Nicely, Silo Season 2, episode 9 was so much to unpack.
Issues in each silos at the moment are reaching a boiling level, with Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) prepping for her journey again exterior after that Solo (Steve Zahn) reveal and issues tipping in direction of a full-scale riot in her dwelling silo. However whereas it is all been kicking off, newly promoted head of IT shadow Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) has been making an attempt to resolve his personal thriller.
And by the top of episode 9, it appears like he might lastly have some solutions.
What occurs to Lukas on the finish of episode 9?
Since being promoted to shadow, Lukas has been making an attempt to crack a code left by earlier head of IT Salvador Quinn — the identical code that Decide Meadows (Tanya Moodie) solved 25 years in the past. By episode 9 he is managed it, revealing the next message (part of which we see scrawled in his pocket book):
“…reason to be damned. If you don’t believe me go to the very bottom of the silo. Find the tunnel. You will get confirmation there.”
Later, a rattled Lukas says “the life of the silo” is dependent upon him discovering the mayor. However when he is instructed the mayor is not to be disturbed till that night, he takes issues into his personal palms and heads right down to the underside of the silo. When he finds the tunnel talked about within the word, although, he out of the blue hears a robotic-sounding voice handle him by title.
“Before you, only three people have reached this door,” says the voice. “Salvador Quinn, Mary Meadows, and George Wilkins. I did not speak with Wilkins. Quinn and Meadows were both given the same directive you will now receive. If you speak to anyone about this conversation, or what you have seen down here, we will have no choice but to initiate the safeguard. Do you know what the safeguard is, Mr. Kyle?”
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Lukas’ nervous response? “I do.”
Who’s the voice that speaks to Lukas?
The quick reply is we do not know. However we will make some guesses. As Lukas discusses with Bernard (Tim Robbins) earlier within the episode, we now know there are a number of silos. Fifty-one, to be precise. Whoever speaks to Lukas seems to have some form of greater authority, on condition that they have been issuing “directives” to Silo 18’s heads of IT. Is it potential that whoever speaks to Lukas is the pinnacle of IT at a unique silo? Perhaps one which has authority over all the opposite silos?
The opposite possibility is that the voice won’t belong to an individual in any respect. It sounds faintly robotic, so there’s all the time the possibility that it belongs to some form of all-powerful synthetic intelligence that has management over all of the silos.
What’s the safeguard?
When the voice refers to “the safeguard,” it is clearly a risk. If Lukas tells anybody about what he is heard or seen, they will have “no choice but to initiate” it. Clearly, the safeguard is not one thing designed to maintain the occupants of Silo 18 secure. So what precisely is it?
As soon as once more, we do not know for certain but. Clearly it is one thing that was in Quinn’s code, and the phrase we see on Lukas’ notes — “…reason to be damned” — appears ominous. What appears simply as ominous is the truth that Quinn, the previous head of IT, felt that he wanted to cover its that means in code, in addition to the truth that no matter Decide Meadows realized when she cracked the code drove her to begin consuming.
In a nutshell, regardless of the safeguard is, it is one thing that makes the occupants of Silo 18 who study of it really feel helpless and afraid. Perhaps it is a safeguard geared toward defending the proprietor of the voice, and the opposite silos, in the event that they really feel that Silo 18 is beginning to get uncontrolled?
Methods to watch: Silo is streaming now on Apple TV+ with new episodes releasing weekly.
