"Defiant Jazz" is the seventh episode of the American science fiction psychological thriller television series Severance.

For the episode, John Turturro received a nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Reghabi (Karen Aldridge) takes Mark (Adam Scott) to her hideout inside the university, explaining that she helped Petey achieve reintegration.

Milchick gifts a "Music Dance Experience" to the department as a prize for Helly (Britt Lower) achieving a threshold in refinement.

Enraged that he cannot know anything about his son, Dylan physically attacks Milchick, who angrily leaves to report the incident to Cobel (Patricia Arquette).

When Mark shows them Graner's card, they decide that they should find the security office where Lumon can awaken their innies in the outside world.

When she returns to her office, Cobel is informed of Graner's death, which she suspects might be linked to the person responsible for Petey's reintegration.

Irving openly berates the non-severed Milchick for his celebratory attitude when retirement means the end of Burt's innie.

He had another team building activity in mind of a "touch tank" similar to a Halloween haunted house gag in which participants feel a bowl of spaghetti and other items, but said that this was discarded because "there was so much confusion over what the hell I was talking about.

"[5] Erin Qualey of Vulture gave the episode a perfect 5 star rating out of 5 and wrote, "Even though the outies may not remember the days in their windowless cubicles, their innies are, for all intents and purposes, still versions of them.

"[6] Oliver VanDervoort of Game Rant wrote, "Things are really starting to hit the fan in the latest episode of the Apple TV Plus series Severance.

In fact, it appears that the hold Lumon has had on the company's Innies for years is finally fraying to the point of breaking and at least in part, that control is slipping for reasons it usually does.