In Vault 31, Norm finds a hall of cryogenic pods containing Vault-Tec executives, with reserve listings that include Betty, Hank, and Steph.
To keep this secret from being revealed, Bud locks the door and leaves Norm the choice between entering one of the pods or starving to death.
Hank tracked them down and destroyed the city with a nuclear device, but Rose survived as a feral ghoul, being the one sitting at the table next to Moldaver.
As the cold fusion reactor initiates, the Brotherhood arrives to capture Wilzig's head, fighting their way through the settlement into the observatory and killing most of the NCR defenders as well as many civilians.
The Ghoul arrives and fights the Brotherhood, exploiting a weakness in their power armor using special ammunition to ambush and kill multiple Knights.
After they depart, Maximus awakens and witnesses a mortally wounded Moldaver activating the reactor, returning electricity to Los Angeles.
But the team felt that it wasn't genuine, with Purnell saying "if she's gonna get up and go into the wasteland, she needs to be a changed woman, and maybe her grief needs to give way to something harder."
[4] The episode featured many songs, including "I Don't Want to See Tomorrow" by Nat King Cole, and "We Three (My Echo, My Shadow and Me)" by The Ink Spots.
Club gave the episode an "A–" grade and wrote, "Like the games it pulls from, it has big, weird ideas about humanity, hope, and humor, and it expresses them through a point of view like pretty much nothing much else on TV, ragingly cynical in a way that never quite curdles into despair.
"[9] Sean T. Collins of Decider wrote, "Making no effort, and showing no desire, to conceal its roots in an entertainment-first art form, Fallout is that rarest of beasts: a post-apocalyptic romp with a sense of humor too black to be cute about it.
In the process provides a real star turn for Ella Purnell in particular, the one lead whose face is on display for all to read at all times and who thus has to carry so much weight on her shoulders.
"[10] Ross Bonaime of Collider gave the episode a 9 out of 10 and wrote, "Even as the series seems ready to head to New Vegas, giving fans of the game a familiar locale that they love and recognize, Fallout has found a fascinating way to adapt this story for television.
"[12] Greg Wheeler of The Review Geek gave the episode a 4 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "This finale, and the show as a whole really, has done an excellent job in capturing the moral ambiguity of the games and the different choices you get to make.
The site wrote, "Both Walton Goggins and Ella Purnell clearly had tons of fun with their respective Fallout roles, as the ruthless Ghoul and do-right Lucy.