Moon Knight Episode 5 Easter Eggs
Warning: The following contains spoilers for Moon Knight Episode 5 “The Asylum.”Picking up where the cliffhanger of Episode 4 left the audience, Moon Knight’s Episode 5 offers up some explanations for the medical facility where Marc Spector and Steven Grant find themselves. It also takes the audience on a trip down memory lane, revealing the traumas that shaped Marc and Steven’s life. Each door in the facility provides an entry point into a different memory as the two “open up” to one another in an effort to balance their scales.
The episode has a handful of Easter eggs for the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe and for the comic books, but as was the case with the previous episode, it’s largely self-referential. There are quite a few callbacks to earlier episodes and details to connect the different aspects of Marc and Steven’s previously separate lives.
Moon Knight Episode 5 Review
Just as many fans speculated at the inclusion of a medical facility at the end of Episode 4, this particular medical facility is directly inspired by the comics. This week, it gets a name: Putnam Medical Facility.
That’s not an exact match to the hospital that appears in the 2016 Moon Knight comic book run, but it is close. Putnam Psychiatric Hospital is the name of the facility in which Marc Spector’s father admits his son to get him help for his Dissociative Identity Disorder. When his father dies, Marc is granted permission to leave for the funeral, but Marc runs as it’s the first time Khonshu’s voice calls to him.
When Tawaret explains to Marc and Steven that they are, in fact, technically dead and in the Egyptian version of the afterlife, she discusses the fact that there are many versions of the afterlife as connected spaces. She cites one of
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