Mellow music plays as we open on a man laying down a cloth before pouring himself a drink
He takes some water and runs his finger around the rim of the glass
before putting it down, wrapping it in the cloth and smashing it with a cane
He then pours the shattered glass into a pair of slippers
before putting the same slippers onto his bare feet
He walks with the cane into a large empty house
60’s Pop music plays as Steven Grant wakes up
He undoes the restraint on his right ankle
before walking away from his bed which is surrounded by a small frame of sand
Steven calls his mother while feeding his one-finned goldfish, Gus
He finishes and leaving a voicemail on his mom’s phone
as he leaves his home briefly interrupted by a broom vendor right outside his door
Steven catches a bus to the British Museum in London
which is showcasing an exhibit on ancient Egypt
He explains mummification to a young girl to get the ritual
but is interrupted by his boss Donna who calls him Stevie
He corrects her to call him Steven
she scolds him for tour guiding, when he should be focused on selling gifts from the shop
Another associate approaches Steven to ask if they are still on for steak at 7:00 the next night
He cannot recall and assumes the woman is asking him out
She giggles and walks away as Donna comes back
and asks him what a vegan would eat in a steak house
When he rebuffs her remark, she walks away
Later as they are closing Donna continues to scold Steven for constantly being late,
which is why she assigned him to inventory
He tries to point out some of the historical
inaccuracies of what they are selling at the museum
but Donna refuses to listen
He tells her that the Ennead is comprised of nine Egyptian
gods but only 7 are present in the picture they are selling
Donna jokes about the mistake and continues to throw insults at Steven before dismissing him
As he leaves, Steven says goodbye to a security guard, who greets him as Scotty
to which Steven replies It’s Steven with V
As he eats, he explains his sleepwalking to a gold-painted street performance mime
who looks strikingly like the man, who donned the glass-filled slippers at the start
Steven helps the performer out by tipping him
and helping him get tips for pictures with tourists in-between his rants
He reaches the conclusion that he will need to
overcome his sleepwalking if he will commit to a girlfriend
He tips the mime once more before leaving
shown in the reflection of a puddle
as a green leaf land on it and causing ripples
Steven spreads the sand around his bed and locks each of the locks on his door
He attaches his ankle restraint
begins to listen to a podcast on staying awake while he fiddles with a Rubik’s cube
Clips show him doing other activities to keep his mind awake like reading about the Ennead
as the podcast suggests reading a book a way of keeping the mind awake
Steven hears the words think of yourself as a part of the story
he suddenly wakes up in a field of grass in great pain over his jaw
he stands up hears a voice telling him to go back to sleep
and he is told to surrender the body to Steven
when he doesn’t understand the voice says The idiot is in control
Steven removes a gold scarab from his pocket as a figure approaches him from behind carrying a staff
he turns around sees that he is trespassing on a castle’s property, and is shot at by its guards
and The voice tells him to run away
he runs away as the guards pursue him missing with every shot they take
and he comes to a part of the town where Harrow a man with long hair in a dark red outfit
again similar looking to glass-filled slippers dude
is being greeted by the people who clear a path for him
The man leads all the townspeople to the open town square,
where he comments on the beauty of the day with an American accent
He tells the people that their job is to make the earth feel as much like heaven as possible
asks Who wants to go first
A random man approaches and is greeted by Harrow
who commends him on offering his soul for judgment waiting to serve our goddess even before she wakes
Harrow places the cane in the man’s hands
as he performs a ritual to judge the name in the name of Ammit
the Egyptian funerary deity a god of death
Steven and the other townspeople watch on
as Harrow’s scale tattoo on his right arm glows slightly,
before he declares the person is a good man and hugs him
The guards continue to search for Steven amongst the spectators
as Harrow reveals that his name is Arthur
A woman presents herself to Arthur
and Steven watches as his scale tattoo tips to one side and turns red
Arthur apologizes to the woman as she receives Ammit’s judgment and falls back
and People carry away her lifeless body
The armed guards who were chasing Steven come to Arthur’s side
and tell him they were ambushed during the exchange and two of their men were killed
To weed out the spy, Arthur calls out an order in ancient Egyptian
and Steven is immediately found out
Arthur identifies Steven as a mercenary
Steven identifies himself to the crowd as Steven Grant of the British Museum’s Gift Shop
Arthur demands he return the scarab
the voice tells Steven “You will give him nothing”
Not realizing what he is doing
Steven continues to keep the scarab away from Arthur
As the people crowd Steven and pry the scarab from his fingers
