Recap / WandaVision Episode 4 "We Interrupt This Program"

Jimmy: What are we looking at here? Is it an alternate reality? Time travel? Some cockamamie social experiment?
Darcy: It's a sitcom. A 1950s sitcom.
Jimmy: But why?

The action flashes back to the climax of Avengers: Endgame and follows a newly un-snapped Monica Rambeau as she attempts to acclimate to the new world of a post-Thanos 2023 she's awoken in. Returning to her job at S.W.O.R.D. in a reduced capacity, she's dispatched to New Jersey to assist the F.B.I. in a missing persons case. She arrives and joins up with Jimmy Woo, who explains that it is actually a missing town case: Westview, New Jersey is surrounded by a mysterious barrier, nobody living in the town can be contacted, and locals deny any knowledge of the town's existence at all. Monica is sucked through the barrier, disappearing into Westview.

As S.W.O.R.D. sets up base around the barrier, the visiting Dr. Darcy Lewis soon finds out that Westview has somehow become host to a sitcom starring Wanda Maximoff and the somehow-alive Vision... and that Monica has become a part of it. Lewis, Woo, and S.W.O.R.D. attempt to unravel the mystery and break into Westview.

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Tropes:

• A Father to His Men: Jimmy Woo insists that it's not appropriate to send a second agent into Westview when the first has yet to return and they haven't gotten any information on the situation. He takes care of his people. And he's a youth pastor.
• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Averted. Agent Franklin crawls through the sewers into town, barely clearing the size of the space with his hazmat suit.
• Ambiguous Situation: Wanda, again. We see the immediate aftermath of her kicking Monica out, and she's horrified before immediately trying to cover everything up with her powers.
• Ambiguous Syntax:
  • When Darcy Lewis and Jimmy Woo watch Wanda together with her twins, Darcy asks Jimmy, "Do you want any?" Jimmy answers that he might want to have children one day until he realizes that she is talking about the chips she is eating.
  • After Monica asks the police officers in front of Westview's city limits where they're from and they claim "Eastview", she turns to Jimmy and asks "What about you?" Jimmy starts giving Monica a rundown of his life before she clarifies that she's asking about his awareness of Westview.
• Angst? What Angst?: Invoked. Hayward is worried about Monica coming back to work at S.W.O.R.D. only three weeks after the Blip, especially after learning that her mother died after she disappeared, but Monica brushes his concerns off. From the risks she takes (like just straight-up touching the forcefield) it's clear she's not as okay as she's acting.
• Angsty Surviving Twin: This episode reveals that Wanda never got over losing Pietro. It's also implied that part of the reason she bore twins was out of unresolved grief from losing her brother. (Though how they came into being is as yet unknown.)
• Arc Symbol: The hexagons show up again, and Jimmy Woo adds a note about them to the whiteboard, suggesting the characters are aware of their significance but not their meaning. Also, the area of effect of what Wanda's doing is in the shape of a hexagon.
• Art Evolution: This episode shows people returning after the Blip completely differently from what was previously seen in Spider-Man: Far From Home. In that movie, people seemingly just popped back into existence, whereas here, we actually see people being reconstituted from the dust/ashes.
• Ascended Fridge Horror: While Spider-Man: Far From Home humorously nodded at this, this is the first time we see the real chaos that would result from four billion presumed dead people suddenly popping back into existence, as the hospital that Monica revives in is suddenly filled beyond capacity, and doctors, patients, and visitors are running around in a frantic, confused panic.
• Aspect Ratio Switch: The aspect ratio changes from 4:3 to widescreen when the camera zooms in on Wanda on the old TV, and it is revealed what actually happened when Wanda confronted Monica. It moves back to 4:3 when Wanda and Vision sit down at their couch at the end of the episode.
• Audience Surrogate: Even though they are still on duty, Jimmy and Darcy get emotionally invested in the sitcom, especially when Wanda gives birth to twins. They also ask, in different words, "what the hell is going on?"
