Editor’s note: The below recap contains spoilers for Silo Season 2 Episode 8.
Anyone else feeling a little stressed? You aren’t alone. We’ve reached the home stretch ofSiloSeason 2, and this series continues to mercilessly pull out all the stops wheretwists, turns, and startling revelationsare concerned. Episode 8, “The Book of Quinn,” written byRemi Aubuchonand directed byAmber Templemore, advances some harsh plot developments with ease andwithout losing sight of this ensemble’s humanity. Every character is trying to survive via the limited, different avenues available to them, and love makes us impossibly vulnerable.
Episode 8’s events in the Down Deep start on a solemn note, with Shirley (Remmie Milner) adding thelate Cooper’s (Matt Gomez Hidaka) nameto Mechanical’s wall of names of other revolutionaries who died in previous rebellions. Then, she joins Sheriff Paul Billings (Chinaza Uche) for breakfast in the cafeteria. The pair discuss the Founders' idea of due process, which has both virtues and flaws, and the inarguable fact thattrue justice will never be achievedas long as the Pact — and the people upholding it, like Bernard Holland (Tim Robbins) and Robert Sims (Common) — are in control. Sometime later, when Billings is alone with his wife Kathleen (Caitlin Zoz), Shirley’s argument against the Pact sticks with Billings’s increasingly conflicted conscience. Together, the couple cry over the old picture of the Blue Ridge Mountains — a relic from Juliette’s (Rebecca Ferguson) room that Billings still hasn’t discarded.
Lukas Decodes Some of Salvador Quinn’s Secret Message in ‘Silo’ Season 2 Episode 8
In the Up Top, Lukas Kyle (Avi Nash) uses his newfound authority as the mayor’s shadow to search thelate Judge Meadows' (Tanya Moodie)apartment. Kyle consults her book collection and realizes he needs a specific text if he wants to crack Salvador Quinn’s message:Quinn’s old copy of the Pact, something Quinn’s descendants have kept safe and passed down since the rebellion 140 years ago. Kyle visits Quinn’s current living descendant, Terrance Pennbrook, and tries to strong-arm the man (as well as his daughter-in-law and grandson) into surrendering the book. To say that Kyle screws the pooch is an understatement. Pennbrook doesn’t trust Kyle as far as he can throw him, and Quinn’s actions during the rebellion stained his family’s name; his descendants have spent those 140 years trying to make up for his actions.
Kyle returns to Judicial with his metaphorical tail between his legs. Holland, however, doesn’t seem upset about this bump in the road. He explains that Quinn “letting the rebels wipe the servers and burn all the books” was actually a heroic act on Quinn’s part.Quinn himself erased all the information about past rebellions, and without examples to look up to, the Silo’s residents weren’t inspired to keep resisting. Quinn also put a memory-erasing drug in the water supply, guaranteeing that anyone who remembered the uprisings would forget over time. As for Mechanical, they made the perfect scapegoat to hide behind. As far as we know, Holland — and now Kyle, by extension – is the only person who knows the truth about Quinn and the several centuries' worth of rebellions.
Chastened, Kyle apologizes to Pennbrook’s family. He tells them Quinn was a hero who saved the Silo, and because Meadows visited long enough to tell them the same thing before she became a judge, the Pennbrooks believe him. They produce Quinn’s old copy of the Pact, and Lukas manages to translate the message’s first sentence: “If you’ve gotten this far,you already know the game is rigged.” When Lukas leaves to report his progress to Holland, who’s waiting for him right outside his door? None other than Robert Sims. Earlier in this episode, Camille (Alexandria Riley) had exploited Rick Amundsen’s (Christian Ochoa Lavernia) guilt about replacing Sims as head of Judicial Security; Amundsen reported Kyle’s location to Sims, but promised no more favors.Sims absconds with Quinn’s Pact, complete with an ominous warning to Kyle to not trust Holland. If anyone has firsthand experience of how easily the mayor tosses aside those loyal to him, it would be Robert Sims.
