Severance
monition ! This clause contains spoilers for Severance season 2 , episode 10 .
Severanceseason 2 , episode 10 boast a mural depicting Mark ’s culmination of Cold Harbor , with the house painting containing a lot of concealed substance . Severance ’s Cold Harbor filehas been the key mystery of season 2 , with the close featuring big reveals about the work Lumon ’s MDR employees carry out . The numbers that are so inherent toSeverance ’s Macrodata Refinement jobwere finally render meaning by Ms. Cobel ’s reveal that each file Mark completes builds a new Innie for Ms. Casey .
All of this linked back to Cold Harbor , which was the concluding labor Mark needed to fill in forLumon ’s plans with Gemma inSeveranceseason 2to be finalized . give that the company ’s years - recollective plan was finally conclude , Lumon made Mark ’s pass completion of Cold Harbor into a massive event that featured a back - and - Forth River between Mr. Milchick and a robotic Kier Eagan , as well as a marching band performance . However , perhaps the most unsettling look that typified the completion of Mark ’s work inSeveranceseason 2 ’s ending was a Cold Harbor wall painting that was hung opposite the severed trading floor ’s elevator .
Who Is In Mark’s Cold Harbor Mural & Why The Dead Eagans Are Looking Down On Him
Several Faces Adorn The Strange Painting
The mural fromSeveranceseason 2 ’s finale features Mark at the center , sitting at his MDR desk with his eyes closed and paw raise to the sky . On either side of him are several people , everyone that Innie Mark has ever known . On the left side of Innie Mark - from the audience ’s perspective - are those he has had more personal interactions with , include the MDR crewof Helly , Dylan , and Irving . Alongside those are Devon and Ricken , as well as Petey and Ms. Cobel , the latter of whom became an ally inSeveranceseason 2 , instalment 9 .
Like every Severance season 2 episode , sequence 9 ends with a major cliffhanger that utterly paves the fashion for the Apple TV+ show ’s season 2 finale .
Further in the back to the left of the house painting are Burt and Felicia from O&D , Mark W. , Gwendolyn , and David from earlier in season 2 , and some of the character Innie Mark met at Ricken ’s book party fromSeveranceseason 1 ’s ending . On the right - mitt side of Mark in the mural are more authoritative figure from Lumon , or those still shrouded in mystery with a sense of disconnectfrom Innie Mark . They let in Mr. Milchick , Miss Huang , Mr. Grainer , and Natalie from Lumon , for example .
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Also to Mark ’s right , again from the interview ’s view , are Lorne and her coworkers from Mammalians Nurturable . Behind them are Kier ’s mystic biliousness who danced in front of Dylan duringSeveranceseason 1 ’s Waffle Party . The farthest figures on the good - hired hand side of the pic are the four ringer of the MDR worker who point Mark , Helly , Irving , and Dylan to Woe ’s Hollow . Also present is Ms. Casey , who despite knowing Mark ’s Outie intimately , is still a mysterious figure to Innie Mark .
Completing the picture are the Eagan kin , include Helena , Jame , and Kier , line up above the Woe ’s Hollow waterfall . The Eagans are looking down on Mark , symbolizing their craze - like deification as the leadership of Lumon . Mark is complete important body of work in the military service of the Eagans , explaining their portrayal as being above him .
Why Mark’s Cold Harbor Mural Is Set At Woe’s Hollow
The Thematic Location From Severance Season 2, Episode 4
As already alluded to , the wall painting depicting Mark ’s completion of Cold Harbor is set at Woe ’s Hollow . Woe ’s Hollow was the waterfall location spotlight inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 4 , with the mural take aim the thematic constituent of Kier Eagan ’s story and apply them to Mark . In the earlier time of year 2 episode , it was said that Woe ’s Hollow is where Kier Eagan first mastered the Four Tempers - Woe , Frolic , Dread , and Malice - after killing his crony , thus coiffe the entire Lumon doctrine into motion .
Mark ’s Cold Harbor wall painting being set up at Woe ’s vacuous inter-group communication to this . After all , it was uncover that Mark is essentially mastering Gemma ’s tempers during his MDR work , much like Kier did at Woe ’s Hollow . This excuse why Mark is sit down at his calculator beneath the falls in the wall painting , to represent him emulate Kier and carry out the philosophy of Lumon by basically kill Gemmaeach time he completes a file , just as the founder disposed of his comrade .
Was Lumon Going To Kill Mark After Completing Cold Harbor?
The final element of the Mark painting deserving explore is why his middle are closed , and his hand is raised towards the Eagans . One potential interpretation of this is that Lumon was planning on killing Mark after Cold Harbor was discharge . Mark ’s eyes being closed with all of those he interacted with could betoken that his life is now over . Everyone he has touched in one fashion or another is witnessing his final enactment that will see him close his heart for good now that Cold Harbor is fill out .
This could explain why his script is prove towards the Eagans . His hand could mean him being fire up to the Eagans , many of whom have passed on before him . All of this could hint that Lumon was go bad to vote out Mark after he completed his workplace , just as they were be after to do with Gemma . Regardless , the wall painting has many different version , link to the climactic pass completion of the installment ’s eponymous file , Severance ’s Cold Harbor .
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