Warning! Major spoilers ahead for the Fallout season 1 finale.
Fallout star Ella Purnell explains the climactic decision that Lucy makes during the season 1 finale. Releasing in its entirety on Prime Video earlier this month, the acclaimed adaptation hails from showrunners Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. After an action-packed and twisting season, the Fallout season 1 finale sees Lucy learn that her father, Hank (Kyle Maclachlan), is responsible for the destruction of Shady Sands and her mother being turned into a Ghoul. In the season’s finale moments, Lucy kills what remains of her mother before opting to follow Walton Goggins’ Ghoul out into the Wasteland.
Following the Fallout season 2 confirmation, Purnell breaks down Lucy’s big decision and moment of revelation during an interview with GQ. According to the actor, the scene of Lucy mercy-killing her mother went through several different iterations on set before they landed on the correct tone and level of emotion. Purnell also teases what this could mean for Lucy heading into season 2. Check out her full comment below:
Lucy, a Vault Dweller, essentially serves as an audience stand-in for much of season 1, helping introduce the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout to viewers who aren’t familiar with the games. It’s through Lucy that the different factions and creatures of the apocalypse are introduced, and she slowly becomes more hardened as the series goes on. After she goes through all this hardship and finally finds her father, she learns about his evil deeds and his hit with several big revelations all at once.
After she disowns her father in the Fallout season 1 finale, season 2 could feature a Lucy who is far less wide-eyed and naive. She has now truly experienced the horrors of the Wasteland and will have to come to terms with her family’s role in the state of the world. The Ghoul is shown to be a violent and generally remorseless figure, and her decision to follow him suggests she could become someone similar.
It’s not clear when season 2 will pick up in the larger Fallout timeline, but audiences could be in for a little less world-building in the show’s sophomore outing. With many of the pieces now set on the board and with Lucy now largely accustomed to the state of the world, season 2 could end up exploring Purnell’s character on an even deeper level. It remains to be seen what’s next for Lucy in Fallout, but it’s clear that the events of the finale will have big repurcussions in the episodes ahead.
Source: GQ