The Nexus Event

**Loki**: Season 1, Episode 4

**The Nexus Event** is the 4th episode of the 1st season of Loki and the 4th episode overall.

## Previously on

**LOKI:** So, you're part of the TVA's
courageous and dedicated workforce?

**MOBIUS:** Yes.

**LOKI:** You were created by the Time-Keepers?

**MOBIUS:** Correct.

[*Loki laughs.*]

**RAVONNA:** You're not the only analyst
working for me.

**MOBIUS:** But, would you say,
maybe, I'm your favorite one?

**LOKI:** Enchantment is a clever trick.

**SYLVIE:** I have to create a fantasy
from their memories.
That young soldier from the TVA,
she was just a regular person on Earth.

**SYLVIE:** Of all of the apocalypses
saved on that TemPad, this is the worst!
No one makes it off here!

**LOKI:** How long do we have?

**SYLVIE:** Twelve hours or so.
Things down here are only gonna get worse.

**LOKI:** To the end of the world.

[*Marvel studios logo*]

## Asgard

[*Alone in a room, Young Sylvie plays with toys.*]

**YOUNG SYLVIE:**
... dragon swoops towards the palace,
the Valkyrie flies over,
and defeats the dragon, and saves Asgard.

[*A timedoor opens behind her. Ravonna, a Hunter, steps through with Minutemen. She checks her TemPad.*]

**RAVONNA:** There's our Variant.

[*The Minutemen apprehend Sylvie.*]

**RAVONNA:** On the authority of the Time-Keepers,
I hereby arrest you for crimes
against the Sacred Timeline.
Reset it.

**YOUNG SYLVIE:** Wait!

[*Ravonna pulls Sylvie through the timedoor. The Minutemen set a reset charge. As it activates, it disintegrates Sylvie's toys.*]

## TVA past

[*Ravonna and Sylvie step through the Timedoor into the TVA. Another man struggles.*]

**MAN:** No! No!

**YOUNG SYLVIE:** Help him!

[*Ravonna pulls Sylvie on. Sylvie is processed, dressed in processing clothes, sign the papers, gets her temporal aura pictured. Ravonna escorts her into the courtroom.*]

**JUDGE:** Next case!

[*As Ravonna leads Sylvie forward, Sylvie bites her and grabs the TemPad.*]

**JUDGE:** Next case!

**RAVONNA:** Right here!

[*Sylvie opens a Timedoor and escapes.*]

[*In the present, Ravonna takes a deep breath and steps out of the gold elevators into the Time-Keepers' chambers.*]

[*Opening theme*]

## TVA present

[*Ravonna exits the elevators back in the TVA hallway where Mobius waits.*]

**MOBIUS:** What'd they say? Are you okay?

**RAVONNA:** No, no, Mobius. I'm not.
Under the best of circumstances,
it's jarring to stand
before the Time-Keepers.
And this is not the best of circumstances.

**MOBIUS:** Yeah, but they can't blame you.

**RAVONNA:** They can and do.
The Variant was right here.
What if she got to the Time-Keepers?

**MOBIUS:** I know. But she didn't.

**RAVONNA:** No. But she got away.
Along with the Variant that
I got you permission to bring in here.
Do you have any idea how impossible it is
to keep the timeline stable?
The Time-Keepers are all that stand
between us and full-scale calamity.

**MOBIUS:** And I'm glad they're on our side.
But if they want me
to find Loki and the Variant,
[*whispers*] I need access to Hunter C-20.

**RAVONNA:** I'm sorry, but that's impossible.

**MOBIUS:** Look, when we found her,
she kept saying, "It's real. It's real."
Over and over.
I need to find out what that meant
and what else she saw
when she was with the Variant.
Look, I know there's protocol,
but she could have information...

