Moon Knight' Episode 6

Wondering what exactly happened in Moon Knight Episode 6? Well, read this post for our breakdown of the final episode's ending.

However, Marc refuses to do Khonshu’s bidding, and he asks the Egyptian God of Moon to free them. Nevertheless, Marc uses this opportunity to seal Ammit in Arthur’s body, and Khonhsu asks Marc to kill them. Of course, Marc and Steven were blacked out during the fight, so it was obviously Jake Lockley who defeated Arthur and his men. Khonshu gets dominated by Ammit, but things go differently for Harrow, as Marc and Layla easily overpower him in the fight. She asks Layla if she wants to become an avatar, and at the time, Layla has no choice but to accept Taweret’s offer. Fortunately, he senses Marc’s presence, and we finally see Moon Knight and Mr. Knight’s returning to the show.

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Did I head into the sixth episode expecting to see a full-on kaiju fight between Ammit and Khonshu? Nope. Did I expect to see Layla become the avatar of Taweret? Nope. Did I expect to see Harrow be the one confined to a psychiatric hospital in the post-credits scene? I liked that the final moments of the series doubled down on how dangerous Marc Spector truly is; it didn’t let us move on without confirming how much of a wild card the character continues to be. Eventually, I had to come to terms with the fact that this series wouldn’t really be able to tell me a completely new tale full of mystery, only one that had been reimagined for the MCU to introduce the concept of Moon Knight to a swathe of intrigued Marvel fans. Nope. Did I expect to see the uber-violent Jake revealed to be in cahoots with Khonshu the entire time? Nope. Did I expect to see the Moon Knight limo, complete with its personalized SPKTR number plate? It’s strange to be a Moon Knight fan watching Marvel’s Moon Knight. At several points throughout this series, there have been moments where I wished I wasn’t already aware of the potential twists and turns ahead.

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Marc and Steven wouldn’t kill Harrow, so Khonshu got Jake to do it instead. Why? Because the third personality, Jake Lockley, would remain on as his avatar, allowing him to continue bringing about justice – even if it’s in a far more violent manner. And with that finale comes a lot to talk about.

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I can't wait to see what's going to happen with the third completely different character with a completely different background." It just feels like it was just a really fun chance to let the instinct of, after having played these two guys, imagining what else could be in there and the excitement of shooting that scene." However, discussing his portrayal of Jake in the show, Oscar Isaac told Marvel.com he wanted to create a different version of him. In the comics, Jake is a cab driver who acts as one of Marc’s personalities to help him infiltrate the criminal underworld of New York City. Then, in the Moon Knight post-credits scene, Moon Knight finally brought Jake Lockley to the fold. Khonshu is sitting inside and Harrow warns the God that he cannot kill him and Ammit.

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Not only is Ammit finally defeated, but Marc comes to his own heroic end as well, refusing to kill Harrow and reclaiming his own free will against Khonshu. This choice is paramount for him to shed his past guilt, and even though he seemingly relinquishes all the powers and perks that come with being Moon Knight, the series ends on a more than satisfying note, with Marc (and Steven) blacking out in the tomb before waking up back in Steven’s flat in London, with “A Man Without Love” blaring in the background. Where the Fist of Khonshu goes from here is anyone’s guess, but after six weeks of kickass action and a more than satisfying emotional conclusion, I’ll happily follow Marc wherever he chooses to go. Unsurprisingly, Steven is freed from the sands of the Duat, and the two are able to escape the afterlife with a little bit of assistance from Tawaret — but more on her later. But then, Marc blacks out — something he hasn’t done in several episodes — and wakes up with Harrow passed out in his arms and Layla questioning what the hell he’s just done. Coming back to reality, Marc is resurrected with some assistance from Khonshu, the bullets Harrow put into him falling out of his chest as we finally get another glimpse at the Moon Knight suit. All seems lost, with the big bad having been released so early in the episode, but Layla manages to free Khonshu (F. Murray Abraham) from the ushabti the gods trapped him in — or, as I’ve been affectionately calling it, rock jail — and confronts him about defeating the goddess of the netherworld.

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Marc and Layla drag Arthur back to the temple, where they do a spell to imprison Amit in her avatar’s mortal form. And just when it seems like Arthur has the upper hand, Marc has another classic blackout and suddenly finds himself holding Arthur’s limp body. He can’t possibly mellow out in the Field of Reeds knowing that Steven is still out there in the desert, so Marc ignores Taweret’s warnings and says sayonara to paradise. Thus begins the series’ coolest fight sequence yet, with Layla and Moon Knight (and Mr. Knight, who also kicks a considerable amount of ass) mowing down Arthur’s followers while the gods do battle behind them. The two Oscar Isaacs eventually reunite in the sands, and it really is a thing of beauty. But thanks to a message from Taweret, Layla is able to free Khonshu, who immediately tries to convince her to take Marc’s place.

