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So, you’re saying the clusters are tempers? Hey, welcome back to Screen Crush. I’m Colton Ogburn, and these are all of the Easter eggs, references, and little things you might have missed in the Severance season 2 finale. Guys, I am so excited to break down this episode with you and hopefully explain away all of your lingering questions after yet another bittersweet cliffhanger of an ending. This episode was huge, so this entire video is going to be nothing but breaking down all of the hidden clues in detail. Unfortunately, we will not have time to check in with the Screen Crush video analysis team, but I do want to thank them so much for joining me for some great discussions throughout this season.
So, we finally know what the scary numbers truly mean. We know what Lumen really wanted out of Mark and Gemma, and we know how and why Lumen likely caused Gemma’s miscarriage. We also have to talk about the attempted goat sacrifice to Kier and the presence of Kier himself in this finale. And to help me better answer that question, I have a special treat for you guys in our ending explain video—not this video, but in a different one—I will be interviewing Mark Geller, Kier Egan himself, to get his thoughts on the finale and ask him my own personal burning questions, such as: Is Kier alive in that animatronic dummy? Revel now in the fruit of your labors. But in this breakdown, I’m going to talk about it as well, because I have some theories I want to share with you all.
And hey, before we get rolling on the breakdown, I do want to share with you guys some of our great Severance-inspired merch on screencrushmerch.com. We’ve got the Praise Kier sticky note shirt, the Hang in There and Tame Thy Tempers in the Bohemian Rhapsody City pose, and the I completed Cold Harbor and all I got was this lousy T-shirt. Be sure to get your merch now because these designs will be leaving the store soon, drifting into the eternal darkness.
So, this episode begins with the series intro instead of giving us a cold open like previous episodes. It’s almost as if, once this episode started, they didn’t want to interrupt the flow of the story that swells and swells like a balloon being filled with air, leading to its eventual pop. Now, this slow-crawl storytelling that has been used throughout the entire series and in this episode’s unfolding of events, as tensions run higher and higher, all the way to that bitter finish. So, in the season one finale, Mark yells, “She’s alive!” And that is right where we pick up with this season finale. “Do you remember the last thing that you said to me? She’s alive.” So, Ms. Cobel asks Mark if he has completed Cold Harbor, and she seems happy to hear that he hasn’t and that Gemma is still alive. Now, while Ms. Cobel does seemingly have a bit of a face turn—“I saw your comments, I got it right this time, thank you”—part of me does believe that her happiness that Gemma is alive and that Mark hasn’t completed Cold Harbor is more so a selfish happy because that means that she can still rob Lumen of their big celebratory day and the completion of Cold Harbor. Granted, Cobel does later say that she cares for Mark, but you have to wonder how much of that is genuine care or more so a fascination, being that Mark and Gemma are essentially lab rats for Cobel’s life’s work: the severance procedure.
So, you’ll notice that Ms. Cobel refers to Gemma as Miss Casey because that’s the name that Mark-s knows her by, and we then get a correction from Devon that her name is Gemma. This ties into the lingering theme of Devon and Mark’s outies despite their good intentions and remorse for innie’s; they’re still prioritizing their own selfish interests, and whether they want to admit it or not, they view the outies as more human than the innie’s. This entire sequence of Devon, Mark, and Cobel trying to convince Mark-s to do what they want him to do is a very selfish sequence. Cobel has her own selfish reasonings; Devon and Mark have their own selfish reasonings; and, as we’ll discuss here in a minute, Mark-s sees right through it. “I think that I disappear along with every innie down there.” Look, I want to be clear: I’m not judging Devon or Mark for this; it’s only human to prioritize your own self-interest. So, of course, their main objective is getting Gemma back.
Now, as Cobel begins to tell Mark about the testing floor hallway, he mentions Irving’s drawing. Now, Cobel seems caught off guard by this revelation, and we have to remember that this drawing, done by Irving, was actually based on his outie’s painting, which he saw in the season 1 finale during the overtime contingency. That season one finale featured a theme of teamwork, sacrifice, and workers’ solidarity—themes that we see in this finale as well. This time, teamwork between the innie’s and the outie’s with a dose, of course, of betrayal. You betrayer.
