02x08 - The Strip

[bunniefuu]

[switch clicks]

[Hank MacLean]
This is Hank MacLean.

[heavy footsteps]

Reporting for duty, sir.

Trying to pick up
where you all left off.

Miniaturization.

I'm gonna complete
the work you started.

And when this is all over,
you will be begging me to help you.

[Ghoul]
Before the w*r, there was a plan

for a special Vault for management.

That's where my wife is.

Where my daughter is, too.

[rustling and chittering]

What is making that noise
in the elevator?

Roach farm.

[loud banging]

[g*n c*ck]

How do you have that?

This is for Lucy.

[Ghoul] So, you wanna give that thing
to a good person

so they can save the world.

But in order to save
that good person...

you're gonna have to give it
to a really bad person.

[tense music playing]

- [arm thuds]
- [Thaddeus] Uh...

[people screaming]

The great founder of this Empire, he died.

We've been at w*r ever since
over who should be his heir.

[Lucy MacLean]
You know the Legion is still out there.

- They're gonna hurt a lot of people.
- Yes.

[Lucy] With what you've created,
you could stop them.

We could stop them, Lucy.

[Hank grunts]

[Lucy]
You always were a good father.

Thanks to you,
I'm not a fudging idiot.

[Ronnie] Phase 2 was very important
to the experiment.

The whole plan for Vaults 32 and 33?

Forced Evolutionary Virus.

[electricity zapping]

Claudia.

We have to get out of here.

Dad, if you can hear me...
what's gonna happen to our Vault?

[Chet]
Steph was not born in Vault 31.

- [whispering] Chet.
- She's 200 years old.

- [guests gasping]
- [Chet] Who are you, Steph?!

[door closing]

[roaring]

[Maximus yelling]

[tense music playing]

[Barb Howard]
The only way to save our family

is to save the world.

I believe there is
another player at the table.

The House always wins, right?

What if I'm not the House?

Mr. President.

Thank you for doing
the right thing, son.

[distant explosions booming]

[explosions continue]

[people screaming]

[swords clanging]

[grunting]

[heavy breathing]

What's it say?

Who's the next Caesar?
[pronounced Kaisar]

Caesar is dead.

- Long live Caesar.
- [knife unsheathing]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[soldier yelling]

[army chanting] Caesar, hoo! Caesar, hoo!
[pronounced Kaisar]

Caesar, hoo! Caesar, hoo! Caesar, hoo!

Together, we will reclaim
the holy land that they call Vegas.

[soldiers muttering in agreement]

There, we'll build a palace
worthy of our empire.

[soldiers chattering, chuckling]

Caesar's Palace.

Now, to New Vegas!

[army chanting] Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!

Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!

Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah! Hoo-ah!

[chanting continues faintly]

[soft, dramatic music playing]

[Robert House] [on monitor]
Well, hello, old chum!

What did I tell you when we first met?

The House always wins.

Winnin' might be overrated, Robert.

'Cause them swimming pools
outside used to be full.

Well... I will say this much.

It's good to be alive again.

Over the years, my body
became something of a target

for wandering travelers
with something to prove.

I have been poisoned, shot,
bludgeoned with a crowbar...

Shut the f*ck up.

The diode.

What about it, old friend?

What happens if I sh**t this thing?

Unclear.

There's only ever been one of them,
so it would be fresh snow

from a scientific standpoint.

But if it were to expel
all of its energy simultaneously...

the damage would likely
extend to other planets,

so I would exercise extreme caution.

Well, most people
ain't got sh*t to live for anyway.

Let's cut to the chase.
Where's my family?

Why didn't you tell me there was
a Vault for management in Vegas?

Because you hadn't yet
brought me the diode.

[sighs]

[sighs]

I tell you what.

You get me in that Vault
and I'll leave your batteries on.

We got a deal... Bob?

Absolutely.

But in order to show you the way,
you'll have to...

wear one of these.

Like it or not, Mr. Howard...

everyone works for me eventually.

[dramatic music swelling]

[heavy footsteps]

[growling]

- [breathing heavily]
- [Deathclaw growling]

Comin' through! Comin' through!

Hey, comin' through!
Comin' through.

- [Deathclaw roaring]
- Oh, wow.

[growling continues]

[Thaddeus] Max!

Stay behind me.

