‘Moon Knight’ Episode 3 Recap: Oscar Isaac Takes An Egyptian Fling

Moon Knight shifted the action to Egypt on Wednesday, when episode 3 of the Surprise Cinematic Universe sequence landed on Disney Plus. Because the costumed avatar of the moon factual Khonshu, Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) hunts cult leader Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) and his goons as they are making an strive to free trapped goddess Ammit and boom her lethal judgment to the arena.

Marc teamed up alongside with his estranged wife, Layla El-Faouly (May perchance presumably presumably well Calamawy), and has been negotiating alongside with his diverse personality, meek Egyptian mythology nerd Steven Grant. Steven is now not truly moderately the action hero Marc is, but restful managed to manifest a dapper costumed persona — the suited Mr. Knight.

It is time to don our SPOILER suits as Marc, Steven and Layla hasten down former Khonshu avatar Harrow. This display camouflage takes role after the events of Avengers: Endgame.

Khonshu imprisoned

In a visually magnificent moment, the episode ends with Khonshu the use of Steven to temporarily revert the evening sky to its direct from 2,000 years previously. It enables Layla to triangulate the dwelling of Ammit’s tomb, but this act of hubris causes the gods to lure Khonshu in an ushabti (an former Egyptian figurine) at some stage in the Gargantuan Pyramid of Giza — leaving Marc powerless.

Harrow arrives to gloat over his former master’s imprisoned originate, confessing that his most interesting sin became once playing “dealing out misfortune” right by his tenure because the moon god’s avatar. This could also very properly be why he walks around with damaged glass in his sandals — as a moderately icky originate of penance — which explains in the good thing about his quest to free Ammit.

“I will attain what that you would be capable of now not,” says Harrow. “Then when or now not it’s accomplished, I want you to be conscious one ingredient: Your torment compelled me. I owe my victory to you.”

Assembly the gods

Sooner than his evening sky-time race trick, Khonshu causes a lunar eclipse to field off a meeting with the assorted gods at some stage in the pyramid. Horus, Isis, Osiris, Defnut and Hator are represented by their avatars, they in most cases’re joined by Harrow when Khonshu calls out his strive and unleash Ammit.

We be taught that Khonshu became once banished for with regards to exposing the gods to humanity — presumably by some dramatic, high-profile act. Khonshu accuses his fellow gods of forsaking humanity to live in the “opulence of the overvoid,” but the gods argue that they decided to work handiest by their avatars as a consequence of humanity abandoned them. This likely refers again to the transfer away from former Egyptian faith as Christianity and diverse belief programs took take cling of.

“We decided blueprint benefit we did now not would like to meddle in the affairs of man,” Osiris says by his avatar. 

The meeting ends up being a total catastrophe, after Harrow convinces the gods that Khonshu is making the most of Marc’s mental illness (dissociative identity dysfunction) and can now not be trusted.

Heart of the evening Man

Layla and Marc’s quest takes them to the moderately worship art collector (and doable thief) Anton Mogart (played by the leisurely Gaspard Ulliel, who sadly died in a ski accident in January).

In the comics, Mogart is an art thief who goes by the title Heart of the evening Man as a result of all his thefts taking role in the tiresome of night. Which looks a bit OCD and a factual blueprint for authorities to get him, but I’m incessantly on board with a solid villain theme and that’s an nice one. He moreover has a huge chilly title.

It would not seem take care of his MCU counterpart became once residing precisely that originate of life, but could even secure previously. We could also by no blueprint know, because it looks take care of he’s killed by one of Moon Knight’s lethal crescent darts and Surprise is now not going to recast following Ulliel’s passing. Now not decrease than the personality looked interesting and obtained desirous a few visually magnificent action sequence.

One more personality?

Marc has an account knife fight with three guys, showing off his expertise without the suit. He’s interrupted by a merciful Steven, who permits them to flow and forces Marc to bustle them down later. (Steven moreover interrupts in the fight with Mogart’s goons.)

Marc is knocked unconscious after Steven distracts him right by the second battle of words, and wakes up to acquire all but one of many fellows fatally stabbed. Marc wasn’t the one doing the stabbing, and it undoubtedly wasn’t Steven.

“Then who became once it?” Marc asks.

It is conceivable a third, unseen personality did the deed. In the comics, one of Marc’s most prominent personalities is cab driver Jake Lockley, whose specialty is gathering knowledge on the streets. 

Observations, Easter eggs and WTF questions

• Oscar Isaac has been a joy to gaze on this display camouflage, but is terribly relaxing in the moments when Khonshu speaks straight by him in the viewers with the assorted gods.
• This episode firmly establishes Steven because the brains of the operation and Marc because the brawn.
• The Gargantuan Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and greatest of the pyramids situated shut to the Egyptian capital Cairo. It is moreover the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Oldschool World, and the handiest one restful intact.
• The gods’ resolution to take cling of out of humanity’s affairs mirrors the resolution of the Eternals. I assume or now not it is a in style incidence in the MCU. I ponder what they thought of Thanos?
• What is going to happen to the gods if Ammit is freed?
• It goes to correct be the presence of Oscar Isaac, but the adore hunt feels a bit take care of the one viewed in Principal individual Wars: The Upward thrust of Skywalker and kinda slows the display camouflage down.
• Layla and Mogart’s last uncover became once in Madripoor, a lawless island in the Indonesian archipelago. It has been a fixture in the comics for years, and made its MCU debut in The Falcon and the Iciness Soldier last yr.
• It is taking a gape an increasing number of likely that Layla is the MCU model of Marlene Alraune, Marc’s wife and sometime accomplice in Moon Knight’s vigilante activities. Love Marlene, Layla’s father became once murdered and Harrow implies that Marc became once inviting.

Be a part of us for more Easter eggs and observations April 20, when episode 4 of Moon Knight hits Disney Plus.

CNET’s Richard Knightwell contributed to this represent.

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