Moon Knight episode 4

Moon Knight's fourth episode concluded on a note that left viewers in shock. What does it all mean for the show? Thankfully, we have some answers.

What did you think of Moon Knight season 1, episode 4? Let us know in the comments below! Though the creature politely said “Hi!”, Marc and Steven responded with frightened screams.

The Disney Plus Marvel Cinematic Universe show brings its powerless hero on a surreal ride.

This episode also confirms that Layla is the MCU version of Marlene Alraune, Marc's wife and sometime partner to Moon Knight's vigilante activities in the comics. - After Marc rescues Steven from the sarcophagus, they run by another and it's shaking violently. Harrow acts as Marc's therapist (looking a little more buttoned down in his mustache and sweater vest) but Marc ultimately flees from his honeyed words. We find Marc in a mental institution populated by characters from the show (including Steven's mean museum boss and Harrow's police goons), who've taken on roles as patients and staff. After Marc battles Harrow's goons, the villain shoots him and claims the ushabti ( ancient Egyptian figurine) Ammit is imprisoned in. Moon Knight felt very much like Indiana Jones or The Mummy with a dash of Alien on Wednesday, as episode 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe series hit Disney Plus and sent its heroes running around an Egyptian tomb.

This week's episode changes everything for Marc Spector. moon-knight-episode-4-recap-oscar-isaac-feature Image via Disney+.

— whatever other world Marc has been trapped in is sufficiently disorienting and unsettling, and it feels like a great victory when the heavily drugged Marc regains his senses and escapes from Harrow, only to find himself freeing Steven (now in a distinct, separate body but still sharing Oscar Isaac’s face) from the depths of a sarcophagus. This admittedly feels like a cheap gag or stab at incorporating history into the series just for the sake of it, as Alexander was closer to Cleopatra and the Roman Empire than he ever was to the gods of ancient Egypt, Ammit and Khonshu included. In typical adventure film fashion, Layla and Steven are separated, and while Steven gets to experience the brunt of the important, plot-revealing moments, Layla is forced to deal with an inhuman horror that makes Arnold Vosloo’s Imhotep look like child’s play — and not the Chucky kind. Marc, naturally, musters just enough control of his own body to punch Steven in the face with his own fist — but is it really kissing another man’s wife when you share the same body? At the start of this week’s episode, Khonshu is now trapped in an ushabti, a type of ancient Egyptian funerary figure meant to possess the spirit of a living thing to assist pharaohs or other high-ranking officials given burial rites in the afterlife. As if things could get any more intense for Marc Spector, this week’s Moon Knight is dragging the avatar of the moon god into all-new territory, forcing him to deal with truths about himself and the universe, including those from beyond the grave.

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How Taweret factors into Marc/Steven's escape from the mental hospital, if he even *is* really there at all, remains to be seen. Or some other uncanny bending of reality and the spiritual. The two hug, and vow to help each other escape. Many of us, when asked to look into our innermost experiences, into the nucleus of our personality, we close our eyes. Except he isn't Arthur Harrow, he's Marc's psychologist – and Marc is in a mental hospital, presumably for his dissociative identity disorder. As we delve into what the actual fudge is happening and who that was, we're going to hit Moon Knight spoilers, so be warned!

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(Who knew flares could be so versatile a weapon?) And we did finally get a lovely, intimate scene between Layla and Marc, in which his utter disbelief at having to explain to her how he was there when her father was executed is only exceeded by the shame he feels at finally needing to hear himself say those words aloud. MCU properties live or die by the strength of their villains, after all, and his Harrow is a particularly slippery one, so self-righteous that he feels distractingly real. Which is maybe why I was so taken aback—in the best of ways—when we got to that twist. So instead we had some tense conversations and one attack from a very scary being (again, I already had Buffy and her vamps in my mind before that “Normal Again” reset) that pushed our heroes to be the resourceful folks they’ve shown themselves to be. But maybe the identity of this new high-pitch voiced character, who rightfully scares the shit out of Marc and Steven (yes, you read that right), is best left for next week’s recap (in the meantime, google “Taweret”). We should concern ourselves instead with this bifurcated episode instead. In the middle of the desert.

