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+ | | **The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design** {{the_grim_barbarity_of_optics_and_design.jpg|Title Card}} || | ||
+ | ^ Episode Number | 1.5 | | ||
+ | ^ Directed By | [[https:// | ||
+ | ^ Written By | [[https:// | ||
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+ | ^ Previous Episode | [[The You You Are]] | | ||
+ | ^ Next Episode | [[Hide and Seek]] | | ||
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====== The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design ====== | ====== The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design ====== | ||
- | **The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design** is the fifth episode of the first season of [[Severance (TV show)|Severance]]. | + | **The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design** is the fifth episode of the first season of //[[Severance (TV show)|Severance]]//. |
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- | ^ Directed By | Aoife McArdle | | + | ===== Synopsis ===== |
- | ^ Written By | Anna Ouyang Moench | | + | |
- | ^ Premiered | + | |
- | ^ Run Time | 43 minutes | | + | |
+ | > Bullies are nothing but Bull and Lies. <WRAP attribution> | ||
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+ | > Upon request, I can also perform a hug. <WRAP attribution> | ||
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+ | > 'The surest way to tame a prisoner is to let him believe he's free.' <WRAP attribution> | ||
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+ | [[Helly]] hangs by her neck in the elevator, choking and eyes bulging. Her legs scramble for some purchase on the elevator walls. | ||
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+ | [[Mark]] has left [[Wellness]] and is walking back towards MDR. | ||
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+ | A frame on the security camera feed shows the elevator reaching the un-Severed security lobby. The doors open, with Helly still struggling unnoticed inside it. [[Judd]] is not at his post at the security desk. The elevator doors close. | ||
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+ | Mark makes it back to MDR. He asks Dylan, who is surreptitiously reading [[the_you_you_are_book|Ricken' | ||
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+ | He inserts his badge to call the elevator. Elsewhere on the floor, [[Doug Graner|Graner]] sprints through the hallways. After a moment, the doors of the elevator open. Mark finds Helly hanging there limply. Panicked, he lifts her body with all of his strength and shouts for help. Graner arrives; he removes the noose from Helly' | ||
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+ | The doors close and the elevator rises. The expression on Mark's face changes from shock to neutral as the implant is de-activated. He bids goodnight to Judd, who is just then returning to the security lobby. | ||
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+ | It's now the next day. Mark arrives [[florence|at reception]] and is given the go-ahead to continue down to the locker room. In the elevator down to the [[svr_d_floor|Severed floor]], his expression flips from office-bored to alarmed worry. Waiting for him in the elevator lobby are [[harmony_cobel|Ms. Cobel]] and [[Seth Milchick|Milchick]]. Mark immediately asks if Helly is alive. Cobel instructs him to take a seat. She waits until Mark is perched on the edge of the green leather lobby chair to tell him that Helly is in the hospital, and that there is no permanent damage. | ||
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+ | Mark shakily asks if that means they will let Helly go. Cobel asserts that Helly' | ||
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+ | In MDR Mark fishes //The You You Are// out of his file drawer and takes it to the restroom. He sits in a stall reading it. The day ends. He is back in MDR the following day, this time concealing himself in the Storage Closet to devour [[Ricken Hale|Ricken]]' | ||
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+ | Graner presents Ms. Cobel with Petey' | ||
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+ | Cobel slides the chip back to Graner and orders him to look for source signatures on the implant. Graner says all the data from the chip has been saved and offers the physical chip to Cobel as a souvenir. Cobel demands to know who performed the [[Reintegration|reintegration]]. Her plan is to present all of her information to the Board at once. | ||
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+ | Mark, in the locker room at the end of the day, sees many missed calls from Ricken on his phone. He plays the messages. With increasing urgency, Ricken' | ||
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+ | Mark arrives at the birthing cabin just as [[Alexa]] is leaving. Mark appears surprised to see her there. He apologizes to her for how their date ended. Alexa gives Mark an update on Devon. Mark enters the cabin as Ricken is crying over Devon' | ||
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+ | Devon powers through another contraction while Ricken encourages Mark to say a secret out loud, claiming doing so will create a "soul void" that will speed up the labor. Devon feels it is unnecessary. Regardless, Ricken takes the opportunity to tell Mark that he's hurt that Mark hasn't acknowledged the copy of [[the_you_you_are_book|the book]] Ricken gave him. Mark is mystified, as he's never seen the book. Ricken now seems more concerned about the loss of the advanced copy of the book than about his laboring wife beside him. | ||
