{"id":37764,"date":"2023-10-10T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1900450"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:46:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T11:46:22","slug":"loki-season-2-episode-1-ending-and-post-credits-scene-explained","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/loki-season-2-episode-1-ending-and-post-credits-scene-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Loki season 2 episode 1 ending and post-credits scene explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

The god of mischief is back! <\/p>

By Louise Griffin\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 10 October 2023 at 11:00 AM<\/p>

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*Warning: Major spoilers ahead for Loki season 2 episode 1.*<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tom Hiddleston\u2019s God of Mischief returned to our screens last week, with\u00a0Loki season 2<\/a> premiering to strong reviews<\/a> and re-introducing the iconic Loki cast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That means that Sylvie (Sophia Di Martino)<\/a> and Mobius (Owen Wilson)<\/a> are back too, joined by some new faces including Ke Huy Quan\u2019s OB<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Waiting for episode 2<\/a> to arrive is the perfect time to delve deeper into the events of the first episode, which picked up after Sylvie effectively broke time and started a multiversal war. So yeah, the TVA\u2019s hands are full, and of course, busy getting up to all sorts of wibbly, wobbly, timey, wimey antics.<\/p>\n

Read on to find out exactly what went down at the end of the first episode, and what that post-credit scene might mean.<\/p>

Loki season 2 episode 1 ending explained: What happened to Loki?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Ke Huy Quan as OB, Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15, Tom Hiddleston as Loki, and Owen Wilson as Mobius in Loki season 2.<\/span><\/figcaption> Gareth Gatrell\/Marvel<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Hunter B-15 (played by Wunmi Mosaku) is dealing with the shattering of the Sacred Timeline and the realisation that everyone at the TVA had a life on the timeline.<\/p>\n

Mobius and B-15 are summoned to the war room to speak to General Dox (Katie Dickie) and Judge Gamble (Liz Carr), interrogating them about why they put out an order to stop pruning. B-15 attempts to tell them that the TVA has been committing \u201catrocities\u201d and Gamble tells the TVA to stop pruning immediately.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, in the midst of his time-slipping, Loki hears a voice recording of He Who Remains telling Renslayer he would be \u201cproud to lead\u201d with her. He rocks up at the meeting in the war room, showing them that He Who Remains built the TVA and \u201cstole their lives\u201d. Dox orders her subordinates to find Sylvie.<\/p>\n

Loki recounts what happened with He Who Remains at the end of time to Mobius and, after a few more instances of some very painful time-slipping, the pair head to repairs and advancements to chat to new pal OB (who we also find out wrote the TVA handbook \u2013 maybe keep that in mind).<\/p>\n

As Loki slips back into the past, OB creates a plan to bring him back to the present \u2013 for Mobius to use a temporal aural extractor amid the temporal loom (the heart of the TVA\u2019s power) to pull Loki out of the time stream and bring him back to to the present.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Loki has to prune himself to rip himself from time and space so as the extractor can pull him into the present. Easy!<\/p>\n

OB establishes that the branching on the timeline is overloading the temporal loom. Mobius begins his mission, heading out into the temporal loom to bring Loki back \u2013 and OB instructs Loki to prune himself. Loki time-slips again and finds himself in the future.<\/p>\n

He hears a phone ring but, on his way to answer it, he sees Sylvie pushing open an elevator door. Loki is seemingly pruned, which results in him crashing back into the present at the last minute. Upon his return, he says: \u201cWe need to find Sylvie.\u201d<\/p>\n

So who actually pruned him? And where is Sylvie? Only time will tell!<\/p>