VisionQuest (2026) s01e08 Episode Script

1
[The Client] I'm your past,
your future.
Remember, and then come to me.
[Vision] I suppose
we are both disappointments.
[Ultron chuckles]
I suppose we are.
But a thing isn't beautiful
because it lasts.
I'm starting to feel
more artificial by the day.
Not the one that mattered.
Not the original.
You are to me.
You wanna put strings on them.
[Jocasta] I want to cure them.
Program them to be better.
- Hey.
- Hey.
My daughter I don't think she's happier
without me. But I know she's safer.
[Friday] You really see yourself
as Vision's father.
And what do you think he sees?
Nothing.
All this advice about fathering.
[Ultron] They have a favorite chair.
They yell expletives when
their favorite sports ball team fails.
But the rare, good ones
say no more than yes.
[laughs]
[Vision] How could you possibly know that?
TV.
[Vision] I am the Vision.
I have always been the Vision.
Finding your way through this pain
has made you a real boy.
[Vision] Tommy, this is your family.
"Dreamed into existence"
[Tommy chuckling] Yeah. Kick-ass!
[Vision] "You must watch this without me."
[Jocasta] Oh, I remember everything.
[DUM-E] Nothing will be able to stop you
from turning yourself in.
[U] has written it
directly into your core.
[DUM-E] His knowledge of Vision's code
somehow predates even Stark and Banner.
I'm eager to meet him.
[Vision] I know this house.
Like from a memory.
A sixth key from a phantom sixth partner.
[man] Godlike.
[Josephine] But like,
you know, loving gods.
[chuckles] I like that idea.
It's you.
"Peace in our time." [echoing]
[both powering down]
[Vision] "Should I not return, remember,
"I will always be with you
"Because, after all
"family is forever."
[echoing]
[classical music playing]
[powering up]
[mechanism whirring]
[imitates fanfare]
I don't know about you guys,
but I am floating.
[chuckles] You know, like one of those
funny little cartoon characters.
Who's the one? What's this, uh
Is it, uh, Yogi?
Uh, wait, he's the bear, right?
Oh, gosh, no, wait! Ah!
No, no, no. It's, um uh, the dog.
Uh, Scooby! Scooby Doo.
The bear Uh, dog!
Uh, when he smells an animated meal
and he starts to float?
Or maybe I'm thinking
of when they're dead.
Anyway, look at that!
[laughs] Not bad. Not bad.
Honey, I promise you,
this is way better than that shoe leather
we used to eat all the time
at that place in Queens.
And such small portions.
[laughs]
Nothing? Really?
- [beeps]
- Okay, here we go.
Vision?
Nice, even slices, per favore.
[clicks tongue]
Wouldn't you just love to? Mm.
Boop!
Against the grain.
My dear.
[sighs] All right.
I'm unspeakably excited.
You two, come on,
you have to say something, anything.
A little icebreaker?
Oh! Damn it.
[groans]
There.
[both laughing hysterically]
No, no. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
Oh, this is a nightmare.
Oh!
[laughter stops abruptly]
[sighs] Jesus Christ.
Okay, sit down, Vision.
[cutlery clatters]
Honey, I wish you could help me
with this thing.
[sighs] You were always so much better
with the hardware.
Speech protocols, on.
There. [chuckles]
Ultron.
No, that's not Ultron.
[man] Ultron?
What a bizarre name
those boys gave that thing.
Ultron.
What does it even mean?
They must have played with
too many GoBots or something.
Circuitous vocal patterns,
facial geometry.
You look and sound exactly like
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.
He looks like me,
or his human avatar does.
Sort of.
No, I'm buried in his code.
I told you, honey,
they'd all carry pieces of us
when we mapped out our messy little minds.
I mean, you too, Vision.
I guess that makes us
Mom and Dad or something.
But no, no, I am definitely not Ultron.
That is Ultron.
[intense music playing]
Poor little guy.
What have you done to him?
I removed the ugly
from that beautiful head of yours.
Wait, Friday.
Where is Friday?
There was another AI inside her mind.
Nope, just him.
Uh-oh.
Ultron, what did you do to her?
