Season 2 Episode 7: Chikhai Bardo
Aired: February 28, 2025
Synopsis: An old romance intersects with a deadly present threat.
Directed by: Jessica Lee Gagné
Written by: Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman
Season 2 Episode 7: Chikhai Bardo
Aired: February 28, 2025
Synopsis: An old romance intersects with a deadly present threat.
Directed by: Jessica Lee Gagné
Written by: Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman
While we don’t know their identities, it clears up who the “twins” were in Woe’s Hollow. They seem to be individuals that are deliberately similar to our refiners, basically “shadows”.
And this tells us a lot about the severed floor! Now we definitely know that there’s more staff on the Lumon back-end, and all their actions are being analyzed.
The episode implied that the rooms are scenarios that Gemma strongly dislikes, with each room having a separate severed version.
The implication is that MDR is responsible for something in relation to the room - they probably either “uncover” the scenarios the test person hates, or they prepare/change the innie versions in some ways. I’m thinking it’s the earlier since Cold Harbor isn’t done yet, and Mark is still working on the file.
It’s going to be a scenario like the other rooms, and the episode foreshadowed that it will involve drowning (or suffocating).
Presumably this will be the topic of the next few episodes.
Rhegabi explained that Lumon has people at the morgue. They found a corpse that looks similar to Gemma, and burned it (Mark mentioned something about identifying her charred remains).