SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 2, Episode 9 of “Severance,” now streaming on Apple TV+.
Does the penultimate episode of “Severance” Season 2 put a bow on the story of Irving and Burt?
The star-crossed lovers, played by John Turturro and Christopher Walken, share a dramatic goodbye at a train station. Burt buys Irving a one-way ticket and wishes him well as Irving heads off into the unknown.
But let’s back up for a minute: This season, Irving and Burt reunite in the outside world after each of their innies are permanently retired. Burt and his husband Fields (John Noble) host Irving for an awkward dinner, in which they theorize about their at-work romance and discuss Burt’s origins at Lumon. He seems to lie about how long he had worked at the company and admits to being a “scoundrel,” telling Irving that he decided to get…
