Loki · Season 1
Wait, now hold it! I mean, am-- am I ready to get my skin peeled off? I dunno...
Yeah, am I ready to violently rip myself from every thread of time and space?
I would actually rather have that...
What, you'd rather be atomically disassembled and then never reassembled again?
Yeah, than have your skin ripped off? Yes!
What are you talking about? Then, at least, you get to live!
"Live"? What's the quality of life with no skin?!
Okay! You've got about an hour.
[A loose strand of Time crashes against the glass in the Time Loom chamber, cracking it.]
You've got about five minutes.
[Sylvie has traveled to a McDonald's in the 1980s and has come up to the counter.]
How do I do this?
What would you like?
Not squirrel, not possum, not rats... something that's already dead, and nothing with a face. Please.
I wanna try everything...
You quit with the magic and fight fair!
It's not a fair fight.
[Brad has refused to respond to questioning and is now antagonizing Loki.]
See, I've read your file. It's you! You're the problem, every time we've ever found a you. Problem is, you think you're special but you're not. So it doesn't matter what outfit you put on, play dress-up or all the little lies you tell your friends or even the lies you tell yourself. At the end of the day, you just make everything worse. For Mobius, for B-15... For your mother. 'Cause that's what you do. You lose. You loser.
Loki...
Stop trying to be a hero, man! You're a villain. You're good at it. Do that.
[Loki chuckles.]
Thank you, Brad. Very much. I really am touched. You know, you're right. I have done some terrible, awful things. Yeah, maybe that is who I am! I mean, he knows... It's the real me. A loser. Always have been, always will be. And perhaps I've been... Holding something back.
Loki--
Perhaps I've just been... biding my time. Perhaps I've just been waiting for a moment like this, so I can do... terrible, awful things to you.
The TVA is not your real home. Mobius isn't even your real name.
Well, it's what I answer to.
You've never wanted to visit your place on the timeline?
Look, that's the last thing I should be thinking about.
Why? Aren't you curious? I mean, don't you want to see the life you were supposed to live before they kidnapped you and brought you into the TVA?
Not really!
Why?
Because it's not my life!
But it could've been.
It isn't. This is. I'd like to thank the guy who kidnapped me and brought me here! Got me this pie...
If you never look, you'll never know.
The TVA is the only life I've ever known. I like it!
Look, I understand. I, like, I-- I get it! Y'know, you might think twice in case it's... something bad, or--
Or something good! Something bad, I can handle. What if it's something good? You-- You think I wanna have that rattling around in here? Of course not!
I'm not trying to be a hero, Brad. I'm a villain. Remember?
[Brad is trapped in an amber box that can shrink at Loki's command.]
Okay...! Look, I swear, okay?! I went down there and I went to get my life! Okay? Because-- none of this is real!
Well, if none of this is real... I guess you aren't either.
We're all gonna die! Oh, hey! Nice to meet you! We're all gonna die!
It's the future; it's going to happen.
Is it? Really? Because that sounds a lot like the future's already been written. And we both know it hasn't, not anymore. I made sure of that.
There's a lot to unpack when you're basically in a relationship with yourself.
Sylvie--
[angrily] Is this the best you lot can do?
There was nothing we could do.
Some defense. The TVA is the problem. It's broken. It’s rotten! I’m going home, if it’s still there.
Please don't. It’s harder...
[Sylvie leaves.]
To stay.
Time is everything. It moves through each and every one of us. It shapes our lives. Our futures. But, perhaps, we can shape... it!
It's him.
What? You made him sound like this terrifying figure!
He is.
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