Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Mike Redmond | TV | November 11, 2026
I'm not even sure where to start with the VisionQuest finale because while it mostly stuck the landing, and kinda wrapped up "The WandaVision Trilogy," you've probably already seen headlines and/or social media posts about the massive reveal in the post-credits scene. I won't spoil it right out of the gate, but it was reportedly hidden from advance screeners, so nobody had any idea this thing was coming. That was clearly done for maximum hype, which worked like gangbusters, but it also did zero favors to VisionQuest.
Marvel's double-edged sword has always been its post-credit scenes. On the one hand, it shows that fan frenzy for this world and characters is still off the charts. On the other, it creates a vicious circle where the story that just unfolded matters less than the promise of what's to come. In this case, VisionQuest got absolutely steamrolled by what Marvel is hoping is a one-ton mega-bomb that will restore the franchise to its glory days. I'm talking, of course, about Avengers: Doomsday.
But before we get into that, I'm going to try and talk about the VisionQuest finale before it got sucked into the Marvel black hole. Picking up from last week's episode, Vision (Paul Bettany) and Jocasta (T'Nia Miller) find themselves working as silent servants inside the home of The Client, who we now know is some dude that looks exactly like Ultron's human avatar. If you guessed that this character is the grandson of Phineas Horton, pat yourself on the back. He is indeed Virgil Horton (James Spader), son of the cruelly ignored Victoria Horton from the Episode 7 flashback. He's also the late Jo Carrington's husband, which brings us to his evil plot.
Yes, Virgil is a brilliant scientist like his grandfather, hence how he now has control over Vision and Jocasta, but his pursuits were never altruistic. He had just one purpose on his mind: "reclamation." You see, old mom died penniless thanks to Grandpa squandering the family fortune on an android that couldn't stop bursting into flames. The family name became a punchline: "Don't Horton it." And Virgil did not love that.
While his wife, Jo, thought they were working towards helping humanity with their AI research, Virgil was in it for the money and couldn't sell the tech to Tony Stark fast enough. When her consciousness was transferred into a synthezoid body before she died -- Virgil was part of the S.W.O.R.D. team that rebuilt Vision -- she reacted with violent rage when she awoke, prompting Virgil to delete all memories of him. Until now.
Like Ultron, Virgil is also a horny fella, and that's where Vision comes in. The series-long pursuit to capture him was for one very base purpose: A handsome, powerful body to transfer his own consciousness into, allowing Virgil to be with Jo for centuries, and you know, do stuff. Oh, and they'll also enslave humanity using her nano-bots in the other room.
As this little reunion is taking place, Tommy (Ruaridh Mollica) and Lisa (Lauren Morais) are watching the WandaVision files from S.W.O.R.D. They're supposed to be staying put, but naturally, Tommy is hell-bent on saving Vision. He's also starting to piece together how the heck he even exists, and that's when he comes to a realization: Billy (Joe Locke) has to be out there somewhere and with similar powers to Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen). Maybe he can help.
Submerging himself underwater, Tommy manages to form a psychic connection with Billy, which finally reunites the brothers. In what will be a theme for this episode, all of this happens very quickly. However, Billy is still in New Jersey and has no way to get to London. Although, he does argue with an unseen voice who thinks otherwise, making Tommy wonder if everyone in this family has imaginary friends. (If you watched Agatha All Along, you know exactly who that voice is.)
Realizing they're on their own, Tommy and Lisa hook up with Paladin (Todd Stashwick), who is still alive outside of Virgil's estate thanks to E.D.I.T.H. (Emily Hampshire) seeing that rocket launcher coming. The plan: Tommy is going to speed his way into the mansion and take out the security cameras so Paladin can do his thing without getting immediately shot. But first, some syrupy dialog from Tommy about how "he's not an Avenger" followed by Lisa telling him that he's whoever he wants to be. Subtle this show is not.
Tommy does make it in, but he quickly finds Vision in the middle of having his data erased to make room for Virgil's consciousness. Despite Tommy speeding around the room, Vision can still see him and tells the boy to destroy Virgil's iPad. Tommy isn't on board with this plan because of the guards packing adamantium guns, but then Jocasta pipes up because, surprise, she can see Tommy, too. She cosigns Vision's plan, and in turn, Vision says Tommy can trust her. "She's family."
