Journey Into Mystery

**Loki**: Season 1, Episode 5

**Journey Into Mystery** is the 5th episode of the 1st season of Loki and the 5th episode overall.

## Previously on

**RENSLAYER:** Trusting this man is not a good idea.

**MOBIUS:** I can handle him.
The TVA has pruned a lotta these guys,
and no two are alike.

**LOKI:** You're all Variants!
The Time-Keepers didn't create you.
They kidnapped you from the timeline.

**MOBIUS:** The nexus event you caused,
whatever that connection is,
can bring this whole place down.

**RENSLAYER:** Fine. You want the truth?
I'm trying to protect you.
Friendship like ours is uncommon.

**MOBIUS:** You know where I'd go
if I could go anywhere?
Wherever it is I'm really from.
Yeah, wherever I had a life
before the TVA came along.

**RENSLAYER:** Prune him.

[*Groans*]

**SYLVIE:** The Time-Keepers took your lives from you.
You're Variants.
We're the same.

**SYLVIE:** Mindless androids.

**LOKI:** Then who created the TVA?
Sylvie, I have to tell you something.

**SYLVIE:** You're gonna tell me everything.

[*Loki gasps as he opens his eyes.*]

[*Marvel Studios logo*]

## The Void

[*Back at the TVA, Chronomonitors continue their work as usual. The chamber of the Time-Keepers is empty, except the ruins of the Time-Keeper androids.*]

[*In The Void, a large purple cloud (Alioth) descends on a ruined land.*]

**LOKI:** What is this place?
Where are we? Who are you?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** This is The Void. That's Alioth.
And we're his lunch. Come on!

[*The Lokis all head off with Loki following. Alioth bellows.*]

[*Opening theme*]

## TVA Courtroom

**SYLVIE:** Give me your TemPad.

[*Renslayer does so.*]

**SYLVIE:** Who's really behind the TVA?

**RENSLAYER:** I'm as in the dark as you are.

[*Sylvie steps on her shoulder and Renslayer groans.*]

**SYLVIE:** Poor Judge Renslayer.
Your whole reality's been destroyed.
Tell me, how does it feel
to be on the other side of it?

[*Sylvie lifts her foot and Renslayer groans. Sylvie looks around.*]

**SYLVIE:** This is it, isn't it?
This is where you dragged me
after you stole my life.
A fitting place, then, to take yours.

**RENSLAYER:** And what if I said Loki wasn't dead?
Not yet, anyway.

**SYLVIE:** I'd say you were lying.

**RENSLAYER:** Maybe.
Or maybe we want the same thing.

**SYLVIE:** How is he still alive?
And how will saving him get us closer
to who's really behind the TVA?

**RENSLAYER:** It's complicated.
I'm telling you this willingly.

**SYLVIE:** Why?

**RENSLAYER:** Because I wanna know
who's at the top of this.
I want to know who lied to me.
When we prune a branched reality,
it's impossible
to destroy all of its matter.
So we move it to a place on the timeline
where it won't continue growing.
Basically, the branched
timeline isn't reset.
It's transferred.

**SYLVIE:** To where?

**RENSLAYER:** A void at the end of time.
Where every instance of existence
collides at the same point
and simply stops.

**SYLVIE:** Why?

**RENSLAYER:** I don't know.
The dogma states that the end of time
is still being written,
that the Time-Keepers
are transforming it into utopia.

**SYLVIE:** That's nice. Super believable.

**RENSLAYER:** Whatever the real reason...
nothing ever comes back from there.
I can help you if you trust me.

[*Sylvie hands the TemPad back to Renslayer.*]

## The Void

[*The Lokis walk*

**LOKI:** I suggest we take a breather,
so I can ask several thousand questions.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Gotta keep moving so we don't die.

