After eight episodes of post-apocalyptic madness, Fallout Season 2 wrapped up with this week’s episode, “The Strip.” And if you’re a fan of the Prime Video series, you probably have a ton of questions after the close of the hour, including what’s next for a potential Season 3.
Wondering what went down with Lucy (Ella Purnell), The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) and the rest of our heroes — and villains — as the battle for New Vegas reached its apex? Read on for a recap of the finale, followed by the ending explained. And because we’re generous, we’ll throw in a few other odds and ends, including whether there will be a Season 3 of Fallout at all.
But first, to set the stage, leading into the finale, Lucy is in the ground-level of Vault-Tec’s New Vegas facility, ready to destroy the mainframe that powers Hank MacLean’s (Kyle MacLachlan) brainwashing devices, only to discover that it seems to be powered by Representative Diane Welch’s (Martha Kelly) severed head. Meanwhile, The Ghoul has used the cold fusion macguffin everyone has been chasing to restart New Vegas… Except what he actually restarted was Robert House (Justin Theroux), now in computer form.
Other bits include Maximus (Aaron Moten) fighting off Deathclaws, Thaddeus’s (Johnny Pemberton) arm fell off, Norm (Moisés Arias) has been captured by angry vault dwellers, and Steph (Annabel O’Hagan) was revealed to be — shudder — Canadian, locking herself in her office.
There’s a lot more, but that’ll give you a good setup for the finale. Okey dokey? Spoiler warning past this point for the Fallout Season 2 finale, “The Strip.”
Fallout Season 2 Finale Recap:
After a nearly three and a half minute long “previously on,” we actually kick off with something I neglected to mention in my own precap: the Legion, which is the middle of the pitched battle we left them in a few episodes back. In the middle of the fighting, Lacerta Legate (MacCauley Culkin) grabs the skeleton of Caesar that’s been between the two camps for years, and finally reads the note that was left.
So who is the next “kai-czar?” The note reads: “I am Caesar. I am the Legion. It ends with me.” Whoops. Lacerta kills the soldier who was with him when he read the note, then eats the note to destroy it… Becoming Caesar himself, and telling the Legion they are going to attack New Vegas, as Lucy predicted in the previous episode.
Meanwhile, over at the Lucky 38 casino (or what remains of it), House and The Ghoul talk. House has been killed (or almost killed) multiple times, while The Ghoul just wants to know where his family is. He threatens to shoot the diode, which House explains will blow up several planets if it explodes. And they make a deal, with The Ghoul getting a wristband. “Like it or not, everyone works for me eventually,” says House.
Outside, Maximus is facing down a Deathclaw, and after evacuating the residents of New Vegas, his weapons are activated, not just one, but multiple Deathclaws while everyone watches. As might be expected when earlier in the season they talked about how the suits break, the suit breaks. But Thaddeus steps up — I guess? — betting 500 caps on Maximus winning. He also probably a little more helpfully shoots one of them with a gun, aiming with his toes since he only has one arm now. There are more Deathclaws to go, and with his armor down, Maximus crawls out of it, grabbing a roulette wheel as a shield, and a pool cue as a sword. This inspires the rest of New Vegas to take back their town. Well, some of them. Or, more specifically, a real soldier of the New California Republic, as the army marches into New Vegas to help save the day.
And now, under New Vegas, as we check in with Lucy and the head. Yep, Martha is alive — sort of — but she would also very much like Lucy to kill her. Lucy, though, was hoping to destroy the mainframe in order to not kill. “Why does everyone always want me to kill them all the time?” Lucy screams… And then she smashes the head. Horrified, Lucy stumbles out, only to encounter Hank, who explains that he was using Martha to give House’s technology a little personality. He’s also working on miniaturization for the tech so you won’t know who has been automated, and who has not. Oh, and he wants to use it on Lucy. She fights one of Hank’s drones to save herself, but… She’s just not strong enough.
Norm, captured by the Vaulties, seems to be in dire circumstances, until the elevator opens and… Out come the roaches. They are, to be clear, giant roaches bigger than a human head that can fly and like to suck blood. So: not great. Everyone else, aka the people were trying to kill Norm, tries to escape by hiding in an office; but instead, the roaches go into the office and leave Norm alone. Hooray?
