Dylan George, known as Dylan G. when working at Lumon, is a father to three kids, and underwent the severance procedure so his consciousness and memory are divided into two parts.
History[]
Dylan was working on a file when Mark, his co-worker came in. When he noticed Mark was breathing funny, he warned Mark not to breathe on him. They also questioned if their other co-worker, Petey, was sick. Dylan was upset because he was nearly done with a file and needed Petey to process it. He worried he'd miss out on Refiner of the Quarter and his waffle party if Petey wasn't there. Irving told Dylan that the perks used to be a handshake and getting a refill of creamer. That day, they learned Petey no longer worked for Lumon and they had a new team member, Helly R..[1]
Dylan explained the incentives to Helly and proudly showed off his large collection of all of them. When she asked if she could quit if she wanted, Mark said she could submit a request with her outie, but admitted they tended to be rejected. Milchick came in with a melon bar to celebrate Helly joining the team and while playing a game, Dylan said he liked to picture his outie living on a river boat. After the game, they enjoyed their melon and then gathered for a group photo. Helly ran away during this and tried to leave with a note for her outie. This led to Mark being sent to the break room when he took responsibility for her actions.
The next day, when Mark didn't come to work, Helly worried her actions had gotten him fired, but Dylan told her they hadn't because he'd done his stint in the break room. Helly sat down to do her work, but still wasn't feeling anything. When Irving returned from his wellness session, he said he'd met the department chief for Optics and Design and he and Dylan argued over him because Dylan had met him and didn't have a good impression of him. Their argument was interrupted when Helly told them she finally felt the fear from the numbers. They talked her through refining it and celebrated her first one.[2]
When Helly's resignation request was denied, leaving her devastated, Irving suggested taking a trip to the Perpetuity Wing. Mark got permission and they started walking there. On the way, he gave Helly a paper with "Eagan Bingo" on it, saying it would make the trip less boring. When Irving felt that Dylan and mark weren't taking the trip seriously, they started arguing. Their argument was interrupted by Mark realizing that Helly had disappeared in another attempt to escape.[3]
Irving became worried when Helly didn't return from the Break Room for the rest of the day or well into the next day. When she finally did return, she talked to Dylan about her experience until Mark reminded them they weren't supposed to talk about the Break Room.
When Helly found a map of the floor in Mark's drawer, she showed it to Dylan, who was surprised to see what looked like houses on the map. While he was curious about them, Mark said he wasn't and shredded the map to prove he didn't care about it.
Dylan went with Mark and Irving when Irving said there was an emergency. Irving led them to a room where he'd found a book, The You You Are on a chair. Dylan thought it was a message from Petey, while Irving thought it was a loyalty test. Mark decided he'd take it to Milchick. When they got back to MDR, they found Helly missing. She had gone to Cobel's office and threatened to cut off her fingers if Cobel didn't allow her to record a video to her outie. Once she'd recorded the message, they all escorted her to the elevator to leave. She quickly returned with a message from her outie refusing to let her quit.
After everyone else had left for the day, Dylan went through Mark's things and found The You You Are, which he started reading.[4] He was still reading when Mark came in and suggested he leave for the day, as Helly had already left. Dylan said he was just wrapping up.
When they learned Helly had attempted suicide, Dylan said that things would get better for her once she earned some perks. And he suggested loaning some of theirs to her until she did to boost her mood. Irving went to go to O&D again and tried to copy the map on Mark's request in case they needed to go after him. When it printed a picture of O&D attacking MDR instead, Dylan took it as proof that O&D was dangerous. When Irving left to go see Burt anyway, Dylan followed and locked Burt in the conference room. They confronted him about his lie that there were only two employees in O&D. Burt said he lied because they didn't trust MDR. There were stories that went around about MDR employees having pouches where they incubated larvae that eventually took them over. Dylan then tied Burt's hands with his belt and they took him back to O&D. Burt invited them both to come in. While Irving and Burt looked at The Courtship of Kier and Imogene and talked about their relationship, Dylan found a painting similar to the one Irving had seen and confronted Burt about it. Irving pointed out that it wasn't the same painting and in the one Burt had, MDR were the aggressors. Burt said it had never gone into the hallway rotation and was called The Macrodata Refinement Calamity. Dylan questioned why there would be two versions of the same painting. Burt then took Dylan and Irving into the storeroom and introduced them as friends to the rest of the O&D employees.[5]
Irving said he wanted the whole MDR team to go to O&D together, to unite the two departments as Keir intended. Helly was immediately on board, but Mark was more reluctant, especially after he noticed Ms. Casey was missing. However, after finding out that Ms. Casey had been sent to the Break Room because of it, Mark led his entire team to O&D, in direct defiance of Cobel's removal of their hallway privileges until they met their quota. Burt led them into the storeroom and introduced the two teams. They shared their mutual lack of knowledge of what they were actually working on and decided that Burt and Mark, as the department heads, would reach out to the goat room, the other department they were aware of, and figure out what they knew. Their conversation was interrupted when Milchick came in and returned the MDR team to their department. Before they left, Dylan grabbed an idiographic card from a pile and stuck it in his pocket. Cobel was waiting for them when they got to MDR and sent Mark to the Break Room.
