After some birthday celebrations John and Derek are back to chat all about Loki Season 2 Episode 3 1893. We discuss the episode in spoiler filled detail so make sure you've watched it before listening along.
Loki 203 "1893" Synopsis
Head Writer: Michael Waldron
Episode Written by: Eric Martin, Kasra Farahani, Jason O'Leary
Episode Directed By: Kasra Farahani
86 years B.McD. (before McDonald's) in the year 1868, Ravona Renslayer arrives in Chicago looking for Miss Minutes. Ravona is instructed to deliver a package into a window to complete He Who Remains plan to safeguard the timeline. Inside a young boy opens the package and reveals the TVA handbook.
Trying to locate Renslayer, Loki and Mobius travel to 1868, but unable to locate her they travel to a new branched timeline in 1893. The new branch was created by Miss Minutes interference in 1868. They quickly locate a confidence trickster called Victor Timely who is advertising a way to harness time, through his Temporal Loom prototype.
Victor sells his fake invention scam to an investor named Robber Barron, but soon has four interested parties after him. Loki and Mobius, need his aura to fix the Loom; while Renslayer and Miss Minutes, want him to take his variant's place with them at his side; while Sylvie has arrived to kill him to prevent his rise to power but is thwarted by Loki; and Robber Baron wants his money back.
Victor manages to escape most of his suitors, as he takes a boat to his Wisconsin laboratory with Miss Minutes and Renslayer, but Renslayer is sent overboard in a lifeboat on the advice of Miss Minutes after she looks for a partnership with Victor. But Miss Minutes fairs little better after she professes romantic love for him and is deactivated by Victor using a TemPad.
Victor is not alone for long as Renslayer, Loki, Mobius, and Sylvie arrive at his laboratory. Sylvie gains control of the situation threatening Victor with her blade but allows Loki to take Victor back to the TVA, then sends Renslayer to the Citadel at the End of Time.
Looking upon He Who Remains' corpse, Renslayer activates Miss Minutes, who divulges that she knows a secret about Renslayer that He Who Remains has been keeping from her.
Loki Season 2 Cast
Loki Laufeyson played by Tom Hiddleston
Mobius M. Mobius played by Owen Wilson
Hunter B15 played by Wunmi Mosaku
Judge Ravonna Renslayer played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw
OB played by Ke Huy Quan
General Dox played by Kate Dickie
Casey played by Eugene Cordero
Sylvie Laufeydottir played by Sophia Di Martino
Miss Minutes played by Tara Strong
Victor Timely played by Jonathan Majors
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