[roaring]

- [screaming]
- [Thaddeus] Oh, no!

Get inside! Go, go, go!

Go! Go!

[Maximus] [distorted]
Go! Get inside, go!

[people screaming]

Get inside! Get inside!

Deathclaw!

Go, go, go!
[continues shouting]

- [Deathclaw growling]
- Come on, let's go.

[snarling]

- [beeping]
- What, "weapons activated"?

Hot dog.

[♪ Perry Como: "It's a Good Day"]

♪ Oh, it's a good day
for singing this song ♪

♪ and it's a good day for moving along ♪

- ♪ Yes, it's a good day ♪
- Deathclaw! Hurry up!

♪ How could anything go wrong?

♪ A good day from morning till night ♪

♪ Yes, it's a good day ♪

- [Deathclaw growling]
- Let's go right here!

Come on!

♪ Everything to gain
and nothin' to lose ♪

- [exclaiming and laughing]
- ♪ 'Cause it's a good day ♪

- Whoo!
- ♪ from morning till night ♪

♪ You're right ♪

♪ I said to the sun, "good morning, sun" ♪

- ♪ Rise and shine today ♪
- [Thaddeus] Oh, Max.

Wish I could help.

You only got one arm,
what are you gonna do?

Well, someone's gotta do something!
Look at him out there!

Nah.

♪ Morning till night ♪

[Deathclaws roaring]

[dramatic music playing]

♪

[tubes hissing]

[gagging, gasping]

Are you alive?

[distorted groaning]

Okay, so... kinda.

[voice distorted] k*ll me.

What?

k*ll me.

Oh, please, no.

- k*ll me.
- No.

No, look, we-we can...

patch you up.

Maybe.

There's no telling,

uh, with the miracles
of science these days?

k*ll me.

No. I can't, I...

- Must k*ll...
- No! Gosh!

Why does everybody always want me
to k*ll them all the time?

k*ll me, please.

Stop him.

k*ll me.

Must k*ll me.

Must... k*ll me.

Shut up!

- Please.
- [screaming]

- [Claudia] Stop.
- [Ronnie] You lied to us, Norm.

- [Claudia] Ronnie, hey!
- You have no one to blame but yourself.

- [Claudia] Ronnie, stop!
- Let me go!

- [Claudia] Ronnie, stop!
- Let go of me!

- Don't worry.
- Ronnie!

We'll give him a fair trial.

- Stop! No, don't!
- This is America, after all.

- Stop!
- [Norm groaning]

- What are you gonna do to him?
- You're not one of us either, Claudia.

- You only got this job last week.
- Let him go!

Get off!

[grunting]

[elevator pings]

[Claudia panting]

[metallic creaking]

[skittering]

[Claudia wincing]

[Claudia continues panting]

[sighs] There's nothing there.

I guess the roaches
really don't get that big after...

- [Radroach screeching]
- [exclaiming]

[group screaming, shouting]

[screeching continues]

[shouting continues]

[screaming]

[Ronnie] Move!

[all screaming]

[Ronnie] Let's go, come on!

[tense music playing]

[Norm] Oh, my God!

[Ronnie] Go! Go, go!

[screeching]

[shouting]

Let's go!

Haul a*s!

- No! No! Not you!
- [Claudia shouting]

- No!
- Get out the way!

- Not you!
- [Claudia] Let him in!

No room! You're not getting in!

[Radroaches chittering]

[Radroach hissing]

- [Radroaches chittering]
- [all screaming]

[dramatic music playing]

[Robert House]
Vault-Tec wanted an impenetrable Vault

buried half a mile below the city,

- but I was always one step ahead.
- Uh-huh.

I rigged every aspect of the city
so I could protect its future.

I rigged every slot machine,
every roulette wheel.

Turn left.

I even rigged their impenetrable Vault
for management.

- Is that so?
- But I miscalculated.

Because this Vault
belongs not to Vault-Tec

but to their investors.

I never fathomed there could be
someone one step ahead of me.

Until I saw your demon in the snow.

[Deathclaw roaring]

Come on!

[exclaiming]

[roaring]

[shouting]

[grunting]

- [grunting]
- [Armor beeping]

[Deathclaw growling]

[shouting]

sh*t.

- [Armor chiming]
- Oh.

Oh, no.