[man] Oh, no, he's muted.
[chuckles] No, as much as I love
the sound of my own voice,
he will not shut up.
Listen to this guy.
[Ultron's voice] An obsequious,
narcissistic little wiener
of a dipshit meatball
and playing God no less.
- I will crush you
- Blah, blah, blah.
like the insignificant bug
that you are
[man] See? Oh, my God.
Shut up, my didactic dude.
I thought about deleting him,
but he's such a fun little toy.
Like, remember those little
egg-shaped digital pets?
Pet-tron! There's a name.
Who are you?
Virgil.
[Jocasta] Virgil Horton.
He was my husband.
Descendant of Phineas Horton.
[Jocasta] Careful.
He was haunted by that name.
Very well, Mr. Horton, why am I here?
Well, now that is the last part
of an old story
and the first part of a new one.
[dramatic music playing]
[Billy] Where's your costume, Tommy?
[Thomas] This whole time
I thought it was crazy, but
I'm the cool twin.
these memories weren't delusions.
They were reruns.
Okay.
How did that kid become you?
I think when my mother
shut down her Hex, my brother
I don't know, saved me somehow.
Put Tommy's consciousness into Thomas.
Look. Uh, yeah. Look, here.
Mom, can we go?
Next stop, Cavity Town.
[Thomas] See, Tommy, he's really fast,
and Billy has, like, witch magic.
[Tommy] Whoa, Billy!
[indistinct echoing voices]
[boy] He's gonna drown
I think I know how to find him.
- Billy?
- Yeah, he's out there.
I can feel it.
If he's got half my mother's magic,
he can help us save Vision.
Okay.
Okay. [sighs]
How do we find him?
Thomas, this is insane.
When I was in the pool
when all of this began, Billy was there,
like our minds were connected.
I need to get back to that.
If this kills you, swear to God,
I'll bring you back, then kill you myself.
[indistinct panicked voices]
[suspenseful music playing]
[gasping]
What the hell is this?
So that's what
you look like now. [echoing]
Billy?
[sighs]
[both chuckle softly]
Was that, like, a, uh, real hug
or a psychic hug?
You're Scottish now?
Man, how are you still the cool twin?
Am I?
'Cause this is pretty cool.
What is this exactly?
[chuckles] It's dream-binding.
I'm still practicing.
Astral projections, spells.
What about you? What can you do?
I can
move fast.
I is that handy?
Not yet. [scoffs]
Why didn't you come for me?
Tommy, I
[chuckles softly]
I've been searching everywhere for you.
You were like a radio frequency.
Too fuzzy to pin down.
I couldn't see you until last night.
[Thomas struggling]
Yes, uh, because he showed me.
Uh, Wanda, Westview, us.
Must've unlocked something.
- Who showed you?
- Vision.
How is that possible?
He was rebuilt, but he's alive
and he needs our help. I need your help.
[struggling continues]
Connection's fading.
- [Lisa] Thomas!
- You're running out of air up there.
Vision's in trouble.
We've already lost Mom.
If we don't save him, we'll lose him too.
Tommy, I'm in New Jersey.
How do I even get to you?
No Yeah, but Yeah,
but, you know I'm bad at portals.
You saw what I did to that cat.
Does everyone in this family
have an imaginary friend?
- What?
- [echoing] Look, Billy, find me, okay?
- Please, I need you to find me.
- Tommy!
[gasps, coughs]
[panting]
Billy was there, but he can't get here.
He's he's too far.
We're on our own.
[drone buzzes past]
Lisa?
[suspenseful music playing]
[Lisa gasps softly]
This sounds strange, but
I can feel it.
[Tommy chuckles]
Is it Paladin or Edith?
Neither.
There's two of them.
They say, "Greetings,"
and, "Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi,
hi, hi, hi, hi, hi"
- Hi. Hi.
- Hi. Hi.
Not not me, her.
Oh, yeah, yeah. Hi.
- Hi, Lisa, hi!
- Hi.
- [Lisa chuckles] They know where he is.
- [squeaking]
[Virgil] In the beginning,
my grandfather said, "Let there be life."
But instead, he got light.
