Fallout Season 2: Who is Anthony House? Details explored in depth

The Fallout Season 2 premiered early this Tuesday. One of this season's newest and exciting characters is the unnamed character played by Justin Theroux. The mysterious man claims to be Mr. House's (Rafi Silver) biggest fan. Some are even theorizing that the Robert Edwin House we saw in the first season, played by Rafi Silver, might be a body double, and Theroux is the real Robert House.

However, the series has not confirmed Justin Theroux's character, and it seems that we won't know who he is playing for a while. But some are also theorizing that the writers introduced Anthony House, Robert's brother, in the opening minutes of Fallout Season 2.

Fallout Season 2: Who is Anthony House?

Anthony is Robert's half-brother in the Fallout games. Robert and Anthony inherited their father's H&H Tools Company after his death. However, Anthony cut Robert off this well, ultimately setting off the former's downfall. After being cut off from his inheritance, Robert started RobCo Industries.

While H&H Tools Company initially prospered under Anthony, RobCo took them over, causing Anthony to go paranoid. Before his disappearance, Anthony initiated a lockdown of the H&H Tools Company and activated its security protocols. This action resulted in the H&H Tools Company factory being a deathtrap even centuries later.

If the man we saw in the first episode of Fallout Season 2 is indeed Anthony, we may see the character going through the same downward spiral as his game counterpart. However, it should be noted that all we saw of Theroux's mysterious character in the Fallout Season 2 premiere is just the opening scene, before the title card.

Some agitated people are watching a Robert House interview in the bar. They express anger at Robert when the mysterious man (Theroux) openly claims to be the industrialist's "biggest fan". He is thrown out of the bar by three agitated patrons, but soon gains the upper hand on them. He plants a chip on the back of a man's head and forces him to kill his friends. Then, the mysterious man also explodes the man's head.

Justin Theroux sat down for an interview with Deadline after the season 2 premiere. Here's how he described the mysterious character:

“I don’t really think of him as the bad guy. I had fun poking fun at that kind of billionaire tech class. At least internally, that was sort of the fun of playing this character. Because there’s obviously so many sort of parallels, I guess, that you could draw between him and other people or other sort of more analog people like Howard Hughes or whatever, but I sort of saw him as just this incredibly nerdy, slightly heartless guy who believed in his technology, and believed in his right to sort of reorganize the world in the image that he wanted it to be. So, it was just fun.”

What is the second season about?

Fallout Season 2 follows up on the heels of the acclaimed first season. The Ghoul and Lucy are hot on the latter's father, Hank MacLean. The first season ended with the shocking revelation that Hank was one of the antagonists of this series. Thus, The Ghoul and Lucy are on the hunt for Hank this season.

"The new season will pick up in the aftermath of Season One’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas."

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"The Innovator", the season 2 premiere, is currently streaming on Prime Video.

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