**LOKI:** I can get behind that, but what's your plan?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Don't die.

**LOKI:** Okay, understood, but beyond that?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Don't die.

**LOKI:** That's not a plan.
It's a general demand of living.
If you're Lokis, you should always have a plan.

[*Birds come squaking by.*]

**LOKI:** Will someone please explain to me
what the hel is going on?
Look, it's been a very, very,
very trying past few days.
Months? I don't even know
how long it's been since New York.
All I know is, I got pruned
and I woke up here,
and now I'm surrounded
by Variants of myself, plus an alligator,
which I'm heartbroken to report I didn't even find
all that strange.
And now we're running from God knows what
trying to get to God knows where.
When I need to be trying to find
a way back to the TVA.

[*Loki's voice has been rising. Alioth rumbles in the distance. Kid Loki pulls a dagger on Loki, who backs up and falls.*]

**KID LOKI:** Stop wailing or you will signal Alioth.

**LOKI:** You mean the monster in the sky?

[*Kid Loki disappears his dagger and gives Loki a hand up.*]

**LOKI:** Thank you.

**KID LOKI:** This is the place
where the TVA dumps its rubbish,
everything they prune.
And Alioth,
he ensures none of it ever returns.

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** It's a living tempest
that consumes matter and energy.
They send entire branched realities here
that are devoured in an instant.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** We're in a shark tank.
Alioth is the shark.

[*Alligator Loki growls.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Oh, there's no such thing
as an alligator tank.
Besides, it's a better metaphor.
He's overly sensitive like the rest of us.

**LOKI:** Hang on,
you're telling me that thing's a Loki too?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Oh, yes.

**LOKI:** Okay, fine. Willing to accept that.
Why are there so many of you?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Because Lokis survive.
That's just what we do.

**LOKI:** Great. So how do we escape?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** We don't.
All of us were arrested by the TVA
and pruned, just like you.

And just like you're doing right now, we all stood around
making bad plans that went nowhere.

**LOKI:** Yes, but have you thought of using a TemPad?

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** Oh, the one thing
that could easily get us out of here, yes.
They're all over the place, right, guys?

[*The other Lokis all laugh.*]

**LOKI:** Fine. What about causing a nexus event?

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** The TVA doesn't care what happens here.

**LOKI:** Surely there's something to do.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** There is.
Survive. That's all there is.
All there ever was.

**KID LOKI:** We're done talking. Let's go.
Just do what you want, I guess.

[*The other Lokis walk on. Loki looks around. Thunder rumbles. He hurries after them.*]

**LOKI:** Okay, wait, wait, wait.
Why do you wear the horns?
You let a child command you.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** You'll do well to respect the boy.
This is his kingdom.

**LOKI:** Right.
What was your nexus event, Your Majesty?

**KID LOKI:** I killed Thor.

[*They continue on. Classic Loki uses magic to open a hatch into their hidden base. As the camera descends, layers of rubbish is shown through the soil, including Mjolnir and a small frog-Thor trapped in a jar.*]

## Loki's base

[*The Loki's descend the ladder into the base.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** So, why did you want to return
to the TVA so badly, anyway?

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** You leave your glorious purpose there?

**LOKI:** Something like that.

## TVA Courtroom

**RENSLAYER:** Miss Minutes,
I need you to remote access
a series of restricted files
from the archives.

**MISS MINUTES:** Ooh, doggy! On what?

**RENSLAYER:** The beginning of time.
The founding of the TVA.

**MISS MINUTES:** Right away.

**SYLVIE:** Wait.
What about the end of time?

**RENSLAYER:** It's just a void.

**SYLVIE:** What if The Void isn't the end?
What if there's something beyond it?

[*Renslayer nods to Miss Minutes, who pulls up a file.*]

**SYLVIE:** Hiding in the shadow of apocalypses
obscured me from the TVA
because I couldn't create
a diverging branch there, right?
So if all of this is still being written,
whatever happens is just a new timeline.
It would be impossible
to start a nexus event there.
You could be completely undetectable.

