The Ringer-Verse - 'Secret Invasion’ Episode 3 Easter Eggs [VIDEO]

Episode Date: July 9, 2023

Jessica Clemons returns with another Easter Egg breakdown, this time on Episode 3 of ‘Secret Invasion.’ She dives into who some of the Skrull infiltrators are (0:36), the Varra-Priscilla connection (2:33), the ‘Iron Man 3’ connection, and a potential Skrull reveal at the end of the episode (10:21). Host: Jessica Clemons Producers: Aleya Zenieris and Isaiah Blakely Additional Production Supervison: Richie Bozek, Mallory Rubin, and Arjuna Ramgopal Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello and welcome back. I'm Jessica Clemens here on the Ring Reverse, and I'll be showing up with theories, Easter Egg breakdowns, and explainers on all your favorite content. Today I'll be delivering a shorter yet still appetizing Easter Egg breakdown. I'll be going scene by scene and order of appearance pulling things you might have missed. The third episode of Secret Invasion references Black Widow, Iron Man, World War I, and maybe The Incredible Hulk. Additionally, here's your one and only spoiler warning.

I'm spoiling episode three, like all of it, and giving you insights from the trailer you might have forgotten about, so let's just get into it. For adults with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis symptoms, every choice matters. Tramphia offers self-injection or intravenous infusion from the start. Trimphia is administered as injections under the skin or infusions through a vein every four weeks, followed by injections under the skin every four or eight weeks. If your doctor decides that you can self-inject trumphia, proper training is required.

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This is our first time meeting Zirksu, and he's another scroll from Marvel Comics, first appearing in Marvel premiere issue number 35. He's a member of the Skroll Army. We get this shot of Grovick entering the lab, which we've seen from the trailer. He's invited the scroll council to gawk at the machine the scientist built. He reveals more of his plan explaining how he sent three of his own spies, Beto, Zirksu, and Pagan, to take down a special U.N. Target. Throughout the episode, they don't say who the special target is, but it's likely President Ritson.

We get a man selling newspapers at the end of the episode, and it's hard to see, but the newspaper is the national. The cover of the newspaper says, President Ritson in London for emergency talks. The photo above the headline is Rody facing the president and reminder that the last time we saw Rody was in London in Burner's Tavern. So I'm just assuming he wasn't on the plane with Ritson when it was supposed to be shot down. Robic then says this. Play the clip. The heroes of us will react. The only way we can counter that and claim this planet as our home is to become super ourselves. His dialogue overlaps and coincides with the visuals we're getting of the scroll scientist at work.

While they're testing more DNA, we see a news clipping for scientists makes a new DNA discovery and a whiteboard with scattered writing that says re-amputation strategy, re-amputation, early phase depletion, then some sparse writing for DNA targeting. This is probably in regards to testing extremists. It was revealed that they started testing the horrible drug on amputation. and other disabled military people in Iron Man 3. Gravick tells the council they will all be uniquely programmed weapons of mass destruction. All of them, Super Scrolls.

We talked about this briefly in my last breakdown I did for episode two about how we're building Super Scrolls and sort of mimicking the powers of the Fantastic Four because that's what they did in the comics. So now it's concrete. They're making Super Scrolls, his words, and mine. We jumped to New York City in 1998 at 93rd Diner and look at that green lighting, a scroll must be inside. And there is!

Fury's meeting with Vara, a.k.k. Priscilla and Boys. We got her. This scroll is Fury's wife Priscilla, like we thought. She slides Fury a brown envelope from her book, Raymond Carver's A New Path to the Waterfall. We don't know what's in the envelope, but we know it's to mess up Drakeoff's men. Drakeoff is the leader of the Black Widows, owner of the Red Room, and monster to all young women. Black Widow begins in Ohio 1995 and well into Natasha's childhood years. So around this time, Drakeoff had other female children all over doing his bidding.

It makes sense it was on Fury's radar, but it's shitty knowing that they couldn't really stop it sooner. We jumped to present day in Fury's home. Stearns is on the TV talking wild. Priscilla turns it off, disgusted, and we dive into the same speech everyone's giving Fury this season about his disappearance after the blip. Play the clip.

I became a widow in your absence. I wept on your pillow every night. I grieved for you. And just when I thought I had gotten past the heartbreak, you came back in the blip. And silly me, I thought we were going to undo all the pain together. Go back to the way we were, but no, you just haven't vanished again. Only this time it was voluntary.

It's nice to see that his disappearance impacted everyone, and they reacted kind of differently. Sonia didn't really care, but like Maria Hill, she mentioned it made him sloppy and careless in the field. Talos lost a little faith, and Priscilla mourned her husband. Then he returned just to leave again, but this time voluntarily. That's just sad, and the emotional rollercoaster she went through definitely stayed with a vengeance. After Grobock interrogates Gaia, believing she's the mole, they immediately exit a private plane, which I assume is purchased by the government using the Council of Schools

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Gravick mentions in the car over the phone, the UN plane will be at Neptune's coordinates 2,200 hours, and immediately Gaia types it into her burner phone. Only three people would know this, Gaia, Gravick, and presumably pagan, who's busy working on the infiltration. We're taken to the National Portrait Gallery, not to be confused with the National Art Gallery,

where Stephen Grant, aka Moon Night Works, which is also in London. Gravick and Talos me in front of the, Statesman of World War I painting by James Guthrie. Commissioned and in memory of Britain's politicians and allies. The fat, smug, smug, one grovick points at is Winston Churchill. I love when describing the painting Gravick gestures to himself as a soldier, because this entire scene is a metaphor.

