Severance
admonition ! This clause moderate spoilers for Severance season 2 ’s episode 4 .
Helena ’s grimace briefly glitches into Gemma ’s inSeveranceseason 2 ’s episode 4 , resurrect many questions about what is happening to Mark . Before theApple TV+ sci - fi showwalked through the strange MDR worker ' team out in season 2 ’s installment 4 , it showed how Mark lastly decide to reintegrate himself to receive his wife , Gemma . However , inSeveranceseason 2 ’s episode 4 , Mark initially show no mansion of reintegration and seems a little too induct in Helena .
As the episode progress , Mark only gets closer to his fellow MDR prole , birth no memories of his outie despite being reintegrate . Much afterwards in the episode , however , Mark suddenly sees Helena ’s face morph into Gemma ’s for a few arcsecond , crap him question what is go on . While theSeveranceseason 2 episodedoes not explain this eerie development , it seems evident what it tries to convey .
The Gemma/Helly Glitch In Severance Season 2’s Episode 4 Proves Mark’s Reintegration Was Successful
The Glitch Proves Mark Is Gradually Reintegrating
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WhileSeverancedoes not explicitly excuse why Helena ’s face briefly morph into Gemma ’s , it seems to be a reflexion of how the reintegration is working . Based on the detailsSeverancehas offer so far , reintegration creates an convergence between an individual ’s innie and outie theatrical role . As seen in Petey ’s casing , complete reintegration allows an somebody to retain memories from their innie and outie life sentence instead of having them compartmentalized . Even though Mark was reintegrated inSeveranceseason 2 episode 3 ’s ending , he initially seems normal in installment 4 .
The glitch panorama highlights that the more Mark reintegrates , the more he experiences similar feelings for two different women .
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However , the fact that he get word Gemma instead of Helena for a few brief minute hints that the reintegration is in process . The glitch panorama highlights that the more Mark reintegrates , the more he experiences similar feelings for two different women . Since the innie has romantic feelings for Helly and the outie is in dear with Gemma , the scene represent an overlap between the two , paralleling the reintegration scene in which the two waves in the cathode-ray oscilloscope align as Mark ’s two role merge .
Mark’s Reintegration Means He Will Have To Face A Tough Choice In Severance Season 2
He Will Have To Choose Between Gemma and Helly
Even in the last moments ofSeveranceseason 2 ’s opening creditssequence , Helly glitches into Gemma as she stands in the elevator at the end of the " Exports Hall . " This conniption in the opening move seems to hint that Mark ’s main battle in season 2 will revolve around choose between Gemma and Helly . Given how he will be in love with both Gemma and Helly after double-dyed reintegration , he will feel oblige to save both from Lumon .
severing time of year 2 , episode 4 confirms a popular hypothesis about Helly and Helena , which will have major moment for MDR ’s Innies and Outies .
His innie ’s newfound attachment to Helly will prompt him to ensure that Helly ’s outie does not harm or terminate her . Meanwhile , his outie ’s feelings for Gemma will encourage him to take care for Ms. Casey in the Lumon building . This could finally leave to a struggle of interest between Mark ’s two blend theatrical role inSeverance , squeeze him to choose between one of the two women . It is interesting and suspicious how Ms. Cobel was accused of search a " throuple " with Mark ’s innie and outie , but Mark will really end up in a " throuple " billet with Ms. Casey and Helena .
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Severance is a psychological thriller series featuring Adam Scott as Mark Scout , an employee at Lumon Industries who undergoes a " severing " subroutine to separate his workplace and personal memories . However , as body of work and spirit persona cryptically commence to collide , it quickly becomes clear that not all is as it seems . Created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle .
