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For the Fallout 3 location, see Vault-Tec headquarters. For the Fallout 4 location, see Vault-Tec Regional HQ. For the mentioned-only Fallout 2 location, see Vault-Tec headquarters (Los Angeles). |
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The Vault-Tec Industries building is a location in the Fallout TV series.
Background[]
Constructed in Los Angeles in southern California, the building eventually served as the center of operations for the Vault-Tec Industries division of the Vault-Tec Corporation in the late 21st century, overseen by Bud Askins and Barb Howard.[1]
In the TV series[]
The Beginning[]
Sometime in the early-to-mid 2070s, Barb was driven to the headquarters by her then-husband Cooper Howard, where they also encountered Bud as Barb entered the building. Unbeknownst to either of them, Cooper had secretly planted a listening device given to him by Miss Williams into Barb's Pip-Boy in order to confirm his suspicions that Vault-Tec was up to something shady. However, he realizes just after Barb entered the HQ that the device had a limited range, forcing him to trick his way into the building by convincing Barb's secretary Betty Pearson that he wanted to wait in her office. Meanwhile, Bud and Barb go to a private section of the building, containing a secure boardroom where they begin a meeting with various corporate moguls representing big companies like REPCONN Aerospace, West Tek, Big MT, and RobCo Industries.[Meta 1][2]
Unaware of Cooper's listening in, Bud discusses with the moguls about the progression of Project Safehouse, Vault-Tec's joint operation with the United States government to construct a vast series of subterranean fallout shelters known as Vaults as a proactive defense against nuclear war and offers potential avenues of collaboration with their various groups. After the meeting descends into bickering over Vault-Tec's methods, Barb, seemingly taking cues from a private message from a man in shadows watching the meeting from an elevated section, takes the reins and formally offers each of the moguls a selection of the over 100 vaults in the country for their own use.[2]
While the others begin brainstorming ideas for experiments to perform on their populations of test subjects, Robert House questions how Vault-Tec plans to ensure that the Vaults are actually used. To Cooper's shock, Barb openly suggests that the corporations orchestrate the nuclear apocalypse themselves to guarantee that theirs will be the only monopoly left after the dust and fallout clears. Cooper is left stunned by the revelation of his wife's heartlessness, such that he does not initially react to being introduced to one of Bud's junior managers, Henry "Hank" MacLean who wanted to meet him due to his fandom for Cooper's acting work.[2]
Behind the scenes[]
- The exterior scenes were shot at the Fordham University's Westchester campus around January 18th, 2023.[Meta 2] The entire superstructure was digitally added in post-processing, and the campus was selected due to its resemblance to Vault-Tec's regional HQ building found in Boston in Fallout 4 while given a West Coast twist.[Meta 1]
- The arrangement of the conference room is a deliberate reference to the war room in the 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. In the movie, the titular Dr. Merkwurdigliebe actually proposes the construction of nuclear shelters not dissimilar to Vaults in the event of Soviet nuclear aggression in the final act. Unlike the HQ building's exterior and suite shots, the conference scene was filmed in a Manhattan movie theater.[Meta 1]
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References[]
- ↑ Bud Askins: "Mr. Howard, great work today."
Cooper Howard: "Ah. Oh, thanks. Thanks, man."
Bud Askins: "Bud Askins. I oversee our Southern California operations."
Cooper Howard: "Ah."
Bud Askins: "I, uh, came over to Vault-Tec in Q3 after a ten-year stint at West Tek."
Cooper Howard: "West Tek."
Bud Askins: "It's a defense contractor."
Cooper Howard: "Oh, I'm, uh, very familiar with you guys. You designed the T-45 power armor."
Bud Askins: "First of its kind. No, I-I oversaw the-the rollout. You know, the design flaws were ridiculous, but they sure looked great."
Cooper Howard: "I wore the T-45 when we almost lost the great state of Alaska to the Reds. Those design flaws of yours cost a lot of good men and women their lives."
Bud Askins: "Yeah. Product management was never my bag. I'm more focused on HR R&D now. Overseeing workflow optimization of management timelines. I'm all about scale. Most people think scale means increasing global market share. That's thinking in three dimensions, and I'm talking about four. Because what is the ultimate weapon to destroy your competition? It's not outselling them. It's not outsmarting them. It's time."
Cooper Howard: "Hmm."
Bud Askins: "Time is the ultimate weapon."
Cooper Howard: "Uh-huh."
Bud Askins: "Yeah. Sounds complicated, but the future of all humanity comes down to one word."
Cooper Howard: "Yeah, what's that?"
Bud Askins: "Management."
Cooper Howard: "Well, I'm awful happy for you, Buck."
Bud Askins: "Bud. Bud Askins."
("The Trap") - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Events of Fallout TV series, Season 1, Episode 8: "The Beginning"
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