As the ultimate two episodes of Severance Season 2 method, one query looms bigger than every other: What on the planet is Chilly Harbor?
It is a thriller that is haunted us proper from the Season 2 premiere, however since then, Severance has supplied viewers with some main reveals which have higher clued us into what these two phrases actually imply.
From Mark’s (Adam Scott) MDR file to Lumon’s testing ground rooms, here is every thing we find out about Chilly Harbor to this point.
Chilly Harbor is the identify of Mark’s present MDR file — and solely he can full it.
The Chilly Harbor file in “Severance.”
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Let’s begin with the fundamentals. As we realized again in Season 2, episode 1, Chilly Harbor is the identify of the file Mark is at the moment refining for Lumon. At first of the season, he is 68 p.c of the best way by means of. By episode 7, he is 96 p.c carried out with the file. Nonetheless, as he recovers from his reintegration-induced seizure, there is no telling how rapidly he’ll be capable to end Chilly Harbor.
Within the first two episodes of Season 2, Severance makes it clear that Mark — and solely Mark — ending Chilly Harbor is Lumon’s precedence. That is why they employed him again after the Extra time Contingency fiasco that concluded Season 1. That is why they have been so fast to offer into his calls for that his unique crew return to the severed ground.
Mark is such a key a part of the Chilly Harbor undertaking due to his deep reference to Gemma (Dichen Lachman), on whom Lumon is experimenting because of MDR’s refining. Talking of…
Chilly Harbor is without doubt one of the rooms Gemma goes by means of on the testing ground.
Dichen Lachman and Sandra Bernhard in “Severance.”
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Similar to with MDR’s different information — together with Allentown, Dranesville, and Siena — Chilly Harbor is the identify of one of many many rooms that Gemma goes by means of every day on Lumon’s testing ground.
As seen in episode 7, every room homes a unique Severed identification of Gemma’s, in addition to an disagreeable state of affairs, like a turbulent flight or a visit to the dentist. For every Innie, these experiences are their whole life, a nonstop loop of torture.
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After Gemma endures the rooms, the sinister Dr. Mauer (Robbie Benson) prods her about whether or not she will be able to recall something that occurred in them, or whether or not any feelings from her Innies’ time within the rooms bled by means of to her. The reply is not any, however that does not cease Gemma retaining bodily ache — like aching tooth or a cramped hand — from some rooms.
This line of questioning proves that Lumon is testing the severance barrier to see what, if something, bleeds by means of from these horrible experiences. Based mostly on that, it looks like Lumon’s endgame is making a strategy to sever all painful experiences, which they’ll then promote to the plenty. As Dr. Mauer tells Gemma when she asks about seeing Mark, “Mark will benefit from the world you’re siring. Kier will take away all his pain just as Kier has taken away yours.”
Of all of the rooms on the testing ground, there’s just one that Gemma hasn’t been in: Chilly Harbor. Provided that Mark has to be the one engaged on it, it is probably that this room presents the largest emotional problem but. If the severance barrier can maintain whereas Gemma is present process emotional turmoil that Mark someway created or managed, then Lumon is aware of its aim is full.
What’s within the Chilly Harbor room?
Dichen Lachman in “Severance.”
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Since we have not been within the Chilly Harbor room but, we will not know for sure. Nonetheless, fan theories on Reddit speculate that the room will current Gemma’s Chilly Harbor Innie with the dying of a cherished one or a reminder of her miscarriage, due to this fact testing whether or not Gemma can overlook devastating grief.
What occurs to Gemma after Mark finishes Chilly Harbor?
Dichen Lachman in “Severance.”
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We clearly have lots of questions on what Chilly Harbor will grow to be, however one other nagging challenge is what Lumon will do with Gemma as soon as it is lastly completed its huge undertaking.
When she asks Dr. Mauer outright what is going to occur after she goes by means of Chilly Harbor, he tells her, “You will see the world again, and the world will see you.”
In concept, then, Gemma shall be going again out into the world. However will it’s as herself? As Ms. Casey? As certainly one of her different numerous Innies? In spite of everything, there is no means Lumon would willingly let somebody they’ve kidnapped again out into the world until they’ll management the narrative.
One other less-than-promising trace at Gemma’s future comes throughout an episode 7 dialogue between Dr. Mauer and Mr. Drummond (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson), when Mr. Drummond says, “When [Mark] is done, you’re gonna have to say goodbye to her.”
However does that imply “goodbye” as in Gemma is leaving the hellhole of the testing ground for good? Or “goodbye” as in a everlasting farewell to Gemma? In the case of Lumon doublespeak, we should always all the time skew extra sinister — and it looks like it doesn’t matter what Chilly Harbor brings, Gemma remains to be very a lot at risk.
Severance Season 2 is now streaming on AppleTV+, with a brand new episode each Friday.
