I'm glad they are not drawing it out.
Honestly, this season has been a bit meh to me. Notice there's not much discussion of the episodes on this thread. There's not much really to discuss. It's painfully slow at times.
Am I supposed to really care about these mechanical characters? They seem 2 dimensional and just thrown out at us. Meh. If they die, they die.
the deus ex machina, particularly on the stairs, is annoying and frankly insulting
Sims is a shit character and actor and needs to be offed.
I actually think the show would benefit by less focus on characters that we don't care about and more on the intrigue of the silo, not just in its origin story, but also how it works to maintain order, hierarchy, and custom. It's a fascinating world and we see little of the institutional details. Take for example the porters, who are just convenient backstabbers in this episode. But they are critical to the movement of good across the silo. And the grappling hook would presumably make them obsolete (and allow for quicker flow of information), which the founders can't have for many layered reasons. I find this much more interesting and thought provoking than whether the head of mechanical makes it or not.