Note: This story contains spoilers for season 2, episode 6.
Severre finally introduced Outti Burt’s husband (Christopher Wower) Fields (John Noble) and in a typical way for the show, he raised as many questions as he answered.
The trio had a tense dinner, and Burt and Fields at home just days after Irving crashed at their door thanks to the extraordinary case. Now IRV is welcomed at the home of its Innie lover and the sparks are still there, it seems.
Burt’s husband waters much of the wine for dinner and reminds her husband. In this way, he reveals a few things about himself, their timeline with Lumo, and even his feelings for Inas that raised his eyebrows.
Here’s what we learned about the fields and what it could mean to the growing mysteries inside Lumon.
Did Fields really get out of Burt’s Lumon time line?
While at dinner between Burt, Irving and Fills, there is a slip that has raised probably the largest question of the episode. The fields and Burt explain how their nickname for each other has developed in Attila. Burt said this happened 10 years ago, but Fields was adamant that he was 20 years ago when they had dinner with his Lumon partner.
This jingle Irving, who confirms that the first employee happened only 12 years ago. Burt tries to play it by saying on the flight that he had a little too much to drink, but he and Irving seem confused by mention.
What makes it more confusing is that Irving would not seem as confused if what Fills said meant that Burt had just worked for Lumo years before he was interrupted. Irving himself spent several years in the company before joining the Open. This timeline from someone can also give power to the theory that people can be interrupted more than once, and that this may have happened to Burt or Fields before.
Was it just slipping from an old man, too deep in his glasses, or is it likely that Fields knows – or remember – more about Lumo and this is a cut time line than Burt or Irving?
Is he the man who pushes the cart?
In the opening scene of Season 2, Episode 5 has a person whose face we never see, which presses a cart from O & D to the mysterious export department as Edmund Fitzgerald’s remains. It seems that the man is on the older side, which causes many viewers to speculate that they can actually be fields.
The gaze and walk appear enough with how Noble appears and plays the character. It is also known thanks to the letter Dylan (Zahari Cherry) found behind Irving’s “funeral” painting that the O & D – the department in which he worked in – gives instructions to the export department.
Outside, Irving also painted the sinister corridor of the export department, and the way Fields seemed interested in the man as if she were bending over being the man who was waving her husband.
At their dinner, Fields admits that he is talking to his pastor about the feeling that Inis should also feel love. If his sympathies extend so far, it is not impossible to believe that the man can work to help destroyed workers inside. There are also non-zero chances that came to Burt’s Innie and fell in love with Outie Burt, we see a precedent for this game between Innie Dylan and his wife.
There may be a chance to work with O&D and Burt’s Innie to investigate exports.
Is the Burt’s Innie Flings Fields meeting?
Much of the energy Burt was giving when he invited Irving to dinner with flights, he was encoded. At dinner, Fields mentions that he was already having dinner with Burt’s Lumin Partner. Maybe the couple enjoys Burt’s Innie to inadvertently find a third for them? It’s unlikely, but we’re not here to eat not anyone.
Severance launches new episodes on Friday on Apple TV+.