Now, back on the severed floor, we catch up with Helly where we last saw her in the previous episode, coming face to face with her outie’s father, Jame Egan, and she says what we’re all thinking: “God, you’re f***ing weird.” We get another call back to the season 1 finale when Jame finally confronts Helly about her gas speech, essentially f***ing on Lumen, and we can see that Jame actually respects Helly, and he sees in her his young, rebellious daughter, as well as Kier. There he is.
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Now, back to Severance. So, in the previous episode, when Jame approaches Helly, he says—and this is because he views her as his daughter’s past self before she lost her inner gear—I’ve talked about before how innie’s essentially seem to be these clean slates, free of knowledge; they’re blissfully ignorant. When we see flashbacks of Mark in episode 7 before he lost Gemma, he seemed more like his innie than the outie that we know, who is living in grief. Now, the same is true for Dylan. Gretchen says that Dylan’s innie reminds her of how Dylan was before. The innie’s are essentially the outie’s before they underwent some form of pain, whether that pain be physical, a loss of ambition, or a loss of a loved one, or, like with Helly—Helly apparently, according to Jame Egan, reminds him of Helena’s younger self. Jame sees in Helly the rebellious, take-charge, don’t take s*** from anyone tendencies that he admires and he wants to see in his successor—qualities that he views as qualities of Kier. Helena, however, is too submissive, subservient, and too eager to please. But the reason that she is that way is because her father made her that way. He has stomped out of her every bit of individuality and self-worth that she ever had. He has turned her into a corporate robot with the sole purpose of following in her father’s footsteps. So, in her father’s attempts at making her a worthy successor, he stomped out of her the very things that would make her more like Kier. Kier bowed to no one, while Jame made Helena bow to him. Jame also says that he doesn’t love his daughter, showing us what we could have already safely assumed: that being that Helena had a s*** childhood that robbed her of her tempers. Kier, Lumen, and Cold Harbor are all about emotions: your principles, your tempers, your feelings, and how those bring you closer to Kier. So, Jame has only himself to blame for Helena not being the heir that he wants her to be, and his admiration for the rebelliousness of Helly and his vision of Kier within her could be about to bite him in the ass or result in the very thing he wants: Helly taking over Lumen and becoming the heir that he’s been looking for. So, in order for Helly and Mark to have the life they want, Helly stepping into the role of Lumen CEO may be their only path for survival, and they could be falling into the hand of Jame’s grand plan. Then again, that’s just a theory because home dude didn’t seem too happy there at the end.
So anyway, back to this standoff between Helly and Jame. I was almost certain that Helly would stab him in the neck with that pin, but for some reason she didn’t. I guess that could simply be because she’s a decent person and doesn’t want to take a life, despite him being an evil Egan, but it’s also possible that this is yet another piece of evidence that the severance barriers are not holding 100%, and that deep down she can’t kill him because she has a love for him as her father. Now, I loved this line from Helly about the hell that the Egan’s have created: “You and your family created hell, and you’re going to burn in it.” I have been saying since the first episode of this season that I think Lumen is meant to represent hell, specifically the nine circles of hell—layers and layers of hell that go deeper and deeper until arriving at the true evil at the bottom: the devil, or, in this case, the board, which I think is Kier and all of the other past Lumen CEOs. Now, this also ties into the Ernest Hemingway Iceberg Theory, which is teased by the iceberg picture in Milch’s office, and how the truth to the greater mystery of a story becomes more and more clear yet simultaneously complex the deeper you go. Hey, wait a second, did you just say the board is Kier and all the other Lumen CEOs? But all those guys are dead. Well, Doug, after this episode, I think it’s pretty clear that a popular fan theory is true: the consciousness of Kier and all of the former CEOs are living on a literal board—a circuit board—that is, we finally got confirmation that the numbers on the MDR screens are the building blocks of a person’s mind in digital form, lines of code that can be interpreted by a computer, meaning that the mind of Kier and every Lumen CEO—which keep in mind they were all Egans—could have been restored via a process like macro data refinement, and the mind of Kier could live on, meaning that the voice we hear from the Bo box in season 1, yes, and the voice we’re hearing from this mannequin in this episode could actually be Kier Egan himself. And hey, I mean, they did name the previous episode after a Twilight Zone episode where the mannequins are conscious. Now, we’re going to dive a little deeper into that discussion later in the video when we get to that scene, as well as in our ending explain video where I’ll be interviewing Kier himself, Mark Geller.
