I was thinking back to the first episode when Mark nearly ran over Helena in the car park, providing a confirmation “oh hey he really doesn’t recognise her”.
Knowing what we do now though,
- Did Mark not realise that he nearly ran over one of the Lumon leadership? He acts as if she was just some random employee.
- Why is Helena walking to an old car in the outer reaches of the car park when she is so senior and tends to get driven around? (Maybe the flowers she’s carrying are a clue?)
I think these are good questions, but I think the answers are banal. Do you know what Jeff Bezos’ daughter looks like? If you almost ran over Priscilla Chan, would you know it was her?
The flowers we know are Milchik’s parting gift for Helena’s first day. I do think this second point stretches credulity and the best answer I can give is that they wanted to send no flags about Helly R. being really important for most of the employees who don’t recognize her.
It can be tricky to recognise famous people when you don’t expect to see them and they’re outside the usual context. I doubt I’d recognise even Bezos in that situation. 15 minutes later I might think “that guy looked a lot like Bezos, huh.”
