In a masterful 40 minutes of television, Loki's penultimate episode - titled "Science/Fiction" - finally reveals the past lives of our favourite TVA agents.
We find Casey breaking out of Alcatraz on a branched timeline in 1962. He's a crook and not the hapless evidence collector who has proven so endearing since we first met him. As for Hunter B-15, she was a paediatrician in New York City in 2012.
Then, there's Mobius. Sorry, Don. As many of you suspected, he did indeed sell Jet Skis - in 2022 - and even owned a couple. However, he's a single dad to two troublesome boys (his wife appears to have left him and their children) and not having much luck actually shifting the darn things.
As for OB, way back in 1994, he's a scientist and wannabe science fiction writer who successfully builds a TemPad after Loki gives him the TVA Handbook.
The God of Mischief encounters each of his old friends as he slips through time and eventually rounds them up ahead of reuniting with Sylvie. Unlike everyone else, she remembers her Variant and we learn the destruction of the Time Loom sent everyone back to where they should have been before He Who Remains plucked them from branched timelines to turn into his soldiers.
While she's happy with her new life, that timeline soon undergoes spaghettification, with the effect spreading throughout the Multiverse as all these timelines start dying. Loki witnesses his friends die in front of him before mastering his time-slipping abilities and returning to the TVA seemingly right before Victor Timely tried and failed to save the organisation his Variant created.
Loki plans to "rewrite the story" and, if these new abilities stick around, he might just be the most powerful being in the Multiverse. Is this what He Who Remains wanted? If so, what does it mean for the Asgardian moving forward? Here's hoping we find out next week.
Loki season 2 will pick up in the aftermath of the shocking season finale when Loki finds himself in a battle for the soul of the Time Variance Authority. Along with Mobius, Hunter B-15 and a team of new and returning characters, Loki navigates an ever-expanding and increasingly dangerous multiverse in search of Sylvie, Judge Renslayer, Miss Minutes and the truth of what it means to possess free will and glorious purpose.
The series stars Tom Hiddleston, Sophia Di Martino, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Wunmi Mosaku, Eugene Cordero, Rafael Casal, Tara Strong, Kate Dickie, Liz Carr, Neil Ellice, with Jonathan Majors, Ke Huy Quan and Owen Wilson.
Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead, Dan Deleeuw and Kasra Farahani direct episodes. The Head Writer is Eric Martin.
Five episodes of Loki season 2 are now streaming on Disney+.