**RAVONNA:** She's dead, Mobius!

**MOBIUS:** What? How?

**RAVONNA:** The Variant, she enchanted C-20,
scrambled her mind.

**MOBIUS:** I don't get it. She seemed okay.
She seemed fine.

**RAVONNA:** At first, yes.
But by the time she got in here,
she could barely speak.
The decline was steeper after that.

**MOBIUS:** I didn't know. What...

**RAVONNA:** Nobody does.
We don't want people to panic.
Can I trust you to keep that between us?

**MOBIUS:** Of course. Yes.
I'm sorry.

**RAVONNA:** Every moment those Variants are out there,
we're all in danger.
Find them!

## Lamentis-1 / TVA

### Lamentis-1

[*Meteors crash down all around on the moon. People cry out. Sylvie sits on a stone, watching the planet get closer. Loki walks over and sits beside her.*]

**LOKI:** I'm sorry.

**SYLVIE:** I remember Asgard.
Not much, but I remember.
My home, my people, my life.
The universe wants to break free,
so it manifests chaos.
Like me being born
the Goddess of Mischief.
And as soon as that created a big enough
detour from the Sacred Timeline,
the TVA showed up, erased my reality,
and took me prisoner.
I was just a child.
I escaped.
Stole a TemPad and I ran for a long,
long time, which really sucked.
Everywhere and every-when I went,
it caused a nexus event.
Sent up a smoke flare.
Because I'm not supposed to exist.
Until, eventually,
I figured out where to hide.
And so that's where I grew up,
the ends of a thousand worlds.
Now... that's where I'll die.

### TVA

**ANALYST 1:** There's nothing, sir.

**MOBIUS:** Even with
the magnified nexus threshold?
That one should be setting off alarms
if somebody steps on the wrong leaf.

**ANALYST 2:** Wherever they are,
I'm not sure anything survives.

**MOBIUS:** Yeah. Don't underestimate them.
[*To Hunter B-15.*] You see anything down at Roxxcart?

**HUNTER B-15:** They're gone.
Leaping across time,
plotting their next massacre.
Any news on C-20?

**MOBIUS:** No.

**HUNTER B-15:** We need to find them.

**MOBIUS:** We will.

### Lamentis-1

[*Massive portions of the planet begin breaking apart and crashing onto the moon.*]

**SYLVIE:** Not long now.
Do you think that what makes a Loki a Loki
is the fact that we're destined to lose?

**LOKI:** No.
We may lose.
Sometimes painfully.
But we don't die.
We survive.
I mean, you did.
You were just a child
when the TVA took you,
but you nearly took down the organization
that claims to govern the order of time.
You did it on your own.
You ran rings around them. You're amazing!

[*Sylvie lays her hand on his forearm. Loki looks down at her touch.*]

### TVA

**ANALYST 2:** We've got something.

[*On the screen of the timeline, a branch begins to grow: Lamentis 1.*]

**ANALYST 1:** Temporal lock.

### Lamentis-1

[*Loki looks up at Sylvie. A massive meteor crashes before them and the shockwave comes their way. Loki and Sylvie take each others' hand as they look on. They turn back to each other. Sylvie smiles.*]

### TVA

**MOBIUS:** Okay, that's not someone
stepping on the wrong leaf.
You ever seen a branch like that?

**HUNTER B-15:** No.

### Lamentis-1

[*Timedoors open behind Loki and Sylvie. They both stand and face them.*]

## TVA

[*Loki and Sylvie are both collared and being escorted by Minutemen and Mobius through the TVA. Sylvie is led down a different hallway, and she looks back at Loki as they're pulled apart.*]

**MOBIUS:** Well?

**LOKI:** Well, what?

**MOBIUS:** I know you got some quip
you're dyin' to say.

**LOKI:** Oh I don't have a quip.
I've got nothing to say.

**MOBIUS:** Come on.

**LOKI:** By the way, I should have an equal amount
of security. This is insulting!

**MOBIUS:** You just can't help yourself.

**LOKI:** You betrayed me!

**MOBIUS:** You betrayed me!

**LOKI:** Oh grow up!

**MOBIUS:** You grow up.

[*They enter Time Theater 5.*]

**MOBIUS:** You know, it occurred to me that
you're not really the God of Mischief.

**LOKI:** Oh, here it comes.
The folksy, dopey insult
from the folksy dope.
What am I? The God of Self-Sabotage, yeah?
The God of Back-Stabbing?

