Moon Knight Episode 1 Ending Explained: Harrow’s Judgment? Who Is Marc? The Goddess Ammit?
Moon Knight the new and long-awaited Disney Plus series, has just hit the screen with its first chapter, which has Oscar Isaac in the main role, in a new piece of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The six-episode first season which serves as the reveal of the hero’s origin story, finally premiered on Wednesday with a surprising first chapter that delivers refreshing new background on the fictional hero, who as previously shown in the advances, he spends complicated moments to accept his identity.
The fiction tells the story of Steven Grant (Oscar Isaac) who leads a quiet life. However, his life lacks emotion. He works in a museum gift shop and his classmates seem to disrespect him, his love life does not exist and he seems to be a man dissatisfied with his life. But Steve hides a secret. Steve appears to have an aggressive sleep disorder, causing him to take precautions in his home, such as tying himself to the bed and sealing the doors. Without imagining that the situations in which they get involved while he is not conscious would increase, putting his integrity and that of those around them at risk. In a desperate act to finally be able to control his life, Steve creates a plan to not sleep and see the effects. Without knowing what will happen.
Moon Knight Episode 1 Recap
On Disney+ in the morning of March 30, Moon Knight debuted in streaming with the episode 1. The new series of the Marvel Cinematic Universe then presented itself to the general public, introducing a character well known to comic fans but unreleased in live action format. To give the face to, or rather to, our protagonist is Oscar Isaac, struggling with a multiple personality. But what happens in the first episode of Moon Knight? Let’s try to analyze the plot together and outline a summary of this character’s debut in the MCU. The title of this episode is the single-fin fish; A cumbersome presence; Amnesia and its synopsis reads:
Moon Knight Episode 1 Ending Explained
Oscar Isaac ‘s character wakes up in a place far from the city and begins to hear voices giving him instructions and arguing with him. While passing through the place, he meets Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke), the leader of a community that has supernatural abilities.
Arthur reveals that he answers to the sleeping Egyptian goddess Ammit, who sought to bring peace on earth and believes that it is necessary to hold people accountable for their future negative actions, in addition to those they have already committed, because those who do not pass the test must be executed.
After an encounter with Arthur, Steve tells him what his name is, since the leader insisted that he was a mercenary named Marc, demanding that he hand over the golden scarab he has in his possession, despite his attempts to return the object, the voices in his head begin to dominate him creating a situation that puts Steve’s life at risk. After fleeing from the locals who were after him, Steve wakes up in his home and finds evidence that everything is more complex than it already is. He finds a cell phone and receives calls from a woman named Layla who reprimands him for giving her a false name “Why do you call yourself Steven?” and “Why do you speak with a British accent?”
Again the darkness takes over his apartment and he flees looking for help in the safest place he knows, the museum where he works. But again nothing is as she expected and she meets Arthur, who even has allies in the museum. Arthur manages to test Steven’s soul, “There is chaos in you“, Arthur warns him and lets Steven escape.
We Know Steven Grant
We then meet Steven Grant, an employee at a London Museum gift shop. The man immediately presents himself with an atypical personality and with clear problems related to sleep. In fact, when he wakes up he has to break the improvised restrictions that keep him tied to the bed, go past a circle of sand and remove some tape from the front door of the house. He then begins his day, starting with his goldfish with one fin, Gus who he lovingly feeds, while he leaves a voicemail message for his mother.
As always Steven arrives late for work and gets lost talking about the Egyptian gods with a little girl on a trip to the museum. However Donna, his boss, is always there to scold him by mistaking his name and putting it back in his place. Shortly thereafter, it is revealed that Steven has a date with a colleague tomorrow night, which he doesn’t remember arranging. Above all he is a vegan, how could it have ever occurred to him to book a steakhouse?
Back home, Steven listens to a meditation app, trying to stay awake with some puzzles and some light reading on Egyptology and the Enneade. Suddenly, however Steven wakes up outdoors and far from home: in fact he is in the Alps, with a broken jaw. Unsure how he got here, he looks around until a voice rings out of nowhere telling him to go back to sleep and “give the body to Marc“.
Harrow’s Judgment?
Steven finds a finely carved golden beetle in his pockets. Before he can make sense of what is happening, a group of gunmen start chasing him to a nearby village. Here he comes across a kind of sect, which venerates a mysterious man, who had already appeared at the beginning of the episode, while he was pouring pieces of glass into his shoes.
The man, Arthur Harrow, exclaims that their mission is to make the Earth as similar to heaven as possible. In fact, he is looking for volunteers to offer their souls for judgment, to serve their goddess Ammit before she wakes up. Harrow begins judging people, placing his crocodile stick in their palm as his scales tattoo moves. The first believer is considered a good man by the scales, while the second is unworthy and will not live long enough to see the world that the group will create. This is because he dies immediately after the judgment.
Harrow sees Steven in the crowd and wants the “mercenary ” to return the beetle. Steven is shocked because he knows he is not a mercenary, but a mere employee of a London Museum. However, his body acts on its own, and he doesn’t want to give Harrow the beetle. With a clever ruse devised by Marvel Studios to include the series in its catalog despite the violent content, Steven passes out and when he wakes up at his feet he finds dead bodies and notices that his fists are bloody. After that he passes out again, while he is fleeing in a van into the Alps. Again he finds himself surrounded by dead people.
Who Is Marc?
Steven, at the worst moment, wakes up in bed and notices how the restraints are still tied to his foot and the duct tape on his door and the circle of sand around his bed are nicked. Maybe it was just a dream! Or maybe not? Why does his fish Gus now have two fins again? The time has come for the date, but Steven’s colleague doesn’t show up. So the man calls her, but she replies not to contact her again after he has left her waiting for him for hours in the steakhouse. Today is not Friday as Steven thought: it is Sunday.
Dejected and confused, Steven discovers scratches on the floor and a loose panel on the ceiling, where he finds a key and a cell phone, both objects that do not belong to him. Turning on his cell phone, Steven discovers over 50 missed calls from a woman named Layla. Shortly after he receives an incoming call from Layla who is amazed that he is alive: she has been writing to him and has been calling him for months. Steven explains that he just found this phone in his apartment. The girl calls him Marc during their call, and Steven has no idea why.
The Goddess Ammit
A voice suddenly tells Steven that he must stop or else, he will get into trouble. Speaking seems to be her reflection of him in the bathroom mirror, and just then, the lights in his apartment start flickering and things start flying around the room. Steven runs out of his apartment and down the hall, where he sees a ghostly figure with a large beak approaching him menacingly in the elevator. Startled, Steven wakes up with a start on a crowded bus. Dazed, he sees the creature on the street again, and sees Harrow on the bus.
Arriving at the museum, Steven meets Harrow, who wants to return the scarab to its true owner: the Egyptian deity Ammit. The man explains to the protagonist that the goddess judges the wicked and sinners, because she examines their entire lives, from the past to the future. She knows what they have done and what they will do, and his goal is to rid the world of evil. She however she was betrayed by the other gods, and by her own “avatar” of her. So Harrow judges Steven, but the scales on his forearm don’t stop, revealing that chaos lives inside the man.
Marc Takes Control
While finishing his shift at the museum, Steven runs into a violent jackal who wants to kill him. Over the museum’s speakers, Harrow asks Steven to give up the beetle or it will be torn apart. As he seeks refuge in the men’s room, with the jackal ready to break down the door, his reflection begs to give him control, in order to save them. Steven doesn’t believe this is real, but his reflected counterpart assures him it’s the other way around. So Steven gives up his body of him, which is suddenly wrapped in a strange robe: Marc has taken control of the situation and massacres the monstrous creature.
