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One stumble reduces her to an outsider, forcing Cobel to return to the desperate company town where she grew up and designed inventions that Lumon stole, including the technology enabling the severance procedure.

The Times’ Company Town senior editor Ryan Faughnder and staff writer Samantha Masunaga contributed to this report.

Pocahontas Fuel bought 1,000 acres and built a mine and mine camp that was a quintessential paternal company town.

But unlike the other two, Seattle and San Francisco, Washington is not a technology hub but a company town that relies on a single employer to a degree not seen elsewhere.

To put it mildly, Plymouth Valley is a company town on steroids.