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If you caught the premiere of Fallout Season 2 on Prime Video, you might have been puzzled to see Justin Theroux introduced as Robert House, moments after Rafi Silver, who played the same character in Season 1, appeared on a television screen. What’s going on here? The answer lies in a bit of deliberate misdirection.
In a recent interview with DECIDER regarding the second season of this video game-inspired series, Theroux was careful not to reveal any spoilers. He mentioned that questions surrounding the dual portrayal of Robert House will eventually be clarified.
“You really don’t want to spoil anything in this show,” Theroux remarked, delicately sidestepping any future plot points. He assured fans, “There’s a very good reason why both Rafi and I appear in the show, and it will all make sense in time.”
The second season opens with Theroux’s version of the quirky tech CEO provoking bar patrons into a brawl outside. In a surprising twist, he implants a RobCo Industries device into one of their spines, assuming control over the man’s body. Using a remote, he manipulates this new ‘machine-man’ to violently attack his friends with a bat, ultimately causing the man’s own demise to avoid retaliation. This dramatic and violent introduction is something Theroux finds particularly appealing.
“I think it’s such an intriguing way to introduce Robert House,” Theroux commented on his character’s entrance. “It essentially lays out several narrative threads with the device, his motivations, and it’s evidently set in the past.”
While fans of the game know just how much of a notable figure Robert House is and will be throughout the season — which is set primarily in New Vegas — the importance of his character was only previewed for fans of the show in the Season 2 trailer. In that first look, Cooper Howard/The Ghoul (Walton Goggins) could be heard pinning the nuclear fallout on House, although how this one man is responsible for the end of the world has yet to be seen.
As for the other part of his first scene in the show, the part that sees House sipping a drink in a bar booth and watching Silver’s version of House on a TV screen, Theroux remained tight-lipped on the reasoning for the duplicate figures — or the general duplicity — of Robert House.
“Safe to say that he has an excellent reason for being there and it pivots on a plot point,” Theroux explained of Silver’s appearance.
He added, “I don’t want to, again, spoil anything, but Rafi is so fantastic, and maybe it should hint at the fact that there might be more than one House.”
How To Watch Fallout
The first episode of Fallout Season 2 is now streaming on Prime Video. New episodes release on Wednesdays at 12 a.m. PT. The entire first season is now streaming.