**MOBIUS:** Just kind of an asshole and a bad friend.
Yeah, chew on that for a little bit.
All right. It's ready.

[*A red-framed Timedoor opens before him.*]

**LOKI:** What is this?

**MOBIUS:** You'll see.

**LOKI:** Mobius!

**MOBIUS:** Okay. No, no, no, let him,
one last desperate trick
from the desperate trickster. Go ahead.

**LOKI:** The TVA is lying to you.

**MOBIUS:** Put him in.

**LOKI:** No.

[*Loki struggles but is pushed through the door.*]

## Time Cell

**LOKI:** What?
[*Chuckles.*]
Seriously?

[*Sif steps out and holds up a handful of her cut hair.*]

**SIF:** You.

**LOKI:** Sif!

**SIF:** You conniving, craven, pathetic worm.
You did this.

**LOKI:** What?

[*Sif strikes his face.*]

**LOKI:** Ow.

**SIF:** I hope you know you deserve to be alone
and you always will be.

**LOKI:** All right.
A bad memory prison? How quaint.

[*Sif knees him and punches him, knocking him to the ground. She walks past him and leaves.*]

**LOKI:** Ow!
Some punishment. [*Grunts as he stands.*]
I remember exactly what I did after that.
I went and had a nice, hot bath
and a glass of wine,
and I never thought about it again,
because it was just a bit of fun.

**SIF:** You.

**LOKI:** Huh?

[*Loki turns to see Sif enter, just as she did before.*]

**SIF:** You conniving, craven, pathetic worm.
You did this.

**LOKI:** Hang on.

[*Sif strikes his face.*]

**LOKI:** Ow.

**SIF:** I hope you know you deserve to be alone
and you always will be.

**LOKI:** Just...

[*Sif knees him and punches him, knocking him to the ground. She walks past him and leaves.*]

[*Loki groans loudly. He stands.*]

**LOKI:** Time loops. How lovely.

**SIF:** You.
You conniving, craven, pathetic worm.

**LOKI:** Okay. Okay, Sif. Hang on.

[*Sif strikes his face.*]

**SIF:** No, you hear this.
You deserve to be alone...

**LOKI:** And I always will be.
All right, I get it.
Listen. You are a reconstruction
of a past event
created by the organization
that controls all of time.
So you need to trust me
and you need to help me escape. Yeah?
Okay, good.

[*Sif knees him and punches him, knocking him to the ground. She walks past him and leaves.*]

**SIF:** Pathetic.

## Ravonna's office

[*Mobius knocks at the door and enters.*]

**MOBIUS:** Hey.

[*Ravonna smiles.*]

**RAVONNA:** Shouldn't you be interrogating
the Loki Variant?

**MOBIUS:** He's softening in the Time Cell,
but while he marinates, I thought
maybe I'd interview the other Variant.

**RAVONNA:** Oh, no. Just stick with your Loki
and figure out what that nexus spike was.

**MOBIUS:** I know, but I think I can get there faster
if I work 'em both together.
Remember you said we have a part to play,
and this is the part I play...

**RAVONNA:** Absolutely not. She's just too dangerous.

**MOBIUS:** Too dangerous? Come on, Ravonna.
This is what I do.

**RAVONNA:** And this is what I do.
Nobody speaks with that Variant.

**MOBIUS:** I mean, if there's a mastermind here,
I don't think it's Loki.

**RAVONNA:** Good.
Then he should be the easiest to break.
Work your Loki and figure out
what caused that spike.
Time-Keepers are watching, Mobius.

**MOBIUS:** They're always watching.
"Work your Loki, work your Loki."
That ought to be my mantra.

[*Mobius leaves.*]

## Hallway

[*Outside Time Theater 47.*]

**HUNTER B-15:** [*To Minutemen.*] You all right?

[*Mobius walks over.*]

**MOBIUS:** Is she in there?

**HUNTER B-15:** Mm-hmm.

**MOBIUS:** [*Scoffs.*]
They don't go gently, do they?

**HUNTER B-15:** Aren't you supposed to be
interrogating your Variant pet?

**MOBIUS:** Just stretching my legs.
You know, we brought in Kree,
Titans, vampires.
Why is it the two orphan demigods
are such a pain in the ass?

**HUNTER B-15:** And yet it was your idea
to bring in another one.

**MOBIUS:** I'm happy to share credit for that idea.

[*Mobius starts to leave.*]

**HUNTER B-15:** Mobius?
Did Loki say anything
while you were in there?

**MOBIUS:** Yeah. He said the TVA is lying to me.
Why?

**HUNTER B-15:** Just doing my job.

## Time cell

[*Loki sits on the ground.*]

**SIF:** You.

[*Loki sighs.*]

**SIF:** You conniving, craven...

**LOKI:** Sif. Sif.

**SIF:** ...pathetic worm.

**LOKI:** Please, please, no more.
Please, I beg you.
I'm a horrible person.
I get it. I really am.
I cut off your hair
because I thought it'd be funny.
And it's not.
Uh...
I crave attention...
because I'm...
[*Sighs.*]
I'm a... I'm a narcissist.
And I suppose it's...
It's because I'm scared of being alone.

