“There’s a whole backstory there that is just kind of alluded to,” Erickson said. “But it’s basically, the idea is that Mark came in and he was inexplicably better at refining the files than others were, at least for that first file that he worked on, which was called Allentown. Each of the files has a different name and we generally went with place names, city names for the files. And so Mark came in and was able to really quickly refine this file and then they were able to reverse engineer a better procedure from what he did. We don’t get into it super far, but the idea is that he is kind of Cobel’s golden boy in that way because he came in and sort of had this great success, right when he was first there. But then it sort of tapered off since then, and people have almost forgotten about that big success that he had.”

As for what’s going on with Outie Mark, and why he chose to undergo the severance procedure, Scott says there’s more to it than Mark not wanting to dwell on the death of his wife Gemma for at least eight hours each day.