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Hold it right there, Variant!

What is going on?

Mobius, it's me.

I don't know you.

I'm fine.

Morning.

She'll be fine.

Casey.

Have we met each other?

Casey, help me.

Please tell me you know what's going on.

Don't you remember me?

I got him.

I got the intruder.

I got the intruder.

Loki.

What?

Just a second ago.

You didn't know me.

Casey.

Casey.

Casey!

Something terrible is happening.

I'm being pulled from...

Wait, no.

Has it always been there?

The crack?

It's been there as long as I can remember.

I was in the past.

Where's Mobius?

B-15?

They're probably in...

Loki?

Mobius.

Where is he?

The war room.

So we're answering to the judges' counsel now?

Okay they probably heard the rumors.

What?

Nothing.

Let's just ease them into it.

We're just gonna tell them the truth.

Agreed, but gently.

What is that?

I don't know.

You're all variants.

Everyone who works at the TVA.

The timekeepers didn't create you.

They kidnapped you from the timeline.

And erased your memories.

Memories she can access through enchantment.

So before this, you had a past.

Maybe you had a family.

A life.

The branches are growing.

They're way past redline.

And you put out an order to stop pruning.

We just need a moment to explain.

Into the microphone, hunter.

We are doing this by the book and on the record.

We just need a moment to explain.

Make it make sense.

You are quite a marvel...

I will be proud to lead with you.

You made a difference in this war.

Thank you for being on my team.

For us, for all time.

Always.

Ravonna Renslayer, you are quite a marvel.

I will be proud to lead with you.

And under whose authority did you make the call to stop pruning branches?

We didn't have time for proper protocol.

Don't you understand?

We're all variants!

On the record, 15.

To hell with the record.

You had a life on the timeline.

And so did you.

So did I.

Look, we get the concerns because we had them also.

But let's also admit that the timeline is branching.

The sky hasn't fallen.

Tell the TVA to stop pruning.

Effective immediately.

Loki!

Mobius.

You know me.

Hey.

Help me.

Hey.

What just happened?

Just a moment ago you didn't know me.

Tell me you recognized me.

Stand down.

Just a moment ago.

You didn't know me!

Stand down!

Mobius.

We found him.

Who?

Him.

Loki.

That's who built this place.

That you stole your lives!

That's whose coming back.

Okay.

Easy.

Put it down.

She was going to kill him.

Sylvie?

Yes. Where is she?

I don't know.

I don't know.

She kicked me through a time door.

I just wanted time to think.

It was an impossible choice.

But she seemed so certain.

How could she be given the possible consequences?

I just wanted time to think.

Slow down, Loki.

You wanted time to think, so let's think.

It's okay!

Mobius.

We got to the man at the end of time.

And he made sense.

We thought it was about freeing the timeline.

But that brings only more malevolence,

more violence, more war, more of him.

They're coming. They're all coming!

I don't understa--

She came to kill the devil...

Maybe he was.

But maybe he wasn't?

I mean, she was convinced he was.

They have to listen to us.

Hey, believe me.

They listened to you, OK?

We heard you loud and clear.

You have to explain to me exactly

how did you just appear in there?

I mean, did you come straight from the end of time?

No. I was in the past.

What do you mean in the past? Where in the past?

Here, here, the past TVA.

No, there is no past TVA. Time doesn't work like that.

But it does now because it's happening to me.

It's impossible.

It's possible, Mobius.

It's not.

Did you see it?

I saw it.

What is it? How does it look?

It's... It looks... I mean, how does it feel?

It's not that bad.

Really? I mean, it looks...

I guess it doesn't look, you know, that bad.

But we definitely got to get you some help.

Let me call Miss Minutes.

No!

What?

You can't trust her.

Are you sure?

Pretty sure.

She was there with him at the end of time.

We got to get you checked out.

You know, swing you by repairs and advancement.

Come on.

They'll have a look at you.

Where's that? We need to be back in there.

Come on!

Mobius, I know you're trying to help me, but we

should be dealing with the bigger problem here.

He who remains.

I understand. It will get to that.

In order to do that, I need a Loki who remains.

We need to address the fact that you keep disappearing.

I don't keep disappearing. We don't have time--

You just disappeared.

I know.

And I can't keep looking at it because it's horrible.

What?

I thought you said it didn't look that bad.

I was lying. It's terrible.

It looks like you're being born or dying or both at the same time.

It's really... It's freaking me out.

It's okay. It's okay.

It looks really painful.

It's not that bad. I can handle it.

How does it look?

It's been a while since I've been down here.

Actually, I'm not sure I've ever been down here.

There we go.

Oh, hey. Welcome to RNA.

We're in the right place.

We have a little bit of a situation we wanted to run by you.

Mobius!

Wow. Great to see you again.

Good to see you too. Yeah, I...

Loki, I want to introduce you to...

I'm Ouroboros.

Nice to meet you, Loki.

Ouroboros.

Ouroboros.

But he calls me OB.

Yeah.

I call him OB. That's like a nickname I have. Yeah.

Wow!

How long has it been?

How long has it been?

Could it be three or four...

400 years.

What? Feels like a thousand.

So how is the team doing up there?

Pretty great. Yeah. I mean, well...

You know about the time keepers and...

That! That's what's been happening.

Wow. Time Slipping.

Wait. Time... You know that?

Yeah.

You've seen that?

Yeah.

Can you fix that?

