Moon Knight Episode 3

Moon Knight returned to screens with its third episode and that return featured the most jaw-dropping cliffhanger ending yet.

No, the likely explanation here is that Steven was overwhelmed by the sudden loss of his powers that it left him completely incapacitated. However, in doing so, he drew the attention of the other gods – all of whom had warned him against using his powers in such a way. That much was clear from the ending sequence of the most recent installment – an ending that will no doubt have fans scrambling for answers.

Here is Moon Knight episode 3 explained to help you understand the latest chapter of Marvel's newest hero on Disney+.

The cult leader then makes an offer for Mogart to turn his back on Layla and Marc. He then goes on to melt the sarcophagus, much to everyone’s surprise. Mogart greets the pair and allows them to investigate the sarcophagus. As he’s searching the black market, Marc encounters Layla, who then points him in the direction of antique dealer Anton Mogart. Harrow then focuses his argument on the instability of Khonshu’s human avatar and his multiple personalities. The scene then shifts to Ethan Hawke’s Arthur Harrow using the scarab he stole previously to find Ammit’s tomb in the desert. After regaining consciousness, Marc returns to see him killing one of Harrow’s men while the other commits suicide rather than giving up the location of Harrow.

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In the Marvel comics, Anton Mogart is a New Jersey-based art and jewel thief who runs afoul of Moon Knight. The two face off and Mogart is presumed dead. In Moon Knight Episode 3, Marc/Steven and Layla try to outpace their rivals, who want to bring the vengeful goddess Ammit back to her former devastating glory. Moon Knight is the MCU’s latest live action original series for streaming service Disney+ and the first to delve into the world of Egyptian gods.

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Of course, there’s no way of knowing yet how Marvel actually intends to handle Daredevil and its other Netflix properties in the coming years. Specifically, if Marvel thinks Moon Knight is pushing the limits of what it can do on Disney+, then does that mean any Daredevil or Jessica Jones revivals would have to be tamer than those shows originally were? Similar But Different — Moon Knight, while darker in some ways than Marvel’s other Disney+ originals, has yet to reach the same levels of brutality that the studio’s Netflix shows did.

Moon Knight appears to be revealing a third personality to join Marc and Steven, more dangerous than either of them.

However, readers of Moon Knight comics also know that Moon Knight can go extremely hard when he wants to, and as of last week, fans were a bit disappointed that when Mr. Knight was introduced, he was kind of a joke, the Steven version of the Moon Knight suit. However, there was one brief moment that stood out in the show that had nothing to do with the gods, per se. It has Marc, Steven and Layla attempting to find Ammit’s tomb without the scarab that was lost to Harrow, and doing so requires both consulting with and angering the Egyptian gods.

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And it’s in that universe that Marc and Steven, two alters living in the same body, must learn to cooperate. Part of the appeal of Marc’s story is its distance from the rest of the MCU, away from superheroes and multiverses, and towards something much more ancient, much more grounded, even if it is magic after all. We meet the avatars of five other gods: Hathor, Horus, Tefnut, Osiris, and Isis, and the theatrics of their proceedings as they question Marc (and by extension, Khonshu) bring to mind 1999’s The Mummy, with all the opulence and mysticism and none of the orientalism or fetishization.

Disney Plus' Moon Knight episode 3 brings in the Egyptian gods and questions Marc Spector's mental health. It also signposts a different kind of MCU story.

Each episode is slightly different, but with “The Friendly Type,” Moon Knight seems to be settling in for a classic adventure story vibe. This kind of praise is empty: There’s a richness and variety in cinema that is still foreign to the MCU, and many things will be new to it for years to come. In the final moments of “The Friendly Type,” Khonshu gives the world a glimpse of that awe, an expression of myth as a way we understood and interpreted the world around us in our earliest days. What’s more worth discussing is whether the aesthetic theming of a Marvel production is ever used to different ends, or in the service of exploring different ideas. The episode goes into full adventure story mode, stopping by the lush compound of antiquities collector Anton Mogart (the late Gaspard Ulliel) for an ancient clue to where a ritual was held deep in the desert. This is where Moon Knight gets messiest, asking the viewer to suddenly buy into an under-explained system of deity with an internal logic that just beggars belief, especially when the tribunal’s primary reason for dismissing Khonshu’s argument is asking the accused if he did it, and a simple “nuh uh” from Arthur Harrow is apparently enough for them.

