Loki is now working for Agent Morbius and the Time Variance Authority to track down a Variant that has been deadly for the agents, it’s a Loki Variant! Some medieval flutes and instruments play at a ren faire in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1985. Dancers swing around the May Pole. TVA Minutemen appear and then move to a tent lit by torches. A recorded message startles them and puts the agents at the ready. One agent’s eyes, Hunter C-20 (Sasha Lane) flare white, possessed? The goofy message goes into Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero.” Hunter C-20 starts to take down the other Minutemen until she is restored and falls down. The remaining agent is stabbed by a sword. The shadowy Variant uses the Minuteman’s time device and disappears in a time door. It picks up with Miss Minute checking Loki’s time knowldge. Loki decides to smack around the cartoon clock until she jumps into the safety of her screen.
Mobius checks Loki’s new jacket. Very fashionable. Hunter B-15 is at the briefing with Mobius and Loki. She points out that the back of his Loki’s jacket reads Variant. Mobius goes over Loki’s powers showing some of the variants including Loki as a soccer star. He has the group break into two teams to find the Variant. Loki is excited thay one of the the peeks of is new job may be an audience with the Time-Keepers. They arrive at the ren faire and Loki asks why they don’t travel to before the incident. Mobius explains it is because of the disruptive nature of the Nexus time flow. He grew bored of the TVAs videos and didn’t get the full TVA procedures which of course is an excellent way for the audience to know how this time travel works. They reach the tent, Hunter B-15 wants to search for C-20, but Loki stops Mobius. He senses a scheme that would be himself behind it. Loki compares the TVA to the gods of Asgard.
B-15 is impatient, but Loki says the Variant is setting a trap for him. This would allow the two Lokis to take over the TVA. He says he needs to see the Time-Keepers, but Mobius thinks it’s another Loki deception. At an office that contains strange, black armors, the TimeKeepers? the office of his boss, Ravonna Renslayer. They are discussing the failure of the mission, Mobius says the more he understands Loki, the more he will be able to catch the Variant. She says the Time-Keepers are watching the case. Ravonna authorizes one more mission with Loki. Joining him outside the office, Loki tries to explain what happened with the mission. Mobius is frustrated with Loki. They enter an elevator down through the TVA halls. Mobius warns Loki that this is his last chance. Loki goes over the research, the Variant kills agents and takes their reset charges. He later goes to desk clerk requesting files on the creation of the TVA. He is refused any information except the Variant case file.
There is one part of the file that catches Loki’s interest, the “Destruction of Asgard.” Loki is melancholy of the fate of Asgard and also that there was “Zero Variance Energy Detected.” This clue sets Loki to tell Mobius busy eating his lunch that the Variant is hiding in apocalypses. He says it is Ragnarok. I like that this team up is starting to work, great chemistry with Hiddleston and Wilson. He uses his lunch to say that the Variant could do anything he wanted because it would eventually lead to Ragnarok. He takes a juice box from Casey, the TVA office worker from last episode, and makes the metaphor of pouring juice into Mobius’ salad. Morbius thinks Loki’s theory may be valid, but doesn’t want to go to Asgard to be betrayed by the God of Mischief. Loki admits that he loves to be right. Pompeii, Italy, 79 A.D., right before the eruption. Mount Vesuvius rumbles, but villagers continue with their lives. Loki is excited about the impeding destruction.
Mobius checks his TemPad for variance energy, Loki runs, opening a pen of goats to run wild. He gives a speech in Italian to all of the villagers that the volcano is about to erupt. They return to the TVA and Mobius wants to research natural disasters where the Variant may be hiding. Mobius has Loki take a break from their research to the cafeteria, Loki asks about his jet ski magazine. He admires the invention from the “early 90s” and Loki realizes he has never ridden one. It is Mobius' motivation working for the TVA. Then, Mobius goes on an existential debate when Loki questons the Time-Keepers. He just accepts things as they are and that the Time-Keepers are working to resolve the future. Loki goes on that there are no absolutes, good or evil. Interesting conversation with some heavy topics, I don’t think Doctor Who goes into this territory. This gets Mobius to check on the other variable, the candy, Kablooie, left at the cathedral. They research the time period of the candy, 2047 to 2051. Loki and Mobius have a competition to find the Variant against natural disasters and the Kablooie time period. Loki finds it and Mobius has to get the mission approved by Ravonna. The Variant's plan becomes revealed and threatens everything! This episode of Loki explores some interesting time travel concepts and ups the danger with the Variant villain!
Five Time Twisters out of Five!
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