MOON KNIGHT EPISODE 5 BREAKDOWN! Easter Eggs & Details You Missed!

welcome back to new rock stars I'm Eric. Boss and this is a breakdown of. moonnight episode 5 which confirmed My. Underworld Theory but damn you hate to. be right if it means death by sand let's. break down this heartbreaking and. mindblowing episode shot by shot for all. the details that you might have missed. and you can support in new rockstars by. checking out our Tomb of the Moon God. shirt we're almost run out of these over. at New rockstars merch.com getting this. shirt will unlock the added option to. ride in a custom shout out that will. appear at the bottom of our moonnight. after shows so we open in the cave as we. hear Mark's brother Randall shouting.

now Randall is the name of Mark's. brother in the comics goes on to carry. the monikers of hatchet man and Shadow. Knight but um not here then Mark's. mother snaps at him is. all your F and don't forget Uncle Frank. look what you did you little jerk now. multiple shots earlier this season. focused on close-ups of dry sand of. course foreshadowing the sand they would. return to this season but now in this. episode Steven's corporeal fate and.

since those sand dunes are depicted as. ocean waves that the boat passes through. the drowning of Randall foreshadows the. drowning of Mark's second brother that. he created to help cope with the trauma. of losing the first then we cut to this. goddess of motherhood screaming which. was directly from Mark's screaming. mother from the mother Mark feared to a. physically fearsome mother that actually. ends up being the nurturing mother that. they really need then to Harrow's office. where he has fresh wounds on his nose. that were not there at the end of. episode 4 now later Harrow does deny.

sedating him so there is definitely off. the books violence with the orderly here. but notice that bandage now Mark does. have one of these when he talks to konu. in the comics that this is based on but. this is also the kind of bandage that. you would see on a boxer's broken nose. and Mark in the comics was also a boxer. and I bring all this up because there is. still the Unseen Jake lley alter the. fiercest of the three we think in the. sarcophagus rattling like a boxer. itching to get into the ring but is he. unseen because this altar in this scene.

seems way more tense and way more. confused whenever Harrow calls him Mark. and Oscar Isaac is definitely making. different vocal choices here you're not. a doctor they must pay you a lot of. money in in this place you're really. good they must pay you a lot of money in. this place I'm sorry look this episode. started from the low angle point of view. of that Mom just before she was going to. hit him which might mean that in. addition to creating the altar of Steven. Grant on that day they also might have. created the altar of Jake lley in that. moment to actually take the abuse which.

might have led to Jake's extreme. violence so in total Jake to take the. punches Steven to think he had a loving. M and Mark to live with a guilt of it. all so within the subjective afterlife. aboard this ship Mark's organizing. principle also created this inner office. to represent his self-doubt so it may be. Jake in here and either way Jake is left. in this psych board meaning he still has. a chance to reconnect with konu to. rescue the others then again in the next. scene Mark retains what Harrow said. about organizing principles so it's not.

totally clear hey by the way new. rockstars is launching a new daily live. stream starting Monday called the. breakroom where those yuckos down at new. rockstars HQ are going to react to these. boss hot takes while interacting with. you live keep an eye out for it it's. going to be fun herrow says your brain. is a pendulum swinging between a very. difficult reality that you are my. patient here at putam medical facility. in Chicago Illinois and a reassuring. fantasy that you've created on your own.

yes again the image of the brain. swinging like a pendulum sense nonsense. parallels the scales of justice and the. way Harrow staff and the lanterns all. swing back and forth also putam. psychiatric hospital is a facility in. the Jeff lamir comics where Mark's. father Elias interns him after Mark. witnessed a Nazi serial killer posing as. a rabbi witnessing this murder being the. traumatic event that causes did so as. hard as it was to watch a sh abuse in. this episode definitely not as dark as. that would have been a clock appears on. the back wall just like the one in the.

recck room hands also made of konu Staff. shape with a crescent moon tip and like. that one this clock also does not. actually move but the ticking is still. going and is now actually grown louder. so that each tick edits the shot to a. new frame all right you're doing. everything and everything possible not. to look within and again my favorite set. detail about this is that this set in. the office is the same attic set from. Harrow's compound in episode 2 painted. over white and back in that moment. Steven said to Lea oh my.