**RENSLAYER:** That's it.
That's the only place they could be.

**SYLVIE:** So how do we get past The Void?

**RENSLAYER:** [*Sighs*] It's impossible.
There's nothing for the TemPad
to lock onto, no destination.

**SYLVIE:** Then we go through it.

**RENSLAYER:** That's suicide.

**SYLVIE:** Then I guess my need for you has passed.

**MISS MINUTES:** Wait. What about The Void spacecraft?

**RENSLAYER:** Yes, the prototype.

**MISS MINUTES:** Great. I'll get the file.

**RENSLAYER:** It's a spaceship designed
to withstand the temporal void.
It could take us to the end of time.

**SYLVIE:** Find Loki.

**RENSLAYER:** Find the man behind the curtain.

**SYLVIE:** And kill him.

**RENSLAYER:** Together.

[*Renslayer extends her hand to Sylvie, who takes it and they shake. Sylvie doesn't let go of her hand.*]

**SYLVIE:** Miss Minutes,
where are the files on this timecraft?

**MISS MINUTES:** Still lookin', hon.

**SYLVIE:** Nothing?

**MISS MINUTES:** Hmm. Buried pretty deep.

**RENSLAYER:** It's highly restricted.
I might not even have clearance.

**SYLVIE:** Oh, no, I think you would. If it's real.

**RENSLAYER:** How long?

**MISS MINUTES:** Any second now.

**GUARD:** [*From outside*] Go! Go! Go! Move it!

[*The courtroom doors open and guards come in with weapons raised. Miss Minutes winks out. Sylvie shoves Renslayer, grabs the TemPad, and leaps behind the judge's desk.*]

**GUARD:** You hurt?

**RENSLAYER:** I'm fine, but she took my TemPad.
Sylvie? Not thinking
of going on the run, are you?
We know where you hide.
Sooner or later, we'll catch you.
It must be so exhausting.

**SYLVIE:** I'll admit you had me fooled there
for a minute.
Or did you get a little real?
Did Judge Renslayer really feel betrayed
by her beloved TVA?

**RENSLAYER:** Why don't you come back out
and we can talk about it?

**SYLVIE:** Sure. Just tell everyone else to piss off
and we can settle this between us.

**RENSLAYER:** Works for me.

**SYLVIE:** What happened to finding
the man behind the curtain?

**RENSLAYER:** Tell you what.
You come out with your hands up
and I'll put you in a time loop.
Something not so bad.
You can live out your days
in a good memory.
Do you have any good memories?

[*Sylvie eyes the weapon she still holds.*]

**SYLVIE:** [*To herself*] Just one, really.

[*Sylvie places the TemPad in her pocket, stands up, uses the weapon on herself. She disappears.*]

**GUARD:** She self-pruned.

**RENSLAYER:** Good.
Then she's dead, too.

[*Ravonna walks out.*]

## Loki's base

[*Pleasant music plays. Boxed "Roxxiwine" Pinot Noir is on the counter. Classic Loki pours some wine into Alligator Loki's mouth.*]

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** So, after I vanquished
Captain America and Iron Man,
I claimed my prize:
all six Infinity Stones.

[*Alligator Loki growls.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** That's alligator for growling
and saying "liar" at the same time.

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** Well at least my nexus event
wasn't eating the wrong neighbor's cat.

[*Alligator Loki snarls and leaves its mini pool to attack Boastful Loki. He bites his hand. Classic Loki and Loki jump up to separate them.*]

**LOKI:** Whoa, whoa, whoa, Hey, hey, hey.

[*Kid Loki sits on a throne and watches them, amused. Classic Loki pulls Alligator Loki off and throws him back in the mini pool.*]

**KID LOKI:** Tell them your story, Loki.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Me?
Nobody wants to hear about that.

**LOKI:** I, I would, actually.
Um...
It's just I've, I've been wondering,
because I'm...
Well, we're supposed to die, right?
Thanos kills us after Ragnarok.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Thanos?
In my timeline,
everything proceeded correctly,
my entire life,
until Thanos attacked our ship.

**LOKI:** So you, you *didn't* try to stab him?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** [*Chuckles*] Certainly not.
Oh take no offense, my friends,
but blades are worthless
in the face of a Loki sorcery.
They stunt our magical potential.

