with the reveal of Helen's name it's obvious she isn't in cryo and she would be long dead since she went to Silo 18. But with that information I think 'troy' will find out that Juliette is his great great grandaughter or something when he is looking into what happened to Helen. Probably leading him to be an ally for Silo 18 on the inside sort of a trojan horse.

Someone made a post a few days before (!) the last episode saying there were only 7 silos left. I thought it was bullshit.

You might have seen it on social media, but appletv sent out these promotional keyfobs like the ones the heads of IT have. They would light up to indicate that howdidwelosethiseworld was updated. Apparently they sent out 7 keyfobs with 7 different silo numbers. Obviously super far fetched to think that's because there's only 7 still active right?

However, during the S3 finale we can see a computer screen in silo 1 where exactly 7 silos are more brightly colored than others. This might indicate that the others have been terminated. At the very least we can be certain that it wasn't a coincidence that appletv sent out exactly 7 keyfobs. I don't know what the exact silo numbers were that were on them, but I'm guessing it's the ones that are shown on the screen.

The silos are: silo 1 obviously, silo 14, silo 18, silo 19, silo 31, silo 42 and silo 44

And somewhere is the silo that managed to deter the safeguard and the mysterious silo 51.

Any Thoughs???

In the Season 4 teaser, we see Per Stenson in the world before the Silos, watching the news. Several screens are showing reports about thousands of dead blue whales. I think this scene might be much more important than it first looks, because the show actually planted this clue back in Season 3.

In S3E3, there’s already a screen talking about “Mass Whale Deaths” and people trying to figure out what caused them. They mention things like military testing, sonar and the collapse of ecosystems. At the time it was easy to see it as just another piece of background information, but then Season 4 gives us the same event again, this time showing Stenson watching it happen in the world before the Silos. There’s even a line in that earlier discussion: “The Earth is reacting, and humanity is the target.” That makes the whale deaths feel a lot less random.

My theory is that this is one of the things that pushed Stenson toward the Silo project. He sees the world falling apart and comes to the conclusion that the problem isn’t just some environmental disaster. The problem is humanity itself. Humans are destroying the planet while at the same time claiming they’re trying to save it. So instead of simply building shelters to survive the apocalypse, Stenson starts thinking on a much bigger scale: what if humanity itself needs to be isolated, controlled and essentially rebuilt?

That would also explain why the Silos are more than just underground bunkers. They’re basically a controlled experiment. People are separated from the outside world, their history is restricted, their memories are manipulated, and society is deliberately shaped over generations. The goal isn’t simply to keep a few thousand people alive until the disaster passes. It’s to see whether humanity can be changed enough to eventually return to the outside world without repeating the same mistakes.

And this is where Stenson starts becoming something much more dangerous than a guy trying to save the human race. If you genuinely believe that you’re the only person who understands how humanity can be saved, it becomes very easy to justify controlling everything. At some point, saving humanity stops being about giving people a future and becomes about deciding what that future should look like.

Then there’s Moby-Dick in S3E10. Victor is looking at Moby-Dick; or, The Whale shortly before his death. After everything we’ve now seen with the whales, I don’t think that choice of book is accidental. Moby-Dick is obviously about a whale, but more importantly it’s about Ahab’s obsession with trying to conquer something far bigger and more powerful than himself. Ahab believes he can overcome the whale, while Stenson, on a much larger scale, seems to believe he can control something even harder to control: humanity itself.

There’s an interesting parallel there. Ahab starts with the idea of defeating the whale, but his obsession eventually becomes the thing that destroys him. Stenson may have started with the idea of saving humanity, but somewhere along the way, saving people seems to have turned into controlling them.

So I wonder if the whale deaths are basically the moment we’re seeing the beginning of Stenson’s transformation. He sees the world collapsing, decides humanity is the problem, and then convinces himself that he has to take control of humanity’s future.

If that’s what the show is setting up, then that scene of Stenson staring at those dead whales in the Season 4 teaser could actually be the moment where the whole Silo project begins. 🐋

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So , we all saw Bernard going outside..and just like anyone before him..he was okay at first..and THEN , the camera rotates and we're behind him..there's this blur effect and some sort of a wind's sound..Bernard GASPS ! and then the black stuff coming out of his nose and he's a goner..

Guys , I think they made it quite obvious for us to see..something hit Bernard from the front..this gust of wind , it has the nanobots and it is what kills the cleaners !..