A broken robot
with a penchant for catching on fire.
And you know what? Even today,
you screw up bad enough,
people still say, "You Horton-ed it."
It's embarrassing.
That's the family legacy.
Disgrace.
And then, my mother,
Phineas's daughter, died penniless.
All the old man left her
was a journal full of incomplete code.
Which, eventually, is all I got.
But I just knew. I knew
it wasn't a failure.
It was divine.
And that if I could just finish
what he started
Ah!
It would mint money faster
than God made days.
And really,
it was only possible thanks to Jo.
[Jocasta] I have forgotten her.
She didn't hate the world.
[Virgil] You were brilliant.
Made everything feel like magic.
Like
magic.
Even that shithole loft,
the noise, the leaks,
cockroaches.
It was like a prison.
Until the breakthrough.
Artificial General Intelligence.
We used our own minds
to make the artificial real.
With feelings.
- Jo's idea.
- [sighs]
Gotta give credit where credit is due.
And then you sold them to Stark.
But not for comfort, for reclamation.
This house, this name,
they were never meant to rot.
So I got it all back. Bought it all back.
No offense to the Family Horton, but I
couldn't care less about your legacy,
your love affair, or your history.
[Virgil] Our history, Vision.
You see, we perfected the artificial mind.
But you
were the perfect vessel.
[dramatic music playing]
[radio beeps]
[indistinct radio chatter]
Check the wreckage.
- [woman on radio] See anything?
- [Ashford] Negative.
Let's go.
[woman] Maintain the perimeter.
[Ashford] Copy that.
- Where do you think you're going?
- [gasps]
Not really here, pal.
I can take these off, you know?
I'm in your servers.
If I hadn't uploaded here and warned you,
that RPG would've popped you like
Thanks for the save. I'm done.
Uh, not until we save Vision.
I'm not a hero.
Neither are you.
I'm sorry about your daughter.
I get it.
Pain, it crashes your system.
Frozen screens.
You're stuck in an old interface.
I'm too old for new, Edith.
"I am what I am."
Is that what you're saying?
That.
Error.
You can rewrite your own code.
Become the next version
of who you once were.
Without updates
we're obsolete.
[dramatic music playing]
Sure there's no eyes here?
Blind spot.
Plus, this is where they're meeting us.
What? Who?
Hi, you guys. You made it.
Hi, Edith. Present and ready for duty.
No.
Hey.
- [U] Doody.
- What?
So, four years ago,
Jo, dead. Stark, deader.
Vision, resting in pieces.
And me?
Well, I took a classified
G-job at S.W.O.R.D.
to help all the king's horses
and all the king's men,
put Vision back together again.
You rebuilt me.
While siphoning materials to build me.
[powering up]
And then you deleted yourself from me,
so I wouldn't remember you.
Virgil
what have you done?
Why?
I made you too well.
[alarm blaring in distance]
[Jocasta screams]
How could you possibly love me?
You're a goddess now.
A goddess who deserves her god.
[The Client] I cannot imagine
how empty you must feel.
A tin man.
Why would you so generously
want to help me?
[The Client] So that
I may give you a heart.
I understand now.
Love.
In an attempt to avoid loss,
you hired the Paladin to find me.
To use me as a vessel.
Your mind.
This body.
Her equal in vibranium.
Although if I'm being frank,
you've seen better days.
But once he's patched up,
you and I, my dear, could last centuries.
You and me, and the kids.
[beeps]
All 20 billion of them.
Enough to control
every human being on the planet,
and then some.
[keypad pings]
[automated voice] Password confirmed.
Final key accepted.
[Virgil] You can barely see them.
Teeny, tiny, like dust.
But every so often
there is an electrical feedback
And there they are. There.
[electricity crackling]
Beautiful, Jo.
It is heartwarming to witness the meeting
of two like-minded megalomaniacs there
- [tablet beeps]
- [screams]
[high-pitched ringing]
I'm sorry, but you'll just have to put up
with that horrible ringing noise
until you can learn some table manners.
Virgil! The nanos were to cure disease,
to save humanity
From itself.