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** But they look awesome.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Oh, yes.
Especially when they clatter to the ground
just before your neck is snapped.
I cast a projection of myself so real,
even the Mad Titan believed it.
Then hid as inanimate debris.
After I faked my death,
I simply drifted in space.
Away from Thor, away from everything.
Thought about the universe
and my place in it,
and it occurred to me
that everywhere I went,
only pain followed.
So I removed myself from the equation,
landed on a remote planet
and stayed there in isolation, in solitude
for a long, long time.

**LOKI:** How did the TVA find you?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** I got lonely.
[*Chuckles*]
To tell you the truth,
I missed my brother,
and I wondered if he missed me,
if anybody else did.
But as soon as I took
my first steps to getting off the planet,
the TVA arrived.
Because we, my friends,
have but one part to play,
the God of Outcasts.
Nothing more.
The God of Outcasts.

[*The other Lokis all drink to that, including Kid Loki and his Hi-C juice box. Loki shakes his head and stands.*]

**LOKI:** I'm going.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Going where?

**LOKI:** Out of this place,
out of The Void, back to the TVA.
We may be good at surviving,
but we're also good at escaping.
I'd wager that gives me a decent chance as any.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** You won't do either, you'll be brutally murdered.

**LOKI:** Well, so be it.
That was my destiny to begin with.

**KID LOKI:** You're different.
Why?

**LOKI:** No, I'm not, you see?
I'm the same, really.
I'm the same as all of you.
Have any of you met a woman Variant of us?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Sounds terrifying.

**LOKI:** Oh, she is.
But that's kind of what's great about her.
*She's* different.
She's not trying to take over the TVA,
she's trying to take it down.
And she needs me.
Now, you said Alioth
is what keeps us here.
You said it's a living thing.
You said it's a shark.
Well, if it lives, it dies.
So I'm gonna kill the shark.
I'm gonna kill Alioth,
and I could use all the help I can get.

[*The other Lokis look at each other, then burst out laughing.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Yeah, baby. Yeah.

[*Loki walks away. Laughing continues.*]

**LOKI:** [*To himself*] Monsters.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Oh, yeah!

[*Loki ascends the ladder and opens the hatch. He looks up and gasps. About ten Lokis stand above him.*]

**PRESIDENT LOKI:** Ah. Hello, which one of us are you?

**LOKI:** [*Sighs*] This is a nightmare.

## The Void

[*Sylvie wakes in a dilapidated bus. Wind whistles and thunder rumbles. She kicks out the window and gets out. Alioth descends behind her and she runs.*]

[*A wisp of Alioth gets in front of her, and Sylvie touches it with magic, briefly connecting to see flashes of a mansion.*]

[*She continues running. A car approaches from ahead, horn honking. She jumps into the car.*]

**SYLVIE:** You.

[*The car speeds away.*]

**MOBIUS:** Can you shut the door,
we still got a little bit of a situation here.
By the way, you should be careful just jumping
into a stranger's car like that.

**SYLVIE:** Watch out!

**MOBIUS:** I see it, I see it.

**SYLVIE:** Really? Because you're driving right towards it.

**MOBIUS:** God, you really are one of you.
Hang on.

## Loki's base

[*President Loki and his army of nine Lokis stand in the Loki base.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** [*To Loki*] You bastard!
You led the wolves to our door.

**PRESIDENT LOKI:** We prefer snakes to wolves.

**KID LOKI:** I've eaten both. They die just the same.

[*Kid Loki steps forward, but Boastful Loki holds his hammer to Kid Loki.*]

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** Apologies, my liege.
I betrayed you, and now, I'm king.

**PRESIDENT LOKI:** About that...

[*The army of Lokis raise their weapons toward Boastful Loki.*]

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** You can't be serious.

**PRESIDENT LOKI:** Come on.
What did you expect?

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** That was not the bargain!
I gave you our location.
In exchange for shelter and supplies,
you give me your army
and I take the throne.

**PRESIDENT LOKI:** Ah, yes.
Not so good a bargain.
How about this one? My army, my throne?

**ANOTHER LOKI:** About that.

[*The army of Lokis turn on President Loki.*]

**PRESIDENT LOKI:** Why you beef-witted, half-faced scrubs.
We had a deal!

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** For God's sake.