So, back at the birthing cabin, Mark asks, “What happens to us?” And look, I love Devon, and I love how kind she has been to Mark-s and how she seems to genuinely care about his well-being, but it’s clear that she and Mark’s outie hadn’t stopped to think about the implications of this mission and the outcome for the innie’s. And Christ, Mark just looks so innocent and pitiful in this moment, almost childlike. We then get the long-awaited meeting between Mark-outie and Mark-s. “I am so sorry.” Guys, I have talked a lot about how impressive the cast is, especially Britt Lower when it comes to portraying their innie’s and outie’s so differently, and it is super impressive how this show has managed to make us, the viewer, view these characters as completely separate characters yet simultaneously one. And I love how in this scene we got to see Adam Scott have this dialogue with himself, and it put on full display just how different these two Marks are, even in their speaking patterns and tone, yet we also see that deep down they are just alike, especially when it comes to their tempers. “I think that I disappear along with every innie down there. What do you want from me?” And guys, I just really loved how this conversation between the two was edited. Just as the back and forth of walking in and out of the cabin was about to get a little redundant, they changed the editing style and sped it up, and it felt very conversational, and it was just super well done.
Okay, so in the first episode of this season, we see Lumen completely revamp its workspace, apologizing for their mistreatment of the innie’s and embracing reform to make their time at work more pleasant and fulfilling. Now, this is, of course, all self-serving s*** that Lumen is doing for the sole purpose of manipulating the MDR team and convincing them to stay and do the mysterious work so that Mark-s will complete Cold Harbor. They’re not actually sorry; they don’t actually care about the innie’s well-being, and that’s what we’re seeing mirrored here with Mark and Mark-s’ conversation. Outie Mark is apologizing for his mistreatment of his innie, creating him to be a prisoner and saying that he thought he would be happy. “Woman told me you’d be happy.” Outie Mark is even offering Innie Mark perks like a shared life if Innie Mark just agrees to help him save Gemma. Now, like Lumen, Outie Mark is offering Innie Mark whatever he thinks he can offer him to make him agree to help him, the same way Lumen offered all of these reforms to get Cold Harbor completed. Mark-s is seeing through this because he has been through this exact same thing with Lumen, and he’s probably right not to trust Outie Mark. And look, I’m not trying to s*** on Outie Mark; he’s been through hell, and look, I’d do anything, anything to get my wife back as well, but Devon makes it pretty clear that Outie Mark isn’t actually intending on following through with these promises. He’s not wrong, right?
Now, this whole reintegration thing is interesting. They, they speak of recoupling memories, and I’ve often referred to reintegration as probably feeling like when you wake up from a wild dream and all of a sudden you become aware again of your own reality and that that dream that seemed so real you now see it for what it is: just a dream. The same could be true for reintegration: the two lives and their memories begin to feel like they were just always there. But Mark-s fears that his baby consciousness, that’s only like two years old, will be dwarfed by the more developed consciousness that is Outie Mark, and that despite his memories and feelings and experiences becoming part of Outie Mark’s mind, I think Mark-s fears that his consciousness may simply become a mere memory and not the consciousness that is at the wheel. I think Mark-s fears that he would still be destined for eternal darkness, but I assume that that’s something we will get clarification on in the next season. Honestly, I think they should just go the Substance route. I don’t know if all of you guys have seen The Substance, but in that movie we see the two different versions of the same character take turns a week at a time getting to be present in the world. I think that’s a way that perhaps they could solve this whole issue. Granted, that would be them committing to only having half a life, you know, cutting their conscious experience of life in half, but I mean, I guess that’s kind of what you asked for when you got severed.