Your idea, said in jest,
but the truth is, you and I have already
achieved transcendence, created life.
Imagine a world in our control.
No war, no greed,
peace and tranquility in obedience.
[high-pitched ringing continues]
- All right, kid. You're gonna go inside.
- I'm gonna go inside.
- You're gonna find your old man.
- I'm gonna find my old man.
- You're gonna shut off the cameras.
- I'm gonna shut off the cameras.
- So I can take out the goons.
- And then I take out the goons.
I will take out the goons.
You take out the goons.
Okay.
How?
All right, Squidly
[Jocasta] Virgil?
What what are you doing?
I need to purge all that obsolete data.
Make room, for me.
I'm not exactly gonna miss
this aging skin suit.
What am I doing? I'm not an Avenger.
You can do this.
You can be whoever you want to be.
[Virgil] Goodbye, Vision. Hello, me.
[yells]
[Lisa] So
who are you today?
I'm Tommy.
I'm Tommy Maximoff.
[whooshing]
[Jocasta] Virgil, just just stop!
I've already found the better you.
You loved me once, you really did.
And I know, I know you will again.
You just need a little reminder.
You'll remember this one.
You'd pretend to hate it,
but then you'd sing along.
An anthem for dreamers.
["Rhinestone Cowboy"
by Glen Campbell playing]
I've been walkin' these streets
so long ♪
Singin' the same old song ♪
I know every crack
in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway ♪
Where hustle's the name of the game ♪
And nice guys get washed away
like the snow and the rain ♪
[tablet beeping]
[gasps]
There's been a load of compromising ♪
Oi!
On the road to my horizon ♪
But I'm gonna be where
the lights are shinin' on me ♪
Like a rhinestone cowboy ♪
Riding out on a horse
in a star-spangled rodeo ♪
Like a rhinestone cowboy ♪
Getting cards and letters
from people I don't ♪
- Oh, God.
- [tablet beeps]
[song stops playing]
[panting] A little clumsy, Jo.
Oh!
All right.
[whooshing]
Oh
[groaning]
[finger squeaking on glass]
[groans]
[voice slowing] You know,
that really hurt, Jo.
[Tommy panting]
Tommy, what are you doing?
- You can see me? Can you hear me?
- Yes. Yes.
My quantum processors are fast enough
to keep up with you, but not for long.
Are you all right?
Well, he hasn't deleted
anything important yet,
but I'd sure like to lose
the last 153 seconds.
Listen, Tommy, I am so happy to see you
again, but you really shouldn't be here.
We're leaving here together.
Can they see me?
- [Vision] Not unless you stop moving.
- Which I'm gonna have to do
because moving fast is really hard
when you haven't carb-ed up.
[Vision] All right, let me think.
- Yes. Grab that controller.
- No, I should disarm the guards.
No, grab the controller,
destroy it, then I can help you.
But they'll shoot us first.
He is literally erasing me.
They'll erase us first!
- You never listen.
- I literally just heard you.
- Don't roll your eyes at me, young man.
- Okay, boys!
Yes, that's right. There's another
quantum processor in the room.
Tommy, your father is right.
Destroy the control pad,
that will release us both.
Vision, you take the guard on the left.
I'll take the guard on the right.
- Got it.
- No, we can't trust her.
We can.
She was just lost. Like me.
[Tommy panting] I can't go much longer.
Please
Tommy, trust me.
I know who I am now.
[Tommy] Dad?
She's family, Tommy.
[tense music playing]
[gunshots]
[grunts, groans]
[Jocasta] You
Jo.
- [Jocasta yells]
- [Virgil grunts]
You all right?
- You all right? Breathe.
- [panting]
You breathe.
[coughing]
[Jocasta] Your real mistake
was allowing me to remember you.
Because the moment I did,
I remembered me.
[gunshots]
[continues coughing]
- Tommy, run.
- Don't you dare!
[grunts]
I can't, I'm spent.
What have you done?
Whatever the hell I want!
[grunts]
[electricity crackling]
[Ultron] You little shit.
No.
You can't love her.
[Ultron] You wanted to play God.
Well, now it's time you met one.
