Severance

admonition ! This article contains spoilers for Severance season 2 , episode 7 .

Severanceseason 2 , sequence 7 saw Doctor Mauer lie to Gemma several times , with one about Mark ’s life being peculiarly dark and intentional . Severance ’s Doctor Mauer was first teased in season 2 , episode 5 . He appeared as the whistling worker who entered O&D , prevail dental tools , and departed back down the elevator toSeverance ’s Exports Hall , also known as the Testing Floor that Irving ’s Outie had been endlessly painting . Mauer had a much bigger role inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 7 , with the instalment finally discover what Lumon has been doing to Gemma .

As it turn out , Lumon is trying to enhance the breach micro chip so that each case-by-case person has several dissimilar Innies depending on where they are . Gemma was shown splitting between herSeveranceOutie and legion Innies , with one room feature her as the married woman of Mauer during Christmas or another as a passenger on a crashing plane . Gemma , however , was naturally growing tired of Lumon ’s tests - as mostcharacters inSeverance ’s castare - and kept prodding them to let her go , leading Mauer to tell some harsh lie about Mark .

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Lumon’s Doctor Tells Gemma That Mark Remarried & Has A Daughter So She’ll Stop Wanting To Return Home

The Lie Is Similar To Lumon’s Other Severed Tactics

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InSeveranceseason 2 , episode 7 , Mauer tells Gemma that Mark has move on . He insists that Mark has since married someone else and had a daughter . This comes after Gemma require if she can give Lumon and last reunify with Mark , with the doctor hop that the lie will lenify her into rest and completing her study alongside him .

This links to the severallies Milchick say inSeveranceseason 2 ’s premiere , with each one being a way to pacify the MDR workers enough to complete their workplace . Mauer ’s lie to Gemma was used similarly , but , evidently , had the same effect as Milchick ’s did with the MDR doer by stoking more insurrection . This lie prompts Gemma to attack Mauer , even leading to her attempted outflow from Lumon ’s Testing Floor .

Dr. Mauer smiling in a labcoat next to Gemma looking wary in Severance, season 2, episode 7 (2025)

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The Doctor Isn’t Completely Lying About Mark Finding Love Again

Mark Has Found Love, But Not How Gemma May Assume

What makes Dr. Mauer ’s lie inSeveranceseason 2 , sequence 7 more interesting than Milchick ’s is that there is a grain of the true in it . Although Mark does not have a daughter , he has obtain love since Gemma ’s supposed " death . " This love has come in the form of his relationship with Helly , though it is Mark ’s Innie that has these impression .

Mark ’s Outie still have a go at it Gemma enough to prompt him to undergoSeverance ’s Reintegration processto obtain her . unhappily , though , Gemma will not understand the dispute as Mark was not a Lumon doer until after she was taken by Lumon . Despite her insistence that she does not believe Mauer ’s claims , Gemma could be evidence the prevarication enough to the dot where she believe it and begins conducting her work for Lumon without underground . If so , Severanceseason 2 ’s lingering Cold Harbor mystery will be completed .

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Ms. Casey / Gemma (Dichen Lachman) appears in one of Mark’s memories in Severance Season 2 Ep 6

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Britt Lower as Helly and Helena and Adam Scott as Mark in Severance season 2

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