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[Ed. note: <\/strong>This post contains spoilers through episode 2 of Severance<\/em> season 2<\/a>. Read on only if you\u2019re fine with one of your severed selves knowing that.]<\/p>\n

Headed into season 2, Severance<\/em> is on a hot streak. Picking up right where the season 1 finale left off<\/a> \u2014 give or take a few months of outie time; Mark (Adam Scott) is informed it\u2019s been about five months since the finale \u2014 Severance<\/em> season 2 kicks into gear almost right away. That gear is the one we\u2019re familiar with for the show<\/a>: methodical and full of clues. <\/p>\n

Episode 1 of season 2, \u201cHello, Ms. Cobel,\u201d doesn\u2019t betray much<\/em>, but it certainly gets everyone back to work, which gets us closer to figuring out\u2026 any answers to the many lingering questions. Episode 2 certainly provides some more answers (and a clearer sense of the timeline) on the outside of Lumon, and yet still<\/em> questions remain. To that end, we\u2019ve compiled a working doc of all the lingering questions Severance <\/em>is teeing up. We\u2019ll be updating it as the series goes along, and will include everything from evidence presented on the show to wild conjecture. In the spirit of Dylan (Zach Cherry), let\u2019s wonder aloud a little.<\/p>\n

To that end: What is Lumon working on? <\/h2>\n

Lumon is a deeply mysterious organization. When Helly (Britt Lower) asks in season 1 how many departments there are, the guesses from the MDR team skew wildly \u2014 \u201cprobably 30,\u201d \u201caround five,\u201d \u201cno one is quite sure\u201d are the stated answers \u2014 and the group doesn\u2019t even know what it is they\u2019re<\/em> working on. Other departments don\u2019t know what the others do, and seem to have strange superstitions about the very humanity of their ostensible co-workers.<\/p>\n

From our glimpses of the outside, it\u2019s clear Lumon exerts a lot<\/em> of influence in the wider world. And as Cobel (Patricia Arquette) puts it when someone asks about what Lumon does: \u201cWhatever humans can imagine, they can usually create.\u201d But season 2 seems to nod to at least one<\/em> way they make their money: In episode 2, when Helena is making a video covering up<\/s> addressing Helly\u2019s OTC outburst, she says that she mixed alcohol with a \u201cnon-Lumon medication.\u201d So Lumon is in some way part of Big Pharma (and definitely not the sort of drugs that would make you have a public outburst about how innies are being \u201ctortured;\u201d no siree Bob.) <\/p>\n

Adding to the general weirdness, there\u2019s the weird corporate legacy they\u2019re all indoctrinated to: owned by the Egan company and founded by Kier Egan, who still looms over the company like a cult leader. His Core Principles and employee handbook are dense. They have their hands in a lot of pots, given their subterranean (or possibly just windowless, liminal) office includes goats, \u201coptics and design,\u201d art preservation, MDR, and more.<\/p>\n

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So what are they up to, and what does the severed procedure<\/a> actually net them? The answer, on paper, is in its use: No longer do people have to be \u201caware\u201d they work, or undergo painful experiences like giving birth. It\u2019s not hard to see how that could have applications for soldiers (or even something more nefarious). But the larger goal\u2026 tbd. Are they doing some kind of Get Out<\/em> thing where the severance procedure is just a way to transfer consciousness, prolong life, and maybe even bring Kier Egan back to life? Maybe! Why else keep a man\u2019s house perfectly preserved in the office? And why else would Helena\u2019s Egan CEO dad say she would \u201csit with\u201d him at his \u201crevolving\u201d?<\/p>\n

But these questions do bring us to\u2026<\/p>\n

What is the Macrodata Refinement department working on?<\/h2>\n

Technically we don\u2019t know this, either! (Though we are pretty clear that they do not, as the rumors have suggested, \u201ceach have a larval offspring that will jump off and attack when we get too close.\u201d)<\/p>\n

To us it looks like numbers moving around the screen. But to Mark and his co-workers, it\u2019s work \u2014 some of which is numbers that elicit a strange fear response (or even visions like the one Mark gets of Ms. Casey\/his wife at the end of the season 2 premiere). And to the heads of Lumon, it seems pretty imperative, given the way they\u2019re willing to bend to Mark\u2019s demands in the opening of season 2. Episode 2 of the second season seems to back this thought up: Whatever MDR is doing \u2014 and Innie-Mark specifically \u2014 is so important that Helena is told she needs to go back in because he<\/em> asked for it. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a popular fan theory that MDR is sensitive and high-level bit work that has something to do with refining\/perfecting the severance procedure (or even perfecting one consciousness taking over another), and the numbers represent memories and personality that are getting swept away. <\/p>\n

One thing that seems important to note: There is a technique to it. \u201cWhen you see us, we really are refining numbers,\u201d Adam Scott, who plays Mark, told The Verge<\/a>. \u201cThere is actually a way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

What are they doing with Mark\u2019s wife?<\/h2>\n

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When we\u2019re introduced to Outie-Mark, he lives a barren, severed life because he lost his wife a few years prior to the series. In the season 1 finale<\/a>, Innie-Mark discovers (and screams) that she\u2019s alive. So\u2026 where did she go? Episode 1 doesn\u2019t give a lot of details: We know she takes the elevator that Outie-Irv (John Turturro) keeps painting, and we don\u2019t\u2026 know where that goes, or why she got taken.<\/p>\n