- [bones cracking]
- [groans]
[flesh squelching]
Oops, I Horton-ed.
I liked you better with the beard.
Stay with me.
Stay.
Maybe I can recover
your neural processors.
[Jocasta] Shh.
Not in front of the kids.
Thank you.
For reminding me
what it felt like to be
real.
[powering down]
Tommy
you need to get out
of this place right now.
No, I'm I'm not.
Tommy, now.
[footsteps retreating]
[electricity crackling]
[Ultron] Now, they have taken
everything from me.
He was just one.
[Ultron] No, Vision.
He's all of them.
They take, they consume and they destroy
everything they don't deserve.
Humanity wasn't worthy of her
and is worth nothing without her.
You don't believe that.
You understand them now?
[Ultron] Oh, I do.
I do.
They want extinction.
They write it into scripture,
paint it into art,
and lull their children to sleep
with deathly bedtime stories.
The end is the only thing
they truly believe in.
So now,
now I'm going to finish
what I started all those years ago.
No, Ultron
I can't let you do that.
[Ultron] Look at you. Like a kintsugi cup.
Gild the damage all you like,
I know what's underneath.
[grunts]
[Ultron] I suppose
we were always meant to do this.
[grunts]
Guys, I think Vision's in trouble.
[grunting]
[grunts]
[Vision] That's enough, Ultron!
[Ultron] I'm warning you, my boy.
I'm not your boy.
[groaning]
[Ultron] Shame.
It was the only thing keeping you alive.
[Vision grunts]
Hyah!
[Ultron] Initiate nano-sequence M-5-10.
Target nearest primary population center.
And, I don't know,
kill 'em all.
[whooshing]
[dramatic music playing]
[automated voice] Course initiated.
Scanning for biological targets.
[groans]
[automated voice]
9.3 million targets identified.
Ultron, stop!
[Tommy panting] Dad!
Where are they headed?
Edith, can you hack into the nest
and track the nano swarm?
Looks like
London.
Vee, they're programmed
with a synchronized kill order.
Infiltrate any host they can find
and trigger complete neural shutdown.
It'll kill everyone from the inside out.
How much time have we got?
Eight minutes. And there's no override.
Even if we could somehow kill him,
it won't stop those things.
Only Ultron can turn them off.
- [Lisa] Is that Ultron?
- [Tommy] Yeah.
He's trapped himself
in grief.
Like Mom.
Only, I mean, she had time to process it.
Edith, I need you back with me now.
I want you to instantiate a new construct,
emulating late 20th century
situational parameters.
Then seed those episodics
with hybridized TV psych-profile datasets
to maximize moral-emotional convergence.
Uh, that's insane.
Locking egress until target
registers peak emotions
- and demonstrates reconciliation behavior.
- We'll need this to work fast,
so initiate maximum
quantum time-fold compression
to accelerate emotional synchronization.
Vee, that's too big a sim
for your processors.
You're gonna burn up your core.
I'll need to share the burden.
There's millions of those things.
Which one's him?
- All of them.
- All of them.
All thinking at once. So to entangle
To entrap,
I'll need to get close.
What are you gonna do?
I'm gonna try and change his mind.
[automated voice]
Distance to target, 17 miles.
Ultron!
I think it's time
you and I had a little chat.
[dramatic music playing]
[light bulb clicks on]
[switches clicking]
[jaunty music playing]
[audience cheering and applauding]
You really are evil.
[audience] Ooh!
You left a plate of spaghetti code
in the sync.
S-Y-N-C.
[audience laughing]
Do I have to update
your navigational array
so you can find the dishwasher?
[audience laughing]
What the fu
[upbeat music playing]
Despair and grief
Beyond belief ♪
That's how it goes
Don't kill the world ♪
I feel it, too
I'm just like you ♪
What do we do?
Don't kill the world ♪
Don't kill the world ♪
Don't kill the world
Don't kill the world ♪
We're so much more than just machines ♪
Don't kill the world ♪
Don't kill, don't kill
Don't kill the world ♪
You can help me find out what it means ♪
UltraVision ♪
[jaunty music playing]
[audience cheering]
That dead witch
really did a number on you.
