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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?
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?
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.
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.
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.