Severance (2022) s02e04 Episode Script

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]
[WIND HOWLING]
[IRVING ECHOING] Hello!
Hello!
[MARK] Irving!
- It's me. I'm up here!
- Mark!
[MARK] Yeah!
Hey!
[STAMMERS] What's happening?
Where are we?
[MARK] I have no fucking idea,
but there's a path up the cliff
right down there!
[IRVING] Do you want me to come up?
[MARK] Well, yeah!
[IRVING] I'm on
[GROANS] I'm on the ice.
I'm on the fucking ice!
[MARK] Maybe get off of it. Come on!
[IRVING] I'm coming!
[GROANING, PANTING]
[ICE CRACKLING]
[GRUNTS] I'm
I'm coming!
Be careful!
[IRVING GROANS, PANTING]
[MARK] It's very steep!
[GRUNTING, PANTING]
[GRUNTS]
[PANTS, SNIFFS]
- [GRUNTS, SIGHS]
- [HELLY] Irving.
[IRVING] Helly!
Where did you come from?
I don't know.
What are we doing out here?
[MARK] Up here!
Follow my voice!
Mark!
[IRVING GRUNTING]
Mark!
[MARK] Up here!
[IRVING] Mark.
[MARK] Hey!
Are you okay?
- Did you wake up on the ice too?
- Yeah.
- What about you?
- On the cliff.
- [DYLAN SCREAMS, GRUNTING]
- [IRVING] Oh, my God.
- Is it you?
- [HELLY] Of course it's us.
Holy shit!
Out-fucking-side.
Oh, my God. I mean,
I knew there was no actual ceiling,
but this is fucking insane.
Hello?
Hello?
[ELECTRONIC KIER HYMN PLAYING]
[MARK] What is that?
[MUSIC CONTINUES]
[MUSIC STOPS]
Good morning, Refiners.
This is Mr. Milchick from work,
and I'm thrilled to welcome you
to your first ever
outdoor retreat
and team-building occurrence.
This ORTBO is in response
to your desire to see the outside world.
With your outies' blessings,
you will spend the next two
calendar days walking the meadows,
thickets, brambles and brooks
that make up the Dieter
Eagan National Forest.
Who the fuck is Dieter Eagan?
Dieter Eagan?
Some of you may be
quietly yearning to learn more.
The truth you seek lies
within the fourth appendix.
Kier dictated a fourth
appendix in his final hours of life,
a text of such sanctity that it
is forbidden upon the severed floor.
It's waiting for you in Scissor Cave,
the very same grotto
where Kier Eagan tamed
the four
tempers for the very first time.
And do remember,
"Stray not from Kier's path,
lest you roil nature's wrath."
There will be help along the way.
Happy fortunes, MDR.
[BEEPS]
Scissor Cave.
What the fuck is that?
He looks like Mark.
Milchick said there'd
be help along the way.
I wouldn't trust a word out of that
mountebank's mouth.
Not even televisually.
Not like we have a lot of
other options right now, Irv.
[SIGHS]
Wait.
[HELLY] "Chapter one.
I was not born into this world alone.
The lodgings of my mother's
womb I shared with another,
a twin brother who was called Dieter."
Kier had a twin?
That's what those things are.
[IRVING] Yeah.
"In infancy, he was my bosom friend.
But as we blossomed into boyhood,
he beseeched me to take to
the wood with him to live as paupers.
My love for my twin
unbalancing my judgment,
I acceded, and we ventured
into the wood towards"
[BOTH] "Woe's Hollow."
[IRVING] So, we're to walk
in the brothers' footsteps.
"He always crept like this at this hour.
Once concealed by flora,
- my brother"
- [KIER] flora, my brother
unfastened himself.
The din of his fervor
fell strangely into concert
with the music of the wood.
His every thrust found rhythm
- with the trill of the crickets
- "trill of the crickets"
[ECHO] and the moaning of the wind
[ECHO] and the
snowfall's yearly thaw.
[KIER] Dieter became, on that night
- an instrument of nature
- [IRVING] "an instrument of nature"
and nature played Dieter
"and nature played Dieter with elegance.
I had no choice but to listen
as he spilt his lineage upon the soil."
