Was Moon Knight's Big Twist A Trick?
Warning: SPOILERS for Moon Knight season 1 episode 4.
Moon Knight season 1, episode 4 revealed a plot twist after the first 36 minutes of the episode that might have been a game-changer if it's real–but it may also prove to be a trick. The Disney+ original Marvel miniseries established itself as intentionally mysterious from the beginning, juxtaposing Oscar Isaac’s Steven Grant's and Marc Spector's alters vying for control. Despite Marc Spector’s mysterious attitude about his true intentions with both Steven and the viewers, though, Moon Knight didn’t stray too much from the action-adventure genre and the themes it introduced in episodes 1 to 3. Instead, it is Moon Knight episode 4’s ending twist that may potentially subvert the worldbuilding created by the previous episodes by implying that the entire adventure thus far has simply been a dream of Marc's, who is a patient in a mental hospital.
Moon Knight episode 4, “The Tomb,” starts as a race against time for Marc and Layla (May Calamawy) to stop Arthur Harrow (Ethan Hawke) from reaching Ammit’s tomb. But after Marc is shot by Harrow and appeared to be dead, he seemingly woke up in a mental hospital in a particularly shocking twist. The scene heavily implied everything seen until that moment was a figment of Marc’s imagination, with callbacks to previous episodes, such as the fact that «Steven Grant» is apparently a name Marc got from a B-movie about an archaeologist that Marc always watched. All the other patients and staff of the facility were characters and faces previously encountered by Marc throughout Moon Knight, and Marc's psychiatrist, who looks exactly like Arthur Harrow, explained to a skeptical Marc that he can't separate what was real from what he
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