“WandaVision’s” fourth episode, “We Interrupt This Program,” is accurately titled, as the sitcom style of the series gives way to traditional Marvel antics and intrigue in an excellent episode that deepens the show’s mystery. The town of Westview is under scrutiny by the secret agency SWORD, who sends Monica Rambeau to investigate, leading to more questions than answers.
Right Where We Left Off | Picking up at the moment in “Avengers: Endgame” after half of the life in the universe was resurrected, Monica Rambeau (Teyonah Parris) materializes in a hospital room along with dozens others, overcrowding the hospital. Monica asks a doctor where her mother, Maria, is, but is told that Maria died of cancer three years ago. Days later, Monica reports to SWORD headquarters, which was founded by Maria, but is under orders to take on small cases seeing as she’s back from the dead and all.
Monica is dispatched to the town of Westview to investigate a missing persons case, where she meets FBI agent Jimmy Woo (Randall Park), who tells her that the police have no knowledge that Westview even exists. When Monica tries to enter the town, she is sucked into a forcefield and seemingly vanishes.
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Assemble the Team | 24 hours later, Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings) and a team of experts are sent to a SWORD camp outside the town to figure out what’s going on. Darcy immediately picks up on cosmic radiation that’s emanating from the town and buried within that is a signal of the last few episodes of “WandaVision!” Naturally, Darcy and Jimmy have questions: How is Vision (Paul Bettany) alive? Why does the sitcom keep changing decades? What’s the significance of the hexagon shape that the signal forms?
As Jimmy hacks into a radio in the sitcom to send Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen) a message, Darcy watches as the sitcom mysteriously blacks out when Wanda hears Jimmy’s voice. When they send a SWORD agent to tunnel through the sewers to find Wanda, his line snaps and of course, Wanda spots him and says, “No.”
The Mastermind | To add the to mystery, Darcy figures out that all the bit players in the sitcom around Vision and Wanda are actual missing persons. They also find Monica inside the sitcom broadcast as Geraldine. When they get to the part of Geraldine telling Wanda that her brother was killed by Ultron, once again, the broadcast blacks out. Darcy deduces that someone is editing the broadcast, just as Monica is thrown from the forcefield and into the grass outside the camp.
Flashback to the sitcom confrontation between her and Wanda and Wanda tells her that she’s a stranger and uses her powers to blast Monica out the wall and out of Westview. She fixes the hole in the wall with her powers and as Vision walks in, she briefly sees him with a hole in his head where the Mind Stone should be. But she shrugs it off and tells Vision that this is their home now. As Jimmy goes to see Monica, Monica says, “It’s all Wanda!”
“WandaVision” is now streaming on Disney+.