Breaks down the twist in resignation of season 2, section 4

It took nearly three years for the team in the back Resignation To bring season 2 to the small screen – and for good reason. Season 1 final of the Apple TV+ Sci-Fi series contained Innies that broke out of Lumon and explored their Outie’s life. It offered two great revelations: Helly R.’s Outie is actually Helena, heir to Egan Fortune and one of the architects of the Severance program; And Mark’s wife, Gemma, lives and lives as Mrs. Casey on the cut floor.

These are the kind of big plot turns that can look up even the smartest puzzle box exhibitions. How would the authors follow through? Somehow, showrunner Dan Erickson and producer instructor Ben found a way to surprise the audience again.

In Season 2, Section 4, Ventures Macrodata Refinement Team Outside Lumon for an “Outdoor retreat and Teambuilding Foreign.” During their field trip to a snow -covered mountain, Irving (John Turturro) is starting to assume that Helena (Britt Lower) masks like Helly R. and has been since Kridsen returned to Lumon after their season 1 jailbreak. But an unsuspecting field (Adam Scott) finally acts on his feelings for Helly R./helena and shares an intimate moment with her in the tent. The next morning, in a shockingly violent act, Irving tries to prove his theory by drowning Helena in a nearby pond until Mr. Milchick returns Helly R. to her shared body with Helena.

Time talked to Adam Scott and Britt Lower about The Reveal, Lower’s difficult double -sided performance, and whether Helena has feelings for Mark.

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TIME: Why do you think lumon lets the inns outside?

Adam Scott: It’s something a reaction to overtime readiness and all of us break out in season 1. Lumon is like “OK, you want to go out into the world? Here you go.” It tries to teach them a lesson. These characters probably got a whole new set of ideas after being out in the world. It’s time to show them what cruel and unusual place it can be.

For us as actors, it is fun to get out into the world. These office sets have green blankets and fluorescent lights and you are in there for 15 hours and it just feels like you are essentially working in an office. So after six or seven weeks of shooting right in there, it’s nice to jump in the van. We shoot for six weeks and the actors had to ride snowmobile for half an hour up the side of a mountain to sit every morning. It was like recording a movie.

Britt, knowing that reveals that Helena has pretended to be Helly R. Come, Did you fall tip in your performance in the previous episodes?

Britt Lower: They are two parts of the same person. So there is obviously an inner uprising inside Helena. It is an aspect of her that is not entirely foreign to her. It’s something she has access to. And in Season 1 we see Helena look at the inns. We see her study Mark and Helly’s interaction and have this curiosity about them.

Playing the different layers was like on Adobe Photoshop. You work kind of saturation or exposure levels. It’s the same source material, but you modulate that kind of based on what happens. And then you see the reactions of your teammates, the directors, to see how it lands for the group she is trying to interfere with.

What ends up giving Helena away is her cruelty. Do you think so Brutality was Nurtured to Helena, and that’s why it’s not found in Helly R.?

Lower: I think you can extrapolate a lot from meeting Helena’s father in season 1. That guy is her father, so you can only imagine what kind of “care” she might or may not have received.

Scott: The cruel comment she makes kind of, hits irving sideways and isn’t really sitting with him. Helena has done an admirable job of pretending to be this other person down there and has fooled everyone. But then this thing she does, we see it as cruelty, but the way it comes out is just instinct, I think. This person was raised in this environment where this is how you communicate with each other. She probably doesn’t even think twice about saying something similar.

Lower: I think she is in Helly R.’s shoes, she learns something about herself by coming to see a perspective that is clean. In the tent scene, she recognizes it. She says, “It was mean.” She has some sense of right and wrong there.

Scott: While before her time down there may not have even marked it?

Lower: Maybe I don’t know.

Helena and Mark end up sharing this intimate moment. Do any of you think Helena has feelings for Mark?

Lower: The audience has to decide for themselves. I mean, without a doubt, this is a person that is isolated. Her experience with her family is so cool. I think her meeting at the chalk has an in -depth effect on her humanity. And I think she shares a sense of humor with field, it’s natural.

Scott: It’s something we talked about a lot and spent a lot of time mulling over, the idea of ​​this kind of triangle created with Innie Mark and Helly R. and Helena. For Mark’s Outie, Helena is one he finds scary and who is responsible for so much turmoil and sorrow in his life. Still, I think these two people somehow have a connection of some kind. I leave it by that.