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• The Egyptian gods in attendance at the Ennead court are Hathor, Horus, Isis, Tefnut, and Osiris. (Neither Khonshu nor Ammit are members of the supergroup.) In the first episode, Steven pointed out to his boss that there are nine members of the Ennead, and only five appeared on the poster for the museum’s Ennead exhibit. He’s just kind of a snoot and a pain in the neck. Hopefully, this is not the last we see of Mogart in Moon Knight, and not just because of Ulliel’s tragic and untimely death. It works, but it means Layla, Marc, Steven, and whoever else will have to find Arthur and stop him without the help of Khonshu’s powers or the Moon Knight suit. It also has me worried that Layla has some connection to Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp), who runs Madripoor as the Power Broker, and/or Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her growing team of MCU anti-heroes. Anton is an eccentric collector who happens to know Layla and happens to have the sarcophagus they’re seeking. Marc and Layla are complicated in a grown-up way that we don’t often see in heightened superhero stories. Ulliel died in a skiing accident earlier this year, and the episode is dedicated to him. Not wanting his body to commit more acts of violence, Steven takes over, and Marc wakes up in a cab with no memory of how he got there. Could this be the work of Jake Lockley? That’s the name given to Moon Knight’s third-most prominent alter, a cab driver in Marvel comics. After trying and failing to get info from a juice vendor, Marc teams up with Layla. The Ennead then decides that the accused has not violated the rules and terms of service and lets him go.

Steven (and Marc) and Layla's Egyptian excursion takes a troubling turn — several, actually — in Episode 3 of Marvel's Moon Knight.

Turning back to the mission at hand, Marc passes his body back to Steven, who deciphers a star map he swiped from the sarcophagus. And if you think Arthur isn’t going to take the opportunity to revel in Khonshu’s setback, you’re wrong. (Of all the times for Steven not to be in control!) The situation becomes even dicier when Arthur shows up, offering the scarab in exchange for the sarcophagus. As soon as things calm down (relatively speaking), Layla presses Marc to explain what Arthur was saying about her father. Mr. Knight also makes another appearance during the scuffle when Steven temporarily takes over, but his return is short-lived; Steven gives the reins back to Marc after getting stabbed. Think of it like a Bat-Signal for the gods of Ancient Egypt. No big.

Moon Knight felt like a swashbuckling team-up this week, playing things fast and funny.

When she approached Steven in the desert, after Marc relinquished the body, and truly saw Steven for the first time as a separate part of Marc and not just for the sake of comedic befuddlement, it made for a sweet moment. Khonshu's insane spinning of the sky at the end, which Steven helps with, donning his Mr. Knight garb, was a sublime visual treat. The learning curve for Marc and alternate personality Steven working together in one body -- while trying to save the world from Arthur Harrow's mad plot to cleanse the world -- is a steep one, and by the end, Khonshu winds up trapped in a tiny statue and Moon Knight is essentially gone from both of their lives. They decided long ago to stop meddling in human affairs and Khonshu always considered that a regrettable abandonment; therefore, anything Khonshu does that draws attention to them gets them all high and haughty. Isaac has been absolutely wild on Moon Knight, between the action, different personas, and also acting opposite nothing/not much (reflections, Khonshu, etc). Even at Moon Knight's clumsiest moments, he's a blast to watch. Having Steven stuck inside Marc allowed the story to exhibit way more forward momentum than the first two chapters, utilizing Steven's knowledge of Egyptology like batshit background programming in Marc's more meatheaded mind. Much like Ammit's use of Harrow, it's a very "ends justify the means" methodology. Layla also felt like more of an active participant this week with a good amount of agency, as she followed Marc to her home country of Egypt and their backstory as a married couple was addressed a bit more, including the fact that Marc had kept Steven a secret from her. It all lends itself, more and more, to Steven being a very fractured part of Marc's mind and not a whole person. Piecing things together from Episode 2 with Harrow's words about Marc's secret this week, it would appear Marc had a hand in the murder of Layla's archeologist father and then some time after this, he met Layla. Regardless, it makes sense when Layla tells him she feels like she's barely known him. We finally got to see Marc in mercenary form this week, though it's hard to tell from this endeavor if he's, you know, actually good at being a soldier for hire. With Marc Spector mostly in control of his own body this week, and the adventure whisking us from London to Cairo, Moon Knight's third episode was the most action-packed and illuminating entry so far.

