Please be aware, might contain mild spoilers!

Then we jump a few hundred years into the future where we see the community who live in a Vault (33) as a result of the nuclear war. This community is very polite, extremely polite even, diligent, happy, no yelling, no cursing, everything running smoothly, run by Overseer Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan), overseers usually coming from another Vault. We follow a young woman, Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), daughter of the Overseer, also very happy and polite, is to be married with someone from Vault 32, who she never met. Well than the shit hits the fan when it turns out that the people of Vault 32 are in fact outsiders, the original occupants have been dead for two years and the outsiders, led by Lee Moldaver (Sarita Choudhury), go into a killing spree and kill many of the Vault 33 residents and they kidnap overseer Hank MacLean. Lucy is determined to get her father back, but when the shocked leftover occupants of Vault 33 do not condone her plan, she goes the surface alone to find her father, leaving her brother Norm (Moises Arias) behind.

There are several storylines in Fallout, that ultimately align together. First you have the Vault in the present day. After the vicious attack of the outsiders on Vault 33, the community slowly pick up the pieces of what happened to them, a new overseer is chosen, Vault 32 is repopulated again with half of the people of Vault 33. Norm, Lucy’s brother has always been a bit of an outsider, doing menial jobs, never did have the same enthusiasm as his fellow occupants and at some point he gets suspicious, he and Chet (Dave Register) go and check out what is left of Vault 32 and Norm does a major discovery about the origin of this Vault, about what is so special about Vault 31 and because he now knows too much, he is being contained in Vault 31.

Then you have The Brotherhood, their mission, is to secure the Wasteland and find pre-war technology in order to preserve it. But the power of the Brotherhood is waning, even though they have Knights who seem unbeatable. Maximus also belongs to the Brotherhood. He is low in the ranks, he regularly is beaten up, he does not have a bright future ahead of him, most he can aspire is becoming an Knight’s Squire. By some misfortune of a friend of his, he does get the opportunity and becomes Knight’s Titus’ Squire. He is treated as garbage but soon he gets the opportunity to become a Knight himself. In his early days as an illegal Knight, he comes across Lucy, who is looking for her dad who is in trouble and tries to help her but it brings himself into even more trouble. He later gets himself his own squire, Thaddeaus, one of those guys who used to beat him up.

Lucy definitely has also a storyline of herself, searching for her father, although her storyline does cross those of the Ghoul as well as Maximus’. Lucy knows who her father has, Moldaver, she met a man who also is going to Moldaver, he has something injected into himself. When he dies, she chops of his head because the wanted item is in his head. Soon everybody hears about the head, it is valuable, so Maximus and Thaddeaus are searching for the head as also the Ghoul.

The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) is being awoken, is 200 or so years old, he was Cooper Howard before the bombs dropped. He is cunning, is particular strong, no mercy, not for anyone. He crosses paths with Lucy a 2^nd time but she just lost the head to a monster. The Ghoul decides to trade her in for a few 100 vials with substance that keeps him alive. Meanwhile Maximus and Thaddeaus take the head back from the monster, but when Thaddeaus learns who Knight Titus really is, he escapes with the head.

Then we also have the flashbacks where we see Coop Howard and his wife. We see a happy family at first, his wife Barb (Frances Turner) works for Vault Tech, and he is asked to do some commercials for Vault Tech, in which he does not see any harm. But when Coop gets informed about the Vaults and that it is something for the rich, and that there is something sinister going on, he decides to plant a listening device on his wife and learns the unthinkable!

In the final episode of the first season, most of the plotlines come together, the last episode is therefore massive, some twists and surprises. She does find her father, she learns something devastating about him, and they are not going home together to Vault 33.

Final Word:

I hope I have written it in a way that doesn’t spoil too much, it is really a fun TV show, only 8 episodes a season, so it won’t take too much of your time. It does get close to home, especially in the beginning, when the bombs drop, because we currently live in uncertain times, it did had a big impact on me. All through the first season you see things happen that you can be sure of our world leaders would not hesitate to do that also, it is all about power and money, it is right in our faces with these kind of shows nowadays. Having said that, I really recommend this.

Screencaps taken from: cap-that.com

I've added the word document with the episode ratings with descriptions and comments for the ones who are interested in this. Just be aware, it is a draft document, sometimes also can be confusing because of grammar errors and some sloppiness.