Severance
monition ! This article contains spoilers for Severance time of year 2 ’s finale .
Severanceseason 2 establishes that Lumon had planned to kill Gemma after the Cold Harbor test , farm many question about why the ship’s company wanted to get rid of her . When Mark ’s innie meet Ms. Cobel at the cabin in the Damona Birthing Retreat , she asks him if he has make out the Cold Harbor file . She sighs with relief and confirms that Gemma is alive only when he reveals the file has not been completed . On several other occasions inSeveranceseason 2 , Cobel has hinted at how Lumon planned to kill Gemma once the Cold Harbor labor was complete .
Even inSeveranceseason 2 ’s instalment 7 , Dr. Mauer gives Gemma an uncertain reply when she ask him if she will get to play Mark once the testing process has been complete . Instead of ascertain her that she would reunite with her husband , Mauer says that Mark and the entire world will do good from her contributions . Fortunately for Gemma , she seemingly make out to escape inSeveranceseason 2 ’s endingmoments before Lumon can harm her . It is still hard not to wonder why the company wanted to take her life-time after conducting so many tests on her .
Lumon Couldn’t Keep Gemma Alive After Already Faking Her Death
Gemma Could Be A Threat To Lumon If They Let Her Go
Severanceseason 2 hints that Lumon might have cook Gemma ’s death only to trap her in the Lumon construction and experiment on her . If the company let her out after the testing was done , she could become a serious menace to Lumon ’s secrets and operations . During her stay at Lumon , Gemma got first - deal experience of how Lumon was transmit immoral experiment on world to arise a extremely advanced memory - altering technology . If Lumon had spar her after Cold Harbor , she could have easily blown the whistle on how she was treated during her hitch at the Testing Floor .
If Gemma suddenly appeared in the outside world after being presumed dead for so long , it would prove that Lumon had been doing something shady behind closed doors .
Gemma was also believed to be beat in the outside world . By the timeSeveranceseason 2 terminate , characters like Mark ’s outie and Devon learn that Lumon somehow managed to fake her death but have no concrete grounds to prove she is still out there . If Gemma suddenly appeared in the outside reality after being presumed dead for so long , it would prove that Lumon had been doing something shady behind shut doors . This would potentially expose the troupe and give Lumon ’s haters a solid reason to further rally against the vicious corporation .
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How Was Lumon Going To Kill Gemma?
Probably By Removing Her Chip
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Lumon could not risk broadcast Gemma out , so they had plan to kill her after the Cold Harbor test ’s completion . Since Gemma escapes inSeveranceseason 2 ’s ending , it remains obscure how Lumon design to kill her . However , time of year 2 ’s finale establishes that the goat sacrifice was directly linked with Gemma ’s end . The company apparently has a ritual where it is believed thatthe sacrificed goat ’s sprightliness would ultimately hold Gemma ’s individual to Kier after her death .
Mark ’s new project in Severance season 2 is the mystical Cold Harbor file , which is linked to Gemma & has a major use in Lumon ’s bigger plans .
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It must be noted thatSeveranceseason 2 does not confirm whether Gemma ’s destruction was faked by Lumon or whether she actually died in the real world . In a former installment , Reghabi told Mark that Lumon might be stealing dead bodies from morgues , implying that the company had found a room to resuscitate deadened mankind through the chip . Mark also confirmed inSeveranceseason 2 ’s episode 2that he insure Gemma ’s dead body after her gondola clangoring . Therefore , if Lumon somehow come to Gemma by using the severance chip , it seems potential that they would have toss off her by merely removing her chip .
Apple TV+ has formally confirmedSeveranceseason 3 .
Gemma ’s death might also have been metaphorical in the mother wit that Lumon might have destroyed all her innies and her outie to only eventually keep her final Cold Harbor innie . With the new innie character , Gemma would still physically be herself , but an totally different individual on the inside . She would have no memory of Mark and her previous life , which would be a certain kind of death of her previous self . give how Lumon can distantly control the severed employee ' cow chip , it is voiceless not to inquire if they will endeavor to impose new overrides on Gemma ’s chip inSeveranceseason 3 .
falling out is a psychological thriller series featuring Adam Scott as Mark Scout , an employee at Lumon Industries who undergoes a " severance " procedure to separate his oeuvre and personal memories . However , as work and life-time theatrical role mysteriously begin to collide , it apace becomes open that not all is as it seems . Created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle .
