VisionQuest - Episode 3

3. Reboot

With Vision injured and his systems shutting down, Tommy drives him to a motel where they shelter in place for the night. Meanwhile, Paladin launches three drones to track traces of Vision’s sealant. However, the drones lead him to another synth, a hooded figure with a female voice and on a murder spree drawing bird wings around the body of her victims. A fight ensues and Paladin is revealed to be not a real Paladin but rather just adopted by one. He manages to escape as the synth is about to kill him. Vision gets weaker and weaker amidst the father-and-son confrontation between him and Tommy that as a non-human he is not emotionally equipped to manage. When Tommy’s hands end up inside a vending machine after it phases and he tells Vision afterward, the latter conceives the idea of a reboot. His system will shut down, and he needs Tommy to revive him using his power down at the motel pool which will serve as a conductor. They succeed, but Vision’s system is hacked just as the AIs try to hold a human vigil for J.A.R.V.I.S.

Okay, so what’s clear is that there is another Synth like Vision, whatever a Synth means. Female. Red eyes and lighting which are almost always used for antagonists. I don’t know any other Synths aside from Ultron. Anyway, I am a bit confused about Tommy’s power. So he can phase? Like his father? Isn’t he a speedster like his uncle? Or is that just an extension of his power? Vision did try to explain all about speeding up molecules. So in a way this is like the next level of Piper’s power in Charmed? Molecular manipulation? Anyway I guess we will find out more about that as the series continues. After all, we have five episodes left. I also feel a bit guilty about the Paladin guy. I feel like Disney is trying to tell us that he is an important character in the comics and that we should pay attention but he just doesn’t ring a bell. He kind of reminds me of Punisher in some aspects. I mean, I’d do research but the character is not really that interesting to begin with. When will Billy show up? I need a sibling reunion!

“But all my simulations were flawed. Because I do not know you well enough, Thomas Shepherd. I haven't listened to you well enough. And therefore I haven't considered that inside you is Tommy Maximoff, son to Wanda and Vision, brother to Billy, who adored him. He is not your fantasy. He is not your delusion. You are real. Tommy Maximoff is real. You are who you think you are.” –Vision

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