So anyway, we hear Outie Mark talk about how he started showing up to work drunk after losing Gemma and that he lost his job because of it. He also talks about how he started putting all of Gemma’s stuff in the basement because it was easier to pretend she never existed. You’ll remember that it was in Mark’s basement where Ms. Cobel found this candle of Gemma’s, and she even brought it back to the office and had Miss Casey light it during Mark’s final wellness session with her. This was yet another test to see if the barrier between the two was in. Now, this line about him pretending that Gemma never existed is exactly what Mark was hoping to achieve with the severance procedure. Those were eight hours of the day that he didn’t have to be conscious and aware of his grief, and he can make a living while doing it. Mark says, “And I thought I was protecting you from that pain.” And this is exactly what Lumen seems to be targeting with the creation of the severance chip. Not only are they using it to create an obedient workforce and marketing it as a way for people to never have to experience a hard day’s work while still earning a paycheck, but it’s clear that from the tests on Gemma that they are also looking to market Severance as a way to not have to undergo any unpleasant experience, such as writing a f***ing ton of thank you letters, going to the dentist, flying on a plane, or mourning the loss of a loved one. Remember, in the season 1 finale, we saw a gala that was intended to market the severance chip, Lumon’s latest innovation. And Mark’s line about protecting Innie Mark and giving him a life of happiness is exactly the type of phrasing that I would expect to hear from Lumon in their future marketing of the severance chip: a promise to remove things like pain and sadness from every aspect of your life, offering nothing but happiness, giving you the ability to erase traumatic memories. And this, of course, ties into the doctrine of Kier and the lines the showrunners are drawing between a belief in Kier and a belief in a deity and an afterlife: no pain or sadness and only happiness and joy. And that is exactly what Lumen is trying to provide with the sever chip: blissful ignorance—ignorance of all the unpleasantries in life, creating a life where you are only conscious of the good things. Lumen Severance procedure is Kier’s way of essentially making him into this god-like deity that he aspires to be. Kier, via Lumen, is using the severance procedure to bring that eternal joy of the afterlife to the living realm, making it to where the followers of Kier don’t have to endure pain in this realm or in the next. The next—well, the next step in his grand plan to be this loving creator will be using Cobel’s and Lumon’s quantization of consciousness—the building blocks of a mind—making it to where they can also offer immortality. And together that will provide the world with eternal joy: a grateful universe born out of blood they’ll never know it. This would also rid the world of the fear of death. It’s likely that Lumen has created an afterlife of their own for followers of Kier. Following the death of their earthly vessel, they are guided to join Kier, likely as an artificial intelligence of their own mind that was created the same way we’ve seen consciousnesses created in MDR.
Now, we’ve talked about how innie’s like Mark and Dylan are blissfully ignorant to their pain and hardships in the outie world—well, at least they were—but it would appear that Lumon’s ultimate goal is to provide a service that rids the world of all pain, allowing for everyone to just live in blissful ignorance, such as if you go through the pain of a miscarriage, Lumen can make that grief go away by making you not remember that it ever happened. But let’s be clear: the way in which they are achieving this blissful ignorance is by torturing others. We’re seeing like 25 Gemmas live a miserable existence just so one can live in bliss. So, I tell you all of this to point out why Mark-s is distrustful of his outie because it’s his outie who put him there. He also knows that his beloved Helly’s outie is an evil Egan, and Mark’s outie is sounding just, just like Lumen. And Mark’s AI really s***s the bed when he gets Helly’s name wrong and refers to her as “your innie names Heleny.” This is a direct parallel to when Helena was trying to manipulate Mark in that diner earlier in the season, and she slips up and calls Gemma by the wrong name, showing that she doesn’t actually give a damn about them. And I know you’ve already been through so much with losing your wife and all. Hannah. Her saying the wrong name is what snapped Mark out of her gaze and what pushed him to go through with the reintegration procedure. And we’re seeing the same thing happen here. Mark’s outie is trying to manipulate Mark-s to do what he wants, and Mark-s was pretty receptive until Mark’s outie gets Helly’s name wrong, directly paralleling Helena getting Gemma’s name wrong, and this is what pushes Mark-s over the edge into not trusting his outie. And that, of course, sets us up for the ending of the episode.