[*After a moment, Sif offers him a hand up. Loki takes it and stands.*]

**SIF:** You are alone and you always will be.

[*Sif walks past him and leaves. Mobius walks in.*]

**MOBIUS:** Okay, Loki.
You ready to talk?

## Time Theater 5

**LOKI:** Fancy technology.
Threatening interrogation tactics.
Seems you and I are in a loop of our own.

**MOBIUS:** Well, there's been a lot of water
under the bridge since then.

**LOKI:** Certainly has.

**MOBIUS:** Okay, you said the TVA is lying to me.
Go ahead.
Or is that just a cockroach's
survival mechanism kicking in?

**LOKI:** Let me out of this place,
stop beating me up, and I'll tell you.

**MOBIUS:** Cockroach. Got it.
How long have you been
working for the Variant?

**LOKI:** Me? Working for her? Please.

**MOBIUS:** If you're not working for the Variant,
what is it? You're partners?

**LOKI:** Absolutely not.
She's difficult and irritating,
and she tries to hit me all the time.
No. Not partners, no.

**MOBIUS:** Yeah, I guess you don't do partners.
Unless, of course, it benefits you,
and you intend to betray them
at some point.

**LOKI:** It was a means to an end, Mobius.
Welcome to the real world.
Down there, we're awful to one another
to get what we want.

**MOBIUS:** Now I gotta have a prince tell me
how the real world works?
Why don't you just tell me what caused
the nexus event on Lamentis?

**LOKI:** Let me say this again.
I'm not going to tell you
just so you can turn around
immediately afterwards and prune me.

**MOBIUS:** I guess we've reached a dead end then.

**LOKI:** Okay, it's over.

**MOBIUS:** I'm going to miss
these little tete-a-tetes.

**LOKI:** Me, too.

**MOBIUS:** One guy playing checkers, you,
old Mobius playing chess,
but, yeah, give my regards to Lady Sif.

**LOKI:** What... No. What? No, no, no.
Please, not...
Well, just wait, wait, wait.

**MOBIUS:** Yeah?

**LOKI:** Of course it was me
pulling the strings all along.
She came to me on Asgard a long time ago
and then she took me
to one of her apocalypses
and that's where
we hatched our plan together.

**MOBIUS:** Which is?

**LOKI:** Coming along very nicely, thank you.

**MOBIUS:** And the Variant?

**LOKI:** Doesn't matter. She's a pawn.
Something very, very big is gonna happen.
And when it does, I'll dispose of her.

**MOBIUS:** Well, we saved you the trouble there.
She's already been pruned.
So assume I do set you free...

**LOKI:** Hang on, wait.
What'd you just say?

**MOBIUS:** What? Assume I do set you free.

**LOKI:** The Variant. She's gone?

**MOBIUS:** Yeah. Not before she took out two of ours.
Yeah, she was going
to her Time Cell, broke free.
Hunter B-15 stepped in, popped her.
So you might want to fire off
a thank you note to Hunter B-15,
because it looks like
you're the superior Loki.
I would've bet on her,
but that's what makes a horse race.

[*Loki leans back. Shrugs.*]

**LOKI:** Good riddance.

[*Loki smiles. Mobius chuckles.*]

**LOKI:** What's so funny?

**MOBIUS:** Come on.
Look at your eyes. You like her.

**LOKI:** What?

**MOBIUS:** You like her. Does she like you?

**LOKI:** Was she pruned?

**MOBIUS:** I mean, no wonder you have no clue
what caused the nexus event
on Lamentis.
Both of you were just swooning over each other.

**LOKI:** Mobius. Tell me the truth.

**MOBIUS:** It's the apocalypse.
Two Variants of the same being,
especially you, forming this kind of sick,
twisted romantic relationship.
That's pure chaos.
That could break reality.
It's breaking my reality right now.
What a incredible seismic narcissist.
You fell for yourself.

