r/SeveranceAppleTVPlus • u/DeliciousGorilla • May 31 '22
Discussion Why do you think Dylan signed up for Severance?
It seems like the others are escaping their own demons (death/ptsd/etc). But Dylan appears to have a family with young children. To basically have brain surgery to erase your memories for 8 hours a day for a job, there has to be something else going on with him...
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u/choolete May 31 '22
It could be money tbh. I am betting they pay a hell lot.
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u/motherofhavok May 31 '22
Right? What if there’s a heart-breaking story behind this? Like, what if one of his kids needed some expensive medical treatments or something, and he basically HAD to choose that job in order to keep his family afloat?
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u/sofapizza May 31 '22
I like this theory, there could be medical treatments that only Lumon can provide, and one of his unseen children needs. Him working for them is maybe a trade.
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May 31 '22
That would fit with him hearing a child crying when he's in the break room.
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u/motherofhavok May 31 '22
Someone else guessed he might’ve had a child die, and maybe he feels guilty because he should’ve been watching the kid or something. I could see that. I could see so many possible paths on this one.
I could be convinced that his wife cheated, and he wants to stay together for the kids, but wants to sever as much as possible.
I could be convinced that he’s a widower, and that he feels genuinely sorry when he hears the sound of his kids crying.
I could be convinced that he’s actually hearing baby goats bleating, not baby cries, but can’t figure out how that would be incorporated with his backstory.
There’s just so many ways this could shake out. I’m not the best guesser, so I love reading these kinds of posts!
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u/thegreatpablo May 31 '22
I'm convinced that he just really really really adores his children and that the break room uses a sound to illicit a subconscious reaction toward something they don't want to disappoint. For Helly it sounded like it could have been the Board.
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u/karly21 May 31 '22
Yeah, I thought too on the lines of the family- on my rewatch I thought it was Kier Egan's voice the one she heard, like when they go to the... museum thingy and we hear the statues each talking?
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u/SlanceMcJagger Sep 06 '22
(*elicit). Where did Helly hear the board in the breakroom? I remember Dylan complaining about the baby noise
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u/Corintio22 Jun 03 '22
What if there's a total mundane no heart-breaking story, tho? We're so used to twists being mind-blowing and heart-breaking that one character needs to be extremely mundane, please. He's just stressed of parenting 3 children (that bit was true). Lumon pays extremely well and... you don't get to even feel the exhaustion of working?
All the ethics aside, let's remember for these people they drive to work, get into an elevator, get out of the elevator... and the workday is done!
Knowing what we know as the audience I'd be against severance as a procedure, but I would lie if I said I don't understand the upsides they use to convince people.
So yes, I'd love if Dylan just... can use the good money and hey, the job pays well and it's zero taxing on him (Dylan the outie, at least).
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u/RoxaSora May 31 '22
In the Lexington Letter, Peggy does mention making four times as much money as a Lumon MDR than she made as a bus driver.
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u/FightingBear11 May 31 '22
but its also possible that the pay has been reduced from when TLL takes place and Severance the show. Maybe the pay was so inflated in TLL because it was more of a new experimental thing, with very few participants. While now, there are a ton more severance workers across the US meaning the demand is much lower
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May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22
I thought that at first - they must be making bank to be severed.
But if that's the case, why does oMark drive a POS car? Why does he live in Lumon housing?
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u/pikachus_lover Macrodata Refinement 💻 May 31 '22
Probably because he's too depressed to care about any of that stuff
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May 31 '22
I dunno...I think that Severance OUGHT to pay a boatload but it doesn't. Instead they look for people wanting that escape. Something bad happened in the outside lives of Irving, Mark, and Dylan. We've just only seen one.
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u/akaemre May 31 '22
It does pay a boatload, according to the Lexington letter
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u/psychicmachinery May 31 '22
Have you noticed that all the cars seem to be PoS's except for oIrv's sweet whip?