Later that night, Dylan was shocked to wake up outside Lumon. He asked if it was his home. Milchick didn't answer and asked him where he put the card. He knew Dylan had stolen it. Dylan said it was in the bathroom behind a toilet and denied anyone paying him to smuggle it out. They were interrupted by Jim George coming in and hugging Dylan. Dylan asked if Jim was his kid. Milchick didn't answer and just ended the session, switching Dylan back to his outie self and leaving.[6]
When he got to the severed floor the next day, he asked Milchick what had happened. Milchick escorted him to MDR, which now had a door that required a key card to open, and explained that it was a special featured that allowed them to wake up their workers off-site as needed. Dylan asked if the boy was his son and asked Milchick his name, but Milchick said it was better if he didn't know. Later that day, Milchick brought in a cart for a Music Dance Experience to celebrate Helly getting to 75%. When Irving pointed out that she was only at 73%, Milchick said they all needed something nice. He put the music on and all of them except Dylan started dancing. The Music Dance Experience abruptly ended when Dylan lunged at Milchick, knocking him over and biting him. Once Milchick left, Dylan explained that he'd been woken up outside Lumon. Helly realized they could do that for themselves and Mark showed them the key card he'd found in his pocket, which he thought was Graner's. They used it to leave MDR. Dylan stayed behind to distract Milchick if he came back. When they returned to MDR, Helly and Mark told Dylan what they'd found. He offered to stay behind at the end of the work day to be the one to activate the OTC. Despite it being meant for two people, he insisted he could do it. When Irving returned, escorted by Milchick, he told them they should burn Lumon to the ground.[7]
Mark, Dylan, Helly, and Irving prepared their plan to activate their innie selves while outside Lumon. This involved pushing to meet their quota, which allowed one of them to have a waffle party. When Helly finished the Siena file, Mark met with Cobel, who celebrated their success, and told her the waffle party would go to Dylan.
When Mark came back from MDR, he told the others about his wellness session and Ms. Casey being fired. He asked if they were sure about their plan, but before they could answer, Milchick came in with their pre-waffle party egg bar social and a gift for Dylan, who was refiner of the quarter. At the party, Helly offered to replace Dylan so he could see his kid again, but he declined. The party was ended abruptly when Milchick left to deal with a management issue, but he said he'd be back soon to escort Dylan to Perpetuity.
Before leaving for the day, Mark, Helly, Irving, and Dylan talked over what Dylan would do. Dylan assured them that he'd be fine even though the process was meant to be done by two people. After they left, Dylan practiced the steps he had to take until Milchick came to get him. He took Dylan to the Perpetuity Wing, where Dylan ate waffles in Kier's bedroom and then wore a Kier mask while sitting on his bed and four dancers dressed as the Four Tempers performed a sensual dance. During the dance, he slipped out of the room and headed for the security room. There, he secured the door with his belt and began working through the steps to activate the Overtime Contingency.[8]
Dylan kept his arms stretched out, holding both switches, until Milchick came in. Milchick tried to bribe him with perks to open the door, but Dylan refused, saying he wanted to remember his kid being born. Even after Milchick offered to tell him about his kids, Dylan held the switches until Milchick got through the door and pushed him off.[9]
After this, Milchick came to see Outie Dylan and told him he'd been the aggressor in a physical altercation with another employee and was being fired. Dylan tried to get another job, but faced discrimination for being severed, a procedure many people found abhorrent. While still job searching, Milchick came to Dylan with a gift basket from Lumon and offered him his job back.[10]
Five months after their coup, Irving, Dylan, and Helly returned to the severed floor for the first time. Mark had returned a few days prior and caused problems until they agreed to bring the others back. Once they'd all arrived, Milchick to them to the new, improved Break Room, where he showed them a video about the Macrodat Uprising and how it led to reform at Lumon. Then he told them they had until the end of the day to decide, as innies, if they would continue working there or leave. Irving wanted to leave, but Dylan persuaded him to stay. Dylan then went with Milchick, who showed him plans for an outie family visitation suite. He asked Dylan to keep it secret from the others, as they were all single and he didn't want it to become a point of resentment between them. Dylan then decided to stay and he sat down with the others to get to work.[11]
Wanting to figure out what really happened to Ms. Casey, Mark and Helly made up missing posters with a drawing of her face on them. They gave one to Irving to take to O&D and one to Dylan to take to the new Break Room in the hopes people from other departments were using it. He said he was in a groove and would go later. After they left, Irving said he'd recreated his outie's drawing of the hallway and wanted them go to try to find it together. Dylan suggested that Irving go alone instead, for stealth. Once Irving was gone, Miss Huang had Dylan follow her. She took him to a security room, where she told him he'd earned an 18-minute visit with his outie's wife, Gretchen. During the visit, Gretchen told him about their kids.