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Darcy figures out that whatever situation they're asking her and her fellow experts to investigate, S.W.O.R.D. is completely mystified by it, because the experts are from wildly different fields. She also immediately realizes that the drones aren't sending back any information when the S.W.O.R.D. agent says that it's "classified".
• The Big Board: The command post outside Westview sets up a whiteboard covered in questions about what's happening inside the town. A lot of the questions mirror the real-life audience's theories and questions.
• Blown Across the Room: We revisit the scene of Wanda kicking Monica/Geraldine out of Westview from the previous episode. Wanda blasts her through the walls of the house and multiple fences on her way out; it's probably more accurate to call it Blown Across the Town.
• Break Out the Museum Piece: When Darcy realizes there's a broadcast signal in the high levels of CMBR, she hefts a great big oscilloscope onto the table, a relic from the '70s, looks like. She then asks for an old CRT TV to watch the broadcast on.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Darcy Lewis is still the same quirky, funny girl she was the last time we saw her, except she is now a doctor of astrophysics and is a bit more serious and focused. She is also able to figure out a way to peep in on Westview on her own, almost immediately after turning up on site.
• The Bus Came Back: This episode marks the return of Darcy Lewis, whose last appearance in the MCU was way back in Thor: The Dark World, having now attained a doctorate in astrophysics in the ten intervening in-universe years.
• Bus Crash: Maria Rambeau died two years after the Snap from cancer.
• Call-Back:
  • The episode opens with Monica Rambeau getting unsnapped in a hospital. A good amount of time is spent focusing on the ensuing chaos.
  • Within the series, we see where the toy helicopter and beekeeper guy came from. We also see Jimmy reach out to Wanda on the radio, but he doesn't know that she heard it.
  • Darcy discovers that whatever Wanda's doing in Westview, it's giving off massive amounts of cosmic background radiation, which is dated back to the Big Bang, which is when the Infinity Stones were created, which would include the Mind Stone that Wanda and Vision's powers derive from.
  • Vision's appearance when he enters the house after Wanda banishes Monica resembles the way he looked after being killed by Thanos.
• The Cameo: We hear Carol's voice calling Monica "Lieutenant Trouble" in the opening of the episode, and Maria Rambeau appears as a photo at the S.W.O.R.D. headquarters.
• Continuity Nod:
  • As Monica is un-dusted, we hear Carol calling her "Lieutenant Trouble".
  • Monica mentions that while space is full of unexpected threats, it also has allies, almost certainly referring to Carol and the Skrulls.
  • Jimmy introduces himself to Monica using the card trick he learned from Scott Lang. He also brings up his time as a softball coach to Hayward, which he first mentioned in a similar Sarcasm-Blind moment to Paxton in the film.
  • On Jimmy's whiteboard, one of the theories about who might be behind all this is "Skrulls?".
• Contrived Coincidence:
  • The only reason the authorities became aware of what was going on in Westview is that the FBI just so happened to have a protected witness in the town that they lost contact with.
  • Monica comes back from the Blip sitting in the chair she fell asleep in after her mother got out of surgery. What, the hospital never moved the chair in five years? Nah, Word of God confirms that Bruce snapped people back into safe places to keep them from being hurt.
• Crazy-Prepared: Maria Rambeau had established official S.W.O.R.D. protocols in the case the missing people ever came back, which even the Avengers didn't think was possible at the time. May also count as a form of denial, since her only child was one of the missing. It could also be a perfectly rational precaution after HYDRA managed to infiltrate the top levels of S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Decapitated Army: As Tyler Hayward remarks, he was made Acting Director of S.W.O.R.D. because while he was the obvious choice, he was also the only choice the organization had left. Their fledgling astronaut program was also gutted because of the massive loss of personnel, and the remaining people lost morale.
