Four episodes in, and WandaVision keeps revealing new and more interesting layers to this strange
new reality. To find out what's hidden in this intriguing TV show, keep watching for
Easter eggs you missed in WandaVision.
"We Interrupt This Program" opens with the first extended onscreen depiction of the Blip
— the resurrection of all the people killed by Thanos' snap in Avengers: Infinity War.
Spider-Man: Far from Home lets us know how the event comes to be known as the "Blip"
and some of the consequences of it, but this is the first time we get a good long look
at the chaos immediately following the event.
Specifically, we see Monica Rambeau returning from the dead in a hospital room where her
mother was a patient during the events of Infinity War. As Rambeau's body reforms, we
hear dialogue from 2019's Captain Marvel.
"Your mom's lucky. When they were handing out kids, they gave her the toughest one.
Lieutenant Trouble."
"You remembered!"
It's a fitting way to start the episode, considering one of the biggest mysteries the story presents
is how the synthezoid Vision has returned from the dead.
Considering all the hints that have been dropped in the previous three episodes, it's no surprise
to learn that Monica Rambeau works for S.W.O.R.D. Her scenes with Director Hayward pretty strongly
imply that she was the frontrunner for his job before Thanos' snap made that impossible.
But while she may not have the top position, Monica isn't without rank in S.W.O.R.D. After
Monica's security badge doesn't work at headquarters, Director Hayward shows up and introduces her
to the security guard as "Captain Monica Rambeau."
The rank isn't an accident. When she shows up in Marvel Comics, Monica is a different
kind of captain. After obtaining the ability to transform into any form of energy, Monica
becomes known as Captain Marvel, years before Carol Danvers takes up the title.
In the opening scene of the episode, we learn that Maria Rambeau is dead. From a conversation
between Monica and Dr. Highland, it's revealed that at some point between the events of Captain
Marvel and those of Infinity War, Maria was diagnosed with cancer. When Thanos made his
fateful snap, Maria had just undergone a procedure to treat her cancer and it was deemed a success.
Because Thanos' snap wiped Monica from existence, she awakes not knowing that her mother's cancer
soon returned and she died three years before the Blip.
But when Monica returns to S.W.O.R.D., it's clear her mother isn't forgotten. As Director
Hayward leads Monica into the headquarters, they pass by a number of portraits, including
one of Maria Rambeau with her call sign, "Photon." Maria wasn't just a high-ranking member of
S.W.O.R.D., either. Hayward says she "built this place from the ground up," which makes
sense. After all, S.W.O.R.D. in the comics deals with extraterrestrial threats, and as
far as we know, Maria is one of the first few MCU Earthlings to knowingly have contact
with any extraterrestrials.
We first meet FBI agent Woo in 2019's Ant-Man and The Wasp when Woo is in charge of babysitting
Scott Lang while Lang's under house arrest for violating the Sokovia Accords in Captain
America: Civil War. In WandaVision, he's the FBI agent waiting for Monica Rambeau to help
him with his missing persons case, and their introduction to one another includes an Easter
egg from his very first MCU scene.
In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scott uses sleight of hand to make a playing card appear out
of thin air. Later, Woo has an important question for Scott:
"How'd you do it, Scott?"
"Do what?"
"The card trick."
"Seriously?"
It turns out Woo's a huge fan of sleight-of-hand, and WandaVision reveals that he's been honing
his skills since babysitting Scott. As he's approaching Monica for the first time, he
uses the same trick to produce his business card.
During the montage that shows us the progress of the joint task force investigation, we
get a couple shots of Agent Woo taking notes on a dry erase board. Under the heading "What
is behind this?" Woo has written "extraterrestrials (Skrulls?)". We first meet the shapeshifting
Skrulls in Captain Marvel, and what we know about them so far makes Woo's notation very
interesting.
While Skrulls are traditionally villains in the comics, Captain Marvel shows that they're
just trying to survive being annihilated by the Kree in the MCU. Captain Marvel and her
allies help the aliens, and in the mid-credits scene of Spider-Man: Far from Home, they appear
to be working with Nick Fury. So why would Agent Woo or anyone else suspect them of something
nefarious?
It could be that relations between Earth and the Skrulls have changed. Another possibility
is that while Captain Marvel seemed to imply its Skrulls were some of the last the Kree
hadn't wiped out, maybe there are more of the shapeshifters out there who aren't as
friendly as the ones working with Nick Fury.
The conclusion of "We Interrupt This Program" implies that Wanda is behind all the weirdness
going on in WandaVision — at least, that's Monica's theory. When Wanda uses her powers
to hurl Monica beyond the boundaries of Westview and she lands among the joint task force,
Monica has one conclusion:
"It's Wanda. It's all Wanda."
The episode ends with Wanda and Vision sitting down with their newborn twins to watch some
TV as the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1968 song "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" plays.
The song is a perfect cap to "We Interrupt This Program" for a couple of reasons. While
the word "Voodoo" can refer to any number of things, in American pop culture it's often
associated with witchcraft, making the song just one of a growing list of things referencing
witchcraft in the series.
More importantly, there are the opening lyrics. Hendrix sings
"Well, I stand up next to a mountain / And I chop it down with the edge of my hand."
Then, later in the verse, we hear
"Well I pick up all pieces and make an island / Might even raise a little sand."
If Monica is right and Wanda is behind everything going on in Westview, then the imagery of
someone chopping down mountains and using the debris to build an island is pretty fitting
for the series.
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