**LOKI:** Her name was Sylvie.

**MOBIUS:** Ah, Sylvie.
Lovely.
How do you spell that?
Is that with an I-E or just an I?

**LOKI:** Is she alive?

**MOBIUS:** For now.

[*Loki sighs.*]

**MOBIUS:** And was infiltrating the TVA,
was that always sort of the grand plan?

**LOKI:** Our interests are aligned.

**MOBIUS:** Overthrowing the Time-Keepers?

**LOKI:** Maybe they need to be overthrown.

**MOBIUS:** I ought to box your ears.

**LOKI:** Mobius, listen.
If what Sylvie told me about this place
is true, it affects all of us.

**MOBIUS:** Oh here we go. Now, you've already told me
about 50 lies in the past 10 minutes.

**LOKI:** I'm not lying.

**MOBIUS:** And now, I'm supposed
to believe your terrorist girlfriend.

**LOKI:** I'm telling you the truth.
She's not my girlfriend.

**MOBIUS:** Whatever you want to call her.
What, your female self that
you have some demented crush on...

**LOKI:** You're all Variants!
Everyone who works at the TVA.
The Time-Keepers didn't create you.
They kidnapped you from the timeline,
and erased your memories.
Memories she can access
through enchantment.
So before this, you had a past,
maybe you had a family, a life.

**MOBIUS:** Nice try.
That was good. You two, what a pair!
Gosh! Unbelievable. Wherever you go,
it's just death, destruction,
the literal ends of worlds.
Well, I'm gonna have
to close this case now,
'cause I don't need you anymore.
Yeah, or as you might say,
our interests are no longer aligned.

[*Minutemen pull Loki to his feet.*]

**LOKI:** You know, of all the liars in this place,
and there are a great many,
you're the biggest.

**MOBIUS:** Why? 'Cause I lied about your girlfriend?

**LOKI:** Oh, no. That I can respect.
I mean, the lies you tell yourself.

[*The door to the Time Cell opens and Loki goes through.*]

## Time Theater 47

[*Hunter B-15 stands in the hallway. She breathes deeply. She looks at a poster on the wall: "Did you get them all? Verify through deletion." She pulls out her pruning stick and activates it. She walks to the door of Time Theater 47.*]

**HUNTER B-15:** Open the door.

[*Hunter B-15 enters.*]

**SYLVIE:** Hello... Oh, I don't know.
Your name's a number.
Can't read it from here.

[*Hunter B-15 powers down her weapon and opens a Timedoor.*]

**HUNTER B-15:** Come with me.

## Ravonna's office

[*Theremin music plays. Ravonna signs a page and turns it to Mobius.*]

**RAVONNA:** Mobius?

**MOBIUS:** Oh, yeah.

**RAVONNA:** You okay?

[*Mobius signs.*]

**MOBIUS:** Yep, I'm good.

**RAVONNA:** Case closed.

**MOBIUS:** Yes.

**RAVONNA:** Cheers.

**MOBIUS:** Cheers.

**RAVONNA:** To putting all this behind us.

**MOBIUS:** [*Sighs*] Amen.

**RAVONNA:** If you could go anywhere, anytime,
where would it be?

**MOBIUS:** I can go anywhere, anytime.

**RAVONNA:** You know what I mean.

**MOBIUS:** Why wouldn't you let me
interrogate Sylvie?

**RAVONNA:** Sylvie?

**MOBIUS:** The Variant, that's what Loki calls her.
Why wouldn't you let me,
you know, question her?

**RAVONNA:** I told you,
we couldn't risk her escaping again.

**MOBIUS:** She wouldn't have escaped.

**RAVONNA:** The other Variant got away during
your first interrogation, didn't he?

**MOBIUS:** Ouch. [*Chuckles.*]

**RAVONNA:** Come on. Anywhere and anytime
on the timeline. Where'd you go?

**MOBIUS:** I like being here now, with you,
doing the work.

**RAVONNA:** Fine.
I received word from the Time-Keepers.
They want to personally oversee
the Variant's pruning.
And they want you there, too.

**MOBIUS:** It's about time. Great.
When, when did you first notice
what was going on with C-20?

**RAVONNA:** Mobius, what is going on with you?

**MOBIUS:** Nothing.

**RAVONNA:** We did it.

**MOBIUS:** I know.

**RAVONNA:** The Time-Keepers are happy. Mission accomplished.

**MOBIUS:** It's great.
Mission accomplished.
It was just that she seemed fine when I...
When I saw her.
I mean, a little freaked, but fine.