Now there's a me one.
[SNIFFS, BREATHES HEAVILY]
[PANTING]
You okay?
[SIGHING] Yeah.
I just wish I knew where we were going.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
[NO AUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
[PANTING]
[DYLAN] Fuck.
What were you and Helly
talking about back there?
[DYLAN GROANS]
When?
I don't trust her.
I think she might be lying
about what her outie saw.
Why would you think that?
Night gardeners. Hmm?
[SIGHS] It's clear you do not have
an objective perspective
due to your feelings for her.
My feelings for her have
nothing to do with anything, okay
[DYLAN SNIFFS, SIGHS]
[MARK] Whoa.
What the fuck?
What is it?
I don't know.
Looks like a seal.
Why does it look so messed up?
I don't know. Maybe this is
what dead things look like.
We should eat it.
Pardon me?
We don't know if there's
food waiting at the hollow.
We don't even know where we are.
They can't let anything happen to us.
It's an ORTBO.
Outdoor retreat team-building
occurrence. Right, Mark?
We don't know what this is.
- We don't know anything!
- Irving, calm down.
We all know you had a bad experience
the last time you were outside
Who said I had a bad experience?
Oh, my God.
What did you tell him, dumbass?
Nothing! What the fuck?
Let's just get to the hollow.
[MR. MILCHICK]
Kier's twin was always with him.
That's why we provided
the very same for each of you.
Fuck you all. I was right.
Mr. Milchick.
This is the tallest waterfall
on the planet.
You have followed the path of Kier
and Dieter,
and reached Woe's Hollow.
You stand upon sacred earth.
We're starving, Mr. Milchick.
Are you?
I thought the waterfall's
grandeur would satiate you.
I'm teasing, of course.
Lumon will always protect and provide.
Right this way.
Miss Huang has been readying the grill
for which we brought
in copious luxury meats.
The fire will be used for
marshmallows and a recital later.
The tents, as you can see, are MDR blue
and the outhouse is stocked
with four-ply washroom tissue.
Wow.
[MR. MILCHICK CHUCKLES]
Wow, indeed, Helly R.
Also, for your
comfort and safety, torches,
which can provide both
a heat and a light source.
Double duty.
It's beautiful.
Pretty cool, right?
Yes, lovely.
[GRUNTS]
[HELLY] Irving?
Enter.
[SIGHS]
- [HELLY SHIVERS]
- Hmm.
Made you a snow seal.
[CHUCKLES]
In case you were hungry.
[CHUCKLES]
Yeah.
I feel silly for suggesting
we eat that animal.
I suppose
it sounded alarmist and paranoid.
Irrational.
No. It was fine. We were all a little
[SIGHS]
Yeah.
What did you really see
during the overtime contingency?
I told you.
[IRVING] It's okay.
It won't change anything.
Irving.
Okay.
[THEREMIN PLAYING]
[MR. MILCHICK]
"Dieter lay unwashed in his bedroll,
though the hollow's pool
was primed for bathing.
We ate of the hare we'd caught
and told each other rhyming jokes
till our gullets ached.
But at last,
the thought tickling my mouth emerged.
'We must return to Father, ' I said.
'But I promise to look
after you in the ether mill.'
When at last a sound came from him,
it was a bewailing whimper.
He believed, I suppose,
that we'd be woodland paupers forever.
I was looking at him
when his eye came out.
It popped from the socket,
driven by a sudden torrent of pus
from his skull.
And he reached up to grasp at his hair,
which was suddenly moss that tore
easily from his bleeding scalp."
Good heavens.
[MR. MILCHICK] "And as the pus
from his eye thickened into sap,
I turned from my gargling brother
and walked to the pool of the hollow,
where I knew the waterfall
would drown out my brother's cries."
That's actually really smart.
"And it was here that I
first encountered the temper Woe,
a gaunt bride,
half the height of a natural woman.
She spoke to me
directly from her eyes and said,
'This is your doing.
You suffered his wantonness.
Now he's no one's brother.
Only chaos's whore.'"
The end.
Perhaps in the morning,
we'll have time for the next chapter
"Kier and the Thieving Nanny."
