Ms. Huang

By now I've seen so many theories about Ms. Huang and why she is a child, whether or not she is severed, if she's Cobel reincarnate, etc... so I'm here to add my own 🙂‍↕️

I think Huang's outie died as a child (likely in a car crash, will get to that next) and was brought back to life by Lumon via the MDR team. We know Ms. Casey's outie died in a car crash and the end shot of S2E1 showed us that the files MDR is working on have something to do with putting a person's consciousness back together.

Now getting back to the car crash, as mentioned Ms.Casey died in a car crash, and I can't remember the exact thread I saw on this subreddit but it has been pointed out that there was a car crash story in the Lexington letter, and one other severed employee confirmed to have been involved in a car crash (shown in Irv's notes when he wakes up during the OTC). Ms. Huang said she used to be a crossing guard, so her outie also having been involved in a car crash isn't that unlikely. During the ball game when she is asked why she is a child she says, "because of when I was born." But I actually think it's because of when she died. If she passed as a child and Lumon resurrected her consciousness (or implanted a new one into her?) she would effectively be trapped in her childhood body forever.

I've also seen a few people point out the numerous times recycling has been focused on in the show, including in the newspaper shown to mark in S2E1. I think Ms. Huang and Ms. Casey are test subjects of Lumon's ultimate goal- "recycling" bodies of the deceased and implanting new (possibly controllable) minds and consciousnesses into them. They also definitely want this for the purpose of bringing back the Eagans, which they would need completely blank canvasses for in order to implant the Eagan minds into new bodies. Except they haven't been able to completely wipe the minds of these formerly deceased individuals... their memories, loves, childhood tendencies (Ms Huang playing with the kier game) etc. eventually come back to them, hence why Ms. Casey has been sent to the testing floor so many times and why MDR has so many files.

Thoughts?? Very excited to find out more throughout the rest of this season!!!