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However, based on the fact that Khonshu actually needs Steven for the night sky trick at the end of the episode, it's clear that Moon Knight and Mr. Knight have plenty of tigers left in their collective tank. The Moon Knight armor makes its user pretty much immune to bullets, to the point that Marc uses it to shield Layla from a hail of gunfire. In the first two episodes, Moon Knight displayes fairly generic powers of the "strong guy with a nice costume and cool weapons" variety. It's too early to say whether "Moon Knight" intends to show these gods in person, but Khonshu implies that they have a luxurious Asgard-style home somewhere — and as the end of the episode proves, they're certainly strong enough to imprison one of their own with ease. "Moon Knight" Episode 3 is different from the two previous ones in a great many ways, but one of the most drastic is how its endgame presents Khonshu. In Episode 2, the lunar deity dances across a weird line between childish impatience and ruthless oppression. Speaking of seats, the fact that Marc snaps out of one blackout in a taxi seems to tease that said personality is Jake Lockley, a cab driver who is generally considered to be the darkest and most pragmatic of Moon Knight's classic personalities. The meeting offers arguably the most lore-heavy minutes that "Moon Knight" has given you so far, seeing as just about every line of dialogue offers new, important information, allusions to the characters' comic books storylines, and even nods at the MCU at large. However, like he stated at the end of that episode, he remains in charge this time ... and increased screen time reveals that he's a much less scary — and far more tragic — character than he seemed to be when he was stalking Steven through reflective surfaces. This implies that the unseen violent personality is also increasing in strength, so it's probably just a matter of time until fans find out more. In another stark contrast to the Steven identity, all of this seems to be pretty faithful to the way poor Marc is generally portrayed in the comics. Let's take a closer look at the ending of "Moon Knight" Episode 3. With this change of locale and leading man (sort of), "Moon Knight" Episode 3 is much closer to an "Indiana Jones"-style adventure than the London-based, horror-tinted early episodes, which focused on the timid Steven Grant personality.

The late Gaspard Ulliel's debut as Midnight Man in episode 3 of Marvel series Moon Knight after his death has left viewers emotional.

Mogart was left in awe when cult leader Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) displayed the power of Ammit that he possesses in his cane, as well as when Spector transformed into Moon Knight to fight his men before his very eyes. In the third episode of Marvel series Moon Knight on Disney Plus, Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) and Layla El-Faouly (May Calamawy) were in search of Senfu’s sarcophagus in Egypt to help them locate the tomb of the goddess Ammit when they crossed paths with Mogart, an avid antiquities collector. Episode 3 of Marvel’s Moon Knight has featured one of the final performances by the late Gaspard Ulliel after his death, leaving fans emotional as he was introduced as Anton Mogart, aka Midnight Man.

