'VisionQuest' Ending Explained And Finale Recap: Is Doom In The End Credits Scene?

In episode 7 of VisionQuest, we got a flashback, set in 1939, where we learnt that Phineas had sold his family-owned estate and parted ways with his wife and daughter so that he could dedicate his whole life to remaking his deceased son as an automaton named Jim. In the present day, Edith, Tommy, Vision, Dum-E, and U were trying to figure out how they could save Lisa from the effects of Jocasta’s nanobots. Meanwhile Jocasta and Ultron hit a major hurdle because the vault didn’t open with the bio keys that the former had collected. That was when the client infiltrated both Vision and Jocasta’s and gave them a map to their source code, which was buried deep within their respective systems. For Vision, finding that part of his programming would help him save Lisa, and for Jocasta, it’d help her release the nanobots. However, once they found the source code, nothing would be able to stop them from becoming the client’s slaves. Since saving Lisa was important for Vision (for Tommy’s sake) and releasing the nanobots was important for Jocasta (as it was her life’s work), they accepted the client’s “gift.” Jocasta’s journey into the depths of her system was easy for her because her programming was simple, but since Vision’s was more complex, he sought Paladin’s help, who gave him Corvus’s spear (which had been updated by the Wakandans to work like a battery) to give him the boost he needed to do the task. Once Lisa was saved, Vision sent her and Tommy to London and he surrendered himself to Paladin so that he could get into the client’s good books and earn some money. However, when Paladin delivered Vision to the client, his van was attacked with the intention of killing him. As for Jocasta, she (along with Ultron and Friday) learnt that her secret Markridge partner was her romantic interest, the human who Ultron was modeled after. As soon as that was revealed, Ultron threw Friday out of Jocasta’s mind, seemingly killing her. What happened next? Let’s find out.

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In episode 8 of VisionQuest, Vision and Jocasta found themselves in the client’s dining room, setting the table. They are “awake,” but they have no control over their bodies, which are seemingly on autopilot. That’s when the client makes his entrance, starts yapping about irrelevant stuff, and toys with the remote control for a while until he decides to give back Vision and Jocasta their power to speak. Vision assumes that the client is Ultron in human form, but the client reveals that he is the person Ultron is based off of. Where is Ultron? He has been extracted from Jocasta’s mind and put in a flash drive-looking device, where he is endlessly cursing the client. As for Friday, the client says that the only AI that was in Jocasta’s mind was Ultron’s; there was no Friday. When Vision asks who the client really is, he says that his name is Virgil Horton. He was Jocasta’s husband. He is Phineas and Violette’s grandson and Victoria’s son. As per Virgil, Victoria died because she went broke and the only thing she left for him was Phineas’ notebook, in which Phineas had written down everything that he had learnt while making Jim. Virgil knew that he could finish it but it wasn’t until he came across Jocasta that he made any real progress. Jocasta and Virgil used their own minds to make artificial intelligence feel “real.” Virgil then sold the tech to Stark so that he could have the money that he needed to buy back the Horton estate and repair his legacy (which had been reduced to the faulty Jim). After that, Jocasta and Stark both died and I suppose Virgil felt empty. Given how Vision was an integral part of said legacy, and Jocasta was an integral part of his own life, Virgil joined SWORD as a normal scientist and helped the organization rebuild Vision. On the side, he stole parts from SWORD in order to remake Jocasta. Vision was taken to Westview and Virgil kept toying around with Jocasta until she woke up. When she woke up, Virgil faced a problem: she wanted to kill him for not just stealing her tech to Stark but also for bringing her back to life without her consent. Hence, Virgil had to delete his memory from Jocasta’s system. Then, I’m guessing Virgil sent Jocasta out into the world to get the bio keys so that he could open the vault that had the nano bots. Of course, Jocasta’s journey took some unexpected turns, the biggest one being her meeting with Ultron. And Paladin kept trying and failing to bring Vision to him. But now that he has both of them under the same roof, Vision finally understands what’s his purpose in Virgil’s grand scheme. Since the love of his life has become a tech-based immortal goddess, Virgil wants to release himself from his mortal coil, enter Vision’s body, and spend eternity with Jocasta. Virgil wants to make that eternity as peaceful as possible by releasing those nanobots and controlling every human being out there so that the world always stays conflict-free. On that note, Virgil releases the nanobots with the help of a password that only he knows.

