Well! Loki is ready to unleash its season, and possibly series, finale in “Glorious Purpose,” which has a LOT of questions to answer! Will it tie up everything in a neat little bow? Let’s find out!
Here We Go Again | After the Marvel Studios logo goes backwards, we go right back to the moment right before Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors) is obliterated by the radiation from the loom, just as Loki (Tom Hiddleston) time slips back to that moment. After numerous do overs and equally numerous deaths from Timely, Loki realizes that they need more time in order for the plan to work. Loki leaps back to the exact moment that Timely met OB (Ke Huy Quan) to try to figure out how long it would take to learn everything he needs to know about how to fix the loom. OB’s answer? “Centuries.” Naturally, Loki takes centuries to learn every single thing OB knows and do it over and over again until they get it right.
And Again… | Eventually, Timely manages to fire the device to expand the loom’s radius and it works- for about a minute. The loom overloads again and Timely calculates that the multiverse is expanding infinitely and that they can never fix it. Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino) says that it was doomed to happen ever since she killed Kang. So, Loki time slips back to moments before Sylvie kills Kang and attempts to stop her, but she’s determined to follow through and tells him that he’ll have to kill her to stop her.
After loop after loop after loop, Loki is still unable to persuade her, so he tries talking to Kang (Jonathan Majors) and trying to reason with him. Kang says that the loom was always designed to fail and that if it does, it saves the sacred timeline, but nothing else. He also adds that he’s seen all of the loops Loki has gone through and that no matter what, it always ends the same. Meaning Loki must either kill Sylvie or everything, including the sacred timeline, will die due to the multiversal Kang variants being unleashed.
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After. | Loki travels back in time to talk to Mobius (Owen Wilson) at the moment he was brought into the TVA to ask him how he lives with the decision of who to save and who to kill. Mobius tells him that a hunter hesitated before pruning a threat to the multiverse, which caused chaos until the hunter’s partner stepped in. Mobius also adds that the hunter who hesitated was Renslayer. Loki slips once again to talk to Sylvie outside of time and explains his dilemma. She says that he can’t replace Kang, giving him an idea…
Loki time slips one last time to the moment before the loom imploded and shocks everyone by going out to the loom in place of Timely. He manages to slow down time long enough to destroy the loom, sending all the branched timelines into space, which he then ropes together around himself and takes with him as he opens up a wormhole into the ruins of Kang’s citadel. There, he combines all the branched timelines into a massive treelike structure with him at the center, which stabilizes the timelines.
Some time later, Mobius tells B-15 (Wunmi Mosaku) that he’s leaving the TVA, while OB reboots Miss Minutes (Tara Strong) and rewrites the TVA handbook, but doesn’t give it to the past version of Timely. As Sylvie and Mobius watch the past version of Mobius play with his sons, Renslayer (Guru Mbatha-Raw) wakes up in the world where pruned people went and sees a purple light in the sky, while Loki watches all of this from the center of the timeline tree.