After a crazy ending to Severance Season 2 Episode 4, Woe's Hollow, Episode 5 titled Trojan's Horse followed up with a not-as-crazy but still pretty wild ending. Let's break down what exactly was going on to Mark at the e??nd of Episode 5.

What is going on with Mark?

In the final scene of Severance 2 Season 5, Trojan's Horse,?? we see Mark really going through it. For starters, he's still got that cough, the one that's seemingly been nagging him the last few episodes. When d?id we last see that? From Mark's work buddy Petey in Season 1 who had debilitating—and eventually fatal—effects from reintegration. As he goes to leave his reintegration session with Reghabi, a former Lumon surgeon who also assisted Petey, he hears his wife Gemma's voice.

As he tries to shake it off, Mark hears it again, before his surroundings change to the long black hallway from the Lumon severed floor that Irving often paints. He walks towards the voice of his wife, who seems to be reciting what Ms. Casey told Mark's innie during his Wellness Session. "Your outie listens to misc while shaving, but not while showering," he hears, trying to navi??gate what appears to be the h??alls of the Lumon severed floor searching for her.

The voice grows closer, "Your outie once called a butterfly," Mark hears, before turning a??round to se??e none other than his wife Gemma, as she appeared at Lumon on the severed floor—AKA like Ms. Casey—looking back at him. Mark freezes instantly with a look of fear, excitement, and sadness all at the same time. Which, by the way, Adam Scott has been absolutely killing it this season. Well, to be fair, the whole cast has.

Anyway, "Your outie is going to-," Gemma starts to tell him, before suddenly she disappears and Ma??rk is back standing in his house, no longer in Lumon.?? Understandably, Mark bursts into tears. So what happened here?

It appears reintegration is happening for Mark

Early in Season 2 Mark made the choice to commence with reintegration. H?e held off in Season 1 after what happened to Petey, but learning his wife might actually still be alive, ??he made the decision to do it anyway. What happened at the end of Season 2 Episode 5 is exactly that: Mark is seeing/remembering the memories from his innie.

While it's great for Mark to get confirmation that his wife Gemma is still alive—at least in some way—it's clearly taking a toll on Mark as indicated by his increased coughing. That being said, there's no way Mark puts an end to it after finall?y making some progress toward finding his wife.

What else happened in Season 2 Episode 5?

Here's some other thoughts I have after watching the Severance Trojan's Horse episode, though beware some of thes??e might be theories of an obses??sed fan!

• After the goats in Episode 3, followed by the opening of Episode 5 with the dental equipment, and the discussion Helena Eagan had with Ms. Huang and Lumon about continuing the work on "Cold Harbor" and "feeling human", I can't but think back to the early moments of Season 1 Episode 1. After coming to, Helly asks, "Am I livestock?" Mark replies, "You think we grew a full human and gave you consciousness?" This might have been the biggest clue for what's going on in Severance and we got it right from the start.
• Irving's 8-bit innie funeral with watermelon was pretty cool, that's all I want.
• It would be awkward to be the ham on the table when Burt is introducing Irving to his husband Fields.
• Milchick is for sure going to flip and join the innies, and who would blame him?! I mean come on, the paper clips?!

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Early on in Severance Season 2 Episode 5, aptly titled Trojan's Horse, Milchick compares Helena Eagan going undercove?r as Helly since the events of the Season 1 finale to the story of Grakappan. (Prouncouced Grak-Shoe-Pin) But is the story of Grakappan actually real, or just made up by Milchick?

What is the Story of Grakappan?

The story of Grakappan is referenced by Milchick early on in the episode when Helly questions why her outie, Helean Eagan, was on the Severance floor imitating her. After pondering the question, Milchick responds?? with a question, "Have you ever heard the story of Grakappan?". Understandably, none of them had.

"In ancient times the King of Sweden himself was known to go incognito amongst his people in the hopes of learning their true grievances. He would don an old, gray robe, a Grakappan, the name for which he was remembered, to disguise his royal vestments," Milchick would explain. "Kier Eagan himself was known to do so in his ether factories, and Ms. Eagan was carrying on this nobl?e tra??dition."

So, according to Milchick, Helena Eagan was essentially doing her own version of Undercover Boss to try and learn the grievances of the MDR team to make Lumon a better workplace. We, the viewers??, know that is not the case, and thankfully Mark, Helly, and Dylan aren't buyi??ng it either.

The show, and more importantly management in Severance, like Milchick, are no strangers to making up storie??s, so it would be understandable to wonder if the story of Grakappan is actually true or even a real thing.

So is the Story of Grakappan actually real?

Yes, the story of Grakappan is actually real. ??After the end of the Scanian War between Sweden and Denmark in 1679, King Charles XI became known as the Greycoat, or the G?rakappan in Swedish. He would intentionally disguise himself and visit villages across Sweden seeking to spot corruption against the populace from higher orders of power, usually the corrupt church.

One famous story from King Charles XI actions as ?Grakappan talks of him visiti?ng a village in disarray while its priest lived lavishly, while another nearby village was in outstanding condition but its priest was in poverty. King Charles XI switched the two priests to solve this issue.

So the basis for Milchick's comparison of Helena Eagan's actions is b??ased on real events. However, I wouldn't be surprised if his story about Kier Eagan doing the same as his ether factories is a fabricated part of the story.

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