A major theory has emerged from Severance Season 2: fans think Helly is going to fall pregnant with Mark’s baby, and after Episode 6, it looks like it could be true.
Severance still needs to answer a lot of questions; what is going on with Cold Harbor, and where does the elevator in the Exports Hall go?
Episode 6 doesn’t give us many answers (aside from a tidbit about Miss Huang). However, it does ratchet up the tension between Mark and Helena – for their Innies and Outies in very different ways. In short, Mark has sex with Helly (after he slept with Helena), and Mark’s Outie meets Helena for the first time. It’s romantic… and then it’s weird.
After the ORTBO, fans became convinced that Helly was pregnant. The show hasn’t confirmed this, but plenty of evidence suggests that’s where the story is going.
Why Helly could be pregnant in Severance
Mark and Helly have slept together twice in Severance Season 2 (or more accurately, Mark’s Innie has had sex with Helly and Helena). In a practical sense, it’s unclear if they used protection – but more importantly, a pregnancy subplot for Helly/Helena seems like the logical next step.
It’s becoming clear that Helena craves real attention. At the start of the season, we saw her re-watching the clip of Helly kissing Mark, and she impersonated her Innie until she was exposed at the ORTBO, where she initiated sex with his Innie.
It could be that simple: she’s grown up in a cult-like corporation starved of affection, constantly trying to “balance her tempers”, and a baby could finally liberate her from their control. Or, more sinisterly, it could be part of Lumon’s grand plan to reincarnate Kier; Helena as the “child of his blood” and Mark as the “child of his industry.”
Beyond the clues (we’ll get to those in a minute), despite being widely predicted, it’d also be a jaw-dropping turning point in Mark’s arc. He’s just found out that his wife is still alive, and now he may have unwittingly impregnated another woman, who happens to be a head honcho of the company that ruined his life – that’s deeply twisted (and brilliant) storytelling.
Every clue that Helly is pregnant
It’s not just the fact they’ve had sex. If you’ve been watching closely, Severance Season 2 has dropped several hints that Helly/Helena will eventually be pregnant with Mark’s baby – here’s what you may have missed:
Severance Season 2’s opening credits
Two shots in the opening credits of Severance Season 2 involve babies. The first shot shows Mark in bed surrounded by babies wearing suits, and right at the end, a baby with Kier Eagan’s head crawls through the snow at his feet.
The implications are obvious. In the first shot, it’s Mark’s Outie who wakes up with babies all around him – he doesn’t know how or why they’re there, just like how he’s unaware of his Innie sleeping with Helly and Helena.
The second one is a more overt hint, given it’s a baby that looks exactly like Kier Eagan. Also, the snow could be another clue, given the child may have been conceived at Woe’s Hollow.
Pregnancy isn’t unprecedented in Severance
Apple TV+Pregnancy within Lumon came up twice in Severance Season 1. In Episode 3, there’s a brief scene of Natalie speaking to a news anchor, who asks her, “But what do you say to the woman who became pregnant at work less than a month after her company went severed?”
We aren’t told anything else about her; her name, her department, or whether or not she still works at Lumon.
Secondly, we discover that Gabby Arteta, the wife of Senator Angelo Arteta – both of whom are patrons of Lumon Industries – was severed so she could avoid the pain of childbirth.
Kier Eagan’s mythology
Apple TV+Helena falling in love with Mark’s Innie and having a baby with him wouldn’t be seen as crossing any lines in the eyes of Kier Eagan, if you consider one passage in Lumon’s Compliance Handbook.
“Endow in each swing of your axe or swipe of your pen the sum of your affections, that through me they may be purified and returned. No higher purpose may be found than this. Nor any higher love…This, after all, is the ultimate recompense for your labor,” he wrote.
“No monetary wage that I may give you can surmount the benefit of the pure love which can only exist between a worker and his employer. It is the only kind of truly selfless love.”
There’s one bit you should pay attention to: “the pure love which can only exist between a worker and his employer.” Considering Helena is both worker and “child of Kier’s blood”, he’d probably support a relationship with Mark.
Woe’s Hollow
Apple TV+During the ORTBO, Helena angered Milchick by making fun of the fourth appendix. She believed the story of Dieter’s death essentially boiled down to him masturbating in front of his mother – or as Milchick put it, “spilling his lineage upon the soil.”
Unlike Dieter, Helena may have preserved the Eagan lineage by conceiving a child on hallowed ground. That may have been intentional, or perhaps it’s coincidental – but it’s a notable setting for Helena and Mark’s first time sleeping together.
Jame Eagan may want another heir
Apple TV+One thing is clear in Severance Season 2: Jame Eagan isn’t particularly proud of Helena, and she wants her father’s approval (much like Shiv Roy and Logan Roy).
She’s in line to take over Lumon after Jame kicks the bucket (unless Mr Drummond is her brother, but that hasn’t been confirmed), but what if he’s been steering her towards a baby with Mark so he can groom another heir?
At the end of Season 1, he tells her, “One day, you will sit with me at my revolving.” It’s another atypical use of language, but that suggests a passing of the torch. After her Innie’s outburst on the stage, he may not see her as a suitable successor – particularly after he called her a “fetid moppet.”
You can find out when the next episode drops with our guide to the Severance Season 2 release schedule and read more about when Severance takes place, the Lexington Letter, and the Glasgow Block.
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