Silo – Season 1 Episode 10 Recap, Review & Ending Explained

Outside

Episode 10 of Silo begins with Juliette watching that video of “the outside” and believing they should broadcast what they’ve found across every monitor in the Silo. The only way to do this though is to amplify the signal through IT. There’s one on Floor 126 but with security on every floor looking for Juliette, it seems like a suicide mission. Knowing that it’ll eventually be traced back to their apartment, the trio are forced to descend together to avoid detection.

Does Juliette broadcast the video to the Silo?

While all raiders head up to Floor 22, the trio are forced to head through the trash chute to evade the raiders. Sims receives a message about Billings heading into Juliette’s apartment, so inevitably his frustration is vented onto the Deputy Sheriff. While being questioned, Billings lies and claims he didn’t find anything suspicious inside, even with Sims taking his anger out on the poor chair in the room. In the heat of the moment, he does notice Paul’s shaky hand and questions him over it.

The trio of runaways make it down to 126 but Bernard very quickly finds them on the cameras. However, it’s too late, as Juliette hooks up the hard drive and manages to link it to all the different screens. And just like that, the monitors show up with the “outside” world, showing the beautiful green scenery. Bernard shuts down and restarts the entire server to avoid any of this getting out.

Juliette heads the opposite direction to the duo, while Bernard warns all his workers that they need to unsee what they’ve all seen. The level is completely shutdown and the raiders are sure they’ll get her. Bernard realizes Juliette is in the trash chute and moving up and down. Unfortunately, they decide to start throwing down heavy debris to flush her out. In fact, they throw down a heavy AC unit at her.

Juliette, with little other choice, lets go of the ladder she’s holding onto and crashes down into Mechanical. Thankfully, she’s hauled to safety before she’s flattened like a pancake.

Does Juliette take Bernard’s deal?

Judicial show up soon after, but just before they come busting in, Juliette is granted a minute alone with Martha. We don’t see what they’ve spoken about right now, but we do get hints of this later on in the episode. Sims and Bernard bust in and apprehend her, with the latter smashing the hard drive into pieces. He’s also going to shackle Juliette to take her out, mostly for show to the other Silo members. However, he has a deal for her first.

If Juliette waives her right to a Judicial hearing and agrees to go outside to clean, he’ll spare all of her friends and won’t punish them. With little other choice, she agrees to the terms. In fact, Bernard even agrees to show her what happened to George if she plays ball.

While Juliette is led through the Silo, Martha takes a step outside her workshop for the first time in 25 years. She realizes that Juliette is relying on her, so she talks herself up and starts climbing the stairs. As she does, she visits Carla over on the Supply level. They discuss the Heat Tape debacle in the past, which links into the end of this episode in a rather neat way.

What really happened to George Wilkins?

Anyway, back with Juliette though, she’s brought in to security to see all the monitors for herself. Bernard knows this is a breach of protocol, and tells the other workers as much when they watch her enter in shock. Before being sent out to clean, she’s shown the surveillance footage of George Wilkins from the stairs.

George actually stops in front of the cameras and decides to jump in order to hurt the Silo and prevent himself from being tortured into revealing crucial information. Doug, the Judicial officer, can only stand and watch in shock.

What happens to Lukas?

After seeing the footage, Juliette is measured for a new suit to wear for her cleaning job. While she’s prepped to head out, Lukas is not sent out to Clean…but he is exiled to the mines for 10 years. Bernard forces him to haul iron ore for the duration of that tenure, and he won’t be able to see outside from down there either.

Martha has Juliette brought some food while she’s in the Holding Cell. With cameras watching, Juliette notices there’s a note inside and she turns her back to it before reading what’s inside. Opening the note, she sees that it reads: “You wanted the truth. The truth is I love you. Have no fear, they’re good in Supply.”

What does Paul tell his wife?

Elsewhere, Paul decides to tell Kat the truth about what’s going on. He brings up that Sims knows he has the syndrome but he’s not fired nor do they need to move either. The Mayor and the Judicial are going to grant him an exemption. However, he doesn’t seem too happy about it and we’ll have to wait and see what he’s told them, if anything.

After hugging his wife, Paul heads back to accept the Sheriff job. Bernard is there too and he ends up having some alone time with Juliette. There, he admits that Juliette became a mortal threat to their survival in the Silo once she started asking questions and learning the truth.

What happens the night before Juliette leaves to clean?

Juliette shuns his excuses, as Bernard likens the issues in this first season as “adjustments”. The attention then turns to the outside, where Bernard claims that the Founders left them “many mysteries”. But he doesn’t disclose anything in particular, except more cryptic messaging. He does reveal that there’s a huge crowd – bigger than any before – to watch Juliette head outside to Clean. And in his last act, Bernard hands over Holston’s badge, including the word “Truth” engraved on it.

In the mess hall, everyone watches, ready for Juliette to head outside. And in fact, joining the others is Martha, who heads up to see Juliette go. Bernard reads the final words to her and watches as Juliette heads outside. In the mess hall, it shows Juliette heading toward the tree in the distance. For Juliette, she sees the display… but it’s all a lie. It’s the exact same video from before, complete with the birds flying overhead. This is actually a pre-recorded video from another time.

What’s actually outside the Silo? Is it really a paradise?

Instead of cleaning, Juliette drops the cloth and decides to walk away. “It won’t be much longer,” Bernard says from inside, believing that Juliette won’t be able to progress. And then it happens. Juliette seems to hit another area, which fizzles the screen in and out like a hologram. She places the sheriff badge down on Holston’s body nearby, which happens to be outside the perimeter, and decides not to go any further.

That is, until Juliette remembers Martha’s note and the words: “they’re good in Supply”. This links back to the suit, which is absolutely airtight and without gaps as the other suits appear to have had,. This also explains Holston. He realized that the visor was engineered (explaining his search for the “truth”) and removing his helmet, he saw the world for what it really was. Unfortunately, with the air poisoned around him, he collapsed and died.

How does Silo season 1 end?

Juliette’s version of events outside though, is very different. Bernard realizes something is up and grabs a key labelled “18” and waits for the lights to turn on. As for Juliette, she move further forward and sees the world for what it really is beyond the holographic area. It’s not the beautiful area we assumed, but instead a horrific wasteland.

With no other home to move back to, Juliette walks up and over the hill, disappearing from view. But we’re not done for shockers yet, as it turns out our Silo is not the only one. There are numerous stretching others stretching as far as the eye can see. This would lead us to believe that Bernard’s key with “18” written on the side would mean they were in the 18th Silo out of who knows however many others.

The Episode Review

Wow what an ending. Silo returns with a shocker of a finale, one that finally answers our biggest questions but also leaves plenty on the table for the second season, which will presumably adapt Shift, the second book in this trilogy.

The truth about the outside world is unveiled and it turns out the idyllic, perfect world is just an illusion. The air is clearly poisoned and the suits seem to have been engineered to make sure it’s not airtight to die from poisoning, explaining Bernard’s “It won’t be long now,” statement.

There’s clearly issues with the suits, and the fact that Martha managed to strike a deal with Carla, as “they’re good in Supply”, is meant to assume Juliette’s suit was given the best treatment possible.

What does this mean for the Silo too? Having seen Juliette leave, surely others will be enticed to leave and in doing so, completely destroy the infrastructure and world that they’ve built.

It certainly poses a very intriguing question for season 2 and given Apple have already greenlit a sequel to this one, thankfully we won’t have to wait around wondering if we’re going to get a conclusion or not!