'Marc' is notably different in this scene, having a crazed look in his eye, a more unhinged, aggressive personality, an odd Brooklyn accent, and a notable bandage across his nose. Moon Knight has teased the third identity's existence throughout the show, but this opening may have actually given fans their first glimpse at the man himself. Audiences have wondered week-to-week whether more personalities are rumbling around in Marc Spector's mind, namely the comics alter known as Jake Lockley. While this initial sequence comes off as fairly standard, there may be a secret staring right in the face of viewers. The doctor pushes Marc to speak about the boy more, which results in Marc becoming aggressive, shouting how Harrow will "destroy everything" before being forcibly sedated. Harrow that "before you got upset," he talked about a boy. Marc, confused about what there was to understand, is told by Dr. He calls it an "organizing principle," and that they're closer to understanding.
Harrow leans forward and asks Marc if that is "sense or nonsense." Marc hesitantly responds, "nonsense?" Then, encouraged by his answer, he explains to Marc how a struggling mind will try and build a shelter for itself when dealing with traumatic memories. When Marc refuses to answer, Harrow tells Marc that he had been told, by him, that he had encountered a talking rhinoceros, which Marc corrects to have been a hippopotamus, in a place "oddly reminiscent of this office." After a beat, Dr. Harrow steers the conversation back to Marc, asking him to retrace his steps.
This doctor attempts to convince Marc that everything that has happened up to this point has been a "reassuring fantasy." Marc dismisses Harrow's claim, accusing him of not being a doctor.ĭr. The mysterious woman says in a broken voice that rises to a scream, "this is all your fault!" It then cuts back to Marc Spector and Steven Grant still screaming their lungs out at the sight of the anthropomorphic hippopotamus, before finally settling back in the office of "Dr." Harrow.
Episode 5 of Moon Knight opens in a flooding cave as a boy can be heard crying out for help before cutting to a woman looking at the viewer with disdain.