**RAVONNA:** Well, she quickly wasn't fine.

**MOBIUS:** Okay.

**RAVONNA:** Okay.
C-20? The Variant?
All these questions,
what are you getting at?

**MOBIUS:** I don't know. I...
Something just seems a little off.

**RAVONNA:** Fine. You want the truth?
I'm trying to protect you.
Would you normally interview
someone like that? Yeah.
But the Variant scares the hell out of me,
and I didn't want to see
anything happen to you.
C-20 lost her mind.
She couldn't even form words by the end.
I just couldn't deal with that
happening to you or anyone else.
Is that what you wanted to hear?

**MOBIUS:** Yeah, if it's the truth.

**RAVONNA:** You've been spending
too much time with Lokis.

**MOBIUS:** [*Chuckles*] Yeah.
I definitely have been
spending too much time with Lokis.

**RAVONNA:** What we do here matters.

**MOBIUS:** I know.

**RAVONNA:** When we're out there fighting
for the fate of the Sacred Timeline
we're also fighting for this. For us.
Friends against time, allies to the end.
You've seen all of existence, same as me.
So, you know,
friendship like ours is uncommon.
And worth fighting for.
Same as the Sacred Timeline.

**MOBIUS:** It was a good speech.

**RAVONNA:** Thank you.

**MOBIUS:** I knew I was your favorite analyst.
Was that so hard to admit?
What are you gonna do with that trophy?

**RAVONNA:** Oh!

**MOBIUS:** Where's that gonna go?

**RAVONNA:** You're right.
Let's see.

[*Ravonna picks up Sylvie's sword and takes it to the shelves of her tophies. While her back is turned to him, Mobius swaps his TemPad with hers.*]

**RAVONNA:** Uh...
How's that?

**MOBIUS:** Looks perfect.
You're running out of room there.
All right, I will see you later on.

**RAVONNA:** One drink?

**MOBIUS:** I had two, didn't I?

**RAVONNA:** Mobius!
This is a career case.
You sure you're okay?

**MOBIUS:** I'm just exhausted,
dealing with all these Lokis.

**RAVONNA:** Fair enough.
Let's finish this.

**MOBIUS:** For all time.

**RAVONNA:** Always.

**MOBIUS:** I'll see you up there.
Thanks for the drink.

## Roxxcart 2050

[*Hunter B-15 and Sylvie step out of a Timedoor into the parking lot of Roxxcart in Haven Hills, Alabama.*]

**SYLVIE:** Fine. You wanted a fair fight.
I respect that.

**HUNTER B-15:** When you were in my head, I saw something.
What did you do to me?

**SYLVIE:** I showed you your life before the TVA.

**HUNTER B-15:** That's a trick. It's a deception.

**SYLVIE:** No, it's not.

**HUNTER B-15:** I was created by the Time-Keepers.

**SYLVIE:** No. I can't create memories.
I can only use what's already there.
The Time-Keepers took your lives from you.
From all of you.
You're Variants.
We're the same.

**HUNTER B-15:** Show me.

[*Hunter B-15 holds out her hand. Sylvie takes it and green magic shines in their grasp, and along Hunter B-15's temples. Hunter B-15 breathes shakily. The connection ends.*]

**HUNTER B-15:** I looked happy.

[*Sylvie nods.*]

**HUNTER B-15:** What now?

[*Thunder rumbles.*]

## Archives

[*Mobius walks between the stacks in the archives and pulls out Ravonna's TemPad. He runs a search on Hunter C-20. Her status is "deceased". He accesses a classified video file on the Mission Debrief for the events of Haven Hills, Alabama on March 15, 2050.*]

**HUNTER C-20:** You're not hearing me. I was there.
This was real, what I saw.
This is a place that I've been.
This wasn't the TVA. This was a memory.
I lived down there. I went to that bar.
I had friends.
I had a whole life on the Sacred Timeline.

**INTERROGATOR:** Calm down.

**HUNTER C-20:** "Calm down"? I'm a Variant.
So are you.
So is every single person in this place.

**INTERROGATOR:** I'm ending this.

[*Mobius pauses the video and zooms in on the interrogator - it's Ravonna.*]

## Time Cell

**LOKI:** I've heard it once,
I've heard it a thousand times.
"You. You conniving, craven,
pathetic worm. You did this."
Right?

