The second episode of Loki just hit Disney+ and the stakes continue to get higher for the God of Mischief. After General Dox led an army of TVA agents to deal with Sylvie and those branching timelines, Loki and Mobius track down her right-hand man, Hunter X-5, to...a movie premiere?!
We learn he's abandoned his mission and decided to become a movie star, taking on the lead role in Zaniac (a nod to an obscure comic book character who first appeared in the pages of Thor).
They cleverly convince him to tell them where Sylvie is and discover her living on a branched timeline. Working in a McDonald's in Broxton, Oklahoma, she really doesn't want to see Loki and has no interest in helping him and Mobius save the TVA.
As for X-5, he's being surprisingly cagey and that's because Dox plans to bomb every branched timeline in an effort to restore the Sacred Timeline. Countless innocents will die if she succeeds and Loki and Sylvie reunite to deal with the rogue TVA agents alongside Mobius.
While Dox and her followers are captured (there go the theories she's a Sylvie Variant), their mission is a success and most of the branched timeline die. However, it's only a temporary fix and without He Who Remains, the Time Loom's meltdown remains imminent.
OB explains that they need to get through the blast doors to stop time itself being destroyed but they can only open them with Kang's temporal aura. As a result, Loki and Mobius need to track down one of his Variants! Is this where Victor Timely will come in?
The episode ends with Sylvie back on her surviving branched timeline where we learn she still has He Who Remains' Tempad; clearly, we haven't seen the last of her.
Elsewhere in the episode, Loki and Mobius have another heart-to-heart, with the Asgardians admitting that, when he threw Tony Stark from the top of Avengers Tower in The Avengers, it wasn't a tactical decision. He was just mad that the Mind Stone didn't work on Iron Man!
It's a fun way to add a little extra context to the scene, anyway, and more insights like this throughout the course of the season will no doubt be welcomed by fans.
Loki 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.
The first two episodes of Loki season 2 is now streaming on Disney+.