Notice! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2, episode 1.Silo Season 2 Episode 1 marks the beginning of a new journey for Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette and introduces a mysterious new character in her final moments. Throughout its running time, Silo the opening episode of season 2 goes back and forth between timelines. Previous timelines focus on the history of a silo located near Juliette’s Silo 18 or Juliette’s childhood. Meanwhile, the current timeline highlights how Juliette enters a new, seemingly abandoned silo and explores its depths to discover more about the world she lives in.
Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette shows off her resourcefulness in the episode as she builds makeshift bridges using ropes and other spare parts in the abandoned silo. She faces many setbacks, but remains steadfast in the face of adversity and danger. However, at the end of Apple TV+’s inaugural episode Silo In Season 2, she apparently faces her biggest challenge yet when she finds a man in the abandoned silo. The mysterious man only shows half his face through the door’s peephole and strangely warns Juliette that he will kill her if she tries to open the door again.
Who is the Man in Silo Season 2 Finale Episode 1
The man is the last survivor of the neighboring silo
Although Silo Season 2, Episode 1 ends with a cliffhanger that doesn’t reveal the man’s identity, but does hint at who he is in one of its opening flashbacks. In the opening scene, a boy named Timmy delivers a message to his father from his silo’s engineering department. After reading the message, the father, who wears a sheriff’s badge, asks one of his men to take Timmy to safety. In the events that follow, two silo factions wage war against each other. The faction, led by the Sheriff, ends up winning and heads to the outside world in search of freedom.
However, as the show’s current timeline suggests, all of the silo’s citizens who left died upon coming into contact with the toxins in the atmosphere. The man Juliette finds in the underground bunker appears to be the only person who managed to survive while everyone else in the silo died. Given how the Silo episode seems to focus a little too much on Timmy, the survivor can also be the adult version of him. However, since Timmy also hangs out with everyone in the flashback, it’s hard not to wonder how he managed to survive.
Although Silo season 2 episode 1 only reveals the mystery man’s eyes, it can clearly be seen that Steven Zahn is playing him.
Before Silo Following the release of Season 2, Steve Zahn was confirmed as a new addition to the show’s roster. It was revealed that he would play a character named Solo, who is the sole survivor of an uprising in Silo 17. Although Silo season 2 episode 1 only reveals the mystery man’s eyes, it can clearly be seen that Steven Zahn is playing him. This confirms that the man behind the door is Solo from Hugh Howey’s first film. Silo book, There.
Why the man threatens to kill Juliette in Silo, season 2 finale, episode 1
He seems to have difficulty trusting her and her motives
The mysterious man, Solo, has likely been living alone in the Silo for years, if not decades, since the rebellion killed everyone else. Due to this, he must be cautious about trusting Juliette and her motives. Since the people of their Silo left before they died, they probably knew something about the outside world that the citizens of Silo 18 didn’t. Because of this, Solo probably also knows a lot more about other silos and the authorities that run them than Juliette does. He becomes paranoid about Juliette’s arrival because he isn’t sure if she is an ally or an enemy sent to silence him.
Solo can also be protecting something or someone. He may not be the only survivor and has a responsibility to protect others. Therefore, he threatens to kill Juliette if she tries to open the door, because he is unsure whether her arrival would benefit him and other survivors or put their lives in danger.
What Happened to Juliette’s Suit in Silo Season 2 Episode 1
The suit ran out of oxygen
Moments after Juliette enters a neighboring Silo, she realizes she is having trouble breathing. In a desperate effort to restore her breathing, she uses a wrench to break her helmet. Once she removes her helmet, she can finally breathe again. This scene suggests that she only had a limited supply of oxygen in her pressurized suit. She survived outside because her suit was adequately pressurized and sealed with heat tape that ensured she received an adequate supply of oxygen without coming into contact with the toxic air in the atmosphere.
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However, when she began to run out of oxygen and even her heat tape began to give out, Juliette faced a terrible choice. Silo season 2 episode: she could break her helmet and risk breathing in toxins or suffocating to death. For obvious reasons, she chose the latter. Fortunately, the new silo she entered had clean air, allowing her to survive even without the suit.
What happened to the citizens of the new Silo in Silo Season 2
They lost their lives after a riot
Like the opening flashback in Silo Season 2 Episode 1 suggests that a rebellion occurred in the new Silo decades before Juliette entered it. During the rebellion, Silo’s citizens were divided into two factions: freedom fighters and conformists. Although the freedom seekers wanted to open the Silo gates because they were convinced they were being lied to about the outside world, the conformists refused to break the rules imposed on them by higher authorities. Ultimately, the freedom fighters, led by the Sheriff of Silo, emerged victorious.
Before the sheriff leads his supporters out of the Silo, he questions whether they are right about the outside world being habitable for humans. He then dismisses their concerns by claiming that they are dead anyway, seemingly reflecting how oppressed and trapped they felt after being trapped in the Silo for their entire lives. Unfortunately, as the aftermath of the flashback reveals, all of the freedom fighters died after going outside and breathing in the toxins in the air.
Martha Walker’s Silo Dream Season 2 Episode 1 Flashback Explained
Her dream highlights the loneliness felt by the people in the silo
In another flashback in Silo In episode 1 of season 2, Martha Walker describes one of her dreams to young Juliette. She says she dreamed of staying behind at the Silo and even went out the door to call the others. She only realized she was dreaming when one of her neighbors asked her to shut up. Silo The first season established that Martha has been afraid to leave her workshop for some time. Your dream and lifestyle seem reflect a deep internal conflict between your desire to seek freedom and your inability to free yourself from the rules imposed on you..
…Instead of seeking freedom, she resigns herself to a life of comfort in her own space and only goes out in Silo final moments of season 1, when Juliette needs his help.
Like all Silo citizens, she desires to know more about the outside world and longs to be freed from the confines of the Silo. But because freedom seems out of reach and forbidden in the Silo, she feels trapped even in her dreams. Therefore, instead of seeking freedom, she resigns herself to a life of comfort in her own space and only goes out in Silo final moments of season 1, when Juliette needs his help.