In Severance Season 2 Episode 9, as Outie Mark is in a race against time, we’re introduced to yet another new place: Soil Hill. Warning: spoilers ahead!
The latest chapter of the Apple TV+ series sets up an epic finale. It doesn’t look like Asal Reghabi’s chip flooding has worked (all it did was send Mark into a momentary coma), and so Devon enacts a new plan.
They decide to team up with an unexpected ally in Ms Cobel (who we found out in Episode 8 was the inventor of the severance procedure). Together, they head to the Damona Birthing Retreat to try and activate Mark’s chip so he can communicate with his Innie.
But they need to buy some time. Drummond’s piling the pressure on Milchick to get Mark back to finish Cold Harbor, which at this stage is 96% complete. And so Cobel tells him to call in sick.
Is Soil Hill a real place?
Mark tells Milchick he’s gone to “a clinic in Soil Hill” to have his nosebleeds checked out, but this doesn’t appear to be based on a real place in the US.
There is a Soil Hill in West Yorkshire, UK, but it’s a little known birdwatching site and has no connection to the world of Severance.
It’s the first time this location has been mentioned in the TV show, meaning all we know about it at this stage is that it’s located in or around Kier, PE, the town where the series is set.
Similar questions arose after Season 2 Episode 3 when we were introduced to Salt’s Neck, and in Episode 8 we learned more about the place: it’s where Cobel grew up.
Not only that, but Salt’s Neck has been ravaged by a drug epidemic after Lumon set up one of its ether factories there before jumping ship for pastures new.
We can assume Soil Hill is close enough to the Lumon headquarters, but not so much that Milchick would be able to get to it quickly (Mark needs him to be as far away as possible right now).
Since there’s only one episode of Severance Season 2 left, it’s unlikely we’ll be heading to Soil Hill – it seems to be just a passing comment (for now, at least, but Season 3 is on the way).
What does chicanery mean?
Apple TV+Before calling Milchick, Cobel warns Mark that he needs to come up with a convincing excuse for why he won’t be at work that day. “If he smells chicanery, he’ll lock you out of the building,” she says.
The vocabulary in Severance is unique, so don’t feel bad if you don’t know what it means. Chicanery is the use of deception to achieve a purpose – you could replace it with words like deception or trickery.
For more explainers on the unique language of the show, read about what “fetid moppet” and “remedium hominibus” mean.
Also, make sure you know when the next episode drops with our guide to the Severance Season 2 release schedule, and check out our guides on the Glasgow Block and the Lexington Letter.
Source link
