VisionQuest episode 7 lastly solutions a season-long thriller: Who’s the shadowy Shopper that employed Paladin to seize Imaginative and prescient? However the long-awaited reveal has left us with extra questions than solutions.
Warning: full spoilers for VisionQuest episode 7 comply with.
After making a cope with The Client to entry his personal supply code in return for management over his physique, Imaginative and prescient travels to a well-recognized palatial house – the ancestral abode that after belonged to Phineas Horton. Within the closing moments of episode 7, as Imaginative and prescient waits out entrance to satisfy his mysterious adversary, the digital camera tracks an unknown determine from behind as they casually stroll in direction of the entrance door. Panning up, The Shopper is revealed to be an as-yet-unknown character performed by none apart from Ultron actor James Spader! So what provides?
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Proper now we won’t say definitively who The Shopper is, as his true id is being saved beneath wraps till subsequent week’s finale. Nevertheless, there are many clues that might assist us determine the mysterious determine.
For starters, the actual fact he is residing in Horton’s mansion and is technically savvy sufficient to rewrite Imaginative and prescient’s supply code is undoubtedly important. Within the flashback that opens the episode, we see that Horton is compelled to dump his house to fund the creation of his synthezoid son, J.I.M. (aka Jim Hammond). May Spader’s thriller character be a beneficiary of this sale? Or maybe he is a descendant of Horton who purchased again his ancestral house.
Second, the truth that the character is performed by Spader is a significant clue that he might have been instrumental within the creation of Ultron. From VisionQuest episode 7, we all know that each Phineas Horton and Jim Hammond share a face with Imaginative and prescient, as they’re all performed by Paul Bettany. That is defined by the truth that Horton’s work in creating J.I.M. shaped the idea of all synthetic life within the MCU, so Horton and Hammond are on the root of Imaginative and prescient’s very being, despite the fact that Imaginative and prescient was created by Tony Stark and Bruce Banner.
It tracks that whoever The Shopper is performed an analogous position within the growth of synthetic life, resulting in the creation of Ultron. It is also doable that, like Jocasta and Imaginative and prescient, the Shopper is one other synthezoid, presently posing as human. May this be a means for Ultron to get his physique again within the finale?
Or all these theories may very well be baloney, and The Shopper is another person solely. All we all know for certain is that these ‘Billy is The Shopper’ theories can lastly be put to relaxation.
VisionQuest episode 7 is streaming now on Disney Plus. Be sure to’re there the second the finale drops with our VisionQuest release schedule, or try our spoiler-free full-season VisionQuest review whilst you look forward to the ultimate episode.