Because the begin of Severance Season 2, Mark and the remainder of the Lumon innie crew have been on a mission to reply one query: What occurred to Gemma?!
Gemma, the spouse of outie Mark, died in an alleged automobile crash earlier than the occasions of Severance Season 1. The grief from her loss of life led Mark to endure the severed process and provides his thoughts and physique to Lumon. It wasn’t till the tip of Severance Season 1 that innie Mark—and viewers—realized that Gemma wasn’t lifeless in any respect. As a substitute, she was nonetheless alive and trapped in Lumon below her innie alter ego, Ms. Casey. And thus the search to search out out what occurred to Gemma started in Severance Season 2.
What occurred to Gemma in Severance?
The Severance Season 2 finale ends in a serious twist as innie Mark—who efficiently rescued his outie’s spouse, Gemma, from the Testing Ground and rushed her exterior of Lumon—leaves her on the opposite facet of the door to be along with his love curiosity, Helly. The episode ends with a freeze body of Mark and Helly.
Whereas Mark appeared to have efficiently rescued Gemma within the Season 2 finale, Severance nonetheless left many questions unanswered as to what occurred to Gemma, how Lumon kidnapped her and faked her loss of life, and why Lumon selected her and Mark for this experiment within the first place.
All viewers know from Severance Season 1 is that Gemma allegedly died in a automobile crash. Outie Mark even reminded Devon in Season 2 that he recognized Gemma’s physique in a morgue, which was the primary purpose he believed that she couldn’t presumably be alive, regardless of what innie Mark mentioned. There’s additionally the truth that Lumon has had eyes on Mark and Gemma for the reason that begin of their relationship. The 2, who have been beforehand school professors, met at a Lumon-run blood drive, so there’s a chance that their “relationship” was deliberate from the start by the very firm they’re attempting to flee from.
There have been additionally different ties to Lumon earlier than Mark and Gemma grew to become part of the corporate. Together with the blood drive, Mark and Gemma additionally went to a Lumon-run fertility clinic. One other scene additionally confirmed Gemma’s curiosity in Lumon’s literature.
The primary fan principle for what occurred to Gemma is that she wasn’t kidnapped however severed by Lumon on her personal volition with out Mark’s knoledge. A Reddit consumer theorized in February 2025 that, based mostly on a word Irving present in Season 2 a few Lumon worker who grew to become severed as a part of a automobile crash settlement, Gemma’s alleged automobile accident may’ve led her to the identical destiny.
“A chance I’m suspecting- Irving had a word about a person the place a automobile crash settlement led them to a severed process,” the Reddit consumer wrote. “Burt talked about having gone down a foul path and saving his soul through severance. I’m questioning if Lumon targets criminals going through extreme jail time and providing a approach out by severing themselves.”
The Reddit consumer continued, “Their life as they know it might finish, however that’s arguably a greater possibility than spending life in jail. Lumon may simply have the affect over legislation enforcement to do that, and it might basically kill the prison whereas ‘liberating’ them and their soul. What if Gemma was at fault for the accident and severely harmed or killed one other individual? Drunk driving? We all know little or no about her and she or he may have had points with alcohol that mirror Mark’s.”
Different Reddit customers agreed with the idea and provided their very own concept that Gemma could have volunteered her physique to Lumon for experimentation.
“I feel she voluntarily had signed an knowledgeable consent to get severed and ‘saved alive’ in an experimental remedy ought to she be concerned in a state of affairs the place her physique / mind couldn’t be saved alive within the outer world (on this case, her deadly automobile crash),” one other Reddit consumer wrote. “Thus she is saved as a perma-innie as most likely the state of her Severance will not be mature sufficient to even have a job within the outer world. This could be the entire thing lumon is attempting to attain: lengthen life, and even immortality.”
Others additionally believed that Gemma severed herself willingly in response to a menace by Lumon. “Gemma is at Lumon along with her consent however she gave that consent after being threatened or with out figuring out all the small print (that she’d be a everlasting innie). Or each. Now why would they threaten her?” a 3rd consumer wrote. “For a secret she knew? For one thing she did, presumably dishonest on Mark or one thing worse? For killing the opposite individual on the automobile accident? Perhaps the opposite individual was an Eagan? One thing about her job perhaps, her educating Russian literature?”
The identical consumer additionally provided a principle that Gemma was “killed” by Lumon on objective based mostly on essential data she discovered in regards to the firm. “Gemma discovered one thing about Lumon they usually orchestrated the automobile accident prefer it occurred within the Lexington letter. I imply, I assume there’s a purpose why the Lexington letter exists, proper? So she’s at Lumon with out her consent,” the consumer wrote.
Severance streams on Apple TV+.