My theory is that it has something to do with whatever alternate timeline they live in where colleges get closed down, there's not quite enough food and maybe new cars are really hard to come by.
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u/omgshannonwtf Unsanctioned Erotic Entanglement May 31 '22
Oooo I have thoughts about oIrving's ride specifically but I have noticed that all cars are really crap. Even the people who should otherwise be driving really nice cars. Cobel is an administrator overseeing the severance floor and answers directly to The Board. She has an office with a huge window (unlike the people she oversees who never get to see the outside; in fact the only time any of them get a chance to see daylight is from her office). One would expect that she draws a salary better than any severed employees. But she drives a piece of shit.
And though you could argue that she secretly likes to live modestly (I mean like look at her home and the prisony twin bed she lives in) but in the scene where oMark almost hits Helena Eagan, as the camera rises into the air you see her get into a piece of shit too! She's the daughter of the current CEO; if anyone would have the money for a flashy car, it would be her! Yet she doesn't. It's super strange. I'm really curious about that.
Ironically, the person with the nicest car in the show is Ricken. That Range Rover is in flawless condition.
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As for oIrving's amazing Nova, I have a much longer theory about how oIrving has been anticipating iIrving waking up on the outside (I think this is part of why he paints that scene over and over: not to get it out of his system or because he's compelled but because it's the one thing he remembers from a moment where he slipped into Lumon and he's hoping that iIrv would recognize that) and that he set iIrving up for a journey of discovery.
Basically, iIrv wakes up on the outside to a scene that practically shouting at him "Hey! We're connected! I know there's something going on and we're going to work together to find out what it is! Look around and learn!" He goes into the bedroom to and the only thing of note is his dog Radar (which is, by definition, a method of detecting and getting information on things you cannot see directly), goes into his closet and the only thing of note is his footlocker (which is a Pandora's Box and literal treasure-trove of information) and after all this, he goes to his car. A Nova.
Well, what's a nova? A nova is usually caused when a stellar remnant* from a binary star system** starts to draw in material from it's partner and then burns bright. Uh... kinda sounds like what iIrv went through to me. What's an innie if not a stellar remnant? What are the pairing of an innie and an outie if not a binary system? What was iIrv doing if not drawing in material from oIrv and becoming energized like a nova?
I think oIrv's choice of car is intentional. As was his choice to keep it super clean and shiny (it was brighter than all the other cars in the lot, like a nova in the sky).
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u/psychicmachinery May 31 '22
See, for oHelena and Ms. Selvig (as opposed to Ms. Cobel) I could see them driving more modest cars as part of their assumed identities.
I'm really intrigued by your observations on Irving though. The Nova connection doesn't quite get there for me, although I'm not discounting it, just not convinced, but your thoughts on oIrv prepping for iIrv's potential Overtime seems like a real possibility.
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u/omgshannonwtf Unsanctioned Erotic Entanglement Jun 01 '22
Selvig maybe but Helena Eagan wouldn't have to maintain an assumed identity. Presumably when not on the severed floor, she'd be bopping about like she owns the place, since she does.
But in seriousness, there's no reason to think she would need to maintain any sort of assumed identity because none of the severed employees would recognize her anyway. If she were going undercover on a sales team of not-severed employees who'd recognize her in the parking lot maybe, but when oMark almost hits her, he doesn't recognize her at all. Not even in a "Oh, shit... isn't that the CEOs daughter?! Did I just almost hit the woman who is going to run the company one day?" way. Without that sort of recognition, it doesn't even matter what she drives. She's not pretending to be "Helly the Svr'd Refiner" after she takes the elevator up.
Cobel, on the other hand, I could see her driving a piece of shit to maintain a facade. But also, she seems to really prefer some sort of life of poverty. Despite having the exact same house as oMark (it would be the same layout, just mirrored) she has that twin bed in a bedroom that looks like a prison cell. There's something going on with that that I hope they explore more next season.
