(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
(CREATURE ROARING)
(CREATURE ROARS)
(CONVERSING IN SPANISH)
(HIGH-PITCHED HUMMING)
(IN ENGLISH) The Book of Vishanti!
(ICE CRACKING)
(CREATURE ROARS)
DEFENDER STRANGE: We can't let it take your power.
Get to the book.
How do we get across? Jump.
(BOTH YELLING)
(GIRL SCREAMING) Hold on!
GIRL: No, no, no!
(GRUNTS)
(CREATURE ROARS)
(GROANING)
(ROARS)
(GRUNTS)
(SNARLING)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTS)
(STRAINS, GRUNTS)
(STRAINING)
(PANTING)
(CREATURE SNARLS)
DEFENDER STRANGE: It's too strong.
I can't hold it.
(GROANS)
(FLESH SEARING)
(GROANING) (CREATURE GROWLS)
(GASPS)
(PANTING)
I'm so sorry.
This is the only way.
(GASPS)
What're you doing?
I can't let that thing take your power.
You can't control it.
But I can.
But we're friends.
You're killing me.
I know.
But in the grand calculus of the Multiverse,
your sacrifice is worth more than your...
(DEFENDER STRANGE GROANING)
(GRUNTS)
(GRUNTING)
(CREATURE GROWLS)
(GRUNTING)
(SNARLS)
(GRUNTS)
(SCREAMS)
(EXPLODING)
(DRAMATIC CHORAL MUSIC PLAYING)
(GRUNTS)
(GIRL SCREAMS)
(SCREAMING)
(GASPING)
(PANTING)
(WATCH TICKING)
(SIGHS)
(SNAPS FINGERS)
(SOFT ORGAN MUSIC PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Excuse me. May I?
Thanks.
Doctor Strange.
Doctor West.
Haven't seen you in a while.
Yeah, I was a little preoccupied being dust there for five years, so...
So were a lot of us.
While I was gone,
thank you for asking,
I lost both my cats...
and my brother.
I'm very sorry.
Thank you.
I, uh...
I guess what keeps me up at night is wondering,
did it have to happen that way?
Was there any other path?
No.
No, I made the only play we had.
Well, of course you did.
The best surgeon and the best superhero.
But you still didn't get the girl.
(BRIDAL MARCH PLAYING)
(PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING)
(CLEARS THROAT)
Glass of red, please.
Oh, allow me, miss. Mm.
Ah. Little too on the nose?
What? For you, at my wedding?
Nah. I think it was perfect. (CHUCKLES)
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Mm. There's Charlie.
I have to introduce you because he's kind of...
It's embarrassing, but he's a big fan, so...
Hey, uh, Christine. Um...
I should've...
(SIGHS)
I wish I'd have been different.
I never stopped caring about us.
But I had to make sacrifices
to protect you.
I'm sorry.
It was never gonna work out between us.
Why not?
Because, Stephen,
you have to be the one holding the knife.
And I always respected you for it,
but I couldn't love you for it.
(SIGHS)
How long you had that one in the barrel?
Long time.
Yeah. I bet.
Look, um...
Truly, I'm just glad that you're happy.
Mm.
I am.
I really, really am.
Good.
Are you?
I'm happy.
Good.
You deserve it.
(TIRES SCREECH) (CRASHING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
MAN: Oh, man. Look out! What is that?
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
Dude!
(CAR HORNS BLARING) (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(DOCTOR STRANGE THEME PLAYING)
Thank you.
(PEOPLE EXCLAIMING)
(PEOPLE SHOUTING)
(WHIMPERING)
(CREATURE GROWLS)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(SNARLS) (PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(GIRL WHIMPERING)
Wow! (CREATURE SNARLS)
(GRUNTS)
(SCREECHING)
(GASPS) No, no.
(GRUNTS)
(GASPING)
(GRUNTS)
(CREATURE SNARLS) Look out!
Do I know you?
(CREATURE GROWLS)
(GIRL SCREAMS) (GRUNTS)
(ROARS)
(LOUD HEARTBEAT)
(SQUELCHING)
(ROARS) (SCREAMS)
(YELPS)
(CRACKLING)
(HEROIC MUSIC PLAYING) (CREATURE ROARS)
(GRUNTING)
(YELLS)
(GROWLS)
(YELLS)
(WONG SHOUTING)
(GROANING)
(STRAINING)
(CREATURE SCREECHES)
(WONG YELLING)
(GIRL SCREAMING)
(CREATURE SNARLS)
(MAN GROANING)
(ENGINE REVVING) (GIRL GROANING)
(CREATURE GROWLING)
(PEOPLE WHIMPERING)
WONG: Help!