- [HELLY] Hmm. Creepy.
- Whoa.
Did his brother really die that way,
Mr. Milchick?
The handbook enriches our work
with tales of the founder's life.
Every word is truth.
[HELLY SPUTTERS]
[LAUGHS] I'm sorry. Sorry.
Helly.
[LAUGHING CONTINUES] What?
- [MR. MILCHICK] Helly R.?
- You guys [LAUGHS]
He melted, right? [SNIFFLES]
He turned into the forest
because he masturbated.
[BOTH LAUGHING]
I mean, seriously, that's actually
the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
- [MARK LAUGHING]
- [DYLAN CHUCKLES]
Right? He jerked off
in front of his brother
and he got punished for it.
[MARK LAUGHING] Wha
You can't say that.
- [HELLY] He just said it. [LAUGHS]
- [MARK] Wha [LAUGHS] He did.
[STAMMERS] I It's It's
You know, we often laugh
at what we don't understand.
The team I thought I knew
would have processed more thoughtfully.
Miss Huang.
The marshmallows, please.
Throw them in the fire.
- [GASPS] Mr. Milchick, come on.
- [HELLY SCOFFS]
Now, Miss Huang.
- [HELLY, LAUGHING] Oh, my
- [MARK GASPS]
Why?
Marshmallows are for team players,
Dylan.
They don't just hand them out.
What?
Good night.
Wow.
- [MARK] Oh, my God.
- [HELLY LAUGHS]
Hey, what do you think
his dick turned into?
[LAUGHING]
[DYLAN CHUCKLES]
It isn't funny.
- Oh, I don't know. It's pretty funny.
- [HELLY LAUGHS]
- [IRVING] Well, it's not.
- Okay.
And stop making goo-goo eyes at her.
- [LAUGHS] I'm not.
- [LAUGHS] Stop.
- "Goo-goo eyes"?
- [HELLY LAUGHS]
Just tell us, Helly.
[SCOFFS] What?
[MARK] Come on. Tell us.
[HELLY LAUGHING] Tell us what?
Just tell us about him.
Who?
The night gardener.
Oh, Irv, come on.
Did he have a flashlight? Hmm?
What was he wearing?
What is your deal right now, dude?
What color was his shirt?
Did he have on a vest?
- A luminescent vest? Tell us
- Okay.
- exactly what he was wear
- Irving. Th-That's enough.
- Enough?
- Yeah.
Using your pupils to make love to her
while your outie's wife
rots away somewhere.
Hey, shut up.
Yeah. Fuck you, Irv.
Oh, so it's three against one now, huh?
It's okay.
We all know Irving's upset
because he can't ever see Burt again.
And he's really lonely.
[MARK] Hey, Irv.
[IRVING] Fuck you all.
[MATERIAL RUSTLING]
Uh, probably a carrot.
What?
Dieter's penis.
[HELLY SCOFFS]
Yeah, or some other root vegetable.
[SIGHS]
That was mean of me
to say that to Irving.
[SIGHS]
I mean
[SIGHS] he kind of deserved it.
And I can make goo-goo eyes
at anyone I want.
Are you okay?
Sorry if I'm distracting you from
From what?
From looking for your wife.
Hey, it's okay.
I know we'll find her,
and you've already helped so much.
I have?
[MARK] Yeah.
Okay.
[KISSING]
[MOANING, BREATHING HEAVILY]
Mr. Milchick!
[IRVING] Mr. Milchick!
Miss Huang!
Mr. Milchick!
[HELLY BREATHING HEAVILY]
Miss Huang!
[HEAVY BREATHING CONTINUES]
[GRUNTING]
[HELLY, MARK MOANING]
Mr. Milchick!
[GROANING]
[GROANS]
[PANTING]
[GRUNTING, GROANING]
I didn't like who I was on the outside.
I was ashamed.
Who were you?
I don't care who you are out there.
I care who you are with me.
That's all.
Okay?
[MARK GASPS, BREATHES SHAKILY]
Are you okay?
[BREATHES SHAKILY, GRUNTS]
What happened?
Are you okay?
Yeah.
Okay.
