Giant Scorpion Moses

“ The Downward Spiral expressed itself in darker magic 

as the Invisibles faced bacterial gods from a diseased twin universe. 

After trying out a Voudon ritual in 1993, 

I found myself facing down 

an immense scorpion creature 

that tried to teach me 

how to psychically assassinate people 

by destroying their “auras.” 

When the ritual was done, 

I switched on the TV to decompress 

and caught the last fifteen minutes of Howard the Duck, in which 

nightmarish extradimensional scorpion sorcerers 

attempted to clamber their way into eighties America.”

"You are about to witness The End of The Old World, 

and The Birth of The New.

I am now one of 

The DARK Overlords of The Universe.

Tonight the laser beam hit 

The Nexus of Sominus.

It lies beyond The Planets. 

It is a Region of Demons, 

to which we Dark Overlords were exiled eons ago.

Just as you were brought down here accidentally, 

tonight, the laser beam released me from that Region of Demons 

and pulled me down into that lab.

During the explosion 

I entered Jenning's body.

I have disguised My True Form, 

which would be considered 

hideous and revolting, here.

Howard, The Duck :

Lucky for the people eating…..

OR —

Extremely considerate.

In the Steve Gerber miniseries The Phantom Zone #1-4 (January–April 1982), it is revealed that the Zone not only has a breach through which other inmates had escaped, but that they were never heard from again. 

The imprisoned Superman and Quex-Ul use this method and travel through several dimensional “layers” seeking The Exit into The Physical Universe. They finally encounter a Kryptonian wizard named Thul-Kar, who tells them that he believed Jor-El’s prophecy of Krypton’s doom and entered the Phantom Zone through magic. 

Using the same breach, he discovered The Truth about the Phantom Zone : all its levels are manifestations of the consciousness of a sentient, malevolent entity called Aethyr, The Oversoul.

As explained by Thul-Kar, Aethyr itself came into being uncounted millennia ago when two spiral galaxies collided at an almost primordial stage after the physical universe’s creation. Countless worlds were simultaneously destroyed and the deaths of so many beings merged somehow to form a single, evil consciousness that called itself Aethyr The Oversoul. 

This supremely powerful entity enclosed itself into a dimension outside The Physical Universe within itself, forming The Phantom Zone.

The Zone itself is an interface between the Earth-One dimension (The Physical Universe) and Aethyr’s Mind, the outer layer (where zone criminals are housed) representing its ability for Abstract Thought; The Zone is basically Aethyr’s capacity to imagine other possibilities of existence, and is the outermost template of its consciousness. 

Only by entering Aethyr’s core realm can a zone prisoner escape back to the physical universe, but this process is dangerous since any being who tries risks being destroyed in numerous ways as well as by forever having their souls merged with Aethyr’s essence while within Aethyr’s core realm. This is because as you enter deeper into Aethyr’s consciousness, you no longer exist as an abstract entity and your existence becomes subject to Aethyr’s whims. 

When attacking Superman and Quex-Ul, Aethyr personified itself as an aggressive, purple-skinned dog’s head that breathed flames capable of destroying and absorbing the souls of those that it wishes to conquer. 

While Quex-Ul is killed by Aethyr in this fashion, Superman manages to make his way out of the Phantom Zone by avoiding those flames and flying directly through Aethyr’s skull and its mind, returning to Earth through a tear in the fabric of Aethyr’s mind and the physical universe, but not without encountering the horrific remains of all of the souls entrapped within Aethyr over the millennia.