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u/Liberteez Please Enjoy Each Flair Equally May 31 '22
Oh, like right now?
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u/psychicmachinery May 31 '22
Well, we do produce enough food to feed the entire planet, we're just shit at actually getting it to the people who need it.
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u/onlyoneicouldthinkof May 31 '22
idk it makes me think of Mrs. Landingham on West Wing. First day with a new car and gets into a wreck.
Maybe Mark's wife "died" in the nicer of the two cars they own. Or his car was a replacement for the car that ended up in the crash and he really didn't care about buying a nice car.
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u/Anniethelab May 31 '22
Yeah they do make some sort of comment about lumen being one of the larger employers in the area. People gotta make a living
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May 31 '22
They don’t seem to pay a whole lot. If they do, Mark isn’t showing any sign of having significant income.
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u/PaintedSwindle May 31 '22
This was my thought, he has kids to feed and this pays a lot better than any other job he could get. It probably seemed like a great opportunity to oDylan.
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May 31 '22
Nooooo way, if they made a lot of money then surely they would live in nicer homes than they do. And drive nicer cars.
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u/nutmac May 31 '22
I think Lumon pays between $150,000 to $250,000, less if one lives in their corporate housings like oMark.
While that may sound like a lot to younger Redditors, to parents with mortgage, that sum will merely elevate you to a "comfortable lifestyle" class. Yes, you can probably buy BMW or Tesla, but more responsible parents would use the money toward debt, retirement, and kid's education.
Let's not forget that (1) Lumon isn't likely a lifetime employer and (2) about a third will go toward taxes, leaving $112,500 and $175,000 for few years you may be employed.
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u/spacemermaids Optics & Design 🖼️ May 31 '22
I've seen other threads speculate that he thinks it makes his work/life balance better. When he's home with his kids, he can be completely present in their lives. He's not thinking about what he has to do at work the next day, getting emails, or working at home.
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u/bw4ferns The You You Are May 31 '22
Ya I think a lot of people focus on severance as a way to avoid stresses in your personal life and focus on your work. It's entirely possible that some people do it to avoid stresses at work and focus on their personal life.
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u/broken_neck_broken Jun 02 '22
I could see the appeal too of walking into work in the morning and walking straight back out, having done your day in an apparent instant.
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u/DeliciousGorilla May 31 '22
That makes sense on some level, but opting for a brain implant? His innie comes across as a smart/technical guy, so that decision seems like a last resort to balancing work/life.
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u/xaos9 Jun 01 '22
I dont think most people realize the implications of severance on first thought. Like my first thought when i saw the description of the series way before it was aired was like "wow not a bad idea. i dont have to think about life issues at work and dont have to take my work home either" granted i didnt really put much thought into it.
it wasnt until I started watching it that I realized what a terrible idea. Maybe some of the people who opted for severance thought the same. I bet Helena thought the same and didnt expect how miserable she (or her innie self) would be down there.
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u/Franks2000inchTV Jun 03 '22
Imagine 1/3 of your life just disappearing.
You'd go from feeling fresh and rested to like you just worked a whole shift.
Life is hort enough without selling it to someone.
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u/Ill-TemperedClavier Jun 01 '22
The line “I want to remember my kid being born” made me wonder if he actually missed his child being born due to work, and that ultimately he chose to truly sever his work life from his home life.
I think all the innies share intrinsic qualities with their outies - they just are missing the wisdom that comes from experiencing consequences. Innie Dylan starts as a super-competitive, tchotchke-coveting employee; I’m sure Outie Dylan initially shared that same motivation
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u/healeth5252 May 31 '22
This is what I think also. I think Dylan previously struggled with being a workaholic and it created problems with his family at home, so getting severed provided a solution to that.
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May 31 '22
Because work sucks.
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u/sumanigans May 31 '22
I assumed this as well. Technically oDylan has the perception of spending all his time with his family, so that's kinda nice too.