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At this stage of "Moon Knight," Harrow is clearly winning, but the show's already started teasing future challenges for Moon Knight in the event of the current antagonist's defeat. Up to this point, it's been clear that Harrow is a zealot of the highest order, but he's personally seemed to consider himself the only sane man in a broken world. In "Moon Knight" Episode 4, he explains that his Ammut-related scale powers work by subjecting him to specific sinful and painful moments of a subject's past, which doesn't seem too great for one's mental health, especially since Harrow seems to do it on pretty much daily basis. Oh, and of course, there's also the minor matter of the large, hippo-headed goddess who happily greets Marc and Steven in the final shot. While he doesn't actually sprout a crocodile head in this version of the story, he does bring his trademark brand of vaguely menacing warmth in his scene with Marc, which is arguably even creepier. After all, as interesting as Layla has been so far, her conversation with Harrow confirms her involvement in one of the most iconic Moon Knight stories: The death of her comic book counterpart's father, and the rebirth of Marc Spector. This seems like the kind of thing that the MCU wants to show the audience, so at the very least, it seems reasonable to expect a flashback scene of the incident that acts as the origin story of both Moon Knight and Layla the adventurer. Usually, the protagonist getting shot in the chest would be the biggest wham moment in any given show, but true to its offbeat nature, "Moon Knight" finds a way to raise the stakes in the very next scene. It's a bold move to lead in with this instead of keeping the tension simmering on the background, but as it turns out, there's even more trouble on the horizon. Let's take a moment to unpack the impressively weird ending of "Moon Knight" Episode 4. In many ways, a large chunk of the plot treats this as a Layla episode. It's not an ideal situation, but "Moon Knight" Episode 4 turns this predicament into a wildly entertaining 50-minute trek that starts out like a less comedic version of "The Mummy" before unleashing a cascade of horrific moments, dramatic reveals, and one extremely surprising change of scenery. The Moon Knight armor is unavailable after Khonshu exited stage left, and Marc Spector ( Oscar Isaac) remains a divisive figure to both Layla El-Faouly ( May Calamawy) and the Steven Grant personality.

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The Inverse Analysis — At this point, it seems inevitable that Moon Knight is going to officially introduce Marc Spector’s mysterious third identity in its fifth or sixth episode. If true, that wouldn’t be the first time that Moon Knight has set up the possibility of another person being active in Marc Spector’s mind. Watching the end of Moon Knight Episode 4 is a wild ride, one that turns viewer expectations for the show’s final two episodes totally upside down.

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He was the King of Macedonia in ancient Greece between 356 to 323 BC, so his inclusion in Moon Knight episode 4 isn't an original MCU storyline that acts as plot exposition for the superhero's Disney Plus show. Thanks to more spoilers (cheers, Variety...) on the Moon Knight red carpet, we already know that Marc's parents will appear in the show. For one, Marc encounters a locked sarcophagus, in a room that he hides in, with someone trying to break out – and it's Steven! The pair's joyful reunion is quickly cut short, though, as they realize that they need to escape. Curtis' comments only serve to hype them up even more, so here's hoping that Moon Knight's third act brings the show to a fitting end. Hang on – who is Tawaret? In ancient Egyptian religion, Tawaret (voiced by newcomer Antonia Salib) is the god of fertility and childbirth. So, what else happens in Moon Knight episode 4? Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson – directors on episodes 2 and 4 – have previously spoken about how Lemire's run inspired the aesthetic and tone of Moon Knight's latest entry, and episode 4 proves it. Layla is one of Marc's fellow in-patients, while Arthur Harrow is later revealed to be the chief psychologist in charge of running the establishment. With Khonshu imprisoned by the other Egyptian gods in episode 3, though, he isn't around to help Marc/Steven anymore, which is why the duo can be wounded or even killed. This is your final warning: we're about to dive into major spoilers for Moon Knight episode 4. Fans have been eagerly awaiting the Marvel Phase 4 project's latest episode, with numerous journalists and websites – ourselves included – hinting that something major would go down in Moon Knight episode 4. Allow us, then, to be your guide on Moon Knight episode 4's ending.

