Severance’s New Episode Is Full of Revelations—and Potentially One Major Clue

Season 2, Episode 7 , “Chikhai Bardo,” of Severance is a sci-fi thriller about office employees whose consciousnesses have been “severed” into their “ innie ’s work selves and personal selves.

We now know more about the testing floor, that scary place where Lumon banished Gemma after a therapy session.

Outie Gemma doesn’t remember what’s behind each door, and her only way of deducing anything is if a body part is in pain when she returns to the hallway.

Gemma thinks she got onto a mailing list for the card by way of the fertility clinic she and Mark have been going to.

She and Mark were growing distant in the days leading up to her supposed accident.

The episode ends with a close shot of Gemma’s eyes, first shown in normal light and then blared in the white tones of a Lumon basement.

She is a prisoner, and at no point does her quest for liberation seem more doomed than when she is forced back to the testing floor.

Maybe there's hope yet for Gemma 's plight in the pitiless depths of Lumon .