[*Alligator Loki growls. Loki sighs.*]

**PRESIDENT LOKI:** Why the hell
is there an alligator in here?

**CLASSIC LOKI & KID LOKI:** He's a Loki!

[*Alligator Loki snarls and lunges at President Loki, clamping on his hand. They struggle, and President Loki pulls him off, but Alligator Loki has bitten off his hand. President Loki screams. Alligator Loki swallows.*]

[*A fight breaks out with all the Lokis fighting each other. Kid Loki picks up Alligator Loki. Loki tries to sneak out while avoiding the fights. Another Loki swings at Loki from behind, but Classic Loki blasts him back.*]

**BOASTFUL LOKI:** Glorious purpose!

[*Classic Loki uses magix to create illusions of himself, Loki, Kid Loki, and Alligator Loki as the actual four of them sneak away.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Come on.

[*Classic Loki creates a magic portal that they escape through.*]

**ANOTHER LOKI:** Take that, Loki!

## Outside Loki's base

[*They emerge outside the base in The Void.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Damn it! Animals, animals!
We lie and we cheat,
we cut the throat of every person
who trusts us, and for what?
Power. Glorious power. Glorious purpose!
We cannot change.
We're broken,
every version of us. Forever.

**KID LOKI:** And whenever one of us
dares try to fix themselves,
they're sent here to die.

**LOKI:** That's why I need to get out of here.
Nothing can change
until the TVA is stopped.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** And you trust her?

**LOKI:** She's the only one I do trust.
And right now, I believe
she's our only chance of stopping the TVA.

**KID LOKI:** That's good enough for me.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Okay. Okay, we'll help you.
But approaching Alioth
is a death sentence.
We'll get you to it,
but that's as far as we go.

[*Loki nods.*]

## Driving

**MOBIUS:** All that time, I really believed
we were the good guys.

**SYLVIE:** Annihilating entire realities,
orphaning little girls,
classic hero stuff.

**MOBIUS:** Well, I guess when you think
the ends justify the means,
there's not much you won't do.
By the way, you did some annihilating too.

**SYLVIE:** I did what I had to do.

**MOBIUS:** Yeah, so did I.

**SYLVIE:** You hunted me like a dog.

**MOBIUS:** I'm sorry about that.

**SYLVIE:** When I pruned myself,
I thought I might be able to find Loki.
That storm, that thing,
it's likely already got him.

**MOBIUS:** You really believe that?

**SYLVIE:** It doesn't matter.
The only thing that matters now
is getting out of here
and finding out who's behind all of this.

**MOBIUS:** Great. How do we do that?

**SYLVIE:** We turn around.

**MOBIUS:** Turn around?
What, and go back to the angry cloud?

**SYLVIE:** Yeah. I think it might be the answer.
We're going back to it.

[*Mobius turns the car around.*]

## Walking

[*The four Lokis walking, with Kid Loki holding a tracking device.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** I have to say, it feels odd
walking toward the gargantuan creature.
Do you have a plan of action?

**LOKI:** Get inside, find its heart
or brain or whatever,
and then, you know, do it in.

**KID LOKI:** I mean...

**LOKI:** Okay just because it's not complicated
doesn't mean it's bad.

**KID LOKI:** It also doesn't mean it's good.

[*Alligator Loki growls.*]

**LOKI:** See? He's on board.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** He's praying.
He thinks we're going to die.

[*Kid Loki's device beeps. They stand on a hill and watch a pruned reality arrive: the USS Eldridge military ship. The crew clamors on the deck.*]

**SAILOR:** All hands to battle stations!

**LOKI:** Alioth is like any animal.
He'll go after the big meal first.
And while he's busy with that,
we can sneak around the back and...

[*Alioth bellows as it approaches the USS Eldridge. Sailors clamor.*]

**SAILOR:** Fire!

[*The ship fires into Alioth. The purple cloud envelopes the screaming crew. Alioth recedes, leaving a dilapidated ship and no survivors.*]

**LOKI:** [*Panting*] Okay.
Maybe we, uh...
think a bit more about this, huh?

[*Kid Loki glances at his device and turns around.*]

**KID LOKI:** Car.

[*The others turn toward it.*]

**LOKI:** What?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Along the horizon.

**LOKI:** Is that bad?

**KID LOKI:** Well, usually means
cannibalistic marauders
or cannibalistic pirates.

**LOKI:** Delightful.
Now they're slowing down.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** What are they doing?