At home that night, Gretchen told Outie Dylan that the visit had been weird, but good.[12]
Irving woke up one day in a frozen tundra. He soon met up with Helly, Mark, and Dylan. They found a television, which played a video that explained that they were on a corporate retreat that would last two days, during which they would traverse the terrain of Dieter Eagan National Forest. The answer to the question of who Dieter was is in the fourth appendix of the compliance handbook, which was forbidden on the severed floor. They would follow Kier's path in the forest, which is where he first tamed the four tempers, and they would have help along the way. They saw what that help was when they spotted a figure that looked like Mark across the way pointing them in the right direction. With no other option, they followed his directions. Next, they came across a figure that looked like Helly and they followed her directions to a cave containing the fourth appendix. Helly started reading it and it told the story of Kier and Dieter's journey. They continued walking, following that path. When Irving noticed Mark and Helly talking privately, he asked Mark about it. He admitted he didn't trust Helly because her story of what she saw outside didn't add up. Mark brushed off his concern.
As they continued walking, they found a dead animal. Irving suggested eating it because they didn't know if there would be food waiting for them whoever they were going, but they decided not to. Irving admitted that he didn't trust Lumon to take care of them, which caused an argument. Finally, they reached a waterfall and Milchick appeared to tell them they'd followed Kier and Dieter's path and reached Woe's Hollow. He led them to their tents, where Miss Huang had prepared a grill for them to cook their meat. He also told them all about the amenities. Milchick read them more of Kier and Dieter's story, ending with Dieter's death, and had Miss Huang throw their marshmallows in the fire when Mark and Helly laughed about it. Dylan was shocked when Irving began pestering Helly with questions about what she'd seen. After Helly said he was just upset because he'd never see Burt ever again, Irving took off into the forest alone.
The next morning, Dylan told Mark that Irving hadn't come back to camp the night before. They heard him and Helly yelling and found Irving threatening to drown Helly, saying she wasn't really Helly, but an Eagan. After dunking her under the water a few times, Helly told "Seth" to do it already and Milchick called for someone to remove the Glasgow block. Helly switched back to her innie self and Milchick told Irving he was fired. Dylan apologized for not believing Irving, but Milchick ordered them to cease communication.[13]
When the MDR workers returned to work, they were taken to Milchick's office, where he told them Irving wouldn't be coming back. He also to them that Helena Eagan had come to work among them to learn their grievances like Kier had done before her. When they returned to MDR, they found all traces of Irving erased, including his work station. Dylan asked for a funeral and Milchick agreed to arrange it while they worked on their files.
At the funeral, Dylan gave a eulogy and became upset when Mark left early to return to work. After Mark and Helly had left, Dylan looked around the room. He noticed a poster and looked behind it, where he found a note from "Dad," with directions of how to get somewhere. On the back was a drawing of the hallway Irving had been painting. Dylan looked at it and then put it back.[14]
Dylan told Helly and Mark about the drawing and when they were confused about him leaving it behind. He told them he didn't want to get in trouble right now, but refused to tell them why. Later that day, he had another meeting with Gretchen, where they talked about their first date and Outie Dylan's rotating hobbies. Dylan asked if they could try the hug again because he liked it. They hugged and when they pulled back, Gretchen and Dylan kissed.
