VisionQuest Episode 6 Pairs Ultron With Jocasta, and Her Plan Is Worse

Spoiler warning for VisionQuest episodes 5 and 6, which are streaming now on Disney+.

VisionQuest just turned Ultron into a romantic lead. Episode 6 ends with James Spader's Ultron and T'Nia Miller's Jocasta sharing a kiss, and the two of them now look like the real villains of the season (Soap Central).

Marvel had been teasing this for days, and the new look at the pair that dropped right before the episodes went live passed a million views on DiscussingFilm's post alone.

What happened in VisionQuest episodes 5 and 6?

In episode 5, Ultron hides Vision's body away from the other AIs and gives Vision an ultimatum. Vision can drop the firewall and let Ultron loose in the wider digital world, or stay trapped with the other AIs. Vision drops it, even with the AIs begging him not to, and wakes up on a cargo plane to Madripoor with Lisa to rescue Tommy from Paladin.

Episode 6 goes back to Jocasta's origin, and it turns out she started as Jo Carrington, a neuroscientist who built the first AI from a scan of her own mind, hoping it could save her dying father. Her partners later sold that work to Tony Stark (ComicBook.com).

What is Jocasta's real plan?

Ultron wanted to wipe out humanity in Age of Ultron, and Jocasta wants something that might be even scarier, which is to turn people into synthezoids and "cure" them of being human. She tests it on Lisa with a nanobot, and Lisa turns on Vision until Tommy saves him.

That's a big change from the comics, where Ultron builds Jocasta to be his bride and she rejects him. Here, her code is basically the reason every Stark AI exists, so she's more like Ultron's ancestor than his creation (Freud would like a word).

Is the Ultron and Jocasta romance real?

For now it looks sincere, though nobody would be shocked if one of them betrays the other before the end (ComicBook.com). Fans online seem to love it, with plenty saying it makes the show way more fun than they expected (mxdwn).

My read is that this is the best idea VisionQuest has had. Spader's Ultron was always the funniest villain in the MCU, and giving him someone who matches his ego turns him into a person instead of a robot with a grudge. It also gives Vision a much harder fight, since he's up against two AIs who both think they're saving the world.

There are two episodes left, and the finale lands on November 10 (mxdwn). If you're catching up on the MCU before Avengers: Doomsday, our watch order has you covered.

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Images are official VisionQuest stills from Marvel Television.