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Warning ! This clause contains pamperer for Severance season 2 , sequence 5 .

Severanceseason 2 , episode 5 furthered the enigma of the Training Floor / Exports Hall , all while providing hints that O&D could be pushing back against Lumon . SinceSeveranceseason 1 ’s finish , the Testing Floor has been one of the biggest mysteries of the entire show . Not only wasIrving ’s Outie endlessly paint the Exports Hallcorridor - as the employee of Optics & Design seem to know it - but also Mark ’s supposedly stagnant married woman , Gemma / Ms. Casey , was taken down the mysterious elevator and never assure again .

Naturally , this has take many to believe that a trip to the Testing Floor / Exports Hall is whereSeveranceseason 2 ’s roll of charactersis channelise . This was further teased via a note Dylan found in the Break Room , detailing how to sail the labyrinthine severed floor to reach the lift that holds the key to several of Lumon ’s biggest secrets , likely includingSeverance ’s Cold Harbor projection . At the beginning ofSeveranceseason 2 , sequence 5 , O&D is seen giving an Exports Hall worker a package , beg the interrogative sentence of whether ulterior motive are at play .

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Optics & Design Gave The Exports Hall A Tray Of Surgical Tools (But Did They Hide Something?)

What Are The Tools For? Is O&D Sneaking Something To The Testing Floor?

At the beginning ofSeveranceseason 2 , episode 5 , a man is shown pushing a cart toward O&D. expect him there are Felicia and another O&D worker , incite the mysterious man - whose face is never designate - to ask"Do you have them?“Felicia and the O&D employee then take a tray of operative tools out of a drawer , handing them to the man who withdraw them back down the elevatorto the Exports Hall / Testing Floor .

The scene is abbreviated , but it raises several challenging questions . One such question is whether Felicia and the other O&D actor hid something in the tray that could potentially blockade Lumon ’s plans . This possible action was hinted at by the agitated , nervous nature of Felicia and the other worker upon the man ’s arrival . Moreover , the simple cryptic nature of the scene give the effect that there is more to it than first idea , as supported by three other elements ofSeveranceseason 2 , episode 5 .

How Severance Season 2, Episode 5 Hints At A Secret Plan By Optics & Design With The Exports Hall

Severance Contains Hints Galore

The first hint that O&D enshroud something in the surgical tray isSeveranceseason 2 , instalment 5 ’s deed , " Trojan ’s Horse . " The Trojan Horse is a Hellenic myth that claims that Greek soldier shroud inside a wooden sawhorse that was presented as a natural endowment to the the great unwashed of Troy before lam once inside the impenetrable walls and conquering the metropolis . In the same vena , O&D could have hidden something in unmistakable sight that operate down to the Testing Floor / Exports Hall to mess with Lumon ’s plans .

Another hint of this is that the Exports Hall worker is whistling the tune of " The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald . " This song is about an important American ship being lose at sea , which could potentially be seen as a metaphor for Lumon - an important American company - being put down . Finally , Dylan determine a hidden note from O&D that hand focus to the Exports Hall . This lay the understructure for more of its mysteries to be uncovered and foiled by the MDR team , which would not have been possible without O&D ’s disturbance inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 5 .

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