No.

It's impossible to Time Slip in the TVA.

I know, but we just saw it happen.

Yeah.

I'm having trouble reconciling that.

Ouroboros.

Um, may I call you OB?

OB?

I like that.

Do I know you?

Yes. In the future. Well, it's your future.

My present. It's complicated.

I've been pulled through different times in the TVA.

Time Slipping!

That!

I've been Time Slipping in the TVA.

It's impossible to Time Slip in the TVA.

But you just saw it happen.

Yeah. I'm having trouble reconciling that.

I know it looked like your friend was Time Slipping,

but it must have been something else because I've

never seen anything close to that happen before.

Wait.

No.

There was one time, that guy that was here, what was his name?

Loki?

Yeah. A long time ago, he came to me complaining about Time Slipping.

How did I not remember that?

Wait. Is he talking to you in the past and you're just now remembering it?

Wow. That makes perfect sense.

There's no flaw in that logic.

I guess Time Slipping is possible in the TVA.

So you remember. What did you tell him?

I told him that's impossible.

It's not impossible because I was just with you in the future.

I think I would remember that.

Yes, but it hasn't happened to you yet. Do you see?

Good point. It sure would be more convenient if

we were having this conversation in the future,

and this were the past.

We were. This is the...

Never mind.

OB, look, for the sake of argument,

let's just say if it were possible to Time Slip in the TVA, how might one of the...

It's not.

I understand that.

But theoretically, if it were possible to Time Slip in the TVA,

how might one remedy that?

Well, first off, someone in the time you want

to end up in would need a temporal aura extractor.

Do you have one of those?

I do not.

Ah! I got it!

One temporal aura extractor.

Great. Can you hold on to that until my friend Mobius drops by?

No. Wait.

Yes?

I actually do have an extractor here.

One temporal aura extractor.

And did you happen to discuss how to use such a thing with my friend?

You need to get to the Temporal Loom so the

extractor can pull Loki directly out of the time stream.

Wait, so I need to get to the Temporal Loom so

the extractor can pull Loki out of the time stream?

But it could be dangerous.

How dangerous?

Oh, not too bad if you're quick about it.

Gotta be quick about it.

But if you spent too long in it, that kind of

temporal energy will peel the skin right off you.

I thought you said not too bad and now you're

talking about me getting my skin peeled off of me?

Damn it!

Hey, Loki's back. Well, I guess you two are ready to go.

You've been doing that all day.

No, it's not the lamp. We're having power surges all through the TVA.

What did you say?

So the timeline is branching now?

I bet that's what's causing the power surges.

And maybe your time slipping.

Really? How?

Things are a mess upstairs, Mobius. This better be important.

It is.

The Temporal Loom is the heart of the TVA.

It's where raw time is refined into physical timeline.

It's not constructed to weave together so

many new branches.

So it's overloading.

I've never seen it like this.

It looks like a disaster.

It is a disaster.

You don't get down here too much, I guess.

I never had to.

Miss Minutes took care of everything.

I just ran diagnostics every few hundred years.

So, OB,

What do we do? How do you stop it from melting down?

We need to prune those extra branches.

That means the death of countless people.

We can't do that.

I'll need to close the blast doors to protect the TVA.

While I figure out how to retrofit it to handle all those branches.

What about the time slipping?

Once those doors close,

we won't be able to re sync you.

So it's now or never.

Mobius, to fix Loki's time slipping,

you'll go out there and launch an extractor

which will pull Loki from the time stream

before I need to close the blast doors.

Loki, good luck.

Mobius, I might not make it back--

You'll make it back.

Once these doors open, the temporal radiation

will start aging away your suit.

Get down the gangway.

Lock the temporal aura extracted into place.

Or what?

Well, the blast doors will close and lock you out.

And then your suit will age away.

You will age away, and you'll get very old,

and all your skin will get peeled away, and you will die.

Is this cracked?

You're good.

This can't be the right place.

Where is she?

What took you so long?

What am I doing here?

Oh don't get your breechers in a stir.

You don't me I was going somewhere important.

That I was going to meet someone important.

Did you bring what I asked?

Answer me!

First things first.

Do you have it?

Oh bless your heart.

Now,

do you see that window there?

Uh-huh

The important person you were gonna meet...

The one at the end of time.

He told me that we need to put this package in that window.

That's it?

What do you mean that's it?

It was his plan, meant to protect all of time.

Then why didn't he do it?

He's dead.

What?

This was the plan he made

when he knew the end was near for him.

Get back, someone will see you.

You don't exactly blend in.

Okay.

Better?

This package.

That window.

At this exact moment in time, yes.

And what do I get in return?

When he's back where he belongs,

atop the TVA. You and I will be right by his side.

OB, hello?

Ouroboros?

OB.

Oh, hey guys.

How are things going?

Well, the Loom is in rough shape,

but I'm trying to figure out a retrofit device

to handle all those new branches.

Got it covered.

OB, could I get you to take a look at this TemPad?

Let me see.

Huh, interesting.

Yeah, I can definitely get into it.

Do you think this is a higher priority

than preventing a temporal meltdown?

No, no, no, no, stay focused on the temporal meltdown.

I agree.

Seems prudent.

Okay, everything you need to know about this,

I wrote about it in here.

Any hits on Renslayer's TemPad?

With Miss Minutes down,

the analysts are running traces manually,

and with all the extra branches,

it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

But I did find something else.