Okay, so while Cobel is telling Mark about the numbers and how they represent tempers—woe, frolic, dread, and malice—we can see the dancing tempers from Dylan’s waffle party in season one. She says that the clusters are tempers, meaning that this cluster of numbers that the refiners group together with the mouse cursor, they represent one temper, and we see the refiner drop that cluster of numbers into the bin of the corresponding temper, which, as we’ve noted before, are abbreviated with the four tempers. But this is the first time they’ve actually acknowledged that fact in the show. Cobel says, “She’s an innie. You’re nothing to them. I don’t believe you. And they’ll discard you like a skin husk.” And this is exactly how Cobel has been feeling all season. She thought the Egans cared about her, but they discarded her once she served her purpose. Cobel realized that despite her lifelong dedication to the company, she meant nothing to them. And did you guys catch that little “skin husk” line? “I don’t believe you. And they’ll discard you like a skin husk.” I’m wondering if that’s why these guys that I’ve been calling 3D printed actually look so weird. Maybe they are the watchers that we’ve seen on the testing floor who already share a similar physical appearance with the MDR team. Maybe they are wearing like a 3D-printed skin mask. Why? I don’t know, but I do think I know why she says this: “I care for you.” Cobel is the creator of the severance procedure, so in a way, Mark-s is her creation. She may have even done the MDR work needed to create his innie’s consciousness. So, perhaps that is why she is so obsessed with Mark and why she cares for him. She views him as her own.
So, Mark storms out of the cabin, and we get this awesome transition where he shows right back up at Lumon. And this is one of the first times we actually got to see what this transition looks like for an innie. I’ve often wondered if it’s possible for an innie to dream while they’re dormant, but there’s never really been any mention of that. And at the opening of the season when we see Mark arrive back on the severed floor, it’s clear that from his perspective he, he was just at his sister’s house screaming, “She’s alive!” Now, when Mark steps out of the elevator, we see this new mural hanging in the place of the former Kier pardon painting. On this mural, we see the same waterfall from Wo’s Hollow, and at the top of the waterfall we can see all of the Lumen CEOs with Helena in the center, and below them we see everyone else, symbolizing not only the severed floor but the hierarchy of power. Here we can see Mark, and his face is reminiscent of a religious Renaissance painting of Christ, and he has his hand in the air like he is praising God. Here we can see Dylan, Helly, Devon, Ricken, Irving, Ms. Cobel, Burt, Petty, Felicia, Elizabeth, Gwindel, and Y. Marc W. Dario R. Rick’s friends from season 1, Rebec and Mr. and Mrs. Backstrom. On the other side, we’ve got the four tempers: woe, frolic, dread, and malice. We have the creepy clone watcher people, likely wearing their 3D-printed skin masks, and yes, that means that this guy lurking behind Mark was likely a watcher. We have the melons—which I’m probably mispronouncing, my apologies—we’ve got the dude in the goat getup, and of course, Lauren, who later saves Mark from Mr. Drummond in an absolute badass fight scene. We also, of course, have Natalie, Mr. Greener, Mr. Milch, Ms. Wong, and Miss Casey. And you’ll notice that this portrait is called The Exalted Victory of Cold Harbor.
So, as Mark makes his way to MDR, we see him greeted by a Kier mannequin, and it is animatronic, just like Gwindel mentioned in episode one. “What’s your… purity… wing like? Do the Egans move? Uh, no. Huh? Ours were animatronic.” In this card, we can see a cutout of a waffle, just like that of the waffle party perk, and it says, “Love, Mr. Milch,” reminiscent of Kier saying, “I… I love you,” when Helly completed her first file.
So, when Gemma opens her closet to find today’s wardrobe, she sees that it is the same coat from when she was taken by Lumen the night that she supposedly died. And this reveal startles her.
