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The fifth and penultimate episode of Marvel\u2019s Moon Knight<\/a> packed a lot in, filling in the blanks of Marc and Steven\u2019s (Oscar Isaac) shared backstory as they tried to balance their afterlife scales and escape the strange mental facility they were trapped in. Look, it made sense if you watched the episode.<\/p>\n By the end, they managed it \u2013 but at a cost. After failing to find balance for too long on the ship, \u201cunbalanced souls\u201d rose up from the sands to drag both Marc and Steven into the Duat. And while Steven was able to fight them off initially to help Marc, in the end Steven himself was dragged down, turning to solid sand and left behind.<\/p>\n However, his \u201cdeath\u201d had an unexpected result. Suddenly, having lost Steven, Marc\u2019s soul became balanced, granting him access to a glorious afterlife (aka the Field of Reeds). The episode ends with Marc standing there, and it\u2019s unclear whether he\u2019ll continue to try and escape to the real world, go back for Steven, or stay in this new peace.<\/p> Well OK, it\u2019s not that unclear. It wouldn\u2019t be much of a show if he just spent the finale hanging out in some reeds while half the world was being zapped into Egyptian death mode by Harrow (Ethan Hawke). But exactly what the show intends for Steven\u2019s story is a little ambiguous.<\/p>\n Frankly, if this was a death in any other Marvel story we\u2019d know where we stood. Either that person would be dead dead, or we\u2019d be looking at a kind of sci-fi fakeout where they could return in some form (looking at you Gamora, Loki and Vision).<\/p>\n Steven\u2019s death, initially, would seem like the latter \u2013 he\u2019s part of Marc\u2019s mind, rather than his own person, and so it\u2019s technically impossible for him to \u201cdie\u201d while Marc still lives anyway. Plus, his \u201cdeath\u201d is weird fantasy stuff. Easy to undo.<\/p>\n Moonknight episode 5