Mister Mxyzptlk is later possessed by Aethyr. During the process while Myyzptlk is imprisoned on his own home dimension, Thul-Kar communicates with Mxyzptlk and offers him an escape in exchange for the merger. This merger, however, empties the Phantom Zone of its criminal inhabitants. As the Phantom Zone villains head to Earth to conquer it, Thul-Kar and Nam-Ek are re-absorbed into Aethyr. Superman awakes and sees that the Phantom Zone villains are wreaking havoc on Earth, causing destruction to the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. and demanding Superman come out and fight them. Superman battles the Phantom Zone villains in Washington D.C.. While fighting Faora Hu-Ul, he witnesses her disappearing as she is absorbed into Aethyr. Mister Mxyzpltk reveals that his strong personality has taken over Aethyr and he absorbs all the rest of the Phantom Zone inhabitants back into himself, determined to torture them endlessly and wreak havoc as he sees fit. Mxyzpltk-Aethyr leaves, intending to next take over the Fifth Dimension, and Superman is left to put out the fires in Washington and then rid Metropolis of the Kryptonite remains of Argo City.

What is This About?

“When you try to tell The Story – he breaks warp ten, starts shedding skin, he kidnaps The Captain and then he becomes One with The Universe, [he and Janeway] are salamanders, and have a baby – it sounds ridiculous.

What is this about? 

Before you can even start to tell The Story you have to find The Moral. What is the simplest point of this episode? 

Once you can say that in a sentence then that is what the episode is about. 

To me […] the whole warp ten [challenge] and salamanders and all of that frosting was about Paris trying to find some sort of salvation outside himself and ultimately realising that he had to find his own self worth from within. 

Here is somebody who thinks he's got to break warp ten and prove to Everybody, His Father and Himself that he can do this outside thing, but ultimately your happiness comes from within.”

“Some of the fans sort of questioned the science of it. Some of this anger was misplaced, I thought. 

A lot of the ire seemed to be caused by the fact that we stated no one had ever gone warp ten before, and people flooded us with letters saying, 'That's not true, in the original series they went warp twelve and warp thirteen.' 

We should have had a crawl before the episode explaining all this, but it really was a recalibration of warp speed.

It is not one that took with the audience. The fact that we were turning people into salamanders was offensive to a lot of people and just stupid to others."

Freak

“Mr. Jewell... 

DID you conspire

with David Dutchess 

or anybody else 

to plant a bomb in Centennial Park?”

“No.”

“Then how the FUCK did you know to be on the other side of that AT&T tower where you KNEW you'd be protected from the blast?

A bomb went off RIGHT where you were stationed.

CHAOS erupts.

BODIES hit the ground.

COPS go flying — 

Hell, I was ONE of them.

You come out without a GODDAMN scratch.

How does THAT happen, RICHARD?”

….What matters here is not whether all this was TRUE but that it was what a sufficient number of ground-level proud, ambitious, bottom-feeding and wounded FBI Agents firmly BELIEVED. 

This belief had extraordinary repercussions.

(Picard is in casual clothes, packing a case) 


TROI: 

So, where have you decided to go? 


PICARD: 

Hmm? What? Oh, er, France. 

Labarre. My home village. 


TROI: Really? 


PICARD: 

Yes. It's the first time in almost twenty years. 


TROI: 

Interesting. 


PICARD: 

Counsellor. 


TROI: 

I just find it interesting. 

Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the man who couldn't be pried out of his seat for a vacation for three years 
—

PICARD: 

It's Earth. It's Home. 

Do I need another reason? 


TROI: 

I don't know. 

What do you think? 


PICARD: 

Your help has been invaluable 

during my recovery, but, look, I'm better. 

The injuries are healing. 


TROI: 

Those you can see in The Mirror. 


PICARD: 

The nightmares have ended. 

All I need now is a little time to myself. 


TROI: 

I agree. In fact, I'm delighted you're going. 

It's just that the choice of where you're going could stand some scrutiny. 


PICARD: 

If you wish to believe that my going home 

is a direct result of being held captive by the Borg, 

be my guest. 


TROI: 

Is that what you believe? 


PICARD: 

I hate it when you do that. 


TROI: 

Captain, you do need time. 

You cannot achieve complete recovery so quickly. 

And it's perfectly normal, 

after what you've been through, to spend a great deal of time trying to find yourself again. 