Renslayer erased the data from her TemPad,

but I was able to piece together who sent the last message.

Who?

I screw this back in, right?

That's what it said on page seven.

No, no, no, section 42 should match with the system.

Is that with the red light?

Because we tried that already.

Well try it again,

because I don't think you had that pressed back, did you?

It's too complicated.

Wait, am I on the wrong page, or...

Is this thing upside down?

I can't focus.

It's gibberish!

Here's what'll help you focus.

If we don't work this out,

this entire place is gonna be destroyed.

Temporal meltdown or not.

Okay, okay, I'll tell them.

Casey, tell them what you just told me.

Miss Minutes is helping Renslayer.

What?

That explains the radio silence.

Mm-hmm.

Hang on.

When I was in the past,

I heard something,

an old conversation between Renslayer and he who remains.

It sounded like they were partners.

She really is-- full of surprises.

You can say that again.

Where are they?

Renslayer, Miss Minutes?

Not sure, but I'll keep searching.

There's a hit on the TemPad, I'll let you know,

but it'll take some time, so...

How are things going here?

Not that great.

It's all right, we're gonna get there.

Haven't you read the TVA guidebook?

I mean, I haven't memorized it, but

I mean, it'll take me a while to analyze the modifications,

but this definitely doesn't block any trackers,

that's for sure.

Hey, OB, this is Casey, I thought he could help.

We're all gonna die!

OB?

We're all gonna die!

Oh, hey, nice to meet you.

We're all gonna die!

What do you mean?

The blast doors won't open!

Did you try the C12 bypass pathway?

That won't work!

Are you sure?

Of course, I wrote it.

You're Ouroboros?

Yes.

You wrote the TVA guidebook.

You've read it?

Read it, I practically memorized it.

Will you sign mine for me?

Of course I will, happy to do it.

Yeah, just next to your picture,

then I'll draw mine. Hold on.

You just said we were all gonna die.

Oh, right.

The containment doors are locked,

and only the person who designed it

can open it with a live scan of his temporal aura.

He who remains.

And he's dead.

So without Miss Minutes to help us override the lock,

we're stuck.

So we have to convince a rogue artificial intelligence

to come back to work?

Whatever we're doing, we gotta do it fast.

The more those branches grow,

the closer this thing comes to melting down.

I'll build the device, but you need to find a way in,

or it won't matter.

It's really good.

Let me ask you something.

You've never wanted to visit your place on the timeline?

Look, that's the last thing I should be thinking about.

Aren't you curious?

I mean, don't you want to see the life

you were supposed to live before they kidnapped you

and brought you into the TVA?

Not really.

Why?

Because it's not my life.

Butit could have been.

It isn't.

This is.

I'd like to thank the guy who kidnapped me

and brought me here.

He got me this pie.

If you never look, you'll never know.

The TVA is the only life I've ever known.

I like it.

Look, I understand it.

I get it.

You might think twice in case it's something bad.

Or something good!

Something bad I can handle.

What if it's something good?

Do you think I want to have that rattling around in here?

Of course not.

Sure.

*Loom status: Elevated*

So how do we get in?

Without he who remains temporal aura?

I don't know.

How much time do we have?

It's stable right now,

So if we can't get in there

and increase the diameter of the loom's intake rate,

enough to boost throughput,

including that knot of unrefined time.

Wait a second, wait a second.

Simpler.

We need to scale the loom's capacity

to manage all those new branches.

Otherwise it will fail.

And the TVA will be destroyed.

And we're all gonna die.

There has to be another way.

We can hack into the system.

Really?

Oh, that is such a relief.

No, no, I'm wondering.

What?

I think he meant it as an idea.

Can we?

No.

We're all gonna die still.

No one's gonna die.

There has to be a viable option.

What about Miss Minutes?

Can she open up access to the loom?

Miss Minutes, what about it?

Conceivably.

She has to administrative access to the entire TVA.

She could have access the whole universe,

doesn't really matter if she's gone, and she's AWOL!

And how are we gonna find a little rogue cartoon clock

that doesn't wanna be found?

I'd say the sooner we find her, the better.

We know Miss Minutes sent information to Renslayer

and then we never saw her again.

The two hits we had on the TemPad trace.

We find Renslayer, we find Miss Minutes.

It's gonna be an awkward reunion, face to face

with the woman who tried to kill us both.

Well maybe she got it out of her system.

Let's focus on that cartoon clock.

Okay, we got a hit on the TemPad

going from right here, Chicago, 1868,

to the same spot, 1893.

Why would you go to the same place twice?

I don't know, I'm trying to connect the dots.

I mean this isn't a pivot point in history.

Any major figure arises from here?

No.

I mean you had the Chicago Fire, but that's 1871.

Let's go to 1893.

Ravonna, what are you up to?

This can't be the same place.

Yes, yes, how could I have gotten it?

Chicago World's Fair, 1893, the White City!

Edison, H.H. Holmes, yes, hot air balloons!

Okay, this makes more sense as a destination.

Yes.

You're saying they went to 1868, by mistake,

and then went 25 years ahead,

because this is the way they wanted to be?

No, no, I wouldn't describe Renslayer as accident prone.

Plus if she has Miss Minutes there to help her,

there's definitely a purpose for them going there earlier.

We just gotta figure it out.

I mean, if they're here, we'll find them.

If they're here?

Only one way to find out.

