‘Silo’ Season 3 Episode 8 Recap: Going Solo

I feel for Patrick Kennedy, man. He was just a smuggler with some big ideas about the outside world, but he’s not an execution/implementation guy. Yet in this episode, it falls to him to almost singlehandedly rescue the inhabitants of his Silo with everything from engineering to sweet-talking. It’s not an easy job, but someone very literally has to do it. And it can’t be Lukas. That gunfire we heard over the radio last episode was him getting shot by a drone — right through the radio at that. But the atmosphere isn’t poisonous, or at least it’s not poisonous enough to kill Lukas through the hole in his suit. However, he’s now pretty incapacitated, so even though Kennedy only agreed to get him to Silo 17 before going off on his own, he’s inherited the man’s mission. As is custom for Silo, a