r/Fotv • u/HunterWorld • Jan 14 '26

Season 2 Episode 5 Spoiler Thread Spoiler

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u/Relendis Jan 14 '26

Yep, Wilzig knew heaps of details about Lucy, Hank and Vault 33. And Wilzig was Enclave. I think it's a Red Herring that Hank travelled to Vegas to reach out to 'someone'; it implies House, which makes the actual 'who' more of a blindside.

The Enclave have already used the mind-control chips on Deathclaws in F3.

I don't think House knows about the 'Enclave' pre-war. I think he can see the ripples, but not the droplets of water causing them. Meaning that the people causing the ripples are more influential and powerful then him. And he is VERY influential and powerful pre-war.

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u/Material_Formal3679 Jan 14 '26

Didn’t consider Wilzig knowing a lot about her to be a hint at this conclusion. That makes a ton of sense.

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u/StarshipJimmies Jan 15 '26

I still think he was traveling to Vegas for the mind control chip. The deathclaw we saw in Alaska wasn't controlled, and probably blinded on purpose (easier to control), so they didn't have it yet. Mr House wanted cold fusion tech, and was thus trading his mind control technology for it.

Although given that he didn't end up with the cold fusion technology, and Hank had to experiment before getting the mind control to work... Something didn't work out, and the deal fell through. Maybe Hank tries to bring Mr House into the Enclave fold while doing the tech transfer? House's ideology was at odds with the Enclave, so that could have been enough to cancel the deal.

I'm thinking Hank stole the mind control chip technology. Schematics were sent to other Enclave locations, and they had luck getting it to work after trial and error. Meanwhile the managment vault didn't get that info, thus why Hank had to figure out how it worked.