(GRUNTS)
You're welcome.
You know it's ancient custom
to bow in the presence of the Sorcerer Supreme?
Yeah, I'm aware of the customs.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
DOCTOR STRANGE: Hold it, hold it! Whoa!
(BOTH GRUNT)
(CREATURE GROWLING)
(SCREAMING)
(EXCLAIMING)
(GRUNTS)
(GIRL EXCLAIMING)
(PEOPLE GASPING)
(CREATURE SNARLING) (SIGHS)
(LAUGHS) Whoa.
That's incredible.
Yeah.
(DOCTOR STRANGE GRUNTS)
Oh, God!
(YELLS, GRUNTS)
(DOCTOR STRANGE GRUNTING)
(GIRL GRUNTS)
(CREATURE SNARLS)
(GRUNTING)
(GRUNTS)
(STRAINING)
(DOCTOR STRANGE YELPING) (CREATURE GROANS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(SIRENS WAILING) (INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Who's this?
Yeah, I was gonna ask the same question.
Hey, kid.
What did that creature want with you?
Where're your parents?
We'll take her back to the Sanc...
She took my Slingie.
She took your Slingie.
(PANTING)
WOMAN: Yeah, it was crazy, man.
Oh, my God!
I'm not gonna kill you, kid.
I just bust my ass trying to save your life, remember?
Giant monsters I can clearly handle,
but what bothers me is that last night, you were in my dream.
That wasn't a dream.
It was another universe.
How much experience do you guys have with the Multiverse?
We have experience of the Multiverse.
Most recently, there was an incident with Spider-Man.
(SCOFFS) What man?
Spider-Man. He has the powers of a spider.
Hence the name. Gross.
Does he look like a spider? No. No, more like a man.
Climbs walls, shoots webs.
DOCTOR STRANGE: Yeah. Bingo. Out of his butt?
No. No.
Well, maybe, I don't know.
Honestly, I hope not.
GIRL: Super weird.
You're gonna get a stomach ache.
I'm from another universe.
How do you know my stomach works the same as yours?
I don't.
I don't even know if you're from another universe,
which is why I'm still sitting here, waiting for you
to enlighten us. (SPEAKING SPANISH)
(SNICKERS) (IN ENGLISH) Which means?
(SPEAKING SPANISH)
(CHUCKLES)
(IN ENGLISH) Look, I left a very nice wedding
to save a smart-ass kid from getting eaten by an octopus.
Whose wedding? Now tell me...
Christine's. You went?
Holy shit, you married Christine?
Do you mind? Yes, I do.
No, I didn't. Yes.
You need to explain to me what's going on.
Why was that octopus trying to eat you?
That thing was trying to kidnap me.
It's like a henchman who works for a demon.
All we knew is that they wanted to take my power for themselves.
What power?
I can travel the Multiverse.
What?
You can physically move from one universe to another?
Mm-hmm. How?
That's the problem. I don't know how.
Can't control it.
Only happens when I'm really, really afraid.
Okay. And did Other Me know how to defeat this demon?
GIRL: Well, you guys knew
of this magical book of pure good
that gives a sorcerer whatever they need to defeat their enemy.
The Book of Vishanti?
It's not real.
It's a fairy tale. It doesn't exist.
Actually, it does.
I found out in the secret book you get when you become Sorcerer Supreme.
DOCTOR STRANGE: Unbelievable.
You're not the Sorcerer Supreme?
No, I'm not the Sorcerer Supreme.
Other You was Sorcerer Supreme of his universe.
DOCTOR STRANGE: Right. Yeah.
Although it does exist,
the Book of Vishanti is said to be unreachable.
It is. Except...
we reached it.
Then the demon caught up with us.
I thought you'd protect me...
but you didn't.
That was the fight in my dream.
That wasn't a dream.
Prove it.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYS)
It wasn't a dream.
That means...
dreams are windows into the lives of our Multiversal selves.
That was his theory.
So, that recurring nightmare where I'm running naked from a clown...
Somewhere out there, it's real.
Somewhere out there I had a ponytail.
WONG: There could be more creatures coming for her.
The power is dangerous enough in the hands of a kid.
Imagine if a real threat acquired it?
It occurs to me, young one, we don't know your name.
America Chavez.
Miss Chavez, will you come with us to Kamar-Taj?
You'll be safe there.
How do I know you won't betray me like he did?
I guess you're just gonna have to trust me.
WONG: What do we do with him?
(CLEARS THROAT)
That's gotta violate an ordinance.
