Moon Knight Ending Explained -- Where Does Marc Spector Fit In The MCU?

The latest Disney+ MCU TV Show, Moon Knight, has concluded its first season--and while we cannot be certain yet if the story will continue in a Season 2 or within the MCU movies somewhere, the finale did leave our heroes in a rather precarious position. Let's take a look at what happened and what it might mean for the future of Phase 4, all while getting into some pretty major spoilers for the whole series. Consider yourself warned!

Following Harrow's murder of Marc, Layla was forced to make a deal with Taweret to help free Khonshu from his tiny stone prison, and to do this, she had to become Taweret's avatar (which she insisted was temporary), giving her a superhero costume and powers of her own. Meanwhile, Harrow was able to free Amet, and start his plan to pre-judge the entire world of evil they might commit in the future. Thankfully, with Khonshu freed, Marc and Steven are both able to escape death and return to the land of the living, newly synchronized and able to use their Moon Knight powers together rather than against one another.

Things culminate into a major battle featuring the giant versions of both Amet and Khonshu duking it out while Layla and Marc come up with a plan to trap Amet in Harrow's human body, which would seal her in a mortal shell and allow her to be killed for good. They manage to pull this off, but at the last moment Marc decided he doesn't want to be a murderer and instead has Harrow committed to a mental hospital (named after comic book legend Bill Sienkiewicz).

Marc also, in no uncertain terms, rebuffs Khonshu's attempt to reclaim him as an avatar--or, at least, he tries to.

Unfortunately for both Marc and Harrow, it turns out there are parts of Marc's mind that even Marc and Steven are unaware of. It turns out, as revealed in the post-credits scene, that Marc has "no idea how troubled he truly is." There's a third personality in the mix: Jake Lockley, a Spanish-speaking limo driver who shows up to kidnap Harrow from the institution. He then shoots Harrow in the back of his limo under Khonshu's order.

Jake had been teased prior to this big reveal in the show with various "blackouts" Marc and Steven experienced, usually featuring them suddenly waking up to discover they'd committed some extreme violence.

In the comics, Jake is Marc's man-on-the-street style persona, a cab driver who is able to blend in and gather intelligence from seedy underworld toughs and everyday people (as opposed to Steven who, in the comics, was a posh billionaire.) It would seem that the show is taking some liberties with Jake, the same way they did with Steven, and making him a much more violent, cold-blooded person than both Marc and Steven. But other than that, and the fact he speaks Spanish, we don't know much about this version of him or what we can expect to see in the future.

One of the biggest questions about Jake's arrival boils down to how he came about and how he managed to keep his existence a secret from the other personalities for so long. In Episode 5 we learned that Marc had invented Steven as a result of his traumatic childhood, but Jake was not part of these flashbacks and likely not part of that initial equation. So where did he come from and why was he created?

Meanwhile, we're also given no clues about Layla's future as an avatar. She was insistent at the start that it was a temporary arrangement but she isn't present at the end of the show to confirm one way or the other.

Also interestingly, the show progressed through all six episodes without tying Marc or any of his personalities to any other characters in the MCU, so it is exceedingly difficult to theorize about what will be next for him or where we can expect to see him. This cliffhanger ending seems perfect for another season of the show, but a renewal announcement has not yet been made.

All six episodes of Moon Knight are now streaming on Disney+.