Vault-Tec wanted an impenetrable Vault buried half a mile below the city. But I was always one step ahead. I rigged every aspect of this city so I could protect its future. I rigged every slot machine, every roulette wheel. I even rigged their "impenetrable Vault for Management." But I miscalculated. Because this Vault belongs not to Vault-Tec, but to their investors. I never fathomed that there could be someone one step ahead of me.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
When it came to predicting the end of the world, I was off by just a smidge. But when it came to controlling the future, I was wholly outclassed by an invisible adversary. It was they who set the Deathclaws on Vegas. And now one of their acolytes is here, in this very building.
Robert House wanted to turn human beings into machines. Erase their memories, make them suggestible enough to following his orders. You know Robert, he was a bit of a robot himself. And who wants to live in a world full of robots? So what I was trying to do was add a little personality to his product.
Who was she?
Congresswoman Diane Welch, from Glendale. ISTP on the old Myers-Briggs. Which is still the gold standard for personnel. Ideal personality to scale. With the kind of attributes we could stand to see more of out there in the world if you ask me. Well-meaning, sweet, non-threatening.
Then why would you do that to her?
Well...Daddy's job is complicated, sweetie.
The Enclave's eyes are everywhere. You should know, Mister Howard. Two hundred years ago you delivered that diode into their possession yourself. You helped bring forth the greatest threat to the Wasteland. You were their unwitting servant.
I am what I am.
Is that what you'll tell your family when you find them?
After all this, I'm thinking Bakersfield isn't such a bad idea.
After all this, I'm thinking we go as far as Colorado.
Miniaturization. It's the wave of the future. Soon we won't know who's been automated and who hasn't. Just a little scar on your neck. Other than that...you'll be my little girl again.
[horrified] You're insane!
You don't mean that. And if you do, very soon you won't.
CCroupier
You know if he loses, we're all dead, right?
GGambler
[shrugs] I'm still in for twenty.
[after wounding Hank] If it was up to me, it wouldn't be your ass bleeding out all over the floor. [slides Lucy a pistol] But it ain't up to me. What say you, Vaultie?
We got it from here.
I spent my whole life dreaming of what it would be like to come up to the Surface one day. With you.
I just wanted to make all this worthy of you. You know, I was almost looking forward to going back to the Vaults with you. It would have been nice to see everyone again. Norm, Betty, Stephanie...hoo boy, Stephanie. But we're not going back, are we?
Guess the Surface changes a person.
You lied to me my whole life.
I know that's how you feel. You think this is the real world. The Surface is the experiment, not the Vaults. I've already sent my R&D out into the Wasteland. Their boxes are the latest models too. Can't even see them. Unbeknownst to everyone, they're following orders written for them centuries ago.
Orders to do what? What did you do?
I love you, Sugarbomb. [erases his own mind]
This is Stephanie Harper. Hank MacLean's wife. I don't know how this works exactly, but he said you were always listening. If you can hear this: Initiate Phase Two.
I want you to know that it wasn't me.
What wasn't you?
Whatever it is that's about to happen. I told you, there are far worse people than I, Mister Howard.
[The Ghoul find Barb Howard's pod. It is empty.]
What a shame. You bet on hope, Mister Howard. And you lost.
[Inside the pod is a postcard for Colorado, with Barb's handwriting, "Colorado was a good idea."]
For the first time in two hundred long-ass years, I know my family is alive.
There's gonna be a war and it's all my fault.
Yeah, well...welcome to the Wasteland.
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