God I'm going to die on evil magician's. man cave a yes cave I think they reused. that set and that same fear of death and. the cave trigger to decorate this. representation of the alter's fear. within the duat now by the way I love. all the visual details that went into. toet her ears constantly wiggling. especially when she's a little nervous. her blue fingernail polish which is the. same color as the paint on her chest. Scarab and then this is awesome in the. corner mirror that is behind her the FFX.

artists always added her reflection even. showing her back when she turns such. great attention to detail here now she. says it's been a minute since we've had. a so p through here which is a nod to. that Rift between gods and man when. humans Stop Believing in the Egyptian. gods and so naturally fewer people's. Souls over the Millennia would see their. afterlife as this Egyptian datat in. addition to the fun animation I just. love the characterization of the. hippopotamus brought to light by Antonia. SB excuse me. ah aha okay here we.

go welcome yeah her nervous apologies. the way she licks her lips and then when. she tries to clear her throat it comes. out like a hippopotamus. belch she declares welcome gentle travel. travelers to the realm of the. Jew this is the afterlife the afterlife. and afterlife not the afterlife you'd be.

surprised how many intersectional planes. of untethered Consciousness exist yeah. like the ancestral plane oh just. gorgeous yes as I interpreted this. hospital is the subjective underworld of. the MCU in this case called the datat. much like the way tchala and kilmonger. perceptions of the ancestral plane took. the forms of an African Savannah or an. Oakland department and this also. suggests that there are countless MCU. after lives that all take various forms. one of them was likely the soul Stone. Way Station that Thanos was transported.

to I'm going to talk about this a lot. more in future videos because despite. claiming not to connect too much to the. MCU moonight just contributed more MC. World building than anything we saw in. Hawkeye or the Falcon the Winter Soldier. now also those lamps tilting the hallway. last episode to the sounds of a creaky. Hall were indeed a sign that this is all. aboard a vessel as we have been. speculating ever since we saw that. sunken boat in Gus's fish tank and of. course how Egyptian mythology depicts. the underworld passage using similar. boat imagery I love how the sky of this. underworld is is purple also reminiscent.

of the ancestral plane when tala first. enters it frozen in the sand our past. guilty Souls also kind of reminding us. of the scattered pruned figures of the. Void the bow of this vote has a taret. statue and a smaller one is aboard the. rudder taret and Steven explain that. they are headed toward the aru the field. of reeds the Heavenly Paradise from. Egyptian mythology only accessible if. their heart's weight balances with the. feather of Truth toar pulls their hearts. from their chest another Indiana Jones. reference by the way Temple of Doom. there but their hearts are white stone. maybe because Disney plus does does not. want a bloody pulsing organ but also.

reflects how konu is currently incased. in stone usapi form but these scales are. held by Anubis who in Egyptian mythology. is the true purveyor of Justice standing. before Amit unlike hero scales tattoo. which shows amit's crocke heads holding. the scales Mark suggests to kill the. hippo steal the boat but they head back. inside to try to balance their souls. each room now containing a dark memory. from their past kind of like the memory. elevator of inception but also a lot. like in W division another series that. spins its penultimate episode going down.

memory lane we see the museum bathroom. from episode one and across the hall. from that Steven's memory of rewinding. the stars in episode 3 with konu that. room labeled treatment room this being. the traumatic moment they lost konu but. the third room is actually labeled with. a QR code for the floor map and when you. scan this actually takes you to the. comic issue of moonnight number one of. 1980 the first solo issue of the. moonnight character showing his origin. story with Bushman literally the floor. map of this hospital is Mark's origin. story Mark brushes off the memory of him. standing on that street outside his. mother's sh up but Steven knows only.

their darkest most unresolved moments. are being kept here and then the. cafeteria remarks victims from his time. as konu Avatar all of their canopic jars. on the tables in front of them they were. criminals murderers Predators the worst. of the worst yeah thankfully the camera. is not on Mark when he says Predators. because I would not want to be the actor. labeled predator in this episode forever. but also among these victims is Randall. whom Mark does still feel guilt for. killing it's interesting how Randall is. able to move around meaning that all of. these other corpses are also mobile. which just creepy to think how they're.