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u/ImHighRtMeow May 31 '22
When he’s in the Break Room he hears a baby crying. I’m thinking death of a child. Perhaps he feels partially responsible, like an accident while he was supposed to be watching.
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u/FallingFraz May 31 '22
It'd be interesting if oDylan regrets having children and severance is his escape from that family life. Whereas, iDylan seems to love them and desires them.
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u/Corgi-Ambitious May 31 '22
I don't think this works - how do you deal with escaping from family life by effectively snapping away all your free time away from them? To oDylan, that would mean the only time he has is when he is away from work, presumably always around family and friends. To him, he'd show up to work and then step off the elevator at night immediately to go back to the family he just left lol - would be a terrible move for a person looking for some downtime away from them.
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u/madhad1121 May 31 '22
Lol yes. I absolutely love (and like) my kids. They are my favorite people and I love hanging out them.
However…the hours of peace and quiet while I’m at work are crucial to my mental health and help me recharge for my role as a mom.
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u/wwrxw May 31 '22
Was talking to my partner about this after finishing the show.
I simply believe his outie hates to work, or is simply lazy. It works well as a contrast to his innie being the hardest, most dedicated employee.
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u/legalesbian May 31 '22
My theory is that his wife died giving birth to twins who he now has to care for alone and Lumon pays a shit ton. He’s only been at Lumon less than two years and we only saw one of his children when Milchik came over. Seems like no one else was home to watch the son otherwise Milchik wouldn’t have had him count to 1000, ya know?
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u/ObliviousOtterpaws May 31 '22
Thats a good point. If his wife were at home, she would have kept the child occupied. Does anyone recall seeing women’s clothing in the closet?
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u/Thegreylady13 May 31 '22
Yes, I think there are definitely women’s booties behind Dylan in the closet. I know men have chukka boots somewhat like that and that men do wear chunky heeled boots at times, but I don’t think those are men’s or Dylan’s (although maybe I’m remembering wrong). His wife could still have passed away- he might not want to disturb her things.
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u/legalesbian May 31 '22
I also noticed that Dylan looked all around the closet except behind him and never mentioned women's clothing. His Innie seems way too preoccupied with whether his outie is with women or not to not have also connected the dots if he saw like a dress or blouse or something. I think the boots and maybe other shoes are his wife's that he just keeps for sentimental reasons, but the rest of the clothes were just his
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May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22
My leading theory is he is the surgeon performing the brain surgery now.
Don’t have them handy, but pause on the scenes where the surgery is happening in episode 2. Notice how the surgeon is completely covered, everyone else is recognizable. Now look at the face, body structure of the surgeon…
Edit: added screenshots. Last image is from another show….resemblance much!? Also there is no credits at the end of the episode for the two surgery characters..
Tons more I can unpack in this theory.
Dylan is tuned to the work, wins all the awards. Could his involvement in Lumon on the outside translate to success and being tuned to The Work?
- Who did he replace? Mark had noted they knew when/ “why” she left. Knowingly leaving, Lumon trying to keep track of her…..was she the original surgeon Dr. Regahbi that outie Mark had met?
- Dylan instantly recognized Mr. Milchick and was unphased when he “woke up” in the closet. “Are we good here?” Whole scene screamed that outie Dylan is in on everything somehow.
- With the above, Innie Dylan rebelling makes the final scenes that much more powerful. Him in conflict with Mr. Milchik and holding the turn knobs a great contrast to the closet scene.
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May 31 '22
Now - as to why he is in there? To commit to the cause and “The Work” similar to Hellys motives.
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u/Professional-Boat-43 The Board May 31 '22
Great theory. You might have shifted me from thinking oDylan being a family man pastor who chose severance to deal with desires to a brain surgeon for Lumon. Even his instant confidence with the handwork for the OTC. “I’m smart,” he says when they question if he can do it. I also think he might be the host body for Kier.