Would you kindly open the bag?

Unless you want everyone freaking out,

you stay in that bag until I tell you otherwise.

There she is!

Don't let her see you.

Time.

Is.

Every

thing.

It shapes our lives.

But perhaps,

we...

can shape...

it!

It's him.

Who?

He who remains.

Ladies and gentlemen.

What?

You made him sound like this terrifying figure.

Don't be shocked.

He is.

When I tell you that time

is the future of

energy.

This is one of the variants that he who reamins

warned me about.

It's coming, it's beginning.

Loki, look where we are.

I mean, does he really look like he's about

to conquer all of time?

I aim...

to light...

to power...

the entire...

planet!

Welcome to the future!

My friends!

We need to bring him back to the TVA.

You outta your mind?

You can't trust a variant of he who remains in the TVA.

That's a later problem.

We have a very serious now problem.

The loom.

Yes, and his aura is the only thing that can get us

access to the loom.

And who knows what else he can do!

Mr. Timely!

This way, this way.

Go.

Mr. Timely.

Excuse me.

My associate and I would love to tell you

about a little business venture.

It's thrilling!

I beg your pardon, fellas,

but Mr. Timely and I are in the middle of

discussing business.

Renslayer, this is only gonna take a minute.

Do you all know each other?

Unfortunately, we're old friends.

Colleagues, really.

It was a long time ago.

I can hardly remember.

I want my money back, Timely!

These trousers don't work.

Councilman, what are you talking about?

You look taller to me!

I told you, these were a prototype.

Perhaps I could come by next week.

Maybe adjust the settings?

Next week?

Next week, fine.

Fine, fine.

Mr. Timely.

Mechanical trousers?

You're a confidence-trickster!

Luminary is the word you're looking for.

Luminary, of course, forgive me.

My ideas are just ahead of their time.

Why wouldn't they be?

The concepts are bona fide.

I just need the cruel technology of this era

to catch up with my visionary mind!

You know,

I never doubted it for a second.

Enlightened fellows never do.

Of course.

Your inventions are fake, Timely.

Excuse me.

I'll wipe that smile off you!

Where are they?

He's mine.

Ratbags!

Go ahead.

I beg your pardon.

Take him, he's all yours!

Anything?

Nothing.

Okay, I'll have B-15 run a trace.

This way.

Ah!

I clearly-- I've made a mistake.

leaving you behind.

Save it, I was entrusted with this mission

by he who remains, not his variant.

So from now on, I'm the one in charge.

Are we clear?

As a bell, Ravonna--

Miss Renslayer.

No, no!

Step away from him, we need him.

Move any closer, and he's done.

Stop, Ravonna, what are you doing?

I mean, is this the free will that you were looking for?

Look at me, you have lost your way.

You have no idea what it takes to lead,

to act, to keep order.

Did you happen to notice the second I left?

Everything crumbled.

I'm the only one who can bring stability to the TVA

because that's what I've been doing, thanklessly, for eons.

When will you learn that none of your words mean a thing?

All that matters is order versus chaos.

I'm order.

Please.

I haven't done anything.

Oh, you will.

You'll do terrible things.

That isn't me.

That-- you don't know me.

You don't know the heart.

The heart I have beating in my chest.

I can make my own choices.

I'm not the man you think I am.

Get him out of here.

Walk through.

Don't make me regret this.

Leave that to me.

Here we are.

I suppose I've been a box you've been wanting to tick

for a long time.

If you're gonna kill me, just do it.

I've killed you a thousand times.

In my mind, each time more brutal than the last,

it's crippling, that kind of obsession.

Starting to realize that.

It's power for you, isn't it?

That's what you want.

A seat at the end of time.

Well, be careful what you wish for.

Are you...

You're...

Hello?

Hello.

Just stop.

It's okay, it's all right.

What do you want with me?

Come with us.

I will show you.

That didn't sound as reassuring as you hoped it would.

Listen, Professor, I can only imagine

what Renslayer and Miss Minutes have been saying about us,

but it's not true.

Unless they said something good.

Here's the deal, you have to trust us,

and we don't have time.

I'm from Chicago, friend,

the shadiocracy capital of the world.

I don't trust anyone.

Oh, it's a party, hello.

The more the merrier.

Sit with me.

I know what we would have done in the past.

Pruned, all of them.

It's simple, clean, efficient.

Is that what we do now?

I don't know, but someone told me

that the TVA has to change, and it has to change now.

I don't think it'll change anything.

Don't be so sure of that.

Your words changed me.

Victor, this is Casey, an OB.

We have a plan! Uh, Casey,

Here's a model I mocked up of the loom.

Forgive the shoddy and slap dash work.

It's not to scale.

I only got one coat of paint on there.

I haven't been able to carve out figures

to represent all of us.

What's the plan?

It's simple.

One of us will have to take our throughput multiplier

down the gangway, load the throughput multiplier

into the launcher.

Then they'll need to hit the green button

Green button.

and launch it towards the loom.

It will dock with the loom,

where it will scale the loom's capacity

to manage the backlog of branches

that was created when...

someone killed he who remains.

And released all those branches and ruined my life.

Hang on.

What's the connection between the throughput multiplier

and the loom?

The rings of the loom aren't wide enough.

That's correct.

We need to make the rings bigger

so more branches can fit through.

But there's one gigantic problem.

What's that?

