We’re solely three episodes into Severance season 2 and we’ve already seen Lumon complicating little one labor legal guidelines, Mark Scout (Adam Scott) suspiciously being handled like an important Lumon worker, and the individuals of the Mammalians Nurturable who are likely to the goats we’re all nonetheless confused about. Now, after hours of Severance episodes since we final noticed this collection’ most mysterious process, the most recent episode reintroduced it in a means that would change the whole season.
After Mark’s intense encounter with Concord Cobel (Patricia Arquette) in Episode 2 ended together with her almost hitting him together with her automobile as she sped away from his justified questions on what every part with him and Lumon means, he hatches a determined (and principally silly) plan to ship a message to his Innie. He thought he might stare at a lightweight burning the query “Who’s alive?” (the title of the episode) into his eyes and the afterimage would final lengthy sufficient that his Innie would momentarily be capable to see it. He will get an F for effort from us, and fortunately some useful recommendation from Regabhi (Karen Aldridge), the previous Lumon worker who helped Petey (Yul Vazquez) reintegrate.
After letting him know that the severance swap dilating his pupils would imply the afterimage can be erased, that going this route might blind him, and that Innie Mark would don’t have any means of speaking again to him, she tells him his spouse Gemma (Dichen Lachman) was alive the final time she noticed her. Then, she provides him one glimmer of hope of reconnecting together with her: reintegration.
The final time we heard about reintegration was when Petey described it to Mark as “having two totally different lives instantly stitched collectively” in Season 1. Sadly for Petey, his reintegration led to hallucinations of his previous on the Severed Ground and in his current within the exterior world, frequent nosebleeds, crippling paranoia, and his eventual demise in a comfort retailer toilet. These reintegration scenes have been heartbreaking since you might see a person struggling to belief who he’s at any given second, exhibiting probably the most devastating results of the severance course of.
Regabhi assures Mark she’s improved her reintegration course of, and we get our first glimpse of how this mysterious process works. She wires Mark as much as a fancy association of kit that displays his brainwaves whereas asking him a collection of inquiries to see when his Innie reminiscence merges together with his Outie’s. The Mark from the skin might in all probability let you know his date of beginning immediately, however the Innie Mark would don’t know. That’s why him forgetting after which later implying he solely is aware of time by enterprise quarters have been indicators of his reintegration working. Then, we see his first reminiscence at Lumon—him being interviewed by Petey the identical means he interviewed Helly R (Britt Decrease) on her first day—however this time his garments glitch between his Severed Ground apparel and his present-day apparel, and his setting switches between Regabhi’s basement and Lumon. For a second, we see a severed worker dressed of their severed apparel within the exterior world. Reintegration is full…considerably.
The present exploring reintegration with a personality it confirmed us was indispensable to Lumon in final week’s episode might imply we see the primary Innie-Outie team-up on Severance. Regabhi does say the one technique to get info out and in of the Severed Ground is thru reintegration, so we might see the lengths of reintegration’s powers.
With Innie Dylan George (Zach Cherry) spending time together with his Outie’s spouse within the Household Visitation Middle, Helly R’s mysterious conduct prompting Reddit message boards to query if it’s actually her, and now Mark reintegrating, this season of Severance is rapidly shaping as much as be one through which the inseparability of the Innies and the Outies results in the reality popping out…for higher or worse. Let’s simply hope Mark doesn’t bleed out at Pip’s.
