Severance’ season 2, episode 7, “Chikhai Bardo”— tells the sad story of Mark (Adam Scott) and Gemma (Dichen Lachman), while hinting at the greater ambitions of Lumon.

We know there was something special about her,” Erickson says of Dichen Lachman's character. “We don't still fully understand what that was.”

This column contains spoilers for Severance Season 2, Episode 7. I try to avoid column entries focusing on the same show two weeks in a row, but Severance has been on one lately s

Full spoilers follow for Severance season 2, including episode 7.

"Dichen [Lachman] is incredible in the episode," Scott tells EW. Warning: This article contains spoilers for Severance season 2, episode 7, "Chikhai Bardo." Severance finally revealed what's been happening to Gemma (Dichen Lachman) this whole time,

The big takeaway, though, was we finally got a look at the testing floor–and more importantly, what Mark’s missing wife Gemma has been up to while there. Originally, Gemma was thought to be dead, having been in a fatal car crash two years before the start of the series.

Severance shed some much-needed light on Mark’s wife Gemma and her backstory this week… while also hinting at what’s going on at Lumon in the present. Friday’s episode starts out by taking us back to the day Mark and Gemma first met as professors,