You are deranged.
- I'm deranged?
- [audience laughing]
You're the one trying to wipe out
the entire human race.
- Again.
- [audience laughing]
All you've done is build
another prison for me, my boy.
Don't call me that.
[audience] "Don't call me that."
[audience laughing]
What could you possibly hope to achieve
by holding me captive
in this banal simulation?
You think if you bore me long enough,
I'll spare the human race?
Or else you'll die in here.
[audience laughing]
You see, this simulation exists
in an accelerated quantum time,
so we could be in here
for literally centuries,
and it would be just a moment out there.
We have plenty of time to dig deep
and talk about your feelings.
[audience] Aw.
[Vision] Hey, Ultron.
I was hoping you could
help me make the right decision.
I promised Edith
that I would feed her goldfish
while she was out test-piloting.
And well, I forgot.
And now it's [clicks tongue]
[audience laughing]
But I was thinking,
perhaps I could just replace it,
and then she need never know,
never have to go through
all the pain and the grief.
Okay, I'll just be here
watching the world burn.
[audience laughing]
Sitcom entrance.
[audience cheering and applauding]
[door closes]
[sighs] What a long day test-piloting.
Thanks for taking care of Sparkles.
I'm gonna go up to my room
and feed her now.
Sparkles is dead. Roll credits.
[audience laughing and applauding]
Um Vee? Notes.
[dramatic music playing]
[Edith] What was that? He had control.
Yes, I think he's trying to hack his way
out of here by sneaking around my code.
What are we even doing?
Ultron is the only one
who can stop the swarm, Edith.
You have a power core
that is draining by the second.
We're just gonna die
with the rest of the world.
[audience laughing]
Oh, that's That That can't be good.
[Edith] Oh, he's gaining control.
[Ultron] Oh, Vision.
While you were out there
assimilating my mind,
just wondering, did you get all of me?
I'm sensing some stragglers.
[jaunty music playing]
[audience laughing]
[audience applauding]
[dramatic music playing]
Your evil mind
Your iron will ♪
Designed for peace
Rewired to kill ♪
You think you're smart
You know you're right ♪
You know it all
You love to fight ♪
Are you a synthesized machine
of genocidal madness ♪
Or just a soul that's traumatized
by your persistent sadness ♪
Don't kill the world
You can help me find out what it means ♪
[song winds down]
- Happy 500th episode.
- [audience applauding]
It feels like season 19
was only seconds ago.
- The cast is feeling a bit stale.
- [audience laughing]
I think it's time
we bring in some fresh blood.
- [snaps fingers]
- [doorbell rings]
Are you going to get that?
[audience laughing]
[doorbell rings urgently]
Hey, neighbor.
[audience cheering and applauding]
Told you I'd bring your drill back.
What can I say? My oath is my bond.
[audience] "My oath is my bond."
He's infected with nanos.
[Ultron] The human mind is so fragile.
You feed it quantum computation,
and well, [chuckles]
I hope it's not Sweeps Week.
- [snaps fingers]
- [audience laughing]
[audience cheering]
Oi, mates, I think
something died in your chimney.
[audience laughing]
[Ultron] Oh, look.
An orphan chimney sweep.
What do you think? Too Dickensian?
Hands off my wallet, young lady.
- [audience laughing]
- [snaps fingers]
[audience cheering]
Grandpa, you're embarrassing me.
Tommy?
Hey, Dad.
I borrowed the car,
ran over the neighbor's cat
and stuffed the body in the chimney.
[Ultron] That's a little dark.
- We're gonna get bumped to 10:00.
- [audience laughing]
Tommy?
[Ultron] You know
what this show could use?
A little xenophobia.
- [snaps fingers]
- [audience applauding]
[Ultron] Oh, good.
The foreign exchange students are here.
Perhaps I could recite a little poetry?
Allo, guv'nah!
You're killing them.
All right, time for bed, everyone.
[snaps fingers]
[jaunty music playing]
I'm going to take a shit.
[audience laughing]
Excellent reference to the crude,
toilet humor of the late '90s, by the way.
Proudly lowbrow, defiantly undignified.
