Notice! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2 episode 1.
The new silo, where Silo As Season 2 Episode 1 unfolds, it’s heavily flooded, making it hard not to wonder how it filled with so much water and why Juliette can’t swim in it. Silo The first season ended on a satisfying note, where Juliette stood firm against Bernard’s tyranny while many of her fellow citizens helped her survive in the outside world. Season 2 picks up where the first part left off, following Juliette’s journey inside a neighboring silo. Realizing that the heat tape on her suit won’t hold out for long, Juliette tries to enter a neighboring silo.
However, the closer she gets, the more she realizes that it has been abandoned for a long time. After walking down a path marked by many dead bodies, Rebecca Ferguson’s Juliette breaks into the new silo, hoping to find shelter. However, she faces her first major challenge when she discovers that a bridge connecting one end of the silo to the other has been broken. While trying to cross the broken bridge using ropes, she accidentally falls and almost drowns after falling into water that floods the lower levels of the silo.
Why is the second silo flooded in the first episode of season 2
The silo was flooded during a massive riot
Although Silo Season 2 Episode 1 doesn’t explicitly mention why the new silo was flooded, but it hints at what might have happened in an opening flashback. The opening sequence features a rebellion in the new silo where its citizens are divided into two factions. One faction includes freedom fighters who wish to break free from the silo and escape to the outside world. Meanwhile, the other obeys the orders of higher authorities and prevents the freedom fighters from leaving.
In the episode’s opening scene, a boy named Timmy carries a message from the Engineering department to his father, who apparently leads the freedom fighters and was also the sheriff of Silo before the rebellion. The message says that the generator room will be flooded in 15 minutes, suggesting that the sheriff and his supporters planned to flood the lower levels of the Silo to ensure that no one can live in it. Filling the generator room with water was probably a tactical move to sabotage the Silo’s energy infrastructureforcing everyone to leave the underground bunker for good.
Why Juliette can’t swim in the silo
The citizens of Silo 18 never had the opportunity to swim
Juliette is unable to swim after falling into the lower levels of the new silo because she never had access to any huge bodies of water while growing up. Silo Season 1 establishes that, like others in Silo 18, Juliette and George fear the huge pool of water in the Silo’s lowest level because they never learned to swim. Due to this, Juliette struggles to stay afloat when her rope breaks. Silo episode 1 of season 2 and falls to the lower levels of the new silo.
After the steam engine incident in Silo Season 1, Juliette should have been able to swim in the opening episode of Season 2.
It’s hard not to notice how Juliette’s inability to swim Silo the second season apparently creates a continuity error. In Silo first episodes of season 1, Juliette appears to learn to swim when she almost drowns while watering the hot plate of Silo 18’s steam engine. After the steam engine incident in Silo Season 1, Juliette should have been able to swim in the opening episode of Season 2. However, given that she barely made it out of the steam engine incident alive, it is possible that this did not give her enough confidence to fully overcome her fear of water.