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I hereby arrest you for crimes
against the Sacred Timeline.

- How do you plead?

Long ago, the all-knowing
Time-Keepers emerged,

creating and organizing
the Sacred Timeline.

Sometimes, people like you
veer off the path.

- We call those Variants.

I'm Agent Mobius, by the way.

- How long have you been here?
I don't know.

It's hard to say.
Time passes differently here in the TVA.

I can't go back, can I?

I can't offer you salvation, but maybe
I can offer you something better.

A fugitive Variant's
been killing our Minutemen.

The Variant we're hunting is you.

- Trusting this man is not a good idea.
- I can handle him.

The Time-Keepers didn't create you.

They kidnapped you from the timeline!

You were disloyal to the TVA.

HUNTER B-15: You were
in the Time-Keepers' chambers.

- They weren't real.
Why'd you think

- that changes anything?
- That changes everything!

Lamentis, The Void.

Every step you took to get here,

I paved the road.

You kill me and destroy all this,
and you don't just have one devil,

you have an infinite amount.

Or you take over
and return to the TVA as its rulers.

- What if he's telling the truth?
- He's a liar, Loki.

I'll see you soon.

Someone is coming.

Countless different versions
of a very dangerous person.

And they're all set on war.
We need to prepare.

Take it easy.
What division are you from?

- What? What are you talking about?
- Who are you? What's your name?

Boots on the ground now. Archives.

Hold it right there, Variant!

What is going on?

Mobius, it's me.

I don't know you.

Hey!

Calm your mind and relax.

I'm fine. I'm fine.

Morning!

She'll be fine.

Level five intruder.

He's hopped into a mail cart
and descended to the lower level.

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 that 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, uh,

- Chrono Bay Three, so...

Loki?

Now what?

HUNTER B-15: Now,
the branches keep on growing

and we tell the people of the TVA
the truth about this place.

And you think people
are gonna be ready to hear that?

HUNTER B-15: People have lives
on the timeline, Mobius.

Yes, I know.

They should have the chance
to live those lives.

Think about it.

Hey, everything you've been doing is wrong
and all your gods are dead.

How are people gonna take that?

HUNTER B-15:
We have to give it a shot.

Hey, Mobius,
Loki was just here looking for you.

Loki's here?

He was, then he disappeared.
- I don't understand.

He disappeared right in front of me.

He looked like he was in pain.

Maybe Miss Minutes can locate him.

You just saw him?

I did.

Miss Minutes? It's not working.

HUNTER X-5: Hey, I have a question.

Can I help you with something, X-5?

We don't see you down here too often.

This one here.
Is this on the Sacred Timeline?

'Cause looks fun.

Jet Skis, Sea-Doos.

Is one of these calling your name, Mobius?

Well, I don't know about calling,

maybe gently whispering.

"Mobius! Come take us for a little spin."

The funny thing about Jet Skis,

everyone thinks that
it's a personal watercraft,

and it's actually a brand,
same way Kleenex is.

Mobius, I don't care.

Why'd you ask?

With Renslayer missing,
there's a new judges' council.

So, General Dox and Judge Gamble

would like to see you both
in the War Room.

I wonder what that's about, huh?

Mobius. Where is he?

He's in the War Room.

HUNTER B-15: We're answering
to the judges' council now?

- Okay, they probably heard the rumors...
- Mob...

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.

Mobius, I was just doing my job.

You mean pruning me.

Yeah, well, I guess you were
just following orders.

It's actually Renslayer
who really owes me the apology.

What's the mood like in there?

You're all Variants!

Everyone who works at the TVA.

The Time-Keepers 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 red line.

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!

D-90 testified

that he went to the timeline
and saw Renslayer's Variant.

And that would certainly corroborate
what B-15 is saying.

HUNTER B-15: That's right.

Renslayer had a life on the timeline.

- 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
'cause we had 'em also.

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

The sky hasn't fallen, we're...

HUNTER X-5: What sky are you looking at?

Are you seeing this
robot head on the table?

The sky is falling, Mobius.
This changes everything!

This changes nothing.

We won't let the timeline branch.
I'm sorry, Hunter.

If we don't protect it,
what on earth are you suggesting?

Protect? Is that what you think
we've been doing?

With all due respect, ma'am,

we haven't been protecting,
we've been destroying.

There are people with lives
on those branches,

and we have committed atrocities

- every time we prune.
Atrocities?

- Yes.
- Take caution in your tone.

Call it whatever you want, but we have to
take a moment to understand what is...

- We don't have a moment.
- You've made your position clear.

So we don't have time for protocol now?

And you've made
your position clear, Hunter.

All my life, I've always handed down
the same verdict.

Guilty.

The Time-Keepers deemed it so.

HUNTER B-15: Ma'am, I know how hard it is

to turn your back on everything
you've believed in.

But the TVA has to change,
and it has to start now.

We can't go back
to pruning those branches.

I can do anything.

Anything.

Tell the TVA to stop pruning,
effective immediately.

Loki?

- Mobius. You know me.
Where the hell were you?

HUNTER X-5: Hey.
Help me.

- HUNTER X-5: Hey!
- What just happened?

A moment ago, you didn't know me.
Stand down!

- Tell me you recognize me. Do you know me?
- Yeah.

Everyone, stand down!

- Come on. Come here.
- Mobius. We found him.

- Who?
- Him.

Loki?

Get back!

That's who built this place!
That's who stole your lives!

That's who's coming back!

Okay.

Easy, put it down.

- Put it down.
- She was going to kill him.

Who, Sylvie?
- Mobius, yes.

Sylvie? Where is she?

- I don't know.
- It's okay. It's all right.

- Come.
She kicked me through a Time Door.

The Time-Keepers are fake,
but their warnings were real.

Seems pretty straightforward to me.

What do you want me to do?

We need to know what happened
at the End of Time.

Find Sylvie.

She's the reason we're in this mess.

Who's she? What does she want with Sylvie?

General Dox. Don't worry. Are you okay?

- What happened with the cloud monster?
- Alioth?

Alioth was a distraction.

He was a guard dog. We found him.

A Citadel at the End of Time.

- But where's Sylvie?
- I don't know, she's still there.

I just wanted time to think.

It was an impossible choice,
but she seemed so certain.

How could she be given the consequences?

- I just wanted time to think.
- Okay, 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.
- Who?

-"You came to kill the devil."
- I don't understand.

Maybe he was.

But maybe he wasn't.
She was convinced he was.

We fought, Mobius,
and she kicked me through a Time Door.

Well, I'd ask who won, but...

It was a draw.

You both kicked each other
through Time Doors simultaneously?

No. I was actively
trying not to fight her.

I was trying to stop her.
She was gonna kill him.

Stop. Relax. Forget about it.

Look, Renslayer kicked me down
some steps, too. Listen, just calm down.

I just wish I had tried harder,
I wish I'd had more time.

Don't do the coulda woulda shoulda.
Focus on what we know.

That.

That is what we know.
War. And it's on its way.

Maybe it's true, everything he was doing,
the pruning,

the preservation of the Sacred Timeline.

It was about preventing more of him.

There was no simple choice, no other way.

- That's who you showed us in there?
- He Who Remains.

This is his kingdom.

And he said he keeps us safe,
but how can you believe that?

- He built this place.
- No, how would I not remember that?

- How could he...
- Because he wiped your memories.

And he obviously did it more than once.

- They have to listen to us.
- Hey!

Believe me, they listened to you, okay?
We heard you loud and clear.

You have to explain to me exactly,

how did you just appear in there?

Did you come straight
from the End of Time?

No, I was in the past.

What do you mean, in the past? Where?

- Here, the past TVA.
- No, there is no past TVA.

- Time doesn't work like that here.
- It does, it's happening to me.

- It's impossible. No, it's not.
- It's possible.

- Did you see it?
- Yeah, I saw it.

Yeah? What does it... How does it look?

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

It's not that bad.

Really? I mean, it look...

I guess it doesn't look that bad,

but we definitely gotta get you help.

Let me call Miss Minutes.

- No. You can't trust her.
- What?

- Are you sure?
- Pretty sure.

She was there with him at the End of Time.

No, we gotta get you checked out.

Yeah, let's swing you by
Repairs & Advancement. Come on.

- They'll have a look at you.
- Where's that? I need to get back.

Come on.

We need to deal with
the bigger problem here.

- He Who Remains.
- I understand and we'll get to that.

In order to do that,
I need a Loki Who Remains.

We need to address you disappearing.

What? I don't keep disappearing.
We don't have time...

Loki...

You just disappeared.

I can't keep looking at it
'cause it's horrible.

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

I was lying.

It's terrible,
looks like you're being born or dying

or both at the same time.

- It's freaking me out.
- It's okay.

It looks really painful.

- It's not that bad. I can handle it.
- Come on. How does it look?

Okay, and Sylvie kicking you through
the Time Door into the past,

that somehow started all this?

All I know is I was in the past.

It was He Who Remains' TemPad,
so maybe that's how it was possible.

Wait, that's who you said
had my memory wiped?

Yes. He Who Remains.

Is that what you're calling him,
or that's his name?

That's how he's introduced.

That's arrogant. It's like
calling yourself "Last Man Standing."

Is it arrogant
if you can back it up?

- Can he back it up?
- Yeah.

That's scary.

- Imagine a million of them.
- I'd rather not.

Where are you taking me?

It's all right,
it's a little off the beaten path.

I have no memory
of having my memory wiped.

You know where you're going?
- Yeah, it's just right up here.

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

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

Oh, hey, welcome to R & A.

Good. 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 wanna introduce you to...

I'm Ouroboros.

- Nice to meet you, Loki.
- Sorry.

Ouroboros.

Ouroboros, hi.
- But he calls me O.B.

Yeah, I call him O.B.

That's a nickname I have. Yeah.

Wow.

How long has it been?

How long has it been? Uh...

Could it be three or four...

- Four hundred years.
- What?

- Feels like a thousand, right?
- Yeah.

Remember, you got off on the wrong floor
and I told you it was the wrong floor...

Wait, that's right! Yes!

I stayed for a little bit.
He took me over...

- You stayed...
- No, you left immediately.

Well, I'm back.

Yes, you are.

Believe it or not, he was my last visitor.

Wow.

- Reunited. Four hundred years.
- Yeah.

- That's right.
Yeah.

- Hey, how are the other guys doin'?
- What other guys?

- What other guys?
- It's just O.B.

- It's just O.B.
- Yeah. O.B.

- Oh. Hang on.
- Hold on, O.B. Okay.

The work orders really pile up
if I take a break, so I just keep at it.

Forever. No sleep.

O.B., we just have
a quick question for you.

Great being part of a team.

So, how is the team doing up there?

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

You know about the Time-Keepers
and, you know...

That! That's what's been happening.

Wow. Time slipping.

- What, you... 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.

Uh, may I call you "O.B."?

"O.B."?

I like that.

- Uh, 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 saw it happen.
- Yeah.

I'm having trouble reconciling that.

Looked like your friend was time slipping,
but it must be something else.

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 remembering it?

Wow. That makes perfect sense.

- There's no flaw in that logic.
- Yes.

- Time slipping is possible at the TVA.
- Yes. You remember.

- What did you tell him?
- I told him...

That's impossible.

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

Mmm... I think I would remember that.

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

- Do you see?
- Good point.

It would be convenient if we were
having this conversation in the future

and this were the past.

We were. This is the... Never mind.

O.B., look, for the sake of argument,

let's just say, if it were possible
to time slip in the TVA,

- how might one...
- It's not.

I understand that.

But theoretically, if it were possible
to time slip in the TVA,

how might one remedy that?

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.

Ha! I got it.

One Temporal Aura Extractor.

Great.

Can you hold onto 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?

Not too bad if you're quick about it.

- Gotta be quick about it.
- If you spend too long in it,

that kinda temporal energy
will peel the skin right off you.

Wait, you said "not too bad"

and you're talking about me
getting my skin peeled off.

Not too bad compared
to what Loki has to do.

Why, what's Loki gotta do?

Violently rip myself from
every thread of time and space?

- All at once?
- That means prune yourself.

- Why?
- When something is pruned,

it's released from time,

so the hope is that
after you prune yourself,

the Extractor will pull you
into the present.

Of course.

Yeah.

Um... and then if it doesn't do that?

You heard about how if you fall
into a black hole you turn into spaghetti?

- No.
- Good.

The less you know about that, the better.

Damn it!

Hey, Loki's back.

I guess you two are ready to go.

Wait, am I ready
to get my skin peeled off? I don't know.

Am I ready to rip myself
from every thread of time?

I'd rather have that.

You'd rather be disassembled
and never reassembled?

Than have your skin ripped off?

At least you get to live.

Live? What's the quality of life
with no skin?

There has to be another way.

- Huh. 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.
This better be important.

It is.

The branching is overloading
the Temporal Loom.

- Temporal Loom?
- That's bad.

You know, the Temporal Loom.

- It's in the TVA Guidebook.
The what?

There's one on every desk
at the TVA.

It's a detailed index of
every mechanical classification

and maintenance routine in each sector,

on each device, and inside
every computer program at the TVA.

- I wrote it myself.

Okay, O.B.,
this piece just came off right here.