• Double Meaning: Vision tells Wanda that if she is upset in Westview, they can go anywhere they want. However, Wanda rejects that, with the implication being that whatever is happening in Westview is the only way she can have Vision "alive" at all, not just that she doesn't want to leave the community.
• Dramatic Drop: Darcy drops her cup of noodles when she sees Monica Rambeau in the sitcom.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Even after she singlehandedly interprets the mysterious broadcast signal coming from Westview and provides S.W.O.R.D. with its first big break, Darcy can't seem to find someone to get her a cup of coffee.
• Eldritch Location: Everyone has forgotten about Westview. Why hasn't Jimmy Woo gone in to investigate?
  Woo: Because it doesn't want me to. You can feel it, can't you.
• Exact Words: We revisit the scene of Wanda telling Vision that Geraldine "had to rush home". Now, the audience is shown that Wanda banished her from Westview by literally throwing her out of the town.
• Failed a Spot Check: Enforced by whatever magic is creating the Sitcom Bubble thing, which is most likely Wanda's Hex. The Sheriff denies the existence of Westview without noticing the entire town behind him, including standing right next to its sign.
• Fisher Kingdom: Anytime something from the outside enters Westview, it will be changed into the closest analog in the setting, hence why the S.W.O.R.D. drone becomes a toy helicopter, Monica becomes "Geraldine" with decade-appropriate fashion, and Agent Franklin's containment suit becomes a beekeeper suit (complete with bees). His tether line gets cut because the transition turns it into the end of a jump rope.
• Five-Second Foreshadowing: The emblem on the sheriff's car says "Eastview Sheriff" right before the sheriff tells Monica he's from there.
• Foreshadowing:
  • The paper with Abilash Tandon's information mentions him being woken up by Vision and showing concern for his father and sister, which doesn't happen until Episode 5.
  • Director Tyler tells Monica that, in the five years since the Snap, SWORD has shifted away from manned missions and into "robotics, nanotech, AI... Sentient Weapons, like it says on the door". This explains some of the things that have been appearing in Westview (the red helicopter), but also the show's Inciting Incident.
  • Darcy discovers huge readings of Cosmic Background Microwave Radiation, which is ordinarily the remnants of the big bang, stretched by expansion into long wavelengths of light. In the old days, it was responsible for about 1% of the static on an empty TV channel (before they started painting those blue). In other words, it's random noise. Whatever's coming out of Westview is creating waves of chaos.
  • Though he's warm and friendly with Monica, an old friend, with everyone else, Tyler is a dick.
• Formula-Breaking Episode: This is the first episode of the show not to be paying homage to a style of sitcom, instead playing out like a traditional MCU film as it shows what's going on outside of Westview. Instead of Wanda and Vision, the episode primarily follows Monica, Jimmy, and Darcy. Lampshaded by the episode's title, "We Interrupt This Program".
• Friendship Moment: The conversation between Monica and Tyler at the beginning of the episode is loaded with subtext that they know each other very well from years of working together and it's clear they're fond of each other.
  Monica: Look, if this is because of [The Blip]... You don't have to worry about me. I'm good
  Tyler: There's no easy way to say this, but you're grounded.
  Monica: I'm sorry, what?
  Tyler: Terrestrial missions only
  Monica: You're kidding. For how long? Wh—Whose protocol is this?
  Tyler: Your mother's. She implemented guidelines in the event vanished ever returned. Look, I know it's a raw deal, but there is one positive takeaway.
  Monica: What's that?
  Tyler: She believed you'd come back.
• Fun with Acronyms: S.W.O.R.D. stands for Sentient Weapon Observation and Response Division in this universe.
• Glamour Failure: After ejecting Geraldine/Monica from Westview, Wanda briefly sees Vision as he appeared at the end of Infinity War, colourless with a hole in his head where Thanos ripped out the Mind Stone. When she looks away and looks back, he appears "normal" again.
• How We Got Here: The entire episode is a Whole Episode Flashback showing how Monica got into Westview and what's been going on outside the town since the first episode.