There is much, much more temporal radiation out here

than there was when you went out there, Mobius.

So much more.

More?

Yes.

Okay, well, I mean, Loki's really gonna have

to hoof it then, right?

Hang on a sec, why is it suddenly me having to hoof it?

Well, because it's your turn.

Says who, why?

Why is it suddenly, why is it me?

Because clearly this isn't me.

But just because it isn't you isn't necessarily me either.

Listen guys.

It's got your shape to it!

It's not my shape, it's just, it's someone in a suit!

Guys-- It could be anybody.

It's wearing a helmet!

It doesn't look like anyone.

I just don't think it's me.

It doesn't matter who it is.

It's doable.

But this person just needs to be super fast.

Okay, great.

So what we waiting for?

Let's do this.

There's another problem with that.

This whole plan is only theoretical

because our throughput multiplier does not yet work.

Why?

Doesn't work.

Wait, let me guess.

The loom's temporal decay outpaces your multiplier's

throughput capabilities.

Every time, yeah.

How did you know that?

Because I had the same problem with my loom

until I made this.

It's a proto type.

Okay, come on.

Let's give them some space to work.

All right, let's have a little pie while we wait.

Pie?

Yeah.

What is the matter with you?

Everything is turning to shit.

And you want to leave it to them

while we go and have some pie.

Great idea, Mobius.

Sylvie wait.

No, I won't wait.

Come on, let's go and get some pie.

Why not?

It's a great idea.

It doesn't matter that the branches are dying.

Clocks don't tick at the TVA, do they?

You found out you're a variant

and you haven't even looked, have you?

It's just another bad day at the office for you.

Timelines are just lines on monitor.

It doesn't matter if a few disappear

because you've never bothered to look

if one of them was yours.

Who cares if a few just disappear?

Enjoy your pie.

You've got to be kidding me.

I took a wrong turn.

Didn't plan on coming to pie land.

Say it then.

About Mobius.

He's just trying to see in the dark like the rest of us.

I'm here, aren't I?

Again!

You're only here because you couldn't kill him.

Yeah, I couldn't kill him.

Couldn't do it.

Timely just looked so scared.

He who remains wasn't scared.

Or maybe he was and I just didn't notice.

Some years ago, my brother was banished from Asgard

and sent to Earth.

And when he came back, he was different.

Changed somehow.

I thought it was weakness.

I mocked him.

Said he'd gone soft.

Soft gets you killed.

Listen, Sylvie, you spared Timely's life

and because of that, the TVA and those timelines will survive.

Those people will survive.

You spared their lives too.

What if I was wrong to spare him?

It would just be easier to burn this place down

and start from scratch.

Sure, burn it down, easy.

Annihilating is easy.

Razing things to the ground is easy.

Trying to fix what's broken is hard.

Hope

is hard.

It's up to us to do better than he who remains.

Sounds like whatever we do, we're playing God.

We are gods.

Come on, right here.

Victor, this way, this way.

What do we need to do?

The throughput multiplier is waiting in the airlock,

but first we need Mr. Timely's aura scan

so we can get the blast doors open.

Okay, let's go.

Just put your head in the scanner.

Is that safe?

I haven't tested it, theoretically.

It's all right.

You'll be fine.

Let me hold this.

Welcome, he who remains.

It worked.

It's worse than I thought.

We have to move fast.

Who's it gonna be?

I'll do it.

I'll put the suit on.

Okay, let's go then.

Come on, let's move.

Wait.

It should be me.

No, you don't have to do this.

But I do.

Something wrong could happen,

and I know how the through-put multiplier works.

Okay. Okay, let's go.

Okay, okay, no time to argue.

Please, hurry, hurry, come follow me.

Listen, get in, get suited up.

When those doors open, get down the gangway

as fast as you can, load the multiplier,

launch it, and get back.

Got it? Got it.

Okay.

Okay. Okay.

Time to be brave.

Good luck.

Time to be brave.

How long will he have?

Not long.

He'll make it.

I don't know about these radiation levels,

because it's even worse than when I was in there.

He'll make it.

Ready.

Come on, let's go, let's go.

Come on, let's move.

Here we go.

What happened?

Wha--

Where is he?

He's gone.

What happened?

It's over.

What?

Is he dead?

The temporal radiation is just too high.

What did we do wrong?

I don't know.

What happened?

I don't know.

TVA code 1229,

fail safe mode initiated.

(exploding)

Thank you for your service.

No, no, no.

This is not happening again!

Thank you for your service.

Hello?

TVA code 1229

fail safe mode initiated.

Thank you for your service.

Hello?

Hello?

Goodbye.

Come on, come on.

Let's go, hurry up.

If they catch us, they're gonna gut us like fish.

Casey!

Casey!

Thank God you're here.

Is everyone here?

Who are you?

Not again.

Who am I?

Casey, it's me.

Please tell me you know who I am.

With the boat?

You're at the wrong place.

You're not supposed to be here!

Is that the boat guy?

Do you have a boat?

A boat?

I don't know anything about a boat.

How'd you get here?

How did I get where?

Alcatraz...

What?

I don't know how I got here.

That's the problem.

I don't know what's happening, Casey.

Frank, why is this guy calling you Casey?

We've been calling you Frank the whole time!

Frank?

It is true, you said your name was Frank.

It is.

His name's Casey.

I don't know this guy.

I don't know you.

Come on.

You gotta find your own way off this rock.