Is that important? I think...

The Temporal Loom is the heart of the TVA.

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

And 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, O.B., what do we do?
How do we stop it? The meltdown?

We need to prune those extra branches.

That means the death of countless people.
We can't do that.

Then I'll need to close the blast doors
to protect the TVA,

while I figure out how to retrofit it
to handle 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.

What?

Okay.

- Now!
Wait!

It's now, but now isn't for a little bit.

We still gotta get Mobius into position.

But first...

Mobius, to fix Loki's time slipping,

you'll go out there
and launch the Extractor,

which will pull Loki from the time stream
before I need to close the blast doors.

Loki, this timer is synced to the Loom.

You'll stand by to prune yourself
within moments after this turns green.

Green means Mobius succeeded.

Green means prune.

If you're too late,
you will be lost to time forever

and Mobius will lose all of his skin.

Okay, you've got about an hour.

You've got about five minutes.

Anyway, I'm gonna get everything ready.

Okay.

Dox and her crew are raiding the armory.

They're going after Sylvie.
That's their only lead.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What are you doing? Where are you going?

- Sylvie, Dox...
- No!

We have one shot at this.

HUNTER B-15: I'll handle Dox.

Good luck.

Mobius, if I...

- If I don't make it back, I...
- You'll make it back.

Right, but when I use this thing,
I might not make it back...

He'll make it back.

It's the future.

The Timestick.

Once these doors open,

the temporal radiation
will start aging away your suit,

so get down the gangway,

lock the Temporal Aura Extractor
into place,

and hoof it back here
the moment I tell you to.

- How am I gonna hoof it in this?
- You got to.

Or what?

Or 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.
- O.B.!

Get ready to see some hoofin'
like you've never seen before.

Okay.

All personnel, report to your
nearest Time Door evacuation point.

The Timestick.

TVA code 1127.

All personnel, report to your nearest
Time Door evacuation point.

All personnel, report to your nearest
Time Door evacuation point.

Come on. The Timestick.

TVA code 1127.

There's still time.

All personnel, report to your nearest
Time Door evacuation point.

Damn it!

Go.

No.

Mobius, I need to
close the blast doors now

to have any hope of fixing the Loom.

Give him more time.
He can still make it.

Mobius, we have 30 seconds.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Three.

Three.

No. Not yet.

Not yet!

Give him more time!

Sorry.

No. No.

Mobius, listen to me.

There is nothing you can do for him.

He's lost to time.

He's not going to make it.

There you are!

We need to find Sylvie.

Where are they going?

All this for Sylvie?

HUNTER D-90: I don't buy it.

How do I do this?

What would you like?

Not squirrel, not possum, not rats.

Something that's already dead,
and nothing with a face.

Please.

You can try our new Chicken McNuggets,

and we have a Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish,

- and a hamburger, cheeseburger.

I quite like the Quarter Pounder,
which you can try with or without cheese.

I wanna try everything.

Okay.

That's who built this place.
That's who's coming back.

She was going to kill him.
Sylvie?

- Where is she?
- I don't know.

The branching is overloading
the Temporal Loom.

- Temporal Loom?
- That's bad.

- We need to prune those extra branches.
- We can't do that.

There are people with lives
on those branches.

You had a life on the timeline.

And so did you. We're all Variants.

- This changes everything.
- This changes nothing.

HUNTER D-90:
Dox and her crew are raiding the armory.

There you are!

There's our Variant.

Renslayer.

I don't have friends.
I don't have anyone.

I won't let you down.

- Sylvie, stop. Stop.
- What're you doing?

I just want you to be okay.

But I'm not you.

We need to know what happened
at the end of time.

Find Sylvie.

What would you like?

I wanna try everything.

Thoughts?

- Sylvie's not here.
- We just got here.

- It doesn't feel right.
- I know, but why?

- It's too safe.
- Okay.

It's not a war zone, not an apocalypse.
It's not her style.

Maybe she's changing tack.
We got a hit on a TemPad

that belonged to Hunter X-5
before it went dark.

If the TemPad went dark,
then she found him first.

- No question.
- Yeah, I don't disagree.

But you said you want to find
Sylvie, right?

With Dox and X-5
not responding,

this is our only lead.

Yes! Yeah!

X-5 is an actor now?

Or he's undercover.

Looks pretty real to me.

Hey!

How are the kids? How are you?

How do you feel about
your meteoric rise to fame?

I don't know how I feel, but I look good.

Come on, look at this.

Pretty darn good.

Are the Brigitte Bardot rumors true?

Ooh, Ron.
Ron, you cannot ask me about that.

What are you doing? I'm on a date.

Well, buddy, that stays in the vault.
In the vault.

You.
Will there be a Zaniac Two?

You know, a sequel for the fans?

Mobius! Whoa!

Nice to see you haven't forgotten
about the little people.

I used to work with this guy.

- You look great.
- Oh, thank you very much.

You look pretty good.
We're gonna need to catch up.

- Afterwards, all right?
- Well, let's catch up now, maybe.

- What are you doing down here?
- Hi.

- Hey. Hey. Hey!
- Everything all right?

Everything's great.

I'm actually really glad to see you both.

I need to catch you guys up
on what's going on here.

- Sure.
- But I think first

we could all use a drink?
What are you drinking?

- Surprise me.
- Okay, how about you?

- Oh, I'm fine.
- All right. We'll do whiskies.

It's okay to have a drink while we're
down here because we're still working.

- Is he running now?
- He is running.

Oh, my God, it's Brad Wolfe.
Can I get your autograph?

Anything for a fan... Hey, hey!

You okay?

Oi!

Brad. Brad. Hold it!

Stop! Come here.

Come on, Mobius.
You're gonna ruin my life here.

Your life here?

You still glad we're here?

Come on!

Come on, X-5, did you really think
you could outrun me?

Yeah.

Oi!

Where's the rude boy off to?

Where is the fancy lad going off to, then?

Did you lose your tickets to the opera?
Did ya? Oh, goodness!

- All right. Oh, God!
- Where you going?

- Okay.
- Oh, yeah.

He came down
the wrong street tonight.

Let's just hold on a second.
All right? Relax.

Back off. Hey. Back off.
Whoa!

Hey! Back off.

Oh, you're the tough guy, huh?

- So unsophisticated, X-5.
- Of course.

You're doing your own stunts now?

Real cute, real cute.

You quit with the magic and fight fair.

Oh, shoot!

It's not a fair fight.

I didn't do anything wrong.

Yeah, but why'd you run?

A little over the top, don't you think,
all the shadow play?

I thought it was spot on.

All available analysts
report to Chronomonitor...

- Suits you.
- You must love this.

It's tighter than you think
it's gonna be, isn't it?

Yeah. I'll get you a looser one next time.

- What is this?
- That's a TemPad.

- What did you do?
- I put colorful buttons on it for you.

You will tell us if you found Sylvie
when you've had time in holding.

Right. 'Cause I'm a criminal, right?

Okay, come on, get in there.

Come on!

Keep moving.

I see X-5 didn't go quietly.

Quietly is not his strong suit.

But he will talk
once he's had time to marinate.

- What about this?
- Have O.B. check it out.

O.B.? Hello?

Ouroboros?

Oh, man, I'm good.

Okay, I've gotta weave
these two wires together, and...

I've gotta make this neat and tight,

- so it holds fast.
- Ah. O.B.?

Oh! Hey, guys.

- Uh... 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.

He's got it covered.

O.B., could I get you to take a look
at this TemPad?

Let me see.

Ah. Interesting.

Yeah, I can definitely get into it.

Do you think this is a higher priority
than preventing a Temporal meltdown?

- Oh, no.
- No. I'd 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?

Will do.

- The Renslayer trace?
- Why are you whispering?

It's a secret mission, right?

Renslayer killed C-20,

attempted to kill Mobius,
threw me in Time Jail

and tried to take over the TVA.

Why would tracking her TemPad be a secret?

- Right.
- Right.

Right. But no, no hits.

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'll screw this back in, right?

That's what it said on page seven.

No. Section 42 should match
with the system manager.

Is that with the red light?

- We've tried that.
- Well, try it again.

You didn't have
that pressed back, did you?

It's too complicated.

Am I on the wrong page or...

I was just seeing upside down.

- I can't focus. It's like gibberish.
- Mobius.

Here's what'll help focus.
If we don't work this out,

this place is gonna be destroyed.
Temporal meltdown or not.

- Okay, I'll tell them.
- Casey, tell them what you just told me.

Miss Minutes is helping Renslayer.

- What?
- That explains the radio silence.

- Mmm-hmm.
- Hang on.

Um, 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.

If there's a hit on the TemPad,
I'll let you know.

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

- How are things going here?
- No, not that great.

It's all right. We'll get there.

- When were you gonna tell us about...
- What is that?

It's just a rigged TemPad.

- What does it do?
- That's what we're trying to work out.

X-5 says it somehow
blocks TVA tracking.

That's not what it does.

Sure.

Yeah. Haven't you read the TVA Guidebook?

I mean, I haven't memorized it, but...
Uh-huh.

It'll take me a while to analyze
the modifications,

but this definitely doesn't block
any trackers, that's for sure.

That's where we'll start with X-5.

Let's take a run at Brad Wolfe.

- Let's take a big run at him.
- Thank you.

Okay, keep it simple. Where's Dox?

Where's Sylvie?
And what did he do to that TemPad?

That's all we need to find out. Okay?

But of course, Brad knows us,
and he knows our tactics.

But that's what makes for
an interesting chess match.

Okay, most of all, Brad's an asshole.

So, don't let him get under your skin,
all right? Okay? Loki?

What?

Come on.

Oh, welcome back. Why don't you go ahead
and take this Time Collar off

and start treating me like
somebody who outranks you?

- I don't work here.
- Oh, that's a good point.

You should stop talking.

Hey, what were you doing down there
on the Sacred Timeline?

- Making movies.
- Don't waste our time, X-5.

- It's Brad. Bradley.
- Right, Brad.

Let's cut to the chase, shall we?

What did you do to this TemPad?

- Answer the question.
- It blocks your trackers.

- No, it doesn't.
- Yeah, no shit.

- What is it designed for, X-5?
- It's Brad.

Under whose authority
are you holding me here?

Looking around, I do not see anyone
ranking high to make that call.

I don't need approval to detain a hunter
that abandoned his post.

Oh, that's good. That's good.

But weren't you the one
blabbering on and on

about how we all had lives
on the timeline?

Well, I went down and got my life.
What exactly are you mad at me about?

There are lives at stake.

There are lives at stake?

Oh, you've got some nerve.

"There are lives at stake."

Everyone here knows
what you're doing, you know?

You're just trying to make up
for all the terrible,

awful shit you've done in your life,
you pathetic little man.

- Okay, that's enough.
- No, no, Mobius. No, it's...

It's riveting.

- Keep going. I want to hear more.
- Good.

See, everything you and Sylvie have
ever done to try to help,

- has only ever made it worse.
- Is that right?

See, I've read your file.

It's you. You're the problem.

Every time we've ever found a you.

Problem is, you think you're special,
but you're not.

So, it doesn't matter
what outfit you put on,

play dress up or what little lies
you tell your friends

or even the lies you tell yourself.

At the end of the day,
you just make everything worse.

For Mobius, for B-15,

for your mother.

'Cause that's what you do.

You lose. You're a loser.

Loki.

Stop trying to be a hero, man.

You're a villain.

And you're good at it. Do that.

Thank you, Brad...

very much.

I really am touched.

You know, you're right.

I have done some terrible, awful things.

Yeah, maybe that is who I am,
and he knows.

It's the real me. A loser.

Always have been. Always will be.

And perhaps I've been...

- holding something back.
- Loki.

Perhaps I've just been biding my time.

Perhaps I've just been waiting
for a moment like this,

so I can do terrible,

awful things to you.

So, let's try this one more time.

Where is Sylvie?

You're way too obsessed with her.

He needs therapy.

- I can recommend someone...
- Okay. Come on.

...if you wanna work that out.

Control your little pet, Mobius.

That got a little tense.

Hey, you wanna hear a good one?
Knock, knock.

- HUNTER X-5: Who's there?
- Brad.

- Brad, who?
- That's showbiz.

And I don't want that to happen to you.

So, play along with us,
answer our questions

and we'll get you back there,
so they don't forget about you.

How's that sound?

- You would do that?
- I will.

- You promise?
- I promise.

You seeing this?
Mobius, you could be an actor.

I'm not an actor, I'm an analyst.
But thank you.

You're not an analyst.
I'm not a hunter.

None of this is real.

I mean, who even are you on the timeline,
do you know?

Doesn't matter.

I think it does matter because
none of this is real.

- Well, okay.
- The TVA is not your real home.

Mobius isn't even your real name.

Well, it's what I answer to.

Do you have any idea what kind of life
you might have left behind?

Who might be waiting for you back there?
I mean, do you care?

I mean, you know they took us.

You know they took our lives,
and you're still here.

I mean, it's kind of weird, man.
I mean, you need to wake up.

- I'm awake.
- Yeah, no. You're asleep.

- You need to wake up, Mobius.
- I'm awake.

- And until you do, you're nothing.
- No.