[SCUTTLING]
[TYPING]
[TYPING INTENSIFIES]
[HISSES]
[GASPS, BREATHING SHAKILY]
[PANTING]
[PANTING]
Helly?
Helly?
Hey, where's Helly?
I don't know. Irv never came back
last night, and he's not in his tent.
What?
Mr. Milchick?
Helly!
Mr. Milchick!
[MR. MILCHICK] Mark.
Mark. Dylan, what's happened?
Helly and Irv are missing.
What the fuck is going on?
Hey, kid.
Irving.
[IRVING] What are you doing down here?
Hmm?
What are you doing down here?
[IRVING] I slept outside.
I almost froze to death.
What you said to me last night,
it was cruel.
Helly was never cruel.
I'm right here.
So if you're not her
then who are you?
Who would have the power to send
their outie to the severed floor?
Hmm?
I'm sorry.
- [GRUNTS]
- [GROANS] No! Irving!
[HELLY BREATHES SHARPLY]
Mr. Milchick!
- [HELLY] No. No!
- [IRVING GRUNTING] Come on.
- [HELLY] No!
- [IRVING STRAINING]
- Irving. Stop. Irving, no.
- Mr. Milchick!
- Please, stop.
- [IRVING GROANS]
Help!
- [IRVING] Mr. Milchick!
- [HELLY] No!
[MR. MILCHICK] Irving?
[IRVING] Mr. Milchick!
[MR. MILCHICK] Irving!
Mr. Milchick!
- Come!
- [HELLY] Mark!
[IRVING] Mr. Milchick!
Mr. Milchick!
- [HELLY] Mark!
- [MARK] Helly!
- Turn her back, Mr. Milchick!
- [HELLY] Help!
What are you doing, man?
- Turn her back!
- Irv, what the fuck?
- [HELLY SCREAMS]
- She's an outie!
[HELLY SCREAMS]
- Hey! Irving, stop it!
- Hey! Irv, cut it out!
- Stop!
- She's been an outie the whole time,
ever since she came back!
- Irving, you stop now!
- [MARK] Stop it!
- [MR. MILCHICK] Irving, stop this!
- [SHRIEKS]
She's a fucking mole!
What are you doing?
- [MR. MILCHICK] Irving!
- I'm gonna kill her, Mr. Milchick!
- [HELLY SCREAMING]
- [IRVING SHOUTS]
[MR. MILCHICK] Irving! Irving! Irving!
[MR. MILCHICK] Stop! Stop this!
- [GROANS] She's not Helly!
- [HELLY GASPS, PANTING]
She's an Eagan!
Turn her back, Mr. Milchick!
Turn her back!
Goddamn it, Seth, do it!
Yes! Do it, Seth!
[MARK] Hey!
[SCREAMS]
It's Milchick.
Remove the Glasgow block now.
[GROANING]
[SCREAMS]
Now!
[ELEVATOR DINGS]
[IRVING GRUNTS]
[HELLY GASPING, COUGHING]
- [HELLY WHIMPERS, GASPS]
- I'm sorry.
- I'm s so sorry, Helly.
- [HELLY COUGHS]
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
What's happening? [GASPS]
[PANTS]
Helly!
[BREATHING SHAKILY, COUGHING]
I'm sorry, Helly.
[MARK SNIFFS]
[HELLY BREATHES SHAKILY]
Irving B., stand.
You have threatened collegial murder
in the pond of Woe's Hollow.
For this, there can be no penalty
but immediate and permanent dismissal.
There shall be no formal valediction,
catered or otherwise.
Your outie will be notified forthwith.
Irv! I'm sorry!
I should have listened!
It's okay. It's all okay.
Just remember, hang in there.
Please refrain from any further speech,
as you are no longer authorized
to consort with any severed employee,
nor they with you.
Leave him alone!
Turn around!
[DYLAN] Leave him alone!
[PANTING]
Walk into the forest.
Your workspace will be cleared
and any personal items discarded.
Your file, including any
and all professional interactions
and personal relations,
will be purged and destroyed.
It will be as if you, Irving B.,
never even existed
nor drew a single
breath upon this Earth.
May Kier's mercy follow you
into the eternal dark.
Now.