With one episode left in Severance season 2 on Apple TV+, there’s a lot we superfans are hoping to have answered: Where is Irving going? Is Cold Harbor an attempt to create an artificial soul? Will Cobel (and an increasingly aggrieved Milchick) lead a revolt? What is going on with Mark’s hair and can we get a link to his styling mouse?

And there’s also a lot we now have answered in this week’s episode, “After Hours,” in which we get confirmation of Burt’s long-tenured career as a Lumon goon and surprising evidence that an innie actually can request their own resignation.

But for me, the most interesting clue about what it all means comes in the episode’s first three minutes, when we watch Helena go for a winter-time swim, then eat a meager breakfast of hardboiled eggs cut into quarters in front of her father.