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+ | Devon' | ||
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+ | Devon walks outside. She sees a man retreating from the largest of the birthing cabins and tries to get his attention. He walks away without taking notice of her. Devon sees a woman inside the large cabin dressed in a white silk bathrobe. From the porch of the house, Devon begs her for some coffee. The woman agrees to give her some. | ||
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+ | Devon enters the richly appointed house and the two women introduce themselves; the robed woman is [[Gabby Arteta|Gabby]]. Devon apologetically explains that her husband is driving her crazy and her brother is making her depressed. | ||
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+ | Gabby asks Devon if this is her first baby, and Devon answers yes. Gabby tells Devon that this is her third baby and he'll be named William. Devon asks how she manages three. Gabby shrugs and says, "Lotta help, I guess!" | ||
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+ | While Ricken and Mark hang the kelp around the perimeter of Devon' | ||
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+ | Devon returns. Mark is the only one awake. They chat together on the bed. She tells Mark she made friends with "the richest lady in baby camp." Devon hints that Mark should ask Alexa out again, though Mark is skeptical she would accept. | ||
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+ | Another contraction comes and Mark offers to fetch Alexa. Devon declines. Mark helps her through the pain and asks if she wants to hear a secret. He thinks Lumon is "up to something." | ||
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+ | Mark waits outside on the shore of a lake as the sun rises. Inside, the birthing moans of Devon echo out. At home, Petey' | ||
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+ | In the [[Kitchenette]], | ||
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+ | Melchick and Mark wait by the elevator. Melchick gives Mark a nod and walks away. The elevator dings and opens. Helly is cowering in the corner of the elevator, gasping and coughing. Mark kneels down and tells Helly that she's okay. He tries to follow Milchick' | ||
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+ | Sitting in the Kitchenette, | ||
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+ | Irving and Dylan discuss what might raise Helly' | ||
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+ | Sitting in an office chair a few feet away, Ms. Casey observes Helly as she shirks work morosely. Ms. Casey makes a note in her pad. | ||
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+ | Irving works at his terminal. A small blob of black goo plops onto his hand from above. He looks above him as it begins to rain black goo from the ceiling. He jumps up from his chair with a start. He looks up again; the ceiling is completely clean. Mark asks if they " | ||
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+ | Irving puts the map on the platen of the copier and hits the button. Out of the copier comes not an image of the map, but two [[the_grim_barbarity_of_optics_and_design_painting|horrifying color prints of a painting]]. It depicts people being maimed, disemboweled and slaughtered. The victims in the image wear blue [[badge|badges]], | ||
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+ | Irving is shaken by it. He turns around from the copier and Milchick is standing there. Milchick apologizes. He explains Irving wasn't meant to see it, that it was sent to MDR's copier by mistake and that it's a joke for Ms. Cobel. Irving asks if it is a painting of the O&D coup. Mr. Milchick insists nothing like that could ever happen at Lumon. | ||
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+ | Irving shows the picture to Dylan in the storage closet. Dylan strenuously maintains his belief that the coup was an actual event. Irving is not so convinced. Dylan mentions that Burt lied about the size of his department; he could be lying about other things too. | ||
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+ | Melchick arrives back at his desk to see Cobel standing at his workstation. Cobel asks Melchick if he ran a [[266]] on Irving B. Melchick immediately admits it, and reasons that it might discourage Irving from spending so much time with Burt G. Cobel praises him for his initiative. | ||
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+ | Melchick mentions seeing Ms. Casey in MDR. He asks why she's watching Helly. Cobel rattles off a Kier quote, and adds that she's trying something new with Ms. Casey. She asks him to be discreet about it. | ||
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+ | In the restroom, Helly rubs cold water on the bruise that circles her neck. She emerges and Ms. Casey tenderly asks her to tell her what she was doing in there. Before Helly can answer, Mark " | ||
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+ | Ms. Casey is returning from distribution supply carrying a stack of notepads in her arms. She passes Burt pacing around in the conference room. | ||