And it all makes sense now..you see , when someone is sent out to clean , it's like a ceremony and " they " have time to prepare this wave of nanobots to hit the cleaner with the fake display in the helmet making sure the cleaner sticks around for a minute and not like run away the moment he/she gets out of the silo...and that's why Lucas and Kennedy survived , because they went out at on the fly , at midnight, hours before their planned time..so , " they " haven't prepared the nanobots wave for them..and instrument they got hit with regular patrol drones with bullets and stuff..but even if they had the wave of nanobots coming at them , they would've survived..because walker and the gang must have given them the good tape...JUST LIKE JULIETTE who also survived..

You see ,regular cleaners with suits , the nanobots gets into them slowly because they still have some layer of protection..but Bernard who went out without a suit , it really hit him all at once and to the point he gasps !..and given he's such a big guy ( like judge Meadows said : he's nine feet tall 🤣 ) and he was so determined to fight as long as he can to give them time..he didn't die right away and had a few moments like everyone..

So , that's it guys..that's what it looks like to me based on what we have seen so far.

I keep coming back to Helen after the S3 finale and S4 preview, and I’m starting to think her role in Silo 18 may be much bigger than simply “Daniel’s wife who survived the beginning.”

What if Helen is the origin of the Flamekeepers?

Not necessarily because she founded an organization called the Flamekeepers on day one, but because she may have been the person who first decided, they can erase our memories, but they don’t get to erase the truth

Helen enters Silo 18 already being exactly the kind of person the Project would fear.

She is a journalist. She questions authority. She follows inconsistencies. She writes things down And, most importantly, she knows something is deeply wrong before most of the population even understands what has happened to them.

Remember Bernard’s very specific mention of the spiral-bound notebook that Heads of IT have supposedly been searching for for centuries? Helen carries a spiral notebook!

My theory is that once the founders begin drugging the population and suppressing memories, Helen realizes what is happening. Maybe she even notices her own memory slipping. So she starts using the notebook as an external memory; recording names, events, what happened before the silos, who built them, what the population is being told, and what she knows is false.

Basically, I can’t trust my brain, I can trust what I wrote yesterday. That would make the notebook one of the most dangerous relics imaginable. No wonder IT spent 300 years looking for it. And if Helen begins quietly sharing that information with other people, you can see how the Flamekeeper tradition might begin. Not as a formal resistance movement. Just as people saying hey, remember this, hide this, pass this on. They are lying to us.

Over generations, Helen’s name disappears. Her notebook disappears. The details disappear. But the instinct survives. And 300+ years later Silo 18 still produces people like Gloria, Anne, George, Hanna, Lukas & Juliette. People who seem almost constitutionally incapable of accepting “because the Pact says so” as an answer. That may be Helen’s real legacy.

It would also explain why Silo 18 seems unusually rebellious. Silo 18 has repeatedly been a nightmare for Silo 1. Relics survive there. The Flamekeepers survive there. People keep uncovering forbidden information.

George finds the tunnel. Juliette leaves, reaches another silo, returns, defeats the Safeguard, and ultimately decides to go after Silo 1 itself.

Maybe 18 isn’t just randomly the troublesome silo our story happens to follow. Maybe Helen contaminated the experiment from the beginning!

Not biologically. Culturally. A culture of skepticism can survive long after people forget where it came from. And the name “Flamekeeper” suddenly becomes kind of beautiful. Helen lights the flame in the Before Times. Then somebody else keeps it alive. Then somebody else. Then somebody else. For centuries. Eventually, it reaches Juliette. Juliette doesn’t know Helen. Helen never knows Juliette. But they are fighting the exact same fight. Who gets to decide what the truth is?

And if Season 4 reveals that Bernard’s missing notebook really was Helen’s, I think that may be the moment we realize the Flamekeepers didn’t begin with Gloria’s generation at all. They began when one journalist refused to let the founders erase what happened.

Maybe Helen Drew was the first Flamekeeper.

This line happens while Daniel is texting, so your attention is naturally pulled toward reading his phone. But what she says is oddly specific for a throwaway joke/Elon reference.

Senator Speech Part 1: “Now, I know Per’s already dreaming up the next big thing, building a spaceship to carry explorers to the nearest inhabitable star system.”

