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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

The fact that Cobel was able to bring Devon into that cabin area (hiding Mark) and there was no caution from the guard with Cobel being fired, etc., might be a bit of a red flag that makes me wonder if she's still working with Lumon.

Perhaps. But if she is, the parking lot scene where she takes off leads me to believe it certainly isn't with a certain specific faction of Lumon (if one believes in a fractured Lumon group with factions due to the recent outward disdain certain high level Lumon employees are showing to each other).

Originally Posted by mikephoen

Maybe, but it's also likely that the guard wouldn't know who Cobel was. Lumon is a huge company with tens of thousands of employees I assume. The former head of the severed floor might not be publicly recognized, as Lumon doesn't appear to want the workers of that floor to be well known. Cobel knew the complicated passcode, so that's probably all the guard needed to allow her in.

I dunno completely about that. The guard certainly didn't seem to recognize Cobel, but other than the code, the reasoning used for her entrance related to something Jame. Doesn't that hint at an underlying darker theme that the birthing cabin resort is potentially for reasons other than voluntary entrance to deal with births?

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Just wanted to address this.

The first thing is that it's clear from Cobel's episode that she was indoctrinated in the cult from a young age as a child worker in their cultpany (cult + company) factory in the local town. She would have seen it as an opportunity to create glory for Keir and the Lumon brand, and her "compensation" for giving the company the invention would be as director of the severed floor. It whisked her away from a life of severe economic depression so it's clear why she traded her individual praise and recognition for a better life. Additionally, it's why she had such wide leeway to do her job until the overtime incident.

Devour Feculence is now my go to insult. If they can't get it the first time, I'll break it down for them mo-no-syl-lab-ic-al-ly.

I don't disagree with what you're saying at all. I'm saying that she got out of poverty and had deep knowledge of a key technology. But Lumon no protection for such key technology against her going rogue. TBH, it's also weird that you can sever someone and someone like Mark can also technically go rogue, especially in a world with smart phones... but then I guess it's harder to write a story.

Devour feculence made me laugh in the sense that I swear we did do insults like this to each other in Jr High for a short period of time. This along with things like defenestrate yourself, do you masticate?, are you a pyro? etc. When Milchick said it, I was like, "Wait, I think I know what that means...".