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performances from both of them this. episode as they both turned a look back. at the mom and then back at their. brother sned Randall's drawing to the. fish of course reflects Gus's Nemo Fin. and the way poor Randall will end up. unable to swim similar to how Gus. perished outside of Steven's memory as. Steven woke up to him just replaced. young Mark says latest Gators a wild. crocodile showing the origin of Steven. sign off with his mom he always said. that to her but never heard her loving. response and of course sets up Mark. Showdown with the Croc mouth of onit.

Mark and Randall Venture into a cave and. Steven follows stepping on konu looking. bird bones that could explain why konu. takes a skeletal form in Mark's eyes. when in egyptology konu has a living. bird head the brothers say I'll be. russer though can you hear that Dr gr a. should I do russer sounds to me like. danger yes Rosser is the name of Dr. Grant's young sidekick tomb Buster being. a movie that these brothers must have. watched together and roro and his. nickname probably came from Rosser and.

him doing the British accent is likely. what inspired Mark to start doing that. voice to escape his mom as Steven pushes. into the flooding cave the sounds of. water also Play Over the shots of Mark. in the ssyb but we never see the boys. inside of the cave and we never see. young Mark escaping it yes there are. lots of rules about filming child actors. in water it's generally not a safe thing. to do but you can also interpret this. metaphorically Mark entered Plato's. allegory of the cave and never came back. out he never reached true Enlightenment. he just remain chained up in that cave.

only able to perceive reality as. deceptive Shadows on the wall but then. Mark enters the memory of the Shiva for. his brother now Hasa is a Jewish funeral. service for a close family member and I. really love that they included the. detail of the mirror being covered in. this Green Sheet because it's customary. to cover mirrors in the shev of. household so that the MERS Focus Less on. themselves and solely on the deceased. but this also reminds us of Mark's. partially covered mirror in his hotel. room at the end of episode 2 a shot that. also prominently featured his Star of. David necklace marked tried to cover. that mirror but the sheet slid off.

throughout the series his mirror. reflection has been what's haunting him. everywhere now reflecting how he is. truly unable to mourn the staircase that. Steven goes up has actually been seen in. the closing credits to every episode and. now we know why birthday after birthday. it's a powerful representation of the. torment that his mother put him through. we start with Elias and Mark blowing out. the candles together but framed behind. them in the middle is that wet bar with. the decanter of booze now Steven goes up. again but just finds himself back on. that same floor impossible to escape the. cycle of abuse and now on this birthday.

the decanter is in Wendy's hand hey uh. Pro tip if someone is walking around. with a glass of booze in one hand in the. full bottom the other just waiting to. refill it there is a problem and poor. teenage Mark finally just has to leave. this house actually behind Mark in the. scene is this poster showing someone. falling down a hole as this whole. episode shows Mark and Steven doing. descending deeper and deeper into memory. Mark and Steven tumble on to the dig. site incident turns out going awall in a. fug state gets you discharged from the. military. didn't have a ton of options after that.

so I went work for hire for my old coo. Bushman yes referring to Raul Bushman. Mark's mercenary partner in the comics. turned villain responsible for the death. of Marlene's archaeologist father or in. this case Leila's Father Mark recounts. how he tried to help this dig Team. Escape but ended up getting shot himself. and had to crawl into the tomb of konu. now notice how the moon overhead is now. in its waning crescent phase the. Crescent shape meaning kon's power is. rising we can also see this same phase. of the lunar cycle in the episode 5. credits which have been changing episode. to episode so mark nearly offs himself.

here as we saw Jake try to do earlier. with that paper weight but konu stops. him what a. waste huh now it's interesting you could. actually interpret everything that. happened in Mark's life after this point. as the Judgment journey of a man within. the moment of his suicide which is by. the way my hot take for Liam n in the. gray think about it konu says your. mind I feel it. fractured broken most.

fascinating you are a worthy candidate. to serve me during this time yes so konu. didn't possess Mark in spite of his did. but actually prays on him because of it. and there's a really quick subtle shot. here as Mark first drifts closer to. death he looks up at the Statue and. briefly we see kon's actual hand and. staff before that statue just a way of. showing how Mark is already beginning to. allow that deity into his heart and Mark. consents then rise rise R and live again.