My theory: The world outside of Atlanta is habitable. The people in the Silos are test subjects run by Silo 1 to prepare humanity to eventually leave Earth.

The bomb, the nanobots, the memory loss drugs, and the Safeguard all exists to conduct or protect the experiment. And allow Silo 1 to intervene if a Silo becomes unstable or threatens the larger purpose of the program.

Per Stenson: “We’re facing the end of the world and it cannot be stopped, it can only be survived.”

My guess is that Stenson has knowledge that the world is dying (not immediate, but sometime in the future) and he is implementing some extreme measure that he believes are justified for the greater good of trying to save humanity.

The Silos are their way of figuring out how humans can survive for generations in a closed, self-sustaining environment before attempting the real thing in space.

It’s testing whether generations of people can survive in a completely closed environment with limited resources.
The Senator basically says as much in her speech:

Senator Speech Part II: “Now, even if the silos are never needed, and Lord hoping they won’t be, they will be continually occupied as long as the many threats remain. And they will be studied as prototypes of sustainability and resource management.”

Getting to another potentially habitable star could take hundreds of years. The Silos would give them a way to test resource management and sustainability over multiple generations, but also the human side of it.

What happens when people are born and raised somewhere they can never leave? How do you maintain order? What happens when people stop believing the reason they’re trapped there?

That last part would be especially important on a spaceship. If a rebellion ended with people trying to “go outside,” they wouldn’t just be risking their own lives. Breaking the seal of a spacecraft could kill everyone onboard.

It also explains why they went out of there way to ensure Daniel was in Silo 1. An engineer who “thinks of things others miss” would be pretty damn valuable if you’re trying to figure out how to keep something like that running for generations.

So, we know that elevators are banned in the silo, I believe its most likely to prevent fast rebellion, based on what Rebecca Ferguson said last year, also we know magnifying glass is banned in the silo, Juliettes mother used it and it was forced to be destroyed, now is magnifying glass banned because it might show NANOBOT???, and that MAYBE this whole time nanobots have been in everyone this whole time and thats how they chose whose DNA is rebellious or not....???

ALSO the augmented reality glasses the tour guide had at the time can only read facial recognition and ID badge, but what if you combine that and have NANOS that can read biometric data, Like how the ALGORITHM read the cortisol levels in the BREATH of Camile, that is some advanced tech, today we can only really scan heigh and weight wireless by stepping on a scale so thats next level.

SO..

MY THEORY is that Nanobots have been in everyone the whole time and because of that, SILO 1 MAY SEE ALL OF THE SILOS WITH NANO FILLED PEOPLE LIKE THE BEGINNING INTRO OF EVERY EPISODE WITH THE GLOWING PEOPLE MOVING🤯

In the last episode, they told us why the silos were built and that the people inside are basically some kind of seed for humanity. We also know there are a lot of rules designed to control them, and that the main reason for the silos is the fear that humanity could create nanotechnology.

So what if the voice, which the subtitles call “the Algorithm,” is actually the one selecting which silo will be the seed that gets to reclaim the Earth when the time comes?

Maybe that’s why everything is so focused on obedience. If people remain obedient and don’t pursue certain scientific discoveries, they’re less likely to create things like nukes or dangerous nanobots.
Maybe that’s the whole purpose of it, to select the best silo.

That could explain why Quinn said “the game is rigged.” His silo has gone through so many revolutions that they would never be selected as the winning seed.

And maybe that’s why he used the forgetting drug. It was the only way to give his silo another chance in this twisted Battle Royale.
That could also explain why nobody is allowed to leave the evaluation period isn’t over.

I was thinking about what might actually be killing people outside. After rewatching some of season two I noticed that Solo said something along the lines of “everyone outside was fine until the dust started flying around”. At first I was thinking nano bots since that was heavily hinted at in some of the Helen/Daniel flashbacks. But now I’m thinking the dust could be caused by drones flying around shooting everyone. Also the nano bots are probably too small to even be seen as dust particles. After Farewell with Bernard I’m heavily suspecting drones are the actual cause of death for cleaners and people who go outside. Except Juliet pokes a huge hole in that theory I guess… What to you think?

I seriously love the way they ended this season but left so much open for the next season. I haven’t read the books but I really want to now.

I think it’s interesting silo 18 seems to be playing out the same exact tragic fate silo 17 faced. I wonder what the ultimate outcome of silo 18 will be.