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Steven Grant is wearing a business suit (because he’s rich in the comics, remember?). Marc Spector is wearing the Mr. Knight suit, and Jake Lockley is wearing the Moon Knight suit. So in the comics, the Mr. Knight look is not Steven Grant’s Moon Knight suit; it’s just… In the comics, Moon Knight just had the one look for almost 40 years. There has been, however, one instance of Jake Lockley having his own Moon Knight suit. In the comics, Lockley’s job is to gather intel on a street level via his gig as a taxi driver. His almost gothic draftsmanship helped establish Moon Knight as one of Marvel’s edgiest heroes and helped the book stand out from the rest of the comics Marvel was publishing at the time. But this is not just a major moment for Layla (and actor May Calamawy). It’s also a major moment for the MCU. This is, as far as I can tell, the first time that the MCU has introduced a brand new superhero who possesses superpowers. It’s also likely that Lockley was in the rattling sarcophagus that we saw in Episode 4 during Marc’s jaunt to the afterlife. This limo comes directly from the comics, specifically Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, and Jordie Bellaire’s 2014 Moon Knight series. One would think that this moment, Layla becoming the (temporary!) avatar of Taweret, the Egyptian goddess of fertility, would be pulled from the comics. So, are you ready to find out what you might have missed in this week’s grand finale of Moon Knight? SPOILERS ahead, because we have one last episode of Moon Knight to dig into. He finally gets to resurrect Ammit, the Egyptian demoness of judging and devouring souls, and begin his mission of plucking the weeds from humanity.

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Jake only has a few lines in his brief scene, and they are all in Spanish, which also highlights how Isaac is one of the MCU’s first Latino leads. There have been comic book stories in which Jake is the primary identity. The sixth and final episode of the Marvel Studios series, “God and Monsters,” sees Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) successfully release the goddess Ammit back into the world to wreak havoc against all potential wrongdoers. He’s finally introduced in the finale’s post-credits scene. He ultimately (albeit temporarily) fights alongside the Invaders to defeat some Nazis. The “Moon Knight” finale left plenty of loose ends to explore if the series were to continue to a second season.

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- But also: The one great moment that will likely live on as a GIF is the one where Moon Knight jumps over a car, splaying his cape. It’s a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment, but it struck me as a perfect way to remind us that stunt choreography during fights like these can and should have a feel for personality. He’s been at the edges of the show the entire time, rattling in a sarcophagus in Marc’s psych ward, committing brutal crimes in moments of blackouts…yes, we finally meet the third personality: Jake Lockley. And to differentiate him from Steven’s laughable English accent and Marc’s brutish American one, it seems Jake is a fluent Spanish speaker. And here, as is so often the case, what we get is an introduction to a new character—or, rather, to a familiar one. “Marc Spector has no idea how troubled he truly is.” So Khonshu tells Harrow at the end of the Moon Knight finale (right before one hell of a reveal; more on that in a bit). And in a way, it makes sense that we would close out this six-episode storyline with what feels like the thesis statement of the entire show. Whether that’s a second season or a feature-film appearance, I don’t know, but I can’t begrudge any of us wanting to see more of Isaac in this role (roles, I guess). - Speaking of Mr. Knight, watching him in the full-blown fight scene, now totally in control of his newfound strength, was thrilling. Moon Knight was always careening toward being an extended introduction to the lore of this Marvel character who we may or may not see in future installments. If it is to be expected, at least it delivered great hand-to-hand combat between Harrow, Moon Knight, Mr. Knight, and Layla. Yes! Layla, who refuses to become Khonshu’s avatar but relents when it’s Taweret who offers her a similar deal. If it all ended up in a rather predictable manner (ahead of its post-credits scene, which was a different kind of expected twist), that’s more to do with the constraints of the genre as it’s been construed of late than with anything specific to this title. Which brings us back to Amit, arguably the weakest part of the finale, though a necessary part of it. Here was a self-sacrifice that felt like a stab at redemption, a chance to right wrongs and make amends even when it may feel futile.

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I have to believe that she’s on her way to Marc and Steven’s apartment at the end of the episode with coffee and donuts. Jake’s the one who betrayed Marc and Steven with a V. Sing it with me: It was Jake Lockley all along. The show has not, at the time of this recap, been renewed for a second season. They wake up back in London, safe and sound and sharing a body to the tune of “A Man Without Love” one last time. I’m also going to believe that the mid-credits scene is really happening, and Harrow became mentally ill with Ammit bound inside of him. “This chair, the desk, the light were all first created in the imagination.” Does that imply that the office is imaginary, or not? But unbeknownst to them, they still serve Khonshu thanks to a cap-wearing, Spanish-speaking alter named Jake Lockley. In the mid-credits scene, Jake abducts a now mentally ill Arthur Harrow and shoots him point-blank from the driver’s seat of a limo. Meanwhile, in the Field of Reeds, Marc enjoys a moment of peace and quiet, though he doesn’t feel good leaving Steven behind, so he returns to the Duat and finds his sandy alter. Speaking of … Layla also receives a bit of an upgrade in the finale. Marc thanks Steven for saving him and calls him the only real superpower he ever had. The episode kicks off with Harrow, who retrieves Ammit’s ushabti from Marc’s dead body and takes it to Giza so he can unleash the goddess there. Has Marc Spector grown into his own as a superhero, or has he given up the cloth entirely?

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We then got a reprise of Engelbert Humperdinck’s Man Without Love and the first post-credits scene of the series, in which Jake Lockley took Harrow out of a psychiatric hospital, poured him into the back of a limo and shot him. This time around, in that office, Isaac’s accent definitely shifted to broad New York (even if the episode’s subtitles had it as Marc speaking). Of course, if it wasn’t him, who else committed all those brutal killings during Marc and Steven’s blackouts? Back in the tomb, Layla agreed to become Taweret’s avatar, it having been explained to her that the only way to defeat Ammit was with more avatars than were currently still alive. It was short-lived, though, as he made a quick U-turn and dashed off to save Steven. “You came back, what the hell’s wrong with you?” he asked, waking up. Anyway, those minor gripes aside (and I’m sure someone will tell me if I’ve grasped the wrong end of the was -sceptre), I had high hopes for this finale. While the quality couldn’t be denied, and it explained in granular detail why Marc is the way he is, those events didn’t do huge amounts for the plot.