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- Layla and Mogart's last encounter was in Madripoor, a lawless island in the Indonesian archipelago. - It's looking increasingly likely that Layla is the MCU version ofMarlene Alraune, Marc's wife and sometime partner in Moon Knight's vigilante activities. Khonshu accuses his fellow gods of abandoning humanity to live in the "opulence of the overvoid," but the gods argue that they decided to work only through their avatars because humanity abandoned them. Marc is knocked unconscious after Steven distracts him during the second confrontation, and wakes up to find all but one of the guys fatally stabbed. This might be why he walks around with broken glass in his sandals -- as a rather icky form of penance -- and is the reason behind his quest to free Ammit. In a visually stunning moment, the episode ends with Khonshu using Steven to temporarily revert the night sky to its state from 2,000 years in the past.

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Joining the hands, the avatars chant as a cube of stone lies in the center of their circle. Frustrated with their inability to make sense of the salvaged cartonnage, Layla tells Marc that they need Steven. Irritated even further, he collects the cartonnage and rips off the car’s side mirror as he heads off in the desert alone. With Khonshu fully imprisoned and the night sky back to normal, Steven’s healing Mr. Knight armor disappears with the weight of their monumental act, knocking him out cold. Suddenly, Steven is enveloped in his Mr. Knight suit as the god and his avatar reach toward the moon. Understanding the cost, Khonshu reminds Steven to stop Ammit, no matter what it takes, and to tell Marc to free him when the other gods imprison him for this very act. As the locals on the dance on the felucca, Marc reflects on how all the sounds and music remind him of their wedding. No one will talk to Marc because he’s not Egyptian. Marc states that she shouldn’t even be here; Layla dismisses the small amount of people she may have pissed off. The Ennead invites Arthur Harrow to the Chamber of the Gods. Getting his bearings, the calculating zealot asks his old master Khonshu what is the nature of this meeting. As Marc holds a blade to one of their necks, he spots Steven in the reflection of the blade who pleads with him not to hurt them. Marc pleads with them that Harrow is a dangerous man; however, the gods deem the matter concluded as they state Harrow has committed no offense. Suddenly, Marc blacks out and reawakens in a cab, learning that he’s on the way to the airport. Following the events of the previous episode, “ Summon the Suit,” Harrow is now in possession of the golden scarab — a compass that leads to Ammit’s ushabti.

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- Speaking of lines/images I won’t be able to get out of my head: Watching Gaspard Ulliel tell Oscar Isaac to kneel will live rent free in my head (though, perhaps, not take up as much real estate as that clip of Isaac letting us fans know we can definitely call him “daddy”). And since we’re on the topic of Ulliel, even here with a cameo of a part, his recent loss feels incalculable. After all, it was always going to be a matter of time before Marc and Steven’s respective dissociations called the show up to invoke issues of mental health. And yes, that does mean we will end up inside the famed pyramid of Giza by tale’s end after a quite thrilling bit of map-hunting. After all, as soon as you clock dialogue as serving (almost wholly) that purpose, you’ve already acknowledged a kind of fault. The kind that are designed to feed us all the requisite mythology that makes the bulk of Moon Knight’s narrative; those moments where Harrow or Khonshu or even the assembled gods who are set to sentence the Moon God inside Giza explain to us the god’s backstory, or Harrow’s motivations, or even Marc’s past…all of the requisite build up which will surely then play into the show’s big-picture story. As in episode one, we’re thrown right into one disorienting scene right after the next as our beloved Marc (Isaac) slips in and out of consciousness and keeps needing to find his bearings anew every time.

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This is, of course, misusing his god powers and is likely to get him locked up by the immortal council. It’s pretty clear that Harrow is, in fact, trying to summon up an ancient doomsday crocodile demon, but all the god jury see is just how crazy Khonshu is – wrecking Marc/Steven’s mind with his mad energy. There we find Marc beating up kids on the rooftops of Cairo. Briefly catching dissociative identity Steven in the reflection of a shiny machete blade, his consciousness skips in and out just in time to stop Steven hijacking their body and catching the first flight back to London.