Warning! This article contains major spoilers for Hugh Howey’sSilobooks.
Juliette faces several grave challenges and defies many odds before her story in Hugh Howey’sSilobooks finally reaches a natural closure. As seen inSiloseason 1, Juliette is initially a resident of one of the lower levels of the central underground bunker. However, as fate would have it, she gets the opportunity to become Silo 18’s new Sheriff afterHolston’s shocking death in Silo season 1’s early episodes. Although Juliette is initially apprehensive about taking up the position, she agrees after seeing it as an opportunity to find the truth aboutGeorge Wilkins' murder.
With what follows, Juliette’s search for answers makes her a threat to those who are deadset on gatekeeping Silo 18’s history and secrets. She breaks many laws and defies many rules before unfolding the secrets surrounding how she and other citizens were being lied to. InSiloseason 1’s endingmoments, she is punished and sent out to clean by Bernard. However, this backfires when she survives and ventures further into the wasteland to uncover more secrets.Siloseason 1 ends the first arc in her journey but paves the way for the beginning of a new one as well.
Juliette Finds Another Survivor Outside Silo 18
Meeting Solo Marks The Inception Of A New Arc For Juliette
In the second half ofHugh Howey’s firstSilobook,Wool, Juliette ventures further away from Silo-18 after being sent out to clean. Realizing that the heat tape on her suit would not be able to protect her for long, Juliette makes her way to another neighboring Silo. This is when she encounters Solo,the last survivor of an uprising that killed all the other residents. After sharing everything he knows about the world they live in, Solo helps her establish communication with Silo 18. With this, Juliette gets in touch with Lukas, who tells her everything about the aftermath of her departure from Silo 18.
Juliette Is Elected As Silo 18’s New Mayor After Bernard’s Death
Silo 18’s Citizens Put Their Faith In Juliette
While working as Bernard’s shadow, Lukas also exposes the IT’s secrets to Juliette, but Bernard soon learns about his betrayal. Therefore, he sends him out to clean. Realizing that Bernard’s actions are not justified, Sheriff Peter Billings steps forward and puts Bernard in the Silo’s airlock. Through a radio, Bernard tries to justify his actions to Juliette by saying that every time a rebellion is successful in a Silo, it gets taken down by the authorities in Silo 1, who exterminate all citizens by releasing poisonous gas.
…while Lukas leads the IT, Juliette takes over as Silo 18’s new mayor after all citizens unanimously elect her as their new leader.
Billings understands where Bernard is coming from but refuses to forgive him for his heinous acts against the Silo’s citizens. As a result, he sends him out to clean. Juliette assumes that Lukas is being sent out and tries to save Bernard. However, Bernard willingly stays in the airlock and burns to death when the cleansing fire is released. With this, while Lukas leads the IT, Juliette takes over as Silo 18’s new mayor after all citizens unanimously elect her as their new leader. This marks the end of the first book in Hugh Howey’sSilotrilogy.
The World Of Silo Explained
The 2023 Apple TV+ series is based on a trilogy of books that collectively outline all the background information explaining how the silo came to be.
The second book in Hugh Howey’sSiloseries, titledShift, unfolds more as a spinoff/prequel that walks through the origins of the silos and reveals what happened to the outside world. It introduces a character named Donald Keene, recruited by Senator Paul Thurman in 2049 as one of the leading figures behind World Order Operation Fifty (W.O.O.L.). Thurman initially told Keene thatOperation Fifty aimed to preserve humanity from events that could lead to the species' extinction. However, the truth behind Thurman’s dark plan comes to light much later, prompting Keene to help Juliette and other survivors.
Juliette Plans A Rescue For Silo 18’s Citizens
Juliette Takes It Upon Herself To Save Her People Before It Is Too Late
Donald Keene learns that Thurman and Erskine instigated the nuclear disasters that made the outside world uninhabitable. According to Erskine, terrorists and hostile nations were taking control over self-replicating nanobots, which were designed solely to advance medical science in a positive direction. Owing to their increasing threat,Operation Fifty was introduced as a resetting eventthat would wipe off all humans before the nanobots would. Donald also learns that the citizens of only one Silo will be let out into the real world while the others will be terminated.
Juliette timeline unfolds in the year 2345 in the Silo books' timeline.
Juliette only briefly appears in the second book but becomes the main character again in the third one, titledDust. In the final book, Donald shares everything he knows with Juliette and Lukas before his health starts declining. Realizing how the rebellion in Silo 18 puts the citizens in danger, Juliette plans an escape for her people through a tunnel that connects Silo 18 to Silo 17. However, before she can successfully pull off the evacuation, Thurman takes control of Silo 1 and orders Silo 18’s termination. As a result, Juliette is only able to save close to 200 citizens of Silo 18.
Juliette Leads All Survivors To A Haven Called “Seed”
Juliette Ultimately Delivers What She Promised To Her People
While Donald sets out to destroy Silo 1 to end Thurman’s tyranny, Juliette learns that all the silos' lowest levels have a tunneling machine that can take them to a safe place called “Seed.” However, they are unable to use the machine in Silo 17 because it requires a lot more fuel than they possess. Therefore, Juliette takes it upon herself to walk her people to “Seed.” To everyone’s surprise, after they cover some distance on the surface, theyemerge out of a patch of dust and discover that the outside world is not uninhabitable anymore.
Name ofSilobook
Dust
Serves as a singular book.
Juliette and the survivors notice that the silos are surrounded by toxic dust, but the rest of the world has all the resources they need to sustain themselves. Towards the end of Hugh Howey’sDust, Juliette and the survivors finally make it to “Seed,” where they find a bunker that accommodates all the essentials they need to survive and rebuild civilization. With this, theSilotrilogy ends as Juliette saves the day by stopping Thurman’s evil operation and protecting her people.
Silo
In a dystopian future, men and women reside in a vast underground silo governed by strict regulations, believed to shield them from the hazardous world above. The series delves into the complex social order within the silo and the mysteries surrounding their subterranean existence.
