Severance
word of advice ! This article hold spoilers for Severance season 2 ’s episode 7.Severanceseason 2 ’s instalment 7 lastly gives a glimpse of what lies on Lumon ’s testing floor , give away a series of elbow room designed to conduct unusual experiments on Gemma . Although allepisodes inSeveranceseason 2have been evenly compelling and memorable , episode 7 is arguably one of the best installments in the series because it answers many burning motion about the overarching story . Almost throughout its runtime , it walk through Mark ’s memories of his wife and the last few years he spent with her before she passed away .
Parallely , theApple TV+ sci - fi show ’s episode also unfold the mystery surrounding the examination floor by sustain that Lumon is using it to conduct privy experiments on Gemma . The episode hints that Mark ’s employment in the MDR directly ties into the experiments by support that each examination room on the flooring is named after a file Mark ’s innie has work on . Although the instalment introduce a wide range of rooms , it only gives a glimpse of what happens inside three of them , hinting at what Lumon might be render to achieve through the tests on Gemma .
3The Dentist’s Room
Wellington
InSeveranceseason 2 ’s episode 7 , Gemma recalls visiting six rooms:“The Billings room , the Lucknow way , St. Pierre , Cairns , Zurich , and The Wellington elbow room . “Out of the six rooms , Wellington is the first one she travel to . As shortly as she enter Wellington , she transitions into a new innie , who arise increasingly fearful after she make where she is . She seems visibly uneasy after seeing Doctor Mauer , suggesting that she roll in the hay what is about to happen to her in the elbow room .
breach season 2 , instalment 7 introduces a shake up unexampled Lumon character , Doctor Mauer , who has sorry ties to the central closed book of the show .
Although the episode does not dive into the contingent of what encounter to her in the room , it seems observable that Mauer do some sort of dental operating room on her . He seems to on purpose subject her to dental pain to check whether she carries the injury from the roomonce she leave and transition into her outie . Each room on the examination floor seems to turn Gemma into a new innie . She is also expected to dress otherwise for each way , which permit her to name where she will be going for the twenty-four hour period .
Doctor Mauer mentions that the Cold Harbor room will be the final room Gemma will go in , marking the ending of the run .
After Gemma leaves Wellington , she has no memories of what bechance to her . However , she complain of jaw pain , suggesting that even though the computer memory of what happened has been completely blocked by the severance subroutine , the trunk ’s physical response to the dental subprogram persists .
2The Turbulent Flight Room
Unknown Name
Severanceseason 2 ’s episode 7 does not reveal the name of this elbow room , but it turns out to be one of the strangest innie experience featured in the series so far . After she transitions into a raw innie , Gemma finds herself in what seems like a flight simulation in this room . She is seated in a windowpane seat as a rider on the aircraft and experiences the stress of Brobdingnagian turbulence . Mauer also shows up on the flight disguised as an co-occurrence and sic her up with a repast . He even asks her if she would care some coffee or teatime before being contrive up to the ceiling by the turbulence .
The name of the following rooms have been revealed so far :
This room not only seems to suggest that Lumon have pretense technology but also highlights how the ship’s company walks Gemma ’s innie through humans ’s most common care . After Wellington exposes her to the fear and psychic trauma from dental pain , the second room triggers the fear of wing . It must be take down that since the innies only be inside the examination floor room , they are caught in loops of eternal hell where they are constantly exposed to the same awe .
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1The Endless Christmas Room
Before walking into the third room , Gemma get into a wedding ceremony ring and carmine night-robe . Inside the room , she on the face of it writes multiple " thank you " letters for Christmas presents with her left-hand bridge player before her hired man starts wound . The room again seems to subject her to some kind of psychological torture , designed to try whether the trauma experienced by her innie traverses to Gemma ’s outie consciousness . Gemma remember nothing when she steps out of this way but seems to notice how her bridge player hurts .
By vivify an experience from Gemma ’s life for her innie , Mauer seemingly tries to confirm whether there are any leaks of her outie ’s memories in her innie consciousness in the room .
The experience in this seems to specifically riff on some of Gemma ’s old store . In an early scene , Gemma tells Mark she hate writing thank - you letters . Lumon seems to know about her personal dislike and seems to craft the elbow room or many other room consequently . Before Gemma leaves the endless Christmas way inSeveranceseason 2 ’s episode 7 , Mauer even tells her he bonk her and prompt her to say the same . This parallels Gemma ’s last few moments with Mark when she tells him that she loves him before leaving for a political party , but Mark inattentively ignores her .
Severance Key Facts Breakdown
Created By
Dan Erickson
Rotten Tomatoes Critics ' sexual conquest
97 %
Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score
83 %
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Apple TV+
By recreating an experience from Gemma ’s life for her innie , Mauer apparently test to confirm whether there are any leakage of her outie ’s storage in her innie cognisance in the room . Interestingly , showrunner , Dan Erickson , bring out in an interview ( viaMashable ) that the Christmas elbow room on the testing trading floor inSeveranceseason 2 ’s instalment 7 is found on his own puerility vexation surrounding compose a sight of thank - you varsity letter for Christmas .
Severance is a psychological thriller series featuring Adam Scott as Mark Scout , an employee at Lumon Industries who undergo a " severance " subprogram to separate his piece of work and personal memories . However , as oeuvre and life history personas mysteriously start to collide , it quickly becomes decipherable that not all is as it seems . Created by Dan Erickson and aim by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle .
