Severance
Warning ! This clause contains spoilers for Severance season 2 , installment 8 .
Severanceseason 2 , sequence 8 takes station in Salt ’s Neck , a town linked heavy to Lumon ’s umbrageous businesses and Harmony Cobel . In a rarified bottle episode for the show , Harmony Cobel try out to be the only regular phallus ofSeverance ’s ensemble castto look , aside from the voice cameo from Mark in the buy the farm moments . As the trueidentity of Harmony Cobelcame to light via reveals about her family , Severancedelved into a townsfolk in the middle of nowhere named Salt ’s Neck .
Cobel was show pull up to the townspeople after having last appear inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 3before recruit a small café fulfill with older customers . The implied owner of the café is someone Harmony is conversant with , lead to several developments being expose about Salt ’s Neck . From its ties to Lumon andSeverance ’s Eagan family treeto its inter-group communication to Harmony Cobel ’s past , Salt ’s Neck proved to be a vital location in season 2 , instalment 8 , if only due to how it originate one of the show ’s leading character into who she is today .
Salt’s Neck Was The Location Of A Lumon Industries Factory
Lumon’s Reach Is Evident
Despite being a townsfolk that is seemingly in the middle of nowhere , Lumon somehow got its claw into Salt ’s Neck . After talking with her former champion in the café , Cobel tells him to meet her at the mill . This leads to a scene in which the two speak in the dilapidated ruins of a mill that has Lumon ’s key signature teardrop logo plaster over to it . What the factory was used for continue unrevealed as ofSeveranceseason 2 , instalment 8 ’s ending , but it is clear that it used to - and still does - have a bounteous effect on the infrastructure of Salt ’s Neck .
Lumon Destroyed Salt’s Neck & Ruined The Lives Of Its Residents After Abandoning The Factory
Lumon’s Work In Salt’s Neck Was Disbanded
Upon fill at the mill , it is shown to be in a land of disrepair . This , combined with hints from Harmony ’s friend , Hampton , and her auntie , Sissy , confirm that the Lumon factory was empty a few age before the event ofSeveranceseason 1 . After all , Harmony suggests this as a meeting position free from the eye and ears of anyone who could be spying for Lumon , propose that no one ever goes to the factory anymore .
This fit with what has been shown of Lumon earlier inSeveranceseason 2 . Many times , it has been mentioned that several arm of the company had to be close down for one reason or another , with one being the backwash ofSeveranceseason 1 ’s endingand the Overtime Contingency . Therefore , it tracks that Lumon can open up up and dissolve factories quickly , with the one in Salt ’s Neck plain being one such location in which this fall out .
The " overtime contingency " becomes the most crucial number one wood of Severance ’s story towards the end of season 1 , raising many questions about how it process
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AsSeveranceseason 2 , episode 8 make percipient , it is not only the Lumon manufactory of Salt ’s Neck that has deteriorated . The entire town of Salt ’s Neck is not in great form , as Harmony sees and points out herself at various point in the installment . Harmony is shown first enroll the location at the beginning of the installment , spotting a man doing drugs at an early time . Hampton is later revealed as the one who sells these drug , likely as an escape cock for the various residents of Salt ’s Neck who are suffering . This hurt is afterwards excuse to have been cause by Lumon and the aforementioned factory .
Lumon essentially abandoned Salt ’s Neck , allow it to become a town with small income and little hope for a good hereafter …
Harmony tells Sissy that Lumon demolish the townspeople , which is colligate to the mill . The factory gave Salt ’s Neck a sentiency of infrastructure , likely providing a great deal of occupation and possible tourism bring on by Lumon ’s many workers . However , Hampton mentions that the"market readjustment " -meaning the gag rule of the factory - intend the core infrastructure investments of Salt ’s Neck were cut . Lumon essentially give up Salt ’s Neck , countenance it to become a town with little income and little hope for a good future , drastically affecting the lifetime of the people who hold up there .
The Cobel Family’s Connection To Salt’s Neck Explained
Harmony Was Once A Resident Of Salt’s Neck
The final reveal about Salt ’s Neck inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 8 is that the Cobel family is from there . Harmony visits a char named Sissy in the episode , after revealed to be her aunty . The house has remnants of Harmony ’s puerility in it , from markers on the wall for her stature at different ages to her belonging being kept in a trap - like basement . Harmony used to hold up in Salt ’s Neck with Sissy and her mother - Sissy ’s sister , Charlotte - with the former being part of Lumon ’s Wintertide programand working at the manufactory alongside her attendance at a Lumon school day .
In Severance season 2 , installment 6 , Milchick mentions a computer programme named Wintertide to Miss Huang , begging the doubt of what this may be .
It is implied that Harmony left Salt ’s Neck curtly after fill out her training to work on Lumon ’s severed trading floor . Sissy and Charlotte carry on to live in Salt ’s Neck , excuse why Harmony could not say goodbye to the latter before she drop dead . Severanceseason 2 , instalment 8 earn it vindicated that Harmony does not fall back to Salt ’s Neck often , and her recent disillusionment regarding her Lumon beliefs intend she clashes with Sissy and acknowledges how the ship’s company she once pledge her animation to has deflower her childhood town .
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