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+ | Mark and Helly walk down the hall. He asks Helly how she is, and she responds that she's doing really badly. They go into an empty office, desks draped in plastic. Mark shows her a re-creation of Petey' | ||
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+ | Ms. Casey gets back to MDR and is disturbed that Helly is gone. Dylan and Irving send her away to look for Helly. As she leaves, she turns to tell Irving that Burt G. is in the conference room. Irving sets off immediately. | ||
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+ | At the conference room Irving and Burt meet. Burt tells Irving he was looking for him. Dylan arrives and ties the handles of the conference room doors shut, locking Burt in. Irving freaks out and calls for a manager. | ||
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+ | Mark is still following Helly. They walk, disoriented and lost, down halls that aren't fully lit. Helly is still reeling from her Outie telling her that she isn't a person. Mark asks her not to focus on that and instead focus on what she wants " | ||
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+ | Their conversation is interrupted by a strange sound - a cry of some kind. | ||
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+ | Burt tries to explain to Dylan what he's doing in the conference room. Irving returns from looking for a manager, saying Mark and Helly were nowhere to be found in the Storage Wing. Dylan hypothesizes that O&D has already killed them. Irving asks Burt if he knows where Helly and Mark are. Burt protests that he is only there to see Irving. Irving asks what he's doing in the conference room. Burt says he was afraid to scare or embarrass Irving, and was practicing a joke. Dylan demands proof of the joke. | ||
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+ | Irving asks Burt why he misled him about the number of people in O&D. With dead seriousness, | ||
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+ | The conversation gets silly and flirty between Burt and Irving. Dylan pulls Irving away and asks if Irving is interested in Burt. Irving detects Dylan' | ||
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+ | Helly and Mark follow the crying sound through the semi-dark hallways. Lit by the light coming through a doorway, they see the silhouette of a goat. They get closer and see that there is a little white baby goat standing in the hall. It walks into the room and they follow it. | ||
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+ | Inside the room, a man wearing a suit is sitting on a box and feeding a baby goat milk from a bottle. He is surrounded by more baby goats. He looks up from his work and tells Mark and Helly, " | ||
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+ | Dylan follows Irving and Burt from a safe distance back to O&D. Irving and Burt discuss the horrible image Burt saw coming out of the copier. The title of the painting, according to Irving, was //The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design//, but Burt claims no such painting with that name exists. | ||
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+ | At the entrance to O&D, Irving unties Burt's wrists and quotes Kier to "be ever merry." | ||
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+ | Burt displays // | ||
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+ | Walking back to MDR, Helly and Mark debate the meaning of the goats. Helly offers to work on the map. Ms. Casey comes upon them, happy to see they are unhurt. Cobel watches the three of them walk together down the hall. Graner sticks his head into Cobel' | ||
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+ | Burt brings Irving and Dylan to the mysterious back room at O&D. He gets the attention of the people working in the room. He introduces them to MDR as their friends. | ||
===== Cast ===== | ===== Cast ===== | ||
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* Yul Vazquez as [[Peter Kilmer]] (archive footage) | * Yul Vazquez as [[Peter Kilmer]] (archive footage) | ||
+ | * [[Goats]] | ||
+ | ===== Trivia ===== | ||
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+ | ===== Quotes & Dialogue ===== | ||
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+ | > Purging secrets can create a soul void that speeds the labor. <WRAP attribution> | ||
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+ | > Do you know how to make your eyes kind? <WRAP attribution> | ||
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+ | > Please describe for me your time in the bathroom. <WRAP attribution> | ||
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+ | > What I want is for her to wake up while the life drains out of her and to know it was me who did it. <WRAP attribution> | ||
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+ | > People are weird. <WRAP attribution> | ||
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+ | > Rat-fuck the handbook. <WRAP attribution> | ||
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+ | > There' | ||
===== See Also ===== | ===== See Also ===== | ||
- | * [[List of Episodes]] | + | * [[list_of_severance_episodes]] |
+ | * [[the_grim_barbarity_of_optics_and_design_transcript]] | ||
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