Half Loop

Severance 1×2

Mark: Okay, this is the Siena file. Now, all the data you see falls into one of four essential categories. And we group each line of code, and then sort it evenly between five digital buckets... Just poke around first. Use the arrows.
Helly: Should this mean something to me?
Mark: No. No, all the data comes from upstairs fully encoded.
Helly: Then how do I categorize it?
Mark: Each category of numbers presents in such an order as to elicit an emotional response in the refiner.
Helly: An emotional response in the refiner...
Mark: Um... So, uh, Cat 1 numbers, for example, feel a certain way on sight. They'll be sort of disconcerting, scary.
Helly: Scary?
Mark: I know.
Helly: My job is to scroll through this spreadsheet and look for numbers that are scary?
Dylan: It sounds dumb, and Mark said it dumb.
Helly: Are the numbers bloody? Do they chant?
Mark: It doesn't make sense till you see it, and it takes a while to see.

Mr. Milchick: Let's get this new group photo before the melon bloat sets in... Great big smiles. Remember, you're gonna be looking at this every day.

Alexa: You could have a girlfriend at Lumon... and not know it. And if you met someone out here, you wouldn't know it in there. Like, you could get married and have kids, and just forget they exist for eight hours every day, for your whole life. That doesn't mess with your head?

Helly: W-What even are these numbers? Like, do we even know what we're supposedly cleaning?
Dylan: My theory? The sea. .......
Helly: This is the leading theory?
Dylan: Nah, Irv thinks we're cutting swear words out of movies.

Helly: Why is... Why is it, uh...
Dylan: You okay. Just fence off the bad data like I showed you. Can you see the perimeter? ... And bin it!
Irving: Boom. Fucking refined.
Dylan: All right, Helly. Hip, hip.
Helly: They were scary. The numbers were scary.

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