Silo Finally Confirms The Real Power Behind The PEZ Dispenser Relic

Jul 12, 2026 - 04:16

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Silo Finally Confirms The Real Power Behind The PEZ Dispenser Relic

Ashely Zukerman as Daniel and Jessica Henwick as Helen in Silo season 2

Published Jul 11, 2026, 8:15 PM EDT

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This article contains major spoilers for Silo season 3's episode 2.The true significance of the relics has undergone a major paradigm shift as Apple TV's Silo has progressed. Initially, the relics were merely introduced as banned objects from the "before times" that most citizens of Silo 18 were not allowed to possess. It was widely believed that the Judicial prevented people from keeping them because they feared they would encourage the citizens to romanticize the past.

However, as the Apple TV sci-fi show progressed, it became evident that relics could become potential symbols of past rebellions, passed down to generations by the Flamekeepers. The duck-headed PEZ dispenser has been one of the most prominent relics in the series as it was gifted to Juliette by Goerge Wilkins before his death prompted her to search for the truth.

In Silo season 2's ending moments, it was revealed that the same PEZ dispenser was given to a journalist named Helen by Congressman Daniel when they met under the guise of what he believed was a blind date. The show's season 3 has now delved deeper into the relics' significance, which hints at how the PEZ dispenser will be a major plot device in future story arcs.

Relics Can Be Used To Regain Lost Memories In Silo

In one of its flashback sequences, Silo season 3's episode 2 explores the origins of the memory-suppressing drugs that are being used on Juliette in the present timeline. In the sequence, Daniel meets Charlotte’s doctor, Dr. Victor Crnkovich, who explains how the drugs work. He describes the suppression medication as a mechanical drawbridge pulled up between a person and their past.

The drawbridge can carefully be lowered to let specific memories back in or even raised to permanently bury memories from traumatic events.

Victor also reveals that when one tries to rebuild someone's lost memories, mere words and descriptions are not half as effective as physical artifacts and personal objects. This seems to perfectly explain why relics have been banned inside Silo 18. They have the potential to trigger lost or fading neural pathways and remind citizens of rebellions they have been forced to forget.

Juliette is being forced to forget everything about her past through the memory-loss drugs. However, if she manages to come in contact with relics that once held immense significance in her past, she could instantly retain her lost memories and potentially bypass the effect of the drugs on her brain.

What The PEZ Dispenser In Silo 18 Means For Helen

Jessica Henwick as Helen at the end of Silo season 2

Silo has been hinting at a romantic development between Helen and Daniel for quite some time. Since Danile gifted the PEZ dispenser to Helen when they first met, it will seemingly become a symbol of their affection towards one another and one of them will also eventually carry it to Silo 18. This will explain how it ended up in Silo 18 in the first place.

Given how George Wilkins inherited the PEZ dispenser from his grandmother, he could be Helen's direct descendant. Helen might have been one of the first few Flamekeepers in the Silo and passed down the duck PEZ as a symbol of freedom and rebellion.

Even for Juliette, the PEZ dispenser became a symbol of love and grief after she got it from Wilkins. Since her journey as a rebel started with George Wilkins' death, one look at the PEZ dispenser could help her bypass the memory-suppressing effect of the drugs. This, in turn, would prompt her to return to her old self and start another rebellion in Silo 18 before it is too late to save her people.

If this happens, Silo season 3 will establish the PEZ dispenser as the ultimate symbol of memory, resistance, and human connection. It seems like a useless childhood trinket on the surface, but the memories associated with it over several generations allow it to become a tool that outlasts propaganda and suppression.