Severance

Warning ! This article contains spoiler for Severance season 2 , instalment 3 .

Dylan ’s plot line inSeveranceseason 2 , instalment 3 only proves how cruelly effective Lumon can be at manipulating its employees . The story of the installment centre aroundSeverance ’s ensemble cast of characterslooking for Ms. Casey / Gemma . This was the slip forSeverance ’s Innie and Outie personality , with Mark and Devon also formulating a plan to get a message to the former ’s Innie and ask who he mean when blurting out"She ’s alive"in the season 1 finis .

Beneath the office of Lumon , Mark S hatched a interchangeable plan to find outwhere Ms. Casey is inSeveranceseason 2 . Mark and his MDR compatriots draw up a survey of Ms. Casey and photocopy them , taking them to the other department of the severed story to see if anyone else knows where she is . Although Helly and Irving were committed to Mark ’s cause , Dylan was demonstrate to remain in MDRand continue his employment . The ground for Dylan ’s reaction stems from his previous interactions withMilchick inSeveranceseason 2 , proving Lumon ’s manipulation to already be working .

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Dylan Isn’t Helping Mark With His Gemma Mission Because Of Lumon’s Incentives

Lumon Had A Plan To Keep Dylan Onboard

AfterSeveranceseason 1 ’s termination , Lumon start implementing new ways to placate the Innies and convert them to keep working . One such method of use was revealed inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 1 , but entirely to Dylan . Milchick take Dylan behind the wall of his office to a table that showcased plans for the Outie Visitation Suite that , should Dylan continue his work peacefully , would give up the employee to contact his Outie ’s family and learn more about his life outside of the power .

Dylan is likely worried that these motivator could be take away and that he will no longer get to study more about his family if he step out of line …

Herein lies the reasoning behind Dylan ’s want of helper inSeveranceseason 2 , sequence 3 . Dylan is likely worried that these incentives could be taken away and that he will no longer get to study more about his syndicate if he steps out of blood line . This explain why he does not rise up alongside Mark , Helly , and Irving inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 3 , instead dutifully conduct his workplace in exchange for a abbreviated meeting with his wife in the new Outie Visitation Suite .

Dylan looking shocked next to a wedding photo of Mark and Gemma in Severance (2022-)

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Innie Dylan’s Interaction With Gretchen Explained

Dylan’s Obedience Did Not Go Unrewarded

While the other MDR worker were out searching for Ms. Casey , Dylan was escorted to what was once the Security Room housing the transposition forSeverance ’s Overtime Contingency Protocol . This room has since been converted and is now the Outie Visitation Suite , with Dylan receiving an 18 - moment session with his Outie ’s wife , Gretchen . Overall , the meeting is portray as a fairly awkward encounter , in all probability due to the mixed smell it would arouse . For Gretchen , she is seeing a man she loves with an entirely different personality , who can not even say that he loves her back and lives entirely for MDR work .

Many aspects of the Macrodata Refinement Department ’s job stay unclear in Severance , but the show drops many clues about what Lumon ask from it .

For Dylan , he is seeing a windowpane into a animation he can never to the full live , prove just how evil Lumon is by making this " perquisite " a pretty torturous experience for both . The full point of the meeting from Lumon ’s position was to make Dylan want more information . Now that he has had the group meeting with Gretchen , he will only desire to learn more about his lifespan on the outside . This will incentivize Dylan to continue committing to his MDR workplace , furthering the society ’s sinister Cold Harbor plansas the time of year goes on .

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Will Dylan Turn On The Rest Of The MDR Team In Severance Season 2?

Dylan Could Become A Turncoat, For Tragically Sympathetic Reasons

The question going forward intoSeveranceseason 2 ’s remaining seven episodes is how this will affect Dylan ’s comradery with the other MDR workers . After a while , Helly , Mark , and Irving will likely inquire why Dylan is not facilitate with their endeavor to uncover Lumon ’s prevarication . Dylan has been instructed not to tell the others of the Outie Visitation Suite , potentially go to difference if he decided to lie down to them as a way of ensuring more visits from Gretchen and potentially even his youngster .

Moreover , Lumon could attempt to use Dylan as a mole so that the company can gain more information about Mark ’s plans . If the company threatens Dylan ’s family and/or raises the theory of no more visitations in the futurity , Dylan could turn on his friendsand relay race information to Lumon . Dylan has been driven by his family since learn of their existence inSeveranceseason 1 , so these realities are for certain not impossible . How this storyline unfeignedly develops remains to be seen , butSeveranceseason 2 has at least prove Lumon ’s dark-skinned use tactics to be endlessly effectual thus far .

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