There are roughly 600 more important issues to cover from the ORTBO, but the TV on the cliff is breaking me a little. .

Seven Severance Questions is a weekly attempt to digest the events of one of television’s twistiest shows by highlighting the weirdest, most confusing, and most important unresolved issues after each episode. There will be theories. Many will be unhinged.

Severance is just under halfway through its second season, and the show has flipped itself on its head no fewer than three times. Maybe four? First, it was the MDR team returning after the Waffle Party Rebellion of season one. Then, it was the Outie reveal from the second episode that showed how everything in the premiere came to be. Mark underwent the reintegration procedure. Helly’s Outie has been — surprise! — traipsing around as her Innie, possibly as a mole and possibly on a hunt for love and probably a little of both. Milchick drives a motorcycle. Cobel listens to the Stone Roses. You can be forgiven if you’re swimming a little bit here.

At some point, hopefully sooner than later, the show will have to pay off a few of the mysteries it takes great pleasure in introducing. It probably will. Again, we’re still in the front half of this season and everyone is still trying to grapple with what unfolded in the season-one finale. But for right now, it’s fun to zoom out and look at this from a satellite in space. Severance is the kind of show where the characters can be transported to the wilderness for an Outdoor Retreat Team Building Occurrence — ORTBO, which sounds like something Ricken would name a dog — where all sorts of supernatural things happen and a child operates an open-flame grill and … it feels normal? That’s still pretty cool. The answers can wait, at least a little bit longer. For now, it’s more fun to ask the questions.

Speaking of which …

How long has Helly been an impostor?

There was a school of thought back at the beginning of this season that Helly R. had gone back to the severed floor as her Outie, Helena Eagan, and was down there to spy on the rebellious MDR team on behalf of Lumon. I considered it at the time but pushed it aside both because I did not want to come in too hot after the first episode in a few years (“WELCOME BACK EVERYONE IS FAKE AND/OR ROBOTS”) and because I figured the whole undertaking would require too many leaps. It would mean Helena — an heiress and executive, not a seasoned undercover operative, as far as we know — would need to study closely everything Helly did and knew so as not to trigger the suspicions of the already suspicious co-workers who knew her Innie self better than she did. It would mean that the look in her eyes when she saw Helly R. kiss Mark was not just jealousy that her Innie had discovered a personal connection she couldn’t grasp in her tightly wound real life but also, possibly, the flickers of an infatuation that could smash the severed and non-severed worlds together in a way that gets progressively yuckier as you think about it. It seemed like, frankly, a lot.

What I did not consider, though, and this is admittedly on me, is that maybe she’d just do it and be bad at it and blow her cover a few episodes later by being mean to Irv at a spooky wilderness retreat and get herself almost drowned in an icy creek after having sex in a tent with Mark. Let’s go ahead and call that an oopsie on my end.

The implications for this going forward make my head hurt a little, in more of a good way than a “just had an experimental brain procedure done on me in a makeshift lab” way. A lot of it depends on how the Glasgow Block works. Is it something that has been flipped on and off before? Is it something they can keep flipping on and off going forward? How do Dylan and Mark — especially Mark, holy heck — explain any of this to Helly’s Innie? Can they ever trust her Innie going forward? Does the Glasgow Block work with other severed employees, or was that an Eagan special? I could go on. I probably will on my own.

The bigger issue is that this makes two episodes in a row that ended with series-altering twists. I genuinely have no clue where things go from this point. It’s kind of exciting.