Ah, I've buried worse.
The creature that killed him, did...
did it have the same markings as the octopus?
Runes.
This isn't sorcery.
It's witchcraft.
Do we know anyone who's faced such a thing?
(WANDAVISION THEME PLAYING)
I think I might.
Chocolate! Hey! What did I say?
But we couldn't wait.
But what did I say?
Oh! (LAUGHS)
Go wash your hands.
(TENDER MUSIC PLAYING)
Mom, come on. We're too old for that.
Oh, okay.
You can tuck me in, Mom.
I will.
You know, a family is forever.
We could never truly leave each other, even if we tried.
Mom, I changed my mind.
You can come tuck me in if you want.
Okay.
(CHUCKLES)
Love you.
(WANDA SHIVERS)
(WANDA CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
(GASPS) (MUSIC STOPS)
(SIGHS SOFTLY)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
Apples, right?
Eventually. Hmm.
(SNIFFS)
Smells... Sweet.
I was gonna say real.
Oh, it's all very real, thanks.
I've put the magic behind me.
So I can see.
Well, I knew sooner or later you'd show up,
wanting to discuss what happened at Westview.
I made mistakes, and people were hurt...
But you put things right in the end, and that was never in doubt.
I'm not here to talk about Westview.
Then what are you here for?
We need your help.
With what?
What do you know about the Multiverse?
The Multiverse.
Vis had his theories.
He believed it was real, and dangerous.
Well, he was right about both.
We found a girl who can somehow travel across it,
but she's being pursued.
Pursued by who? Some kind of demon.
One that covets her power for itself. Ah.
We've taken her to Kamar-Taj, and we've got our defenses,
but we could use an Avenger.
There are other Avengers.
Yeah, but given the choice between the archer with the mohawk
and several bug-themed crime fighters,
or one of the most powerful magic-wielders on the planet...
(LAUGHS) ...it's an easy call.
Come to Kamar-Taj.
It'll get you back on the lunch box.
What if you brought America here?
Here?
Yeah. I know what it's like to be on your own,
hunted for abilities you never wanted,
and I can protect her.
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS)
You never told me her name, did you?
No.
Mm. No, I didn't.
You know, the Hex was the easy part.
The lying, not so much.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
The Darkhold.
You're familiar with the Darkhold?
I know it's the Book of the Damned,
and that it corrupts everything and everyone that it touches.
I wonder what it's done to you.
The Darkhold only showed me the truth.
Everything I lost can be mine again.
What do you want with America?
What do you want with the Multiverse?
I'm going to leave this reality
and go to one where I can be with my children.
Wanda, your children aren't real.
You created them using magic.
That's what every mother does.
If you knew
there was a universe
where you were happy,
wouldn't you want to go there?
I am happy.
I know better than most what self-deception looks like.
What you're doing is a flagrant violation of every natural law,
and if you take that child's power,
she won't survive.
I don't relish hurting anyone, Stephen.
But she's not a child.
She's a supernatural being.
Such raw power could wreak havoc on this
and other worlds.
Her sacrifice
would be for the greater good.
Well, you can kiss the lunch box goodbye,
'cause that's the kind of justification our enemies use.
Is it the one you used
when you gave Thanos the Time Stone?
That was a war, and I did what I had to do.
You break the rules and become a hero.
I do it, and I become the enemy.
That doesn't seem fair.
What happens now?
Return to Kamar-Taj
and prepare to hand over America Chavez by sundown.
Peacefully.
After that...
You'll never see me again.
And if we don't?
Then it won't be Wanda who comes for her.
It will be the Scarlet Witch.
(OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
(SOFTLY) The Scarlet Witch.
Wanda's gone.
She's got the Darkhold, and the Darkhold has her.
The Scarlet Witch is a being of unfathomable magic.
She can rewrite reality as she chooses,
and is prophesized to either rule
or annihilate the cosmos.
She took over a whole town using her mind.
If she gets America's power,
she could enslave the entire Multiverse.
So, the person you went to ask for help,
and told exactly where I am,
is the person that's trying to kill me?
Yeah.
Suspend teaching at once and arm the students.
Kamar-Taj must now become a fortress.
(DRUMS BEATING) (BELL RINGS)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING)
Wow.
It's the masters of the Hong Kong and London Sanctums.
(SPEAKING CANTONESE)
(IN ENGLISH) Whatever the Sorcerer Supreme asks of us,
it shall be done.
SORCERER: Extra duty men, follow me.
It's ancient custom.
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
(DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES)
(RUMBLING)
(WIND WHOOSHING)