The memorial held for Irving (John Turturro) in Severance Season 2, episode 5, was memorable for a few causes: 1) the deeply disturbing fruit head, and a pair of) the invention made by Dylan (Zach Cherry) behind that poster.
However what precisely did the observe he discovered say, and what does it imply?
We have dug into all of it under…
What’s written on the observe?
After Mark (Adam Scott) and Helly (Britt Decrease) go away Dylan alone on the memorial, he finds a observe behind the “Hang in There” poster on the wall — a picture which resembles Dylan holding the switches in Season 1’s finale, and phrases that echo the ultimate phrases Irving says to him in Woe’s Hole on the finish of episode 4. On one facet of the observe is a drawing of the lengthy, darkish hall that outie Irving obsessively recreates in artworks. On the opposite facet is a written message.
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This is the total transcription, which mainly quantities to a sequence of instructions:
“From O&D, first turn right, all the way down the hall and turn right, turn right, turn left, down a long hall and turn left, turn left, turn right, right, left, left, right, right, left, right, left, left, right, right, left, left down long hall and turn right, then left, right, turn right one more time and all the way down a long hallway…”
So the place do these instructions lead, and why did Irving go away them behind in a observe?
What does the observe imply?
To grasp the that means behind the observe, we have to revisit two earlier scenes in Severance Season 2: one from episode 3, and one from the beginning of episode 5.
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Within the first one, Irving revisits the division the place Burt (Christopher Walken) used to work — the O&D (Optics & Design) referred to within the observe. There he meets one in all Burt’s colleagues, Felicia (Claudia Robinson), who by accident sees a drawing of the darkish hall that he is sketched behind his pocket book.
“Who do you know about the Exports Hall?” she asks him. “We send a lot of shipments there. Used to go ourselves, but now they send a guy.”
Irving’s response, earlier than the scene ends, is to ask Felicia the place it’s.
Initially of episode 5, in the meantime, we see a person pushing a trolley. He meets Felicia and one other lady, presumably at O&D, the place they hand him a tray of what seems like surgical or dental instruments. The person is then seen swiping a card in a door that opens on an extended black hall — the identical hall from Irving’s drawing — that ends in an elevator with a crimson down arrow. The person steps inside and the door shuts.
After we put all these moments collectively, it appears fairly clear that the observe Irving has left for Dylan is a set of instructions to this “Exports Hall”. His outie was obsessive about it and his innie grew to become obsessive about it, too.
Ms Casey walked down the “exports hall” in Season 1.
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The place does the exports corridor lead?
This is not the primary time we have seen that lengthy, darkish hall. In Season 1, that is the hall that Mark’s spouse, Ms Casey (Dichen Lachman) is distributed to after she loses her job — a spot then-boss Concord Cobel (Patricia Arquette) refers to as “the Testing Floor”.
In a nutshell, Irving has unknowingly simply given Dylan the important thing to fixing the puzzle that Mark and Helly try to unravel: The place is Ms Casey?
Severance Season 2 is now streaming on Apple TV+, with a brand new episode each week.
