Warning: There are spoilers ahead for Severance season 2, episode 1, “Hello, Ms. Cobel.”
Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) showing Dylan (Zach Cherry) blueprints for a Family Visitation Suite has important implications inSeverance. Innies are not supposed to know any details of their lives outside Lumon Industries. However, in season 1, Milchick uses theOvertime Contingency Protocolon Dylan when he is not at work. When this happens, Dylan learns that his Outie has a son, a revelation that changes what Dylan’s Innie thinks about Lumon and about severance.
DuringSeveranceseason 1’s ending, Dylan helps Mark (Adam Scott), Irving (John Turturro), and Helly (Britt Lower) wake up in the outside world as he did via the Overtime Contingency Protocol. This is eventually discovered by Milchick, who has to physically restrain Dylan. Despite this tense scene between the twoSeverancecharacters,Milchick seemingly presents Dylan with a generous offerwhen the two characters come face-to-face again in season 2.
Milchick Is Likely Trying To Manipulate Dylan With Severance’s Outie Family Visitation Suite Plans
He Only Shows The Blueprints To Dylan
InSeveranceseason 2’s first episode, Milchick shows Dylan the blueprints for a Family Visitation Suite being created for severed Lumon employees. This area will allow Outies to meet with their families when they are at work, meaning that Dylan’s Innie can see his Outie’s wife and children during the day. As Milchik explains to Dylan, since Mark, Irving, and Helly are all single, Dylan is the only member of theMacrodata Refinement Departmentwho would be able to go to the Family Visitation Suite.
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Milchick tries to make it seem as though he is extending a peace offering and generous incentive to Dylan. That being said, it is clearly an attempt to manipulate Dylan.Milchick knows that dangling the prospect of Dylan’s family in front of him is the most effective way to control himand to curb his rebellious behavior. By encouraging Dylan not to tell Mark, Irving, or Helly about the Family Visitation Suite, Milchick is also manipulating Dylan into keeping secrets from his friends, and giving Dylan a reason to choose his own desires over helping them.
Why Would Lumon Industries Want An Outies Family Visitation Suite?
There Must Be Ulterior Motives
Much likeLumon’s “Macrodat Uprising” video, the Family Visitation Suite is part of the corporation’s plan to convince Innies that positive changes are being made to make their lives better. The Family Visitation Suite may also be an initiative that Lumon thinks will be helpful in getting the severance procedure legalized. Their campaign likely took a significant step backwards when Helly shared several harsh realities during the gala in the season 1 finale.
Even if the Family Visitation Suite never comes to fruition, the blueprints are enough to already create a division between Dylan and his colleagues, a division that Milchick will undoubtedly exploit asSeveranceseason 2 continues.
Publicizing that severed employees can visit their familiesmay be part of the damage control Lumon is now doing. It is also possible that Lumon has no intention of making the Family Visitation Suite a reality. The blueprints may have been created to assuage public concerns about severed employees and their families, along with assuaging Dylan. Even if the Family Visitation Suite never comes to fruition, the blueprints are enough to already create a division between Dylan and his colleagues, a division that Milchick will undoubtedly exploit asSeveranceseason 2 continues.
Cast
Severance is a psychological thriller series featuring Adam Scott as Mark Scout, an employee at Lumon Industries who undergoes a “severance” procedure to separate his work and personal memories. However, as work and life personas mysteriously begin to collide, it quickly becomes clear that not all is as it seems. Created by Dan Erickson and directed by Ben Stiller and Aoife McArdle.