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At least, considering the hippo goddess’ pleasant disposition and the protective, nurturing role that hippos play in ancient Egyptian religion, it seems like Marc and Steven may have found a surprising and unlikely ally. It’s incredibly likely that this character is Taweret, the goddess of childbirth and fertility. As in the comics, it’s possible that this whole asylum bit is an illusion conjured up by Harrow — maybe even Khonshu! — to push Marc/Steven towards a desired end. The implication seems to be that Marc has been writing the first 3.75 episodes in his head incorporating everything within his line of sight. They’re standing face to face for the first time, and they are in this together. With a quarter of the episode still to go, the bad guy seemingly wins.

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Though it could just be Khonshu imprisoned in a different vessel, all signs seem to be pointing to another alter ego that neither Marc nor Steven is yet aware of. (This is, of course, for the best, because poor Steven wouldn’t stand a chance, while Layla is starting to make me want to see her star in her own Tomb Raider–style spinoff.) As Layla runs away, the music fades, and only her breathing and the Heka priest’s creepy clicking sounds can be heard. As Moon Knight exits Ammit’s tomb and heads into the psychiatric hospital, the series may be leaving behind Indiana Jones for something closer to psychological horror. Given that Harrow isn’t even a character in Lemire and Smallwood’s story, the TV Moon Knight will likely chart a new course going forward, but the series has a great opportunity to have some fun with Moon Knight’s past as the series races to its conclusion. When the wonderful May Calamawy was cast to play Layla El-Faouly, who was described as an archaeologist, it wasn’t yet clear whether Layla would be a wholly original character or an updated version of one from the comics. Along with adapting Layla’s comics background, the sudden shift to the psychiatric hospital in “The Tomb” is a concept pulled straight from Jeff Lemire and Greg Smallwood’s Moon Knight run. By choosing to ground the audience in Steven’s life first, while still imparting a similar sense of disorientation through Steven’s growing understanding of his dissociative identity disorder, Slater and Co. have been able to build a unique origin story for Moon Knight while simultaneously playing off the tone and premise of Lemire and Smallwood’s compelling narrative. However, Marc soon wakes up in a psychiatric hospital, surrounded by patients familiar to Marc or Steven—including Layla and Steven’s former boss, Donna—and orderlies who look like Harrow or Anton Mogart’s henchmen. Arthur Harrow has become Dr. Arthur Harrow—as he once was in the comics—and he now serves as Marc’s psychiatrist. The opening of the fourth episode of Moon Knight is concise: With the camera fixed on a dimly lit doorway within the Great Pyramid of Giza, Osiris’s avatar enters a room holding the ushabti of Khonshu in an almost ceremonial fashion, escorting the stone figurine containing the imprisoned moon god to its final resting place. Although Moon Knight can’t live up to the 1981 Spielberg classic, the episode plays like a Raiders-style action adventure—that is, until Marc gets shot by Harrow and suddenly finds himself a patient in a psychiatric hospital. Layla’s father, Abdullah, was a famous archaeologist in Cairo who was murdered by a group of mercenaries, but until Harrow all but spelled it out for her, she never knew that Marc had witnessed Abdullah’s death.

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To those unaware of Moon Knight’s comic book history, the shift to an asylum might read as the series embracing a shopworn trope. For the first half of the series, Moon Knight has been reluctant to tip its hand towards any one influence. What makes “The Tomb” such a good episode of Moon Knight isn’t simply because Ammit’s tomb has such a great series of setpieces, but because it’s also the place where every character’s arc collides. Were this what the entirety of what Moon Knight turned out to be, that would’ve been a good show. Layla is furious to learn this, but their confrontation gives Harrow and his men enough time to catch up with, and shoot, Marc. He doesn’t die, but instead wakes up sedated in a psychiatric institution. As enjoyable as Moon Knight has been to watch, succinctly describing it has remained a challenge.

