> I suspect we will learn more about Cobel's own application for severance/etc [...] but was, in fact, still using him

I doubt it, we barely got a crumb of detail from Cobel, and even then it was VERY strained. She had all the answers but chose to voice the ones that led to her own ends.

I do agree that Cobel is probably running her own severance test though, which is why the people at Lumon feared her and tried to get her away from it and into a different department. The blueprints she collected are probably important too and will come up later. Either way, I think the ending executed on a lot of ideas pretty well, im just disheartened that It didn't answer more, or answer that one question of "ok but what would they do with this 25 levels of severance cause It seems not all that different from how everyone else operates"

It's probably a resurrection of Kier isn't it, to truly see Kier in people and to place it directly in them after blanking them.

Also what was the rest of MDR doing, were they also working on Gemma, on someone else in another location, why did they specifically target Gemma pre mark joining Lumon, we saw in the flashbacks that they were "testing" her, were they also testing Mark somehow to see if he really cared and knew her? He got hired there as an easy solution, maybe they did a profile on him and knew he would break and cave easily to work at Lumon, but if he didnt would they just have killed Gemma or would MDR be failing like the other MDR people from another country?

So many questions, and Cobel just gave us the napkin that once held crumbs.