• Hypocrite: When Wanda gets angry at Monica, she calls Monica "a stranger and an outsider." Meanwhile, Wanda herself is in reality a stranger and an outsider to Westview, and one with much less benign intentions for her "neighbors". Wanda reverting to her Sokovian accent while saying this, marking her as a foreigner in an all-American setting, drives this home even further.
• Hypocritical Humor: One of the experts being escorted to the S.W.O.R.D. site reprimands Darcy for starting a conversation, only to join in once the other experts do.
• Idiot Ball: After S.W.O.R.D's drone goes missing inside of Westview, Monica decides to go up to the forcefield and actually touch it, despite Jimmy Woo's attempts to get her to stop. When he tells her to stop, she pulls her hand back... and then touches it again, leading to her getting sucked into Westview. In her defense, Monica didn't expect that the anomaly would suck her in and leave her unable to escape.
• Insufferable Genius: Darcy has some shades of this, being condescending towards military personnel for not understanding scientific terms. She tries to pull this on Hayward when she gives the same acronym that confused a soldier earlier, but he actually knows what she's talking about.
• Internal Retcon:
  • Westview and everyone in it is made to disappear from the memories of anyone with a personal attachment to it/them.
  • Anytime a S.W.O.R.D. agent appears or is found out, or an external broadcast gets through to Westview, the Show Within a Show edits past it. However, it eventually becomes obvious enough that Darcy notices it.
• I Reject Your Reality: An almost literal case with Wanda. When Monica tries to confront her about how the sitcom world is fake (after bringing up Wanda's brother Pietro being killed by Ultron), Wanda becomes defensive and hostile, forcefully expels Monica, and restores the glamour of Westview. Wanda also looks away when Vision appears as he did at the end of Infinity War (colourless with a hole in his head where Thanos ripped out the Mind Stone), and when she looks back, he appears alive and normal. This hints that deep down Wanda knows that Vision is dead and their sitcom domestic bliss is a lie, but she can't face it.
• Jump Cut: As Jimmy and Darcy are trying to communicate with Wanda via Dottie's clock radio, the scene jumps over the part of Dottie cutting her hand. The sound effect of her breaking the glass jumps to when Dottie asks how to get a blood stain out of linen. Darcy notices that something is wrong, but isn't sure what. Later, she and Jimmy notice when "Geraldine" disappears from the scene, just before Monica is ejected from Westview.
• Jump Scare: The sudden glimpse of Vision's appearance as he was after being killed by Thanos, which is also one in-universe, as Wanda is surprised and has to look away until things return to "normal".
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall: As the characters outside Westview literally end up watching the show the viewers have been watching — Wanda is somehow literally creating an old-style broadcast of everything that happens in her bubble — they discuss it much the same way the actual viewers do. For instance, Jimmy and Darcy express surprise that the universe decided to make a sitcom starring two Avengers.
  Darcy: Why does it keep switching time periods? It can't be purely for my enjoyment, can it?
• Lotus-Eater Machine: This episode strongly hints the sitcom universe to be one for Wanda. She enjoys sitcom domestic bliss with Vision and their twin babies, to avoid the painful reality that Vision and her twin brother Pietro are long dead and gone.
• Mind Screwdriver: After the strange events of the past three episodes, viewers are shown what's happening in the real world and get an explanation as to the existence of Wanda's reality.
• Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Monica and Hayward initially dismiss Woo's case as a routine drone delivery before they catch on that the Westview incident is much bigger than a simple missing persons case. No-one would be able to bypass Westview's Perception Filter if it wasn't for said disappearance.
• My God, What Have I Done?: We see Wanda's immediate reaction after expelling Monica, but before Vision reenters the house, and she's terrified.
• Mythology Gag:
  • Monica is consistently referred to as Captain Rambeau, alluding to the comics where she was the first human to take on the name Captain Marvel, following the death of its originator Mar-Vell.
