the surface clean.

We wiped the surface clean?

[Frederick] We could intentionally

overcrowd a vault so people have
to compete to survive inside it.

We have been developing a robot
that delivers milk to the front door.

It's quite intelligent. I would like
to see a vault governed by it.

What about using a vault
to develop a super-mutant soldier

using illegal immigrants?

[man] We could pump
psychotropic dr*gs into the air supply.

[woman] We could separate
parents and children,

and only the smartest kids
reach adulthood.

[Robert] It's a fun idea.

There's a lot of earning potential
with the end of the world.

But we're talking
about making a significant investment

based on a hypothetical.

How can you guarantee results?

By dropping the b*mb ourselves.

[staticky ringing]

[indistinct chatter over earbud]

[Betty] Mr. Howard?

[chatter continues over earbud]

Mr. Howard?

Everything all right, Mr. Howard?

Uh, fine.
I'm-I'm... I'm-I'm fine, Betty.

He is so excited to meet you.

A nuclear event would be a tragedy...

but also, an opportunity.

Perhaps the greatest opportunity
in history.

Because when we are the only ones left,
there will be no one to fight.

A true monopoly.

- [door closes]
- Mr. Howard.

Huge fan. I'm Henry, but, uh,

everyone calls me Hank.

Wow.

[eerie, ominous music playing]

[Moldaver] Your father has been around
for a very long time.

- [speaking indistinctly]
- [high-pitched ringing]

[Moldaver] Part of an organization

that thought they had the answers
to all the world's problems.

[Young Hank] You know, that scene?

That scene where
you sh**t Joey Toro in the face?

Feo, fuerte y formal.

[Barb] This is our chance
to make w*r obsolete.

Because in our current societal
configuration, which took shape without

intentional guidance, we have friction.

We have conflict, and we have w*r.

And w*r, well...

w*r never changes.

- [indistinct chatter]
- [high-pitched ringing]

[Young Hank] I was just wondering,
if-if... if you don't mind,

um, I hate to be that guy, but, do you
think you could give me an autograph?

[Moldaver] He never told you
where he's really from,

when he's from.

He never told your mother, either.

What do you know about my mother?

She was like you.

She was kind, loving.

Curious.

Isn't that why you came
to the surface really?

Partly to rescue your father, but...

to know why I took him?

[machines clicking, whirring]

[indistinct chatter]

[slow, suspenseful music playing]

[weapons clicking]

Thank you.

Wait. Dane, they're sending you?

Punishment for what I did to myself.

Hey.

I was just scared of going into the Wilds.

I had no idea
they'd blame you for it. I...

I'm sorry.

[slow, dramatic music playing]

Don't be.

I was meant to go on that mission.

I met someone.

But right now, she's walking into danger.

That's why you came back.

To rescue her.

[whispering] I'm leaving with her.

I am going back to where she came from.

A vault. It's a place
that's peaceful... and safe.

Where nobody ever goes to w*r.

What?

- Maggots, clear out!
- [others] Yes, sir!

[overlapping shouting]

[engines whirring]

There's nowhere safe, Max.

And there's no leaving.

I wish there was.

♪ ♪

[dramatic music playing]

[Moldaver] Rose was so clever.

Like you.

Lucy, your mother discovered

that something was siphoning
the vault's water away.

[somber music playing]

From that one clue,

she deduced that maybe...

civilization had returned to the surface.

When she told her husband,

he said it was a ridiculous idea,

and that she should tell no one.

Lucy, let's go. Let's...

And that's when she realized
that her husband, the Overseer,

was hiding things.

[Hank] Lucy, let's go.
Let's get out of here.

[Moldaver] So she ran away.

Like you did, Lucy.

And took her children.

And she found this wonderful city

that was everything
the vaults had promised to be.

[Hank] She is lying!

[Moldaver] But then,

her husband came after her.

And when she decided not to return home,

he took the children.

And he b*rned that city to the ground.

Shady Sands.

She's lying, Lucy.

[Moldaver] That's how
Vault-Tec deals with competition.

Just like they did 200 years ago.

[gentle music playing]

[bell clanging]

Lucy?

What you brought me is cold fusion.

It's limitless energy.

- Lucy?
- And we can build...

- She's a m*rder*r.
- ...our own world.

- Lucy, look at me.
- It could be a better world.

- It has clean water and medicine...
- [Hank] She invaded our home.

