Warning: This article contains spoilers for Severance season 2, episode 6, “Atilla.”

Despite Helena’s (Britt Lower) scheming, Mark S. (Adam Scott) and Helly (also Lower) finally got together on Severance.

Sure, it took two episodes longer than expected since Outie Helena had been posing as Innie Helly for the first four installments of season 2. She even seduced Innie Mark while pretending to be his MDR crush when they were on their ORTBO in episode 4, “Woe’s Hollow.” But now Innie Helly is finally back, and Mark S. wasted no time in episode 6, “Atilla,” confessing what happened with her Outie while she was “gone.” In a surprisingly romantic and emotional moment, Helly’s response was to lead Mark to an abandoned room on the severed floor to sleep together, officially rewriting his memory of their fake first time for the real thing.

Severance stars Scott and Lower tell Entertainment Weekly that they worked hard to tell two separate stories between the Mark-Helena and Mark-Helly love scenes. “It was really important to Britt and I, and to Uta [Briesewitz], who was directing that episode, and [producers] Ben [Stiller] and Dan [Erickson], of course, that these two love scenes be very different from one another,” Scott says. “We really, all of us and the intimacy coordinator, just approached it gently. I think that it is a very sweet, gentle scene.”

But then it’s like the Severance chip kicks in, as Scott hesitates to explain any further about filming that scene. “I don’t know if I want to say too much more than that,” he says. “Because it’s something that the viewer can kind of watch and pick up on and know the difference between these two scenes and why they’re different and emotionally how they feel.”

Lower is extremely proud of the step forward with Mark that Helly took in this episode. “Helly is the most fearless character I’ve ever encountered, except for when it comes to Mark S.,” she says. “That’s the one place where she feels what’s at stake in their relationship. So we wanted to play that scene in a contrasting way to the scene in [episode] 4, and really going from the idea that probably [episode] 4 was not Helena’s first time experiencing something like that, whereas for Mark S., the Innie, that was his first time.”

Lower loves how that dynamic is then “flipped” in this week’s episode, allowing Helly to reveal more vulnerability than ever before. “Helly has had the courage to kiss him, make the first move, at the end of season 1, but this is a whole other territory,” she says. “These are characters who, their life experiences, it’s kind of happening for the first time, if that makes sense. So we wanted to craft them really differently. It was very delicate … Helly takes in what has happened and then wants to reclaim her autonomy again for herself. I love how she just moves forward. It’s such a vulnerable scene, but she says what she wants.”

Are Mark S. and Helly officially a couple now? Do they have to sign a disclosure form with Lumon HR declaring their extracurricular activities? (Surely their in-office hookup violated HR guidelines.) “That’s the question, right?” Lower answers with a laugh. “I mean, I don’t know, what’s in a label?”

Scott also laughs as he thinks about that. “That’s a very, very good question,” he says. “Yeah, maybe there’s some official ritual or something, but the important thing is that I don’t think coupling is something that, at least thus far in the show, we haven’t seen it as something that’s encouraged, necessarily. What they’re doing in the stop-motion animated film that Milchick [Tramell Tillman] showed everybody at the beginning of the season, they apparently encouraged this sort of thing. They’re cool with it, but I don’t think for Mark and Helly, any of that matters. I think the cool thing about them is that it’s pure.”

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What’s not as pure is whatever Helena has planned for Mark. The Outtie Lumon exec approached an unsuspecting Outie Mark at a restaurant in a moment that was way too suspicious to be coincidence.

“When Helena goes to see him at the restaurant, I think it’s an interesting insight into just the way that these two people are connected, somehow,” Lower says. “They have something there, even if they’re not aware of what it is. The only combination you haven’t seen together are Outie Mark and Innie Helly. So far you’ve seen Innie Mark, Innie Helly; Outie Mark, Outie Helly; Outie Helly, and Innie Mark, but not that fourth combination, so that’s interesting to note.”

Severance season 2 debuts new episodes Fridays on Apple TV+.