Sorry pal.

Okay, so we got a good cast on here for you.

It's gonna help you heal nicely,

but you're gonna have to wear it for six weeks, okay?

Does it still hurt?

That's good.

But do you remember how bad it hurt when you came in?

That's good too.

But you might forget how bad it hurt

over the next six weeks, so I'm gonna write

a little reminder on here for you.

That's not gonna stop you, is it?

I tried.

All right, be good.

Wind in the hair.

Little mist slapping you in the face.

Don-- nothing but open water in front of you.

Don, your son's calling on line three.

Tell him I'll call him back.

So talk to me.

What are you thinking?

Sorry, I was more interested in a dirt bike.

Well, they say the personal watercraft

is kind of the thinking man's dirt bike.

Couldn't pay me to put on a helmet and ride around in the mud.

Hello!

You're here.

Oh yes, every day of the week except Sunday,

nine to five.

The TVA is gone.

I think you mean ATV and no, you're in luck.

We got in two of them last week, they're upstairs.

You don't remember me either.

No, no, I do.

You were in just the other day, right?

Your son's on line three.

Sorry, single dad, get me a second.

Told you I'll call him back.

Your other son.

Tell him I'll call him back.

The Zartan Contingient?

Don't think I've ever seen this one before.

It's really good, he's one of the greats.

I read everything he does.

Oh, I'll have to check it out.

Better hurry, there's only a few left on the shelf.

Hmm...

It's not reading the barcode.

I can give you cash, I don't need a receipt or anything.

Yeah, but I have to ring it up or...

Are you buying your own book?

You.

I told you to stop putting your sci-fi books on our shelves.

Science fiction is a well respected and

thought-provoking genre.

Well, nobody buys it here.

What I'm about to tell you

is gonna be hard to believe.

Of course I believe you, it's a dream come true!

One of my characters has come to life and needs my help.

This reminds me of what happens in the Sons of Yorin.

What's that?

Just, you know, my most popular book of all time.

I'm sure I can find your copy somewhere around here.

Wait

you're are a writer?

Yes, science fiction.

I'm doomed.

But, and this is kinda embarrassing,

I had to get a PhD to keep my day job

teaching theoretical physics at Caltech.

Wait, you were a scientist as well?

That's great.

Yeah, so what exactly are you trying to do?

I need to go back to before the temporal loom melted down.

You time travel in a place that has no time, right?

Right.

That's not possible.

I know.

So you're traveling to a place that doesn't exist anymore

is equally impossible, and therefore,

it's something you might be able to do.

Doesn't sound like science.

No, but it does sound like fiction.

You need to learn how to control your time slipping.

I can't control it.

I can't just make it happen.

It's random.

But it isn't random, because you keep ending up

around exactly the people you're looking for,

and it's evolving, because you're not just slipping in time.

You're also moving around in space.

It's like you're a better version

of one of those TemPads.

You make it sound like it's a good thing.

With science, it's all what and how.

But with fiction, it's why.

So why do you need to do this?

Why do I need to do this?

I'll tell you why.

Because if I can't save the TVA from being destroyed,

there will be nothing.

If that's the real why that's guiding you,

you should be able to control it.

So go ahead.

Now?

Yeah, just do it.

All right.

Here we go.

Cool.

Focus in on that why.

You need to save the TVA.

You need to save the TVA.

Anything?

I'm trying.

Maybe you need to try harder.

I'm trying as hard as I can.

You must be doing something wrong

because it really feels like the time slipping

is the answer.

Let's try this.

Hold this.

Yeah

We get the band back together.

That doesn't seem very scientific.

You said everyone, every one of your friends

has a temporal aura, right?

Right.

Well, that means a group of people

would have a collective aura unique to that moment in time.

If we can get everyone together in one place,

we can read that aura.

It'll be like coordinates.

And we can use these coordinates

to get back to that moment in time.

No.

Why?

Because we don't have one of those TemPads

you talked about.

Well, can you build one?

You can build one.

Maybe, but without any of the knowledge of how it works,

I would have to invent it all from scratch.

It could take a whole lifetime.

What if he had that knowledge?

What's that?

You tell me you wrote it.

I did?

You did.

There's one on every desk at the TVA.

So I am gonna write a bestseller!

Yeah, sort of.

Let's get to work.

Oh, that's a problem.

Now it don't look like some lunatic garage sale.

Is he burnt?

Yeah, he's burnt.

How did he get burnt?

Kevin, who gave you the matches?

I stole them.

No, you, give them to me.

Come on, hand them over.

Don't run, Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, Kevin, get.

Sean, go get em, come on.

Hurry, and if you keep them from burning down the house,

I'll get you a puppy.

Come on.

And a snake?

We'll negotiate later, run.

Hurry.

Small victories.

Hello.

Hello.

Hi.

Hey.

Oh, you were at the shop earlier.

That's right.

Yeah, you live around here?

Or did you follow me home?

Oh no, no, no.

I was actually on my way to the,

I happened to see you, so I just,

I thought I'd just come and say,

I'm sorry, I couldn't stick around back there.

I was in a bit of a time crunch.

I got something I wanna show you.

Come here.

Now, ordinarily, I wouldn't dream

of partying with one of these beauties,

but the wife is long gone, and I can't write two of them.

Plus the boys are probably gonna need braces

and math tutors and God knows what else.

"A beautiful union of form and function."

That's lovely.

