Loki's 'Breaking Brad' Sees the God of Mischief Tapping Into His Old Self

Loki season two, episode two, “Breaking Bad,” finds Loki (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson) chasing X-5 (Rafael Casal) to find out if he’s located Sylvie (Sophia di Martino). The Marvel Studios series jumps right back into the time crunch to save multiple timeline branches as they’re getting pruned.

It’s 1977 in London; X-5 is Brad Wolfe, star of Zaniac, and Mobius and Loki go after him thinking he’s under cover. During the chase they realize he isn’t and has adapted to life on the sacred timeline. Loki uses his magic to bring him in and things get a little dark, with flashes of the old Loki in his desperation to get answers.

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Outside, Loki explains to Sylvie that he saw the future when he was being pulled through time and saw her at the TVA. She wants nothing to do with it and calls him out for becoming a TVA man. X-5 and Mobius have a great scene where they comment on Loki and Sylvie’s relationship between themselves. X-5 wants to leave because if they stay everyone’s going to die. Sylvie reaches into Brad’s chest and sees that Dox is bombing branches. They track her team down and derail the attack to save as many branches as possible. Loki and Sylvie magic them down to size, but it’s too late for a lot of the branches. Back at the TVA, B-15 and the team watch in horror at the branches being pruned. It’s tragic and Sylvie realizes that it’s the broken TVA that’s making this mess.

At the end they get a hit on Renslayer’s temp pad and decide to follow.

Loki season two streams Thursdays on Disney+.

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