Severance
Warning ! This article contains spoilers for Severance time of year 2 , episode 7 .
Severanceseason 2 , episode 7 was a massive installment concerning the show ’s broad fib , mainly due to the reveal of what Lumon has been doing to Gemma / Ms. Casey . Regarding unlimited screentime , Gemma has been one of the smaller members ofSeverance ’s shape of characters , despite her being perhaps the main driving force-out of the show ’s narrative . After all , it was Gemma ’s hypothesise " death " that led Mark to work for Lumon , and the reveal that she was live inSeveranceseason 1 ’s endingthat prompt the story into season 2 .
Theending ofSeveranceseason 2 , installment 6saw Mark hasten up his Reintegration process , which promised even more reveals about Gemma . This proved to be true inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 7 , with Mark ’s comatoseness - like state inducing flashback of his and Gemma ’s life before Lumon . To cancel this , Gemma ’s liveliness as part ofSeverance ’s ill Exports Hall- also known as the Testing Floor - was outlined . Finally , after almost two entire season , Severancehas begin to peel back the layer of mystery surrounding Gemma and what Lumon truly require with her .
Lumon Has Been Testing Gemma’s Innies In Various Rooms & Simulations For 2 Years In Severance
Lumon Wants People To Have More Than One Innie
InSeveranceseason 2 , episode 7 , Gemma was show live her spirit on Lumon ’s Testing Floor . Each solar day , she would be inspected by a doctor before being sent to unlike suite , each labeled with different name , such as Allentown , Cairns , Wellington , and so on . In each room , Gemma ’s severance chip would activate , but , crucially , each personality would be differentfrom the last . This meant that Gemma had several dissimilar Innies , all disjoined from her real personality and her Innie personality as Ms. Casey .
In Apple TV+ ’s sci - fi thriller series , Severance , the character ’ lives shopping centre on the fact that they are “ sever , ” but what does that in reality signify ?
Each version of Gemma take for granted that the room she was in was the only place she had ever been , though this is patently false . or else , Gemma interact withSeverance ’s Doctor Mauer in different scenario , with the latter roleplaying as a dental practitioner , her married man in a Christmas mount , or a flight attendant , to name only a few . Herein lie the true statement of the Testing Floor and what Lumon wants with Gemma : the company wants to be able to create strong severance boundaries that give up several different Innies to inhabit one somebody .
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Why Isn’t Gemma Allowed To Leave The Testing Floor At Lumon?
Gemma Knows Too Much… & Not Enough
One chronological sequence during Gemma ’s journeying mirrored Mark ’s running prospect that openedSeveranceseason 2 , installment 1 . Gemma was shown attempt to escape the Testing Floor . Unlike Mark , however , Gemma managed to get to the lift and travel up to the cut off floor , prompting a strong reaction from Lumon , who used Milchick to send her - now as Ms. Casey - back down the lift . course , this beg the doubtfulness of why Gemma is not allowed to leave the Testing Floor , with the result stemming from Lumon ’s close nature .
As a means of furthering the company ’s threatening goals , Lumon ’s workers are masterful at compartmentalizing info , lying , and fabricating taradiddle to keep people , who are none the wiser , lenify . In Gemma ’s typeface , she knows too much about some matter and not enough about others , meaning her leaving the Testing Floor would cause many problems for Lumon . For example , Gemma is more or less cognisant of the tests she has been forced into that could lead to the discovery of the party ’s more sinister plans to control the public with their Modern multi - severance silicon chip .
Gemma leaving the Testing Floor could lead to the discovery that Lumon misrepresent her death , which , if expose to the all-encompassing world , could immerse the company for good …
Concerning what Gemma does not know , Severanceseason 2 , episode 7 indicates that she does not acknowledge that she is " stagnant " to the extraneous world . Gemma asks when she can leave Lumon so that she can see Mark at one point in the episode , something that she would not ask if she knew that he believe she was all in . Therefore , Gemma leave the Testing Floor could chair to the find that Lumon faked her decease , which , if endanger to the wider world , could lay to rest the company for good .
What Is The Cold Harbor Room & Why Will That Mean Gemma’s Work Is Done?
One Of Gemma’s Rooms Is The Key To Severance Season 2’s Main Mystery
The last chemical element of Gemma ’s tale fromSeveranceseason 2 , episode 7 that is deserving note is the one room she did not put down . This room links toSeverance ’s Cold Harbor file cabinet , which Mark and his MDR squad are unwittingly work on , with the two being connect by the same name . Gemma remarks that it is the only elbow room on the Testing Floor that she has not entered yet , proving that it is not ready until Mark complete his study a storey above .
Interestingly , Doctor Mauer is shown talking to Drummond at one stage in the installment , with the latter insistence that the former will have to say good day to Gemma once Cold Harbor is fill in . As any sound whodunit boxful show does , Severancecontinues to keep back answers as to what is in the Cold Harbor room , why entering it will render Gemma ’s work perfect , and why she will never see Doctor Mauer again after . The only thing thatSeverancehas revealed is that these answers link exclusively to Mark , who is the only person who can fill in Cold Harbor .
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