Warning: SPOILERS lie ahead for Fallout season 2, episode 8, “The Strip”!After going their separate ways last season, the Fallout season 2 finale has reunited Aaron Moten’s Maximus and Ella Purnell’s Lucy, though it comes with a lot of baggage.
Season 1 of the Prime Video series saw the Brotherhood of Steel squire and Vault Dweller develop a bond as they traveled across the Wasteland in search of her father and answers about the device in the head of Michael Emerson’s Wilzig. Season 2 picked up very shortly after its predecessor, with Lucy and Walton Goggins’ The Ghoul heading to New Vegas to find her father, while a still-disillusioned Maximus, now a knight for the Brotherhood, finds himself in the midst of a brewing civil war.
This all culminates in the Fallout season 2 ending, as Maximus turns to The Ghoul for help getting to Lucy while he continues searching for his wife and daughter, with the pair having a sweet-yet-uneasy reunion as they watch Caesar’s Legion march on New Vegas. In an interview with ScreenRant‘s Grant Hermanns ahead of the episode’s premiere, Aaron Moten opened up about this long-awaited reunion, calling it “this new development” for the duo.
When asked about the final moments in which Lucy is blaming herself for the impending war in New Vegas that Maximus shrugs off as being part of the Wasteland, the star expressed that their different feelings are down to “what they’ve experienced.” In his mind, part of why Maximus doesn’t take a more comforting approach to her concerns is that he “wishes that he had someone next to him when he’s putting all this blame on himself” who can remind him that “it’s what this life is,” with regard to the Wasteland:
Aaron Moten: There’s a sense of facing something together is better than alone in that moment, I think. But yeah, I’m super excited to be back. I remember even the first day seeing Ella on set, she’s wearing that yellow dress. It was something, these little tiny details of things that you read in a script, but you don’t see these things until you’re there with the person.
Recalling it being “totally different” to see Purnell donning a yellow dress instead of the “Vault suit that I was so used to seeing her in,” Moten and his co-star thought it “really funny” to put her in a completely new look. Further describing their reunion as being “really special,” Moten further teased that Maximus and Lucy have “got a journey ahead of them” going into Fallout season 3.
Maximus and Lucy’s reunion in the Fallout season 2 ending comes after the two endured some of their biggest, yet very different, challenges thus far. The former had just survived his fight against the pack of Deathclaws roaming around the Lucky 38, hoping to distract them while The Ghoul gets inside and utilizing an abandoned piece of New California Republic Power Armor to do so. The NCR even showed up just in time before he faced down the last Deathclaw without the armor, essentially claiming the New Vegas strip for themselves.
Lucy, on the other hand, had a far more emotional moment as she watched her father elect to wipe out his memory utilizing one of the chip implants she forced him to install on himself. With so much of her journey having centered on finding her dad and trying to bring him to justice to her fellow Vault 33 residents, the Fallout season 2 ending has left her in a curious place for the show’s future.
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Despite the somewhat uneasy feeling behind their reunion in the finale, that doesn’t entirely point to a negative future for Maximus and Lucy in the in-development Fallout season 3. Much of season 2 saw Moten’s character still impacted by his interaction with Lucy, wanting to do the right thing and deliver the cold fusion tech to someone who would do good with it, rather than let it fuel a civil war within the Brotherhood. As such, it seems like he’d approach a relationship with her with the same benevolent mentality.
Regardless of intentions, though, Lucy and Maximus’ reunion is going to come with some hurdles going into Fallout season 3. With the NCR seemingly taking control as the Legion make their way to New Vegas, they’ll likely find themselves having to choose a side in the fight if they elect to stay there. However, with The Ghoul heading up to Colorado to find his family, and Lucy having spent quite a bit of time trying to get through his gruff exterior, it seems just as possible that they’ll have to figure out what their relationship looks like in the Wasteland as they try to join him.
All eight episodes of Fallout season 2 are available to stream on Prime Video now.
- Release Date
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April 10, 2024
- Network
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Amazon Prime Video
- Showrunner
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Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
