"If You've Gotten This Far...The Game Is Rigged": What Salvador Quinn's Silo Season 2 Letter Means
Warning! This article contains spoilers for Silo season 2's episode 8.
The first sentence in Salvador Quinn's Silo season 2 letter — "If you've gotten this far...the game is rigged" — hints at all the secrets he might have uncovered before his death. With each new episode, Silo season 2 is becoming more and more gripping as it is bringing viewers closer to the truth behind its mysterious setting's dark history and the external forces that have shaped the lives of the people living in Silo 18. While Juliette is still struggling to find her way back home, Bernard is determined to overpower the Mechanical and decode Salvador Quinn's message.
Tim Robbins' Silo character achieves the former by planting another snitch in the Mechanical in Silo season 2's episode 8. For the latter, he hires Lukas as his shadow and gives him access to The Legacy, hoping that he will be able to use the resources at his disposal to find out what Quinn wrote. After struggling to decipher Quinn's message, Lukas finally cracks the code in Silo season 2's episode 8 and writes down the first sentence of the letter.
The First Line Of Quinn's Letter Expresses His Distrust Towards The Silo System
It Hints That He Stopped Trusting The Vision Of The Founders
After finding Salvador Quinn's copy of The Pact, Lukas uses it to decode the message in his letter. He discovers that the first sentence says, "If you've gotten this far you already know the game is rigged." Although Lukas stops after decoding the first sentence and decides to visit Bernard to tell him he has found the right cipher to understand Quinn's letter, one can guess what the letter could be about based on the first sentence. According to Bernard's account of Quinn's tenure as Silo 18's Mayor, Quinn sacrificed his reputation to ensure the people of the silo remained safe.
...the letter suggests that Quinn learned something about the silos and their creation that made him lose his faith in the overarching system.
He banned all books and even prevented people from accessing Silo 18's servers. Over the years, he even mixed a memory-erasing drug in the water supply to ensure that Silo 18's people gradually forgot about the history of their world and the many rebellions that ensued in their city. However, the letter suggests that Quinn learned something about the silos and their creation that made him lose his faith in the overarching system. He realized that the game was rigged and the so-called founders who set the groundwork for the silo system could not be trusted.
Quinn's Letter Suggests Bernard Might Be Wrong About Him In Silo
Bernard Sees Him As A Hero
Bernard also believes in the vision of the silos' founders, explaining why he religiously follows all rules and imposes them on the people in Silo 18 without understanding the full scope of the founders' plan. Owing to this, he appreciates how Quinn put everything on the line during his time as Mayor to ensure that the people in Silo 18 remained compliant and did not start new rebellions. He sees him as a heroic figure who played a crucial role in sustaining their silo.
However, as Salvador Quinn's Silo season 2 letter suggests, his beliefs about the silos' founders either changed over time or he always knew about how they had rigged the game. It seems likely that after imposing strict rules on the people and killing all potential rebellions, Quinn somehow learned the dark truth about what the founders wished to achieve with the silo system. To his dismay, by the time he realized that they did not have Silo 18's best interests in mind, it was already too late.
In a dystopian future, men and women reside in a vast underground silo governed by strict regulations, believed to shield them from the hazardous world above. The series delves into the complex social order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean existence.
- Cast
- Rebecca Ferguson, Common, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Christian Ochoa Lavernia, Avi Nash, Billy Postlethwaite, Chinaza Uche, Iain Glen, Remmie Milner, David Oyelowo, Rick Gomez, Ferdinand Kingsley, Shane McRae, Chipo Chung, Caitlin Zoz, Matt Gomez Hidaka, Angela Yeoh, Olatunji Ayofe, Khairika Sinani, Will Patton, Akie Kotabe
- Showrunner
- Graham Yost
- Directors
- Morten Tyldum, David Semel
- Seasons
- 2
- Streaming Service(s)
- AppleTV+
