Apple TV+Severance Season 2 Episode 6 ends with Mark bearing the consequences of reintegration, and, as we’ve seen before, messing with the process can be fatal. Warning: spoilers ahead!
We really have just one other case to go from. As Mark reminds Asal Reghabi, Petey was the first to undergo the reintegration procedure, which sees a severed employee’s Innie and Outie merged together.
And, well, we all know how that turned out. In Severance Season 1, Petey experienced a whole host of dizzying hallucinations, coughing fits, and nosebleeds, followed by death.
Although Reghabi tries to reassure Mark that she knows what she’s doing, he experiences all of the same symptoms as Petey in Season 2 Episode 6, culminating in a devastating ending.
Is Mark dead in Severance?
No, Mark isn’t dead, the most obvious reason being that Severance Season 3 is in production and he’s the main character. There’s also the fact that there are numerous clips of Mark in the Severance Season 2 trailer that we haven’t seen yet.
Apple TV+That being said, his health isn’t great right now – physical and mental. Earlier on in the latest episode, he sleeps with Helly (not Helena) at Lumon, and afterwards they share a passionate kiss. When they pull away, Mark’s having a nosebleed, clearly from reintegration.
As Miss Huang checks him over, his vision starts flickering between his Innie and Outie’s memories. Turns out, he’s not at the office at all; he’s actually in the basement, hooked up to the reintegration machine.
“That was another crossover memory,” says Reghabi. “A recent one, that’s good. You’ll feel gaps in time before it all comes together.”
But the whole ordeal’s left Mark feeling confused, and he starts coughing. Reghabi insists they need to speed up the process, saying they’ll “flood the chip itself” through the hole in his head.
Oh, there’s one problem: there’s a slight chance of haemorrhage (or, as Mark puts it, “bleeding to death). He’s had enough; he rips the wires off his head and goes to get some food as he’s “starving” (another symptom of reintegration).
Apple TV+However, he has a change of heart after a tense meeting with Helena Eagan, and decides to go through with it. Reghabi injects a syringe of serum to surround the chip in his brain, and soon enough, it causes a series of crossover memories.
But it also creates an intense pain in his head. In a case of terrible timing, Devon pops round, and while they’re talking, Mark realizes he can’t hold his glass or water and he can smell something odd.
All of a sudden, he falls to the ground and has a fit, with white foam coming out of his mouth.
Apple TV+There’s no denying something bad is happening to him, and we can expect to see the fallout of this in Season 2 Episode 7. But rest assured, Mark isn’t dead.
Make sure you know when the next episode drops with our guide to the Severance Season 2 release schedule, and you can also read about Cold Harbor, the Glasgow Block, and when Severance takes place.
If you want to refresh your memory, we have recaps of Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, Episode 4, and Episode 5, and if that weren’t enough, here’s five shows like Severance you should watch.