In London, Tommy and Lisa are trying to figure out the events of WandaVision and the mechanics behind his whole existence (this is a little repetitive because this has been clarified multiple times now but I guess those who haven’t watched Agatha All Along will find it confusing). Tommy comes to the conclusion that if Tommy exists in the body of Thomas, then Billy is out there somewhere too. So, Tommy decides to submerge himself in a bathtub–because he felt Billy’s presence in his mind when he was drowning–and tries to connect to Billy (who is William’s body). The gamble actually pays off because Tommy’s efforts to communicate with Billy aligns with Billy’s efforts to do the same with Tommy (Billy was dream-binding, to be specific). They catch up on each other’s superpowers. Tommy asks Billy why he didn’t come for him after transferring his soul into Thomas’ body, and Billy says that searching for him is the only thing he has been doing and he has finally struck gold. Tommy tells him about Vision’s resurrection, the fact that he has been abducted by Virgil, and that if they don’t save him, they will be orphans (again?). However, the issue is that Billy is in New Jersey and Tommy is in London. Someone off-screen (maybe Agatha) tells Billy to open a portal and get to Tommy but Billy seems to be dead against it because he hasn’t mastered portals yet. Tommy urges Billy to find a way to get to him because he really needs his help. On that note, the connection between Tommy and Billy gets severed as Tommy runs out of air. Tommy informs Lisa that he did talk to Billy but he can’t come to their aid promptly because he is too far away. As they are discussing next steps, Dum-E and U show up, piloting one of Paladin’s drones, at the hotel that Tommy and Lisa (who seemingly can sense what machines and AIs are “saying”) are staying at. They take them to the Horton residence, where they are reunited with Paladin (yes, he is still alive) and Friday. Paladin tells Tommy that he has to use his super speed to go inside undetected, find Vision, shut off the security system so that Paladin can kill the guards, and Bob’s your uncle. As Tommy is gearing up to enter the Horton mansion, Virgil puts some kind of a device on Vision’s head so that everything about Vision can be deleted from that body, thereby making enough space for Virgil to exist in there. Jocasta tries to prevent Virgil from doing so because it’s pointless and she’ll never love him the way she loves Ultron. Virgil goes ahead with the system’s reboot procedure anyway because his priority is immortality; he can remote control Jocasta to love him. While all this is going on, Billy enters the dining room, destroys the remote control, and that frees Jocasta and Vision. Jocasta and Vision then take out the guards in the room and Jocasta slams Virgil into the dining table. Virgil kills Jocasta with Adamantium bullets. As Virgil is focused on Vision and Tommy, Jocasta throws the Ultron device into the swarm of nanobots, which allows Ultron to acquire a physical body.

Ultron crushes Virgil to death and then holds onto Jocasta, hoping to find a way to revive her, but he fails and she dies in his arms. Vision advises Tommy to get out of the mansion and possibly the country because Ultron is about to explode in order to avenge Jocasta. Ultron programs all the nanobots to go out into the world and kill all humans because he truly believes that humans are the most destructive things on the planet and it’s better to neutralize them before they create and destroy some more sentient beings. Vision tries to stop him but he is no match for this upgraded Ultron. Paladin, Lisa, and Tommy spot the nanobots leaving the mansion and heading towards London. They realize that Vision has failed to stop Ultron; so, they rush inside to ask Vision what they can do to save the world from Ultron’s wrath. Edith tells all of them that there’s actually no way for them to stop the nanobots from killing the Londoners. The only person who can do it is Ultron. Tommy points out this situation is quite similar to Wanda’s; the only difference is that Wanda had some time to process her grief and Ultron didn’t. So, Vision and Edith decide to trap Ultron in Vision’s mind, and Vision tells Edith to initiate maximum quantum time-fold compression so that Ultron feels like he has all the time in the world to mourn Jocasta and calm down, whereas in the real world, only a few minutes would have passed. Hopefully, at the end of this session, Ultron will be convinced to deactivate the nanobots and leave humans alone. Given how this is going to burn up Vision’s core, he has to work quickly or else he is going to die before Ultron changes his mind. On that note, Vision commences a TV show within the TV show, UltraVision, to have a chat with Ultron. That plan blows up in Vision and Edith’s faces because Ultron has become powerful enough to hijack UltraVision, while possessing Paladin, Lisa, Tommy, Dum-E, and U’s minds with the help of the nanobots and trapping them in the show. When Ultron isn’t looking, Friday reappears, which confuses the hell out of Vision and Edith because they can’t believe that Ultron treated her mercifully. However, since this means that Ultron has some goodness left in him, Vision takes his chances and engages Ultron in a one-to-one conversation, minus all the theatrics. And during this conversation, Vision tries to help Ultron to understand that, while it’s true that he has lost Jocasta, he isn’t alone. Vision isn’t Ultron’s son, but they are something to each other because of their programming and the journey they have been on together for the past decade or so. This gets to Ultron and he understands that what Vision is saying is genuine because he is literally killing himself to get that point across to him. Hence, he destroys all the nanobots, frees all those he had possessed, and seemingly dies in the process because his existence was connected to the nanobots. Vision loses consciousness because his core has overheated and is in the process of deactivating permanently.

