Near the end of Severance Season 2 Episode 9 The After Hours, Jame Eagan appears in the MDR room as Helly is trying to memorize the directions to the elevator that Irving left behind. But what exactly is Jame Eagan doing on the severed floor in the first place?
Why is Jame on the severed floor with Helly?
In an unexpected turn of events in Season 2 Episode 9, as Helly tries to memorize the directions to the elevator that Irving left behind on the severed floor, Jame Eagan appears in the doorway to the MDR office and tells Helly that she tricked him, before saying “My Helly.” So what does he mean? What is he talking about?
Of course, to know exactly, we’ll have to wait until next week’s Severance Season 2 finale. But that doesn’t mean we can’t speculate on what exactly CEO of Lumon Jame Eagan is up to.
What is Jame Eagan planning with Helly?
Once again, this is pure speculation, but seems as though Severance and more specifically the Cold Harbor project may be setting up to be some sort of connection between Mark’s innie and outtie in which he may have to choose between saving Mark’s outie’s wife, Gemma, or Mark’s innie’s love interest, Helly. I think that in next week’s finale, Mark will have to make a decision between saving Helly or Gemma.
We may have gotten a big hint about this in Season 2 Episode 7 when Gemma, during going through her many severed rooms, is asked if she’d rather drown or suffocate. Who’s the only other character we’ve seen suffer that same fate? Helly, who attempted to hang herself in the elevator, and then later was almost drowned by Irving at the ORTBO.
What did Jame mean when he told Helly, ‘You tricked me’?
I think that Jame is referring to the OTC from the Severance Season 1 finale in which the MDR innies activated the overtime contingency to activate their severed innie while outside of Lumon. In that episode, Helly ran into Jame Eagan in which he believed it was actually her outie, Helena, and Jame Eagan’s daughter, who he was speaking to. Of course this wasn’t the case and Helly would go on to ruin the conference by exposing what Lumon was up to on the severed floor.
We should know exactly what Jame Eagan is up to next week when the Severance Season 2 finale drops on March 20, 2025 at 9 pm EST.