So, in the previous episode, Dylan put in a resignation request, and here we’re seeing his outie’s response. And I loved how this response letter shows us just how much alike these two Dylans are. “Your actions with her were deeply indecorous. Careful using those big words, Dylan. Mr. Drummond won’t like it, and I guess Kier won’t like it either.” We talked about in our previous episode how Lumon’s problem with Milch using big words is tied to the racist background of Lumon and Kier, such as the blackface paintings, and now they’re with a black man daring to use a big word and how that makes the Egans feel intellectually inferior. “Apologize for the word. Sorry. Apologize for the word.” Seeing Kier make this same jab at Milch, and that look that Milch gave him was just so well done, and it ties into my theory about Kier’s consciousness being in that mannequin—a theory that I’ll discuss in my conversation with Mark Geller, Kier himself, in our ending explain video.
So, when the—and from yet another Lumon department choreography and marryt—arrives, they are playing the same song that we heard Ms. Cobel sing in season 1: “Here, chosen one, key.” When Jame sits down in the small office, we see this framed picture of Kier, and the voice coming from the computer is the director of this episode, Ben Stiller. “Welcome, Mr. Egan. The efficacy test will begin shortly.” Jame is watching the room with the crib where Gemma will be completing the efficacy test—the final test, Cold Harbor—to see if the severance procedure will produce the desired and intended result. Milch says, “Let’s keep the Mark-s love going with a ballot of Ambrose and Gwindel,” a reference to the second Lumon CEO, Ambrose Egan, and a reference to Gwindel Egan, whose name we heard mentioned here in the previous episode. “Your bed will be moved from your parents’ home to the Gwindel Egan Empathy Center in Ard.” And guys, this literal song and dance is the perfect physical representation of Lumon’s manipulative s***, and Mark and Helly are seeing right through it. And I loved when Helly says that she will see Mark at the equator—a callback to earlier in the episode when she says that she has been trying to think of other place names besides Delaware, Delaware being the place that she named here when she first came into being in season one in her survey with Mark: “Please name any US state or territory.”
Primeiro, o que me vem à mente? Não sei. Delaware. Agora, não apenas a capacidade dela de pensar em outros nomes de lugares contribui para o tema do chip de separação não manter essa barreira, mas há também o significado do Equador representando um ponto intermediário, o que poderia significar compromisso. O Equador é a linha divisória entre, essencialmente, o topo e a base do globo, assim como existe a linha divisória entre a superfície e o piso separado. E, claro, essa linha divisória entre um innie e um outie.
Então, temos o retorno do grito de Dore. Nós ouvimos esse grito de guerra pela primeira vez em outra altercação física entre Dylan e o Sr. Milch, aqui na 1ª temporada, e novamente no final da 1ª temporada. Quando a enfermeira escolta Gemma para o quarto Cold Harbor, podemos ver que seu dedo está ensanguentado pelas mini picadas que ela sofreu em cada porta pela qual ela enviou Gemma. No quarto, vemos o berço que vimos Mark tentando desmontar aqui no episódio 7. Este teste final visa levar o chip de separação ao seu limite, fazendo Gemma passar por um processo que seu eu consciente ficaria de luto. E eu acho que, quando ela terminasse, eles planejavam matá-la.
Essas cabras serão sintonizadas com uma mulher querida, cujo espírito elas devem guiar até a porta de Kier. Sempre soubemos que as cabras teriam algo a ver com o sacrifício. Quero dizer, a escrita estava na parede, literalmente. Temos que lembrar que, apesar de Lumon ser esses caras maus de ficção científica, há também o aspecto de culto de sua vilania. Agora, eu acho que esse processo de sacrifício a Kier é simbólico, e eu acho que eles sabem disso até certo ponto. Não acho que Drummond realmente pense que o sacrifício da cabra vai ser como um guia espiritual para levar a consciência de Gemma para ficar com Kier em algum tipo de vida após a morte metafísica. Acho que isso é realmente apenas cerimonial e um pouco de um teste de lealdade para os seguidores de Kier. E que a transição real da consciência de Gemma para ficar com Kier serão realmente esses blocos de construção de sua mente na forma de código, que eu acho que então seriam carregados para a Matrix para ficar com a mente reconstruída de Kier também.
