#severance talk

It was a look of love at first sight.

Helly R. never returned to Lumon after the Macrodat Uprising, but Mark didn’t know that when he slept with her. And while in the moment, when she told him, “I didn’t like who I was on the outside. I was ashamed,” it seemed like Helly R. was sad about her Outie’s true identity, by episode’s end we knew Helena was talking about herself during a quiet moment of self-reflection and vulnerability. Helena Eagan—who moments earlier mocked Kier’s teachings revealing she knows everything Lumon is built upon is absurd bullshit—hates herself. Why wouldn’t she? She can no longer deny who she is. Helena is a cold, calculating monster who isn’t even a person. She’s just an employee, molded by her family, whom Lumon abuses without care. She’s just like the severed employees whose love she craves. Neither Lumon nor her own father cares about Helena. But she knows, firsthand now, people care about Helly R., someone not beholden to the Eagan family nor Lumon’s plans.