**KID LOKI:** Just stay on guard.

[*The car stops. Sylvie gets out.*]

**LOKI:** Sylvie.

[*Loki runs toward her.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** I don't understand.
Is he a coward or was he being brave?

**KID LOKI:** I'm not too sure.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Come on.

**SYLVIE:** You're alive.

**LOKI:** What happened? You okay?

[*Mobius gets out and joins them.*]

**LOKI:** Mobius!
How did you...

**SYLVIE:** We thought you could do with some backup.

[*Classic Loki, Kid Loki, and Alligator Loki walk over. Sylvie turns like she's ready to fight.*]

**LOKI:** Oh, no, wait, wait, wait,
these are my friends.
Well, they're, um... How best to put this?
Us as a child, us in the future,
and us as an alligator.
It's best not to question it.

**MOBIUS:** You throw a rock out here, you hit a Loki.

**SYLVIE:** So you're all after
the giant cloud monster, too, then?

**LOKI:** Well, we haven't decided
how we're going to kill it, but...

**SYLVIE:** Sorry, come again? Kill it?

**LOKI:** Yes, we're gonna kill Alioth.

**SYLVIE:** Oh, my God. That was your plan.

**LOKI:** Yeah.

**SYLVIE:** And you all went along with it?

**KID LOKI:** I had my doubts.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Probably unsafe.

**LOKI:** All right, well, what's your plan, then?

**SYLVIE:** I think the person we're after
is beyond The Void at the end of time.
And if they are,
that thing is just their guard dog
protecting the only way in.

**LOKI:** Okay, so, um, how do we get past
the guard dog?

**SYLVIE:** I'm gonna enchant it.

**LOKI:** [*Laughs*]
That's insane, right?

**SYLVIE:** As insane as what?
Paper-cutting a giant cloud to death?

**LOKI:** Listen,
I've been down here longer than you,
I know a thing or two...

**SYLVIE:** I'm going to enchant it.

**MOBIUS:** She's pretty confident.

## Time Theater 38

[*Renslayer enters. There are two guards at the door.*]

**RENSLAYER:** Leave us.

[*The guards leave. Renslayer opens a panel, where Hunter B-15 is being held.*]

**HUNTER B-15:** Why am I locked in here?

**RENSLAYER:** You freed the Variant.
You were disloyal to the TVA.

**HUNTER B-15:** Disloyal?

**RENSLAYER:** Did you think you'd escape punishment for that?

**HUNTER B-15:** Disloyal to who?
You were in the Time-Keepers' chambers.
They weren't real.

**RENSLAYER:** And why does that changes anything?

**HUNTER B-15:** That changes everything!
The people need to know the truth.

**RENSLAYER:** No, the TVA needs stability.
And until we can figure out what's going on,
that is what it will get.
So you need to tell me everything.

**HUNTER B-15:** What exactly do you want from me?

**RENSLAYER:** You had a link with the Variant.
I want you to tell me what drives her.

**HUNTER B-15:** Revenge drives her.
Killing the Time-Keepers.
But they turned out to be fake,
in case you forgot.
So she'll be searching
for whomever created them.
[*Scoffs.*]
This isn't about protecting
the TVA at all, is it?
You just want to find
whoever is behind all of this, too.
[*Chuckles*]
You'll never find them.
Not before she does.

**RENSLAYER:** And why is that?

**HUNTER B-15:** You only want it.
She needs it.

## TVA hallway

[*Renslayer leaves the Time Theater and pulls out her TemPad. Miss Minutes jumps into view.*]

**MISS MINUTES:** Hey, y'all.

**RENSLAYER:** I need all the files
on the founding of the TVA.
Everything from the beginning of time.

**MISS MINUTES:** Well, that's a mighty tall order.

**RENSLAYER:** Whoever created this place is in danger.
I need to find them.

**MISS MINUTES:** Okay. Right away, ma'am.

## The Void

[*In a dilapidated building, something is roasting over a fire. Alligator Loki, Mobius, Classic Loki, and Kid Loki sit around talking.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:**
You really don't remember him?