[growling]

[Maximus] Come on.

[Thaddeus] Oh, Max.

[Deathclaw growling]

Fifty caps says he goes down
in the next five minutes.

I'll put 20 on three.

[Freesiders clamoring]

Okay, 20 on three.

[Deathclaw roaring]

- [shouting continues]
- Hey!

Hey! Hey!

Hey! [shouting]

Five hundred says he wins.

Those are steep odds, kid.

He ain't got no 500 caps.

Count it, losers.

I used to make money for a living.

- [excited chatter]
- Alright, here we go.

[chatter continues]

[panting]

[eerie music playing]

[panting]

[Robert] When it came to predicting
the end of the world,

I was off by just a smidge.

But when it came
to controlling the future,

I was wholly outclassed
by an invisible adversary.

It was they who set
the Deathclaws on Vegas.

And now one of their acolytes is here,
in this very building.

[Hank]
Why'd you go and do that, Lucy?

You know, Robert House

wanted to turn human beings into machines.

Erase their memories.

Make them suggestible enough
to follow his orders.

You know, Robert,
he was a bit of a robot himself.

And who wants to live
in a world full of robots?

So... [sighs] what I was trying to do

was to add a little personality
to his product.

Who is she?

Congresswoman Diane Welch, from Glendale.

ISTP on the old Myers-Briggs,

which is still the gold standard
for personnel.

Ideal personality to scale.

With the kind of attributes we could stand

to see more of out there
in the world, if you ask me.

Well-meaning.

Sweet.

Non-threatening.

Then, why would you do that to her?

Well...

Daddy's job is complicated, sweetie.

[gasps]

[Robert]
The Enclave's eyes are everywhere.

You should know, Mr. Howard.

Two hundred years ago,

you delivered that diode
into their possession yourself.

You helped bring forth
the greatest threat to the Wasteland.

You were their unwitting servant.

I am what I am.

[Robert] Is that what you'll
tell your family if you find them?

[♪ Frank Sinatra:
"I've Got You Under My Skin"]

♪ I've got you under my skin ♪

- Cheers.
- [glasses clinking]

After all this, I'm thinking Bakersfield

isn't such a bad idea.

After all this, I say we go out
as far as Colorado.

[Hank] Coop!

Hey!

Henry.

[sighs]
You make for one heck of a wingman.

[Cooper chuckles]

Hello again.

I don't know what you said, but it worked.

- [both chuckle]
- Can you believe it?

We talked all night,
and at four in the morning,

this little romantic proposed.

[Hank] [laughing] She has a truly
unbelievable resume

for a hotel maid.

I'm hoping Mr. Askins
can find a job for her.

Uh... maybe.

[chuckles]

And, uh, well...

Congratulations to you both.

Congratulations.

[chuckles]

- My parents are gonna k*ll me.
- Oh, come on, you.

[chuckles] Oh, okay. Bye.

♪ In spite of a warning voice ♪

♪ that comes in the night and repeats ♪

- ♪ Repeats in my ear ♪
- Oh, thank you.

♪ Don't you know, little fool ♪

Am I crazy,
or did we just come out of Vegas

- a couple of winners?
- Huh.

♪ Use your mentality ♪

♪ Wake up to reality ♪

♪ But each time that I do,
just the thought of you ♪

♪ makes me stop before I begin ♪

[phone ringing]

♪ I've got you ♪

[all phones ringing]

[ringing continues]

[dramatic music playing]

What's your endgame with all of this?

Miniaturization.
It's the wave of the future.

Soon, we won't know
who's been automated and who hasn't.

You just have a little scar on your neck.

[door opens]

[door closes]

Other than that...

you'll be my little girl again.

You're insane.

You don't mean that.

And if you do, very soon, you won't.

- [screaming]
- [Legionary grunting]

[Lucy gasping, grunting]

[screaming]

[horn blares]

[clanking]

[metal doors creaking]

[Robert] Your family's cryo chambers
are on sub-floor seven.

[dramatic music playing]

[Deathclaw growling]

- [alarm beeping]
- [panting]

[Freesiders clamoring]

[roaring]

[roaring]

You know if he loses,
we're all dead, right?

I'm still in for 20.

[shouting continues]

[panting]

- [Deathclaw roaring]
- [Maximus] Come on!

