The core of Severance's rising tension is Mark's desperate effort to rescue his wife, Gemma, who is also his severed work colleague. In Episode 9, he reluctantly teams up with Harmony Cobel. Their goal? To get to Innie Mark, Mark's workplace counterpart, and extract crucial details.

The penultimate episode of Severance season 2, "The After Hours," had some pretty big reveals and raised a whole lot of huge questions.

Here's how "Severance" episode 209 "The After Hours" addressed the 5 biggest questions I had heading into the episode.