This Week’s Moon Knight Unearths Tombs and, Finally, Some Big Revelations

Now we’re entering into the thick of it. Marvel’s Moon Knight picks up proper the place we left off final week on Disney+, with the sky being wondrously manipulated into the best gentle present. It opens on Khonshu turned to stone in an altar surrounded by different figures after sacrificing himself so Layla (May Calamawy) and Marc/Steven (double the Oscar Isaac) can get to Ammit’s tomb earlier than Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke).

The six-episode sequence is closing in on its final act wit episode 4, “The Tomb,” which has all of it: thrilling journey, a touch of romantic comedy amongst archeology buds, and a few gory horror bits. So be forewarned for those who’re the queasy kind.

Layla is (as soon as once more) the MVP of this complete episode, and begins it by using the flares in her gear to distract Harrow’s disciples as they shoot at her and Marc/Steven. Her Tomb Raider skillset proves fairly helpful; she hits the enemy truck with a flare, cleverly making the enemies hearth on themselves. When Steven involves, she’s dealt with all the pieces they usually drive towards Ammit’s tomb. He reveals to her that he’s in management now as a result of Marc promised he’d go away when Khonshu leaves, and Layla asks if it was truthful to her relationship together with her husband to not have a say within the matter.

Since Steven is the extra emotionally adept of the personalities, you get that he begins to see that he’s damage somebody he cares about. He additionally admits to her that Khonshu had wished her as his avatar to ensure there’s nothing in between them. What’s difficult is that we nonetheless sort of suppose Marc is the unique individual and Steven’s the developed persona; there have been no calls from “mum” this episode, which may imply it was most likely Marc utilizing that quantity as a technique to test in on Steven after they had been extra cut up aside. Here Marc is ever extra current in Steven’s reflection and watching all the pieces unfold, together with Layla and Steven flirting over how Marc would simply lone wolf the mission. They agree they’re higher off with out him as very cute archaeology associates—who share a smooch after they discover the tomb. (Marc manages to punch Steven as comeuppance although.)

Once contained in the tomb, they get to know one another somewhat extra over the course of discovering clues towards discovering the tomb of Ammit’s final avatar. Looking over a watch of Horus, Steven figures out that they’re in a well-guarded labyrinth. Quickly their little gravesite date takes a freaky flip after they discover a Heka priest chamber with a bloody slab within the center. They don’t fairly course of that it’s recent as they nerd out over burial entrail jars which might be clearly just lately used. (They’re too pure.) Steven goes on to interpret inscriptions that reveal that Ammit is encased in an Ushabti determine, similar to the one Khonshu can also be sure to, someplace in her final avatar’s tomb. Before they will make their means by the crypt an undead Heka priest drags one among Harrow’s males onto the slab and issues get fairly graphic. Horror followers will rejoice on the Universal Monsters-meets-The Descent vibes on this episode, particularly when Layla will get separated from Steven. Her perilous cave scaling to seek out security is stuffed with shock encounters and a psychological mindfuck from Harrow, who peacefully watches her tackle some historic horrors. She’s magnificence, she’s grace, she’ll slam a flare within the undead’s face.

When Layla realizes Harrow’s there, he tells her that her father can be proud, as if she wants extra male validation after dealing with much less annoying monsters. Simultaneously, Steven uncovers the tomb and the id of Ammit’s final avatar; it’s one of many earliest colonizers, Alexander the Great—after all he’d attempt to take energy from a deity he meant to overthrow within the search of constructing himself godlike. Certainly didn’t really feel unhealthy seeing Steven break Alexander’s mummy face to drag Ammit’s statue from his throat. Meanwhile, Harrow simply continues to mess with Layla by disclosing that Marc was one of many mercenaries who stormed in on her father’s ultimate expedition, the one he by no means got here again from.

As Steven celebrates the monumental discovery, the likes of which he solely dreamed of, Layla enters the tomb and calls for to talk to Marc. They actually haven’t any time to waste however she calls for a proof about his information of her father’s dying. Marc admits he was there when it occurred and his companion executed everybody and shot him too. This is probably going the place Marc made the cope with Khonshu to be his avatar—nevertheless it additionally begs the query: who was the companion who turned on everybody?

But it’s too late. Harrow reveals up and Marc tells Layla to run. We completely suppose he slipped her Ammit’s statue right here, and as she will get a head begin, Harrow activates Marc and shoots him—making him fall into the pool behind the tomb.

Just as you suppose the episode is over, we’re transitioned to an interstitial of types. It’s a film scene the place a really archetypal English archeologist is main an expedition—and it’s revealed their identify is Steven Grant, who’s on the hunt for the statue of an Aztec moon god. Turns out our Steven isn’t the primary character in any respect. He won’t even be actual, if the psychological establishment Marc is revealed to be in has something to say about it. In a setting paying homage to the opening of the Lemire Moon Knight run and the Clockworks setting of FX’s Legion, Marc finds himself surrounded by all of the individuals we’ve met alongside the way in which within the “delusions of his mind.” Layla is a fellow psychological affected person consuming a marshmallow and there’s a cupcake cart, whereas a sport of bingo is performed by the present’s ensemble in a dizzying, reality-shattering ending.

Harrow seems to be a health care provider making an attempt to assist Marc overcome all of the imagined storylines he believes he lived that had been solely impressed by the Steven Grant Tomb Buster movie he introduced with him—and the Moon Knight motion determine he owns. In truth the Egyptian decor round them and portrait of the alps had been simply imagery he let his thoughts run away with. Suuuuuuuuuure. Harrow shares all this whereas carrying very distinct, green-striped garments and giving some sage recommendation you’d see on new age Instagram:“No tree can ascend to the light of heaven if it doesn’t descend to the depths of hell.” This, he says whereas surrounded by canopic jars with the heads of the Ennead.

Uh-huh. Right. We don’t purchase it for a minute and neither does Marc, who makes a break for it by the twisted nightmare of a “reality.” The halls shift out of stability like scales, and Marc frees Steven from a tomb. If that’s not wild sufficient, they hug it out (regardless that Steven has no reflection). The episode closes on a surreal, madcap, hippo-headed determine discovering them. Did we google what Egyptian deity additionally has a hippo head instantly because the credit rolled? You wager we did! And it’s Taweret (voiced by Antonia Salib), goddess of fertility and childbirth—additionally a member of the Ennead we haven’t met. In truth, it’s mightily suspicious that the episode opens on altars with deities encased in prisons of stone and that the asylum itself could be very white, virtually as if it’s a ushabti as properly. We’ll discover out subsequent week!

Moon Knight is now streaming on Disney+

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