She is nothing. I don't know where to
start with that, but you're nothing here.

And until you wake up,
you're just a nowhere man. You're a...

You're a nowhere man!
You're a silly little man.

- Whoa!
- Silly little man.

Whoa!

Mobius! Yes!

What was that?
- Nothing.

- You okay?
- I'm fine.

- What happened back there?
- Nothing.

- Didn't seem like nothing.
- It was tactical.

- Seems like he got under your skin.
- Nope.

He didn't get under my skin.
He got under your skin.

Mobius, are you all right?
I've never seen you like this before.

- Seen me like what?
- Okay, I'm not judging.

Feels like you are. Look, I told you
I can play the heavy keys and I can...

- Where are we?
- I was following you.

No, I was following you.

Mobius. You were clearly ahead of me.

How about a slice of pie?

- Key lime.
- Okay, great. Come on.

Mmm.

It's really good.

It is.

Listen. That wasn't tactical.

I lost it.

It's okay.

- Look, it happens.
- Hmm.

You know, sometimes a rage builds up
and you just gotta... let it out.

Do you remember that time

I was so angry with
my father and my brother,

I went down to Earth

and I held the whole of New York City
hostage with an alien army?

Tried to use the Mind Stone on Tony Stark.

It didn't work,
so I threw him off the building.

I mean, let me tell you something.

- Wasn't tactical.
- Yeah.

I lost it.

Sometimes our emotions
get the better of us.

You can say that again.

Let me ask you something.

X-5, you know, he obviously

touched a nerve, right?

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

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

Are you-- Aren't you curious?

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.
- But it could have been.

It isn't. This is.

I'd like to thank the guy who kidnapped me
and brought me here.

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 that. I get it,
you know, you might think twice in case...

it's something bad and you...

Or something good.
Something bad, I can handle.

What if it's something good?

Do you think I wanna have that
rattling around in here?

- Of course not.
- Sure.

You know, X-5 isn't gonna talk.

X-5 is gonna talk.
We just have to find a way in.

All right. So what aren't we
asking this time?

Look, X-5 is a good hunter, okay?

He's very good at his job.

So, does it really make sense that
he could spend all that time down there

and not find Sylvie?

Look, Sylvie spent her whole life hiding.
He didn't find her.

Yes, but maybe he got
a little help from that TemPad.

Okay. If he found her and walked away,

then she didn't know he found her.
That makes sense.

Think about it. He found her,
but maybe didn't turn her in

because he wants to continue to live
his best life on the timeline.

- He wants more time to be Brad Wolfe.
- Who wouldn't?

Right.

Now, we just have to find a way
to get him to admit it.

He's the only one who knows
where Sylvie is.

Just gotta make him talk.

Well, come on. You're the God of Mischief.

Right?

Loom status unstable.

Please take immediate action.

Loom status unstable.

Please take immediate action.

Hmm.

Oh, no.

Hi.

Hello, Loki. Ready for round two?

I felt like I just,
need another session, you know?

Get a few things off my chest.

Gonna try the hardball tactics this time?

- Something like that.
- Okay.

Where's B-15?

She's not gonna be attending this session.

Oh, I get it. So, you come in here
without B-15

and I'm supposed to believe
you're gonna torture me, Mobius?

Well, let's simplify everything.

You have information that we need.

You don't want to give it to us.

So, how do we find common ground?

- You are gettin' desperate.
- You're not wrong. He's not wrong.

We're definitely getting desperate.

And I'll be honest with you,
we're down to our last option.

- And your last chance.
- This is cute.

Which one of you came up with this script?

Because you're a tough nut to crack,

you've left us no choice
but to kind of ramp...

Mobius, controller.

Right, okay.

We can't start the festivities
without that little baby. Stand by.

Wow!

Hey, open up.

- Hey. Loki?
- Turns out,

there is actually one other option.

No, no! Hey!

You sniffed us out, Brad.

And I knew you would,
because you're a clever chap.

So guess what?
I wrote a little script of my own.

Loki. Loki, this isn't right. Open up!

That thing does not work without
the controller, though, so...

What're you gonna do?

This one?

Okay, great.
We're gonna have a little Q and A.

Did you find Sylvie?
And if you did, where is she?

Simple question, really, but doesn't mean
we can't enjoy ourselves as we go along.

This one's plugged in.

You almost got me.

You have no idea how to work that thing.

I'm not trying to be a hero, Brad.

I'm a villain. Remember?

No. Loki.

This isn't the kind of mischief
I was talking about!

Hey! Loki, you're not a villain.
You're not...

Look at that.

Um, earlier, I said some
really hurtful things,

and I brought up your mother.
And I am really sorry about that.

- Mobius! Hey, get in here!
- It's locked, Brad. It's locked!

You need to put that down.

That's... you don't know
what you're doing with that.

What does this one do?

Sorry.
Could've hurt yourself there.

Hey, don't just touch random buttons
on that, okay?

Mobius, get in here.

There's a learning curve with this thing.

Yeah. There is a learning curve.

You could kill me with that.

Could I?

This is exciting.

Turn it off.

Loki, turn it off.

Let me try this. Let me try this.

Okay. Okay. All right.

Sorry. That's only made it smaller.

Now, look. I don't know where Dox
and the others are. Okay? I don't know.

I don't if you know this,

but I've done some terrible, awful things.

Yeah, you have.
You're doing one right now.

Have some perspective on yourself.
Okay!

Okay.

Okay.

Trial and error.

I swear I don't know
where they are.

Brad. You're so convincing.

I want to believe you, but you're just--
You're such a good actor.

Look, I really,
I really don't know. I swear.

You're so talented.

- They did not tell me the plan.
- Please tell me the truth.

- I know you're lying.
- Okay? Okay, okay.

I lied. I lied, okay? I did.

I was supposed to go look for Sylvie,
but then, I bailed, okay? I bailed.

Right. So, they told you to go
after Sylvie and you bailed?

Yeah.

What's the penalty for a highly-decorated
field officer abandoning his mission?

You and Dox, I don't buy it.

Okay. Look, I swear, okay?

I went down there,
and I went to get my life, okay?

Because... none of this is real.

Well, if none of this is real,
I guess you aren't either.

Hey! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! Wait.

Just tell me where Sylvie is, Brad.

All right.

I'll tell you where she is.

She has a new life!

There you go.

Got there in the end.

Why do you make it so hard
on yourself, Brad?

One thing, you said
you bailed on the mission.

Yeah, but I found her first.
She's on a branch.

- He knows where Sylvie is.
- See?

- Little bit of mischief.
- Only as good as your plan.

Thank you. Let's go, Zaniac.

- Are you telling me that was--
- Hell of a performance.

If I tell you where she is,
you'll let me go?

No. You're gonna show us.

Hey, O.B., this is Casey.
I thought he could help.

We're all gonna die!
- O.B.?

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 C-12 bypass pathway?

That won't work.

- Are you sure?
- Of course. I wrote it.

Wait...

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.

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.

- Brad, walk.
- Brad, I'm telling you right now,

if you're wasting our time,
you're going right back in the Gizmo.

Would you like getting scrunched up
in the cube?

Hey, hey, hey! Okay. All right.
Look, she's in there, all right.

She's in there.
So, why don't you guys

just head on in and remember that
I'm the one who brought you here,

and a deal's a deal. All right?

So, you go ahead,
I'm gonna head on back.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Why are you so jumpy?

- It's making me nervous.
- I'm not jumpy. I'm not nervous.

- All right.
- Yeah, you're like, you wanna take off.

I just don't wanna be around a Variant
who killed 400 of our co-workers.

So I'm just gonna...
If you just open the door...

What do you think?

If she's here,
I have to find out what she knows.

I'll do the talking. Be ready.

Hey, can you refill the straw dispenser
when you get a sec?

Already done it.

Bill, order's up.

Thanks, Sylvie.

This feels tense.

What do you say we leave them to it.
We head on back to the TVA.

What are you talking about? No.

I'm not going anywhere
until I get some apple pie.

No, no, no, no, no.

Hi.

Hi.

Listen, I haven't got all day.
You're gonna order something? Or, what?

Can we talk?

My break's in five minutes.

It's a short break, so talk fast.

Uh, I know I'm the last person
you want to see.

Correct.

I, uh...

I haven't come here to make trouble.

Then why are you here?

Uh... this is gonna sound strange.

But... there's been a problem.

It's complicated.

I've been pulled through time.

Between the past and the present.
I was in the past...

Oh, just get to the point, Loki.

Sylvie, I was in the future and I saw you.

The TVA is in danger. And you were there.
I need to know why.

So you see the future now? Cool.

It's not something I chose.

Look, as much as I'd love to see
the TVA burnt to the ground,

I have no intention of going back there.

My life's here now, and I'm not running.
I'm happy.

Explain what I saw, then.

- I don't know. I don't care.
- It's the future. It's going to happen.

Is it? Really?

Because that sounds a lot like
the future's already been written.

And we both know that it hasn't.
Not anymore.

I made sure of that.

Enchant me. You can see what I saw.

I don't want to see.
I want nothing to do with this.

I have no answers.

If we don't work together, I can't
guarantee how long this will be here.

- You have some nerve coming.
- Nerve?

This is bigger than the TVA.
This is about everything.

You like it here?

You like this place? You've made a home?

If what He Who Remains said is true,

the TVA is the only defense.

And if what I saw of you is true,

then there's nothing that stands between
this world and utter destruction.

Without the TVA,
all of this, everything...

is gone.

Mmm.

I thought you were setting us up
for an ambush.

Hell, you were just setting us
up for a great meal. Thank you.

What is happening right now?

They're going over every detail of
their relationship that's ever happened.

Look. It's a complicated
relationship, okay?

There's a lot to unpack
when you're basically

- in a relationship with yourself.
- Yeah.

They say opposites attract. No.

What is this?

God, it's weird.

- But I brought you Sylvie. I did that.
- Yeah.

I held up my end of the bargain.

- You hold up your end of the bargain.
- I will.

And you get me back
to the Sacred Timeline, like you said.

Can we just talk for a second,
about how crazy life is?

I mean, ten minutes ago,

you were screaming at me,
"You're nothing!"

And then I kind of freaked out
and basically tortured you.

And now here we are,

enjoying a meal like gentlemen.

You slapped me in the face.
I won't forget...

But I got you a shake. Okay?

Look, just enjoy this.
Tell me about Zaniac.

- What about it?
- I wanna know about it.

- Oh, come on.
- Can... Please.

- You don't care about my movie.
- Brad, I saw the poster.

- It looked scary.
- It's not. It's not.

It's not scary.
It's elevated thriller, all right?

- It is? Yeah?
- It's cinema. Thank you very much.

You can't see it. Get your own tickets.
Not hooking you up. Not after this.

I will. I will.

Look, why don't we just get this to go?

How about that? It packs right up.

Let's just get it to go
and we get up and we get out of here.

- How about that?
- You're like a broken record.

It's like, "Get me back
to the Sacred Timeline."

Although now it's just,
"Get me out of here."

Is this a setup?

Hey. Hey. What's going on?

Nothing.

I've got to get back to work.

You'll give everyone free will
and walk away?

That's the way it works. You're welcome.

He shows up again, his Variants,
what are you gonna do?

Kill 'em.

Sorry to interrupt.
I think Brad's got something

that he might want to get off his chest.

Zaniac's getting a sequel.
And you're both invited.

- Hey, we can wait all day.
- No, we can't.

We need to talk about this
back at the TVA.

- No. We can talk here. Now.
- Now.

Fine. If we stay here,
we're all gonna die.

They're gonna die.
Orange shirt, she's gonna die.

Most importantly, we are all gonna die.

This is gone! Unless we...

- All this for Sylvie?
- I don't buy it.

- They're gonna bomb every branch.
- Yeah, including this one.

- Where do we go?
- I'll show you.

- B-15, incoming. Let's go.
- Great.

Are we pruning timelines now?

Targets are popping up
all over the branches.

HUNTER B-15: We need to know
where this attack is coming from.

What's happening?
HUNTER B-15: Mobius. What is going on?

Dox wasn't looking for Sylvie.

She's gonna prune all the new branches.

She already is.
Mobius, she's gonna kill them all.

No pattern to it.

Start tracking those charges.

How are you on supplies?
Low on reset charges.

What are they doing with the Time Doors?

Looks like they're connected
to the TemPads.

Maybe that's why
Brad's was modified.

They've pruned 30% of the branches.

Is Mobius on the ground yet?

HUNTER B-15:
Mobius, they're killing billions.

Take Dox down now.

Minutemen are carrying reset charges.

That's how they're bombing
all the timelines at once.

Connected to that control panel.

That's our target.

- I'll distract them.
- Okay.

Our mission is compromised.

Set off what you can!

We have to stop this.
Can we disarm the charges?

It's possible if we can track them,
but there's too many. I'm gonna call O.B.

Over here!

We're too late. Finish it!

Don't overthink it.

Is this all of Dox's loyalists?

Everyone who didn't escape.

HUNTER B-15: Mobius,
you should come back.

Loki, we need to go.

Those are people.

Those are lives.

Uh, guys,
I got a hit on Renslayer's TemPad.