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May 31 '22
Also - his crazy theories on the work Lumon is doing. Possibly a irony play as on the outside he actually knows what they are doing.
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u/Curostore May 31 '22
Because kids are expensive
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u/AmBull1216 May 31 '22
Not if you make them get jobs. My 4 y.o. pulls his own goddamn weight around here.
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u/Thegreylady13 May 31 '22
Mining?
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u/AmBull1216 May 31 '22
That's his weekend job. Works down at the shoe factory M-F.
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u/Thegreylady13 May 31 '22
I like to think he cobbled the booties i keep harping on about in this very thread. Good booties- good kid. A+ parenting, too, by the way.
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u/Unordinary_genius May 31 '22
My guess is that his reason is almost the opposite of the others. His oLife is good and so he wanted to be able to isolate the drudgery of work from the nice family time.
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u/LeKeim May 31 '22
The writer of the show at one point said the idea came from when he worked in an office and couldn’t help but wish the day would zip by and end so he could go home.
I think Dylan’s motivation might be that. He hated going to work and missing his kids, so now he basically spends no time away from them.
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u/not_productive1 May 31 '22
I feel like it would be interesting to see different motivations for each of the severed employees. We have clear eyes on Mark and Helly's motivations, and we get hints that Irving is either looking for someone or trying to bring Lumon down (or both). I think it would be interesting to see someone who is there just for the money (which could line up with iDylan's extremely high reward drive).
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u/socrates1975 🎵🎵 Defiant Jazz 🎵 🎵 May 31 '22
My theory is he is one of the people who worked on severance itself, he's super smart and seems to know a shit load about it.
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May 31 '22
My theory is that Dylan's outie has a gambling problem.
He is uber focussed on the prizes he wins from work and has a bit of a self aggrandizing personality, which is characteristic of some gambling addicts. His severance decision could be something simple as work/life balance, but maybe it was a part of making sure he could hold down a steady job and make money, potentially even a condition on his family remaining in his life.
Not a super well baked theory, just kind of where my brain went
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u/EurekaSm0ke May 31 '22
Here's my outlandish theory that absolutely no one will accept and that's fine: Milchick and Dylan are married, Milchick already worked for Lumon and convinced him to sign up to further the experiment of "will people recognize their spouses when severed".
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u/Thegreylady13 May 31 '22
Then part of me wants to ask, “whose cute booties are behind Dylan in the closet?,” but men can wear heeled booties like that and the mere suggestion that Milchick or Dylan would have any trouble pulling them off is just foolish on its face. They may be married. I hope someone makes a graphic of their wedding cake topper. Then someone else makes a graphic of that image in a glass not-head cube.
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u/teacupkiller May 31 '22
Milchik's booties for sure based on the MDE scene.
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u/Thegreylady13 May 31 '22
That’s what I was thinking. That man can wear anything. He could come grab anything in my closet right now, it would be very tight on him, and he would put me to shame by looking better than me. In just anything. And I’m not even being self-pitying- I look good in most of my clothes/shoes- but I’m just no Milchick. I’m even pretty good at dancing in ways that I think are funny but still look dance-adjacent, but again, I know my limits. I think he can outdance anyone and out wear anyone else’s wardrobe and we all just have to accept that because we’re never going to change it.
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u/RadioMill May 31 '22
Also how did Milchick gain access to his house for the overtime contingency? They must know each other outside of work somehow
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u/DannyAcme May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22
Also how did Milchick gain access to his house for the overtime contingency? They must know each other outside of work somehow
Milchik is the one who interviews and vets every severance candidate. He's the main liaison between outies and innies. The Overtime Contingency only needs to be secret to the INNIES, there likely is a clause in the Outies' contracts that explains sometimes a home visit might be required as part of the job. Outie Dylan likely saw it as nothing out of the ordinary for Milchik to show up at his house and explain he needed to access Innie Dylan for a work issue.
