Bob leads the survivor group westward toward a building he co-owns in Needling, Illinois, which he calls the Facility.

Spectra holds a company-wide meeting to distribute protective masks and inform employees that Shen Fever has reached New York.

Bob's group stalks the home of the fevered Gower family and Bob executes each infected family member.

Ashley falls into a trancelike state while trying on childhood dresses during a secret stalk of her old home.

Bob shoots Ashley inside her childhood home and claims Janelle died by throwing herself in front of the bullet.

Jonathan breaks up with Candace and tells her he is leaving New York City permanently.

The survivor group arrives at the Facility, which is revealed to be the abandoned Deer Oaks Mall.

Evan reveals Candace's pregnancy to Bob, who calls the baby a miracle and locks Candace inside the L'Occitane store.

Candace signs a high-value contract to remain on-site at Spectra as the Shen Fever pandemic worsens across the city.

During the Facility's one-month anniversary celebration, the group discovers that Evan has been found dead.

Candace becomes the sole employee still physically present at Spectra, spending her days updating the NY Ghost blog.

Candace convinces Bob to restore her walking privileges and move her to a larger store by faking illness symptoms.

Candace's Spectra contract expires and she drives a cab belonging to a fevered man out of New York City.

Candace discovers Bob wandering the Facility in a blank trance and escapes by stealing his car keys.

Candace decides to settle in Chicago so that her daughter Luna will have a real place to call home.

Pool 1 traces the backbone of Severance, beginning with Bob's survivor group making its way toward the mysterious Facility and ending with Candace's escape and decision to build a new life. The narrative weaves together the post-apocalyptic present and the pre-collapse past, hitting the pivotal actions that propel the story forward. Key events include Bob's escalating violence, Ashley's infection and death, and Candace's imprisonment inside the mall. Candace's signing of the Spectra on-site contract explains how she came to be alone in a dying New York, while Evan's death and Bob's own fever finally open the door to her freedom. The pool closes on Candace's transformative choice to settle in Chicago and give her unborn daughter a true home.

The core events driving Candace from New York to the Facility and beyond.

Candace meets her neighbor Jonathan at the shark fin soup dinner party she co-hosts with her roommate Jane.

Candace interviews with Michael Reitman at Spectra and is hired as the Bibles product coordinator.

Candace and Blythe visit the Phoenix Ltd. printing factory in Shenzhen and observe workers performing rote assembly-line tasks.

Candace buys spirit money at a night market in Hong Kong and burns it alongside luxury magazine pages as offerings for her parents.

Candace overhears Ashley, Evan, and Janelle forming a secret pact to flee the group together if they dislike the Facility.

Bob returns Candace's iPhone to her, having intentionally broken it so she cannot access her old data.

Jonathan helps Candace move to her new apartment in Bushwick and the two begin a romantic relationship.

At a party, Candace spots a fevered old woman trapped in the endless loop of fumbling at her own apartment door.

Candace's parents emigrate to America without her, leaving her in the care of relatives in Fuzhou while they save money.

Jonathan asks Candace to keep updating the NY Ghost after he leaves so he can follow her photographs of New York.

Blythe and Delilah tell Candace they are leaving New York the next day and invite her to come with them, but she refuses.

Rachel reveals to Candace that Evan was also held prisoner at the Facility and forbidden from joining the group on stalks.

Candace photographs a lone horse wandering through empty Times Square and uploads the image to the NY Ghost.

Candace moves into Michael Reitman's abandoned Spectra office, turning it into her new bedroom in the deserted building.

Bob's car runs out of fuel on the outskirts of Chicago and Candace gets out and walks toward the city.

Pool 2 covers the significant supporting events that give depth and texture to Candace's story on both sides of the apocalypse. Before the End, key milestones include meeting Jonathan at a dinner party, being hired at Spectra, and touring the Phoenix Ltd. factory in Shenzhen. Emotional touchstones such as burning spirit money in Hong Kong and her parents' separation from her in Fuzhou illuminate the roots of her displacement. In the post-apocalyptic present, the pool tracks covert alliances, Bob's deliberate destruction of Candace's phone, and the chilling revelation of Evan's secret imprisonment. The pool closes as Bob's car runs dry outside Chicago and Candace walks forward on her own terms into an uncertain but self-determined future.

The secondary moments that shaped Candace's world before and after the End.

Blythe informs Candace that the gemstone supplier for the Gemstone Bible shut down after workers developed fatal lung diseases.

Bob tells Candace the survivors have been divinely selected and pressures her to lead the group in saying grace.

Inside the fevered Gower girl's bedroom, Candace finds a Daily Grace Bible inscribed with a heartfelt personal message.

Balthasar tells Candace that her Chinese name is taken from a classical poem taught to all Chinese schoolchildren.

Candace recalls her only adult visit to Fuzhou, where late-night walks with her cousin Bing Bing gave her a rare and electrifying sense of belonging.

Evan quietly warns Candace that Bob will likely call her unborn baby a miracle and use it to assert control over her.

Candace takes a pregnancy test after Jonathan's departure, finds it positive, and pushes the news aside to continue her routine.

On her deathbed, Ruifang urges Candace to stay in America and make something useful of herself, as her father always wished.

During the night Jonathan stays over because of Storm Mathilde, Candace silently decides to carry her pregnancy to term.

Confined alone in the L'Occitane store, Candace names her unborn daughter Luna because the baby moves most at night.

Balthasar emails Candace to report that most Phoenix Ltd. workers are fevered and implores her to leave New York and find her family.

Bob reveals to Candace that he chose the Facility because it was his childhood escape from his parents' constant fighting.

Alone in the dark mall, Candace prays for the first time since adolescence while waiting to put her escape plan into motion.

Browsing Henri Bendel, Candace discovers that even luxury designer clothes are made in the same countries where Spectra outsources its labor.

Driving into Chicago, Candace recalls a childhood visit there with her mother and resolves that this is where she will raise Luna.

Pool 3 focuses on the key revelations, decisions, and internal turning points that gradually reshape Candace's understanding of herself and her world. It opens with small but significant discoveries about her complicity in exploitative labor and her deep estrangement from her Chinese identity. Pivotal moments include learning she is pregnant, her mother's dying plea, and her quiet decision to keep the baby during a storm-drenched night with Jonathan. At the Facility, confinement strips away Candace's numbing routines and forces her to confront her longing for connection — naming her daughter Luna and eventually returning to prayer. The pool ends as Candace drives into Chicago and a childhood memory of her mother helps her finally claim a city as her own.