Is the real rebellion beginning?

Notice! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2 episode 5.

Silo Season 2 Episode 5 walks through the series of events that led to the rebellion reaching its boiling point, as Juliette struggles to find a way to return home. Based on Hugh Howey Silo book series, the Apple TV+ show finally picks up pace halfway through its runtime as it gradually builds to its crescendo. While many mysteries underlying the series remain unsolved, Season 2 Episode 5 asserts that viewers will know much more about Solo's true identity and Juliette's fate before the season ends.

Even when it comes to Bernard's side of the story, the Apple TV+ sci-fi show appears to be heading into intriguing territory, where he will soon learn some terrifying truths about the world he lives in as he better understands the coded letter. by Salvador Quinn. In his final moments, Silo Season 2 Episode 5 also sets the stage for an intense second half of the season, suggesting that Bernard may not be able to contain the growing rebellion for long. This, in turn, puts a ticking clock on Juliette's head because she will have to race against time to get home before it's too late.

Why Juliette Is Sick in Silo Season 2 Finale Episode 5

A wound on your hand is infected

Unfortunately, for Juliette, even though she realizes the urgency of her mission, many challenges prevent her from returning home. Until episode 5, her biggest setback was finding or preparing an insulated suit that would protect her from the outside world. Even if she finds a firefighter suit in Silo In episode 4 of season 2, she realizes she can't use it. Things take a dark turn when she suddenly becomes seriously ill. Solo thinks she's just tired because she hasn't eaten much since she arrived. Therefore, hoping to help her, he provides her with food.

However, at the end of the episode, Juliette checks a wound on her arm and realizes it is infected. The infected wound is what makes her sick. In the final stretch of the episode, Juliette surprisingly manages to find an old helmet in a room in Silo 17. But to her dismay, she falls to the floor due to the infection. suggesting she will need Solo's help.

Since Solo has been in Silo 17 his entire life, he will likely know where Juliette can get access to antibiotics to cure the infection and help her plan her return home. Given that Solo wanted her to drain the water from the Silo's lower levels before she reached IT, Juliette could return the favor and eventually agree to help him before leaving. However, with time running out, Juliette will have to recover quickly.

What Solo is hiding from Juliette about his identity

Solo may not be who he claims

In Silo In episode 4 of season 2, Solo acted suspiciously when Juliette asked about his past and asked about his timeline in the Silo. He becomes even more erratic when Juliette confronts him in episode 5 after learning that another person in the Silo is named Solo. So far, Solo has told two different stories about why he calls himself that way. The first time Juliette met him, he said his name is Solo because he lives alone in Silo 17. In episode 5, Juliette finds a photo of another man with the name Solo written on the frame.

This makes her realize that Solo is someone else and that the sole survivor of Silo 17 is lying to her. When Juliette questions whether he is the IT boss's shadow, Solo suddenly loses his cool and attacks her. He defends himself by shouting that he is the shadow of the late mayor, but there is clearly more to him than meets the eye. It seems possible that his father's nickname was Soloand he only adopted the name after he died.

Discrepancies in his recollections of his Silo timeline also suggest that he was incredibly young when the rebellion took place. Due to this, he could not have been officially declared Silo shadow by the Head of IT. This could mean that just to ensure he remained safe inside the Silo's vault and avoided leaving while everyone else died, his father must have convinced him that he was the shadow. Being a boy, Solo probably took his father's final words to heart and decided to embody the role.

Juliette also finds a directory that confirms that a man named Cole Myers was the last shadow of the IT chief. The photo she later discovers in the Silo 17 apartment also shows Cole Myers and a woman nicknamed “Mini”. While Silo future episodes of season 2 will likely reveal more about them, Mini and Solo may have been the parents of Steven Zhan's character. After losing his loved ones during the rebellion, he likely took his father's name to cope with his grief and convinced himself that it was his responsibility to look after the Silo vault.

How Knox and Shirley's return to mechanics sparks the real rebellion

Encourages Mechanics to go all out in their protests

Bernard tries to stop Shirley and Knox from returning to the Mechanics because he understands that they will become the pioneers of the budding rebellion if they succeed. To his dismay, despite his best efforts to stop them, Knox and Shirley eventually make it back, causing the people on the lower levels to become increasingly angry at the upper floors.. Because Bernard killed the only person, Meadows, who could have helped him strategically extinguish the rebellion, he appears to have dug his own grave.

Instead of working for him, Robert Sims and his wife also seem to have their own underlying agendas. They seem very fixated on rising through the ranks of the Silo and use the increasing chaos to accomplish their goals. This makes things even worse for Bernard because he leaves no one by his side. Bernard orders Billings to arrest Knox and Shirley to ensure things don't get any worse. However, Billings is also beginning to realize that Bernard was a hypocrite. After learning the truth about the Silo's many secrets from Patrick Kennedy, Billings may also turn his back on Bernard.

Why Silo 17 IT has a separate power supply

This suggests there are greater forces out there

Solo reveals that IT gets its power from an external source. Later on Silo In the season 2 episode, Lukas follows Bernard's orders and fixes the broken hard drive that Juliette had previously acquired. He finds a blueprint of Silo 18, which shows external lines entering the IT department. Although Lukas seems to have no idea what these lines could mean, it seems evident that Silo 18's IT is also being powered by an external source. While only time will tell where these lines go, IT's connection to an outside source seems to confirm that larger forces are at play.

Someone or something in the outside world appears to control the silos and has the power to manipulate the internal systems. Connecting IT to an external source can also be a measure to ensure that if the Mechanic decides to turn off all power to the Silo, the head of IT still has control over the Silo. This could mean that no matter what happens inside the Silo, someone on the outside will be prepared to establish control.

Why Bernard appoints Sims as new judge, but not as his shadow

Sims breaks his trust, but is too valuable to Bernard

The main reason why Bernard killed Meadows in Silo Season 2 Episode 4 was that he saw her as a threat for wanting to leave the Silo. However, his decision to kill her was also motivated by Robert Sims' scheme to get her accused. Bernard realized that the impeachment plan would tarnish their image among superiors and turn them against the Silo authorities. Due to this, he used her as a scapegoat to create differences between the upper and lower levels of the Silo.

Bernard may have previously considered having Robert Sims as his shadow. However, after the betrayal, he realizes that he can no longer trust him. At the same time, however, Bernard also understands that Sims is too valuable for him to simply discard.. Therefore, he makes him head of the Judiciary. As seen in Silo In episode 5 of season 2, this doesn't seem to work in Bernard's favor either, because Robert's wife begins to assert her influence behind the scenes, manipulating her husband.