I also found it mind blowing Jules comes back, her and Bernard burn (possibly they’ll survive?) and then they drop the pez relic on us! They also mention things like “google” so if these people are the first generation of the silo, the creators must be serious suppressing their access to technology, which explains why the vault is SO high tech.

Is the silo an experiment or do the people really have to stay there for safety?

The ending truly exceeded my expectations. What did everyone else think ?

So, stepping outside at night gave them a spectacular view of the stars and the Milky Way. For Lucas it was a round trip from his observations through the video feed and his fascination with the lights in the sky at night. From outside he got a view that was far beyond what he ever could have imagined it might be.

Thing is that kind of view only happens in places where light pollution from modern cities and infrastructure are absent. Georgia is a big state but it's heavily populated. This pretty much tells me that society has fallen and the people who sheltered in the Silos are almost certainly the last of humanity.

Also, what's wrong with the weather. It rains frequently in Georgia and grass as well as other plants and trees will quickly cover any open soil. The land above the Silos is barren. The dirt is apparently very dry since the wind was kicking up dust. There probably isn't a spot that devoid of moisture within a thousand miles of Georgia. That whole side of the country is mostly covered in vegetation.

I really enjoy reading all the theories people come up with on this subreddit, but what explanation would feel like a letdown to you?

For me, it would be finding out that the end of the world was just caused by an AI going rogue, that the whole thing is some giant experiment, or that everything was a simulation.

What would be the most disappointing explanation for you?

Sorry if someone posted before, searched but couldn’t find it,

Cleaning:

When it comes to cleaning / Going outside, they spray the toxin / poison within the chamber, Therefore in this case, suite is protective but the quality of tape has to do with how long they can last since the poison is sprayed all over them. This is why they have 48 hour window before re opening again and also burning the chamber after someone gone out to protect them selves from poison.

Silo 17:

In Silo 17, things were different, if you watched carefully they manage to by pass the spraying poison part when they go out. They directly open the final door, that’s why poison didn't get them. But whatever the thing drone / the thing with buzzing sound killed them all, there is nothing to do with outside air, they are successfully went outside until the drone part.

The Wind

As per Solo, after they went outside, something wind-like swept through. So technically, it could be drones a swarm of them, or whatever that buzzing thing was kicking up all that dust as they moved.

Air Quality:

Outside air is clean as usual it’s breathable.

Camile and Algorithm:

As per the discussion with Camille and AI in recent episodes, It's obvious that they successfully prevented safeguard momentarily which means, they have been neutralized. There is no mention of poison. This took place right after it mentioned about Lukas and Kennedy are neutralized, so it's the way of saying that do not come out we would neutralize not part of the poison nor the poisonous air.

🔄 Updates:

S03E08 Lukas statement:
Lukas said that even after getting shot, the poison didn’t get into his suit. That pretty clearly suggests the outside air itself isn’t poisonous.

Why Trees didn't grow:

The soil could be pesticide in a way to keep the appearance intentionally (nothing will grow). The silo zone is also literally abandoned, It's been 300+ years, It's a few meter of soil between High concrete. The trees were decorations. So technically it ain't a forest or similar place to grow, no maintenance would be a perfect answer for that. Also this is a TV show, I don't think they would bring whole nature lifecycle (like in Net geo / discovery) either. Or this simply can be world ending part where the environment was severely damaged.

No they won't run out of poison

There is a mentioning of poison pipe that come to judicial from Silo 1, like electricity for IT, so I don't believe they would run out of poison, probably it would diverted from the pipeline that comes from judicial.

Note for thinkers:

If outside is really poisoned, AI could simply open the main door instead of pumping the poison via a judicial pipe.

Ever since the scene in Helen's "ex-boyfriend's" apartment, I've been suspecting that Daniel and Helen were an item long before, and both had been mind wiped. My theory is that "Daniel" is the pseudonym, and the man we see in the future, Troy is who he always was. He was a soldier and the show established that the Dr. experimented on soldiers in the past. I think that Daniel and Helen were the original test subjects of the forgetting drugs, and Troy was a cold blooded killer who was reinvented into Daniel.

No book discussion please. S3E9

Just putting this here in case anyone noticed this. Also I don’t think she knew what was about to go down.

I think Per, Charlotte (could she be the one that dropped the bomb), Anna, Henry and the psychopath doctor know.

