Ben Lindbergh

In exchange, I get cold fusion to power my little project in Vegas.

And Barb does not know what that project is.

It's above her pay grade.

It's a need-to-know basis.

She's not aware, evidently, of House's plans to protect

Vegas from the bombs falling.

So this, again, I guess, is our first little glimpse behind the curtain at what Barb does and doesn't know and where she rates in the hierarchy of Vault-Tec and whether she is, in fact, just a cog in this machine.

Yeah, just...

multiple timelines, not just past and present, but also multiple past timelines and you kind of had to keep straight, okay, where are we here and who knows what.

Yeah, so Fake House explains the deal to her.

He gets cold fusion.

Of course, as we see later in the episode, perhaps he won't.

And perhaps Barb will play a part in that.

But we do see in this many meetings and, you know, you're stuck in a conference room all day listening to presentations.

That's tough for anyone.

I'm sure some of these meetings could have been an email so that people could have gone and gotten lunch.

But she is hardly holding it together.

And everyone else is extremely blase about this.

And is not really thinking of the apocalypse as something that will cause human suffering, just an opportunity for profit.

But she is feeling the strain and she is hardly holding it together.