[Moldaver] ...and power.

- But for everyone.
- [Hank] Lucy?

- Because when Vault-Tec...
- She k*lled...

- ...bought my research...
- ...our people...

[Moldaver]...they made it proprietary,

so only a trusted Vault-Tec minion

- can activate cold fusion.
- Do not listen to her.

[Moldaver] All I need

is for him to give me the code.

- Lucy, look at me!
- [banging stool on bars]

Look at me!

Lucy!

[panting]

[somber music playing]

My mother.

What happened to her?

- I think you know.
- [Hank scoffs]

[ghoul gasping]

[Rose] Lucy?

- [speaking indistinctly]
- [gentle music playing]

[sniffles]

[gasps]

- [Hank] Lucy?
- [gasps]

She's lying, Lucy.

Just give her the code.

[gasps softly]

Give her the code.

Give her the code, Dad.

[sighs]

[sniffles]

[sighs, sniffles]

[Lucy gasps softly]

[beeping]

[chimes]

[beeping continues]

[rotational trilling]

[whirring]

[triumphant music playing]

[high-pitched whirring]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[slow, suspenseful music playing]

[whirring]

[soft beeping]

[whirring]

Well, it was great meeting you.
I actually have to get back home.

[Brain-on-a-Roomba] You can't go home,
son of Hank.

No.

Not with what you've learned.

So you're just...
you're just gonna keep me here?

Just until we're all ready
to go to the surface.

That could be hundreds of years.

True. That's why I'd suggest
you wait it out in your dad's pod.

Unless you want to starve to death.

Not much food in here,
except the occasional very large bug.

I'd certainly put myself
to sleep if I could.

[breathing heavily]

[eerie, suspenseful music playing]

[somber music playing]

I did what was necessary...

...to save our people.

And that woman over there...

[keypad clicking, beeping]

She's no different than me.

[beeps, trills]

[whooshing]

[high-pitched whirring]

- [air raid sirens blaring]
- [Lucy gasps]

[soldier] Incoming aircraft.

[air raid sirens continue]

The Brotherhood?

Barricade the doors!

Don't let anyone in here!

Let's move!

- [indistinct shouting]
- [soldier] Move out, move out, move out.

[shouting fades in distance]

[Hank] Lucy?

I loved your mother.

But she stopped being your mother
when she left home.

When she took you into danger.

[dramatic, majestic music playing]

[indistinct radio chatter]

[retching]

[Vertibird blades whirring]

[mechanical whirring]

- [alarm blaring]
- Incoming!

[screams]

You've seen what it's like up here.

Everyone equally afraid,
equally miserable.

Forced to do horrible things
in order to survive.

Lucy...

I had to make a choice.

Between their violent world
and our peaceful one.

[somber music playing]

And I believe, Lucy, I know
I made the right choice.

[high-pitched ringing]

- [♪ Nat King Cole: "I Don't Want to See Tomorrow"]
- ♪ I don't want to see ♪

♪ Tomorrow ♪

♪ Unless ♪

♪ I see it ♪

♪ With you ♪

♪ Tomorrow, so they say ♪

♪ Will be a lovely day ♪

♪ A bright new sun will suddenly ♪

♪ Break through ♪

♪ But I don't want to see ♪

Go!

♪ Tomorrow ♪

♪ Unless I see it with you ♪

♪ Tomorrow, so I hear...

[Hank] If the problem with the world
is factions endlessly fighting,

endlessly at w*r,
then what is the solution

but to get rid of the factions?

To make the world us,

only ours to shape.

♪ To see tomorrow ♪

♪ Unless you're there by my side ♪

♪ Don't want to walk alone ♪

♪ Don't want to dream alone ♪

♪ Just want you close to my heart ♪

[expl*si*n]

♪ For if your love is gone ♪

♪ How can I face the dawn of Sunday ♪

♪ Or Monday? ♪

♪ I just can't face one day ♪

♪ Until you say you're mine ♪

♪ Oh, darling, please be mine ♪

♪ And make each bright tomorrow
young and new ♪

♪ But I don't want to face tomorrow ♪

♪ Unless ♪

♪ I see it ♪

[whistles]

♪ With you ♪♪

[ominous music playing]

I'll bet that outfit makes y'all feel
like a big man, don't it?

Well, I know 'cause,
well, I used to wear one

back in the day.

There was only one problem with it.

