The MindF***k That Is WandaVision's 4th Episode

WandaVision Episode 4 is now streaming on Disney+. With the new episode, Marvel returns to a familiar reality. Spoilers for the episode below, so if you haven't watched it yet – you've been warned.

The episode revealed a lot about what happened in the previous three episodes, but it also confirms a grand theory about the show. Without explaining detail after detail for those who already watched it, it is a revealing one.

THE OUTSIDE WORLD

From the first two episodes, Geraldine wakes up in our real world in a hospital after everyone who disappeared from Thanos's snap in Avengers: Infinity War re-appears, confirming the show takes place after the events of Avengers: Endgame. But this episode is only getting started.

Geraldine, who we later find out to be an older version of Monica Rambeau, the child in Captain Marvel, discovers that Westview's town isn't real. She is informed of this by F.B.I. agent Jimmy Woo, who appeared in Ant-Man and the Wasp. Early on, we find out that whatever reality Westview is in is separated from the actual world by a forcefield, which Monica gets sucked into after unleashing a toy coloured airplane (the one find Wanda finds in episode 2) into the town. She is now in Wanda's reality, which tells us how she becomes known as Geraldine.

After Monica disappears into the abyss, we are re-acquainted with Darcy Lewis, who appeared in the Thor movies. Darcy's role in this episode is to dissect the Westview phenomenon, as it's now called.

Darcy finds a large amount of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). CMBR is the tone that separates the fictional reality of Westview from the physical world. As the episode continues, the S.W.O.R.D. The team tries to dissect what is happening in WandaVision's world.

We find out that the mysterious bee man Wanda and Vision sees coming out of the sewer in episode 1 is also one of the S.W.O.R.D. Also, the voice coming through the radio proclaiming, "Wanda, Wanda, who's doing this to you Wanda?" is the voice of Jimmy Woo, the F.B.I. agent.

However, it's not until the end that we realize when the series occurs in the MCU and what's really going on. The wand takes place post-Endgame. This means Vision is still dead, so why is he still alive in the show, you ask?

Well, it seems Wanda is using him as a puppet in her artificial reality. After Wanda expels Geraldine, a.k.a Monic Rambeau, from the scene at the end of episode 3, we see the horrifying visual of Vision's corpse as it was at the end of Infinity War, after Thanos pulled the mind-stone from Vision's head.

Wanda quickly realizes that she doesn't want this to be her reality, so she uses her abilities to fabricate him back to his old self. And soon after, she and Vision go about their "normal" 1970s-sitcom-inspired lives. She then asks her dead version of Vision, whom we now know she is only using her powers to pretend is alive, "What should we watch tonight?" as the show fades to black on an ominous new perspective of the sitcom world.

There are, unfortunately, several occurrences in the first few episodes of the series where we see Wanda's fake reality is unstable and can be broken in itself. It may only be a matter of time now, then, as to how long Wanda can keep it stable in this other world.

WandaVision episode 5 comes out on Friday. Stay tuned for next week's analysis. In the meantime, we can only continue to speculate.