PICARD: 

And what better place to find oneself 

than on the streets of one's home village. 


TROI: 

Interesting. 

Have a good trip, Captain. 


(She kisses his cheek and leaves him to his packing. He decides against some books, takes a final look around and walks out)

And then I realised, like I was shot — 

like I was shot with a diamond...

a diamond bullet right through my forehead. 

And I thought: 

My God, the genius of that. The genius! 

The will, to do that: perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. 

And then I realised, 

They were stronger than We, 

because They could stand it. 

These were not monsters. 

These were men, trained cadres — these men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who have children, who are filled with love — but they had the strength — the strength! — to do that. 

“Can I ask all you fellas a question?”

“Jesus. WHAT?”

“Do you have ANY kind of CASE against me? 

I mean EVIDENCE. 

Like, any traces of anything on my mama's Tupperware? 

Or did you find any bomb-making materials in her apartment? 

Did you find some - 

Hey, hey. Hey. Richard, we don't need to volunteer- 

I'm gonna say this 

if I'm gonna say anything :

I walk in here and I look at the circle decal on your windows there, and I'm thinking... 

“I... I used to think that federal law enforcement was just about the highest calling a person could aspire to.”

And I'm not sure I THINK that anymore, you know? 

Not after all THIS. 

I did My Job that night, 

and some people are alive because of that. 

Do you think that the next time some security guard sees a suspicious package, 

that he or she's gonna call it in? 

I doubt it. 

You know? 

'Cause they're gonna look at that and they're gonna think, 

"I don't wanna be another Richard Jewell... 

So I'm just gonna RUN." 

How's that make anybody any safer? 

Y'all can keep following me around some more, doing what you're doing, I can stand it, but — 

I just know that every second you spend on me is time that you're not spending on the real guy who did it, and it's like Watson said... 

What happens when he... 

What happens when he does it AGAIN? 

So, do you have ANYTHING you wanna charge me with? Can you? 

Well... 

I think it's time to go…..

Girl

See ... I've had a lot of people talking at me the last few days. 

Everyone just lining up to tell me how unimportant I am. 

And I've finally figured out why :

“And then I realised, like I was shot — like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead —

And I thought: 

“My God, the genius of that. The GENIUS! 

The WILL — to do that: perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, PURE. 

And then I realised, 

They were stronger than We, 

because THEY could stand it.”

“For the first time in a LONG time — 

I feel SORRY for MYSELF.

And there’s NOTHING worse than THAT.” 

— Power Girl

Are You in a Tight Spot?

YES.

Do I Feel Sorry for You…?

I DO •NOT•.

Why?

Because There’s People 

WAY Worse-off Than YOU.

Clark? You live in a perspective SO different from EVERYONE Else.

ANYONE Else.

I'm kinda in the same situation... 

I'm still getting used to it 

and I have to remind myself of it 

EVERY DAY....

But IF you haven't had THIS conversation with anyone....

Then NO ONE has seen this from Your Perspective.

NOBODY understands what you've been through, but you. 

And even YOU are still unpacking it.

Maybe NO one gets to 

Judge you on this.

Not even you.

" Superman can do anything. 

He's made a LIFE outside of The CAPE. 

As Clark Kent, he has a CAREER and a WIFE. 

ADOPTIVE PARENTS.

I met them twice. 

The first time when they thought 

I was their son's RELATIVE. 

The second time when 

they KNEW I WASN'T.

As NICE as those people were, 

Ma Kent actually got a little UPSET at me.

"I don't know WHO you really are, 

or WHERE you're really from --

-- but you deserve An Answer. 

And so does My Son. 

He may not SAY it, 

he may not SHOW it, 

but all he's ever wanted to be 

is NOT alone."

I know she didn't mean to make me feel like a CON ARTIST or a FRAUD, but I did. 

I kept my DISTANCE since then. 

And I promised myself it would be the last time I felt sorry for myself.

But damn, I can't tell you how many times I thanked the STARS I didn't take the name SUPERGIRL. 

