VisionQuest - Episode 8

8. Forever

Virgil Horton (James Spader), Phineas’ grandson and JOCASTA’s ex-husband, explains how he worked for SWORD to help rebuild Vision using JOCASTA’s spare parts and how he bought back her nanotech swarm from Stark Industries. Tommy and Billy finally meet via dreambinding, where the former asks the latter to help him save their dad. Paladin survives the car explosion after a warning from E.D.I.T.H. who is now his AI. He rendezvous with Tommy and Lisa outside the Horton mansion. Tommy uses his super speed to destroy Virgil’s device controlling the two Synths. JOCASTA is fatally shot by Virgil but not before she hurls the device containing Ultron toward the nanoswarm, which Ultron now controls. He immediately kills Virgil and goes nuts after JOCASTA dies in his arms. He loses faith in humanity once more and unleashes the swarm toward London for genocide. Vision traps him in a sitcom simulation called UltraVision where he convinces him to change his mind. Billy joins Tommy to jumpstart Vision as Ultron instructs the nanoswarm to self destruct. Ultron survives through some nanoswarm that didn’t self-destruct. In a post-credits scene, as Wanda is crushed under Mt. Wundagore, Doctor Doom lifts the debris and commands her to awaken. She does.

The Art of Breaking Up (PETA)

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Anita (Bibeth Orteza) fetches her husband Ben (Carlitos Siguion-Reyna) at the hospital after his third stroke, and the two contemplate upon going their separate ways after decades of marriage. Their daughter Lou (Nikki Valdez) is a career woman and living with her partner Kat (Anna Luna). Her brother Dino (Jameson Blake) is still not over his ex Carla (Yesh Burce) who is now in a relationship with Jake (Brent Manalo), which causes Dino some problems with his current girlfriend Ina (Analain Salvador). Couple Hector (Jel Tarun) and Gab (Yen Santos) break up during a violent taxi ride home. Ferdz (Dingdong Bahan) and his boyfriend Erwin (Jude Hinumdum) also break up, but at a cafe with a rather intrusive waitress. Relationships. Breakups. Swapping partners. Is there a manual out there that might be able to teach a couple how to break up properly and without much suffering? Why is breaking up so hard to do?

VisionQuest - Episode 7

7. Immolation

In 1939, Phineas Horton (Paul Bettany) loses both family and fortune as he focuses on creating the first Synth in place of his son who died. The first Human Torch was consumed by the flames, both literal and figurative, his first encounter with human emotion. Ultron gives Jocasta the final biometric key but the lock of her nanobots include a final code which she doesn’t have because of her memory loss. Vision needs his source code to exorcise Jocasta’s nanobot from Lisa who is on the verge of death. The Client appears to both Jocasta and Vision to offer them what they need, in exchange for a contract of surrender. Vision enlists Paladin’s help to find him an energy source powerful enough for his trip to his subconscious, and ends up with Corvius Glaive’s glaive, which triggers some memories. He comes to terms with his past and identity and saves Lisa. Jocasta retrieves her memories of a partner who developed her nanobots with her, who is revealed to be Ultron’s avatar, an unnamed individual who now resides at the Horton estate where the two Synths are dropped off.