It Starts On The Page: Read ‘Fallout’ Season 2 Premiere Script “The Innovator” With Foreword By Geneva Robertson-Dworet

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In Season 2 of Prime Video‘s post-apocalyptic drama Falloutboth timelines are on the verge of war as Lucy (Ella Purnell) and The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) venture across the dystopian desert to find her father Hank (Kyle MacLachlan) in New Vegas and bring him to justice.

Written by series creators, executive producers and co-showrunners Geneva Robertson-Dworet & Graham Wagner and directed by Frederick E.O. Toye, the Season 2 premiere episode “The Innovator” opens with an adrenaline-pumping battle scene in the Mojave outpost Novac, reviving Lucy and The Ghoul’s odd-couple dynamic as they disagree over how to handle a crew of blood-thirsty bandits.

Below is the script for “The Innovator” with an intro by Robertson-Dworet, in which she discusses “probing the moral questions with our characters” first posed in Season 1 and how it mirrors the “moral dilemmas” of the popular video game on which the show is based.

Robertson-Dworet and Wagner earned a Writing For a Drama Series Emmy nomination for their Season 1 premiere script “The End” and shared in Fallout‘s 2024 Outstanding Drama Series Emmy nomination for its freshman season.

The Fallout video games are an incredible blend of action, comedy, satire, and unforgettable moral dilemmas that force the player to make tough choices.

In Season 2, we continued probing the moral questions with our characters that we began in Season 1. As vault dweller Lucy MacLean follows the path of her father’s destruction toward Sin City, she is confronted with the question of whether a few moral concessions matter in pursuit of the greater good. Maximus tries to figure out whether it’s possible to be a moral individual when living in an prejudiced authoritarian society. Hank MacLean’s new project asks whether, if people are fundamentally drawn to violence, is it ethical to forcibly reprogram them to be kinder.

As The Ghoul draws closer to finding his family after 200 years, he struggles with the question of whether cruelty is justifiable in the name of protecting the people you love.

Read the script below.