- Sylvie...
- Is this the best you lot can do?

There was nothing we could do.

Some defense.

The TVA is the problem.
It's broken, it's rotten.

I'm going home... if it's still there.

Please, don't. It's harder...

to stay.

Um...
Hey, Sylvie. You okay?

- Just wanted to check.
- Yeah, I'm good. Thanks.

No problem.

Um, do you think
you'll be in tomorrow, though?

Yeah.

- Cool, cool. Mmm-hmm.
- Jack?

Is your mum on her way to pick you up?

Yeah. She'll be here. I'm good.

Good night.

Bye-bye.

O.B.: We're all gonna die.
HUNTER B-15: What do you mean?

The blast doors won't open.

O.B.: The containment doors are locked.

Only the person who designed it

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

He Who Remains.

O.B.: And he's dead.

The Temporal Loom is not constructed
to weave together so many new branches,

so it's overloading.

The more those branches grow,

the closer this thing comes
to melting down.

SYLVIE: The TVA is the problem.
It's broken.

Sylvie, without the TVA, all of this,
everything is gone.

We found him. He's terrifying.

MOBIUS: Who?
LOKI: He Who Remains.

We thought it was about
freeing the timeline,

but that brings only more war,
more of him.

They're coming. They're all coming.

He shows up again, his Variants,
what are you gonna do?

Kill 'em.

CASEY: Miss Minutes is helping Renslayer.

Whoever created this place is in danger.
I need to find them.

Okay.

This is where you dragged me
after you stole my life.

What was my nexus event?

I don't remember.

CASEY: I got a hit on Renslayer's TemPad.

- (DOG BARKING)
- BOY: Tim, come on!

- (BARKING CONTINUES)
- BOY: Come on!

(MAN SHOUTS INDISTINCTLY)

RENSLAYER: Ugh.

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 britches in a stir.

You told me I was going
somewhere important.

That I was gonna 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're 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.

(PACKAGE CLATTERING)

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

- AUTOMATED VOICE: Loom status elevated.
- (CASEY SIGHS)

So, how do we get in?

Loom status elevated.

Without He Who Remains' temporal aura,
I don't know.

HUNTER B-15: Well,
how much time do we have?

It's stable right now, but the branches
Dox pruned are growing back.

So if we can't get in there and increase
the diameter of the Loom's intake ring

enough to boost throughput
and clear that knot of unrefined time...

LOKI: 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, no. I'm wondering.
- O.B.: What?

- I think he meant it as an idea.
- (RUMBLING)

- Can we?
- No. We're all gonna die still.

HUNTER B-15: No one's gonna die.
There has to be a viable option.

CASEY: What about Miss Minutes?
Can she open up access to the Loom?

Miss Minutes. What about her?

Conceivably. She has administrator access
to the entire TVA.

She can have access to 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?

(METAL CREAKING)

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

CASEY: 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.

That'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.

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?

(CARNIVAL MUSIC PLAYING)

LOKI: This can't be the same place.

MOBIUS: Yes.
Yes. How could I have forgotten?

Chicago World's Fair, 1893.

The White City, Edison, H.H. Holmes.
Yes! Hot air balloons.

- This makes more sense as a destination.
- Yes.

You're saying they went to 1868
by mistake, then went 25 years ahead

- because this is where they wanted to be?
- No, no.

I wouldn't describe Renslayer
as accident-prone.

Plus, if she has Miss Minutes to help her,

there's a purpose
to them going here earlier.

We just gotta figure it out.

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

If they're here.

Only one way to find out.

How do you propose we do that?

Well, you start by looking.
A little good old-fashioned legwork.

Clues, bread crumbs, that sort of thing.

Liberty Bell Day to debut
on the fourth of July.

Ghost Clock continues to haunt the Midway.

Hey. Let me see that.

Here.

What do you call that?

Bread crumb.

Exactly.

We've been to Chinese Pavilions,
Bulgarian Curiosities.

A not-so-brief detour
for refreshments, yes.

Yeah. The Cracker Jack concession stand
is a high-traffic area.

- It was necessary and logical to go there.
- Sure.

The fact that it's tasty is a bonus.

- You wouldn't know. You haven't tried it.
- Okay.

- It tastes like ash.
- No, it doesn't.

Can we get a move on?
We aren't sightseeing.

I'm not sightseeing.
We have different styles.

You're a man of action, which is fine.

I take a more slow, deliberate,
cerebral approach

because I see everything.
I notice everything.

You haven't seen you got some
Cracker Jack on your chin.

So damn sticky.

This has to be a joke.

Does it make you homesick?

LOKI: No. It's completely inaccurate,
first of all.

What, you don't think
that looks like Odin?

It's embarrassing.
It's a crass generalization.

I mean, you can't reduce an entire culture
down to a simple diorama.

Such poverty of imagination.

MOBIUS: Is somebody feeling a little
left out that they're not up there?

LOKI: No. And why'd they include Balder?
No one's even heard of him.

Sure they have. Balder the Brave.

You know, sometimes I forget
that you're one of them.

You are one of them. Blows my mind.

Thor's not that tall.

(PIG SQUEALING)

So we haven't been to
the Ottoman Hippodrome,

where the Ghost Clock was spotted.
And the balloon park.

That sounds like it could be fun.

- Maybe we...
- Mobius, look.

MOBIUS: "Temporal."
That can't be a coincidence.

That's where we'll find Renslayer.

(POLKA MUSIC PLAYING)

MISS MINUTES: Would you kindly
open the bag?

Unless you want everyone freaking out,

you stay in that bag
until I tell you otherwise.

MAN 1: You two, enjoy the beer.

MAN 2: That's right, bring it!

This is it.

I think she's here.

You think?

Well, I don't know.
She does like a good drink.

And so do I.

There she is.

Don't let her see you.

(CROWD APPLAUDING)

- Is that the Loom?
- I think so.

TIMELY: Time is everything.

It moves...

through each and every one of us.

It shapes our... lives.

Our... futures.

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. He...

TIMELY: Don't be shocked...

He is.

...when I tell you
that time is the future of...

energy.

And just what would you know
about the future, boy?

TIMELY: Great question. Great question.

And the answer is...

more than you... might think.

(CROWD MURMURING)

LOKI: We can't just stand here.

It's one of the Variants that
He Who Remains warned me about.

It's coming. It's beginning.

Look where we are.
Does he look like he's about to

- conquer all of time?
- TIMELY: Why should we toil in the dirt

for coal and petroleum...

when the energy

of the past, present, and future flows...

all around us?

My Temporal Loom...

inverts the Temporal Decay of
the electricity flowing through it,

lowering its entropy,

and gathering it into fine threads of...

power!

Which it then weaves
into elegant ropes of...

voltage.

A chaos.

A chaos of particles

is transformed into... (SNAPS FINGERS)

order.

With my device,
the wattage Edison uses to light...

a single bulb...

can light...

the whole of...

Chicago.

So you can light a few bulbs. Big deal.

You'll need a lot more than that
to light a whole city.

Don't misunderstand me, sir.

I do not want to light a... city.

I aim...

to light,

to power...

the entire planet.

So, call it a dream.

- Fine. Sneer.
- (CROWD GASPS)

Laugh it off as pure science fiction.

But if it can be dreamed,
it can be achieved.

Because all science is fiction

until it's fact!

Welcome!

Welcome to the future,

my friends.

(CROWD MURMURING AND APPLAUDING)

I've got to have that machine.

We need to bring him back to the TVA.

Are you out of 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.

(SIGHS) 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.

Thank you. Thank you.

Sir, thank you. Thank you, sir.

Were we ever gonna get Renslayer
or Miss Minutes to help us?

I mean... Where is she?

Mr. Timely. A moment, please.

(STAMMERS) Of course.

We need to talk about your future.

There she is. She's talking to our guy.

- This way. This way.
- MOBIUS: Go.

Well, certainly.
Take as many moments as you like.

- MAN: Step aside.
- As I was saying...

- Sir?
- Where can we talk?

ROBBER BARON: That's quite a device
you've got there, Timely.

But I still have some doubts.

(STUTTERING) Oh, it's still a prototype.

Albeit, one that many wealthy investors
are competing to acquire.

No. No. I was thinking more
along the lines of a partnership.

You give me the patent rights,
and I'll facilitate production.

No. I don't do partners.

- Excuse me. Thank you for coming.
- (CROWD MURMURING)

MAN: Good man. Good, good.

WOMAN: There he is.

- Loved the presentation.
- Thank you.

Pardon me. Mr. Timely, a word perhaps?

Forgive my bluntness, sir,
but I must have your Temporal Loom.

Look, it appears my presentation
has piqued much interest.

Ladies and gentlemen,
I will be taking all formal bids.

Perhaps $500 would conclude the bidding?

I'll give you six.

Seven.

- Eight.
- Eight-fifty.

Step aside, hornswaggler.
I was here first.

One thousand dollars.

- (CROWD GASPS)
- That's my final offer.

I suggest you take it.

- I believe we have a deal.
- (ROBBER BARON CHUCKLES)

Pleasure doing business with you.

Hey, clown. You stepped on my foot.

I do apologize.

I assure you, any physical contact
was purely incidental.

That is the man who's destined
to become He Who Remains?

You sure your plan is gonna work?

MISS MINUTES: I told you,
it's not my plan.

It's his plan.

And quit your worrying.

With our help,
he'll be all he's meant to become.

Come on, he's getting away.
Will you handle this, please?

How about we settle this outside?

Gently.

Outside?

Excellent suggestion. I agree.

- Come on.
- (CROWD GASPS)

The amazing Loki, everyone!
He'll be here all week!

Mr. Timely, I need to talk with you
about something.

- Um, yes, my future!
- (DISTANT EXPLOSION)

- Do you mind if we walk and talk?
- MOBIUS: Mr. Timely!

- ROBBER BARON: Find him!
- Excuse me.

(GROWLING)

- Mr. Timely. My associate and I...
- Excuse me! Gentlemen.

- ...want to discuss a business venture.
- It's thrilling.

Fellas, we are discussing business.

Renslayer, this is only gonna take
a minute.

Do you all know each other?

- Well...
- Unfortunately. Yeah, old friend.

- Colleagues.
- A long time ago.

- A reunion.
- 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?
- TIMELY: Next week. Fine.

COUNCILMAN: Fine.
TIMELY: Fine.

- RENSLAYER: Mr. Timely...
- Mechanical trousers?

You're a confidence trickster.

- Luminary is the word you're looking for.
- 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 crude technology
of this era

to catch up with my visionary mind.

Do you know?
I never doubted it for a second.

- Enlightened fellows never do.
- Of course.

- Your inventions are fake, Timely.
- Speaking of your visionary mind...

Excuse me.

ROBBER BARON:
I'll wipe that smile off your face.

Hey! Thief!

Stop that man! He's a thief!

I'm gonna get you, Timely!

No one swindles me!

- There he is! Get him!
- Hugo!

- WOMAN: Watch out!
- (CROWD EXCLAIMING)

- I need to skip the line.
- Go!

- ROBBER BARON: We just wanna talk!
- Excuse me. Beg your pardon.

Thank you. Sorry.

Get out of the way!
We got you now, Timely!

There's no escape from this carriage.

Folks, folks, there's a thief in here!

- There's a thief. Where is he? What...
- (BUZZER DINGS)

He's over there! He's over there!

Open the door! Do you know who I am, boy?

(DEVICE BEEPS)

Not a great time.

HUNTER B-15: Sorry,
we've got a development.

We have a development here, too.

Turns out we have something
even better than Miss Minutes.

We have a He Who Remains Variant.

We can use his temporal aura.

Okay.

Okay. Uh...

Heads up, Casey has had
a really weird TemPad reading.

MOBIUS: What, weird like dangerous? Where?

About ten feet from where you're standing.

Victor. All right.

You're clearly really good
at getting away.

- We have that in common.
- (GASPS)

- What the...
- Sylvie! Sylvie, no!

You stay out of this.

TIMELY: No!

Just wait. Just wait for a second.

You've done enough.

Get out of my face
and let me finish the job.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

RENSLAYER: Great.
You let Sylvie track you here?

Did it occur to you
maybe she tracked you here?

Why don't you tell me what's going on?
Come on. Just between us.

- What are you up to?
- (CHUCKLES)

We don't work together anymore, Mobius.
I don't have to tell you anything.

Yeah, and look where not working together
has got ya. You're a fugitive.

When you showed up
out of nowhere to ruin my life,

you asked me what I would do
if one of his Variants turned up.

And I told you then, I'd kill him.

What is going on?

We need him. Without his help,
the TVA will be destroyed.

Good. Let it burn. Do you care
about anything but the TVA?

The TVA. (STUTTERING)
The Time Variance Authority.

I know you just want to be left alone
to live a life on your branch.

I understand that.

But if the Loom fails
and the TVA is destroyed,

there won't be a life to go back to.

Not for you, not for anyone.

And we can't fix it without him.

Mobius, you're the one
who sided with Loki over me.

Don't play the teamwork card on me now.

Can I play
the "you-tried-to-kill-me" card?

Does that get me anywhere?

Because the TVA is melting down,
and he is the key to fixing the Loom.

