Ben Lindbergh

But we know that some way or another, he made it to the post-apocalypse, that perhaps he was cryogenically preserved somewhere, too.

And this would perhaps explain how in the post-apocalypse he knows about Moldaver, right, who we know is also a pre-war figure.

as Kate.

And perhaps they were in contact.

Maybe that's how he knows where she is and that she was the one who invented cold fusion and why he resolves to get it back to her.

He is finally rebelling at that point.

So that sort of explains that connection or that possible motivation.

And, you know, if he does rebel himself, as Barb is attempting to here before he intimidates her,

Maybe he comes around a couple centuries later and finally decides to do what Barb wanted to do back then.

It's hard to say exactly, but this at least gives us some breadcrumbs.

And we see that he tells her to say that the only way to guarantee results is by dropping the bomb ourselves.

So...

He is the one who is basically compelling her to act as a mouthpiece in that shadowy Dr. Strangelove meeting.

And as she is, you know, gazing at someone as she delivers those lines, maybe it's him or he's looking on or his controllers do something.

So this does reframe our understanding of that scene.

Because when we first see and hear Barb, as Coop is overhearing her too, it seems as if she is the mastermind.

She's the one spearheading this.

But it turns out that there is someone else behind her, some even more shadowy figure or affiliation or faction, just pulling her strings too.

And naturally, that leads to the question that Coop has, who controls Vault-Tec?

And Bob says, I don't know.