The season finale of Moon Knight sees Arthur Harrow succeed in resurrecting Ammit to pass judgment on the world leaving Layla and Marc to figure out a way to stop them.
Recap
At the tomb of Alexander, Harrow retrieves Ammit’s Ushabti and leaves Marc’s body behind to rot. Layla manages to subdue one of the guards and sneaks onto Harrow’s party. They come across a military barricade where they are stopped.
Harrow uses his staff to pass judgment, killing all but one of the guards, with the guard joining his movement. Layla wants to use this moment to take Harrow out, but Taweret speaks to her through the dead around her asking her to stop.
She tells Layla to free Khonshu so that along with Marc, and Layla serving as Taweret’s avatar, they can stop Ammit once and for all. Harrow storms the Chamber of the Gods with his disciples and Layla slips away to look for Khonsu’s ushabti.
Harrow is successful in fighting off the other avatars and then frees Ammit. Ammit says that Harrow is the perfect person to carry out her mission because his scales are unbalanced, the very unbalance she seeks to remove from the world.
Layla frees Khonshu but refuses to serve as his avatar. She says that they have to work together without her having to enslave herself. Khonshu confronts Ammit and tries to hold her back from wreaking havoc on the Earth.
In the afterlife, Marc is surrounded by the peace he always wanted, but he’s not satisfied. He tells Taweret that he has to go back for Steven because life would be incomplete without him. He goes back to Duat and bares his feelings to a frozen Steven before freezing himself.
This expression of emotion seemed to please Osiris as he opens his gate and allows Marc and Steven to return to the mortal realm. Khonshu senses his presence again and immediately leaves his fight with Ammit to go see him.
Back at the chamber, Harrow is bringing down the place to harm Layla, but she accepts to be Taweret’s avatar temporarily and this saves her. Steven and Marc agree with Khonshu that he will release them after they defeat Ammit and he agrees.
Ammit and Harrow begin passing judgement on all the people in Cairo but Marc arrives there just in time to interrupt them. Marc and Steven take the fight to Harrow while Khonshu battles with Ammit. There is pandemonium all over the city.
Just as Harrow seems to get the better of the Moon Knight, Layla arrives and the two heroes fight back against Ammit’s disciple. Ammit tells Khonsu that he is better off joining forces with her but he disagrees.
There’s one moment where it all seems lost, but Marc blacks out and the next minute he’s got Harrow in his arms all beaten up while everyone around him has also been taken down. Layla asks him what just happened but he and Steven have no idea.
They take Harrow to the chamber and recite a spell that will trap Ammit a mortal being and nullify her power with Harrow serving as the vessel. Once that is done, Khonshu tells Marc to finish things once and for all, but he says that this is one time he will not follow orders.
He tells Khonshu to release them and the god begrudgingly agrees and disappears into the night sky. When Marc wakes up the next morning, he’s back in Steven’s apartment and the two of them are happy that things might finally get back to normal.
In a post-credits scene, Harrow is shown to be in a mental facility and he’s taken outside by a mysterious individual who shoves him into a limo. Inside sits Khonshu, telling him that Steven and Marc could not get rid of him that easily.
He then reveals his accomplice to be one Jake Lockley, yet another personality sitting inside the twisted mind of Marc Spector. Jake then shoots Harrow in the chest, carrying out Khonshu’s wish to end it once and for all.
Review
- This was a brilliant way to end the season. It involved high stakes, almighty battles and a satisfying conclusion in what was the shortest season finale of an MCU series so far.
- The soundtrack and score played a huge part in that. The orchestral music gloriously built up the intensity of the battles between gods and avatars.
- The fight sequence involving Layla, the Moon Knight and Harrow was wonderfully choreographed. The transitions were seamless and the moves were eye-catching.
- The eventual reveal of the Jake Lockley character was bound to happen sooner or later and was handled spectacularly, in a moment that is sure to pop the fans of the superhero.
Rating: 4.5/5
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