**MOBIUS:** I mean,
the TVA arrested a lot of Lokis,
but, no, I don't remember an alligator.
I mean, who's to say
he's even a Loki Variant?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** He is green, isn't he?

**MOBIUS:** I don't know, he could be lying.
The long con. Of course, that just
makes him *more* likely to be a Loki.
It's always the game within the game
with you guys, which I respect.

**KID LOKI:** Mobius,
assuming you do get back to the TVA,
what exactly are you
getting yourself into?

**MOBIUS:** I don't know.
I'd like to let people know the truth.

So just like that,
you're turning on the very thing
you devoted your life to.

**MOBIUS:** Well, it's never too late to change.

**KID LOKI:** I hope they know what they're doing.

[*Outside, Loki and Sylvie sit in a meadow of overgrown grass.*]

**SYLVIE:** Mobius isn't so bad.

**LOKI:** Or so good.
I think that's why we get along.

**SYLVIE:** He cares about you.

**LOKI:** It's cold.

**SYLVIE:** Mmm-hmm.

[*Loki conjures a blanket around himself.*]

**LOKI:** I could conjure one for you, if you like.

**SYLVIE:** Tell you what, you could conjure me a new outfit.
You have no idea how uncomfortable
something like this is.
[*Pause.*]
So...
Mobius and his, um... theory about...

**LOKI:** Oh right, right. About our nexus event.

**SYLVIE:** Total rubbish, right?

**LOKI:** Absolutely. Of course. I mean...

**SYLVIE:** I don't mean that it wasn't, you know, a nice moment.

**LOKI:** No, it was great. It was really nice. It was, it was great.

**SYLVIE:** It just sounds like another TVA lie.

**LOKI:** A hundred percent.
I mean, totally. Yeah.

[*Another pause.*]

**SYLVIE:** I don't know how to do this.

**LOKI:** I don't even know what we're doing.

**SYLVIE:** I don't have friends.
I don't have...
anyone.

**LOKI:** Well...
there are more important things, right?

**SYLVIE:** Right? Yeah.
Like, like bringing down the TVA.

**LOKI:** I mean, saving the universe, even.

**SYLVIE:** Well, there's no need to be dramatic,
but, yeah, kind of.

[*Loki uses magic to extend his blanket to also wrap around Sylvie.*]

**SYLVIE:** It's not very snuggly.

**LOKI:** [*Chuckling*] Okay.

**SYLVIE:** Is it a tablecloth?

**LOKI:** No, it's a blanket.

**SYLVIE:** Thank you.

**LOKI:** My pleasure.

[*Pause.*]

**SYLVIE:** How do I know that, in the final moments,
you won't betray me?

**LOKI:** Listen, Sylvie, I...
[*Sighs deeply.*]
I betrayed everyone who ever loved me.
I betrayed my father, my brother...
my home.
I know what I did.
And I know why I did it.
And that's not who I am anymore.
Okay?
I won't let you down.

**SYLVIE:** You sure?
'Cause if we make it, and the TVA is gone,
there might be a timeline for you to rule.

**LOKI:** Ah.
And then I'd finally be happy.

[*They smile at each other. Loki leans over to nudge her shoulder with his.*]

**LOKI:** What about you?
What will you do when this is all over?

**SYLVIE:** I don't know.

**LOKI:** I don't know either.
Maybe...
Maybe we could figure it out...
together.

**SYLVIE:** Maybe.

## The Attack

[*Birds go squawking around. Thunder rumbles. The Lokis, Sylvie, and Mobius stand on a hill looking at Alioth.*]

**MOBIUS:** Okay, so what's the next move?

**SYLVIE:** The TVA needs to be brought down.
We don't know who created it
or where they are,
but that thing out there does.
When it hit me earlier, I linked to it.
It was brief,
but I caught a glimpse of something,
and I think if I can get
close enough to it, I can enchant it,
and it's gonna take me
to whoever's behind all of this.