Martha Faces a Heartbreaking Choice in ‘Silo’ Season 2 Episode 8
Checking in with Mechanical, Martha (Harriet Walter) makes one last-ditch plea for them to adjust their priorities. RescuingCarla (Clare Perkins)from seclusion should be top of mind; Martha’s beloved ex-wife can only last so long, given her health conditions. Shirley is far from unsympathetic to her friend’s plight, but the group unanimously favors breaking into Medical Supply to restock their dwindling supplies. All Martha gets in response are platitudes — and an anonymous message about fixing a pump on level 90. She immediately ascends, apparently not caring one whit that it’s the most obvious trap in the world. She enters level 90’s utility room to find Bernard patiently waiting for her. With little ceremony and no negotiation whatsoever, Holland threatens to keep Carla alive but torture her relentlesslyunless Martha becomes a mole for him. Guilt-stricken, heartbroken, and backed into a corner, Martha agrees.
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As it turns out, becoming Holland’s spy means revealing Mechanical’s plans to raid Medical Supply. Amundsen and the raiders catch Teddy (Olatunji Ayofe) and a small rebel group in the act and promptly arrest them at gunpoint. Butall Holland affords Marthain exchange is a glimpse of Carla through the seclusion room’s vision slit, and it’s a harrowing sight: Carla slumped in a chair, bound, blindfolded, and her hearing so muffled, she can’t hear Martha desperately crying out to her. Holland warns Martha that if she tries to weasel her way around her end of this not-bargain, his spies in the Down Deep will know, and he will retaliate accordingly against Carla. Holland also orders Martha to stay in her workshop and re-install the surveillance camera she briefly re-connected in last week’s episode — a decision that’s come back to horrifically haunt her. This turn of events hurts all the more when a concerned Shirley checks up on Martha and tells her about Teddy’s arrest.Shirley knows they must have a snitch, but doesn’t seem to ever consider it could be Martha — their voice of reason and fiercest leader.
Juliette’s New Enemies Show Their Faces in ‘Silo’ Season 2 Episode 8
Jumping ship over toJuliette, who emerged from Silo 17’s flooded depths to find a trail of blood, a hand axe on the ground, and no sign of Solo (Steve Zahn). The engineer has armed herself with that axe and slowly ascends the stairs. The first sign of trouble is a ringing in her ears, swiftly followed by Juliette repeatedly stumbling from a nasty cramp in her thigh that won’t go away no matter how hard she beats her fist into her leg. Remembering that Solo told herthe only cure for decompression sickness is to rest in the wateruntil she feels normal again, Juliette abandons her search and sinks as deep underwater as she can, hanging onto the edge of a rope and occasionally drawing oxygen from her mouthpiece.
Once she recovers, Juliette resumes following the blood trail. She calls out, and a person in the shadows responds by claiming they killed Solo. They warn Juliette that the same fate will befall her if she doesn’t leave. Of course, Juliette doesn’t obey a rando stranger’s commands, and they promptly shoot an arrow into her chest. Our heroine retreats to a supply room, applying antibiotics and a bandage to her gnarly wound as best as she can with one hand. Undeterred, she grabs both a makeshift shield and a spear. Several floors up, a body lies on the floor covered with a sheet. Juliette carefully approaches, and the playing-dead body attacks her as soon as she’s within range. During the ensuing scuffle, Juliette rips the figure’s helmet off to reveal a dark-haired boy of indeterminable age, but likely in his late teens or early twenties.Two more strangers, a girl and another boy, suddenly appear on the stairs above — and the girl is aiming a bow and arrow, ready to shoot Juliette in the heart.
New episodes ofSiloSeason 2 premiere weekly on Fridays and are available to stream on Apple TV+.
Juliette fights off her new enemies and Martha makes a heartbreaking decision in Silo Season 2 Episode 8.
In a dystopian future, men and women reside in a vast underground silo governed by strict regulations, believed to shield them from the hazardous world above. The series delves into the complex social order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean existence.
