Severance: What Does The Room Of Baby Goats Mean?
Warning! SPOILERS for Severance season 1 episode 5 ahead.
Among the many oddities Apple TV’s Severance introduced, the room full of baby goats shown in Severance season 1, episode 5 is one of the wildest, with a meaning that isn't immediately clear. The sci-fi thriller thrives on things that look out of place or slightly off, even in a universe where a company like Lumon Industries can ask its employees to sever their work memories from their daily lives. While the appearance of the baby goats and their handler’s reaction in the Severance episode «The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design” was especially outlandish, many of the habits Lumon upholds in their headquarters are, even Lumon's work of cataloging numbers.
The baby goats appear in an area seemingly undiscovered in Lumon’s building. Mark (Adam Scott) and Helly (Britt Lower) discover them on a walk that shouldn't have been possible, as Helly was closely monitored by Ms. Casey (Dichen Lachman) after her suicide attempt. However, Mark initiated it specifically to check on Helly and her wellbeing in private. They are led by a stray baby goat to a room full of baby goats, where a man vaguely resembling Lumon founder Kier Egan tells them to go away and that the goats aren’t ready.
Related: Severance: What Exactly Does Lumon Industries Do?
Goats are not entirely foreign to the Severance universe, having already appeared in a painting in episode 2, admired by Lumon's Optics and Designs Lumon department head Burt (Christopher Walken) and MDR worker Irv (John Turturro). In the painting, an adult robe-wearing goat can be seen lying at the center, as a depiction of Kier Egan swings a whip at it. It’s unclear whether the baby goats cared for in episode 5 are related to the goat
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