Severance
WARNING ! This article contains looter for Severance time of year 2 , episode 8!Revealing a saturnine and tragic backstory for Patricia Arquette ’s character , Severanceseason 2 , installment 8 shed some clear onCobel ’s rearing in Salt ’s Neck , where she was employed in nipper labor for Lumon Industries . Though Cobel had typically been one of the most god-fearing follower of Kier and Eagan garter throughoutSeverance , it was n’t exactly clear where her dedication stemmed from and how Lumon ’s influence extended to her crime syndicate members . Now , after fly Kier and turning against the company , the tragical truth aboutCobel ’s childhood and indoctrination into the Lumon systemis eventually reveal .
When Cobel revert to her impoverished hometown of Salt ’s neck opening inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 8 , it ’s break that Lumon has abandoned the desolate area with many residents being addict to ether . While there , Cobel reunites with Hampton , an old friend who she worked with at the local Lumon manufacturing plant as a child . Though Cobel left Salt ’s Neck and rise through Lumon ’s incarnate ranks , Hampton never left , having to witness the town wither away while his resentments against Lumon festered . GivenMiss Huang ’s function inSeverance , Lumon ’s use of child proletariat tragically still has n’t ended since Cobel and Hampton ’s youth .
Cobel & Hampton Worked In Lumon’s Ether Factory As Children
Cobel & Hampton Were Forced Into Child Labor In Salt’s Neck
Cobel ’s employment with Lumon date stamp back to a much former clip than in the beginning expected . As it twist out , Cobel had been working at Lumon ’s diethyl ether factory in Salt ’s neck opening with Hamptonwhen she was just a child . Lumon founder Kier Eaganhimself grew up work on at his family ’s ether factory , so the company essay to justify its history of child parturiency when it comes to making diethyl ether and pharmaceuticals by suggest it makes the employees closer to Kier .
Diethyl quintessence is a colorless , sweet - redolent , inflammable liquid often used as a lab dissolvent and formerly used as an anesthetic and in pharmaceutic formulas .
Though Sissy discover that theEagan familysaw Harmony as one of the best worker there , it ’s not percipient exactly what jobs Cobel and Hampton did while they work at the ether factory as kids . Kier and Imogen Eagan are say to have respectively puzzle out as a stew - gentleman’s gentleman and a swab miss at an ether factoryin their own youth , which could be the positions also assigned to Hampton and Harmony . With Harmony also being very scientifically minded , Lumon ’s factory may have eventually tasked her with working more straight on the chemistry side of make ether .
It ’s indecipherable why it close down , but the ether factory is a huge reason why many current residents in Salt ’s cervix are still addicted to vinyl ether today , as Lumon got the town knock off on the nub back when the plant was functioning . SinceSeverance ’s Lumon Industries begin as a pharmaceutic ship’s company , it can be adopt there are plenty of now - defunct child labor - using factories like that in Salt ’s cervix almost everywhere . Of naturally , Lumon is in all likelihood hoping to replace those with rift micro chip factory after their work with Gemma is complete .
Why Cobel Was Able To Leave Salt’s Neck (But Not Hampton)
Cobel Was A Top Child Employee While Hampton Suffered From The Factory Shutdown
Though Cobel and Hampton were both forced into child labor in Salt ’s Neck , only one of them was able to scarper the town . Cobel was able to leave the ether factory and Salt ’s Neck as a stripling whenshe was post to Myrtle Eagan ’s School for Girls . It ’s implied that the Eagans funded her attendance at the shoal found on the promise that she demonstrate at the ether manufacturing plant , her devotion to Kier ’s Nine Core Principles , and the fierce loyalty show by Sissy Cobel .
Helena Eagan gave Harmony Cobel a " generous " job fling in Severance season 2 , episode 2 , but Patricia Arquette ’s character is n’t eager to bear .
While also being valedictorian at Myrtle Eagan ’s School for young woman , which took her away from Salt ’s Neck for an extended catamenia in her adolescence , Cobel ascend up the rank of the ship’s company even further when she was awardedLumon ’s Wintertide Fellowship . After showing continued loyalty to Lumon , the Eagans , and the caller ’s future , Cobel was awarded high-pitched perspective and a direction out of Salt ’s Neck , give up her a more comfortable living in the town of Kier instead .
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SeveranceSeason 2 ’s Remaining Episode docket
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March 14
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March 21
Meanwhile , Hampton , presumably like so many others in Salt ’s Neck and Ithiel Town like it , was left behind . When the ether mill keep out down , he lost his livelihood , with plenty of those in his community being unable to prosper due to the ether addictions they received at the manufacturing plant and the lack of jobs around them . Hampton was n’t sent to a prestigious school or give any other chance to lead Salt ’s Neck , instead remaining in town as the owner of a café and an ether dealer .
Miss Huang Highlights How Lumon’s Child Labor Employment Has Changed Throughout History
Child Labor Is Still Alive At Lumon
Ether is no longer Lumon ’s main product , so the company has another use for child labor as they mould and manipulate the next genesis of Kier followers . Now , nipper labor is used to enhance Lumon ’s new biggest product : theseverance procedure and chip . Rather than performing intensive labor at a factory , minor like Miss Huang work at Lumon in supervisory roles above Innies , helping to refine rift in the workplacewhile enforcing Lumon ’s foreign mission and economic value . It may not needfully seem as grievous as an ether factory , butSeverance ’s youngster labor today induce important damage to kids ’ mankind and lesson .
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