It would've been a CONSTANT reminder that 

I'm NOT [related to Superman]  "

-- Power Girl

“Imagine You and Your Daughter are on a cruise ship. The Cruise Director’s job is to make sure Your Daughter is reasonably happy and entertained. There are scheduled activities, and if by chance she hurts herself, someone will be there to get her back on her feet. 

She knows most of the people on The Ship and everything is familiar. But all of the sudden, girls start •telling• each other The Ship is STUPID and BORING and it’s TIME TO GET OFF.

As you watch helplessly, she leaves behind everything that is safe and secure, gets into a life raft with people who have little in common with her except their age, and drifts away.

  Once in The Raft she may ask herself how she got there or why she even left in the first place, but when she looks around, she sees that The Ship is •impossibly• far away, the waves are TOO big, and there are a •limited• number of •supplies•; she quickly realises that Her SURVIVAL •depends• on bonding with the other girls in that life raft. But Your Daughter isn’t •stupid•. This realisation is quickly followed by another one : She’s TRAPPED.”

The Clockwork Doesn’t Care — But You DO

 NASTHALTHIA LUTHOR :

Ooh. Can we have a show trial before we put 

these traitors to death? Are you okay?

SUPER- LUTHOR :

Better than okay. 

I can see the entire electromagnetic spectrum... and those must be atoms, little clouds of possibility. 

Einstein couldn't connect the gravitational force to the other three... but if he could have seen this... 

It's so obvious. 

 NASTHALTHIA LUTHOR :

Uncle Lex? 

SUPER-LUTHOR :

The fundamental forces are yoked by Consciousness. 

Everything's connected. Everyone. 

And this is how he sees things 

all the time. 

Every day. 

 NASTHALTHIA LUTHOR :

I don't know if I should be worried or mortified. 

SUPER-LUTHOR :

It's a cruel joke —

The mechanistic clockwork of Reality,

hinging on a precious impossible Defiance of Entropy, on Life. 

And The Clockwork doesn't care. 

It's like... Like it's all just us, in here together. 

We're all we've got. 

 NASTHALTHIA LUTHOR :

You are embarrassing me beyond therapy. 

SUPERMAN : 

You'll have to forgive him, Nasthalthia. 

He just figured out How Everything Works.

The Farm

“After You Father's Murder, you were orphaned —

What Happened next?

…. I don't imagine The Answer is on those second-rate SHOES, Clarice.”

“I went to live with My Mother's cousin and her husband in Montana. 

They had A Ranch.”

“Was it a cattle ranch?”

“Sheep and horses.”

“How long did you live there?”

“Two months.”

“Why so briefly?”

“I ran away.”

“Why, Clarice?

Did The Rancher make you perform fellatio?

Did he sodomize you?”

“No. He was a very decent man.

Quid pro quo, Doctor.”

T.B.C

[Worf's quarters]

WORF: 

Enter. 


SERGEY: 

Are we disturbing you? 


WORF: 

No. No. I thought you were going to your quarters to sleep. 


HELENA: 

We just came by to tuck you in. 


WORF: 

Please. When I heard you were on the visitors' list, 

I was not sure I wanted you to come. 

I am glad you are here. 


HELENA: 

We had to come. 


SERGEY: 

Our boy was in Trouble. 

After we read your letter about the discommendation from the Klingons —

HELENA: 

We don't exactly understand it all. 


SERGEY: 

We don't have to. 

We know what kind of Man you are. 


HELENA: 

Whatever you did, we know it was for a good reason. 


WORF: 

I must bear my dishonour alone. 


SERGEY: 

That is Not True. 


HELENA: 

I'm sorry if this is too human of us but, whenever you are suffering, you must remember we are with you. 


SERGEY: 

And that we're proud of you, 

and that we love you. 


HELENA: 

You're Our Son.