Back to The Ghoul and Mr. House, the latter of whom explains that the building doesn’t belong to Vault-Tec, it belongs to their “competitors.” Who they are, Fallout game fans likely already know. Everyone else? Hold your horses. House explains that this adversary is right here, in the building right now. And yep, it’s The Enclave — and Cooper/The Ghoul handed the diode to them last episode (or rather Clancy Brown’s nameless President, who works for The Enclave), inadvertently causing the end of the world.
Okay, flashback time. Cooper and his wife are celebrating having — they think — saved the world, when they’re approached by the hideously deaged Hank and his new sweetheart…. Steph. They’ve gotten married overnight, and though “my parents are gonna kill me” they head off together. While they think they’ve left Vegas a “bunch of winners” and talk about possibly going to Colorado, all the pay phones start disturbingly ringing as they pass by.
Meanwhile, back in the “present” The Ghoul finds the cryo-chambers where his family is stored, which sure looks like where Lucy is fighting Hank’s stooge, high above. And indeed, it is. The Ghoul shoots the stooge, and then shoots Hank in the ass. He kicks Lucy his gun, and once again she needs to make the choice to kill, or not. But she has another idea: she’s going to use the miniaturized control chip on Hank.
Walking out the entrance of the casino, Lucy and Hank talk about their differing takes on the outside, with Hank realizing that Lucy doesn’t plan to take him back to the vault.
“The surface changes a person,” Lucy says. Hank wants her help to stop The Legion, but she needs to know what he’s “really doing her.”
“And then?” asks Hank.
“Then I’m going to turn you into the father I thought you were,” she answers. But Hank’s got some surprises in store…
“You think this is the real world,” Hank says to Lucy, before revealing, “The surface is the experiment, not the Vaults.”
What experiment? He’s sent his “R&D” out into the Wasteland, and he’s got a remote control, as well. Turns out those people he’s sent out are following centuries old orders, though he doesn’t reveal what they are before he presses the button himself, wiping his memory. When he wakes up, he doesn’t remember Lucy at all. She sobs, then walks away, leaving Hank alone on the steps of the casino.
…Which is when Maximus enters, battered, bloodied, but proud to have become a hero worthy of his Vaultie love. They embrace, and everything is going just great. There are about 20 minutes left in the episode, but I’m sure that’s just a mistake, right?
Fallout Season 2 Ending Explained:
Okay, back in our OG Vault, Steph is in her wedding dress and coordinated eyepatch as everyone is outside calling for her head. Or rather, they’re chanting “open up” because they’re a bunch of dumbos.
Steph does open something: the Keepsakes from Hank that was given to her in the previous episode, which contains a black Pip-Boy. While everyone else decides to kill Steph, she calls The Enclave, reveals she is indeed Hank MacLean’s wife, and calls for them to “initiate Phase Two.”
That message is received at the Enclave Research Facility we’ve previously seen on the show, as we hear Hank’s message “reporting for duty” playing as well as Norm’s call for help. Basically, The Enclave has been keeping tabs on all of the MacLeans, it seems.
Speaking of which, Norm looks in on the carnage left by the roaches. Miraculously, Claudia (Rachel Marsh), the one person who was friendly to Norm, has been left alive, though worse for the wear, and he drags her across the Wasteland on a makeshift gurney.
There’s more to come for The Ghoul, though, as he tries to track down his family. Which is when we cut back in on the ominously ringing Vegas phones in the past. It’s House, telling Cooper that “it wasn’t me.”
“What wasn’t me?” Cooper asks.
“Whatever is about to happen,” House explains.
What is about to happen? Well, we don’t find out immediately, as The Ghoul discovers his wife and daughter in cryo-stasis. And he asks House to open the tubes… But of course, his wife isn’t there, and neither is his daughter.
In the past, Cooper is arrested by the House un-American Activities Committee, while in the present The Ghoul falls to his knees in front of the empty cryo-tube.
…Or is it empty? In fact? There’s a postcard for Colorado at the bottom, with the text written in handwriting on the back, “Colorado was a good idea.” So is his family in Colorado, alive? Well, there’s more to the flashback… Cooper tells his wife to “act surprised, let me take the fall. I acted alone, you didn’t know anything.” So yeah, Cooper gave himself up to save his family, and “For the first time in two-hundred long-add years, I know my family is alive.”
The Ghoul leaves the Pip-Boy with House on it, and heads off to find his family.
There’s still The Legion to deal with, though, and they begin their invasion of New Vegas as Lucy and Maximus head to House’s office where the signal has been lost… House is stuck on the pip-Boy downstairs. The two look out at New Vegas, and the encroaching Legion.