Então, vemos Mark tentando chutar esse chão para descer até o piso de teste, e isso é paralelo a Milch tentando chutar essa máquina de venda automática da porta para pará-lo. Então, quando Drummond ouve Mark, ele sai e começa a espancá-lo, e então Mark o morde, assim como Dylan mordeu Milch. Agora, eu falei muito nesta temporada sobre como esta série é sobre solidariedade dos trabalhadores, e nós temos uma ótima frase de Hel aqui que leva esse tema para casa: eles nos dão meia vida e acham que não vamos lutar por ela. Então, quando Mark Scout acorda, ele acidentalmente atira em Drummond. Boohoo, nenhuma lágrima por Drummond.
Enquanto Mark segue para o quarto Cold Harbor, usando inteligentemente sua gravata ensanguentada de Drummond, vemos que este novo innie de Gemma, que não tem ideia de quem é Mark, ainda confia nele, apesar de ele estar coberto de sangue. Apesar de estar assustada, ela ainda pega a mão dele e vai com ele. E é por isso que Gemma está tão furiosa. Esse encontro com Mark e sua vontade de ir com ele e confiar nele prova que existem rachaduras na barreira de separação. O teste Cold Harbor não foi bem-sucedido. Agora, quando o Dr. Milch grita: "Você vai matá-los todos", ele está, claro, se referindo às mini versões de Gemma com quem ele se tornou próximo ao longo dos anos. E sabemos que ele é bastante apaixonado por ela, seguindo esta fala de Drummond no episódio 7: "Você gosta dela, ela é fácil de gostar".
Então, quando Mark e Gemma finalmente se reconectam, é lindo. E eu também adorei ver a reconexão de Miss Casey e Mark, e como, assim que eles chegaram naquele andar separado, ela não tinha ideia do que estava acontecendo, mas ela confiava neste Mark coberto de sangue. Outro sinal de que o procedimento de separação tem suas falhas e que a barreira não está segurando. Então Mark leva Gemma até a porta de saída, a mesma porta de saída que vimos aqui na 1ª temporada. Agora, Miss Casey se torna Gemma ao passar por aquela porta, mas Mark fica para trás. E é de partir o coração ver Gemma implorando para ele ir com ela. Mark fez seu dever, ele salvou Gemma, mas ele ama Helly R, e é difícil culpá-lo por querer ficar. Então, quando Helly e Mark se juntam e correm, ouvimos a música de 1960 "The Windmills of Your Mind" começar a tocar. Oh meu Deus, essa música não é a música perfeita de Severance?
Então, pessoal, eu amei esta última cena: o congelamento de imagem, o zoom, o grão do filme. Eu achei que era simplesmente... era arte. E esta é realmente uma homenagem aos finais clássicos de filmes de ficção científica, como Logan's Run, Westworld, A Cepa de Andrômeda, Soylent Green, O Homem Ômega, THX 1138, Silent Running. Eu poderia continuar. E isso é tão apropriado, porque este programa é uma carta de amor para aquela era do cinema. E eu não vejo a hora de descobrir para onde diabos Mark e Helly estão correndo. A 3ª temporada não pode chegar logo o suficiente.
Agora, pessoal, como eu mencionei no temporizador 3, eu tenho uma ótima entrevista com o próprio Kier Egan, Mark Geller, em nosso vídeo de explicação do final de Severance. Certifique-se de conferir isso aqui no canal. Quero agradecer a todos vocês por se juntarem a mim nesta viagem selvagem que foi a 2ª temporada de Severance. Tem sido uma explosão absoluta cobrir este programa com vocês. Então, se vocês ainda não o fizeram, por favor, sintam-se à vontade para se inscrever e ativar o sininho para alertas do ScreenCrush. Eu sou... eu não sei quem eu sou.