Another Wednesday has arrived, and this week, we are seeing the third installment of Loki, which was thrown in the early hours of the morning. Without spoiling anything, episode 3 has a rhythm different from the previous ones, and it may seem slower and less exciting than it came before. But that’s not the case. Episode 3 offers a couple of massive revelations, including a key element of the plot that is easy to lose. Before we cavated in it, we will remind you to see episode 3, since many Loki spoilers are followed.
The episode begins with a very unusual scene that we immediately consider as fish. Hunter C-20 (Sasha Lane) and Lady Loki / Sylvie (Sophia di Martino) sit at a restaurant that talks about menus and freezes cerebral. Everything is a trick in the mind of the C-20, since Sylvie is digging to get information: we will call Lady Loki Sylvie because that is what it is now and because it makes everything less confusing.
The events in the C-20 mind occurred only minutes before the TVA attacked Sylvie’s base. This is how Sylvie obtained her information about her tva. It simply seemed strange that Sylvie came up with such an elaborate scheme to extract data from an operating TVA.
It is much later in the episode that Loki and Sylvie argue the capacity of the latter to access the minds of other people and control them. That’s when Sylvie drops the bomb in Loki, telling her that she takes advantage of someone’s memories if she is resisting her magic. That was the case of C-20, and what we saw at the beginning of the episode is based on the memories of the C-20 of another life.
“That young soldier of the TVA, his mind was ruined, everything clouds,” Sylvie tells Loki, adding her, “he had to pull a memory of hundreds of years before, before [the hunter] even fought for them” .
The revelation that the C-20 was a human on earth before joining the Tva stunned Loki, who learned in the TVA that everyone worked there were created by those in charge. That is the kind of information that will make someone asks everything they have learned from the TVA. And Loki left him clear in the episode he thinks you can not beat the TVA, so he does not make sense to try.
But Sylvie is not over with great revelations. She tells him that all TVA employees are variants. Some of Loki’s first theories suggested that all TVA staff represents the old variants that have been hired to work in the TVA, well, it is more likely. This explains why Casey (Eugene Lamb) has no memory of fish, despite working in the largest and most powerful organization in the universe. Or why Mobius (Owen Wilson) loves ski jets for no apparent reason.
But the most impressive revelation is that the C-20 was a human on earth hundreds of years before joining the TVA. This is the kind of detail of the plot that may not be realized immediately how important it is for history.
As we saw in those memories that Sylvie recreated, Hunter C-20 lived in what seems to be modern days. From the look of that restaurant, the clothes, the menu, the moment of freezing the brain, we learn that he has been on earth relatively close to the dawn of the Avengers.
Mobius said in the first episode Loki, that time passes differently from the TVA. That explains how C-20 has been working there for hundreds of years, even though it should be contemporary with the Avengers.
Mobius’s obsession with the ski-jets and the ’90 suggest that it could be the time when he became a variant. If he has been working since then for TVA, then he must have served for hundreds of years.
This brings us to the speculation of yesterday that the city of TVA could be located in the quantum field. That is the place where Scott Lang spent five hours while everyone aged for five years. But otherwise it can be true too. He can experience hundreds of years in the quantum field, but all would be a few years in regular time of the earth.