[*Mobius steps through a Timedoor.*]

**MOBIUS:** What are you doing?

**LOKI:** Passing the time.

**MOBIUS:** Do you care about this Variant?

**LOKI:** Sylvie? I'm not sure
if "care" is the right word.

**MOBIUS:** Shut up.

**LOKI:** I think we've covered this back in there.

**MOBIUS:** Shut up!
Do you really think
you deserve to be alone?
[*Pause.*] Loki!

**LOKI:** You told me to shut up.

**MOBIUS:** Do you believe
you deserve to be alone?

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

**MOBIUS:** Then you better figure it out quick,
because the nexus event
the two of you caused,
I think whatever that connection is,
can bring this whole place down.
So we better understand...

**LOKI:** "We"?

**MOBIUS:** Do you swear she didn't implant
those memories in Hunter C-20?

**LOKI:** Mobius, no. I believe her.

**MOBIUS:** So, I just have to trust
the word of two Lokis?

**LOKI:** How about the word of a friend?

**MOBIUS:** You were right, about the TVA.
You were right from the beginning.
And if you wanna save her,
you need to trust me.
Can we do that?

**LOKI:** Yes.

**MOBIUS:** Okay.
You could be whoever,
whatever you wanna be,
even someone good.
I mean, just in case
anyone ever told you different.

[*Loki smiles and they exit through the Timedoor.*]

## Time Theater 5

[*Mobius and Loki enter through the Timedoor. Ravonna and four Minutemen are waiting.*]

**RAVONNA:** I think you have something of mine.

**MOBIUS:** Yeah, I got all the way down there
before I even realized I picked up yours.

[*Mobius pulls out the TemPad and hands it to a Minuteman.*]

**MOBIUS:** What's going on?

[*Ravonna doesn't respond. The Minuteman hands her the TemPad.*]

**MOBIUS:** What's the problem, Ravonna?

[*Ravonna doesn't answer.*]

**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.
Maybe I had a jet ski.
That's what I'd like to do.
Just riding around on my jet ski.

**RAVONNA:** Prune him.

[*The Minuteman prunes Mobius, who screams as he disintegrates. Loki gasps. The Minutement apprehend Loki and escort him out.*]

**RAVONNA:** Wait for me at the elevator.

## Time Theater 47

[*Ravonna enters Time Theater 47. Sylvie is sitting there with wet clothes and hair.*]

**RAVONNA:** Who was in here with her?

**MINUTEMAN:** Sorry, ma'am, B-15 insisted.

**RAVONNA:** Put out an alert for Hunter B-15.
She too has been compromised
by the Variant.

## Elevator

[*Sylvie is escorted by Minuteman out to the hallway before the elevators, next to Loki.*]

**SYLVIE:** [*Whispers to Loki*] You okay?

[*Loki looks down.*]

**RAVONNA:** I've got them from here.

[*Elevator doors open. Ravonna, Loki, and Sylvie enter the elevator.*]

**SYLVIE:** Do you remember me?

**RAVONNA:** I do.
What do you wanna say to me, Variant?

**SYLVIE:** What was my nexus event?
Why did you bring me in?

**RAVONNA:** What does it matter?

**SYLVIE:** It was enough to take my life from me,
lead to all of this.
Must have been important.
So, what was it?

**RAVONNA:** I don't remember.

[*The elevator doors open, revealing the chamber of the Time-Keepers.*]

## Time-Keepers

[*Loki, Sylvie, and Ravonna walk forward. The three Time-Keepers are seated on a dais above them, and four guards stand in the room.*]

**RAVONNA:** Gracious Time-Keepers,
as promised, the Variants.

**TIME-KEEPER 1:** After all your struggle,
at last, you've arrived before us.

**TIME-KEEPER 2:** What do you have to say for yourselves
before you meet your end, Variants?

**LOKI:** Is that the only reason
you brought us here?
To kill us?
I've lost track of the number of times
I've been killed, so go ahead.
Do your worst.

