Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for Pluribus episode 9, "La Chica o El Mundo."

Pluribus, Vince Gilligan’s sci-fi sequence that sees virtually all people on Earth overtaken by an extraterrestrial hive thoughts, leaves a variety of unanswered questions in season 1.

However one query the Breaking Unhealthy creator didn’t wish to go away viewers with was, “What’s within the field?”

In the previous few minutes of the season 1 finale, Carol (Rhea Seehorn) arrives again house at her cul-de-sac in Albuquerque by way of helicopter, together with a large transport container that’s positioned in entrance of her home.

Manousos (Carlos Manuel Vesga), who has been researching methods to disrupt the hive thoughts, comes outdoors and asks her, “What is that this?”

“Atom bomb,” she replies whereas strolling away.

Gilligan tells Leisure Weekly that he by no means thought of ending the episode with out Carol answering that query.

“I feel it’s an final mic drop,” he says. “What’s within the field? 'Atom bomb.' I assumed that was superior."

Govt producer Gordon Smith, who co-wrote the finale with fellow EP Alison Tatlock, agreed that the final line was obligatory for the "massive ending."

"We’re going out with saying, right here’s a declaration that Carol, who has gone via a troublesome journey via the primary season, of making an attempt to determine her relationship to the Others, making an attempt to determine her personal grief and all of these items, for her to say, even wearily, 'we save the world, I’m in, I’m on this quest,' the atom bomb kind of certifies for no matter use she has in thoughts for it,” says Smith, who additionally directed the episode. "It’s form of a physicalization of, no, no, she’s in, that is her quest. Wherever it can take her, we don’t know."

Carol first mentions the opportunity of buying an atom bomb on the finish of episode 3, when she asks the Others if they’d give her one. Once they ask why she would need one, she says, “To blow shit up? For kicks. I imply, does it matter?”

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The arrival of an atom bomb on her doorstep in episode 9 reveals that they really determined to provide her one following Carol's resolution to finish her romantic interlude with Zosia (Karolina Wydra).

As Seehorn advised EW in a separate interview, she doesn’t assume Carol is aware of what she plans to do with the atom bomb. The request was an "impulsive” resolution fueled by "bottled-up rage."

Nevertheless, she doubts Carol truly desires to make use of the bomb to kill folks.

"I consider she didn’t assume she would ever resort to violence," Seehorn explains. "And I don’t know if she does now."

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When requested whether or not the arrival of the atom bomb indicators a darker tone for the upcoming season 2, Gilligan says, "not essentially."

"We go — and this was the identical manner with Higher Name Saul and Breaking Unhealthy — the place the characters inform us to go, we go the place the story takes us,” he shares.

All episodes of Pluribus season 1 are streaming on Apple TV.

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