SEVERANCE Season 2 section 4’s Helly Twist sets up an exciting wild card.

This post contains spoilers for season 2, section 4, “Woe’s Hollow” of Resignation.

Reddit was right. Or at least the hundreds of thousands of Resignation Fans who populate The show’s subbreddit Was right: As the latest episode of Apple TV+’s hit series reveals, Helly R. is actually Helena Eagan. It turns out that one of the show’s heroes has not only shared “the titular forest from the fourth episode of the second season released on Friday.

Resignation is one of the best shows around not only because of its creative world building, but because of how its role crew navigates a fundamental challenge. Each main actor plays two characters: an “Innie”, an office drone removed by all knowledge of something beyond the walls of their workplace, and their “outie” to remember something about work. We learned in Season 1’s Cliffhanger of a final that Helly R., one of the trapped worker slaves on Lumon’s cut flooring is the indie of Helena, a scion of the company’s very evil basic family working on a kind of futuristic Science project with presumably kidnapped human topics whose families believe they are dead. We get confirmation of this fact in the final seconds of this week’s episode as Innie Irving B. threatens to drown Helena – who had infiltrated their group of colleagues by pretending to be Helly – unless she and the team’s supervisor, Mr. Milchick, gives up Ruse. Finally, they do.

Britt Lower, who plays both Helena and Helly, has had an extra hard job going to the line between Personas. We learn that Lumon has sent her back as an outie to the cut floor to keep her Innie’s office love interest, Adam Scotts Mark S., properly motivated as he is working to end a critical project known as “Cold Harbor.” Resignation Die-Hars had suspected this bit of underfloor since the season premiere, Latching on tip Like “Helly” struggling to turn on her office computer and doesn’t seem to lose her outie’s consciousness as she descends the elevator to the cut floor. Good spotted, internet Sleuths.

Many questions are bursting now. Will either Helena or Helly go among the inns ever again? Will Helena, who was threatened within an inch of her life of an innie, react with cruelty and expose the cut workers to even harsher psychological torture? Does this experience chasten want her, then doubt that her family’s life’s work is worth seeds of her family’s life? If it does, could Helena turn to Lumon and help Innies break out of their work prison? What about HellyWho we now know has been absent all season, while Helena has served as a mole in her body? And what about the sexual connection that Mark S. had just had with Helena while she thought she was Helly? Did the business manager just sexually assume a worker? Can an Innie Give Consent to Having Sex With An Outie?

Helena is now the most dangerous character on television – but it is not clear whether she represents a greater threat to the company or her family’s company.

There are two ways things can go now. Helena Eagan could escalate her family’s torment of the chalk. After all, we have known since the early days of Season 1 that Helena is looking at Innies as Subhuman. “I’m a person. You aren’t, ”she says her Innie in a video that refuses Helly’s severance request. This request came after Helly tried to kill herself (himself?) Instead of staying on the cut floor longer, and Helena replied that if she has ever tried it again, Outien would make sure that Innie lived long enough to suffer for the decision. Now a other Innie – John Turturros Irving B. – has almost ended Helena’s life. In all likelihood, this woman does not come out of Woe’s Hollow with a more Innie Sympathetic worldview.

However, there is a chance that Helena may respond differently to her almost murder and this different option is what makes her character so exciting. As the latest in a large number of Eagan children and cult members, Helena has not lived a free life. She has been freer than the inns, to be safe, but her father, the company’s current great boss, has made Helena go to a particular path, one that led her to a performing job in Lumon and now almost to her death. It is not clear that Helena, like other Lumon employees, has any friends or some life at all outside the business.

Knowing it, it feels important that Helena (Outie) may have developed a true love for Mark S. (The Innie), which the show has suggested in scattered breadcrumbs throughout this season. Back in the season premiere, Helena certainly did for a while on the surveillance recordings of her Innie, who previously made it passionate with Mark S. Maybe she just studied the enemy – or maybe Helena looked so longing at the kiss because it was a kind of passionate, liberating Behavior that she has never gotten to experience as the latest piece of the Eagan dynasty.

This thread continues in section 4. Mark, meanwhile, thinks he’s with Helly, not Helena. The circumstances are what they are, it is a shit show of consent: Since Mark doesn’t know the person he has sex is not the one she says or she is probably a party in the kidnapping of his outie’s wife – this meeting is undoubtedly rape. There is no ethical explanation for Helena’s behavior. But the look she gives Mark during their meeting does not seem completely persecuted. Helena realizes she’s in bed with the only person in the world who sees Either Helena or Helly as something similar to an autonomous person. It would make sense for this authenticity to appeal to Helena.

Whether it appeals to her enough to make her turn to her own family, it is still to see. Helena somehow changed sides and help the inn would risk implicating herself in countless huge crimes, one of which involves what Lumon did with Outie Mark’s wife Gemma. (It seems that the big reveal would be a bit of a hiccup for all romantic designs that Helena may have sincerely on Mark S.), but for now a key Eagan has a few motivations to betray the family and megacorporation. Helena is possibly a villain, but now she is also a wild card.

She’s not the only one either. Irving fires now, the most that the company can do after an employee tried to kill a director. (Reporting India to the police is not convenient for lumon for obvious reasons.) While his Innie’s fate remains cloudy – fires a cut off worker, thereby removing the context in which he would exist to kill him? – Irving Outie seems close to putting together some pieces about lumon. Maybe now that he is permanently away from the cut floor, he will intensify these efforts. Patricia Arquette’s Harmony Cobel, meanwhile, is still on lamb, furious at a company that never properly appreciated her cultic devotion to it. She knows how many bodies are buried, or at least where they are stashed inside Lumon. The haunting Mr. Milchick, played by Tramell Tillman, is also known big. Milchick monitored the employee retreat, culminating with an innie who attacked an eagan; Consequences cannot be far away for him, and he has already had some reason to doubt how much lumon is interested in him. (Remember his warm response to receiving a painting of a black-fied eagan family, something that the company thought he would enjoy for some reason.)

Cold Harbor is almost done. Almost halfway through Season 2 our antagonists are alive but shaken. The waters are thrown for someone in a high place to turn towards the company. Maybe just maybe, that call comes from inside family.