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Severance

About to watch S01E07 · Defiant Jazz

Spoiler-free to End of S01E06 "Hide and Seek"

100% spoiler-free up to the final frame of S01E06. Continuity pack (season knowledge + staged narrative + relationship web). Nothing from S01E07 or later.

Months since last watch

14m

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: S01E06 (Hide and Seek). Nothing from S01E07 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 S01E06: E1 "Good News About Hell" → E2 "Half Loop" → E3 "In Perpetuity" → E4 "The You You Are" → E5 "The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design" → E6 "Hide and Seek".

Cutoff discipline: every fact above ends at S01E06. Do not import anything from S01E07 ("Defiant Jazz") or later.

Key events (pre-cutoff)

01Season 1 through E1: early markers only.
02S1E01: Context beat: MDR revolt; overtime contingency.
03S1E01: Context beat: Helly is Helena Eagan.
04Season 1 through E5: mid-run markers.
05Season beat: MDR revolt; overtime contingency.
06Season beat: Helly is Helena Eagan.
07Season beat: Cobel is Selvig.
08S01E01: Good News About Hell
09S01E02: Half Loop
10S01E03: In Perpetuity
11S01E04: The You You Are
12S01E05: The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design
13S01E06: Hide and Seek

Character status cards

Snapshots as of graph ordinal ≤ 6 (S01E06).

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

Continuity web

Relationship map

Ink diagram of who is bound, opposed, or entangled as of the cutoff (End of S01E06 "Hide and Seek"). Click a name to pin. Edge labels appear on focus.

7 figures12/12 ties shownhub: Mark (6)

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 S01E06. S01E07 is not included.

Who cares: you

Path to now

S1 through E5

Progress marker E5

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

S1 through E6

Current season path

Last episode watched: Hide and Seek. Next: Defiant Jazz.

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 S01E06 "Hide and Seek". Ask about characters, threads, or events before that line. I will refuse anything later.

Spoiler-free to End of S01E06 "Hide and Seek"

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