There was a flaw

in the welding just below the chest plate.

I wonder if they fixed that
in this new model?

I guess not.

[exciting music playing]

[soldier] Did you get him?

[Knight] I can't see sh*t.

Find that f*cking ghoul.

Open the door, Lucy.
Open the door, let's go home.

[tense music playing]

Let's go home.

Let's go home.

[ghoul breathing heavily]

[Hank] Lucy.

Please. Open the door, Lucy.

[distant expl*si*n]

[dramatic music playing]

[Maximus] Lucy. Lucy.

Lucy?

- Lucy.
- [Hank] Hey. Hey.

I'm her father.
Can you get us out of here?

- Lucy, let's go. Come on, we got to get out of here.
- Wait. No.

Not with him.

Why not with him? What do you mean?

Because it was him. He...

- What?
- It was him.

- What was him?
- He...

Lucy, what?

Shady Sands.

[dramatic music playing]

It was him.

I'm sorry.

[tense, dramatic music playing]

Lucy. You're coming with me.

[yells]

No!

Hey, Max. Max. Max, wake up.

[suspenseful music playing]

You see what this place does to people?

I'm your father, Lucy.

You came all this way for me.

You're not gonna hurt me.

[grunts] God...

Oh, you want another autograph,
Young Henry?

Feo, fuerte y formal.

When your daughter said her last name
was MacLean, well,

I just couldn't believe
it was the MacLean.

Hell, this kid used to pick up
my wife's dry cleaning.

Now, I've waited over 200 years

to ask somebody one question.

Where's my f*cking family?

[tense, dramatic music playing]

Yeah.

[grunts]

[Lucy] Hey.

Max. Hey, hey. Hey, Max. Max, wake up.

Come on, wake up.

Wake up! God. [grunts]

Come on. Come on!

Come on! Please!

[grunts]

♪ ♪

[g*nf*re continues in distance]

w*r never changes.

You look out at this Wasteland,

looks like chaos.

But there's always somebody
behind the wheel.

And that's who I want to talk to.

That's where your daddy is headed.

But you let him go.

[Ghoul] Well, it's easier to track a stuck
pig than to ask it where it's off to.

You want to know
how I know your daddy, don't you?

Let's just say that everything
about your whole little world

was decided over 200 years ago.

Now, you can stay here with him,

but when his tin can soldier friends
take this place...

and they gonna take this place...

they will k*ll you and everybody here.

[somber music playing]

Or you could come meet your makers.

[dramatic music playing]

♪ ♪

[g*n cocks]

[gurgles]

[sighs]

You coming?

[somber music playing]

Hey.

Get up.

Max.

I'll find you.

Okey-dokey.

[slow, dramatic music playing]

[distant g*nf*re]

[gasps]

♪ ♪

[groans]

Lucy.

Lucy.

[distant explosions]

[grunting]

Lucy.

[Moldaver] Rose.

[door closes]

[ominous music playing]

[Moldaver breathing heavily]

We did it, Rose.

♪ ♪

What do you suppose your Brotherhood
would do with infinite power?

Maybe you can stop them. Maybe you can't.

Maybe all you can do is try.

[dramatic music playing]

Is that their leader?

You k*lled her.

No. Dane.

[Dane] All hail Maximus!
That shalt be Knight hereafter!

[troops] All hail Knight Maximus!

All hail Knight Maximus!
All hail Knight Maximus!

All hail Knight Maximus!

All hail Knight Maximus!
All hail Knight Maximus!

All hail Knight Maximus!

- All hail Knight Maximus!
- [chanting continues]

- [♪ The Ink Spots: "We Three"]
- ♪ We three ♪

♪ We're all alone ♪

♪ Living in a memory ♪

♪ My echo ♪

♪ My shadow ♪

♪ And me ♪

♪ We three ♪

♪ We're not a crowd ♪

♪ We're not even company ♪

♪ My echo ♪

♪ My shadow ♪

♪ And me ♪

♪ What good is the moonlight ♪

♪ The silvery moonlight ♪

♪ That shines above? ♪

♪ I walk with my shadow ♪

♪ I talk with my echo ♪

♪ But where is the one I love? ♪

♪ We three ♪

♪ We'll wait for you ♪

♪ Even till eternity ♪

♪ My echo ♪

♪ My shadow ♪

♪ And me ♪♪

♪ ♪

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[atmospheric music playing]

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