Severed, the Ultimate Severance podcast.

Hey the refiner, welcome back to the severed floor.

It's time to get into the third and final part of our full breakdown of the season

two episode, Cheekye Bardo. A quick spoiler warning just in case you must have seen

all 10 of the season two episodes before you begin this podcast. There are spoilers everywhere.

This is Severed, the Ultimate Severance podcast.

I'm your host, Alan S.

Last time we were following pre-severed Mark and pre-crash Gemma through the IVF procedure.

It wasn't going to go very well.

We were just headed into a transition that was going to take us back down to the testing floor.

So if you're ready, refiner, it's time to reopen the file called Cheekye Bardo. As the shot comes up from black,

we are back down on the testing floor. Someone moves through the shot in the foreground.

There's a control pad in the extreme foreground to the right of frame. Are those hieroglyphics on the keys?

We can't see them clearly due to the angle,

but what we can see looks a bit alien.

That's Dr. Mauer, who bends down to select a couple of buttons on the keypad.

Interesting cut here.

Now that we know the watchers are there, we get a watcher check-in.

There's an extreme close-up on the eye of Mark

Watcher. He's dialed in on Gemma's testing floor apartment and is watching what's happening there.

I'd love to get a look at the Watcher's job description. I'm thinking the Watchers must be

severed employees. You wouldn't want anyone running around describing

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