Severance’s original script would change the entire show.

if Compensation It hasn’t twisted your mind into Lumon’s maze of confusion and propaganda, then the latest reveal about the original script will. In the opening episode of The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller and Adam ScottThe host revealed that we had introduced ourselves to Compensation The world was once very different from the one that finally streams on Apple TV, and it will completely change the series.

Show creator Dan Erickson’s original idea for the pilot from his 2015 script involved Mark (Adam Scott) being divorced instead of widowed. and had him interviewed at a video store called Crazy Eagle Video after accidentally bumping into a cat. When he went back to see if the cat was still there, He found that it had disappeared. So he knocked on the door. and Miss Lumon Head of one house, Cobel (Patricia Arquette), in this meeting we get to see one of the elements that makes this series so different.

“There’s one scene where she shows him the rat she’s raising. which later tortured her But it turned out that the rat had been cut off. So she changed her position. And suddenly the mouse came and hugged her. That’s how she explained to him what compensation was,” Erickson said. After this confrontation, Mark returns to Cobel’s house, only to see that it has been replaced by a Porta Potty, which Mark communicates to Cobel in an unspecified way.

It’s worth noting that the rat sequence introduces viewers to the idea that animals aren’t just mutilated. But it is also possible to instantly switch between a disconnected and conscious state. That would provide a bit more explanation as to why there were goats on cut-off land so late in the season. The mystery remains one of the main unresolved questions for Compensation fans

Mark’s Outie is introduced to Cobel as a Lumon employee who is recruiting him to be cut off. It would also help clear up the main tension of the first season and the upcoming second season. In this series as we know He will have to go through a compensation process to deal with the grief of his wife’s passing. This is a key factor in the entire series. This creates a huge twist in that his wife probably isn’t dead. Because she’s health consultant Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman) on the ragged floor, his innie has this revelation. And it is one thing that drives him to be more alert. The second season is coming up.–

Another change is that the original version of the pilot episode involved Mark waking up on a table at Lumon’s direction and then being “born from a giant sphincter in the ceiling,” according to Erikson. The episode picks up after his first day at Lumon, where he is trained by Helly R (Britt Lower), lost in a never-ending locker. And watch his welcome video from Outie.

This story is very different from the pilot episode that we all know and love. with Helly waking up on a table and being trained by Mark. She didn’t end up in an endless locker. Instead, she ran through the exit door over and over, which threw her back into the ragged floor. before seeing Outie’s welcome video explaining her decision to enter the compensation process. That change alone could have changed the dynamic of the main cast, instead of Helly being willing to write her message to Outie on her arm or attempt suicide. All this in an attempt to leave the cut off area, that could be Mark.

There are still eight more episodes of the podcast to be released before Season 2’s January 17 premiere. If this is the kind of reveal we got from just the first 20 minutes of the first episode, we might never. see Compensation The same way when we’re done listening to it all.