  • As in Captain Marvel, Maria's Air Force callsign is shown to have been "Photon", which was one of Monica's superhero codenames in the comics.
  • Much like in Episode 2, Monica's drone has the number 57 painted on its side, Avengers Vol. 1 Issue #57 being the first issue in which The Vision appeared.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye: Monica was originally Snapped away by Thanos, and her mother died three years before Banner brought back everyone who was erased by the Snap. Also applies from Maria's perspective; she died without saying goodbye to her daughter, unsure if she was dead or alive.
• No Power, No Color: When Agent Franklin emerges from the manhole, the color of the world shifts from full color to the black and white of the '60s-themed Westview.
• Oh, Crap!: The reason for the large militarized presence outside of Westview is because Monica gets forcibly jerked through the force field surrounding the town.
• Older Is Better: Downplayed. None of the agencies' advanced technology can get a visual on Westview, but Darcy can see inside by pairing her modern equipment with a vintage television.
• Old Friend: Tyler Hayward and Monica Rambeau have been colleagues at S.W.O.R.D. possibly since its inception (Monica's mother helped found the place). They are obviously very comfortable with each other, and Hayward personally comes to oversee the investigation when Monica disappears.
• Ominously Cut Tether: Agent Franklin not only loses his tether, it gets turned into a kid's jump rope.
• Ominous Visual Glitch: To the outside observers' utter confusion, the rope connected to Agent Franklin has been converted into a colorful child's jump rope, and is visibly glitching at the end.
• Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Averted. S.W.O.R.D. brings in several scientists from different fields to help them understand the Westview anomaly, though only Darcy is ever seen again, probably because none of the experts has any actually relevant expertise (in chaos magic), but at least Darcy is able to get S.W.O.R.D. real intel.
• Once More, with Clarity:
  • The episode is basically this for the first three episodes, giving the answers to multiple mysteries by showing the events of the series so far as seen from outside the sitcom bubble.
  • We revisit the scene of Wanda kicking Monica out of Westview from the previous episode. We learn that Wanda patched things back together after literally throwing her out, and that Vision is getting a little suspicious of the situation.
• Once per Episode: In the Show Within a Show, Wanda does the dishes every episode. Darcy's disgusted by its predictability, but the presence of a radio during the scene gives her an idea on how to contact her.
• The Oner: A portion of the scene where Monica walks through the hospital hallway after reappearing is filmed in one shot.
• Our Founder: After Monica returns to S.W.O.R.D. headquarters, she passes by a prominent plaque showing her mother, Maria "Photon" Rambeau, who helped found S.W.O.R.D. and served as its director before passing away.
• Out of Focus: Despite being the title characters, Wanda and Vision are barely in this episode and appear mostly through footage from the first three episodes until the very end. At the same time, both of them, Wanda in particular, continue to drive the plot.
• Outliving One's Offspring: Played with. Maria outlived Monica when Monica died in the Snap, and then died during the five-year Time Skip, only for Monica to be brought back during the Blip.
• Perception Filter: Anyone who was outside the Westview city limits, but had a personal connection to the town, no longer remembers its existence or perceives it as existing in the first place. At one point, Jimmy and Monica question two police officers about Westview, and they seem to honestly believe there is no such place, despite standing in front of an enormous sign advertising its presence. There's also a passive compulsion not to enter the boundary for anyone still aware of Westview, at least for Jimmy Woo. Monica can feel the compulsion, but is also able to ignore it enough to touch the barrier twice before she's sucked in.
• Perspective Flip: This episode shows how the events of the first three episodes are seen by people outside Westview, who are understandably confused and interrogative of the strange things that go unremarked-upon within Westview.
• The Reveal: Plenty of questions from the first third of the series are answered in this episode. In chronological order:
  • The part of "Geraldine" is played by Monica Rambeau.
  • Extrapolating from the conversation between Monica and Hayward, the events of this series is set around three weeks after the Blip, which sets it before Spider-Man: Far From Home which took place eight months after the Blip.
