Go ahead and return the elevator back if you haven't watched Season 2, Episode 9 of "Severis", titled "After Hours". There are spoilers Down here on the cut off!

"Separation" never does anything by accident. Everything, from the music signs of the show, to the props scattered through and the cut off under Lumon - where our cheerful band of "Ins" strives as macrodati refineries, unaware of the real world inhabited by their "descriptions" - to the objects we see in the homes of various characters. some Type of importance. Think of the "Rabbit or Duck" sculpture visible in the office of cutting floor, Seth Milcik (Tramel Tilman), or all the trifles related to Eagan, Harmony Cobbel (Patricia Arquette), found in her childhood home In the previous episode, "sweet vitriol". All this is to say that the ninth episode of Season 2 of the Drama of the Nightworks of the Day of Day Ericsson "Severis" is titled "After Hours", and that is no accident.

Why? Well, there are An episode of the famous Anthology Series "The Twilight Zone", The show led by Rod Serling that became one of the largest television phenomena in the history of the medium, that is Also called "after hours". This particular episode was the 34th installment of the first season of the show and aired on June 10, 1960. So how is this episode of the "twilight zone" connecting to "Neeverans", aside from the shared name? There is actually stunning The amount of overlap here ... which, again, is not accidental.

At the beginning of the episode of "The Twilight Zone" titled "The Afters", a seemingly normal woman named Marsha White (Ann Francis) is looking for a gift for her mother, and somewhat strange decides that the ideal gift will be a golden smell. When asked by a firefighter in a department store, she is informed that the ninth floor is home to The Thimbles. One problem: According to the elevator buttons, the store has only eight floors. (The usual story of the show here says: "Express lift on the ninth floor of a department store, carrying Miss Marsha White on the most terrible, ordinary, works on the mill.

Marsha arrives on the mysterious ninth floor, which is dark and largely empty, except for the saleswoman (Elizabeth Allen) that shows Marsha that she has a golden point. Everything about this situation looks at Marsha: The saleswoman seems to know her name, and also literally Just an item Available to buy floor 9 is this golden laptop. As Marsha leaves, she realizes that the laptop is quite badly damaged, so it carries the elevator to the third floor complaint department and is subsequently told that is No ninth floor where she could buy Thimble, and because she paid money and no confirmation, she couldn't even prove it.

Finally, the turnaround is revealed. Marsha is not a real person; She is a model revive, though briefly. That unusual ninth floor serves as a space for holding the manekens, who in turn turns him into obviously human women and spend the real world for a month at a time, but Marsha, enjoying the outside, has stayed too long. She is forgiven for her delay and transmits the transformation bat to the next model - and the next day, Marsha's model covers the store. ObviouslyThe idea of ​​two alone living in two different spaces is what the "separation" is about, but the episode of that show with the same name does not only share the themes. It has a direct reference to the script.

Let's connect this back to the 2025 Television Episode Titled "The After Hours," which dropped on Apple TV+ on March 13. Again, the similarity of a "Secret Floor" Where People Take on A Different Yet Sim. Persona Feels Like An Obvious Connection, but in this "Severance" Episode, A plotline Featuring Harmony Cobel (Patricia Arquette), Mark Scout (Adam Scott), and Mark's Sister Devon Scout-Hale Reference to that episode of the "twilight zone" that you literally cannot miss.

Mark, who experienced some medical problems with the "reintegration" process - which means merger of one's "ines" and "auto" so that a person can access both memories that we have never seen to succeed (the only example we have seen has failed enough that one man died) - finally agrees, after Devon insists on meeting his former harmony on the cut floor. He is not very happy to deal with it, but given that harmony may be the only person who can help mark the marking to find his wife Gemema (Dichen Lachman), whose "Ini" is Lumon's wellness adviser, Miss Casey and whose "Outie" is currently struggling and testing in a secret for Lumon trainingHe and Devon agree to go to Lumon's "Birth Cabs", a place that will allow them to talk to Mark's Inni.

With Mark hidden in the bed of Pickap -Camion and Devon who makes pregnancy, harmony withdraws to the guard guard outside the cabs and is stopped by security, which says no one should enter the house five at the moment. After claiming that Devon was "one of the AMEEM" - referring to Ameeim Egan (Michael Siberia), Lumon's nasty chief executive - and that all this job is a secret, harmony tells the guard: "Miss Marsha White, the ninth floor. I'm looking for a golden rhythm. " (The guard response: "Department of Specialties.")

The "Department" never does anything by accident, so choosing the name "after hours" for this episode was a clearly important decision. Since the episode ends with Mark's "Ini" in the birth cab - his version of the "ninth floor", so to speak - with Devon and Harmony, we will have to see how all this shakes in the final of the 2 "Cold Port", which falls on Apple TV+ at 21 pm.