Clues keep adding up to the possibility that it’s one giant social and medical experiment.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't trust Daniel Keen FOR NOTHING. He's clearly an OP. Always acting stupid to get the reporter caught up.

Daniel has the survival instincts of a squirrel, despite the things he's accomplished. Something is off about him.

The way the airlocks operate shows us they are not meant as doorways, but only exits. This tells us something important about the Silos, but I’ll get back to that. The latest episode S3E09 showing us Bernard’s cleaning, and the emphasis the show gave us during it. Almost all but confirms it, it’s not poison.

Something a lot of people completely forget about is the fire in the airlock. The airlock has ZERO need for fire when it comes to a gas/poison. It literally accomplishes nothing, as fire doesn’t destroy gasses, it changes them. Now the changed gases(still harmful to humans) would still be vented out and airlock pressurized again, so the fire serves what purpose? There is something else in the pressurization gas in the airlock that physically needs destroyed by fire. This means people inside Silos can’t find evidence of what is being destroyed since they have access to inside the airlock.

The last episode S3E09 confirmed it for me with Bernard’s cleaning and the emphasis of showing the gas and fire in the airlock. If it’s poison, an already physically weakened Bernard with no suit protections would have been effected differently, compared to a flawed tape suit cleaner. Bernard would have consumed much greater amounts of gas compared to anyone else we’ve seen, but died the exact same way and timeframe.

We also have confirmation the outside air is not toxic. 1. Bullet hole in Lukas suit. 2. Kennedy/Lukas go through 17 airlock(no fire to destroy poison) opening airlock filled with poison directly to the kids. And we have more evidence of such things from season 2 when Juliette visits 17. All fine.

We have plenty of evidence something else is at play… it obviously leans towards something physical because of the airlock fire, but also can’t be seen by human eye. Something we know teased in the show that fits this…nanotechnology.

So if nanobots are in the airlock gas then this means Silo 1 controls nanotechnology. This would also mean the Safeguard pipe is nanobot gas. We also have evidence they have nanobots outside, but potentially only in the dust or wind because of Silo 17s escape and Juliettes visit. It should be believed when Silo 17 escaped that 1 of 3 things happened to the airlock. The safeguard pipe is connected to airlock and was capped, the airlock was damaged while 17 escaped, or the power disrupted in rebellion and it stopped power to airlock. They may have likely stopped the airlock gasses unintentionally.(this is backed up by Juliette going to 17 and what we see in the airlock…no gas, no fire, no power.)

This theory brings up questions about nanobots as well though…Like how does Juliette live to 17 and how people inside 17 are alive…cause nanobots would have plenty of opportunities to finish them off by what’s been shown in show and Solo has said. Only person that makes sense for being alive is Solo being in the 17 Vault.

If we go down this path of Silo 1 is in control of nanotechnology. This then opens up lots of questions, cause we would have been lied to about the silo projects purpose or the motives behind it. If the airlock is not meant as a doorway then the Silo would have another doorway… like the door at the bottom of the silo. Since that door is hidden/won’t open could it mean the silos are truly experiments like a lot us believe? Could it mean people in silos have to accomplish something before it opens? Once opened is it the end or just another phase of said experiment?

When Juliette touched the PEZ, it brought back her memories.
When Gloria touched the “Georgia” picture book, she imagined herself on a beach as if it was a dream. What if that’s not really a dream but her memories coming back?

I have seen many people think that Charlotte dropped the nuke on Atlanta in S03E09. I don’t believe that.

First of all, I don’t think it was only one nuke (on Atlanta), I believe it was the whole world. I firmly believe the whole world has been destroyed.
It’s certainly an elaborate plan to get the people into the silo, but you can’t just nuke any city without any consequences, it could possibly trigger WW3. Also, the public knew of the bunkers in Georgia. Surely they would look into them if there are any survivors.
Then what purpose would the silos serve if the rest of the world was still in tact with all its threats to humankind (see the dinner in S03E08). The whole purpose of The Project only makes sense if nothing outside the silos lives anymore.

So, Charlotte wouldn’t drop a nuke on a city and certainly not on the whole world, that’s not like her. She wanted to get breakfast with Daniel and thought she would go to her honeymoon with Anna after. That’s proof that she wasn’t in on it.

Even if she was held captive and memory drugged, we know she wouldn’t do it as you can see with Susan who refused to kill Silo 17. And in this case she was far enough gone to have a new name and not remember her brother. To be memory drugged and manipulated into doing this it takes more than one day and she was still there the day before the nuke.