  • Westview is a real town in New Jersey, and most of the characters seen in the show are the actual people who were living there before Wanda and Vision arrived.
  • The hidden person shown watching WandaVision on the TV at the end of Episode 1 was Darcy Lewis.
  • The toy helicopter that Wanda finds in Episode 2 was originally a drone that Monica sent into Westview. Since everything that enters Westview automatically transforms to befit the current time period, it emerged as a toy.
  • Jimmy Woo was the voice on the radio in Episode 2, although this was technically revealed in the credits of that episode.
  • All of the hexagon shapes throughout the show reflect the hexagonal shape of the field surrounding the town.
  • The mysterious beekeeper is revealed to be a S.W.O.R.D. agent named Franklin. He originally entered the sewers in a containment suit, and that wound up turning into a beekeeper suit.
  • "Geraldine's" strange necklace with the S.W.O.R.D. emblem turns out to be Monica's ID badge.
  • Who's doing this? Ambiguous in the first few episodes, it's now confirmed by Wanda and Monica to be Wanda.
• Remember the New Guy?: This is the first time S.W.O.R.D. has appeared in the MCU. Everyone treats it as if the organization is a well-known entity that's been around for a good while.
• Rip Van Winkle: From Monica's perspective, she took a nap sitting by her mother's bed after the latter's cancer treatment, and couldn't have been asleep for more than 20 minutes. She then quickly discovers that as she slept, she was caught in the Snap, and she has "woken up" five years later, her mother having died three years ago.
• Running Gag: Darcy keeps asking for a cup of coffee and getting none. She finally gets one in the next episode.
• Seen It All: Darcy has had so much more personal experience with Avengers-level threats than entire S.W.O.R.D. teams put together, to the point that she instantly deduces the Westview situation with minimum context and isn't even remotely intimidated by military-types.
• Selective Obliviousness: This episode reveals that most Westview residents are at least somewhat aware that they're in an artificial reality but play along anyway, seemingly afraid of openly questioning the status quo. Wanda is also hinted to be the most aware of the sitcom universe's artificiality, but ignores it with I Reject Your Reality fervor.
• Series Continuity Error: Pausing to read Norm/Abilash's card on the whiteboard shows a note about Vision awakening him... which doesn't actually happen until the following episode.
• Sherlock Scan: Darcy manages to put together that scientists from a wide range of fields being brought in means that S.W.O.R.D. has no idea of what they're dealing with, and need as many experts as possible to help crack the case. When she asks what kind of data S.W.O.R.D. is receiving from the drones they're sending through the energy field, she's told that the information is "highly classified", which just means S.W.O.R.D. has no useful data they would have otherwise shared with their scientists.
• Shout-Out:
  • Hayward and Darcy at one point quote Contact:
    Hayward: Are we recording this?
    Darcy: Never stopped.
  • The S.W.O.R.D. base outside Westview is highly reminiscent of the base in Arrival.
  • Agent Franklin's mission underground into Westview, complete with severed tether and HAZMAT suit, is one to the first season of Stranger Things.
• Some Kind of Force Field: When Monica stands in front of the barrier around Westview, she tells Jimmy Woo that there is some kind of energy field, and upon touching it makes it appear as a fuzzy screen of color.
• Splash of Color: Jimmy discusses the transformed S.W.O.R.D. drone in Episode 2 when he's brought a photo of it. He's informed that the drone was not colorized, it already appeared that way when it showed up.
• Stepford Smiler:
  • Wanda, as before. While she plays the part of a cheerful suburban housewife well, it's clear that she has a lot of unresolved baggage stemming from what happened with Pietro, Ultron, and Vision, and is actively blocking out anything that might get in the way of her new happiness, however forced or unnatural it may be. When Monica brings up Pietro's death, she seethes with barely contained fury and casts Monica out of Westview.