[screeching]

[Deathclaw growling]

Come on. Yeah.

[roars]

- [alarm blaring]
- [groaning]

- [g*nsh*t]
- [Deathclaw screeches]

[grunting]

[sighs] Thank you.

- Thank you, Thaddeus.
- [Deathclaw roaring]

[growling, snarling]

I gotta reload.

[alarm blaring]

- [glass cracking]
- [grunting]

[Lucy grunting]

- [shouting]
- We can start over, Lucy.

[whimpering]

- [whooshing]
- [thwack]

- [g*nsh*t]
- [grunts]

[wincing] Come on! Ah!

[Ghoul] If it was up to me,

it wouldn't be your a*s
bleedin' out all over the floor.

But it ain't up to me.

What say you, Vaultie?

[dramatic music playing]

♪

- [electricity zapping]
- [alarm beeping]

- [alarm blaring]
- [panting softly]

[whispering] You're a good boy, Max.

And one day, you will be a good man.

[alarm continues]

[grunting]

Max, no!

[alarm continues]

[Deathclaw roaring]

[Deathclaw snarling]

[Deathclaw roaring]

[dramatic music playing]

[Deathclaw snarling]

[roaring]

He's just a damn kid?

[Freesiders chattering]

Come on!

[g*n c*ck]

Let's take back our town.

I'm not doing that.

[chatter continues]

[roaring]

Hold on!

[somber music playing]

Come on!

[roaring]

[g*nsh*t]

[Maximus sighs]

No.

[heroic music playing]

[roars]

[whistle blowing]

[uplifting music playing]

Ten-hut!

We got it from here.

[Deathclaw roaring in distance]

Yeah, that's probably a good idea.

[dramatic music playing]

[sighs]

You don't get views like this
in the Vault.

You know, I spent my whole life

dreaming of what it would be like
to come up to the surface one day.

With you.

I just wanted to make all this
worthy of you.

You know, I was almost looking forward
to going back to the Vaults with you.

It would have been nice
to see everyone again.

Norm. Betty.

Stephanie.

Ooh, boy, Stephanie.

We're not going back, are we?

Guess the surface changes a person.

The Legion is coming.

They'll m*ssacre everyone here,
you know that.

Lucy?

With my help, you could stop them.

I need you to tell me
what you were really doing here.

And then?

Then I'm gonna turn you
into the father I thought you were.

You lied to me my whole life.

I know that's how you feel.

You think this is the real world.

The surface is the experiment.

Not the Vaults.

What experiment?

I've already sent my R&D
out into the Wasteland.

Their Boxes are the latest models, too.

So you can't even see them.

Unbeknownst to everyone,
they're following orders

written for them centuries ago.

Orders to do what?

What did you do?

I love you, Sugarbomb.

No! No!

No!

Dad.

[whispering] Dad?

No...

[panting]

[whimpering softly]

[sobbing]

- [sobbing]
- Aw.

Miss?

Miss.

You have a little smudge on the side.

M-May I?

There.

Good as new.

[whispering] Yeah.

[gentle music playing]

[somber music playing]

[Lucy whimpering softly]

[sobbing]

[somber music continues playing]

[sniffling]

[Maximus] Lucy?

[music turns hopeful]

♪

[Vault 32ers] Open up!

- [knocking]
- Open up! Open up!

- [knocking continues]
- Open up! Open up!

- Open up! Open up! Open up!
- [banging]

Open up! Open up! Open up! Open up!

- [banging continues]
- Open up! Open up!

[ominous music playing]

- [banging continues]
- Open up! Open up! Open up!

Open up! Open up!

[group continues chanting and banging]

Let this be a strong message
to management, huh?

Death to management.

[all] Death to management.

Death to management! Death to management!

This is Stephanie Harper.

Hank MacLean's wife.

[group continues chanting]

I don't know how this works exactly,
but he said

that you were always listening, and...

[group] Death to management!

If you can hear this...

initiate Phase 2.

[ominous music playing]

I repeat, this is Stephanie Harper.

Hank MacLean's wife.

Initiate Phase 2.

I repeat, initiate Phase 2.

[terminal blaring]

[Hank] This is Hank MacLean,
reporting for duty, sir.

Nobody in Vault-Tec knows I'm here.

[Norm]
This is Norm MacLean from Vault 33.