as my fist of. Vengeance as. my. moonight yes the first and so far only. time moonnight has been spoken on this. show another parallel to W division. episode 8 which ended with Agatha Z. Wanda superhero moniker for the first. time in the MCU and that makes. you the Scarlet Witch and I like how. various colors flicker across Mark's. face during this transformation showing. the supernatural power inhabiting his. flesh as as well as giving him this cool.

suit back on the deck baboon scatter now. baboons actually play an important role. during the duat process carrying out. tot's duties as the god of measurement. as the heart is weighed on the scales. baboons also guard the Gate of the. underworld taret says fear is spreading. in the upper World unbalanced souls are. being judged and condemned to the Sands. before their time oh this is bad this is. evil yes Souls plummet into the sand at. an alarming rate meaning herrow must. have freed Amit from her usapi and is. now raking havoc on the world I cannot. wait to see this judgment process.

upstairs because Amit is depicted as a. ferocious crocke headed beast with the. front half of a lion the back half of a. hippo toar and konu are about 10 ft tall. but could Amit be like a freaking. bus-sized monster pouncing through the. streets of Cairo eating anyone who. smells evil or is amit's Judgment a. remote process that opens up purple. underworld portals beneath the feet of. rotten egg Souls like veroa salt is that. what that poster behind teenage Mark was. referring to whatever it is it's going. to be wild they're able to convince. toara to steer them back toward Osiris. his gate and Steven snaps at Mark if Lea.

dies that's on your head it'll be all. your fault no no no no no you can't I. won't do it I won't do it you can't sa. me yes Stephen accidentally speaks. Wendy's torment words and Mark finds. himself back in Harrow's office his face. no longer injured just even more. evidence that the alter in the first. scene of this episode was not Mark or. Steven here Harrow asks the core. question of the series do you think you. created Steven to hide from all the. awful things you feel you've done in.

your life or do you think Steven created. Mark to punish the world for what your. mother did to you this really is the. chicken or the egg argument of the. series who created whom how far back did. this really go ultimately I think we did. start with Mark I just like how this. show cast just enough doubt on the. reliability of his perception and we. return to the awful day it begins with a. close-up on the table as Mark swipes the. action figures of Dr Steven Grant and. Roser but really would these like the. tomb Buster poster truly exist as merch. in the MCU for a little scene knockoff.

direct to VHS movie also considering. this is the same universe of actually. real IP as Ned Flanders and The Simpsons. Finding Nemo in both avatars not to. mention on the other wall of this room. is the movie poster for the 1977 Star. Wars also on Mark's side table are a. pair of nunchucks and a wooden scale. showing how even in this memory Mark and. Steven souls are still being judged and. behind mark on the other side of that. room is a Chicago Cubs Banner as well as. Randall's fish drawing when we clearly. saw Randall finishing coloring in the. fin as orange on the day of his death.

and we see the moment that young Mark. first creates the Steven. alter bloody hell look at the state of. this. place but it's right out before mon SE. and folks according to clinical research. this is how did manifests in patients. often a traumatic childhood memory in. this case we learned that it was Mark. willing into existence an altar who did. not have to have this abusive woman as. his mother and might instead have a. mother that actually loves him Steven.

notices the tomb Buster poster tagline. when danger is near Steven Grant has no. fear also in that poster you can see the. split bust of the Aztec Moon deity. kosaki now side eying them but the. poster credits are filled with Easter. eggs tinely Atlas Studios timely Atlas. being the original name of Marvel Comics. Doug plin is a merging of the moonnight. creators Doug Munch and Don perlin. Melissa Russell is the wife of writer. Jeremy Slater Dylan Beck is the. assistant production coordinator on the. show Wyatt and Dylan Curtis probably. related to the producer Grant Curtis.