That night at home, Gretchen lied to Outie Dylan, telling him the meeting had been cancelled. Dylan wanted to go buy a new car, but at Gretchen's disapproval, he promised he'd test drive only and not commit to buying anything.[15]
Dylan was getting ready to go to work when Gretchen confessed that she'd kissed his innie. Dylan became angry and threatened to quit to ensure it never happened again.
Gretchen came to see Dylan's innie at work and told him that his outie knew about them. Dylan said his outie should be happy for them as he was making Gretchen happy and his outie wasn't. He tried to get Gretchen to stay with him, offering her a ring he's made for her, but she refused and left.
Dylan went back to MDR, where he talked to Helly about what had happened. They talked about the differences between their innies and outies and she said Gretchen didn't love him because she wouldn't treat someone she loved like she had treated him.
Still hurt, Dylan decided to resign, feeling betrayed. Milchick told him it showed a lack of gratitude and sent Dylan to wait by the elevator. When the elevator finally opened, Dylan stepped on.[16] He was surprised when he ended up back at Lumon. Milchick met him at the elevator and led him to a private room, where he gave him his innie's response to his resignation request and left him to read it privately. Dylan read it and learned that outie Dylan was mad at him for kissing Gretchen, but understood because she's so great. Then he admitted to being jealous of innie Dylan's confidence and hoped that one day, Gretchen would see in him what he saw in innie Dylan. Finally, Dylan said his innie could quit if he wanted to, but he thought he should stay. Dylan decided to stay and returned to MDR just in time to help Helly keep Milchick trapped in the bathroom while Choreography and Merriment played an elaborate number celebrating Mark completing the Cold Harbor file. Helly then appealed to the innie of C&M to back them up, calling on their experience losing friends and knowing they could be the next to disappear. When Milchick finally knocked the vending machine down and stood upon it, he was faced with Dylan and everyone from C&M behind him.[17]
Personality[]
Dylan G. has a very confident and self-assured personality and is more content in the work than the other refiners. Unlike the others, Dylan is primarily motivated through Lumon perks rather than by the supposed importance of the work itself. His seemingly irreverent attitude towards Lumon often provides comic relief. For example, he hands Mark S. and Helly R. copies of "Eagan Bingo" which Dylan created himself in order to stave off boredom in the Perpetuity Wing.
Physical Description[]
Dylan is a man with light brown skin and brown eyes. He has curly black hair that he keeps cropped short and a thick but short beard. He is average height with a heavy build, and dresses formally for work.
Relationships[]
Irving B.[]
Mark S.[]
Helly R.[]
Quotes[]
"The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design"
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Notes and Trivia[]
- His employee access code is 08-974.
- In Irving's Lumon files, he seems to be listed as Dylan Griffin.
- He has admitted to attaching Post-It notes to his face, becoming the character he calls "Sticky Head," which his outie complains leads to clogged pores.[3]
- He took SCUBA lessons.[15]
- He went through woodworking and garage beer-making phases.[15]
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Appearances[]
| Season 1 | |||||
| #01 | "Good News About Hell" | #04 | "The You You Are" | #07 | "Defiant Jazz" |
| #02 | "Half Loop" | #05 | "The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design" | #08 | "What's for Dinner?" |
| #03 | "In Perpetuity" | #06 | "Hide and Seek" | #09 | "The We We Are" |
| Season 2 | |||||
| #01 | "Hello, Ms. Cobel" | #05 | "Trojan's Horse" | #09 | "The After Hours" |
| #02 | "Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig" | #06 | "Attila" | #10 | "Cold Harbor" |
| #03 | "Who Is Alive?" | #07 | "Chikhai Bardo" | ||
| #04 | "Woe's Hollow" | #08 | "Sweet Vitriol" | ||
References[]
- ↑ Good News About Hell, 1x01
- ↑ Half Loop, 1x02
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 In Perpetuity, 1x03
- ↑ The You You Are, 1x04
- ↑ The Grim Barbarity of Optics and Design, 1x05
- ↑ Hide and Seek, 1x06
- ↑ Defiant Jazz, 1x07
- ↑ What's for Dinner?, 1x08
- ↑ The We We Are, 1x09
- ↑ Goodbye, Mrs. Selvig, 2x02
- ↑ Hello, Ms. Cobel, 2x01
- ↑ Who Is Alive?, 2x03
- ↑ Woe's Hollow, 2x04
- ↑ Trojan's Horse, 2x05
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 Attila, 2x06
- ↑ The After Hours, 2x09
- ↑ Cold Harbor, 2x10