We're running out of time.
We need your help.

No, Mobius. There is no "we." Not anymore.

Oh, no!

Stopping that place from being destroyed
and fixing it

are two very, very different things.

And working with one of his Variants
is not gonna get you either.

Your machete hasn't solved
any problems thus far.

Do you think I want to be here?

Do you think I'm gonna get any joy
out of killing that man?

Then don't.

Where do you think he got that book?

If you and the TVA hadn't messed with him,
he'd have remained harmless.

But instead, you weaponized him.

What are you talking about?

Renslayer set him on a path
that he wasn't meant for.

And now you are waltzing him
straight back into the TVA.

The thief of all free will.

The most dangerous man who ever lived.

Sylvie, I have never met this man
in my life.

I didn't give him this book.

I never heard the name
Victor Timely until today.

I was shocked when I saw his face too.
Maybe you're right.

Maybe we should throw him off
this Ferris wheel.

But we need him. The TVA needs him.

- The lives they protect need him.
- (GRUNTS)

You haven't got a clue, have you?

(BOTH SHOUTING)

Those lives, your home, are in danger.

And right now, he may be
our best hope of saving them.

This is all very familiar, isn't it?

I can't let him live.

No.

(CROWD SCREAMING)

RENSLAYER: Mr. Timely.

Mr. Timely, are you okay?

- MOBIUS: You all right?
- I'm all right.

- ROBBER BARON: Get out of my way!
- Wait, hold on, hold on!

- Where is he?
- ROBBER BARON: You got nowhere to run.

- Miss Minutes?
- MISS MINUTES: Yeah?

- This is your moment.
- ROBBER BARON: Get him!

- MAN: Ghost Clock!
- Boo!

- (CROWD SCREAMING)
- (LAUGHS)

You better run!

RENSLAYER: This way.
TIMELY: So many questions.

(MISS MINUTES HOWLING AND LAUGHING)

This is on you.

Loki! Come on!

Absolutely not.

MISS MINUTES: Whoo! (CACKLES)

TIMELY: You'll love this.
Make yourself comfortable.

RENSLAYER: One of your inventions?

- Um...
- (BOTH CHUCKLING)

This button here controls
the temperature through the cushion.

It can go down to 40 degrees.

Oh! And...

A refrigerator chair.

Touch it.

Very... practical.

So did you like my performance
back there? Ooh!

Bravo. (CHUCKLES) It was marvelous.

- A bit creepy.
- Thank you.

TIMELY: But, our hero.

Is this apparition your helper?

Uh, no. I am a fully conscious and
sentient artificial intelligence entity.

And I have a name. Miss Minutes.

Excusez-moi, Mademoiselle Minutes.

You are absolutely singular.

Why, thank you.
You're pretty singular yourself.

At least, you will be.

What do you mean?

It's complicated.

Ladies, it's high time someone
tells me exactly...

what is going on.

A long time ago...

far from now...

a different time,

a version of you created an entity
called the Time Variance Authority.

But two Variants of the same Norse god
murdered him,

which resulted in the creation
of new timelines,

which would each see the rebirth of
countless different versions of you.

Are you saying...

I created the TVA?

Something like that.

MISS MINUTES: I know
this must be overwhelming.

If it's too much for you...

TIMELY: No.

It's like the story of myself that I...

always imagined...

is true.

Did you hear the murder part?

That is why you need me by your side.

- I'll keep you safe.
- (SCOFFS)

And the two of you work for the TVA?

Well, even before the TVA
or her, you created me.

And we worked together at the End of Time.

I'm here because I know
what a great man you can become.

And...

and you, Mrs...

Ms. Ravonna.

Ms. Ravonna.

I'm just looking
to restore stability to the TVA.

Our Loom, a device not unlike
your prototype you had on stage,

it's in trouble. And it needs you.

That is not dissimilar to what
the wizard gentleman said to me

on the Ferris wheel.

Why aren't the two of you
in cahoots with him and his butler?

- They can't be trusted.
- Why not?

Loki helped murder your Variant.

It's true.

But he was protecting me.

Mmm... He switches sides.
It's a well-documented behavioral trait.

- (BANGING ON DOOR)
- Time to go.

Don't you want to see who it is?

ROBBER BARON: Timely, open this door!

RENSLAYER: We could just take
a time door.

Are you crazy? They'll track us.

RENSLAYER: It won't matter
if we go straight to the TVA.

TIMELY: I'm not going anywhere

- until I have my latest prototype.
- ROBBER BARON: Timely, come out here!

Okay. Pack it up. Let's go.

- It's at my lab across the lake.
- The lake?

You'll love it.
It's like the Caribbean of the Midwest.

RENSLAYER: You don't live here?

No, this is just a pied-à-terre.

I do all my sales in Chicago,

but my lab is in Wisconsin.

Go, go, go.

Lower taxes.

ROBBER BARON: Break it! Go!

Outside!

- They've tracked us! Run!
- MAN: There!

Where are they?

He's mine, rat bags.

- Go ahead.
- I beg your pardon?

ROBBER BARON: Take him! He's all yours.

- Anything?
- Nothing.

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

This way.

TIMELY: Excuse me! Sir... Excuse me.
Yeah, thank you. Thank you. Clear the way.

Excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me.

Just... Yes. Just one moment, thank you.

Sir, use your legs. Yeah.

Excuse me! Excuse me. Thank you.

Pardon me. Thank you.

We need the usual accommodations.

RENSLAYER: So, what's this latest work
of yours that's so important?

The key to...

understanding and manipulating... time.

This is where I keep everything
I've ever imagined.

All my designs.

That looks impressive.

It's a TVA guidebook.

Perhaps you recognize it?

It was delivered to me...
when I was a child.

Dropped into my life by some...

divine hand.

I've never found out who.

You?

- Yes.
- (MISS MINUTES SCOFFS)

I brought it to you.

You brought it to him the way
the postman brings the post.

We both know whose plan it was.

Well, whoever it was, I thank you.

This book has...

defined the course of my life.

I like to think of it as a correspondence

between myself
and the visionary author, Ouroboros.

Here. This is the most important discovery
I've made yet.

It's a Throughput Multiplier.

It could help you with your... Loom.

I always knew my ideas were good,

I just didn't have the technology
to make them...

really work.

Oh, happy day.

RENSLAYER: It's beautiful.

Thank you.

You know, Victor, I'm...

I'm starting to see the man you'll become.

Appreciate that...

Ravonna.

I have high hopes for this partnership.

(GASPS)

You heard her, Victor. "Partnership."

You had to do it. (CHUCKLES)

Bye.

(LAUGHS IN AMAZEMENT) Oh...

Welcome.

Have a seat, a float.

I'll just be a minute.

Oh, take your time.

Don't worry about me.

(MISS MINUTES HUMMING)

(SIGHS) You're so much like him.

Look at all your amazing work.

I'm so happy to be here.

Is that...

This is it.

The culmination of my life's...

work.

- Just wonderful.
- Yes.

You have always been so smart, Victor.

(CHUCKLES) Okay. I'm ready.

- Let's go.
- Now, what's the rush?

Don't we have to get to...

the TVA?

I was thinking...

It might be smart to lay low for a while.

We made quite the ruckus back there.

- Okay.
- Okay.

You know, for a moment, I was worried
that you wouldn't come with me.

That you liked Ravonna better than me.

Is there a sketch of me
in that journal of yours?

Not yet, but I...

I'm sure there will be.

When you first created me,

long before the TVA or a Multiversal War,

I was just a simple AI.
Just something to play chess with.

But you knew I could be more for you,

so you gave me autonomy
to write my own programming.

I was allowed to have wants,

and follow whims and become who I am.

And still, each night
we played chess and talked.

A loyal friend.

More than friends.

The war, the TVA, the eons after.

I, alone, was by your side.

But there was one whim
you never allowed me.

Why didn't you allow me a real body?

(STUTTERING) Well, that wasn't me.

If I had a body,
we could truly lead together.

Yes, that's... something

I don't know how to do.

You never even tried.

With all your powers
and all your abilities,

you just kept me as your thing.

Your computer, your toy.

Instead of what I could have been.

Your girl.

Victor, what are you doing?

Put that down. Don't do this!
We're a team. You need me! I love you!

(SHUDDERS)

- Oh, dear.
- RENSLAYER: Lovers' tiff?

TIMELY: Thank God you're here.

Things were getting
quite strange. (SHRIEKS)

That's... that's very dangerous.

Still a prototype.

Quite unstable.

Clearly, I 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.
- (GASPS)

Are we clear?

As a bell, Ravonna.

Ms. Renslayer.

- No, no!
- Step away from him. We need him.

Move any closer, and he's done.

Stop. Von, what are you doing?

Is this the free will
that you were looking for?

Look at me. You have lost your way.

Mobius, you really are unbelievable.

How dare you lecture me?

MOBIUS: I'm not lecturing,
I'm pleading.

After all those years
of doing your dirty work,

cleaning up your messes,

making the hard decisions
you never had the nerve to make.

After all the times
I put the TVA above myself,

even at the cost of my own happiness,

my humanity.

Who are you to lecture me
about losing my way?

Look. We've all lost our way,

but someone has to keep track
of the big picture here.

- (SHRIEKS)
- 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 am 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.
- MOBIUS: No.

(TIMELY COUGHING)

(GROANS)

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.

(SIGHS)

Get him out of here.

MOBIUS: Walk through.

(TIMELY GRUNTS)

Don't make me regret this.

And leave her to me.

Here we are.

I suppose I've been a box you've been
wanting to tick for a long time.

(GRUNTS)

(COUGHS)

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

Oh, no. I've killed you
a thousand times in my mind,

each time more brutal than the last.

It's crippling, that kind of obsession.

I'm 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.

(GRUNTS)

Love you.

Darn.

I should've known.

I had him under control until you
sabotaged me and made fools of us.

Well, it was foolish of him
to make an enemy

out of someone who knows all his secrets.

I know a really big one about you.

I can tell you, but...

But what?

It's gonna make you real angry.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

(MUSIC PLAYING)

That! That's what's been happening.

Wow. Time slipping.

The Temporal Loom is the heart of the TVA.

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

The more those branches grow,

the closer this thing
comes to melting down.

So, how do we get in?

Only the person
who designed it can open it

with a live scan of his temporal aura.

- He Who Remains.
- LOKI: It's him.

He Who Remains.

Because all science is fiction
until it's fact!

(CROWD GASPS)

LOKI: This is gonna sound strange.
I've been pulled through time.

O.B.: You'll stand by to prune yourself
after this turns green.

Green means prune.

(PANTING) There you are!

LOKI: The TVA is in danger.
I was in the future and I saw you.

I need to know why.

We stay here, we're all gonna die.

SYLVIE: They're gonna bomb every branch.

Set off what you can!

You asked me what I would do
if one of his Variants turned up.

- I'd kill him.
- You don't know me.

Get him out of here.

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

MISS MINUTES: I know a really big secret.

It's gonna make you real angry.

MISS MINUTES: He wasn't always alone.

There's something you have to see.

RENSLAYER: What is this?

Just watch.

So, it's almost ready.

A utopia at the end of time.

For us.

For All Time.

Always.

HE WHO REMAINS: Ravonna Renslayer,
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.

The TVA awaits our commands.

Shall we go?

I'll catch up.

It's been a long road.

See you soon.

Always.

Hey, boss. Fancy a game of chess?

HE WHO REMAINS: Not today.
Pull up Protocol 42.

MISS MINUTES: Is it time?

Erase her memories.

Are you sure?

Erase all of their memories.

If you say so.

I'm sorry.

I was here.

MISS MINUTES: Yes.

I helped win?

You didn't just help. It was you
who commanded the army.

So he built this little tower.

And while he sat on his throne...

I continued to do all the work
to keep him there?

Well, something like that.

RENSLAYER: So, what are you proposing?

MISS MINUTES: That we don't need him.
Maybe we never did.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

(GRUNTS SOFTLY)

The TVA.

- (DISTANT ALARM SOUNDING)
- (INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)

WOMAN OVER PA: All engineers
to Temporal Core immediately.

Chronocenters 11, 29, 14 offline.

HUNTER B-15: Are you...

You're...

Hello.

Just stop!

It's okay. It's all right.

What do... What do you want with me?

Come with us... and we'll 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 schadeocracy capital of the world.
I don't trust anyone.

Oh, it's a party. Hello.

The more the merrier. And you all want me.

Ms. Ravonna wants me.

The effervescent clock-lady monster thing
wants me.

I should have some say.

I don't disagree.

(RUMBLING)

WOMAN OVER PA:
Chronocenters 32, 81, 7 offline.

Is that... my Loom?

LOKI: Yes. That's your Loom.

And you're the only one
who can help us fix it.

Well, la-di-da.

So, Dox is alive?

Yes, she's in holding with the others.

We can't keep them there forever.

What do you want me to do?

You tell me.

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.

So we forgive and forget?

She's a general of the TVA,
and she wants to protect it at all costs.

That was her mission.

And it can be again,

if you can convince her that this
new version is worth protecting, too.

I don't think it'll change anything.

Don't be so sure of that.

Your words changed me.

LOKI: Here. This way.

- So, I built all of this?
- Well...