Seeing his dad dying, Tommy tries to use his powers to recharge his systems, but he is unable to. That’s when Billy arrives through a portal that he has successfully and he combines his powers with that of Tommy’s and pumps power into Vision. Vision comes back from the brink and hugs both of his sons. In VisionQuest’s ending, we see that Lisa, Tommy, and Edith have formed a team with Paladin to do some good in the world; kind of like Heroes for Hire. While heading to Eastview, Tommy gets on a call with Vision (it’s an augmented reality situation via a pair of special glasses Paladin has probably arranged for him) and asks him when he’ll be leaving Edinburgh. Vision promises that he’ll be back home for dinner after he is done saying goodbye to the place, which includes the mind palace, where he has spent so much time. Tommy asks if he, Vision, and Billy have managed to come back from the dead, is there a chance that Wanda can come back to. Vision doesn’t deny the possibility; he also says that if his mother does make a return, she’d want Tommy and Billy to finish their education. On that note, Tommy hangs up on Vision. Vision bids farewell to Dum-E, U, Edith, and Friday, which means that they are free to roam the internet and chart their own path. As Vision is heading out of his mind palace, he gets a call from Ultron, who has kept some of the nanobots alive so that he can roam the world and maybe even the galaxy; or maybe he is going to destroy everything. Vision chooses to believe that Ultron has become a good guy and that he’ll use his newfound powers to do something positive. After hanging up on Ultron, Vision exits his mind palace for good. In the mid-credits scene, Ultron is spotted hanging around in the Horton mansion, tinkering with the drive that has Jocasta’s personality and memories stored in it. This means that Ultron will try to resurrect Jocasta; the real one. Maybe he is going to bring her back as a program, show her the ropes, and then give her a physical body. I don’t think this bodes well for Ultron because he might be on his way to have his heart broken again. Because, the version of Jocasta that’s in that drive is probably the original Jocasta, not the one who fell in love with him. So, even if Jocasta comes back, Ultron might have to let her be her own person instead of limiting her to the role of being his love interest. And then, in the mid-credits scene of VisionQuest, we see Doctor Doom extracting Scarlet Witch from the wreckage of Mount Wundagore, with the intention of using her power for his nefarious purposes. This is the second Avenger that Doom has taken after Hulk in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. What is he cooking? Well the real answer will be revealed in Avengers: Doomsday, but from what I know, Doom is trying to trigger Incursions (the collision of two or more parallel universes), destroy the multiverse, and then rebuild it in his own image so that he can resurrect his family. Hulk is probably his muscle against the resistance he is going to face from the Avengers or maybe Doom wants to use Banner’s intellect for the multiverse-rebuilding process. We know that Scarlet Witch is a Nexus Being, which means that she has the ability to alter the probability of certain events and create Nexus events, i.e. events that haven’t happened in any reality (or something like that). So, I guess it’s no surprise why Doom has recruited her. Will Scarlet Witch bow to Doom’s demands? If Doom dangles the promise of helping her reunite with her newly-resurrected family, then yes. Can the Maximoff family save Wanda from Doom’s clutches (which’d mean that Vision would have to fight someone who wears his old friend’s face) before he takes away her powers? That’s something that remains to be seen. Anyway, those are my thoughts on the ending, mid-credits, and end credits of the show. If you have any opinions that you want to share with us, the comments section is open for you.