[*Sylvie hands Loki the TemPad.*]

**LOKI:** I'm staying.

**SYLVIE:** Loki, I don't even know if this is gonna work.

**LOKI:** You go, I go.

[*Loki hands the TemPad to Mobius. Kid Loki's device beeps.*]

**KID LOKI:** It's happening, guys.
The branch will be right out there.

**MOBIUS:** I'll give your regards
to Renslayer.

**SYLVIE:** Oh, please do.

**MOBIUS:** You boys want a ticket out of here?

**KID LOKI:** What? No. We're staying here.

**CLASSIC LOKI:** This is our home.

[*Alligator Loki growls.*]

**LOKI:** Are you sure? What about Alioth?

**CLASSIC LOKI:** We've survived this long.
We know what we're doing.

**KID LOKI:** Loki, you're gonna need this
on your journey.
Go on.

[*Kid Loki conjures his dagger and hands it to Loki. Loki accepts it. He conjures a sheath and sheathes the blade.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Good luck.
I hope you find what you're looking for.

[*Classic Loki, Kid Loki, and Alligator Loki leave. Mobius opens a Timedoor.*]

**MOBIUS:** Looks like you got away in the end.

**LOKI:** I always do.
What will you do at the TVA?

**MOBIUS:** Burn it to the ground.
Thanks for the spark.
Well, see you later, Loki.

[*Mobius offers a hand to Loki. Loki steps forward and they hug instead.*]

**LOKI:** Thank you, my friend.

**MOBIUS:** [*Whispers to Sylvie*] You're my favorite.

[*Mobius leaves through the Timedoor. Loki and Sylvie head toward Alioth.*]

**SYLVIE:** When a branch appears,
Alioth will focus on it.
That's when I'll enchant it.

[*As Classic Loki walks away, he looks back, but continues on.*]

[*Alioth roars.*]

**LOKI:** What if we don't have time
to wait for a branch?

**SYLVIE:** We'll have to cause a distraction.

[*Loki places a hand on her shoulder. She looks at him and shakes her head. He nods. Loki runs, causing a distraction. Sylvie activates her powers. Loki pulls his dagger, ignites it in flame, and waves it.*]

**LOKI:** Come and get me!

[*Allioth heads for Loki. Sylvie tries to connect with Alioth, but it turns toward her. Loki runs back.*]

**LOKI:** [*Shouting*] No! This way!
Come and get me!

[*Alioth roars as it approaches Sylvie.*]

**LOKI:** No! No!

[*A bright green light shines in the distance, and Alioth looks toward it. The illusion of Asgard rises, created by Classic Loki, and Alioth heads toward it.*]

**SYLVIE:** How is he doing that?

**LOKI:** I think we're stronger than we realize.

[*Classic Loki grunts with the strain of raising the illusion.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Go!

[*His voice echoes back to Loki and Sylvie. Sylvie takes Loki's hand.*]

**LOKI:** What are you doing?

**SYLVIE:** We're gonna enchant it.

**LOKI:** I don't know how.

**SYLVIE:** You do.
Because we're the same!

[*Alioth roars and tries to destroy the illusion of Asgard. Loki and Sylvie grasp at tendrils of Alioth, trying to enchant it.*]

[*The illusion of Asgard begins to collapse.*]

[*Sylvie tightens her grip on Loki's hand. Loki's magic shines.*]

[*Classic Loki collapses and the illusion completely recedes. Alioth heads for Classic Loki, who stands and raises magic in his hands.*]

**CLASSIC LOKI:** Glorious purpose!

[*Classic Loki laughs. Alioth sweeps over him, leaving behind a tarnished horned helmet.*]

[*Alioth turns back toward Sylvie and Loki. Loki closes his eyes. Green magic flares from him and Sylvie up to Alioth, turning the purple green.*]

**SYLVIE:** Open your eyes.

[*Loki does so and sighs. The clouds of Alioth part, revealing a mansion beyond. Still holding hands, Loki and Sylvie walk toward it.*]

[*End credits.*]