he blacks out and comes to when he hears the voice saying
“Oh no, the idiot’s back”
Steven is now standing in the same spot with blood on his hand
and five townspeople laying unconscious around him maybe dead
and he holds the scarab
As he escapes in an American van with the driver side on the left
the voice commands him not to drop the scarab
While listening to Wham on the radio
Steven is chased by several cars, all with non-British driver seats
As the action intensifies, Steven again blacks out
and when he comes to the windshield is shattered an assailant dead and Steven holding his pistol
The voice now threatens Steven, to not lose the scarab
Steven doesn’t have time to get clarification as he barely misses a truck carrying logs
The truck Final Destinations the remaining cars in pursuit with its logs except for two
Steven freaks out blacks out again
and comes to as the last Jeep pulls in front of him, while a car falls off the roadway
The voice scolds him for losing the gun as two guards approach the van which has stalled
As he begins to panic again
the logs from the truck land at the lower roadway of the hill taking out the guards
and violently waking Steven up safely in his flat once again
Steven finds himself restrained to his bedpost and feels relief
As he goes about his morning routine he feeds Gus and notices that his fin has grown back
At the pet show, the associate is completely weirded out by Steven’s bizarre behavior
he cannot recall visiting the pet store the day before
but when he sees, that the time is shortly after 5PM
he remembers that he is supposed to have a date
At home, Steven dresses himself up and goes to the restaurant to meet his date
When she doesn’t show Steven calls and reminds her that they were on for 7PM Friday
She tells Steven that today is Sunday and to lose her number
Completely confused and heartbroken,
Steven gives in and placing an order knowing nothing of how to order steak
On his mom’s voicemail, Steven makes up a story about the date as he walks home
he turns the light in his apartment on and off before indulging in the
box of chocolates he had bought for his date
He drops some sprinkles into the goldfish’s tank
As he picks up some of the chocolates he dropped,
he begins to notice strange things in his apartment
and investigates behind a loose board above his pantry
He discovers a car key and a cell phone
containing several missed calls from Layla and one missed call from Duchamp
He calls Layla and is greeted with great surprise
that he is still alive after so many months
and she demands to know where his British accent came from
and identifies Steven by his true name, Marc
When Steven inquires as to why she called him that the call drops
Steven hears his name being called and tries to see who it is
After hearing the voice tell him ”You need to stop”
the lights begin to flicker and Steven runs scared from his flat to the elevator
Steven looks at his reflection, as the elevator continues its descent
On floor 2, Steven hallucinates a creature coming for him,and
when he comes face to face with its beak, he wakes up on a bus
Everyone on the bus is looking at Steven as he sees the figure standing on the side of the road
then notices Arthur on the bus as he exits realizing that he is real
As he enters the museum, he tries to get J.B. the security guard from before to help him,
but is interrupted by Donna
Steven sees Arthur in the museum and excuses himself from Donna
He follows a man he saw on the bus, and is confronted by Arthur walking on his cane
As he asks another security guard to help the
guard reveals his scale tattoo and proclaims, Praise Ammit
Arthur explains the philosophy of Ammit to him
She grew tired of waiting for sinners to commit their sins before punishing them
He tells Steven that Ammit judges our entire lives
including our futures which we cannot see
Steven quips, that the historical documents have forgotten that part
Arthur believes that Ammit was betrayed and imprisoned by indolent fellow gods
Had she been free, she may have prevented the fall of the Holy
Roman Empire and the Holocaust among other genocidal tragedies
Arthur tells Steven that Ammit was betrayed by her own avatar
a term which Steven only knows from popular culture
Arthur knows about the voice in Steven’s head and sets him up to be judged by Ammit
As the cane dangles the scale on Steven’s arms
Arthur’s scale tattoo shakes uncontrollably, signifying chaos within Steven
The doors to another exhibit open and Steven runs
away from Arthur who tells the guards to let him go
Arthur is doing inventory by himself as the museum closes
As he is leaving, hears a dog crying in the distance and follows the sound
Steven is being followed as well
As he hides from an unseen creature, Arthur announces through the museum
that Steven must return the scarab
Steven runs into the men’s bathroom to hide
and is engaged in the mirror by his true alter ego Marc Spector
Marc explains to Steven that he needs to fully give him control
if they want to survive this attack
Steven agrees, and allows Marc to take him over as the creature breaks in and assaults him
The creature is then seen trying to escape
but is pulled back in and beaten to its presumed final death
by a light gray-clad hero with a face-covering cowl, a hood and a cape
his name is
Moon Knight