Dad, if you can hear me...

[overlapping voices echoing, distorting]

What's gonna happen to our Vault?

[ominous music playing]

[Norm] You're okay.

Let's get you home.

[dramatic music playing]

[Robert] If your family is here,
I'll be happy for you.

But what is your plan?

How will you protect them?

With the Enclave still out there,
there is no safety,

as I tried to warn you
all those years ago.

[phones ringing]

[ringing continues, stops]

[Robert] I want you to know
that it wasn't me.

What wasn't you?

[Robert]
Whatever it is that's about to happen.

I told you, there are far worse people
than I, Mr. Howard.

[suspenseful music playing]

I commend you for trying to play the hero.

I really do.

[foreboding music playing]

[soft music playing]

[sighs]

[Robert] Shall I open it, Mr. Howard?

Open it.

[cryo pod hissing and whirring]

[dramatic music playing]

[Robert] What a shame.

You bet on hope, Mr. Howard.

And you lost.

Cooper Howard, we have here
a warrant for your arrest

by the authority of the House
Un-American Activities Committee.

[dramatic music continues playing]

[Robert]
You've been searching all this time.

[soft music playing]

You're still living in a world of fiction.

A world that isn't real.

You're wrong about that.

[Robert]
You'll forgive me if I don't see how.

Act surprised and let me take the fall.

- Coop.
- I acted alone.

You didn't know anything.

- No. No.
- Okay?

[whispering] Don't admit to this.
Don't admit to any of it.

We can fight this together.

[whispering] For her.

[soft music playing]

[Barb] [whispers]
Coop.

For the first time
in 200 long-a*s years...

I know my family is alive.

[Robert] What are you doing?

The Enclave is still out there.

We're not done, Mr. Howard.

We have business.

Not with me, you don't.

[dramatic music playing]

[elevator pings]

[hopeful music playing]

[scoffs lightly]
I could have prevented this.

There's gonna be a w*r and it's...

it's all my fault.

[Maximus] Yeah, well...

[♪ The Ink Spots:
"This is Worth Fighting For"]

Welcome to the Wasteland.

♪ I saw a peaceful old valley ♪

♪ with a carpet of corn for a floor ♪

♪ and I heard a voice within me whisper ♪

♪ this is worth fighting for ♪

♪ I saw a little old cabin ♪

[static hissing]

♪ and a river that flowed by the door ♪

♪ and I heard a voice within me whisper ♪

♪ this is worth fighting for ♪

♪ Didn't I build that cabin? ♪

♪ Didn't I plant that corn? ♪

♪ Didn't my folks before me ♪

♪ fight for this country
before I was born? ♪

♪ I gathered ♪

♪ my loved ones around me ♪

♪ and I gazed at each face I adore ♪

♪ and I heard that voice
within me thunder ♪

♪ this is worth fighting for ♪

♪ The other day we passed
through a little old valley ♪

♪ Had a carpet of corn for a floor ♪

♪ and it seemed there was something
way down inside of me ♪

♪ kept saying,
"Son, that's worth fighting for" ♪

♪ A little further along, we passed
an old dilapidated cabin ♪

♪ One of them kind with
old man river flowing right by the door ♪

♪ Seemed like this thing down
inside of me kept on saying ♪

♪ "Son, that's worth fighting for,"
so I got to thinking ♪

♪ Didn't I help to build that cabin? ♪

♪ And didn't I help to plant that corn? ♪

♪ And didn't my folks
way yonder before me ♪

♪ fight for this country
way before I was born? ♪

♪ I gathered my loved ones around me ♪

♪ and I gazed at each face I adored ♪

♪ and I heard that voice
within me thunder ♪

♪ this is worth fighting ♪

♪ for ♪

♪

[expl*si*n booming]

[screaming]

[indistinct chatter]

[soldier] Better act fast.

- [booming continues]
- Alright, let's go.

[loud knocking]

State your business.

[Vertibird whirring]

[explosions booming]

The remnants you requested.

Open it.

What is it?

Out of the virtue in my heart...

I tried to unify the Brotherhood.

- [expl*si*n booms]
- [distant shouting]

And look what it got me.

No matter. No matter.

Quintus the unifier is dead.

Quintus the destroyer...

is born.

[ominous music playing]