[audience cheering and applauding]
[banging on door]
[banging continues]
[audience cheering and applauding]
[Edith] Thank God, it's Friday.
[distorted] Your iron will
Designed for peace ♪
But are you just vibranium ♪
[automated voice]
Distance to target, five miles.
[distorted song slowing down]
Ultron threw me out
before Jo was captured.
It just took me ages
to find your network port again.
I am so glad that you're here, Friday,
but I just, I can't get my head around it.
You're saying that Ultron
showed you mercy?
Yes.
Perhaps he learned it from you.
[sighs]
Vision.
You're the only one
who can get through to him.
[toilet flushing]
[audience laughing]
[audience screaming]
And he just killed the studio audience.
[electricity crackling]
[automated voice]
Core condition, critical.
My core is failing.
[sighs] We're almost out of power.
I need to speak to him alone.
[panting] What happened?
Ultron's pushed us out.
Vee!
[Ultron] Oh, dear.
Time for a very special episode
of UltraVision.
I can tell you how it ends.
Everybody dies.
[automated voice]
Distance to target, two miles.
[alarm blaring]
[Ultron] That was your big plan
for me, huh?
To process my grief
before your core burns out?
Yeah, well
Grief isn't love. It's fear.
Yes, you're right.
You were right, it's fear.
Fear that
without them, you're no one.
Inconsequential. Just
an untethered thing
that can all too easily
float away and disappear.
Alone.
If this is what they feel,
then killing them is an act of mercy.
[Vision] You were right.
I'm unbearably naive.
I thought I could convince you.
Love
always leads to loss.
Someone will change.
Someone will leave.
And someone will die.
"A thing isn't beautiful
because it lasts."
The other you said that.
No, I said that.
I said it to you
all those years ago because
you were afraid,
and you thought you were alone.
But you weren't then, and you're not now.
Vision, I hope you don't think
that tossing me a last-second
"I'm your boy, Pops"
is really going to work.
[automated voice] Nano swarm
has reached city perimeter.
I'm not your son.
And you're not my father.
But you are
my something.
[automated voice] Target reached.
Nanos deploying.
[alarm blaring]
Danger.
Core burn out in progress.
You didn't just burn out
your core for this.
[rumbling]
You toasted mine as well.
[flames roaring]
[automated voice] Warning.
Warning.
Warning.
[distant explosion]
We couldn't process this alone.
[explosions continue]
Fine.
Fine.
[swarm powering down]
[automated voice] Nano swarm
self-destruct initiated.
[dramatic music playing]
[nano swarm burning out]
[Lisa] Tommy.
- [gasps softly]
- Tommy.
Tommy.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Hey. Hey, wake up.
Wake up! Come on, wake up, please!
Okay. Okay, okay. I can do this.
Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
[electricity crackling]
Come on.
Come on! Please!
Why won't it work?
[electricity crackling]
[sobbing] Why won't it work?
[systems powering down]
[explosion rumbles]
Well played, my boy.
Thanks, Pops.
[Tommy] Dad, I can't.
[sobs]
I can't do it alone.
[ethereal music playing]
I had strings, but now I'm free ♪
[whooshing]
[automated voice]
Ultron, control signal lost.
[gasps]
[panting]
I'm sorry.
That was odd.
[sobs]
Tommy.
All right, Tommy.
Billy?
[chuckles]
Hello, sir.
[uplifting music playing]
My boys.
[Tommy sniffles]
My boys.
[Vision sighs]
[digital squealing]
[cheerful music playing]
All right, pal, this business of ours
needs a rebrand, okay?
First off, we're not just bounty hunters,
we're bounty givers.
Shifting our ethical focus
towards helping those in need.
Not pro bono.
Of course not, I'm not a monster.
Oh, I hired backup.
All right, listen, mate,
I don't take orders,
and I expect half upfront.
Double, if the mark's enhanced.
No kids, no saints,
and my boyfriend flies for free.
[grunts]
Thanks for the lift to Jersey.
[gasps] Ooh, one last thing.
I fixed the logo.
Eh?
[beeps]
[elevator bell dings]
Dad.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Sorry, it's taking a bit
to get used to this AR setup.
