#Severance Season 2 Episode 5 Trojan’s Horse ending, defined – Destructoid

After a loopy ending to Severance Season 2 Episode 4, Woe’s Hole, Episode 5 titled Trojan’s Horse adopted up with a not-as-crazy however nonetheless fairly wild ending. Let’s break down what precisely was occurring to Mark on the finish of Episode 5.

What’s going on with Mark?

Within the ultimate scene of Severance 2 Season 5, Trojan’s Horse, we see Mark actually going by it. For starters, he’s nonetheless bought that cough, the one which’s seemingly been nagging him the previous couple of episodes. When did we final see that? From Mark’s work buddy Petey in Season 1 who had debilitating—and finally deadly—results from reintegration. As he goes to depart his reintegration session with Reghabi, a former Lumon surgeon who additionally assisted Petey, he hears his spouse Gemma’s voice.

As he tries to shake it off, Mark hears it once more, earlier than his environment change to the lengthy black hallway from the Lumon severed flooring that Irving usually paints. He walks in direction of the voice of his spouse, who appears to be reciting what Ms. Casey advised Mark’s innie throughout his Wellness Session. “Your outie listens to misc whereas shaving, however not whereas showering,” he hears, attempting to navigate what seems to be the halls of the Lumon severed flooring trying to find her.

The voice grows nearer, “Your outie as soon as referred to as a butterfly,” Mark hears, earlier than turning round to see none apart from his spouse Gemma, as she appeared at Lumon on the severed flooring—AKA like Ms. Casey—trying again at him. Mark freezes immediately with a glance of worry, pleasure, and unhappiness all on the similar time. Which, by the best way, Adam Scott has been completely killing it this season. Properly, to be truthful, the entire solid has.

Anyway, “Your outie goes to-,” Gemma begins to inform him, earlier than instantly she disappears and Mark is again standing in his home, now not in Lumon. Understandably, Mark bursts into tears. So what occurred right here?

It seems reintegration is occurring for Mark

Early in Season 2 Mark made the selection to begin with reintegration. He held off in Season 1 after what occurred to Petey, however studying his spouse would possibly truly nonetheless be alive, he made the choice to do it anyway. What occurred on the finish of Season 2 Episode 5 is precisely that: Mark is seeing/remembering the recollections from his innie.

Whereas it’s nice for Mark to get affirmation that his spouse Gemma continues to be alive—not less than in a roundabout way—it’s clearly taking a toll on Mark as indicated by his elevated coughing. That being mentioned, there’s no approach Mark places an finish to it after lastly making some progress towards discovering his spouse.

What else occurred in Season 2 Episode 5?

Right here’s another ideas I’ve after watching the Severance Trojan’s Horse episode, although beware a few of these is likely to be theories of an obsessed fan!

• After the goats in Episode 3, adopted by the opening of Episode 5 with the dental tools, and the dialogue Helena Eagan had with Ms. Huang and Lumon about persevering with the work on “Chilly Harbor” and “feeling human”, I can’t however suppose again to the early moments of Season 1 Episode 1. After coming to, Helly asks, “Am I livestock?” Mark replies, “You suppose we grew a full human and gave you consciousness?” This might need been the most important clue for what’s occurring in Severance and we bought it proper from the beginning.
• Irving’s 8-bit innie funeral with watermelon was fairly cool, that’s all I would like.
• It might be awkward to be the ham on the desk when Burt is introducing Irving to his husband Fields.
• Milchick is for positive going to flip and be a part of the innies, and who would blame him?! I imply come on, the paper clips?!