[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season two finale of Fallout, “The Strip.”)

If the house always wins, what happens to the game when you burn the whole thing down?

That’s not the exact situation Fallout faces as it closes the book on season two of the Prime Video series, but it’s pretty close given the series of game-changers unleashed in the season finale. 

The finale, titled “The Strip,” sees old friends reunited — like Lucy (Ella Purnell) and Maximus (Aaron Moten), who find each other after an epic battle on the titular strip of New Vegas.

“There are these moments where he’s a truly heroic person,” Moten told The Hollywood Reporter at the finale’s Las Vegas screening about slugging it out on the streets, and activating Maximus’ most heroic moment yet. “It’s when he overthinks things that he ends up being in these overly chaotic situations. And there’s this moment when he breaks through the barrier into the strip where he says, ‘Oh no.’ Because he knows what he has to do: he has to sacrifice himself for all these people.”

Mercifully, Maximus makes it through the fight alive, and he’s not the only gunslinger with some newfound pep in his step. Look no further than the Ghoul Cooper Howard (Walton Goggins), who scores a major victory in the finale. After searching for his family all series long, the Ghoul reaches a cryo chamber where he finds evidence that his wife Barb (Frances Turner) is not only likely still alive, but likely living in Colorado. It’s a moment that’s guaranteed to change how the Ghoul operates; typically a loner who lacks much regard for his fellow traveler, now changed not just by the time he spent this season with Lucy, but also by the hope he has for the search for his wife and daughter.

“It really sets us up where I think we’re headed,” Goggins explained to THR. “Cooper and the Ghoul are finally going to meet, now that he has what we all have: hope. That’s what makes us human, the trait we all have in common.”

Speculating on the eventual meeting, Turner added: “If or when [Cooper] find [Barb]what condition will she be in? What happened to her while they were apart, and what happened for him to go to her wherever she is? But there are also many roads to overcome. [in the past] From the moment they are separated from each other until the bomb is dropped. ”

As far as the villain is concerned, dropping the bomb is exactly what happens in this finale. Lucy’s father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan), has spent all of season two building an army of brainwashed Wastelanders at the behest of Robert House (Justin Theroux), but he himself has been reincarnated as a very Wizard of Oz figure: a ghost in a machine. Hank himself ends up carrying out House’s plan, thanks in no small part to his wife’s cooperation (his wife!) Stephanie Harper, a Canadian murderer, makes quick work of her fellow vault dwellers.

“I believe in Hank and his mission,” McLachlan said of the mysterious “Phase 2” that Hank and Stephanie introduced after the season ended. “He’s a guy who brings a gun to a knife fight. But there’s always a purpose to it. There’s always a reason and a rationale. That’s what happens in season two. He’s following this device that he believes will change the wilderness. He’s operating from a place of what he believes is altruistic.”

surely do not have Operating from an altruistic standpoint is Quintus, a presbyterian played by Michael Christopher, who hits the final beat of the season. A Brotherhood of Steel sign dominates the post-credits scene, announcing the arrival of “Liberty Prime.” fall out The game can be really predictable.

For such people please don’t You see, Liberty Prime is a giant fighting robot that makes the Brotherhood of Steel’s signature power armor look like a suit made from a box of scraps in a cave.

“It’s a giant robot,” said giddy Bethesda Game Studios veteran Todd Howard. fall out Reacting to the reveal of Liberty Prime, I’ve been playing the game for years. “It was always a matter of when and how, and it wasn’t.” if. We’re so excited that the show tackles that issue. ”

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Fallout Season 2 is now available on Prime Video.