Yeah.

I'm not here to buy a jet ski.

Oh, what are you here for?

Listen, I'm going to tell you something

that's hard to understand, Mobius.

Mobius?

Mobius, that's your name.

Okay, I think you have me mixed up with someone else.

Now you see the thing is I don't.

I'm a friend.

I know you are.

I'm a friend too.

What?

How did you build a TemPad so fast?

I don't know if I say 18 months is fast.

Well, 19 months.

I had to take a break and move out

when I lost my job and my wife left me.

So what now?

What's happening?

I promise you this will make sense.

But how did you?

Reality isn't what you think it is.

And this isn't the life of the man I know.

I don't know who you know.

I don't understand.

I know you.

No, you probably--

From a place called the Time Variance Authority.

You saved my life when I first arrived.

You saw something in me that I hadn't seen in myself.

Are you really my friend?

I am.

Who's he?

Is he my friend?

He will be.

Why don't I remember that?

It's too complicated to explain it to you now,

but I need your help to save this place.

What about my boys?

They'll be fine.

I can't leave them.

What do you mean they'll be--

Listen, listen.

Look, you can come back any time.

Oh, you were at the shop earlier, right?

I can bring you back to any point in time.

It'll be like you never left.

Your boys won't even know you're gone.

Yeah. But I will.

All of existence is in grave danger.

I don't care.

Your boys are in danger too.

I can't keep them safe unless you help me.

What were you calling me?

Mobius.

It's a pretty cool name.

This is going to sound strange.

How you doing?

I'm Don-- or

Mobius is my space name.

Are you part of this whole saving the--

Is this room safe?

from the wormhole, or the quantum--

This whole area is totally abandoned.

No one's around for miles.

So is this everyone?

No.

There's one more.

This is gonna sound strange.

I know you don't know who I am.

Loki.

Of course I know who you are.

What?

You do?

Why wouldn't I?

Because nobody else did.

Their lives are reset after the loom.

Yeah, I know, I was there.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

This isn't how I thought this scene was gonna play out.

No?

What exactly were you expecting?

Okay.

Get in the car.

I'm buying you a drink.

Okay.

However, Mobius' life at the TVA was taken from him.

So was B-15's.

OB, Casey was a prisoner.

They don't remember who they are.

Their lives matter.

They matter.

Yeah, and they're finally back in their real lives.

That's a good thing.

Eric, can we get a drink?

But how many?

If they had a choice, would've chosen to stay?

Mobius always said the TVA was the only life

he'd ever known, and he liked it.

It gave him purpose.

It was never his choice to begin with, Loki.

He who remains did that.

But Mobius should have a choice now.

No?

Shouldn't they all?

To return to the TVA if they want?

No, you would be ripping people from their lives,

showing them something that they cannot unsee.

What kind of choice is that?

But they didn't get a choice in this.

And I can't give it to them without you.

You don't care?

I guess not.

I guess it's all worked out just the way you want it to,

and you're fine just walking away.

So selfish.

Of course I'm selfish.

I want a life.

I want to live.

What's wrong with wanting something, Loki?

What do you want?

I want to stop he who remains.

No, wrong, try again.

What is it that you really want?

Come on.

I want to save this.

I want to save everything, all of it.

Is it really that hard?

Come on, keep trying.

I want to save the TVA.

Why?

I want the TVA back.

And?

What do you want?

I want my friends back!

Two bourbons, please.

Excellent choice, Sylvie.

I want my friends back.

I don't want to be alone.

See?

We're both selfish.

Cheers.

I know this is hard,

but your friends are back where they belong.

But without them,

where do I belong?

We're all writing our own stories now.

Go write yours.

Don't bother.

You should all go home.

Hey, Lyle.

Hey.

How's my only regular doing?

Oh, yeah fine.

Don't you ever go home?

Oh, I like it here more.

Well, I'm glad of the company tonight.

Rough day?

Had better.

I got just the thing.

This will either cure what's ailing you

or make it a whole lot worse.

We really need to work on your sales technique.

Thank you.

Sylvie!

You showed up and told each of us

that we're the key to saving all of existence

and now what we're not?

I'm sorry.

I got it wrong, all right?

It was more about what I wanted.

You should go back to your sons.

I know, but that's just it.

You said they were in danger.

So now they're okay?

You should all just go back to your lives.

That's where you belong.

But do I need to go back to exactly where I was?

What about the TVA?

The TVA.

You're fine without it.

You're all just fine without it.

No, they aren't.

Everything's falling apart.

The branches are dying.

So what does that mean?

I don't know.

I don't know what's happening,

but there must be something we can do.

We can go back.

We can stop the loom from melting down.

OB, we're all here.

The pens.

We have all the pens, the mug, the coordinates.

Okay, first we need to read a collective temporal aura

of everyone in this room on the TemPad.

Where did it go?

Hey!

I didn't take it.

Listen, you can rob every bank you like

when this is done.

We need that TemPad now.

Great, but I still didn't take it.

What do we do?

It was a fiction problem.

No, no, I have to go back to see my boys.

Is this it?

There's no where left to go.

Do you think that what makes a Loki a "Loki"

is the fact that we're destined to lose?

There's no where left to go.

No, they aren't.

Everything's falling apart.

The branches are dying.

So what does that mean?

I don't know.

I don't know what's happening,

but there must be something we can do.

I did it.

What?

I did it.

Did what?