[Chez Picard]

(Picard is making inroads into a bottle of the family produce when Robert comes in with flowers for the house) 
ROBERT: Careful. You're not used to drinking the real thing. This synthehol never leaves you out of control, is that so? 
PICARD: That's so. 
ROBERT: This will. (pours himself the last dregs) Now there is something I'd like to see. 
PICARD: What's that? 
ROBERT: The gallant Captain out of control. Mind if I ask you a question? What the devil happened to you up there? 
PICARD: Is this brotherly concern? 
ROBERT: No. Curiosity. What did they do to you? 
PICARD: You know what happened. 
ROBERT: Not precisely. I gather you were hurt. Humiliated. I always thought you needed a little humiliation. Or was it humility? Either would do. (Jean-Luc storms out of the house)

[Garden]

ROBERT: Why do you walk away? That isn't your style. 
PICARD: I'm tired of fighting with you, Robert. 
ROBERT: Tired? 
PICARD: That's right. 
ROBERT: Yes. Tired of the Enterprise now too? The great Captain Picard of Starfleet falls to Earth, ready to plunge into the water with Louis. That isn't the brother that I remember. Still, I suppose it must have seemed like the ideal situation, hmm? Local boy makes good. Returns home after twenty years to a hero's welcome. 
PICARD: I'm not a hero. 
ROBERT: Of course you are. Admit it. You'd never settle for less than that and you never will. 
PICARD: That's not true. 
ROBERT: Cancel the parade? In your favour? 


PICARD: 

No! I never sought that rubbish. 


ROBERT: 

Never sought? 

Never sought President of The School, Valedictorian, Athletic Hero 

with your arms raised in Victory..? 


PICARD: 

Valedictorian? 

Arms raised in victory? 

Were you so jealous? 


ROBERT: 

Yes, damn it. I was always so jealous, 

I had a right to be. 


PICARD: 

Right? 


ROBERT: 

I was always Your Brother,

 watching you receive the cheers, 

watching you break every rule 

Our Father made and get away with it. 


PICARD: 

Why didn't you break a few rules? 


ROBERT: 

Because I was The Elder Brother, 

The Responsible One. 

It was My Job to look after you. 


PICARD: 

Look after me? You? 

You were a bully. 


ROBERT: 

Sometimes. Maybe. 

Sometimes I even enjoyed bullying you. 

PICARD: 

All right. Try it now. 


ROBERT: 

Did you come back, Jean-Luc? 

Did you come back because you wanted me to look after you again? 


PICARD: 

Damn you! 


And he punches his brother, sending him flying over some barrels into the vineyard proper. 

There they fight in the muddy irrigation ditches, through the vines until they finally fall back laughing

PICARD: 

You were asking for it, you know.

 
ROBERT: 

Yes, but you needed it. 

You have been terribly hard on yourself. 


PICARD: 

You don't know, Robert. 

You don't know. 

They took everything I was. 

They used me to kill and to destroy, and I couldn't stop them. 

I should have been able to stop them! 

I tried. I tried so hard, 

but I wasn't strong enough —

I wasn't good enough. 

I should have been able to stop them. 

I should! I should! 


ROBERT: 

So — My Brother… 

is a Human being, after all. 

This is going to be with you a long time, Jean-Luc. A long time. 

You have to learn to live with it. 

You have a simple choice now : 

Live with it Below The Sea 

with Louis, or 

Above The Clouds 

with The Enterprise. 


PICARD: 

You know, I think you were right after all. 

I think I did come back 

so that you could help me. 


ROBERT: 

You know what? 

I still don't like you, Jean-Luc.

[Chez Picard]

(There's mud, and muddy boots, on the carpet, and drunken voices singing 'Aupres de ma blonde, qu'il fait bon, fait bon, fait bon' dum, dum, dum. Marie enters from outside) 


MARIE: 

What in The World?!

What happened here..???

ROBERT: 

Ah 
—

PICARD: 

It's entirely my fault, Marie. 


ROBERT: 

Yes, I fell down, 

then he fell and then….

