Following the stunning final scene of Season 2 of Silo, the third season has diverged into two timelines: one with Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) and company in Silo 18 fighting for their survival, and another unfolding before the silo program began. The season’s penultimate episode delivered some big revelations: The all-knowing Algorithm program that ensures the survival of the silo isn’t actually a digital algorithm, but a person watching from Silo 1, deciding everyone’s fates. Before he dies in Episode 9, Bernard (Tim Robbins) offers some hope: “A person can be defeated.” Meanwhile, in the past timeline, Daniel (Ashley Zukerman) and Helen (Jessica Henwick) discover the origins of the silos, only for a shocking nuclear explosion to separate them.
That’s a hell of a way to end an episode, and the Season 3 finale of Silo, “Troy,” brings us straight into Silo 1, where those running the system live, far in the future. And they're 350 years into that.” Inside Silo 1, we see Daniel waking from cryo-sleep. Except he’s no longer called Daniel: He is now Troy.
And while Troy looks physically the same as Daniel, he’s completely changed. That’s made crystal clear when he settles into his shift and has to deal with the outbreak in Silo 17, the same silo Juliette ventured to in Season 2. Troy, without hesitation, delivers a ruthless decision to execute every single person—man, woman, and child—who left the silo.
A top priority of Silo 1 is to prevent silos from discovering that any other silos exist. His decision to unleash drone warfare is met with disapproval by drone pilot Susan, who is actually Daniel’s sister Charlotte (Jessica Brown Findlay). Neither of them recognizes one another from the past.
It’s just his job,” says Yost. (Yost does suggest that Charlotte’s negative reaction to Troy’s behavior is worth our attention, though he won’t say why). That lack of emotion bears no resemblance to the past Daniel. It turns out there’s a system designed to keep memories suppressed.
Yost divulges some key details behind this Silo 1 initiative. There is an effort to wipe and control memory, so people don't know who they were. But they know who they became in the project.” Yost says we’ll discover more about specifics next season.
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