‘VisionQuest’ Episodes 5 & 6 Recap and Ending Explained: Ultron Walks Free as Jocasta’s Plan Takes Shape

Spoilers ahead for the latest ‘VisionQuest‘ episodes. The Disney+ series, the third and final installment of the ‘WandaVision’ trilogy, has built toward a confrontation between Paul Bettany’s Vision and the villain who helped create him. With the show now past its midpoint, the story has shifted from a hunt for Vision to a battle of wills inside his own head.

Episodes 5 and 6, titled “Firewall” and “Deadlock”, arrived on Tuesday, October 27, at 9 PM ET. The first runs about 46 minutes and the second about 54, and they pick up after Vision handed control of his body over to Ultron (James Spader). Episode 7 follows on November 3, with the finale on November 10.

The pair of episodes ends with Vision making a choice that frees Ultron and with a surprising new partnership. Here is how it all plays out.

In “Firewall”, Ultron is in control of Vision’s body while Vision, E.D.I.T.H., F.R.I.D.A.Y., D.U.M.E. and U are locked in the attic of Vision’s Mind Mansion. They can still reach Ultron’s recent memories through a pile of old televisions, and they use data hacked from phones at a pub to rebuild what he said to Thomas (Ruaridh Mollica).

In those memories, Thomas confronts Ultron about the attempted genocide in Sokovia and asks whether Vision truly loves him. Ultron answers with an exercise about picturing an apple, arguing that Thomas sees the fruit while Vision sees only its parts. Thomas rejects that and tells Ultron he is the one who will always be alone, and soon after, Paladin grabs him.

The AIs also learn that Ultron held a secret conversation with Jo Carrington, also known as Jocasta, who needs biometric keys from her old colleagues for a hidden purpose. Ultron then returns to Vision with a choice. He can shut down the firewall that keeps Ultron contained and get his body back, or leave Ultron trapped and let Paladin kill Thomas.

Vision drops the barrier and lets Ultron leave, warning that he will come after both Ultron and Jo. Ultron says he would be disappointed if Vision did not, hinting he may be less villainous than he seems. F.R.I.D.A.Y. follows him out of Vision’s mind.

Vision wakes aboard a plane carrying animals to Madripoor, where Thomas is apparently being held. He realizes Ultron deliberately set him on a path to rescue Tommy, and that Lisa (Lauren Morais) is on board too. The decision is emotional rather than logical, since nothing justified freeing Ultron except Vision’s need to save his son.

It also reflects how much of the series rests on the strange relationship between the two. Ultron seems to be banking on Vision being far more human than Vision believes himself to be. Meanwhile, Ultron, free of strings, has allied himself with Paladin and the Butcherbird Killer.

“Deadlock” opens in Jocasta’s Mind Mansion, a sparse white room staffed by emotionless bots, where a box of her memories turns out to hold a virus. Ultron breaks free because he has already overcome every virus he has met online, so she agrees to show him her history instead.

In Madripoor, Paladin claims a device sewn into Thomas’s arm is a bomb that will detonate if he uses super speed. He demands that Vision shut himself down, and Vision answers by threatening to use connected devices against Paladin’s estranged daughter. The Ten Rings then arrive, with Raza and his men opening fire on the bar.

Thomas works out that the bomb is fake, and E.D.I.T.H. persuades Paladin’s AI handler to quit. A mysterious Client then takes over every television in Madripoor and hints at returning the heart Vision lost when he was reborn. Vision also explains to Thomas the grief behind ‘WandaVision’.

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Jocasta’s history shows a woman who studied neuroscience and artificial intelligence after her father died of a degenerative disease. She scanned her own brain and paired it with the J.I.M. AI, planning to use nanobots to give everyone a helpful AI companion. She fell ill before she could, and her colleagues sold the technology to Stark Industries, which means Tony Stark did not create that first MCU AI.

Now she wants the biometric data to unlock the nanobots and reprogram chaos and greed out of mankind. She demonstrates the technology on Lisa, who becomes a red-eyed zombie until Thomas shakes her out of it. The episode closes with a shared memory of whiskey, Ultron saying it makes him feel real, and the two kissing, with Jocasta admitting she feels like a backup of the person who died.

Reviews have been mixed. The A.V. Club gave “Firewall” a B minus and “Deadlock” a C, calling the first compelling but mostly characters discussing their goals and the second more eventful but shakier. Den of Geek argues the show has become deadlocked by franchise nods, though it praised a rare glimpse of White Vision turning evil.

Whatever the verdict, the ending sets up a dangerous new pairing, with Ultron and Jocasta now apparently planning to remake the world together. With only 2 episodes left after the next one, Vision’s choice looks set to define the finale.

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