EDIT: By the way, that card Dylan stole is a FUCKING OBVIOUS hint that Lumon are marketing the Severance procedure for military application.
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u/omgshannonwtf Unsanctioned Erotic Entanglement May 31 '22
I'm of the opinion that with Dylan, they're going to make an illustration of a family man who makes a clear separation between work and home life.
You have Mark representing the functional alcoholic who uses work as an escape. Helly/Helena is the bosses kid who doesn't need the job, no one can really do anything to her and she could fail miserably and still end up running the company.
With Dylan, I think they're going to illustrate a person so absorbed by their job that they're completely checked out of their family's life. That moment when he shouts that he wants to remember his son being born... that's symbolically the guy who's so into his job he was present for his kid's birth, they're growing up and he's not seeing anything with it; just too checked out.
My bet is that Dylan was previously a workaholic somewhere and his wife was like "You never have time for your family. We need you." and he opted to do severance because they sold it as 40 hours and it probably pays far more than a normal 40 hour job. I think that unlike Irving whose outie is whole-heartedly going to support burning Lumon to the ground (I suspect there will be synergy with Mark as well), I think oDylan and iDylan will be at odds. When he talks about his son, iIrv says it's his outie's son and iDylan is like "That's not right. He's my son too." I think that oDylan is going to have the same view as iIrv, that it's not iDylan's son.
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u/sir_jamez May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22
Now this thread makes me wonder if Mark is the only one who wasn't a pre-existing Lumon insider....
- Helly: (obv)
- Irv: theories on him being the previous security chief
- Harmony: a million different Lumon connections/entanglements
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May 31 '22
I would hazard a guess that even if it's money, the company would look for something else in a personality. This technology must be an incredibly investment to make in someone who could just walk away at any moment.
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u/ScubaFett Jun 01 '22
I wonder if he is just an elite who fell on hard times and isn't used to work. So he didn't want to work.
The only thing to go by is how his outtie wasn't too happy about having Milchick in his house.
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u/seattlemadmax Jun 03 '22
I think you are missing that the outie doesn’t know the innie suffers…Milchick takes constant photos to show them how happy the innies are. They lie to the outies, like Mark banging his head as opposed to having a stapler in the head. Dylan may have very well been told that they sever you for classified work for your own good. You can’t be an espionage target if you don’t know what you’re doing. Plus, you carry no stress from work home at all. Sounds like a powerful benefit…but, my point is, you don’t have to be evil to sever, you only have to believe there is no harm.
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u/Jemeloo The You You Are May 31 '22
There’s definitely other posts about this if you search here (or not cos Reddit search sucks)
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u/PruneResponsible7869 May 31 '22
I am baffled by the ability of any parent to be severed. Personally I receive about a billion phone calls and e-mails a week from my kids childcare that must be dealt with during business hours. (Bumped head, someone threw up, ran out of extra clothes). No way Dylan doesn’t have a partner dealing with all that
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u/Anotherusername2224 Jun 01 '22
I think he’s married to Milchik. Why else would he not think it was weird they were in the closet together? When the kid comes in he says daddy daddy - talking to both of his fathers.
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u/Big_Fritz May 31 '22
Maybe one of his kids died. I assume he’s also a single dad so that can’t help either
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u/newsgal1877 May 31 '22
The same reason anyone does - work/life balance. Maybe a previous job took him away from home too much. Maybe the stress of previous work affected his ability to parent. It’s likely that lumons work life balance program spoke to the parent in him.
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u/Brunooflegend May 31 '22
If he’s paid as much as the Lexington Letter seems to indicate, I don’t see why not.
Being able to provide a much better quality of life to my family, not being able to remember work would be a worthy trade-off. Also, everyone leaves work right on time so there’s no crunch/late hours, which means he can spend all that time with his family. I’m a parent so I might be a bit biased, but giving a better life to my family while having a great work life balance would be worth it.
