Potentially a Friday.

Helly R. wakes up as a newly severed employee. MDR notices Petey has not arrived; Mark S. is promoted to division head, and is tasked to orient Helly R. to her new existence. She injures him.

Mark is given a Pip’s VIP Card and a lie to explain his injury.

That evening Mark goes to a Dinnerless Dinner Party at the home of his sister, Devon and her husband, Ricken, and Ricken's idiot friends pester him about severance. Mark spends the night, and sees Petey (whom he does not recognize) out in the snowy night.

The next day Mark takes his Pip's VIP card to Pip's and argues with his neighbor about trash bins. He is surprised in his booth by Petey, who gives him a card with how to get in touch with him.

Potentially a Monday.

Mark arrives early to do his new duties preparing for the day. He removes the group photos that have Petey in them, and Irving objects. They have a welcome Melon Party in Helly's honor and take a group photo.

That evening Alexa and Mark have a first date where he drinks far too much. They find some Whole Mind Collective kids and Mark gets into a drunken altercation with them. Later at home, Mrs. Selvig comes over with apology cookies and notices a bulb is burned out. When looking for a replacement bulb, Mark finds a candle his late wife made.

Mark calls in sick and drives out to 499 Half Loop, the address given by Petey in his note. Petey has been reintegrated for two weeks. Mark brings back Petey to stay at his house. Irving is caught napping at work and is sent for a Wellness session with Ms. Casey. In the vestibule of the Wellness center, Irving meets Burt G. from Optics and Design. They each recognize a fellow spirit. Dylan helps Helly recognize the numbers and she refines her first data.

That evening Natalie is on the news dodging questions about a woman who became pregnant unbeknownst to her only a month after her company went severed.

Presumably a Thursday. The quarterly deadline is in three weeks.

New group photos are received. When Mark is swapping the photos out, he finds Petey's map of the Severed floor on the back of one photo and hides it. Helly is determined to get a message to her outie self, and tries increasingly desperate means, which Mark warns her of the consequences.

Irving suggests the department take a trip to the Perpetuity Wing to help instill Helly with some purpose. on the way they encounter Burt and Felicia from O&D, coming from the Team-building Space having completed an Egg Drop Challenge.

Helly slips out when the other are distracted in the Kier Replica House and tries to get a note through the stairwell doors, but is caught and sent to the Break Room for the rest of the day.

Meanwhile, Devon and Ricken drop off a preview copy of Ricken's book at his house (5 days before Workday 7), and Mrs. Cobel steals it. She lets herself into Mark's house with a key and snoops around the basement, finding the candle Gemma had made. Petey hides and then runs away, crossing over the bridge between Baird Creek Manor and Lumon.

That evening Mark goes looking for Petey and witnesses him collapsing at a gas station. Back at home, he finds Petey's phone and the many blocked calls that have been unanswered.

Helly spends her morning in the Break Room doing the last 813 repetitions of her total 1,072 of the The Compunction Statement.

Ms. Cobel has brought Ricken's book to work to show Mr. Milchick. Burt brings by the new manual totes with a map to O&D should anyone in MDR wish to visit him. Irving takes him up on this almost immediately, but on the way finds the copy of Ricken's book in the conference room. Mark shreds Petey's map. Helly threatens to cut off her fingers if Cobel/Milchick do not allow her to record a message for her outie. It is replied to in the negative.

Cobel and Graner react to the news of Petey's death. The funeral will be Sunday and then his body will be destroyed, so Cobel promises to retrieve his chip.

Mark and Cobel (as Mrs. Selvig) meet at Petey's funeral. Mark also meets June and her mother. During a video presentation, Cobel drills a hole in Petey's corpse and extracts the chip. Mark leaves and drives out to the tree which is presumably the site of the accident that killed his wife.

Presumably a Monday.

Burt and Irving stroll together through the halls as Burt goes on his art rotation rounds. Mark is reading Ricken's book and is invited to a special wellness session wherein Miss Casey lights a candle that is identical to the one from Gemma's crafts. She has Mark sculpt his feelings and he sculpts a tree. Cobel brings the chip to Graner who takes it to the Diagnostics Department. Irving discovers the hidden 3D printer room behind O&D. Dylan finds the copy of Ricken's book and starts reading it. Helly hangs herself in the elevator. Mark finds her and Graner is close behind. They pull her down and Graner sends Mark home immediately.

Helly has stayed in the hospital. Graner returns the chip, stating the Diagnostics Department confirmed that it is Petey's chip. Mark continues to read Ricken's book in secret.

That evening Devon has gone into labor, and Mark joins them at Damona Birthing Center. She meets Gabby Arteta in the next cabin when in search of coffee.

Helly returns. Ms. Casey is assigned to watch her the whole day. Irving has another dream while dozing at work and goes directly to O&D. Mr. Milchick tries to dissuade him by “accidentally” printing the painting The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design. Mark and Helly fool Ms. Casey to go get replacement supplies, and go for a long walk so Mark can check on Helly. They find new departments and a man tending baby goats. Ms. Casey finds Burt in the conference room and alerts Irving. Irving and Dylan take Burt back to O&D and Burt shows them the hidden 3D printer room.

The day before trash day.

Graner confirmes that Petey's chip was reintegrated by Reghabi. Mark throws Petey's phone away in his very full trash.

That evening We see Cobel's very elaborate and intense shrine to Kier and the 9 Core Principles in her basement bedroom. Mark digs the phone out of the trash. It rings, and he answers it. Mark and Alexa go on their second date.