The Handoff
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Steph Harper: Canadian Refugee Who Killed to Survive
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Did You Notice
(?)Steph worked as a maid at the Lucky 38 and encountered Cooper and Barb in a pre-war flashback
Steph Harper fled a pre-war Canadian internment camp and crossed into the U.S. after her mother's death
Steph kills a man and takes his can of Pork n' Beans while fleeing Canada to the US border
Steph stabs a U.S. border guard at the Canada-U.S. crossing to escape into America
Joan tells Steph to forget her Catholic faith and stop seeing Americans as human to survive
Joan tells Steph to find the highest branch and cling to it to escape the coming flood
Need To Know
(?)The Black Box chip removes traumatic memories and replaces them with implanted thoughts from the mainframe, irreversibly
Joan tells Steph not to think of Americans as human beings, only as Americans, to ensure her survival
Black Box chips irreversibly remove traumatic memories and replace them with implanted thoughts from the mainframe, controlled via remote
Hank reveals destroying the mainframe in the basement is the only way to stop him from making more Black Box chips
Steph escaped Uranium City Internment Camp as a Canadian refugee, shaped by her mother's dying words to view Americans as non-human
The Ghoul takes the group to the Lucky 38 to find weapons for fighting deathclaws on the Strip to reach the management Vault
The vault basement mainframe controls the Black Box chip system and must be destroyed to halt production
Maximus tells the Ghoul he will give the cold fusion diode to Lucy because she is a good person who will use it for the right thing
