Silo Season 2 Episode 7 Ending Explained: What Happened To Solo?

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2’s episode 7.

Silo season 2 not only walks through an intense showdown between the Mechanical and IT but also ends on an ambiguous note by leaving an air of mystery surrounding Solo’s fate. Adapting the second half of Hugh Howey’s first Silo book, Silo season 2 primarily focuses on the constantly shifting power scales inside Silo 18. While at it, it also highlights how Juliette overcomes one challenge after another in Silo 17 to ensure she reaches her home on time.

In Silo season 2’s episode 6, Juliette finds herself at a crossroads when Solo offers her a deal: he will only let her leave with her new suit if she agrees to drain the water in his Silo. Solo doubles down on his efforts to convince her in season 2’s episode 7’s final arc. Unfortunately, before the episode’s credits start rolling, it seems like something terrible happens to Solo.

Solo’s Fate In Silo Season 2 Episode 7’s Ending Explained

A Third Person In Silo 17 Attacked Him

To Solo’s delight, Juliette eventually agrees to help him before leaving. She also creates another makeshift oxygen-supplying device to ensure she does not drown after she dives deep to fix Silo 17’s pump. While Solo stays on the surface, ensuring Juliette gets a consistent supply of oxygen, Juliette goes underwater, hoping to find a way to quickly fix the draining pump. To Juliette’s surprise, her breathing device suddenly stops working, and the bucket Solo was supposed to use to pull her up also collapses.

Juliette races against time to pull herself using another rope while ensuring she does not get the Bends. When she arrives at the surface, she notices Solo has disappeared. She tries to look around for him but finds nothing but a trail of blood. This suggests that someone attacked Solo while Juliette was underwater. While the episode does not reveal the identity of the attacker, it seems likely they have been around for quite some time.

They could either be another survivor, like Solo, from the Silo 17’s rebellion or a traveler from another Silo like Juliette.

When Juliette first arrived at Silo 17 and tried to swing from one end of the structure to another using a rope, her rope somehow got cut off. It seems likely that the person who attacked Solo has been in Silo 17 since the beginning and initially tried to kill Juliette. The camera angle towards Silo season 2 episode 7’s ending also suggests someone watches Juliette from a distance. This could mean that after attacking Solo, the third person in Silo 17 will target her. They could either be another survivor, like Solo, from the Silo 17’s rebellion, or a traveler from another Silo like Juliette.

The Mechanical’s Plan To Expose Bernard & The IT Explained

Mechanical’s Citizens Make The Best Of Their Resources To Fight Back Against Bernard

Using a powerful engine, the people from the Mechanical create a rocket-like structure that flies all the way up to the top levels of the Silo and pops open a parachute to gently float down. While floating down, the structure also ejects many notes that call attention to Bernard and the IT’s lies in the Silo. After snagging everyone’s attention with the note, the people from the Mechanical strategically turn off the lights in the Silo to show how the IT’s lights still stay up.

According to the lore in Hugh Howey’s Silo books, Silo 18 has a total of 144 levels.

With this, they successfully manage to draw the people from the higher levels to their rebellion against the IT. Bernard tries to fix the damage by heading inside the IT to turn off its lights. However, most citizens end up noticing how the IT has a different power supply, raising their suspicions surrounding the department’s motives.

Why Sims Refuses To Sign The Warrant To Search The Supply

Sims Continues His Own Battle Against Bernard

Bernard struggles to keep his composure because almost all his previous allies gradually turn against him. He is forced to kill Meadows, while Billings starts questioning his methods. When he does not make Robert Sims his shadow and even demotes him from his position as the Head of Security, Sims and his wife also actively try to crumble everything he stands for. Sims even refuses to give the Head of Security a warrant to search the Supply.

After growing sick of Sims’ defiance, Tim Robbins’ Silo character confronts him and reminds him that, as a Judge, he must only pretend he is in a position of power. He asks him to obediently follow his orders and quit his rebellious ways before they destroy them both. Sims, too, does not hold back and confronts Bernard for not making him the Shadow. This is when Bernard reveals that even though he did almost everything right, he struggled to make him his Shadow and chose Lukas for the position instead because of his lack of curiosity.

Why Juliette Agrees To Help Solo Before Leaving Silo 17

Juliette Feels Sorry For Him

Juliette refuses to comply with Solo and tries to convince him to let her go. She claims her people need her, and she must help them before it is too late. She also assures Solo by telling him that she will come back to help him, but Solo does not believe her. He tells her that if something happens to her outside, he, too, will not be able to survive after the flood reaches his vault. When Juliette encourages him to drain the water himself, Solo looks down on himself by claiming that he is a “f**k up” and would never be able to fix the pump on his own.

Apple TV+ has confirmed that Silo will have a four-season run.

This is when Juliette genuinely feels sorry for him and agrees to help. She wastes no time in gathering the resources to pull off the pump-fixing operation and even turns a little cold towards Solo. However, before things take a dark turn in Silo season 2 episode 6’s ending, Juliette manages to fix the draining pump in Silo 17.

Everything Lukas Gets Access To In Silo 18’s Vault Explained

The Vault Has Everything From Forbidden Books To Relics

Bernard puts his trust in Lukas and gives him access to the Vault in Silo 18. From the inside, the Vault looks like a full-fledged museum, accommodating everything from art to books that have long been banned in Silo 18. Bernard also gives Lukas access to a tablet that has many more books on it. He encourages Lukas to make good use of the resources he has given him access to so that he can decipher Salvador Quinn’s coded letter. With so many resources at the tips of his fingers, Lukas embraces his curiosity and gets to work.

Who Planted The Kill Order On Knox & Shirley In The Mechanical

A Citizen Named Maeve Was Threatened To Plant The Kill Order

When a fight breaks loose in the lower levels of the Silo, Billings tries to de-escalate the situation by understanding what is happening. All the citizens of the Mechanical seemingly turn against one woman, claiming that she tried to poison them. The woman defends herself by saying that she was the one who warned them about the poisoning. However, when the men from the police department question her, she comes clean about working for the higher-ups and poisoning the food.

She reveals that her mother is in the Silo’s Medical, and she only followed orders from the higher-ups because she feared they would harm her mother. The woman, Maeve, also adds that she intentionally told everyone that the food was poisoned after contaminating it herself because she wanted to ensure no one died from it. In Silo season 2’s episode 7, Maeve also reveals she was asked to place the kill order against Knox and Shirley because the higher-ups believed it would create conflicts in the Mechanical.