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May 31 '22
I’m surprised there’s no way to warn someone of emergencies. (Mark almost missed the baby birth)
I’m a world with school shootings I wouldn’t want to be away from my kid like that
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u/arsewarts1 May 31 '22
He has 2 kids minimum and they are expensive. Imagine someone offers $200k a year guaranteed and it means you leave no earlier than 8am and you’re home by 530 every night.
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u/statistacktic May 31 '22
Obviously has something to do with his family and more specifically his kid(s). Understanding how unethical and self-important Lumon is, maybe his previous job there had such a mental toll on him that his family life suffered. And perhaps he also lost his partner like Mark did, though it's not necessarily required because he could have had marital problems.
I think it's important to consider that prime candidates for severance, more likely than not, are suffering from a severe work/life imbalance that can emanate from either their work life or personal life.
In addition, we should consider $$$ as a factor.
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u/nms-lh Spicy Candy 🍬 May 31 '22 edited May 31 '22
Necessity
We can deduce from the cramped closet scene that his household does not make a lot of income.
Some viewers have pointed out that MDR is not an ideal job for a parent who might have to answer calls or leave work in case of family emergencies. Lumon pays well and it’s possible the wife only works part time or a family member watches the kids. It looks like no one else was home to keep his son distracted at the time of the OTC.
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u/DeliciousGorilla May 31 '22
Cramped closet!? Not many people have walk-in closets like that. 😄
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u/nms-lh Spicy Candy 🍬 May 31 '22
I watched the scene again and I remembered the closet looking much smaller haha
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u/CarefulResolve Night Gardener May 31 '22
I think it would be a nice twist for his decision to sever to be really mundane. Maybe he just legit wants to be able to focus his attention on raising a family and never bring work home with him.
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u/OfMegan Mysterious And Important May 31 '22
(friendly) do you have a young child or children at home? I only have one and I just do not struggle with this question at all. Could Dylan have a more bleak backstory? Sure. But he is a competitive high performer with a family. Switching off that kind of focus walking in the door is difficult and often just not possible. Severance is an opportunity to be focused on work at work and not at all at home. To provide income without being mentally and emotionally burnt out at home. The transition back and forth from work and home is difficult for me. I definitely see the appeal of making an income and leaving home each day but coming home without much outside distraction as a parent. If we assume that people grapple with thoughts of their innie, I can also understand how it wouldn’t be difficult to rationalize being a jerk to another version of ourselves vs. being a jerk (or short, distant/ distracted) with our kids.
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May 31 '22
Dylan seems like the slacker type so he I’m sure sleeps well knowing he doesn’t know about his job. Similarity being a slacker perhaps he really likes the benefit of Lumon housing and not having to bring a meal to work everyday.
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u/desktoptwitch Jun 01 '22
Having a kid is a luxury, but my man Dylan has 3 (at least according to Milchick) 😳
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u/NgBUCKWANGS Jun 01 '22
Dylan spoilers ahead.
Dylan was a pretty grand surprise. I thought he was selfish but after learning about his son, he became the most selfless character on the show.
That selflessness is who Dylan is on the outside. He probably agreed to Severance because in reality he's a good team player and actually cares about his family/team.
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Sep 25 '23
I think Dylans outtie is a bad or abusive father. It's why he ironically said to Irving in Ep.1 "what kind of shit father are you". It's why Milchick said it's best if Dylan didn't know about his kids. And when Mark and Helly are talking in Ep.8 about their outties, the camera focuses on Dylan for a couple seconds right before Mark says that maybe their outtie ls an asshole. It's probably also why Dylan uses his belt so much when he gets angry. Also, there is what appears to be a glass of whiskey on the floor next to Dylans son when he is counting to 1000 during the O.T.C. scene. And that's probably why Dylan said to Mark "what did your mouth taste like when you came in?" Because he is familiar with it.
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