In an interview around the season 1 finale<\/a>, creator Dan Erickson only vaguely alluded to what might be going on: <\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a lot of questions. Most of which we had answered in our minds when we wrote it, but some of which we didn\u2019t. Like, some of which we\u2019ve been subsequently discussing. But yeah, like, is she severed? Does she know \u2014 is she in on it? Is she a victim? Is she kidnapped? How did she go from being in this loving marriage with Mark to being Ms. Casey down from the seventh floor? And so that\u2019s a big, big question mark at this point. [\u2026] We\u2019ve seen that there\u2019s some sort of experiment or something happening with [Mark] and his wife, and sort of observing them. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What did Harmony Cobel want with Mark?<\/h2>\n

There\u2019s a lot of weirdness on Severance<\/em>, but among the strangest (or at least the coldest) of it is Harmony Cobel infiltrating Mark\u2019s life both in and outside of work hours. For as much as Milchick (Tramell Tillman) might write this off as some bizarre psychosexual \u201cthrouple,\u201d her game seemed to be much more thought out than that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible that she\u2019s keeping tabs on a larger project around the severed employees (in her own way). Cobel was more concerned than the board about Petey\u2019s severed memories being permeable; later she asked Mark\u2019s sister if he ever \u201cthought he saw\u201d his wife around. She seemed to take a bit of glee in introducing Ms. Casey to the MDR room to watch Helly R., and when she found out that Ms. Casey was getting too chummy with Mark she sent her \u201cback down to the testing floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it does<\/em> seem a little more personal than just observing lab rats. When Helena Egan thanks her for her loyalty in reporting the OTC measure, Harmony says it cost her \u201cdearly.\u201d She says this with a weird air of wistfulness, even her own brand of chilling affection. It could just be Arquette\u2019s performance, but it\u2019s all very odd. Especially since she turns down the new position in the \u201cSeverance Advisory Council.\u201d <\/p>\n

All in all this question is now compounded with a more pressing one: Where did she go<\/em>?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the testing floor? <\/h2>\n

Oh, great question; no clue, really. But it\u2019s scary and ominous \u2014 poor Ms. Casey has to walk down a long, dark hallway that leads to an elevator with just an imposing red down arrow \u2014 and for some reason Irv\u2019s outie has been having visions of it and painting it, as we see in the season finale. Petey alluded to some level of the Lumon building as \u201ca place you don\u2019t get to leave,\u201d which certainly seems like it could be the testing floor.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s some theories that this has to do with the deeper nature of Lumon, and might involve cloning (hence the goats). At the very least, that Irv and Ms. Casey seem to have some link to the floor would suggest that maybe both of them have undergone the same sort of testing. Particularly since Innie-Irv keeps having weird visions of black shadowy ooze. <\/p>\n

Why is Ms. Huang a child? <\/h2>\n

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Is it a paid internship? Is Lumon flouting child labor laws? Is she also part of the testing floor\/Ms. Casey weirdness? So far Ms. Huang \u2014 not a friend, it must be noted \u2014 has been clear: It\u2019s because of when she was born. Hope that helps!<\/p>\n

What is the connection with Lumon and water? <\/h2>\n

Lumon\u2019s logo is a water drop. There\u2019s a water tower in the parking lot (and that gets to be its own character in the Claymation introductory video the innies get shown in the season 2 premiere). There\u2019s lot of names that link back to some sort of body of water \u2014 MDR files<\/a>, housing developments the characters live in, even technically the names of the refiners<\/a>. Ms. Casey tells Innie-Irv that his outie \u201cvalues water.\u201d There\u2019s a painting of Egan standing over lakes that are shaped like the Great Lakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What does it all mean? Not clear yet, though some think that it nods to the alternate universe of Severance<\/em> existing in a time where there is a war for water, and it\u2019s considered a more precious (or endangered) resource.<\/p>\n

Who was the guy in the hallway?<\/h2>\n

In the opening of season 2, Innie-Mark is running through the hallways desperately trying to find Ms. Casey\u2019s office. When he turns up short, behind him there\u2019s\u2026 a guy? Just peeking out behind him in the doorframe.<\/p>\n

The only clue we have is that this man is credited as \u201cMan in Hallway,\u201d and played by Adam Jepsen. He\u2019s listed as having a recurring role on the show. <\/p>\n

Seriously, what is the deal with the goats?<\/h2>\n

Among the stranger things we saw in season 1: a herd of goats just being\u2026 kept? inside the halls of Lumon Industries. All Mark and Helly really know is the caretaker didn\u2019t consider them \u201cready yet.\u201d <\/p>\n

Like so much of life at Lumon, the goats both don\u2019t immediately make sense and also are openly perplexing as to what their possible<\/em> use could be. The good news? It seems like by the end of season 2 we will have some sort of answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers through episode 2 of Severance season 2. Read on only if you\u2019re fine with one of your severed selves knowing that.] Headed into season 2, Severance is on a hot streak. Picking up right where the season 1 finale left off \u2014 give or take a few months of outie time; Mark (Adam Scott) is informed it\u2019s been about five months since the finale \u2014 Severance season 2 kicks into gear almost right away. That gear is the one we\u2019re familiar with for the show: methodical and full of clues. Episode 1 of season 2, \u201cHello, Ms. Cobel,\u201d doesn\u2019t betray much, but it certainly gets everyone back to work, which gets us closer to figuring out\u2026 any answers to…<\/p>\n

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