PICARD: 

…we both fell down. 


ROBERT: 

We both fell down. 


PICARD: 

Together. 


ROBERT: 

We both fell down together. 


MARIE: 

Have you two been fighting?!

ROBERT: 

Fighting? 

No, certainly not. 


MARIE: 

Shame on you both. 

What would Your Father say 

if he saw you like this? 


PICARD: 

…..He'd probably send us both to bed 

without our supper. 


MARIE: 

Well, perhaps it's just as well you got it out of your systems. 


PICARD: 

Perhaps it was, Marie. Perhaps it was. 

I'll contact Louis and cancel the meeting with the Board of Governors. 

It's time that I was going. 


MARIE: 

Already, Jean-Luc? 


PICARD: 

The ship will be ready to leave orbit soon, and I belong on board. If I should ever doubt that again, I know where to come.

KNIVES

Yeah. Little bit of pain never hurt anybody. If you know what I mean. 

Also, I think knives are a good idea. 

Big, fuck-off shiny ones. 

Ones that look like they could skin a crocodile. 

Knives are good, because they don't make any noise, and the less noise they make, the more likely we are to use them. 

Shit 'em right up. 

Makes it look like we're serious. 

Guns for show, Knives for A Pro.

[being taken away by the TVA to be forcibly "reset"] 

Loki : 

You ridiculous bureaucrats

 will not dictate how My Story ends!

Ravonna Renslayer: 

It's not Your Story, Mr. Laufeyson. 

It never was.

Loki : 

You have no idea what I'm capable of!

Mobius M. Mobius : 

[stands up in the back] 

I... think I might. 

Have an idea of what he's capable of.

Ravonna Renslayer: 

Approach the bench.

Mobius M. Mobius : 

[does so; whispers] 

Hi.

Ravonna Renslayer: 

[whispering] 

If you're thinking what I think you are, 

it's a bad idea.

Mobius M. Mobius : 

Okay, I'm just chasing a hunch.

Ravonna Renslayer: 

Anything goes sideways, and it's on you.

Mobius M. Mobius: 

Okay.

[amiable]  

I feel like I'm always looking up to you. 

I like it. It's appropriate.

[speaking in Mobius' office] 

Loki : 

You don't know anything about me.

Mobius: 

Maybe I'd like to learn. 

I specialize in the pursuit of dangerous Variants.

Loki: 

Like myself?

Mobius: 

Mmm. No. 

Particularly dangerous Variants. 

You're just a little pussycat. 

I got a series of questions for you. 

You answer them honestly, 

and then maybe I can give you 

Something You Want. 

You wanna get out of here, right? 

Yeah, so we'll start there.

Should you return, what are you gonna do?

Loki : 

[firmly] 

Finish what I started.

Mobius: 

Which is?

Loki: 

Claim My Throne.

Mobius: 

You wanna be King?

Loki: 

I don't want to be, 

I was born to be.

Mobius: 

I know, but King of what exactly?

Loki: 

[scoffs] 

You wouldn't understand.

Mobius: 

Try me.

Loki: 

Midgard.

Mobius: 

AKA Earth. 

Alright, now you're 

The King of Midgard. 

Now What? 

Happily ever after?

Loki : 

Asgard, 

The Nine Realms.... 

Space?

Mobius: 

Space? Space is big. 

That'd be a nice little 

feather in your cap :

"Loki, The King of Space".

Loki: 

Mock me if you dare.

Mobius: 

No, I'm not.

[chuckles] 

 Honestly, I'm actually a fan. Yeah. 

And I guess I'm wondering 

Why does someone with so much range 

just wanna rule…?

Loki: 

…..I would've made it 

Easy for Them.

Mobius: 

People like Easy.

Mobius: 

You weren't Born to Be King, Loki. 

You were born to cause 

Pain and Suffering and Death. 

That's how it is, that's how it was, that's how it will be.

[shows the Avengers one final time] 

All so that others can achieve 

The Best Versions of Themselves.

