Severance
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A cache of dental tools could definitely be used to clean someones teeth.
Then again, it could also be used for torture.
(Think: the elevator teaser.
Were going to see where that elevator goes by the finale, right?
The high watermark of this episode is that we got our girl Helly back.
But here we are.
Helly doesnt care about the story either way.
Instead of facing things head-on, he chooses to ignore and repress.
Maybe its a maladaptive coping skill that transcends severance; maybe its reintegration.
(He also literally says the work is mysterious and important.
Cue thepointing Leo DiCaprio meme.)
Treat them as they really are.
So, what are they?
Fatted calves for eventual psychic sacrificial slaughter?
You know what else is bleak?
Finding out that fucking Ricken Hale is a sellout.
Hes let Lumon get their hands onThe You You Areand nowpage 197 slapsno more.
Devon is too pure for this world, and we must protect her at all costs.
Perhaps his hard exterior is rubbing off on his Innie, thanks to the reintegration process?
And Reghabi is living in his basement now.
Theres no way that arrangement will backfire on them when Cobel has a key to his house, right?
(This is rhetorical.
Of course it will.)
Throughout the episode, we see that Innie Mark isnt feeling so hot.
Also, hes getting severe headaches and coughing like a small Victorian child with the plague.
Its another cliffhanger situation that culminates in Mark Scout finally seeing Gemma inside of Lumon.
He walks down the dark hallway, hearing Gemmas voice recite facts about his Outie (a.k.a.
As he walks out into the bright white corridor, he turns and sees her.
), saying, Your Outie is going to … but the vision warbles and breaks.
We dont see Innie Irv, but I still have hope for him.
This week, his Innie gets a bizarre funeral and his Outie reunites with Burt.
), chiming in that she wants one too.
Dylan gives an adorable, expletive-laden eulogy, then everyone mingles for a bit.
Mark bolts, and Helly runs after him, leaving Dylan to wander the break room alone.
(like, dear Kier, let them find the elevator by the end of the season.)
Meanwhile, Outie Irving updates his contact via the mysterious pay phone.
He says, Its me again.
So, they fired me.
I think they knew what my Innie was up to.
Irv then spies a car stalking him, and its Burt!
I just cant with these two.
Burt invites Irving over the following evening, and Irving graciously accepts.
At least now Irving finally has his answer to the question, Whats for dinner?
Its time for my staggered exit, so Im going to go grab the elevator.
Theres a circle with indecipherable writing on it, suspended in the center of a larger gold shape.
Is this a symbolic representation of an Innie inside an Outie brain?
Was Gemma somehow voluntarily involved with Lumon before she died?
If Mark is 81 percent done with the Cold Harbor file, where was his Music-Dance Experience?
Perhaps Milchick canceled them entirely after Dylan chomped him.
Later in the episode, Milchick shows how wrathful he can be by threatening Mark in the elevator.
He says, Does [Helly] know that you fucked her Outie at the ORTBO?
Its sinister, and Im so worried about my refiners.
We get another moment where Milchick asks Natalie about the paintings.
In response, she stares at him blankly like aWestworldrobot, then completely changes the subject.
An earlier version of this recap misstated the name of Burts partner.
It has been corrected.
