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Complete the Ms. Casey project specifically? All of MDR was working it, weren’t they? Why did he need to get to 100% specifically. What if after they had kidnapped Gemma, that they never managed to get Mark to join Lumon?

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    Presumably it’s related to whatever Harmony was seeing in season 1 when she kept putting Mark and Ms Casey together—something the board didn’t initially seem to expect.

    Maybe this was the first time the process got this close to completion, and the Mark/Gemma relationship was the missing ingredient.

    • Skavau@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Maybe, but a wider point is that the gambit also seemed to rely on Mark joining Lumon in the first place. Which seem like a jump for them to make.

      • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 days ago

        I don’t think that was part of the initial plan—they selected Gemma based on tests from the fertility clinic, faked her death, and took her to the testing floor, which was all routine (Petey says there are others like Gemma who can’t leave). Mark joining Lumon was a coincidence which no one thought anything of until Harmony saw the potential of using them together. She pursued that on her own initiative, experimenting with exposing them to each other and moving next to Mark’s outie to get more information. It’s the results of her experiments in season 1 which convince the board that the Mark/Gemma relationship is the key to achieving a new breakthrough, which only becomes their goal in season 2.

        • Skavau@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          2·
          9 days ago

          Maybe. But I’d like it if we had a few more instances of severed disappeared people on the basement floor rather than just Ms. Casey to reflect that it’s something beyond just one person.

          • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            9 days ago

            • We see refiners from other locations, so they must have test subjects in other offices.

            • The conversation between Drummond and Lorne implies that there have been many previous goat sacrifices (presumably with a corresponding human for each goat).

            • Petey talks about a whole secret department full of trapped innies.

            But I suspect that test subjects are used one at a time at a given location, which is why we don’t see others on the testing floor while Gemma is there.