# Fallout Episode 6: The Trap **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, amazon-prime\ **Created:** [April 11, 2024, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-episode-6-the-trap/1000141 "2024-04-11T08:11:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-episode-6-the-trap/1000141/11 "2024-04-18T13:15:04Z")
Well, it looks like my guess in the ep5 thread that Lucy and Maximus had been kidnapped by Vault 4 for breeding stock because V4, like V33, was also too interbred, was wrong-- it’s far more weird than that. Still, based on the “A Man and his Dog” poster that Coop had in his place we saw in this ep, pointed out by @Miller in the last thread, I gotta believe that in a general sense, either the show writers or the original game designers had to be influenced by either the movie ‘[A Boy and his Dog](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072730/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_A%2520boy%2520an%2520dhis%2520dog)’ or the Harlan Eliison novella it was based on: > [@Fallout Episode 5: The Past](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-episode-5-the-past/1000140/34): > > This isn’t really a spoiler, just background information about Coop, but I’m not sure which episode it’s first mentioned, so I’ll tag it anyway: Awfully lax security in Vault 4 for such a weird, secretive experimental place. Maximus was able to walk right in to the control area and almost snatch a fusion core before being interrupted. Lucy was able to take an elevator right to level 12. Shouldn’t they at least have needed a screwdriver and a bobby pin to break in? Or guess a password on a terminal? > [@Smapti](#): > > The ad in the corner of Cooper’s newspaper about the discontinuation of “New Nuka” is a nice little side joke. Nice eye for detail- I missed that. I suspect I’d be missing several little in-jokes and Easter eggs if it wasn’t for these threads. > [@Smapti](#): > > Sebastian, aka “Bartholomew Codsworth”, is presumably the in-universe voice actor for the Mr. Handy model the PC owns in Fallout 4. The actor did mention to Coop at the Vault-Tec commercial after-party that he did voice work for Vault-Tec for the robot. And then of course Vault-Tec screwed him on his fee-- instead of the agreed amount, they paid him a fraction of it plus a Mr. Handy. “Now I have to listen to a robot talking to me in my own voice”. Speaking of Vault-Tec, the conversation between Coop and his former actor buddy about how Vault-Tec has a ‘fiduciary responsibility’ to their stakeholders, not to the U.S. Government, and therefore have a financial interest in nuclear war, was some nice world-building. I like how the show is really digging into the lore and darkly parodic aspect of the games, and is not just a mindless actiony shoot-em-up. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fallout-episode-6-the-trap/1000141)._