Continuity desk · Vol. 01

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Severance

About to watch S01E04 · The You You Are

Spoiler-free to End of S01E03 "In Perpetuity"

100% spoiler-free up to the final frame of S01E03. Continuity pack (season knowledge + staged narrative + relationship web). Nothing from S01E04 or later.

Long gap (passport-weighted): foundational who/where listed first.

Standard

Lumon Industries severs work selves (innies) from outer lives (outies). MDR: Mark, Helly, Irving, Dylan.

You are resuming mid-Season 1. Hard cutoff: S01E03 (In Perpetuity). Nothing from S01E04 or later.

Season 1 - early path (through E1). Board is set; season-end outcomes are not assumed.

You are still early in Season 1. Prior seasons (if any) are fully in force; this season's finale geometry is not.

MDR revolt; overtime contingency.

Helly is Helena Eagan.

Focus on who wants what, who is allied, and which institutions are pressuring the cast.

Mid-Season 1: conflicts have escalated past setup. Re-check alliances and locations on the relationship map.

Cobel is Selvig.

If a fact only lands in the season finale, it is not in this pack yet.

Season 1 path through S01E03: E1 "Good News About Hell" → E2 "Half Loop" → E3 "In Perpetuity".

Cutoff discipline: every fact above ends at S01E03. Do not import anything from S01E04 ("The You You Are") or later.

Key events (pre-cutoff)

  1. 01Season 1 through E1: early markers only.
  2. 02S1E01: Context beat: MDR revolt; overtime contingency.
  3. 03S1E01: Context beat: Helly is Helena Eagan.
  4. 04Season 1 through E5: mid-run markers.
  5. 05Season beat: MDR revolt; overtime contingency.
  6. 06Season beat: Helly is Helena Eagan.
  7. 07Season beat: Cobel is Selvig.
  8. 08S01E01: Good News About Hell
  9. 09S01E02: Half Loop
  10. 10S01E03: In Perpetuity

Character status cards

Snapshots as of graph ordinal ≤ 3 (S01E03).

Mark Scout

alive

Severed worker

Loc. MDR / outside grief

Motivation
Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state
Hardened by recent events
Last known
Wife dead (he thinks); leads revolt

Allies

Helly, Dylan, Irving

Threats

Lumon, Cobel

Helly R

Helena Eagan

alive

Innie rebel

Loc. MDR

Motivation
Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state
Hardened by recent events
Last known
Is Helena Eagan outie

Allies

Mark

Threats

Lumon, self outie

Irving Bailiff

alive

Painter of hallways

Loc. MDR

Motivation
Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state
Hardened by recent events
Last known
Black goo paintings; Burt love

Allies

Burt, MDR

Threats

Lumon

Dylan George

alive

Perk-motivated

Loc. MDR

Motivation
Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state
Hardened by recent events
Last known
Overtime contingency fighter

Allies

MDR

Threats

Lumon

Harmony Cobel

Mrs. Selvig

alive

Manager = Selvig

Loc. Floor / town

Motivation
Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state
Hardened by recent events
Last known
Double life neighbor

Allies

Lumon

Threats

Board

Seth Milchik

alive

Manager

Loc. Floor

Motivation
Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state
Hardened by recent events
Last known
Smiling enforcer

Allies

Cobel

Threats

innie revolt

Devon Scout

alive

Sister

Loc. Outside

Motivation
Advance personal and factional stakes
Emotional state
Hardened by recent events
Last known
Supports Mark

Allies

Mark, Ricken

Relationship map

Continuity web

Relationship map

Ink diagram of who is bound, opposed, or entangled as of the cutoff (End of S01E03 "In Perpetuity"). Click a name to pin. Edge labels appear on focus.

7 figures12/12 ties shownhub: Mark (6)
FROZEN WEBMark S.6 TIESHelly R.3 TIESIrving B.3 TIESDylan G.3 TIESHarmony C.3 TIESSeth M.3 TIESDevon S.3 TIES

Hover or click any figure to open their tie dossier. Hostile and tense ties carry direction marks. Secret ties are dashed.

Open threads

Story continues from cutoff

high

All facts above end at S01E03. S01E04 is not included.

Who cares: you

Path to now

S1 through E3

Progress marker E3

Season 1 - mid path (through E5). Major mid-season pressures are live; finale deaths/resolutions are not assumed.

S1 through E3

Current season path

Last episode watched: In Perpetuity. Next: The You You Are.

World state

  • Status quo at season end is the baseline for the next stretch.
  • Treat later-season institutional collapses as unknown until you pass them.
  • World pressure at mid-Season 1 is the baseline for the remaining episodes.

Constrained desk chat

Temporal RAG over this pack only. No model calls. No post-cutoff index rows exist.

Desk · Cutoff desk open. I only know this show through End of S01E03 "In Perpetuity". Ask about characters, threads, or events before that line. I will refuse anything later.
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