SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the Silo Season 3 finale, Episode 10, titled “Troy.”
Graham Yost’s suggestion of plitting up one big script into Episodes 9 and 10 of Silo Season 3 caused a rebellion of its own in the writers room for the Apple TV science fiction series adaptation, based on the books by Hugh Howey.
With the goal of uniting the two separate timelines that interweave throughout Season 3 — that of Juliette Nichols’ (Rebecca Ferguson) perspective in Silo 17 and the neighboring 18 plus the ‘Before Times’ thread of journalist Helen Drew (Jessica Henwick) and engineer-turned politician Daniel Keene (Ashley Zuckerman), writer Jeffrey Wang turned in a “ridiculously long” draft for the penultimate episode, in which a new controversy is introduced when a nuclear bomb detonates near the freshly constructed Silos in Atlanta, Georgia, conveniently on the day that the time capsule structures were unveiled to a select sample of the public.
“There was a point where I said, ‘We could divide this in two, and this could be nine and 10,’ and the writers’ room revolted. They were throwing stuff at the screen because we had come up with this idea: ‘What if we did bring the timelines together? What if we saw that Daniel had become this guy Troy? What if we see the cost of this project, and get a sense of what it’s like in Silo 1?’” the showrunner told Deadline the week of the penultimate episode’s release. “There were production problems with that because that meant that we had to do a certain amount of work to build Silo 1, even while we’re doing Season 3, knowing that Silo 1 was going to be huge in Season 4. But we had Nicole Northridge and her incredible team doing production design.”
The Season 3 finale jumps right into Daniel waking up a whole new person in Silo 1, summoned to quell the rebellion quickly going out of control in Silo 17 — Jimmy’s (Steve Zahn) home….