[Mobius begins showing Loki the aftermath of the Battle of New York; Loki turns away in embarassment] 

Loki: 

[on recording] 

If it's all the same to you -- 

I'll have that drink now.

[Mobius offers Loki a soda] 

Loki: 

No. And I remember. I was there. 

Anything else?

Mobius: 

It's funny, for someone born to rule, 

you sure do lose a lot. 

You might even say it's in Your Nature.

Loki: 

You know, things didn't turn out so well 

for the last person who said that to me.

Mobius: 

Oh, yeah. Phil Coulson.

[the events of Loki stabbing Coulson in the back with Thor watching in despair are shown, followed by the Avengers coming together as a team] 

Mobius: 

Didn't the Avengers come together 

to literally avenge him by defeating you?

Loki: 

Little solace to A Dead Man.

[ He got better -- Couple of times, actually.... ]

Mobius: 

Do you enjoy hurting people? 

Making them feel small? 

Making them feel afraid?

Loki: 

Your Games don't frighten me.

Mobius: 

Making them feel little?

Loki: 

I know what I am.

Mobius: 

A Murderer?

Loki: 

A Liberator.

Mobius: 

Of eyeballs, maybe.

[sees the sequence where a smiling Loki carves out a man's eyeball] 

Mobius: 

Look at that smile. You are enjoying that. 

Did you enjoy hurting them?

Loki: 

I don't have to play This Game. 

I'm A God.

Mobius: 

Of what, again? 

Mischief, right?

Mobius: 

You're gonna start taking things more seriously.

[Mobius begins showing Loki footage of the future he hasn't experienced yet, beginning from "Thor: The Dark World"] 

Mobius: 

If you hadn't picked up the Tesseract, 

you would've been taken to a cell on Asgard.

[shows Loki meets with his adopted mother, Frigga] 

Frigga: 

Loki.

Loki: 

Hello, Mother. 

Have I made you proud?

Frigga: 

Please, don't make this worse.

Loki: 

What is this? 

This is nonsense, more tricks. 

This never even happened.

Mobius: 

Not to you, not yet.

 

Look, the TVA doesn't just know your whole past, 

we know your whole life, how it's all meant to be. 

Think of it as comforting.

Loki: 

This is absurd.

[Loki sees his final meeting with Frigga] 

Frigga: 

And am I not Your Mother?

Loki: 

You're not.

Frigga: 

Hmmm. Always so perceptive about everyone 

but yourself.

Mobius: 

And then the Dark Elves attack the palace, 

and you think you send them to Thor...

[sees Loki talking to Kurse] 

Loki: 

You might wanna take the stairs to the left.

Mobius: 

But instead, you send them...

[shows Frigga's death]

Frigga: 

I'll never tell!

[Frigga is killed] 

Loki: 

[outraged] 

Where do you have her? 

Where is she?

Mobius: 

You lead them right to her.

Loki: 

I don't believe you. 

You're lying. 

It's not True.

Mobius: 

It is True. 

That's the proper flow of time

 and it happens again 

and again and again 

because it's supposed to, 

because it has to. 

The TVA makes sure of it.

Loki: 

Where is she?

Mobius: 

Now why don't you tell me, 

Do You Enjoy Hurting People?

Loki: 

I don't believe you.

Mobius: 

Do you enjoy killing?

Loki: 

I'll kill you.

Mobius: 

Like you did your mother?

[Having seen where his future will lead to, Loki has given up escaping and returned to Mobius' office] 

Loki: 

I don't enjoy hurting people. 

I... [sighs] 

I don't enjoy it. 

I do it because I've had to.

Mobius: 

Okay, explain that to me.

Loki: 

Because it's part of The Illusion:

It's the cruel, elaborate trick 

conjured by The Weak 

to inspire Fear.

Mobius: 

A desperate play for Control :

You do know yourself.

Loki: 

A Villain.

[sighs] 

Mobius: 

That's not How I See It.