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In the Season 5 finale of Rick and Morty, Evil Morty drops massive bombshells about Rick’s manipulation as he achieves the ultimate victory.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Rick and Morty Season 5, Episode 10, “Rickmurai Jack,” which aired Sunday on Adult Swim.
In the Season 5 finale of Rick and Morty, the duo finds themselves thrust back into drama at a familiar place: the Citadel. There, they once again encounter Evil Morty, although Morty is hopeful his sinister doppelgänger has changed. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. After pulling off a foolproof plan that’s been in the works for many seasons now, he achieves the ultimate victory.
Evil Morty’s been a thorn in the titular pair’s side for years, relentlessly hunting Rick down as it seems like he wants to bring him to justice for crimes against the Citadel. However, all seems well as they sit down to a nice dinner, chatting about a turbulent past that Morty wants fixed as he clamors for peace.
However, this is shot to hell when Rick becomes trapped by his chair, and Evil Morty confesses it’s a setup to scan Rick’s brain to get what he needs to break out the Central Finite Curve. Morty’s stunned at the betrayal, but Evil Morty confesses Rick’s trapped them in this curve, which essentially collects all the universes in which he’s the smartest man around. More so, this segment of the multiverse that’s basically Rick’s playland takes away agency from Mortys as they’re all bred to be his sidekick and enable him.
In short, this is a prison for Mortys, and Evil Morty’s plan all along has been to figure out what’s needed to get out and break through this wall — which has been mined in a Rick brain scan in Season 1’s “Something Ricked This Way Comes.” With Evil Morty getting the final pieces of the puzzle, it culminates in him hacking all the portals that Ricks and Mortys try to escape with as he brings the Citadel down. But this is all part of Operation Phoenix, where they’re reborn as clones in vats and blended up in a gruesome scene. Using this bloody goo and portal fluid, Evil Morty creates a giant laser that tears a hole in the fabric of space and time.
By puncturing Rick’s barrier, he can escape the curve. He warns Morty this freedom he’s sought is what makes him “evil” to Rick. In fact, any Morty who doesn’t want to play Rick’s twisted game will be demonized the same way. He offers Morty a chance to come with him, but Morty chooses to stay and help Rick after rubble falls on him. It’s all a test, though, as Evil Morty planned to kill him anyway. So he sets off on his new quest and a destiny away from Rick’s secrets and lies instead.
Evil Morty bursts through the curve in his ship, homaging the finale to Interstellar, while Rick and Morty escape with some clones that Evil Morty used to build his machine. With the Citadel gone and that sordid past left behind, Evil Morty, rocking his signature eyepatch and a spacesuit in his new dimension, shoots off some fireworks and breathes a sigh of relief. He opens a portal — yellow as it’s no longer constrained to the green of Rick’s realm — and happily jumps into a mysterious world as the Rick and Morty finale ends.
It leaves fans wondering about his fate and how these revelations will impact Morty moving forward as he’s now realized the depths of Rick’s manipulation as a cosmic warden. Evil Morty has indeed planted a seed that Morty doesn’t need to be a servant, so it remains to be seen if Rick will change his ways or continue to exploit the kid and his family now that his mind has been liberated.
Watch Evil Morty get the upper hand in Season 5 of Rick and Morty, now streaming on Adult Swim’s website.
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