This week on Loki, we went again in time. All the way in which again to the nineteenth century, in reality. Whereas the primary two episodes of Season 2 have primarily handled the direct fallout from the Season 1 finale, this episode truly strikes the story ahead in a significant method. It simply so occurs that to be able to transfer ahead, they’d to return. Actually makes you suppose.

Warning: This text accommodates many detailed spoilers for the third episode of Loki Season 2.

This week, Loki swapped out the drab, brutalist hallways of the Time Variance Authority for the retro charms of 1800s Chicago. Simply as importantly, nonetheless, is that we lastly get to examine in with Renslayer, making her first look of the season within the opening scene. She’s in Chicago in 1868 with Ms. Minutes, who tells her she’s alleged to ship a package deal to a sure home.

That package deal is the TVA discipline guide, and the home is the house of a kid who will develop as much as grow to be the person known as Victor Well timed–a model of He Who Stays, who allegedly set this plan in movement earlier than Sylvie killed him final season. Then, Renslayer strikes forward to 1893, and it is not lengthy earlier than Loki and Mobius present up in pursuit.

Issues are busy in Chicago as a result of the World’s Honest is on the town. In our world, this was the World’s Honest that everybody thinks of when that time period is used–the World Columbian Expo, because it was truly known as, was one of many largest cultural occasions the New World had ever seen.

Victor Well timed (performed as soon as extra by Jonatan Majors) is a participant within the honest, naturally. He is presenting to an viewers what appears to be like and feels like a small model of the Temporal Loom that is breaking down at TVA headquarters, and he sells it as a time-powered power generator. A bidding struggle begins within the viewers after the presentation, and Mr. Well timed sells the machine for $1,000. However this Loom is only a trick–Well timed is swindling these guys, they usually get fairly mad as soon as they notice it.

And so we find yourself with a multi-pronged chase, with Renslayer, Loki and Mobius, and a few 1800s crime guys all making an attempt to get to Victor Well timed. And, after all, Sylvie additionally reveals up as a result of she needs a bit of any variant of He Who Stays. After some shenanigans on a reasonably cool trying previous ferris wheel, to not point out a relatively giant distraction by Miss Minutes, Well timed finally ends up with Renslayer and Miss Minutes at his lab in Wisconsin. Miss Minutes will get a bit unhinged–she clearly had a factor for He Who Stays, and is having a meltdown over assembly this new variant of him. So Renslayer shuts her down.

After which Loki and Mobius lastly catch up, with Sylvie shut behind. Sylvie decides to spare Well timed since he hasn’t executed any of the dangerous stuff but, after which she sends Renslayer to the top of time so she will see that complete mess along with her personal eyes. And now Loki has to clarify all this insanity to Victor.

This episode is loads to soak up, and we have got a number of actually attention-grabbing Easter eggs and hints about what is going on on right here whereas we wait to see what occurs subsequent. Let’s dive in.