I controlled it.

You learned to control your time slipping.

Yes.

It's not about where, when, or why.

It's about who.

I can rewrite the story.

You don't want this.

What's happening?

You cannot kill him.

You must not follow through.

It all ends if you do.

I know this sounds strange.

I've seen it.

I know it.

Get out of my way.

I won't.

You've been seduced by a throne.

The last thing I want is a throne.

Sylvie, stop.

If you want me to stop,

you'll have to kill me.

Ooh, close.

See you soon...

If you want to stop me, you'll have to kill me.

See you soon...

If you want me to stop, you'll have to kill me.

If you want to stop me, you'll have to kill me.

See you soon...

If you want to stop me, you'll have to kill me.

If you want to stop me--

I'll have to kill you. I get it.

Why don't you never try to stop her?

Fight back, do something.

So, how many times have you been at this?

What did you do?

Oh, come on, you're not telling me

you haven't learned how to pause.

Time.

Yet.

I figured you'd be way past that.

Don't worry, lover boy, she's okay.

But she is in eye line a little bit,

so why don't we just---

So, this isn't the first time we've had this conversation.

How did you know?

I know about the slipping.

And who do you think paved that road?

Any guesses, survey says?

He who remains.

Bingo!

Here you were, slipping through time,

thinking you were sticking it to the system,

gonna beat the man and then whoop.

Here he is.

Oh, kiddo, did you really think

I was just gonna sit back and let her kill me?

This is a lot for you.

I get it, so why don't you just go through this

a couple thousand more times, get your bearings,

and then you just, you just let me know, okay?

When you're ready to have a conversation, okay?

And what makes you think

this is the first time we've had this conversation?

Well done.

You're my favorite, you know that.

When there's two of you here, you were my favorite.

Okay.

So, seems you've figured it all out, hmm?

Tell me, how is Victor T- T- T-imely?

Of course you know about him.

Wait, don't tell me,

"you're having some problems with the temporal loom."

It destroyed the TVA.

The temporal loom is a fail safe.

When the loom is overloaded with branches,

it deletes the ones that aren't supposed to be there.

Everything except the sacred timeline.

And the TVA, well that's just collateral damage.

No biggie,

easy to rebuild.

What a waste of time.

And as you may or may not know,

my variants are already out there.

We'll find them.

There's too many.

I won't stop.

Doesn't matter.

Never stopped me before.

I know, champ.

But the outcome to this equation remains--

it remains the same.

You lose.

I know.

I know.

Every moment of peace you've ever experienced

was yours because I was here.

Alone.

I made the tough choices.

That's why I get the big chair.

I keep us safe.

Can't you see what I'm offering here is mercy?

For me or for you?

No.

I'll find another way.

Okay.

And around and around and around we go.

Let's see it.

Make the hard choice.

Break the loom and you cause a war that kills us all.

Game over or...

Kill her...

And we protect what we can.

What are you gonna do?

Finish what I started.

Which is?

Claim my throne.

You wanna be king?

I don't want to be, I was born to be.

No, no, but king of what exactly?

Okay, so let's get into it.

The man who would be king.

No, Mobius, stop.

Stop, we just started.

We gotta keep going.

No, no, no, no.

I know what this is.

What is it?

You want to know what makes Loki tick.

Yes.

You want to know why I do what I do,

why I have so much range.

Yeah.

You're gonna make notes and then you're gonna

click that button on that machine and

then you're gonna play out scenes from my whole life.

How it's all meant to be.

Past, present, future.

Burdened with Glorious Purpose.

My life was a waste of time.

Okay, it looks like someone got a hold of the set list.

How are you doing this?

Mobius, I need your help.

I'm listening.

How do you choose who lives and who dies?

Prune, we prune around here and we don't choose

the time keepers--

The time keepers?

They're the ones that have that responsibility.

Yes, dictate the proper flow of time.

and they're busy untangling the epilogue

from its infinite branches.

I know the dogma, but really, you're the one doing it.

Because it was the proper flow of time.

What comfort is that?

Comfort?

There's no comfort.

You're not gonna find comfort at the TVA.

Most purpose is more burden than glory.

Trust me, you never wanna be the guy who avoids it

because you can't live with the burden.

No, there's no comfort.

You just choose your burden.

Thank you, Mobius.

Hey.

Loki?

What are you doing?

Open the door.

Loki!

I know what I want.

I know what kind of God I need to be.

For you.

For all of us.

No! Loki!

I need to get out there.

The branches are dying.

He's giving us a chance.

Your team are doing an excellent job.

Let me know if you need anything.

Casey said he's gonna get these taken down.

Although it is a good reminder,

those who do not remember the past are, you know.

So when we get in there--

Yeah, funny you should mention that because--

You're leaving.

You think the TVA's gonna miss a tired, washed up,

old analyst with a heart of gold?

I think there is one or two who will.

I have-- I've gotta go see what exactly it is

we've been protecting for all this time.

Well, if you ever want a seat in there, it's yours.

Thanks.

Help, the inmates are running the asylum!

Okay, okay, peace, peace, dinner, come on,

let's find some common ground.

The yard could do with a bit of work.

No, it's great.

Christ, it's the best house on the block.

Never look, never know.

It's weird that Loki's not here, isn't it?

Yeah.

Well, see you around, I guess.

Where are you gonna go?

You?

I might just wait here for a little bit.

Let time pass.