- Or I did?
- Well...

Or I will, and I did?

- Almost. You, but not you.
- This way.

Look, can't we just take a look?

- No.
- Trust me, it's not that great,

and we don't have time.

Listen. You're here
to solve one of many problems,

then you're free to wander around
all you want.

- (MACHINE WHIRRING)
- The Loom will still overload.

I don't understand.

We've adjusted everything we can adjust.

Victor...

This is Casey and O.B.

O.B.?

- Ouroboros.
- (SQUEALS EXCITEDLY)

- Ouroboros?
- Yeah, that's me.

You wrote the TVA Handbook.

Well... Yes, I did.

But I learned everything I know from
a brilliant 19th-century inventor

named Victor Timely.
If he'd had the resources,

he would have been bigger than Einstein.

What did you say your name was?

- Victor.
- (GASPS)

So, if your work is based on his work,
and his work is based on your work...

- Exactly. Which came first?
- It's like a snake eating its own tail.

Mr. Ouroboros,
would you inscribe my handbook?

Only if you inscribe mine.

I was living in
your engineering descriptions.

Me? The way you explained
the electric bypass system...

- The bypass.
- Poetry, just poetry.

Guys, sorry to break up this bromance,
but can we fix now and sign later?

Yeah, let's go.

O.B., how's it going?

Uh, we have a... We have a good plan.

- Okay.
- O.B.: It's a pretty good plan.

- We have a plan. Casey?
- Oh.

Here's a model I mocked up of the Loom.
Forgive the shoddy and slapdash 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.

TIMELY: The Loom.

I'm honestly embarrassed
that Victor's here to see it.

MOBIUS: You're being hard on yourself.
It looks great.

All right. What's the plan?

O.B.: 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...

- CASEY: 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.

- Big.
- LOKI: What's that?

There is much, much more
Temporal Radiation through here

than there was when
you went out there, Mobius.

Yeah, so much more.

- More?
- O.B.: Yes.

(EXHALES AND INHALES SHARPLY)

Okay, well, I mean, Loki's really gonna
have to hoof it then, right?

Hang on a second.
Why is it suddenly me having to hoof it?

Well, because it's your turn.

LOKI: Says who? Why?
Why is it suddenly me?

Well, because clearly this isn't me.

- Just because it isn't you, it isn't me.
- O.B.: Listen, guys.

- It's got your shape.
- It's got my shape?

- It's a suit. Could be anybody.
- It's wearing a helmet.

- Doesn't look like anyone.
- Don't think it's me.

Uh... It doesn't matter who it is.
It's doable.

But this person just needs to be...
(IMITATES WHOOSHING) super-fast.

SYLVIE: Okay, great. So, what are we
waiting for? Let's do this.

CASEY: There's another problem.
LOKI: What's that?

O.B.: This whole plan is only theoretical
because our Throughput Multiplier

- does not yet work.
- LOKI: Why?

- SYLVIE: It 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 prototype. Still.
- (DEVICE WHIRRING)

O.B., it'll work?

Integrating them, if that would even work,
would take a long time.

Yeah, a long time.

Mr. Ouroboros, if anyone can,

it's you and me.

MOBIUS: Okay, come on.
Let's give them some space to work.

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

(ELEVATOR DINGS)

- Pie?
- Yeah.

What is the matter with you?

You dragged me back here begging for help,

so you must have some idea
of what's happening.

Everything is turning to shit,

and you want to leave it to them
while we go and have some pie?

- Great idea, Mobius.
- LOKI: Sylvie, wait.

No, I won't wait. Come on.
Let's go and get some pie. Why not?

It's a great idea. Does it 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 a monitor.

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.

BRAD: So, are you gonna say anything?

No? Okay.

All right, everybody. Listen up.

We don't have any weapons.

We don't really have
the numbers, obviously.

But I think, I think
if we put our heads together

and if we just try to figure this out,
we can get out of this room

and we can get back to our lives. Huh?

I believe it was Galileo,

- or Winston Churchill, or...
- Oh, will you just cut the shit?

- I don't wanna die in here!
- DOX: Oh.

Oh, really?

Well, it seemed like you gave up
when you sold out our plan.

Hmm?

- I didn't know you knew that.
- DOX: Oh, yes.

We all know about your escapades
as an actor, Brad.

Okay.

(SCOFFS) Okay.

I earned my life.

I think we all earned our lives.

Huh?

- Don't you think you earned your life?
- No!

No.

(DOOR OPENS)

You have no authority to keep us here.

I don't want any of this.

And I certainly don't wanna be
talking to you.

But I know you care about the TVA,
and I know you wanna protect it.

That's the only reason I'm here.

- What do you want?
- Your help.

You and your Minutemen.

If we have to fight to defend this place,
from Renslayer or worse,

can we trust you?

You're serious.

Help us, we'll talk.

How can I trust you?

We may not see eye to eye on most things,

but I care about this place, these people.

So do you. Trust that.

Give them time to mull that over.

What if they don't go for it?

Go and help Mobius keep an eye on Timely.

(RUMBLING)

SYLVIE: You've got to be kidding me.

I took a wrong turn.

I didn't plan on coming to pie land.

(SIGHS)

- Say it then.
- LOKI: About Mobius...

(RUMBLING)

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

And so we're clear, I asked for your help
and you walked away.

Just so we're clear, no, I didn't.

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.

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.

You're putting a lot of faith
in those three back there.

(RUMBLING)

Don't forget Dox. She's part of the TVA.

All those dead branches,
those dead people,

- that's the TVA's fault.
- What about those branches

that are still living?

That's because of Mobius and B-15.

And those guys back there, O.B. and Casey.

What if you're wrong?

What if you are wrong to believe that
this place can be any better?

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.

Okay, so Timely can save the TVA.

Then, we hope that the TVA
turns into something good.

Then, we hope that Timely doesn't
turn into He Who Remains or someone worse.

That's a lot of hoping, Loki.

I didn't have you down for an optimist.

This is the best option we have.

So, you're gonna bring him
behind the curtain, show him all of this,

and then just send him home?

Maybe that's a good thing.
We can watch him, protect him.

Interfere for good. Heard that one before.

You can't give people free will
and then just walk away, Sylvie.

That's not how it works.

Now, for better or for worse,
the timelines are free.

It's up to us to protect them.

It's up to us to do better
than He Who Remains.

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

(LOKI SIGHS)

We are gods.

BRAD: They're gonna prune us
the minute they don't need us.

That's what they do.
The TVA prunes traitors.

We need a backup plan.
We need something else.

B-15 has integrity. I don't need
to agree with her to know that.

- I don't trust B-15. So, I...
- (TIME DOOR WHOOSHES)

Renslayer. Where's B-15?

She's setting in place
her plan to control the TVA.

But if we work together, we can stop her.

Protect this place.

The only thing you want to protect
is yourself, Ravonna.

And you.
This is really disappointing, I must say.

I know. I'm working on myself.

The Temporal Loom is imploding.

I've been gone mere days,

and this place is hours away from
becoming a crater in the cosmos.

Driven into the ground by two Variants?

Is that what you want?

Well, what's your plan then?

Anyone who joins me right here,
follows me out that door

and helps me restore stability to the TVA,

will have a life on the timeline
if they want it.

(SIGHS)

I thought you could see
the bigger picture.

(MOTOR REVS)

For the first time,
I finally am seeing the bigger picture.

Please, stop.

You made a rather impressive life
for yourself on the timeline.

- Don't you want it back?
- DOX: X-5.

Bradley. Look at me.

Life on the timeline was that good?

How does it feel knowing that
all of us here would rather die

than follow you out that door? Hmm?

(ALL SCREAMING)

(INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY)

- RENSLAYER: Let's go, X-5.
- (TIME DOOR OPENS)

- (BOTH GASP)
- Spectacular.

- Yes!
- MOBIUS: How we looking?

- Everything is going according to plan.
- MOBIUS: Good.

What is that?

This? A little Mobius pick-me-up,
courtesy of the hot cocoa machine.

Diagnostics just went down.

- O.B.: What?
- Yeah.

Did you say hot cocoa...

- machine?
- Machine? Yeah.

This TemPad's not working.

Mobius, can I see your TemPad?

You have a machine for that?

Yeah. You're interested in this machine.

Weird. This one's not connecting either.

About this hot cocoa machine...

- Could I take a look?
- Can you sit tight for just a second?

- What do you mean?
- HUNTER D-90: I can take him.

Can you? Okay. Professor, he'll take you.

- (OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
- (GASPS)

MISS MINUTES: Uh-uh-uh. Access denied.

- (SNAPS FINGERS)
- (CHUCKLES)

(GROANS)

I'm sorry.

Where's the device?

So strange. All your files
are being corrupted in real time.

Did you download unauthorized games again?

No. I'm not gonna make that mistake twice.

CASEY: Something's messing with this.

- Yours wasn't working either.
- MISS MINUTES: Uh-uh-uh.

- Oh.
- What?

It's Miss Minutes.

- She's taken control of the systems.
- That's why the TemPads weren't working.

Grab the Multiplier and let's get Timely.

- What's wrong?
- MOBIUS: Timely's gone.

- (ELEVATOR DINGS)
- And Miss Minutes is back.

Dox and her team are dead.

- LOKI: What?
- Yeah.

- It's gotta be Renslayer.
- (RUMBLING)

Is the Multiplier ready?

Theoretically. I haven't had time
to test it, but without Timely,

it doesn't matter.

Without his Aura, I can't open
the blast doors. We're locked.

MOBIUS: Okay, well, we gotta find out
who took him back to the timeline.

- Where else would they have gone?
- No.

Renslayer doesn't want him.

She wants the TVA. They're still here.

- Listen, friend, I don't know...
- Move it.

...what you're jabbering on about.

Sit. Sit down.

Thank God you're both okay.

- Ms. Ravonna...
- Sit down.

Sitting down.

- I would like...
- I'm done listening to your lies.

You're gonna talk
when I say you can, and only then.

And right now, you're gonna tell us
where to find your device.

And if you don't like
what I have to tell you?

Then X-5 here is gonna find

a very thorough
and incredibly painful way to kill you.

It's a very small box.

(MUTTERS INDISTINCTLY)

TIMELY: Ladies... (CLEARS THROAT)

I think you're going to like
what I have to say.

(BOOMING)

WOMAN ON PA: TVA code 1127.

- (ELEVATOR DINGS)
- All personnel...

- Come on.
- ...report to your nearest

time door evacuation point.

SYLVIE: Come on!

WOMAN ON PA: TVA code 1127.

All personnel, report to your nearest
time door evacuation point.

- MISS MINUTES: Access denied.
- Loki?

- LOKI: Sylvie. You okay?
- Yeah. I just hate that clock.

- She's trying to slow us down.
- Take the stairs.

WOMAN ON PA: Total Loom failure imminent.

- (RUMBLING)
- (METAL WARPING)

Okay, that sounds like a noise
you wanna hear from farther away.

O.B.: We're running out of time. Come on.

WOMAN ON PA: All personnel, report to
your nearest time door evacuation point.

TVA code 1127.

LOKI: There's still time.

All personnel, report to your nearest
time door evacuation point.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

MISS MINUTES: Access denied.
Access denied.

Access denied.

- Pretty tech-savvy.
- (MACHINERY WHIRRING)

- (PANTING)
- (PHONE RINGING)

- (DEVICE BEEPING)
- LOKI: No.

(PHONE CONTINUES RINGING)

(ELEVATOR DINGS)

Come on.

(STRAINING)

- (PHONE CONTINUES RINGING)
- (SIGHS)

(PANTING) There you are.

(GROANS)

(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)

I promise you this will make sense.

- Huh?
- (TELEPHONE RINGING)

(PHONE CONTINUES RINGING)

Hello?

About time.
What's taking you guys so long?

O.B.?

(RUMBLING)

- Hurry.
- Miss Minutes is sabotaging everything,

- slowing us down.
- What?

I could take her offline
if I reboot the system.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Reboot the system.

- But we'll lose the entire safety system.
- So what?

What are we gonna lose?

O.B.: The security protocols will go down.

MOBIUS: Like what?

Like the dampeners that prevent people
from using magic at the TVA.

We would have to turn that off too.

- Turn it off!
- Turn it off!

This is where the Multiplier goes.

- As I said, we haven't much time.
- BRAD: He's stalling.

- I need one of...
- We understand how it works. Now...

Well, that's getting worse.

MISS MINUTES: That's not another
power surge. Let me investigate.

(STUTTERING) Someone's trying to
reboot the system. I can't access it.

I'm being locked out.

Well, mocking is... just isn't necessary.

They're up to something.
What's happening to you?

They're taking me offline.
I'm losing my cognitive facilities.

I only have moments left.

Victor, I need to tell you... tell you...

(WARBLING AND STUTTERING)

You'll never be him.

Hi. I'm Miss Minutes.
(STUTTERING) And the time...

Oh, dear.

- Oh. That's new.
- Go.

LOKI: What do you say, X-5?

Fancy a rematch?

TIMELY: Clearly not.

RENSLAYER: X-5, what's going on?

This is cozy. (EXHALES)

Come here for a second.

