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Why does everyone clean when they go outside in Silo?

Quick Answer

The suits show a fake beautiful world through the visor, psychologically compelling the wearer to clean the sensors so others can "see" it too. It's a cruel final manipulation.

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Detailed Explanation

This detail haunts me. When someone is sent outside to die, they always clean the sensors—even people who swore they wouldn't. The show reveals why: the suits are designed to show the wearer a beautiful, lush world through the visor. In their final moments, condemned people desperately clean the sensors so those inside can see this "paradise." They don't know they're seeing a hallucination while actually standing in a toxic wasteland. It's the ultimate cruelty—using hope as a weapon, making dissidents participate in their own mythology one last time.

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