There was lots to unpack in today's episode of Moon Knight, "The Friendly Type," but the biggest reveal might have passed you by. While we pick up immediately with Marc Spector in Egypt, a fight with some local thugs sees Steven Grant wrest back control of his body after pleading with Marc to stop beating them.
He tries heading to the airport before Marc takes control again, but the former mercenary then blacks out and wakes up to find himself stabbing someone.
Marc blames Steven for that violent outburst, but he denies having any sort of involvement. The clear insinuation here is that there's a third personality, and if you're a fan of the comic books, you'll know that's almost certainly Jake Lockley. He's the most violent of Marc's three personas, so it makes sense that he's occasionally taking control and dealing out some lethal justice.
The fact that he's a cabbie on the page is irrelevant, as Steven is a film producer in the comics and not an English gift shop employee! Marvel Studios has taken liberties with the source material in terms of how Marc's other sides have been portrayed, and something tells us we haven't "seen" the last of Jake and the brutality that's associated with this hero's dissociative identity disorder.
There's always a chance Khonshu is controlling Marc's body, but while we have seen the Moon God attempt to take control of his avatar in the comics, Jake seems far more likely. We've seen Moon Knight (Marc) and Mr. Knight (Steven), but could Jake be the violent Batman-like vigilante who cut Bushman's face off? If so, the rest of the MCU's heroes might need to watch their backs.
Check back here later today for our in-depth breakdown of Moon Knight's latest episode.
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