In real-time, the timeline changes for Mobius in the present. Luckily, Loki teleports into the past, where he calls Ouroboros by his nickname and that seems to stick.

OB recognizes Time Slipping from Loki and struggles to come up with a solution. He doesn’t sleep and he’s constantly working non-stop down here. The guy working down here, Ouroboros (or O.B.), seems to recognize Mobius and it’s apparently been 400 years since they last saw each other. With no memory of what’s happened, Mobius leads Loki down into the basement of the TVA called R&A. War is on its way and Kang also wiped Mobius’s memories more than once. X-5 is tasked with finding Sylvie, while Mobius leads Loki outside, who rambles on about what happened in the Citadel, along with trying to stop Sylvie from killing Kang and failing. Loki shows up in our timeline again and shows off that Kang is the one in control, courtesy of a mural on the wall being hidden by a banner. Hunter also points out that they’ve been killing people and destroying lives with their protocol and that needs to stop. Hunter quickly points out that yes, the timeline is branching but all of them have variants. To make matters worse, the timelines are growing and with an order to stop pruning, they need to “make sense” of what’s happening. Hunter B-15 and Mobius head to the War Room, where they’re grilled over Loki’s damning confession about the TVA’s real purpose. He plays a recording, where Renslayer and He Who Remains seem to make a deal. When he leaves, Loki struggles to catch up with his old friend, given he keeps ending up back in the past. Miss Minute has gone AWOL, while X-5 informs Mobius that the Judge wants to see him in the War Room. While Loki keeps blinking in and out of our timeline, Mobius finds himself struggling to try and locate him.

It turns out Loki is in the past, as we find out later on, and that’s why they don’t recognize him. Loki stumbles down, ends up smashing back into a lower level of the TVA and bumps into Casey, who also can’t remember Loki. Mobius doesn’t recognize Loki, who jumps over the edge of the balcony and is luckily picked up by a random van, which swings back into the TVA window. Episode 1 of Loki Season 2 starts where we left off, with Loki on the run from the TVA and Kang seemingly in control.

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