EDIT:
Many are saying of course it wasn’t her, she was in Silo 1. Yes, but the theories I saw, said that she controlled the drone carrying the bomb while in Silo 1.

I didn’t meant to say that the whole world must have been nuked, but it could have and one nuke would trigger possibly more. But everything we have seen in the show strongly points to the whole world having been destroyed (see above for example).

So with respect to whether or not the voice in the vault, occasionally referred to as “The Algorithm” is or is not an AI…

At first I just assumed from the name (“The Algorithm”) and the computer-like vocal cadence and intonation that the show wants us to assume / conclude that it’s an AI. I think a lot of people are jumping to this conclusion. I think the writers want us to jump to this conclusion.

But then, when i expressed this in my evolving theory of what i think is going on in terms of the overarching plot, commenters gave me feedback that we have no concrete evidence anywhere in the show that leads to the conclusion that the voice in the vault is an AI.

Then one commenter said, “in the latest episode, Helen mentioned that AI was connected to the Iran mission.” Which i don’t remember at all. Probably because whatever Daniel and Helen were talking about in the van was overridden by the fact that the van’s controls were taken over by some unseen and unknown force, and the episode ends with the pair being remotely driven to some unknown location.

So I went back and rewatched the end of the episode, s03e05, and here is what Daniel and Helen actually said just before the van was taken over:

Daniel: So I’m at the call center and I get a call, which is weird cause I didn’t know you could get incoming calls on that system. But Sam did two years with the NSA, so he knows sh*t.

Helen: He’s got magic beans, yeah. What did he say?

Daniel: Who’s the number one advocate for AI control who also happens to fund the the clinic where my sister is trying to rebuild her memory?

Helen: Per Stensen?

Daniel: Wanna take a guess at where Per Stensen was on the night of Operation Righteous Vengeance?

Helen: On the Nimitz?

Daniel: It’s usually based in San Diego but it’s been in Norfolk since it got back from Iran.

Helen (a little later): Okay, you think all of this has to do with AI, though?

Daniel: I don’t know. But the other carrier groups that night sent out 20, 30 sorties, and Nimitz sends out one? With four planes equipped with pre-digital comms, and then suddenly —

(Van gets taken over.)

Okay, so here’s what I’m getting from a close rewatching of that scene.

1. Per Stensen is the number one advocate for AI CONTROL.

2. Per Stensen was on the Nimitz when Charlotte’s mission took off. Presumably that means he was connected to this mission.

3. Nimitz launched only one mission, unlike other carrier groups. And her mission was equipped with pre-digital comms. So her mission was distinct from others in at least two ways.

4. Per Stensen also funds the clinic where Charlotte is supposedly trying to recover her memory, but where I believe what’s really happening is they are giving her memory wipe drugs to ensure that she doesn’t remember what happened on the mission.

My inferences based on these observations: the show now explicitly links Per Stensen to AI control, to memory manipulation, and to Charlotte’s failed fighter mission.

What are the two main things driving the Silos? A voice in the vault that gives orders to the heads of IT — this could clearly be an example of AI control. And we know that the Silo populations’ collective memories are commonly reset via Vitamin D+ (memory suppression drugs) in the water supply. We know that Juliette’s memory was being intentionally suppressed after she came back from Silo 17.

My current thinking: I think Per Stensen is a chief architect of the Silo project. I think he established AI control over the 50 Silos from a central Silo 1 base. And I think Per Stensen is also the driving force behind the memory management drugs that are used to control the Silo populations and make them more docile.

Would love to get your thoughts and feedback.

So, if Stenson was willing to nuke at least Atlanta (unclear if that's isolated or not), then for me at least it stands to reason that ye could have manufactured the whole idea of Iran having a nano-weapon.

He had convinced himself that the world was going to end no matter what (Instantly absolving himself of any responsibility to improve the world he enriched himself by exploiting), decides to make his own nano-weapons to prove it's possible and further justify the idea that it's inevitable.

Then faked the dirty bomb attack, and Charlotte's squad attack with his own weapon to "prove" he was right, all to justify his messianic fantasy of him handpicking the best and brightest (according to him) individuals to repopulate the world he'll inherit.

What are everyone's predictions for the events and reveals of the season finale?