Contains spoilers for this episode and earlier episodes.
Irving's outside self paints the same dark hallway again and again, then begins another canvas while listening to loud music. At Lumon, Helly completes her refinement file, allowing Macrodata Refinement to meet its quarterly quota. Cobel arranges Mark's final wellness session with Ms. Casey, who says she is being retired. They still do not recognise one another, and Cobel watches as Milchick escorts Ms. Casey toward the testing floor. Natalie confronts Cobel over concealing Helly's suicide attempt and using her Mrs. Selvig identity to get close to Mark's outside self. Cobel is fired and removed from the building.
The MDR team begins its plan to wake their innies outside. Helly kisses Mark before leaving for the day, unsure whether they will see each other again. Dylan collects his reward, a Waffle Party staged in the Perpetuity Wing, where he wears a Kier mask during a strange ritual. Cobel returns home, destroys her shrine to Kier, and later attends Ricken's book-reading party with Mark's outside self. At Lumon, Dylan leaves the party and locks himself in the security room. He uses the manual to activate the overtime contingency, switching on Mark, Helly and Irving in the outside world while he holds the two controls in place.