I’ve got a question about Severance S1.
Can someone remind me who Petey is? I need cliff on his character story arc, what happened to him, why we’re supposed to care (or be curious). I really have no idea. Just barely remember his name.
Hes the one person who has ever had his Severance reversed by a group of, freedom fighters, I guess.
Thanks. You got any more than that. Specifically:
What was his job? Was he in MDR?
Why couldn’t his outie just quit? Outie didn’t want to quit?
Is he dead or alive? Or unknown? Or is it a Gemma situation?
He was the team leader/manager before Mark. He was innie Mark’s best friend. He was “reintegrated” - his severance was removed. He tracked down outie Mark to tell him what’s really happening. The effects of reintegration made him super sick and eventually killed him (I think that’s what killed him, but he definitely died). When he disappeared from Mark’s house and died, he left behind a cell phone. It kept ringing and Mark eventually answered it and met with the doctor who did the reintegration. Raney appeared at that meeting, they killed him, and Mark took off. Petey also left a map of the severed floor. Also at Petey’s funeral Mrs. Kobel showed up and removed the severance chip from his head, which allowed Lumon to prove reintegration was possible.
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Its been a while so I dont remember his job. I dont think you can just quit once you become severed.
Oh they say you can, but im pretty sure there isnt anybody alive in the outside world who actually has. My guess is that quitting leads to death.
Pretty sure he is dead. I dont remember if we see his body, but its largely implied that he is dead and that Scott’s outie knows he is dead.
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More general question:
Also a more general question. Do severed employees remember anything at all about their past? I assume they don’t remember anything about people they knew or places they’ve been. But do they know what the United States is? Or who the President is? Or any President?
Dylan’s interview scene in the latest episode was great.
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Thats right. Forgot the last part. Pretty important
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How does quitting lead to death? When they fired the other team members they didn’t seem afraid that they were going to die? If there is a firing mechanism, why can’t they quit the same way?
If the outie gets fired or quits and never returns to the severed floor, for all intents and purposes the innie is dead. But that wouldn’t kill the outie, it was the effects of reintegration that killed Petey.
Thanks.
Who is Raney? The doctor or someone else?
He was the creepy security guy in season one who would take them to the break room etc.
Damn, I don’t remember him at all.
What is the difference between “reintegration” and the outie just quitting?
Anyway I thought Season Two Episode Two was amazing and I will watch it at least one more time. Too many things of interest to list, but Helena’s fascination with Helly and Mark’s kiss was compelling as shit imo.
Thanks. Now I remember the face.
Is he dead now? I seem to remember him dying, but I don’t know why. There has to be some reason we haven’t seen him in S2 yet. It that giant Mr. Drummond his replacement?
Reintegration allows the outie and innie consciousnesses / memories etc to exist at the same time in one person. If the outie quits the innie just never exists again, at least consciously. This hasn’t been explained, I’m just inferring.
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https://x.com/Variety/status/1882210133985345552?t=Wt030ReS_TWC3YUJPFzx7Q&s=19
They’ll take some liberties with flashback episode where the CIA traffics drugs to pay for the FBI surveillance of MLK
Yeah, the reintegration doctor killed him when he showed up when she met Mark. I don’t think the giant guy (I know him as Iceland from Somebody Somewhere) is his replacement, he seems way higher up.
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