Colleen shelowitz is the wife of Nick. Pepin whose own name cameoed back in. episode 2 Carmel Benson is probably. related to director Justin Benson Amy. Stewart is a partner to director Aaron. Morehead noral muli is married to the. writer sair pada and I assume the other. names are just loved ones for other. staff and crew Wendy moves in to abuse. her son but again this must not have. been Steven at the moment of the abuse. otherwise he would have remembered it so. I truly do think that the altered. present for all those beatings really. could have been Jake Steven returns to. Hero's office where he sees Harrow's.

diploma this thing just says graduate. diploma in Psychology no University. listed no signature only that he. graduated December 13 2011 yeah it's a. fake Stephen makes another pop culture. reference that's so strange little. haircut little silly Tash there it's. very Ned Flanders yeah the visual. totally tracks but also Ned Flanders is. known as Springfield's dogmatically. faithful True Believer as Harrow is for. omit locally do neighborino Harrow. arranges to call Steven's mom hey Dylan.

yeah could you call Mrs G please yes. Dylan is the name of Steven's tour guide. date now coming back here is a. receptionist of this facility but Steven. doesn't want the call to go through. because he knows that there will be no. one at the other end of that call just. as there wasn't for any of his calls. just the dial. tone now no call was actually made here. of course this was just Steven finally. facing his own Truth at Wendy Spectre. Shiva Mark stands outside in front of. the Waton Food and Liquor a Ned. executive producer Trevor Waton Mark. walks off and collaps is smacking his. yamaka but then cradles.

it yes this violent act makes him see. his yamaka as his brother that he still. feels guilt for harming and for a second. it seems like he's looking directly into. Steven's eyes but he's actually. reverting into a Steven altar hey Mom. hey you all right yeah. um would you believe it I am totally. lost again I don't know where I am if. you look closely his phone screen shows. that he is not actually on a call Mark.

confirms this happened two months prior. his mom's death in Shiva was that. inciting incident behind his recent. struggle to keep Steven at Bay Steven. helps Mark start to forgive himself it. wasn't your fault and upon this we. return to another upside down overhead. shot matching Steven entering the museum. in episode 2 as they join toar back on. the deck as they approach the gates of. Osiris but the scales still have not. balanced so Mark's past victims crawl up. from the sand Mark punches one of their. faces off but he's still pushing back. even fa Steven grabs the rudder to knock.

them off their balance then hits them. with that. [Music]. bat six I prefer Cricket yeah six is. what you yell when you've scored in. cricket but really just as Steven did as. a kid with those spilled pencils it's. left to Steven to clean up Mark's messes. Steven makes the ultimate sacrifice. tackling the last one down into the sand. stranding him in the duat Bing Bong. style all foreshadowed by that goddamn. kid and did it suck for you getting. rejected from the field of reads well. that don't make sense cuz I'm not dead. am St am I and so Steven turns into a.

sand sculpture his last word being Mark. and his hand reaching out in the same. gesture imp pose that Crawley freezes. himself in I truly hope that Steven. isn't gone forever like if the inad or. any higher power rules that amit's. premature condemnation of all those. reigning Souls was unjust it's totally. possible that Steven could be part of a. Divine retraction and could definitely. rejoin his altars in the living world. and again I believe that Jake lley is. still in that psych War W and if taret. can make her case to Osiris the best.

warrior of these three altars can take. Harrow and Amit to the mat but whether. by tragic coincidence or because Mark no. longer needs his Steven alter to escape. his trauma those scales now finally. balance and Mark is moved to the auu. it's an immediate and smooth transition. as if he was there the whole time just. waiting for that Amber sunlight to beam. through those purple clouds now earlier. toar likened the underworld to the. ancestral plane and this field of reads. definitely resembles a paradise where. tala's ancestors beckon him to join them. but but with the sunlight and the tall. plants it also evokes the garden.

thanos's pastoral retirement but. ultimately for Mark this is not a. paradise it is hell because he knows he. does not belong here the music we hear. is masaya Del Soul sung by Manuel Bonia. and Santiago Stevenson a Spanish hymn. sung at funerals in Mexico and. throughout Latin America maybe a nod to. Oscar Isaac's Guatemalan and Cuban. ancestry but the lyrics translate to. beyond the sun beyond the sun I have a. home home beautiful home meant to convey. how in your present life you might be. poor and lost but in heaven Paradise. awaits unfortunately for Mark it is not.

the Sun that he connects with it's the. moon actually just as the opening shot. of this episode cuts from something Mark. feared to something he wanted an abusive. mother to an understanding mother the. closing shot now cuts the same way from. the sunny field of reads something he. doesn't want to the closing title card. that same field of reads but with the. correct crescent moon shape overseen at. all you can follow me on Instagram and. Twitter at eaos follow new Rockstar. subscribe to new Rockstar for more. analysis of everything you love thanks. for watching bye. [Music].