Helly R quotes from Severance

[reading calmly into camera] My name is Helly R. I'm making this video roughly two hours before it will be shown .. to me. I have, of my own free accord, elected to undergo the procedure colloquially known as Severance. I give consent for my perceptual chronologies to be surgically split, separating my memories between my work life and my personal life. I acknowledge that, henceforth, my access to my memories will be spatially dictated. I will be unable to access outside recollections whilst on Lumon's severed basement floor, nor retain work memories upon my ascent. I am aware that this alteration is comprehensive and irreversible.

I could not, with a razor to my throat, be less interested in being your family.

[to Milchick] Well, boss. I guess this is the part where I should tell you to go to hell. Except you're already here.

It’s important because it actually is or because you’re saying it is?

My name is Helena, and I'm an Eagan. So one of the things that you learn growing up as an Eagan, is that the workers are our family. And I remember being confused about that as a kid, because I thought that meant I had a few hundred thousand literal brothers and sisters scattered around the world. [laughs] Oh, my God. But as I grew older, I learned that it's about shared ideals. My dad used to make me recite the nine core principles before bed every night, which I can't say I always did happily. Sorry, dad. But those are now the values that I share with everyone who works at Lumon, and that's what makes them my family. And I would never ask them to do anything that I'm not willing or excited to do myself. Look, my dad would love for me to sit here and say that I'm taking this job out of loyalty, and that it was the spirit of pure Eagan calling me to service. But I took a severed job because it sounds freaking awesome. So, no, I don't think severance divides us. I think it brings us together.

My name is Helly R. I'm an innie. And everything they told you about Severance is a lie! [crowd laughs] No, no, no. Listen, we're not happy. We're miserable. They torture us down there! We're prisoners!

Forgive me for the harm I've caused this world. None may atone for my actions... but me. And only in me shall their stain live on. All I can be is sorry. And that is all I am.

Did everyone sever their balls in the elevator this morning?

I told her I wanted out and she told me I wasn't a person. My own self told me that.

Yeah, and, and that's horrible, but don't focus on her; what do you want, in here?

What I want is for her to wake up while the life drains out of her and to know it was me who did it.

Helena. You look so nice. Like a film.

Thank you.

Are you... Are you still in pain?

I'm not. Not anymore.

I cried in my bed when they told me what she tried to do to you. What that innie tried to do. I-- Thank you for going through with this. The Grandfather would cherish what you've done. And one day you will sit with me at my revolving. Are you feeling well?

Yeah. I think, I think the drink just hit me a little bit.

You'll be all right for the speech?

For my speech. Yeah, of course.

Do you remember when I brought home the first chip to show you? The prototype. It had the blue and green lights back then.

Yeah.

I remember when you said to me, 'It's so pretty, daddy. Everybody in the whole world should get one.' They will. Because of you. They'll all be Kier's children.

Hey, do you want me to, like, describe what happened? Like, I feel like you have every right to know.

No, no, no. I don't want her memory.

Okay.

I want my own.

Seth Milchick

Choreography and Merriment, return to your department now!

[blows whistle] Fall back to C&M. Our performance has been compromised.

No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. This desk used to have four seats. Our friend Irving is gone, and they want our whole department gone. [pointing at Milchick] If he gets out, we're dead. They're gonna turn us off like fucking machines! You've seen them do it. I know you've lost friends too. And you could be next. You could be next.

They give us half a life and think we won't fight for it. Right, Milchick? [turning back to the C&M members] Please, help us. Please. Help us!