Moon Knight Episode 2 kicks off with Grant waking up with a jolt after the last night of smackdown with the Jackal. He then heads off to the museum and finds that the areas affected by the mayhem the previous night are being sealed off. Grant’s colleague and museum security guard J.B. brief him on what’s going on. Grant then asks him to go to the surveillance room and check the footage of the last night. Unexpectedly, Grant fails to see or show any footage that includes the jackal or his Moon Knight suit. It’s only him in the footage.
That very footage leads him to be sacked by the management later on. Grant decides to do something about this inexplicable turn of events that are affecting his life. He had previously found a couple of unexplainable things in his home, and so he decides to expand on it and search for the locker room that might help explain who this Marc guy is and what is wrong with himself.
Moon Knight Episode 2 Recap — Searching For Marc
Episode 2 sees Steven in search of things that may explain his altered identity of Marc. He does manage to go to the bank with the locker room is and find a couple of shocking things. This revelatory locker contains a bed, a bag full of cash, and a passport with the name Marc Spector on it. That’s when the mark appears in the reflection and asks Steven grant to stop this endeavor. Steve wants nothing to do with Marc. Exasperated, Steven runs off with a bag of cash to go to the authority and tell them everything about it. His idea is to complete it so that they can lock him up so he can do no harm to others and also take medicines that prevent Marc from taking over.
However, Khonshu appears and freaks Steven out. Getting out of the museum, he stumbled upon Layla, who’s tracked him. Layla is incomplete befuddlement as to why Marc is acting like that. She can’t understand why he’s putting up an act with her in private. Meanwhile, Steven is in shock himself upon finding out that Layla is Marc’s wife. He later also learns that Layla is there to get him to sign the divorce papers. Apparently, that’s what Marc had wished, to keep Layla out of harm’s way. However, Steven doesn’t know that and tells her he’d never divorce her. While Layla is trying her best to contend with this puzzle that Marc has presented her with, Marc tells Steven not to involve her in any of this.
Was Arthur Harrow A Moon Knight?
Steven soon realizes that and tries to hide the scarab from her. However, it’s too late, as she finds it, and is upset that he’s taken the thing they’d been looking for together to himself. Steven tries to explain to her that he’s not Marc when two cops show up. Layla hides off on the roof with the scarab as the two cops arrest Steven for a fake passport. However, he later learns that the two are not cops but Harrow’s men. They take him to Harrow’s place, where the cult leader gives Steven a tour. He also offers him some exposition on Khonshu and himself. As Khonshu keeps telling Steven to kill Harrow, the cult leader tells him not to worry about the god.
He tells him that Khonshu can’t do much in his non-corporeal form. Also that he used to be an avatar of Khonshu in the past himself. He was the first “fist of vengeance,” Harrow tells Grant. But now, he worships Ammit, who doesn’t wait until the crime has happened or the hurt has been inflicted, unlike Khonshu. However, Steven doesn’t really buy into Ammit’s thought-crime approach to diminish evil from the world. Harrow’s patience runs out as he summons a jackal from the nether world as Steven and Layla, who’s also come there, try to flee.
Fighting Jackal & Heading To Egypt
Steven fights Marc and doesn’t want to hand over control. He tries to summon the suit himself, managing to conjure up an actual two-piece, dapper suit. He has some sort of powers in this form, too but fails to defeat Jackal. Finally letting Marc take over, Grant goes backstage inside his own mind. Marc summons the suit, becomes Moon Knight, and kills the jackal. The episode ends with Harrow coming in possession of the scarab, which Marc dropped in the scuffle previously. Marc and Steven communicate with each other, and the latter asks him to hand over the control.
Marc tells him he will once he has fulfilled his servitude to Khonshu. Meanwhile, Khonshu appears and reminds Marc how he said he’ll be in control. Marc tells him he’ll take care of the mess. He also reminds god to let him go after their deal is over. It seems Khonshu isn’t really all that keen on letting his vessel go. In the ending of Moon Knight Episode 2, Marc arrives in Egypt at the pyramids, ready to reach Ammit’s tomb before Harrow can, who now has the upper hand because of the scarab, which acts as a compass pointing towards the tomb.
Moon Knight Episode 2 Review
The sophomore outing of Marvel’s Disney+ miniseries Moon Knight is a worthy successor to the premiere episode. We learn more about Marc and Steven’s personality scuffle and why Marc is an avatar of Khonshu. At the end of Episode 2, we learn that years prior to the current events in the story, Marc was on the verge of death. This is most likely on a mission involving the digging site in Egypt that the Episode alludes to early on. That’s when Khonshu likely saved Marc’s life, in place of which he made a deal that entailed him becoming the god’s avatar. We now know that Marc has made a deal wherein, after his servitude to Khonshu has been fulfilled, the deal will be done.
There are other revelations throughout the Episode that tells us about Marc’s past. Apparently, he was on an archaeological expedition with Layla, who he later on married. However, it’s most likely when he became Khonshu’s avatar when he got away from her and arrived in the UK. Marc doesn’t want Layla to get involved in the clash of the Egyptian gods. But alas, she already is, and we’re going to see more of her in the episodes that follow. We also might see Layla working alongside Steven as both are hieroglyphic aficionados, and we know for sure that it’s going to come in handy in the next episodes when they try to find Ammit’s tomb.
How Was The Second Episode Overall?
The direction, acting, humor, and action scenes — all managed to be impressive. However, that wish to see the fist-pummeling action that you’d expect from Marc remains to be quenched to the satisfaction. All in all, Episode 2 of Moon Knight is a great successor to the first Episode that develops and expands upon the things that made the premiere great. Otakukart rating for Moon Knight Episode 2 — 4/5.
Also Read: Who Is Disney+ Moon Knight Villain Arthur Harrow?