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There are also plenty of familiar faces in this facility: Layla is a fellow patient, while Arthur is the counselor overseeing their progress, and he sucks just as much in this reality as in the last one. Big fans of the comics who do know his history are going to be happy.” Marc is a patient in this new reality, where he’s a huge fan of Steven Grant, an Indiana Jones-type action hero. The episode begins with Layla and a now-powerless Steven arriving at Arthur’s dig site, where a series of discoveries rattles the couple beyond the point of comprehension. Arthur shoots Marc multiple times in the chest, sending our hero tumbling down a dark abyss. Their journey brings them through all manner of historical nooks and crannies, including the long-lost tomb of Alexander the Great, who was apparently Amit’s most recent avatar.

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It feels like we should see this night in a flashback before the series is over — the clock’s ticking. Marc and Steven attempt to escape the hospital, pass another shaking sarcophagus in another room, and run directly into … how do I put this … a hippo. Said hippo is, in fact, the Egyptian goddess Taweret. She is played/voiced by Antonia Salib. Taweret is the goddess of childbirth and fertility. Marc opens the sarcophagus, and inside, amazingly, is Steven. In the chaos, all conflict is forgotten. In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode “Normal Again,” a demon tries to make Buffy believe that she is institutionalized and all of her slayer memories are delusions. For Moon Knight specifically, this is based on Moon Knight volume eight, a 2016 run of the Marvel comic from writer Jeff Lemire and artist Greg Smallwood. In it, Marc Spector wakes up in an asylum run by Ammit (spelled alternatively Ammut in the comic and under the guise of a psychologist named Dr. Emmet) and is told that he has imagined his vigilante life. This is the first time they’re meeting face-to-face in the flesh — the longed-for moment! “It’s all been happening in your head” and “you’re actually a patient in an asylum” is a time-honored trope seen in films like Shutter Island and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and especially favored in genre television. Steven may tell Layla about Marc’s plan to give Steven the body and Khonshu’s plan to make Layla the next avatar, but he’s no saint. But that is not exactly what’s happening from a mental-health standpoint, and it’s not fair to Marc or Steven to say so. Steven gives the body to Marc so that they can talk. Oh, and Steven and Layla kiss, and Marc punches himself (a.k.a. Steven) in the face.

The latest installment of Moon Knight, "The Tomb," starts off as a standard episode before delivering the biggest bombshell of the series to date.

In this scene, fans finally get to see a glimpse of what Marc gets up to between Steven blacking out and then coming to covered in blood. He gets a couple more scenery-chewing monologues in “The Tomb” – including one in a whole new guise. This unique dynamic is bolstered by the terrific on-screen chemistry between Oscar Isaac and May Calamawy. There’s a fun genre cocktail at work in these scenes with a Romancing the Stone-style adventure romance complementing the psychological horror – and there are a few seriously effective jump scares along the way, like a monster lunging out of the darkness and yanking Layla into the shadows. After sharing a contentious rapport in the first half of the series’ run, Marc and Steven are starting to warm to one another. “The Tomb” gets off to a slow start as a pretty standard episode with plenty of expository dialogue and a smattering of straightforward action scenes, but it takes a bold turn and becomes the show’s craziest episode yet around the last 20 minutes. After a lot of wandering through the desert, exploring caverns, and shining flashlights on ancient artifacts, “The Tomb” becomes the most mind-blowing installment of the series to date.

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She was briefly mentioned in “The Goldfish Problem,” but we know little about her purpose in this story because she’s absent not only from the Lemire and Smallwood comics, but also from the entire Marvel Universe (given some of Marvel’s iffy portrayals of pregnancy, that might be a good thing). As such, he’s able to help Marc break from the influence of Khonshu and embrace his own powers. Perhaps we shouldn’t read too much into the fact that Layla and others are in the mental hospital as well. As discussed in the most recent Marvel Standom episode, Marc has two alternate personalities in the comics: Steven Grant, and Jake Lockley, a New York cabbie who patrols the streets looking for trouble. But in Lemire and Smallwood’s run, Marc discovers that his different way of approaching the world was itself a gift, a type of special ability. An unhoused person and sort of street philosopher, Crawley generally interacts with Jake Lockley. On visits to Gina’s Diner, Crawley provides info to Lockley, and sometimes needs rescuing by Moon Knight. As he learned to work with his mental state, Marc discovered he could deal with issues in ways that others could not. However, if the show adheres to the Lemire and Smallwood run, then something quite different is happening. Jake tends to be a bit more rough and tumble than the other two identities. The show has also suggested that Khonshu’s influence may be responsible for the divisions in Marc’s psyche – after all, they are recent enough that his wife Layla didn’t know about them. Thirty-five minutes into Moon Knight episode four “The Tomb,” Arthur Harrow shoots Marc and watches him sink into a golden pool of water. For viewers of the show, the change seems to come out of nowhere.

