*警告：剧透前方*
也许你想遣散是一个令人震惊的昏迷在现代企业生活的“生存恐惧”中。也许你认为是无法以自己的前提交付的高概念schlock。无论哪种方式，都不可否认的是，亚当·斯科特（Adam-Scott-Scott）备用的本·斯蒂尔（Ben-Stiller）指导的9集表演（现在正在播放Apple TV+) is thoroughly addictive, starting with the premise itself: Employees at the mysterious Lumon undergo a medical procedure to “sever” their brains, such that their outside-of-work-selves (outies) can’t remember anything about their inside-of-work-selves (innies) and vice versa.
But while the internet is awash in theories about WTF is going on at Lumon, or who is doing what over in O&D, after watching the six episodes currently available, I can’t stop thinking about why we haven’t seen Helly’s outie…and what on earth she’s trying to achieve by sending her innie back to work each day. Here are my six theories, ranging from sort of plausible to totally bonkers.
1. Helly是Lumon Corporate Exec
We know that employees up and down the ladder drink the damn Kool-Aid (from Harmony’s creepy prayer shrine to Irving’s oddly poetic recitations of the employee handbook), so maybe Helly is somebody so bought in on both the company and the severance procedure on the outside, that’s she’s determined to teach her innie to learn compliance on the inside. Maybe she’s a high-ranking executive. (Or descendant of Kier Egan?) Maybe she, like the senator’s wife at the birthing center, is a political proponent of severance as a way to shield your “real” self from pain. Either way, as she tells her innie in her video message, “you are not a real person.” This sure seems like the sentiment of a person bought in on the message––a great metaphor, in the Bezos-era, of slowly realizing you’re a complicit member of an evil organization.
2. Helly是基尔·埃根（Kier Egan）
Others have posited that the chip Harmony was so dead-set on extracting from Petey’s brain was, in fact, his entire being or memories––that the severance procedure essentially downloads your work self to a drive, which is then owned by the company, with the ability to be reimplanted into any host later.如果这已经持续很长时间了，Keir Chip仍然活着，而且在Helly的Innie内部。这肯定会激励她将她的生命和内部的荧光灯隔开。
3.她是反卢蒙的激进主义者
阻力即将到来，无论是以朋克摇滚青少年的形式还是隐秘的停车场聚会，就像上一集中所嘲笑一样。Helly可以成为游击队风格的激进主义者，从内部渗透而死？也许她正在试图使自己的Innie拆除系统？尽管如此，如果她在游戏中没有更多的皮肤，这似乎很容易冒险，这使我成为…
4.她试图将别人淘汰
如果Helly是外界的使者，试图报仇或拯救某人，该怎么办？其他人指出她与Petey的女儿的相似之处，六月，促使她试图为佩蒂寻求正义的理论，或者从命运中拯救了她的亲生女儿（？）。（在分娩中心和山羊室都有克隆和遗传修饰的迹象……）或者，也许她以某种方式知道或曾经在外面知道Mark，并且试图拯救他？这带我去…
5. Helly是Mark的（没有死！）妻子
好的，这个理论非常蝙蝠，但是我非常喜欢不包含它。如果马克的妻子没有在车祸中死亡，但却是Lumon霸主伪造死亡的受害者，以测试遣散程序多少可以阻止记忆和情感的限制？在马克的健康访问期间，我们看到凯西女士燃烧了他妻子（Gemma）的一支蜡烛，也许试图提示内心的反应。此外，我们看不到Gemma的照片，这是一场非常适合细节的节目，并且对工作“团队”照片如此具体。当然，这引起了关于非死亡Gemma在外面所做的事情的疑问，但是来吧……如果我对的话，这将有多有趣？
6. Helly被双重分辨，她的“中间Y”将她留在Lumon
背包了另一个reddit理论在这里，但是如果人们可以不止一次地切断人们，这样就有两个以上的版本？(The Redditer posits that the town is a simulacrum, with a store called “Midday”—essentially a place for middle selves to live.) What if Helly’s middle self, having no knowledge of her “real” life, is bought in on Lumon, prompting the innie to go back every day? OR, prompting her to try to break her self(ves) free? Crazy? Or just crazy enough to work…