“I could have prevented this,” Lucy says. “There’s gonna be a war and it’s all my fault.”
“Yeah, well,” Maximus says dryly. “Welcome to the Wasteland.”
They hold hands, and the camera zooms back, with House’s signal breaking through. Meanwhile, The Ghoul walks off happily to Colorado to find his family, his trusty dog by his side. And just a note: Colorado is a major location in Fallout Tactics, with lots of factions, lost of danger, and even a mysterious new Vault.
So that’s it! The Legion is headed to attack New Vegas where the New California Republic awaits, Lucy and Maximus are together in House’s office, House is maybe still around in programming form, and The Enclave has begun activating Phase Two. What of the Super-mutants? Or Steph back in the Vault? Or Norm wandering The Wasteland? Or Brotherhood of Steel, and any number of other plot-points? I guess we’ll find out next season! Or… will we?
Does Fallout Season 2 Have An End Credits Scene?
Oh, there sure is an end credits scene. Right after the text credits are over, we find out what the Brotherhood of Steel is up to, and it’s pretty gross. Specifically, the former allies of Maximus are clearly under attack, bombarded by unseen forces as they tend to their wounded. Although it’s not explicitly stated, it seems likely that this faction of the Brotherhood is in the middle of a civil war over Maximus murdering Paladin Xander Harkness (Kumail Nanjiani), putting a little punctuation on his statement to Lucy about “well, what you gonna do?” about starting wars in the Wasteland.
“The Remnants you requested,” says Dane (Xelia Mendes-Jones), as he enters the inner sanctum of the shaken Elder Cleric Quintus (Michael Cristofer).
“Open it,” Quintus says, and Dane complies.
“What is it?” Dane asks as Quintus hobbles over.
“Out of the virtue in my heart, I tried to unify the Brotherhood,” Quintus says, furious. “Now look what it got me. No matter! No matter. Quintus the Unifier is dead. Quintus the Destroyer is born.”
So what’s the Remnant? It’s blueprints for Liberty Prime Alpha!!!!!!!
…what’s that?
Well, Liberty Prime Mark II was an enormous, nearly unstoppable robot that has been seen in Fallout 3 and Fallout 4, among other spinoffs and games. It has been destroyed by the time we get to the continuity of the Fallout TV series, so it seems likely these blueprints are for the first version of Liberty Prime, before the creation of the Mark II. As is, mainly what it means is that Quintus the Destroyer is about to become everyone’s problem.
Will There Be A Fallout Season 3 On Prime Video?
Yep, there will be a Fallout Season 3 on Prime Video! The series was renewed way back on May 12, 2025 by Amazon, and is expected to go into production around May of 2026. That hasn’t been officially confirmed by Amazon, by the way, but assuming it is the show takes about six months to film, and at least with Season 2 came out seven months later. That places Fallout Season 3 as possibly coming out some time in the summer of 2027 — or at least being done by then — meaning possibly June or July of 2027.
That said, Prime Video has a tendency to release shows whenever they want, so it could be longer than that. And another slight hiccup here is that Amazon changed its leadership team mere weeks after Fallout was picked up for Season 3. The season also has clearly not lit the same critical or fan fire as Season 1, though Amazon has been cagey about the viewership numbers. So could Prime Video reverse course and cancel that Season 3 pick-up?
This is pure speculation, but unless those Season 2 numbers are disastrous, we’ll probably get a Fallout Season 3. Add in that we don’t know how much the release of the TV show has driven sales of the video games on Amazon, which — frankly — is probably an even bigger concern to the company than actual viewers. If people are buying and watching, we’ll probably pick up those cliffhangers… Though likely not until 2027.
Fallout Season 2 Premiere Dates And Episode Guide:
New episodes of Fallout Season 2 premiere Wednesdays on Prime Video at 3am ET / 12am PT, with the exception of the season premiere, which debuts early on Tuesday, December 16 at 9pm ET / 6pm PT.
Here’s the full list of episodes in Fallout Season 2 with premiere dates:
- Tuesday, December 16, 2025: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 1
- Wednesday, December 24, 2025: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 2
- Wednesday, December 31, 2025: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 3
- Wednesday, January 7, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 4
- Wednesday, January 14, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 5
- Wednesday, January 21, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 6
- Wednesday, January 28, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 7
- Wednesday, February 4, 2026: Fallout, Season 2, Episode 8 *Season Finale*
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