  • By the end of the episode, Vision is clearly suspicious about Wanda and their situation. He acts as loving as ever, but when Wanda isn't looking, his expression becomes more strained and wary.
• Stylistic Suck: Demonstrating that the sitcoms and the lower broadcast quality are all part of the same Mind Screw happening in Westview, when we zoom in on the scene from the last episode where Wanda ejected Monica, it briefly transitions from wide-screen back to 4:3 and scan lines appear, before returning to HD widescreen. It goes back to scanline 4:3 when Wanda and Vision sit on the couch with the kids.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Poor Maria Rambeau died of cancer in the five years between the Snap and the Blip.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Maria Rambeau's protocol grounded personnel who came back from the Blip. Yeah, coming back after a five year disappearance to a world in chaos is going to be a shock and they'll need time to acclimate and pass a psych eval.
• Switching P.O.V.: This episode is a recap of the first three episodes from S.W.O.R.D.'s perspective.
• Theme Naming: Maria Rambeau's S.W.O.R.D. is another division that carries the name of an ancient combat weapon. The first one is Peggy Carter's S.H.I.E.L.D.
• They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: When a S.W.O.R.D. officer calls Darcy "Miss Lewis", she corrects him and says, "Doctor Lewis".
• Took a Level in Badass: Darcy has gone from spacey college intern to a PhD in astrophysics who gets called to examine reality-warping abnormalities, with her attitude suggesting that this is hardly the first time she's been on a case like this. It's even more impressive when you remember that her initial major was political science.
• Unexpected Successor: Hayward never expected to become director of S.W.O.R.D., but post-Snap he was the most senior remaining member after Maria Rambeau and succeeded her when she died. He even notes himself that he was only chosen due to being next in line, rather than feeling he deserves it, which Monica seems to (kindly) agree with.
• The Unreveal:
  • S.W.O.R.D.'s probing reveals the identity of some of Westview's inhabitants, such as the Harts, Jones, Norm, Herb, and Beverly, but not Dottie, Agnes, Dennis the Mailman, or the people in the commercials.
  • We also don't learn what's happening, or why. The implication is getting stronger by the episode that the answer to "who" is Wanda.
• The Unsmile: Watch as Vision turns back to watch TV with Wanda. His smile is extremely forced, as if even he is scared of upsetting Wanda.
• Visual Pun: Wanda makes Monica literally break the fourth wall when she pushes her through three walls and then the force field surrounding Westview, out of the TV world that Wanda created.
• Weirdness Censor: The police from Eastview claim that there is no such town as Westview (and appear to believe it)... while standing right next to the Westview welcome sign. Judging from the expressions on the faces of Monica and Jimmy, they are completely aware of how odd this is.
• Wham Line: The end reveals that Monica thinks Wanda is responsible for Westview going off the grid.
  Monica: It's Wanda... it's all Wanda.
• Wham Shot:
  • The episode opens with a shot of some familiar-looking dust coming together to reform Monica, confirming that she was a victim of the Snap.
  • The brief glimpse of Vision resembling how he looked after Thanos killed him, implying he still might be dead after all.
  • S.W.O.R.D. puts together a wall of all the real people who have been turned into characters in the show... and Agnes doesn't have a driver's license, while Dottie and Dennis are not on it at all.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: After Agent Franklin emerges as the beekeeper, Wanda rewinds reality, placing her and Vision back in the house. Nothing is mentioned about where Franklin went. Considering Wanda's possible powers, hopefully it wasn't horrible.
• Whole Episode Flashback: Opens before the events of "Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience", and ends right after "Now in Color". This time, though, we see what was happening outside of Westview as Wanda and Vision had their sitcom hijinks.
• Witness Protection: S.W.O.R.D. and the FBI initially begin to investigate Westview due to a missing person's case. The missing person just happens to be in the witness protection program. As of yet, the identity of the witness has not been revealed.

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"We could go wherever we want."
"No, we can't. This is our home."

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