‘Severance’ Season Finale: Director-EP Ben Stiller & Creator Dan Erickson On Cliffhanger Ending’s Revelations, Lumon’s “Alpha Plan” & Their Own For Season 2, Status Of Stiller’s Film ‘Bag Man’ And More

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SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains details from the season finale of Apple TV+’s Severance. For Lumon macrodata refiners Mark (Adam Scott), Dylan (Zach Cherry), Helly (Britt Lower) and Irving (John Turturro), the Season 1 finale of Apple TV+’s Severance is full of revelations.The episode, titled “The We We Are,” picks up right where the prior episode left off, watching as Dylan prepares to pull the control room switches that will bridge the consciousnesses of his colleagues’ “innies” with their “outie” bodies, allowing them to glean a better understanding of who they really are outside of work, in hopes that they’ll one day be able to escape the prison that is their professional life.When Dylan executes the innies’ plan back at Lumon HQ, Mark is at a reading of his brother-in-law Ricken’s (Michael Chernus) book, The You You Are, with his boss Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette) hovering around him—still posing as his harmless neighbor, Mrs.

Selvig. And suddenly, he’s disoriented, slowly coming to recognize that Cobel and Selvig are one in the same, though he’s at the same time not entirely sure who he is, who the other people around him are, and what his relationship to them is, trying to put the pieces of that puzzle together.Following Dylan’s execution of the OTC, Irving awakens in his apartment to find himself crafting creepy, black paintings that we recognize as being to do with Lumon, somehow emerging from the subconscious of his bifurcated mind.

As punk music blasts in the room, he learns that he has a dog named Radar, and finds a picture of his father that his “outie” had hidden away, along with his navy uniform.Then, there’s Helly, who finds herself at a gala—there running into faces familiar to viewers