In the last episode, I had finally ventured into the suburbs to pick through the ruined remains of Sanctuary Hills. Aside from a slightly confused Vault Tec salesman and a house of feral ghouls, the trip was fairly undramatic until I approached a house with a rooftop sniper and a sweet root cellar shelter in the back.
Unfortunately the sniper didn't really want to give up his base, and I was badly hurt, irradiated to ghoulish levels, diseased, ill equipped, and running out of time. It was either take this guy out somehow, or more likely, call this run a loss and start over once I inevitably descended into a death spiral.
One plan. One last ditch, very unlikely to work, ridiculous plan. But it was the only one I had.
And.. well.. things didn't work out at all the way I expected.