**TIME-KEEPER 3:** You and your bravado
are no threat to us, Variant.

**SYLVIE:** Oh, no, I don't think you believe that.
I think...

[*Sylvie steps forward, but Ravonna uses the Time-Twister to bring her back.*]

**SYLVIE:** I think you're scared.

**TIME-KEEPER 1:** No, Variant. You're nothing
but a cosmic disappointment.
Delete them.

**SYLVIE:** No, I'm not done with you yet.

[*Sylvie steps forward again, but Ravonna again uses the Time-Twister to try to pull her back, and Sylvie shifts, but it doesn't work as it did before. Ravonna looks confused. The elevator doors open and Hunter B-15 steps out. She holds up a Time-Twister, and the collars unlock from Sylvie and Loki, freeing them.*]

**HUNTER B-15:** For all time. Always.

[*Hunter B-15 tosses a sword to Sylvie. The two guards by the doors turn to fight Hunter B-15. Loki and Sylvie move back-to-back. The guards take down Hunter B-15.*]

**RAVONNA:** Protect the Time-Keepers!

[*The four guards face Loki and Sylvie. They begin to fight.*]

**LOKI:** A little help here?

**SYLVIE:** Here.

[*Sylvie throws Loki the sword. They continue fighting.*]

**SYLVIE:** Come on.

[*Sylvie takes down one guard and stabs the other. She faces Ravonna, who picks up a pruning stick.*]

**RAVONNA:** This time I finish the job.

[*They fight. Sylvie knocks Ravonna down. Loki finishes the other two guards. Loki hands the sword back to Sylvie.*]

**TIME-KEEPER 1:** You're a child
of the Time-Keepers too, Sylvie.
We can talk.

**SYLVIE:** Oh, yeah?

[*Sylvie throws her sword, severing the head of Time-Keeper 1. The other two Time-Keepers laugh. The severed head falls down the dais, sparks coming from its neck. Sylvie lifts a pruning stick and starts up the dais toward the other two.*]

**LOKI:** Wait.

[*There's a powering-down sound and the other two Time-Keepers go limp. Sylvie runs down the dais for the severed head.*]

**LOKI:** Don't.

[*Sylvie picks up the head, examining the exposed electronics of an android.*]

**SYLVIE:** Fake.
Mindless androids.

**LOKI:** It never stops.

[*Loki looks around, breathing deeply.*]

**LOKI:** Then who created the TVA?

**SYLVIE:** I thought this was it.

[*Sylvie throws the head aside. Loki turns away, but something occurs to him, and he turns back.*]

**LOKI:** Sylvie...

**SYLVIE:** Not another pep talk, please.

**LOKI:** No, I have to tell you something.
We will figure this out.

**SYLVIE:** How do you know that?

**LOKI:** Because, uh...
Well, back on Lamentis...
This is new for me. Um...

**SYLVIE:** What?

[*Loki hesitates and touches her shoulders.*]

**SYLVIE:** What is it?

[*Loki inhales, about to speak, but a light appears in his chest and spreads - he's pruned, disappearing, revealing Ravonna behind him with the pruning stick. Ravonna lunges for Sylvie, but Sylvie takes the pruning stick and holds it over her.*]

**RAVONNA:** Do it.

**SYLVIE:** No.
You're gonna tell me everything.

[*If You Love Me (Really Love Me) by Brenda Lee begins playing. Credits.*]

## Credits

[*Lyrics:*]

If the sun

Should tumble from the sky

If the sea

Should suddenly run dry

If you love me

Really love me

Let it happen

I won't care

If it seems

That everything is lost

I will smile

And never count the cost

If you love me

Really love me

Let it happen

Darling, I

Won't care

Shall I catch a shooting star?

Shall I bring it where you are?

If you want me to, I will

You can set me any task

I'll do anything you ask

If you'll only say you love me still

When at last

Our life on earth is through

I will share

Eternity with you

If you love me

Really love me

Let it happen

I won't care

I you love me

Really love me

Let it happen

Darling, I...

## Mid-credits

[*Loki opens his eyes with a gasp. He breathes heavily.*]

**LOKI:** Is this Hel?
Am I dead?

**VOICE:** Not yet.

[*Loki looks around and starts to sit up.*]

**VOICE:** But you will be unless you come with us.

[*Before him stand Boastful Loki, Classic Loki, and Kid Loki, who is holding an alligator which also has Loki horns. Behind them is a destroyed city, including a dilapidated Avengers Tower.*]

[*End credits*]