Tommy smashes the device, and it's sh*t-kicking time. Vision and Jocasta wreck the guards, and Jocasta wastes no time going for Virgil. She tells him he made a huge mistake restoring her memories, and he'll soon make an even more fatal one. Virgil blasts a hole in Jocasta with one of the guard's fallen guns, which is a bad move considering she tossed the hard drive holding Ultron's consciousness into the nano-bot swarm. Our horny boy rebuilds his robot body with the bots and doesn't waste a second giving Virgil the Kingpin treatment by bear-hugging him to death until his head pops.
As Jocasta dies in Ultron's arms, Vision knows exactly where this is heading and tells Tommy to get out of the room. Now. Ultron barely needs an excuse to get his murder on as it is, so this situation easily snapped him right back into wanting to destroy humanity. Cue the CGI super fight where Vision does a surprising amount of karate, but this version of Ultron is just too powerful. He easily cleans Vision's clock then gets to work aiming his nano-swarm at London with the express purpose of killing any hosts it infects.
Realizing fists aren't going to solve this problem, Vision has only one option: Somehow change Ultron's mind. With E.D.I.T.H's help, the two trap Ultron in a sitcom simulation à la WandaVision in attempt to help him process his grief. Naturally, this does not start out great, and it goes south pretty quickly as Ultron has no trouble exerting control. More importantly, a Marvel battle involved James Spader pausing the action to announce, "I'm going to take a sh*t." I'd be remiss if I didn't encourage everyone to make space for that.
Anyway, Vision eventually wears Ultron down, both emotionally and physically, as this whole effort burned up their power cores. Moved by Vision's attempt at connection, Ultron calls off the swarm, and now, there's just the matter of Vision dying. Tommy doesn't have enough power to jumpstart again, but he's soon joined by someone who can: Billy. The brothers recharge dear old dad, and it's a touching family reunion. Sure, it also saved Ultron, who's now running free, but look at that hug action.
With the day saved, Vision is done living in his head. He shuts down his whole little mind place operation, freeing the other AIs to chose their own paths. In E.D.I.T.H's case, working for Paladin along with Lisa. As for Tommy, he's on his way to New Jersey to permanently reunite with Billy, but not before one last goodbye with Vision that raises the question on everyone's mind. If Vision, Billy, and Tommy are still around, does that mean Wanda is, too?
If you were hoping that the conclusion of "The WandaVision Trilogy" would actually involve Wanda, who hasn't been in one of these things since COVID, the answer is no. (But then yes.) Inside the episode proper, Vision just smiles and says that he's sure she's out there somewhere. And that's it. Fade to black after a final phone call wishing Ultron well with his second chance.
After a fake-out post-credits scene with infuriating implications I'll get to shortly, another scene quickly fires up and shows Wanda bringing Mount Wundagore down on her head in the final moments of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. However, we're greeted with her gasping awake while she's bathed in green light thanks to Doctor Doom clearing away the rubble and ominously saying, "Your power will be mine."
There were already strong theories that Wanda is the Latverian Witch shown at Comic-Con over the summer and that Doomsday would pull elements from "The Children's Crusade" comics. All of that now looks like a very safe bet, but it's also the woodchipper that just mulched VisionQuest because guess what scene has dominated the discourse since last night.
Of course, this raises the question of whether Tommy, Billy, and Vision will be key players in Doomsday? If so, that's even more characters stuffed into a movie that plans to smash together the Fox X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Thunderbolts, Black Panther, two Captain Americas, Thor, the events of Loki, Ant-Man, and presumably the Young Avengers at this point. Good luck with all that!
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-- That Ultron post-credits scene. While it was clearly underwhelming to throw advance screeners off the scent of the Wanda reveal, it's infuriating for another reason: He can bring Jocasta back at any time. The entire climax of the finale was built around his grief from letting her die, as she wished, but now, he just... won't do that? My head hurts. My head hurts so much.
So, yeah, that's the end of VisionQuest. In theory, it's also the end of "The WandaVision Trilogy," but obviously, that's not the case because these characters still have unfinished business. That, plus this show lacking the brilliant touch of Jac Schaeffer that was fully present in WandaVision and Agatha All Along, definitely makes it the weakest of the three. Don't get me wrong, I stand by my framing that VisionQuest is much more Return of the Jedi than The Rise of Skywalker. But punting a reunion with Wanda into Doomsday, or Christ, Secret Wars leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
However, after the events of this week, Marvel is the only superhero game in town, so what am I supposed to do? Wait around for another DC reboot? I guess I should start broadening my horizons. What's this Black Doves show I keep hearing about...
Fin.
