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\nSeason 2 of Fallout premiered on Prime Video in December 2025 The apocalyptic drama was adapted from the popular video game franchise of the same nameIt stars Ella Purnell as an altruistic vault dweller and Walton Goggins as an actor-turned-ghoul whose been roaming the wasteland for 200 years<\/p>\n
War may be coming to New Vegas, but The Ghoul is headed to Colorado.\n<\/p>\n
Fallout<\/a>‘s season 2 finale premiered on Feb. 3 and left more questions than answers about his family, his past and what exactly Vault-Tec planned for the Wasteland some 200 years ago. Though fans witnessed the tense confrontation between Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) and her father, Hank (Kyle MacLachlan<\/a>), the fate of The Ghoul’s (Walton Goggins<\/a>) family remains a question mark.\n<\/p>\n “Lucy and The Ghoul have these very intense emotional moments on the theme of family,” executive producer and showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet tells PEOPLE.\n<\/p>\n For Lucy, that meant realizing that her dad had lied about his true intentions and his role in bombing Shady Sands. For The Ghoul \u2014 whose real name is Cooper Howard \u2014 that meant finding out if his wife, Barb (Frances Turner), and daughter, Janey (Teagan Meredith), made it to the secret vault for management in New Vegas before the nuclear war.\n<\/p>\n “The Ghoul has been waste-landing longer than anyone, and has crossed pretty much every moral boundary that a person can cross in order to survive [to] pursue his goal of finding his family,” Robertson-Dworet continues. “It’s all for the sake, in his mind, of a noble goal that he does all these awful things.”\n<\/p>\n So, is The Ghoul’s family alive? Here’s everything to know about the season 2 ending of Fallout and what it means for season 3.<\/p>\n Warning: Fallout\u00a0season 2 spoilers ahead!\n<\/p>\n How does Fallout season 2 end? <\/p>\n Ella Purnell in ‘Fallout’.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Prime<\/p>\n The second season of Fallout ends with The Ghoul and Maximus (Aaron Moten<\/a>) working together to save Lucy from her father, who has taken her prisoner in New Vegas. While Maximus, or Max, fights off a group of terrifying Deathclaws, The Ghoul finds Lucy inside Robert House’s (Justin Theroux<\/a>) Lucky 38 casino \u2014 just before her father can implant her with a mind-control device.\n<\/p>\n The Ghoul shoots Hank in the butt and then tosses a gun to Lucy, allowing her to decide her father’s fate. He then takes off in the direction of House, who has promised to show him where Barb and Janey have supposedly been kept in cryo-stasis\u00a0for the past two centuries.\n<\/p>\n What happens to Norm? <\/p>\n Moises Arias and Rachel Marsh in Fallout Season 2.<\/p>\n Courtesy of Prime<\/p>\n