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.
To be honest, this episode is simply anticlimactic and formulaic as a finale. One, they fridge JOCASTA so Ultron can regain his status as the big bad. Two, they continue this MCU tradition as of late where after a fight or two, the protagonist just talks the antagonist out of their current rampage. Three, Billy’s arrival is too deus-ex-machina, not to mention we already knew because of that one scene in the trailer. Well, at least I’m glad that F.R.I.D.A.Y. is alive. I’m also glad that Ultron is alive, too, because I believe they will still have a lot of use for him as a villain, even though he is now, technically, morally gray. I just find it amusing how the trilogy started with a sitcom called WandaVision, and now it ends with another sitcom called UltraVision. Full circle is full circling! The reunion between Vision and his sons is emotional, but could’ve been even more so had Wanda been there. We could always wish for a family reunion down the line but that post-credits scene just proves that Mother will be busy as one of Doom’s lackeys so we’re just going to have to wait this out, guys.
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