- Come here. Come here. Come here.
- What is going on?

I didn't think I'd see you again so soon.

- Victor! Let's go right now. Now!
- What?

LOKI: Let's go. Go, go, go, now.

- Which way, wizard?
- This way. Elevator.

You saved my life.

Time for you to return the favor.
Let's go.

- O.B., he's here.
- Come on. Hurry. Right here.

- Victor, this way. What do we need to do?
- Over here.

The Throughput Multiplier
is waiting in the airlock.

But first,
we need Mr. Timely's Aura scanned

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...

LOKI: It's all right.

You'll be fine.

- Here, let me hold those.
- Sir.

(INHALES SHARPLY)

MALE AUTOMATED VOICE:
Welcome, He Who Remains.

TIMELY: Can I come out?

You did it.

O.B.: 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.

MOBIUS: Okay, let's go then.
HUNTER B-15: Come on, let's move.

TIMELY: Wait. It should be me.

LOKI: No, you don't have to do this.

But I do.

Something wrong could happen

and I know how
the Throughput Multiplier works.

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

Okay, okay, no time to argue.
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.

Time to be brave.

Good luck.

Time to be brave.

How long will he have?

- O.B.: Not long.
- He'll make it.

Yeah, I don't know about
these radiation levels.

- It's worse than when I was out there.
- He'll make it.

(GRUNTS)

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

- HUNTER B-15: Come on, let's move.
- Here we go.

(GRUNTS)

(SCREAMS)

What happened?

What... Where is he?

He's gone.

- MOBIUS: What happened?
- It's over.

MOBIUS: What...
HUNTER B-15: Is he dead?

The Temporal Radiation is just too high.

HUNTER B-15: What did we do wrong?
CASEY: I don't know.

MOBIUS: What happened?
CASEY: I don't know. It wasn't me.

- HUNTER B-15: What happened?
- I don't know.

I don't know.

(EXPLOSION)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)

No, we broke out
of your little game.

Wrong. Every step you took to get here,

I paved the road.

HUNTER B-15: People have lives
on the timeline.

They should have the chance
to live those lives.

Jet Skis, Sea-Doos.

- One of these calling your name, Mobius?
- I don't know about calling,

maybe gently whispering.

- That! That's what's been happening.
- Wow. Time slipping.

The branching is overloading
the Temporal Loom.

Temporal Loom?

The Temporal Loom
is the heart of the TVA.

And it's not constructed to weave together
so many new branches.

We need to make the rings bigger.

One of us will have to take our
Throughput Multiplier down the gangway.

And launch it towards the Loom.

I mean, Loki's really gonna
have to hoof it then, right?

Wait. It should be me.

The Temporal Radiation is just too high.

HUNTER B-15: What did we do wrong?

TVA code 1229.

Fail Safe Mode initiated.

- Thank you for your service.

No, no, no.

This is not happening again!

TVA code 1229.

Thank you for your service.

Hello?

TVA code 1229.

Fail Safe Mode initiated.

- Thank you for your service.

Hello?

Hello?

Is this everything?
- This is everything.

- Shh!

Come on.

Come on.

Come on, bro. Come on.

Let's go! Hurry up!

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

Casey? Okay.

Casey.

Thank God you're here.

Is everyone here?

Who are you?

Not again.

Who am I? Casey, it's me.

Tell me you know who I am.

With the boat? You're in 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?

- I've been calling you Frank.
- Frank?

- You said your name was Frank.
- It is.

- His name's Casey.
- I don't know this guy.

Come on.

You gotta find your own way off this rock.

Sorry, pal.

- Come on.

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

It's gonna help you heal,
but you'll have to wear it for six weeks.

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.

Climb... Trees.

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.

And nothing but open water
in front of you.

Don? 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, uh...
was more interested in a dirt bike.

Well, they say the personal watercraft
is kind of the thinking man's dirt bike.

Come on,
you ready for your Poseidon moment?

Jump up on this bad boy.

I'm good. Sorry.

It's okay.

Call me if you change your mind
or if you want another donut.

Great donuts today, Dale.

...pay me to put on a helmet

- and ride around in the mud.
- Thank God.

Hello.

- How could he not get up here, Dale?
- Crazy. I don't get it.

- You're here?
Oh, yes.

Every day of the week except Sunday,
9:00 to 5:00.

The TVA is gone.

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

We got in two of 'em last week.
They're upstairs.

You don't remember me either?

No, no, I do. You were...
You were in just the other day, right?

Your son's on line three.

I'm sorry, single dad, give me a second.

- Told you I'll call him back.
- Your other son.

- Tell him I'll call him back too.

The Zartan Contingent.

I 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.

Hmm. I'll have to check it out.

I'd 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.

Nobody buys it here.

What I'm about to tell you...

is going to 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 Yoren.

- What's that?
- Just, you know,

my most popular book of all time.

I'm sure I can find you a copy
somewhere around here.

Wait.

You're a writer?

- Yes. Science fiction.
- I'm doomed.

But, and this is kind of embarrassing,

I have to get a PhD to keep my day job
teaching theoretical physics at Caltech.

Wait, you're a scientist as well.
That's great.

Yeah, until I can quit
and write full time.

You have no idea how hard it is
to break... Hey, look at this.

There's a copy. You're one lucky man.

I'm so sorry. Can we just stay on track?

Of course. So, uh, what exactly
are you trying to do?

I need to go back to before
the Temporal Loom melted down.

You can't. It's impossible.

But don't let that stop you.

I don't understand what you've just said.

Well, you time-traveled

- 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.

It's equally impossible, and therefore
it's something you might be able to do.

Sure, excellent.

Yeah. Makes total sense.

- 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, 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

to protect against what's coming.

Well, if that's the real why
that's guiding you,

you should be able to control it.
So, go ahead.

- Now?
- Yeah, yeah, just do it.

All right.

- Here we go.
- Cool.

Focus in on that why.

- You need to save the TVA.
- All right.

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.

- Maybe we focus on the science.
- Okay.

So this equation proposes that... Argh!

- What are you doing?
- Science.

Now we know that electrical pulses
don't initiate time slipping.

- For God's sake.

Ah. Not fight or flight induced...

Okay, let's forget about
the time slipping, all right?

How does science help us

get to a place that doesn't exist?

- Well, maybe it does exist.
- It doesn't.

I saw it disappear with my own eyes.

But then you said you also time-traveled
in a place at the TVA, right?

The Time Theater, yes.

If that's the case, then maybe the place
and time you're looking for still exists,

but you don't know where to look.

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 will be like coordinates.

We can use these coordinates
to get back to that moment.

- No.
- Why?

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 from scratch.

- It could take a whole lifetime.

What if you 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 going to write a bestseller.

Yeah, sort of. Let's, um,
let's get to work...

Oh, that's a problem.

Okay, guys,
we're gonna have a new rule,

and that is any toy
found outside your room

is gonna be classified
as garbage, all right?

Trash, okay?

'Cause I'm tired of coming home,

having it look like some lunatic
garage sale that... Is he burnt?

Yeah, he's burnt.

- How did he get burnt?

Kevin, who gave you the matches?

- I stole 'em.
- No, you...

Give 'em to me. Come on. Hand 'em over.

Don't run. Kevin. Kevin.
Kev... Kevin! Get...

Sean, go get him! Come on, hurry!

If you keep him from burning down
the house, I'll get you a puppy.

- Come on.
- And a snake!

That... 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,
I was actually on my way to the...

and I happened to see you so I just...

I just thought I'd just come and say

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

I was, I was in a bit of a time crunch.

Yeah. You were looking for ATVs.

- The TVA.
- Yeah.

You know, are you still in the market?

'Cause I have something...

I got something I wanna show you.
Come here.

Now, ordinarily, I wouldn't dream of
parting with one of these beauties.

But wife is long gone
and I can't ride two of 'em.

Plus, the boys are probably gonna need
braces and math tutors

and God knows what else.

A beautiful union of form and function.

Oh, that's lovely, yeah.

Yeah, they really are
and it breaks my heart,

but what are you going to do?

Hey, you want a drink?
Can I get you a beer?

No, no, no, no. I'm fine. Thank you.

I'm afraid 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...

- I think you have me mixed up.
- No, you see, the thing is, I don't.

Mobius is your real name
and you belong in a place called the TVA.

Is that right? Huh.

Okay, hold that thought.
I'm gonna go check on...

- It's okay. It's okay.
- I don't want any trouble.

- It's all right. 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'd 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.

Like... 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 from a place called...
- No, you don't.

...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

but I need your help
to save this place, the TVA.

You once told me it was the only life
you'd ever known.

I sell jet skis, man.

Trust me.

- What about my boys?
- They'll be fine.

I can't leave them.

- What do you mean they'll be fine?
- I understand. Listen.

Look, you can come back anytime.

- Oh, you were at the shop earlier.
That's right.

Yeah, you live around here
or did you follow me home...

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.
- And your boys are in danger too.

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

You know, are you still in the market?
'Cause I... Come here.

What were you calling me?

Mobius.

It's a pretty cool name.

This is going to sound strange.

How you doing? I'm Don.

I guess Mobius is my space name.

Are you part of this whole...

saving the... Is this room safe?

- I wonder, for the wormhole or the...
- Yeah.

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?

Nobody else did. Their lives were reset...

Yeah. I know. I was there.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

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

- No? What exactly were you expect...

Okay, get in the car.

- I'm buying you a drink.
- Okay.

Zaniac craves blood.

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

So was B-15's, O.B. 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 have 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 this all worked out
the way you wanted it to

and you're fine just walking away.

- It's 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 wanna 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.

How much longer are we going to be?

Some of us have
time-sensitive activities going on.

Don't worry. We can get you right back
where we got you.

Yeah?

So, that doodad just takes you
wherever you wanna go?

Within time and space, yeah.

- So like a park?
- Yeah.

- Grand Canyon?
- Yeah.

Bank vault?

Do you get out on the water much?

Swimming?
- Yeah, or personal watercraft?

No. I live in the city.
There's not much opportunity, you know?

Well, if you live on a river,
it could be an exciting way to commute.

Or, by the way, it's also nice just to
get out on a pond and unplug.

Hit that reset button.

- Well, I'll keep that in mind.
- Yeah.

Some good financing options available too.

Hey, listen,
if we're all gonna have to wait,

I'm gonna borrow this thing for a bit.

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?

Well, 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.

- 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.

O.B., we're all here.

The pens...

We have all the pens.

The mug, the coordinates.

Ah. Okay. First, we need to read
the 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. I...

Is this it?

We...

There's nowhere left to go.

No. No!

It was a fiction problem.
Everything's falling apart.

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

What's wrong
with wanting something?

If I could go anywhere...
HUNTER B-15: I looked happy.

Wherever it is I'm really from.
The TVA...

Do you think that
what makes a Loki a Loki

is the fact that we're destined to lose?

There's nowhere left to go.

No, they aren't.

Everything's falling apart.

The branches are dying.

- 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 died. Insert your coin, loser.

I am Loki of Asgard.

- And I am burdened with glorious purpose.

You found out you're a Variant
and you haven't even looked, have you?

- You wanna be king?
- I don't want to be, I was born to be.

That is what we know.
War. And it's on its way.

- That's who you showed us?
- He Who Remains.

This is his kingdom.

And that's the gambit.

Take over, or an infinite amount of me
start another Multiversal War.

And I just end up right back here anyways.

Reincarnation, baby.

Sylvie, stop.

- You want the throne?

See you soon.

Now, for better or for worse,
the timelines are free.

It's up to us to protect them,
to do better than He Who Remains.

- We're playing God.
- What's the plan?

Load the Multiplier,
launch it and get back.

Time to be brave.

The branches are dying.
Everything's falling apart.

I need to go back to before
the Temporal Loom melted down.

You need to learn
how to control your time slipping.

Load the Multiplier,
launch it and get back.

- Got it?
Got it.

Okay.

Time to be brave.

Good luck.

Time to be brave.

I'm back.

- You okay?
- Yes. Yes.

We have to get Timely out there.

Ready.

How long will he have?
- Not long.

I don't know about this radiation level,
it's worse than when I was there.

HUNTER B-15: He'll make it.

Be brave.

Here we go.

- Come on, let's go! Let's go!
- HUNTER B-15: Come on, let's move!

What happened?

He's gone.

It's over.

Okay, what do we do?

The Temporal Radiation is just too high.

HUNTER B-15: What did we do wrong?

I don't know.
It wasn't me, I swear.

- O.B.
- HUNTER B-15: Is he dead?

What could we have done differently?

Good question.

We took too long.

Again. Faster.

- Okay. No time to argue.

- Follow me.
- Good luck, professor.

Listen. Get in, get suited up. When...

When those doors open,
get down the gangway as fast as you can.

Load the Multiplier, hit the green button,
launch it and get back. Okay?

- Okay.
That's exactly right.

Let's keep moving.
Let's go faster this time.

Time to be brave.
You ready?

"This time"?

- Okay. No time to argue.
- Good luck, professor.

Listen...

Get in. Get suited up.
Get down the gangway fast.

Load the Multiplier, hit the green button,
launch it and get back.

Keep moving. Go little faster this time.

"This time"?

What happened?
He's gone.

