This message contains spoilers For season 2, episode 4, “Woe’s Hollow”.

In “Severance”, the founder of the shadow of Lumon Industries Kier Eagan is looming on the cut floorEven if the man has been dead for a long time. The name of Kier is spoken with reverence since Lumon works on his fundamental values ​​and his beliefs to date and reframe the ethics of the workplace through the objective of his teachings. Episode 4 of the second season of the show, entitled “Hollow’s Hollow”, deepened in Kier Eagan Lore by revealing extracts from his personal life to the Microdata refinement team (MDR) during an unusual foreign retirement. This outing, nicknamed Outdoor Retreat Team Building Oc Competition (ORTBO), completely modifies the status quo between the MDR Innies, namely Mark (Adam Scott), Helly (Britt Lower), Irving (John Turturro) and Dylan (Zach Cherry). Note, this is not an ordinary team consolidation exercise, because the “sacred” texts of Kier Eagan are at the center of the tragedy that swallows the MDR team, which will never be the same after the end of This episode.

After the four Innies MDR woke up near a snowy forest, the Ever-Eeroire and the constraints of Mr. Milchick (Tramell Tillman) send them to their first quest for fetch outdoors. He begins by explaining the objective of ORTBO: Learn more about Annex IV less known to Kier Eagan, who mentions his twin brother, Dieter. This is a shock for everyone, because Dieter does not exist in the official Eagan line that Lumon employees know. The National Forest of Dieter Eagan – The retirement site – houses this fourth annex prohibited inside the scissor cave, where MDR must venture and recover the said newspaper. Once they have taken the hand in Kier’s newspaper, we discover his twin diet lost for a long time and how the two went to a waterfall nestled against a cliff. This paradise on the side of the cliff, Hollow, hollow, hides uncompromising secrets on the legacy of Eagan and raises confusing questions on the Lumon foundation.

Let us dive into the possible interpretations of the bizarre fire tale on Dieter Eagan and the mysterious fourth annex of Kier.

The episode plays in the motif of duality during the series by placing the double of each member of the MDR team as guides, which resemble doppelgängers bancaux pointing their fingers towards Sissor Cave. Kier’s fourth appendix says that Dieter took him to a trip to Honey’s Hollow, when he thought he was living together in the forest as poor and never returning home. Kier (quite suddenly) describes the act of masturbation of his brother when it was released in obtuse verses, noting how he “became an instrument of nature” and “overthrew his line on the ground”. Milchick reads the rest of the story near a fire of joy, relaying how Kier’s brother melted grotally before him after this act, apparently punished for his “casualness” to become the “whore of chaos”. An entity that Kier describes as an emaciated bride appears apparently after Dieter’s death and confirms this hypothesis. Kier survives this misfortune entity, one of the four templers.

Now it is natural to be confused by this strange little story, because it is indeed weird. Helly laughs, shedding light on the ridiculous premise, while IRVING seriously asks Milchick if Dieter really existed. Although Milchick insists that all Kier’s words are true, it is unlikely that Dieter was punished by a cosmic entity to defile the land of the forest. This could simply be an allegorical story referring to the death of the Kier’s alter ego (which extends to the concept of oneself cut off) or a veiled murder admission which is justified through fantastic elements. Or maybe this did Performing in the context of a spoiled surreal surreal experience that Eagans have perfected for decades.

It is crucial to note that Kier identifies Hollow of Woe as the physical space where he “encountered” the Tempe Woe, which is part of his philosophical framework which helped establish Lumon. Kier believed that humans are made up of four temperatures – misfortune, gambas, frightening and malicious – and that in taming each, they can master self -control and even take control of the world.

But what does that mean in the context of Lumon’s wider image?

Intense and meticulous theories on the four temperatures already exist, but the last episode claims that there is something darker in play here than what we initially imagined. The Hlow’s Hollow Dieter incident could be a horribly painful event that induced sorrow in Kier, manifesting himself as the emaciated bride whom he meets there for the first time. The other temperatures (mess, terror and wickedness) had to manifest elsewhere along the line, because the goal of Kier was to tame them – and he did it, As illustrated in the painting “Kier Taming the Four Tempers”. In addition, its basic guidelines urge each Lumon employee to do the same, because he wishes to transmit this “great consecrated power” to them.

I am inclined to believe that temperament entities do not In fact Manifesto, but are psychological constructions used to help Lumon employees tame these four emotions until they are “ready” for the next step. This next step could be caused by the completion of the individual file of an employee coupé, who, in the case of Mark, could be the Cold Harbor file referenced several times. It is also interesting that the templers are directly coded in the four categories of MDR file numbers:

• Wo For misfortune (green)

• Fc For FROLIC (yellow)

• DR For dread (red)

• Mame For wickedness (blue)

Each digital set arouses the emotion associated with them, and I believe that MDR must “balance” the four temperatures by bringing them together correctly and filling their respective files. This is linked to the disturbing nightmare of Irving about the unhappiness entity haunting it while the file numbers swirled in a disturbing manner on the Lumon computer screens. I also think that Irving’s sorrow (misfortune) to the loss of Innie Burt (Christopher Walken) played strongly in the events which lead to the apparently permanent end of his cut ego. After all, his misfortune spirit makes him hyperaware of everyone’s behavior, including Helena Eagan, who pretended to be Helly from the start.

Now that IRVING has gone and that Helena has been extinguished as a mole, MDR will never be the same again. Things have never been darker, but When has the “dismissal” already been on the joys of existence?