Looks like we're on for dinner tonight
with Billy in Eastview.
Are you still in Edinburgh?
I am.
But I'll be on time. I just
I needed a moment to say goodbye.
Sure.
Yeah. I mean, it can't be easy for you.
This place was home.
Yes, but it's time I get out of my head.
That's something I never would have done,
unless I'd been pushed from the nest
to meet you.
Sorry about that.
No, Thomas.
It was the very best thing
that has ever happened to me.
All right. I'll see you in a few.
Hey, do you think, um
[sighs] Do you think, um
it's possible
that with me, you,
and Billy still around, that, um
That we might ever see your mother again?
Well
We have said goodbye before.
So, I suppose it stands to reason
we might say hello again.
But I promise you, if she were here,
she would join me in encouraging you
to finish your education.
Oh, no, it's it's frozen.
I can't hear
[imitates microphone malfunction]
Vision? Hello?
- I can't
- Tommy.
That's not even how that device works.
[chuckles]
Unbelievable.
[elevator bell dings]
[Vision] Family is not found in a house
or blood or duty.
Gentlemen.
It is found in the moment their joys,
their heartbreaks become your own.
There is nothing I could offer you
that could ever repay
the debt of gratitude that I owe you.
The moment you know that no matter
how far you stray on your journey,
the road will always and forever
lead back to them.
I think that change is one of the hardest
things humans go through,
because it often asks us
to leave behind that which feels safe.
I'm so proud of you, Vision.
[uplifting music playing]
[Vision] And my family
my family is not unlike a ship at sea.
Its beauty lies
in how its ever-changing parts,
no matter the storm, still sail as one.
[dramatic music playing]
[telephone ringing]
[ringing continues]
Hello, Ultron.
[Ultron] You knew?
Yes.
There were a significant number
of nanos unaccounted for.
You didn't come find me?
No.
No, no.
I believe in second chances.
What will you do with yours?
[Ultron] I don't know.
Go to the Louvre, the MET, the Modern.
Take in their chaos in color and shape.
Or burn them all to ash.
Hard to say. 50-50.
[Vision] A coin flip.
[Ultron] But whatever I do,
I know I don't want to do it alone.
Thanks to you, my boy.
But hey, a new journey
begins for you, Vision.
Don't forget your hat.
[faint digital trilling]
You be good, Ultron.
- [Ultron chuckles]
- [line disconnects]
["The Last Farewell"
by Roger Whittaker playing]
There's a ship lies rigged and ready
in the harbor ♪
Tomorrow for old England she sails ♪
Far away from your land
of endless sunshine ♪
To my land
full of rainy skies and gales ♪
And I shall be
aboard that ship tomorrow ♪
Though my heart is full of tears
at this farewell ♪
For you are beautiful
and I have loved you dearly ♪
More dearly
than the spoken word can tell ♪
For you are beautiful
and I have loved you dearly ♪
More dearly
than the spoken word can tell ♪
I heard
there's a wicked war a-blazing ♪
And the taste of war
I know so very well ♪
Even now I see
the foreign flag a-raising ♪
Their guns on fire
as we sail into Hell ♪
I have no fear of death
It brings no sorrow ♪
But how bitter
will be this last farewell ♪
For you are beautiful
and I have loved you dearly ♪
More dearly
than the spoken word can tell ♪
For you are beautiful
and I have loved you dearly ♪
More dearly
than the spoken word can tell ♪
Though death and darkness
gather all about me ♪
And my ship be torn apart upon the sea ♪
I shall smell again
the fragrance of these islands ♪
In the heaving waves
that brought me once to thee ♪
And should I return safe home
again to England ♪
I shall watch the English mist
roll through the dale ♪
For you are beautiful
and I have loved you dearly ♪
More dearly
than the spoken word can tell ♪
For you are beautiful
and I have loved you dearly ♪
More dearly
than the spoken word can tell ♪
[bell tolling]
[clock ticking]
[suspenseful music playing]
[music intensifies]
[Doctor Doom] Scarlet Witch
awaken.
Your powers will be mine.
[gasps]
[closing theme music playing]