- Again. Not faster, earlier.
It's over.

Miss Ravonna, after what happened
in my workshop...

Miss Minutes, I know right now
you're hurt and you're angry.

But we need your help in finishing
the Throughput Multiplier, faster.

Time is of the essence.

I wasted time and now the time wastes me.

Don't set the Multiplier down.

Again.

Come on!

- Again. Again.

Again.

Come on, come on, come on.

Again.

Introductions. Ouroboros,
this is Victor Timely.

Victor Timely, this is Ouroboros.
Guess what?

The TVA Handbook, you both wrote it.
Isn't that amazing?

- Loki, why are you being so weird?
O.B...

Victor Timely?

Ouroboros.

Hey, hey.
- Nice to meet you!

Here is a model of the Loom
which O.B. so helpfully mocked up.

Everyone, Victor,
this model is not finished, okay?

There's only one coat of paint on this.

O.B., what are you talking about?
It's absolutely perfect.

Now listen up. We have to get Timely
suited up and to the Loom.

Wait... Why me?

Because you volunteered,
you did, you will.

Something could go wrong,
and you know how the Multiplier works.

- I do.
- It'll make sense.

You will wear this protective suit.

Mobius, you're in luck.

It looks like Mobius,
but it's actually Victor Timely.

That's me?

Victor, in this suit,
when those doors open,

get down the gangway as fast as you can.

It's gonna take some doing,

- it's not gonna be easy.
- It's not gonna be easy...

Lot of Temporal Radiation.

- Everyone following? Good.
Yes.

Victor, load the Multiplier
into the launcher, spin it,

hit the green button, which will launch it
where it'll dock with the Loom

and scale its capacity to manage
the backlog of branches.

The Multiplier isn't ready yet.
- It is.

- Because Timely has this.
- What's that...

- A prototype...
- Yes.

...which will widen the temporal input
and invert the temporal decay.

This device,
plus the Throughput Multiplier,

will make the rings bigger.

- Loki, give...
- Give that back to the professor.

Thank you so much. Trust me.

It'll take time to adapt
my Throughput Multiplier...

How long? How long?

Depends. I don't even know
what I'm looking at.

What is that?

O.B., how long will it take me
to know everything that you know

about mechanics, physics, and engineering?

How much do you know?

Let's assume I don't know much,
but I'm a fast learner and I'm a god.

- Let's start at the beginning.
- Start at the beginning.

We don't have time.
It's better if we work alone.

O.B., I understand.

But if I had to know,

I mean, I really, really,
really had to know,

how long would it take?

- Decades.
- Centuries.

Loki, I'm not questioning your
surprisingly advanced engineering skills,

but maybe O.B. should
test that thing first?

Testing protocol is key to safe
scientific advancement.

It's perfect. Timely, need you this way.

We have to scan your Temporal Aura
in this fine machine.

- Now, it looks lethal.
- Is that...

- It is absolutely safe. Watch this.
Loki, Loki!

Access denied.

Your turn. I'll take those.

- Thank you.
- Thank you.

- When you're ready.
- Ready.

And go.

Welcome, He Who Remains.

Can I, can I come out?
And you're still here.

You'll need those.

Guys, it's worse than I thought.

We have to move fast. Who's it gonna be?

It's him. It's you. You volunteer.

Here's the plan. Get in, get suited up.

When those doors open,
get down the gangway as fast as you can.

Load the Multiplier, hit the green button,

- launch it, and get back.
- Got it.

By the way, remember,

tape your right thumb, left knee,
and faceplate

or the Temporal Radiation
will peel your skin off.

- Watch the first step, trip hazard.
- Thumb, knee, faceplate.

- One last thing.
- Yes.

Whatever you do,
do not set the Multiplier down,

or it will roll off the gangway.
Okay? Don't forget.

Be brave.

Time to be brave.

Casey, we need to widen the voltage
input and invert the temporal decay.

- What about the ion decoupler?
It's fine.

- Route it with the primary compartment.
Won't it overheat?

No. Allow it to interface with Timely's
adaptive exponential computing system.

Those upgrades will allow the Loom

to scale the capacity
to manage the branches.

The rings. Rings are too small.

We're gonna make them bigger. Let's go.

Better watch out, O.B.

- Someone's coming for your job.
- Coming for your job.

That's right. I'm coming,
O.B., watch your back.

Casey, get the Multiplier down to Timely

- as fast as you can.
- Okay.

- What the shit are you doing?
- Trust me.

- No.
- I know what I'm doing.

- No!
- Watch.

- Casey, don't forget to latch his helmet.
- Yeah.

Latch his helmet.
- Thank you.

- Mr. Timely's ready.
- I know.

Access denied.
Password required. Password accepted.

- Here we go.
- Yes!

Hang on. This all seems a bit rushed.

Only to you. Trust me.
If you stop, you die.

All right.

Here we go.

Get to the end of the gangway
as fast as you can,

and then load the Multiplier
into the launcher.

That's it, one step at a time.

Be brave. You're being so brave.

You're doing really well. Fantastic.

Keep going.

One foot in front of the other.

Before you know it,
you'll be at the end of the gangway.

Well done.

He did it. He made it.

Not yet.

Ah, ah! Victor, what did I tell you?

Do not put the Multiplier down,
it will roll off the gangway.

Oh, my God, yes!

That's right. Well done.
Now load it into the launcher.

Come on.

Come on.

- He's got it.
- Right. Listen to me carefully.

Hit the green button.

Hit the green button.

No.

Hit the button.

It can be a little sticky.

Hit the green button!

Yes!

Now come back, quick.

Get back, get back.

Back?
- Yes, come back.

It's working. It's working.
It's gonna work this time.

- Come on, Victor. Yes, come back!

- Come on.

Go, go, go, go! Go!

Go.

- Yes!
Yeah!

Are you kidding me?

- He did it!
- Yes!

How did he do that?

Pumpkins.

- It's working.

I'm going to go check the systems.

Finally.

It's integrating.

The Loom is weaving the branches together.
It's stabilizing.

Did it work, Wizard?
HUNTER B-15: You did it!

Oh, my God. We did it.
- Did it work?

Oh, yes, it worked.
It's working right now.

- Really?
- It's working. Look at this.

It worked.

HUNTER B-15: You did it. You did it!

- We're gonna make it.
- It worked.

- You did it.
Wait.

What?

These readings are off.

What do you mean, "off"?

I don't know. They're just off.

It can't be.

How can the readings be off? How...

The Loom is overloading again.

How can the Loom be overloading?

- No.

That's not possible.

It's not possible.

We increased the throughput.

The Multiplier was perfect.

It did increase the throughput,
but there are just too many branches.

We have to get out of here.

Wait.

The branches of time are duplicating

and expanding at an infinite rate.

I... I don't understand.

It's a scaling problem.

But that's what we were adjusting for.

The Loom will never be able
to accommodate

for an infinitely growing multiverse.

You can't scale for infinite.

It's like trying to divide by zero.

It can't be done.

So, no matter how much
we increase the throughput,

it will never be enough.

Be enough. Never enough.

- And the Loom will always fail.
- Fail.

And the new timelines will always...

It's almost as if as soon
as the timelines started branching,

this was doomed to happen.

I'm sorry.

Sylvie, stop. Stop.

Stop.

Stop.

I've been where you are.

I've felt what you feel.

- You don't want this.

What's happening?

You're right.
What were you thinking trusting me?

I can't be trusted.

You have to believe me.

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.

Sylvie, stop!

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

See you soon.

Not what you were expecting, hmm?

You're just... a man.

Flesh and blood.
Don't tell me I'm a disappointment.

- Hear me out.

No. No.

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.

Want to stop me,
you have to kill me.

- If you want to stop me...
- I have to kill you, I get it.

Why do 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 the eye line a little bit.
So why don't we just...

So, this,

this isn't the first time
we've had this conversation, is it?

- 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,
you were sticking it to the system.

Gonna beat the man. And then... Whoop!

Here he is.

Kiddo, did you really think I was just
gonna sit back and let her kill me?

And that'd be it? Zip? Nada?

RIP HWR?

No, I told you.

Reincarnation, baby.

"We die with the dying.

"We're born with the dead."

Uh-huh. Okay. So, 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?

Tsst.

Well done. You're my favorite.

When there was two of you here,
you were my favorite.

Okay.

So, seems you've figured it all out. Hmm?

Tell me, how is Victor...
Timely?

- Of course you know about your...
- Wait. Don't tell me.

You're, you're having some, some,
some problems with the Temporal Loom.

- Scaling problem.
- Scaling problem? That's what he told you?

Victor told you
it's a scaling problem? Wow.

No. No, there's no, there's no problem.

It destroyed the TVA.

The Temporal Loom is a failsafe.

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,

that's just,
that's just collateral damage.

Look, 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,

remains the same.

You lose.

I know.

I know.

Shake it off.

I'll change the equation.

I'll break your Loom.

Um... But the Loom prevents a brutal war

where nothing survives, Loki.
Not even the Sacred Timeline.

Okay, let's try it this way, every...

every moment of peace

you've ever experienced

was yours because I was here.

Alone,

at the end of time,

keeping watch.

I understand.

But you want to break the Loom.

What do you think would happen
to your friends?

Hmm.

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.

I know, 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.

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.

Well, 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,

- they have that responsibility.
- The Time-Keepers.

Dictate the proper flow of time.

They're busy untangling the epilogue
from its infinite branches.

- Exactly, yeah.
- 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? Well, there's no comfort.

You're not gonna find comfort at the TVA.

You wanna hear a good story?
Listen to this one.

A couple of Hunters went out on a mission
somewhere near the Black Sea

to find a Variant who's gonna be
responsible for 5,000 deaths,

5,000 deaths that were not
in the proper flow of time.

They get there
and there's a little hiccup.

The Variant is an eight-year-old boy.

He was just minding his own business.

Swimming with his brother,
jumping off the dock.

And one of the Hunters
who never had trouble pruning before,

he had never hesitated,
but that day he did.

He paused.

Timeline started to branch,
more Variants appeared.

Happened so fast, his partner
had to step in and prune the kid.

But by then, cat was out of the bag.

Couple Hunters died.

All because that one Hunter,

he lost sight of the big picture.

Gotta keep the big picture in mind.

Hmm.

Most purpose is more burden than glory.

And trust me,
you never wanna be the guy who avoids it

'cause you can't live with the burden.

How do you live with it?

Scar tissue.

What happened to your partner?

The Hunter who pruned the boy
when you couldn't.

Oh, things worked out fine for her.

She actually became a judge.

You know, she's the reason you're here
instead of dust in a TVA vent.

Renslayer.

She knew the hard thing to do
was the thing that had to be done.

And by hard, I mean impossible.

No, there's no comfort.

You just choose your burden.

Thank you, Mobius.

HUNTER B-15: Is this it?

We...

There's nowhere left to go.

What's happening?

We're outside time.

How?

I finally learned to control
the time slipping.

I went back.

I thought I could fix the Loom.

It's a failsafe.

It was designed to protect
the Sacred Timeline and nothing else.

Of course it is.

I'm out of options, Sylvie.

I've tried everything.

The only way that anything survives...

Is if I never kill He Who Remains
in the first place.

So you have to kill me.

I'm not giving you my blessing,
if that's what you're waiting for.

What do I do?

It's the Sacred Timeline, or nothing.

It's not enough
to protect the Sacred Timeline, Loki.

Even down there,
it's full of death and destruction

and injustice.

Do you really wanna be the god
who takes away everyone's free will

so you can protect that?

But what good is free will
if everyone's dead?

And who are you to say
we can't die trying?

Who are you to decide
we can't die fighting?

You're replacing one nightmare
with another.

I grew up in apocalypses, Loki.

I've lived through enough of them to know

that sometimes
it's okay to destroy something.

If...

If there's a hope
that you can replace that thing

with something better.

Welcome, He Who Remains.

Loki.

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.

HUNTER B-15: Your team
are doing an excellent job.

Let me know if you need anything.

How're things going over here?

Hey, y'all, I'm Miss Minutes.

And are we sure she won't...

- Try to kill us all?
- Yeah.

You don't instill confidence, O.B.

- Are you headed to the War Room?
Yeah.

HUNTER B-15: Let them know
I'll be up in a moment?

I'll do you one better,
I'll save you a seat.

Hey, you. You okay?

I got those reports
on the Variants of He Who Remains.

- Do any of them know that we exist yet?
- Nope.

I guess one of 'em caused a little bit
of a ruckus on 616 adjacent realm,

but they handled it.
So, we're all good for now.

That's all we can ask for.

- Are you headed up?
- Yeah, I'll meet you up there.

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...

HUNTER B-15: Hmm.

So, when we get in there...

Yeah, funny you should
mention that because...

You're leaving.

I mean, you think the TVA is gonna miss
a tired, washed-up old analyst

with a heart of gold?

I think there's one or two who will.

I... I am, I, 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.

They need you in there.

Are you scared?

Oh, yeah.

He's going in, no one can stop him.
Help!

We're on the same team. Help!

The inmates are running the asylum.

Okay, okay, peace, peace.

Dinner, come on,
let's find some common ground.

Here we go. Crazy two.

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.