Loki

That! That's what's been happening.

Wow. Time slipping.

The Temporal Loom is the heart of the TVA.

It's where raw time is refined into physical timeline.

The more those branches grow,

the closer this thing comes to melting down.

-So, how do we get in? -Only the person who designed it

can open it with a live scan of his temporal aura.

-He Who Remains. It's him.

-He Who Remains. -Because all science is fiction

-until it's fact! -(CROWD GASPS)

This is gonna sound strange. I've been pulled through time.

You'll stand by to prune yourself after this turns green.

Green means prune.

There you are!

The TVA is in danger. I was in the future and I saw you.

I need to know why.

We stay here, we're all gonna die.

They're gonna bomb every branch.

Set off what you can!

You asked me what I would do if one of his Variants turned up.

-I'd kill him. -You don't know me.

Get him out of here. It's power for you, isn't it?

/ know a really big secret.

It's gonna make you real angry.

He wasn't always alone.

There's something you have (o see.

What is this?

Just watch.

So, it's almost ready.

A utopia at the end of time.

For us.

For All Time.

Always.

Ravonna Renslayer, you are quite a marvel.

I will be proud to lead with you.

You made a difference in this war.

Thank you for being on my team.

The TVA awaits our commands.

Shall we go?

I'll catch up.

It's been a long road.

See you soon.

Always.

Hey, boss. Fancy a game of chess?

Not today. Pull up Protocol 42.

ls it time?

Erase her memories.

Are you sure?

Erase all of their memories.

If you say so.

I'm sorry.

I was here.

Yes.

I helped win?

You didn't just help. It was you who commanded the army.

So he built this little tower.

And while he sat on his throne...

I continued to do all the work to keep him there?

Well, something like that.

So, what are you proposing?

That we don't need him. Maybe we never did.

The TVA.

-(DISTANT ALARM SOUNDING) -(INDISTINCT ANNOUNCEMENT OVER PA)

A/ engineers o Temporal Core immediately.

Chronocenters 11, 29, 14 offline.

Are you...

You're...

Hello.

Just stop!

It's okay. It's all right.

What do... What do you want with me?

Come with us... and we'll show you.

That didn't sound as reassuring as you hoped it would.

Listen, Professor, I can only imagine

what Renslayer and Miss Minutes have been saying about us, but it's not true.

Unless they said something good.

Here's the deal. You have to trust us, and we don't have time.

I'm from Chicago, friend.

The schadeocracy capital of the world. I don't trust anyone.

Oh, it's a party. Hello.

The more the merrier. And you all want me.

Ms. Ravonna wants me.

The effervescent clock-lady monster thing wants me.

I should have some say.

I don't disagree.

Chronocenters 32, 81, 7 offline.

Is that... my Loom?

Yes. That's your Loom.

And you're the only one who can help us fix it.

Well, la-di-da.

So, Dox is alive?

Yes, she's in holding with the others.

We can't keep them there forever.

What do you want me to do?

You tell me.

Sit with me.

I know what we would have done in the past.

Pruned all of them. It's simple, clean, efficient.

-Is that what we do now? -I don't know.

But someone told me that the TVA has to change,

and it has to change now.

So we forgive and forget?

She's a general of the TVA, and she wants to protect it at all costs.

That was her mission.

And it can be again,

if you can convince her that this new version is worth protecting, too.

I don't think it'll change anything.

Don't be so sure of that.

Your words changed me.

Here. This way.

-So, I built all of this? -Well...

-Or I did? -Well...

Or I will, and I did?

-Almost. You, but not you. -This way.

Look, can't we just take a look?

-No. -Trust me, it's not that great,

and we don't have time.

Listen. You're here to solve one of many problems,

then you're free to wander around all you want.

-(MACHINE WHIRRING) -The Loom will still overload.

I don't understand.

We've adjusted everything we can adjust.

Victor...

This is Casey and O.B.

0.B.?

-Ouroboros. -(SQUEALS EXCITEDLY)

-Ouroboros? -Yeah, that's me.

You wrote the TVA Handbook.

Well... Yes, I did.

But I learned everything I know from a brilliant 19th-century inventor

named Victor Timely. If he'd had the resources,

he would have been bigger than Einstein.

What did you say your name was?

-Victor. -(GASPS)

So, if your work is based on his work, and his work is based on your work...

-Exactly. Which came first? -It's like a snake eating its own tail.

Mr. Ouroboros, would you inscribe my handbook?

Only if you inscribe mine.

I was living in your engineering descriptions.

Me? The way you explained the electric bypass system...

-The bypass. -Poetry, just poetry.

Guys, sorry to break up this bromance, but can we fix now and sign later?

Yeah, let's go.

O.B., how's it going?

Uh, we have a... We have a good plan.

-Okay. It's a pretty good plan.

-We have a plan. Casey? -Oh.

Here's a model I mocked up of the Loom. Forgive the shoddy and slapdash work.

It's not to scale. I only got one coat of paint on there.

I haven't been able to carve out figures to represent all of us.

The Loom.

I'm honestly embarrassed that Victor's here to see it.

You're being hard on yourself. It looks great.

All right. What's the plan?

It's simple.

One of us will have to take our Throughput Multiplier down the gangway.

Load the Throughput Multiplier into the launcher.

Then, they'll need to hit the green button...

Green button. -...and launch it towards the Loom.

It will dock with the Loom,

where it will scale the Loom's capacity to manage the backlog of branches

that was created when...

someone killed He Who Remains

and released all those branches and ruined my life.

Hang on. What's the connection between the Throughput Multiplier and the Loom?

The rings of the Loom aren't wide enough.

That's correct.

We need to make the rings bigger, so more branches can fit through.

But there's one gigantic problem.

-Big. What's that?

There is much, much more Temporal Radiation through here

than there was when you went out there, Mobius.

Yeah, so much more.

-More? Yes.

Okay, well, I mean, Loki's really gonna have to hoof it then, right?

Hang on a second. Why is it suddenly me having to hoof it?

Well, because it's your turn.

Says who? Why? Why is it suddenly me?

Well, because clearly this isn't me.

-Just because it isn't you, it isn't me. Listen, guys.

-It's got your shape. -It's got my shape?

-It's a suit. Could be anybody. -It's wearing a helmet.

-Doesn't look like anyone. -Don't think it's me.

Uh... It doesn't matter who it is. It's doable.

But this person just needs to be... super-fast.

Okay, great. So, what are we waiting for? Let's do this.

There's another problem. What's that?

This whole plan is only theoretical because our Throughput Multiplier

-does not yet work. Why?

It doesn't work. -Wait. Let me guess.

The Loom's temporal decay outpaces

your Multiplier's throughput capabilities.

Every time, yeah. How did you know that?

Because I had the same problem with my Loom...

until I made this.

-It's a prototype. Still. -(DEVICE WHIRRING)

O.B., it'll work?

Integrating them, if that would even work, would take a long time.

Yeah, a long time.