Ok, so what is Helena’s game here? Why did she go and visit him?

It seems like she’s stalking him to an extent, and comes up with an apology for the OTC - but this feels more like an aplogy for deceiving his innie during the ORTBO and feels guilty about it.

It almost seems like the start flirting a little, but then she calls his wife by a different name when she will clearly know it’s Gemma. Surely she’d know this would piss him off? What was the point in that line?

Then there’s a moment where oMark is about to leave and looks at her almost as if he recognises her but can’t place her, in which he suddenly runs off and changes his mind about re-integrating. What was it that got him so spooked? Is it the idea that she might be behind Gemma “dying”?

  • a14o@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    I think she was trying to get a feel for

    • whether the OTC incident was sufficiently resolved or left Outie Mark trying to make sense of loose ends (especially in connection with Gemma),
    • whether or not the severance procedure was holding up (after she may have witnessed some disintegration symptoms while undercover or through surveillance), and possibly
    • if Outie Mark was over his supposedly dead wife yet
    • vaguerant@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      I think there’s also a layer of personal interest going on. Helly has a better love life than Helena does. She’s lived this weird locked-down Lumon cult life with no meaningful personal or family relationships that we know of, while Helly has made herself a family on the inside.

      Helena is jealous of the emotional freedom that Helly has. I don’t think she boned Mark S entirely for the mission. The chemistry that Helly has with him, Helena has also–c.f. Dylan G/eorge and Gretchen, Irving B/ailiff and Burt G/oodman. Given their shared physiology, it’s not surprising that Helena likes Mark, in any incarnation.

      At this point in the season, she’s also been forced back into severed life, so she’s no longer able to see Mark S, the one person in her life currently who (albeit via subterfuge) actually seemed to care about her. Seeing Mark Scout on the outside is the closest she’s got and she seems to want to probe that connection.