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Yes, the goddess Taweret. In Egyptian mythology, Taweret was generally considered a protective deity and was at times associated with childbirth. In the comics, Marc and Steven are usually joined by Jake Lockley, another identity originating in Marc’s youth. While there is a possibility that Marc helped Steven set up that date, the more audiences have seen of Marc, the more out of character and unlikely that explanation seems. In this episode, Marc discovers Steven trapped inside a sarcophagus as he’s trying to escape the institution. But according to Khonshu, with whom Marc still communicates, the institution is an illusion crafted by Seth and Ammut, who need to be defeated. Episode 4 of the Marvel Studios series, titled “The Tomb,” sees its trio of adventurers raiding a secret tomb, all while interpersonal tensions between them approach a boiling point.

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Also per Marvel.com, Taweret is the Egyptian goddess of childbirth, and "ceases aging at adulthood and cannot die by conventional means." “Right from the very first week, Marvel provided us with a ton of reference material on Egyptology, and on ancient Egyptian gods and deities,” He continues. Struggling to come to his senses, Marc undergoes some mildly stressful questioning from Harrow, who seems to be something akin to a social worker in this dream, reality, or illusion. “One of those pieces of material was a laminated poster that had like a little kid, cartoon drawings of all the different gods — one of those gods was Taweret. I spent that entire first week of our writers' room, just staring at that. Marc wakes up in what seems to be a psychiatric hospital, seeing various items from his recent adventures scattered around the ward. etc. Before we get to Hippo God, who, yes, has a name, let's briefly discuss the surreal ending to Episode 4 of Moon Knight. At the end of this week's edition, villain Arthur Harrow shoots and kills Marc Spector, which kills Steven Grant as well.

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The scene where Layla and Harrow speak about her father was written in because Calamawy and Ethan Hawke wanted to spend more time on screen together. Is it going to be another person – and if that is the case, I don’t believe it’s a character we have already met. Overall, I thought it was the strongest episode of the series so far. When Marc smashed that window, I was fully expecting the desert to be on the other side of the door, reminiscent of the scene in The First Avenger when Captain America realised he wasn’t in the 1940s and escaped into modern-day New York. But no, the illusion, if it is an illusion, runs deeper than that. Thankfully, Marc smelled a rat, even in his heavily sedated state, seeing one too many details in the room for it to be coincidence – the cane, the Egyptian artefacts, the drawing of Khonshu, the repeated line about not being able to help him, those awful sandals – and made a dash for it. I was merrily watching Oscar Isaac playing second fiddle to May Calamawy in his own show and thinking about how, even though the series wasn’t going in the direction I thought it would, I was still really enjoying it.

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And the show is aware enough of its pulpy B-movie/syndicated-TV roots to make a joke about it in the form of that Tomb Buster video. In short, it’s a show of simple pleasures, and simple pleasures are worth celebrating. (For what it’s worth, the hippo is most likely Tawaret, a fertility goddess with a protective reputation. I mean, it goes alright for a while, before Marc confesses to being present at the mercenary raid during which Layla’s archaeologist father was killed (Marc himself was shot by his own partner), then gets shot by Harrow, then tumbles into a pool of water and floats off into nothingness. Anyway, after passing yet another sarcophagus, the contents of which are unknown, Marc and Steven run straight into a chipper-sounding anthropomorphized hippopotamus, who greets them with a cheery “Hi!” Both men scream like frightened children. What good is a Moon Knight who’s no longer a knight powered by the moon?