Ben Lindbergh

And then Coop says, well, let's find out.

Which that stood out to me as a very Lucy-esque optimism slash arrogance.

You know, that's very much when Lucy just thinks that she can solve any problem by just waltzing in there and talking to people or whatever it is.

There's a little bit of that from Coop here, which maybe goes to show why they get along so well.

Obviously, by the time he meets Lucy, he's been ghoulified and that optimism

has been beaten out of him because, of course, he fails.

The bombs drop.

And maybe he even plays some part in bringing about the bombs dropping.

But right now, at least, he has that confidence that he could just go in there and do something about it.

And that is very Lucy-esque.

Yeah.

And the last devastating line that we get from Coop to Barb, Barb says, you know me, you know me.

She's trying to appeal to their history and their relationship.

And Coop says, I don't.

I don't know you, Barbara.

Echoes of last week's who are you and I don't know with Lucy not knowing who she is.

Coop doesn't know who Barb is.

And then, yes, Coop gets Hank drunk and drugged, opens the briefcase to find not the cold fusion device, but an extraction or injection device, which Barb, who shows up just in the nick of time, uses to retrieve the relic, the cold fusion, from Hank's neck, a la Wiltzig in season one.

So that's just where you store things when you don't want to misplace them, just, you know, in your neck for convenience.

So maybe Coop will end up keeping his word to Moldaver slash Kate about disrupting the cold fusion exchange and keeping House from getting it, which would help explain Fallout New Vegas, because the goal of House in Fallout New Vegas is to get the platinum chip, which you are delivering at the beginning of the game as the courier.