**Disclaimer: This post contains potential spoilers for Apple TV+’s Silo.**
Apple TV+’s Silo is set in a dystopian world where Earth is too toxic to be inhabited and people have to live in underground communities in silos. At the center of the storyline is Juliette Nichols, played by Rebecca Ferguson.
In the sci-fi drama, Juliette is an engineer from Silo 18 who becomes the community’s sheriff while investigating her boyfriend’s murder. She eventually realizes there may be more to the community than what meets the eye and begins investigating what the silos were actually made for.
The series is based on Hugh Howey’s eponymous novel series, in which Juliette is again the central character. The show shares some similarities but also has some differences from Juliette’s storyline in the novel. Here is how the sheriff’s journey pans out in the books.
Juliette is introduced in the Silo book Wool 2: Proper Gauge
Juliette Nichols is the protagonist of Hugh Howey’s novels, who makes her debut in the second part of the first book, Wool, subtitled Proper Gauge. Born to a doctor father and a delivery nurse mother, Juliette faces a couple of tragedies in her early life.
When she is only 13, her brother dies prematurely and her mother commits suicide. She initially intends to be a delivery nurse like her mother but shifts her career focus after the tragedy.
Juliette blames outdated and malfunctioning equipment for her brother's death and begins working in the mechanics department at the age of 14, continuing her job for two decades. However, she grows distant from her father over the years.
She first interacts with law enforcement when Sheriff Holston and Deputy Marnes investigate a murder in her department. Holston eventually recommends her as his replacement, and Juliette accepts the position to investigate the death of her boyfriend, George Wilkins.
Juliette's journey from a Sheriff to the Mayor
Juliette's job as Sheriff brings her into a conflict with the IT department. Her investigation into George’s murder leads her to uncover lies about the silo’s history and how it is run, which puts her at odds with the authorities.
However, Juliette does not back down despite the danger. Bernard, the head of IT, eventually sends her outside the silo with a defective suit to ‘clean,’ which is supposed to be a death sentence. But Juliette survives, thanks to her friends, who fix her suit.
She ends up in another silo, where she meets Solo, a man who has been living alone after a rebellion wiped out everyone else. Solo helps her reconnect with her home and Juliette starts to expose the lies the leaders have been telling.
Her bravery inspires the people in her community, and after Bernard dies, they elect Juliette as mayor. She promises the people she will lead with honesty and fairness and gives the community hope for a better future.
Juliette’s fight for freedom
In the final book, Dust, Juliette learns the silos were built to protect people from disasters like nuclear war and dangerous nanobots. She also finds out that the leaders in Silo 1 are controlling everyone and trying to kill off entire communities.
She then teams up with Donald Keene, one of the silo’s original planners, to stop the leaders. When Silo 18 is attacked, Juliette leads the survivors to safety by using a secret tunnel to Silo 17.
Even though only 200 people make it out alive, she guides them to an underground shelter called ‘Seed,’ which has everything they need to start over. At the end of the novel series, Juliette and her people discover they were lied to about the toxicity on Earth.
The leaders kept them trapped for no reason as the world is safe to live in. Juliette finally keeps her promise to protect her people and leads them into a new and hopeful future.
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Though Apple TV+'s adaptation is based on the novel series, it deviates significantly from the books and might change some aspects of Juliette’s story from the source material.
Silo Season 2 airs new episodes on Apple TV+ on Fridays.
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