We learn that the gallery that featured a lot of men in power is part of the faces of freedom exhibit. What better example of freedom than showing the faces of men in power? The statesmen of World War I features men that already have power and monetary freedom. They choose who we fight and who we ally ourselves with. The soldiers and civilians on the ground aren't featured in this exhibit at all. Like the soldiers to the statesmen, Gravick's values lie in the cause rather than the recognition. He's basically calling Talos a punk-ass bitch.

Surprise, motherfucker. They talk in the coffee shop of the museum, and that's where we see everyone in the background shapeshifting to look like Gravick, and it was a setup, and I called it in the last episode. So we can expect this meetup to be a setup. After threatening him, Talas grabs the butter knife off the table and stabs Grovick in the hand. We love messing up people's hands in the show, and I hate it. it, but we also get to see Gravick's extremist power at work, regenerating and healing. Talos then bumps into an old man upon exiting the museum.

The old man picks up a phone, hands it to Talos, and apologizes. The man jogs away and there stands Gaia. But a little further down the street, the same old man is on his phone. So we witnessed Gaia impersonate this man and delivered her dad a phone. A little later, after persuading Talos to help him again, Fury jumps on a call with Sonia, who is currently debugging her owl that Fury used to get intel. The owl is named Nicholas Fury with a little eye patch and it's very. Very cute. When Secret Invasion finished wrapping, all the cast and crew received these hats with a green owl clock wearing an eye patch.

Some folks believe this could be the logo for the new organization led by Fury at the end of the season, and I really hope so. I think the man from episode one talking with Sonia is the internal leak messing her up. I searched for the credits and couldn't find his name, but I did find out that Grace Boyle was the White House aide in episode one and an acting double in this episode. Most background actors in the series that ShapeShift are credited as acting double, so we've definitely got scrolls in the White House. Sonia gives Fury the name of Commodore Robert Fairbanks, the man in charge of the launch. He's currently at Naval Command HQ and Portsmouth. Still in the car, but a little bit later, Fury and Talos debate who cleans up whose shit the most, which is funny because we've only seen Talos helping Fury every single time.

Talos mentions that in 1995, Fury, was a benchwarming nobody in a dumpy field office in Shield until he and 19 of his people signed on as Fury's Invisible Spy Network. We see the dumpy little office in Captain Marvel and the group of spies in episode two. He goes on to say, every time Fury was promoted inside of Shield, the Scrolls did that. By Iron Man 1, he was Nick Fury director of Shield. So between 95 in the mid-2000s, Fury may have taken credit for a lot of the scroll's work. Even the information on Dragoff's men came from Barr, not Fury. In Incredible Hulk, messages were sent to Nick Fury about Bruce's disappearance.

Someone sent a letter to Shield having lost sight of Bruce for over five months. He was last seen in 2006. The person writing the letter could have been a scroll on surveillance for Nick Fury. Talos adds every terror attack you prevented, the scrolls did that. Arguably, we most likely haven't heard of these attacks because they never happened. But in Captain American Winter Soldier, Fury shows off Project Insight the Advanced Helic carriers. These new long-range precision guns can eliminate a thousand hostiles a minute. The satellites can read a terrorist DNA before he steps outside his spider home.

Going to neutralize a lot of threats before they even happen. Scrolls who are technologically advanced could have assisted in building these. Talos goes on to say every enemy you sabotage the scrolls did that. Like Ash Ketchum, Fury never really successfully did anything. What did he say? But we know he has agents in the field, and by Iron Man 2's global awareness map, he probably has a scroll agent surveying each landmark, intercepting huge threats. Every single thing the scrolls did was in the shadow,

so it nearly is impossible to find the proof in daylight. So all of these are just working theories, but great theories nonetheless. Fury caught Fairbanks impersonating Talos on their shared comms when he called Fury by his first name. Fury says no one calls me Nick Bob. But Rody called Fury Nick during their one-on-one. Play the clip. The point of this power is to be uncompromising, to be unsparing,

to be able to sit across from a man we greatly admire, with whom we share an entire professional, personal, ancestral history with and to tell him without any reservation that he's fired. That's what this moment right here, right now is about Nick. So I'm wondering if he knew Rody was a scroll by the, end of the conversation, because he must have, right? Once Fury starts getting frustrated with Scroll Fairbanks, he shoots a warning shot into his leg.

Then he threatens to shoot him in the crotch, and boy, Pulp Fiction Samuel Jackson is here. When they've had enough, Talus ends up killing Fairbanks and requesting the password to stop the launch from Gaia. Kriga, overwatching new scrollos from a security camera, gets an alert about a calm, breach, unauthorized phone, so we just learned using a phone on the compound alert security. To my surprise, Gaia must have changed her stance on Gravick within the last three episodes, or has always been undercover. I think the unnecessary killings made her swap sides.

Regardless, Gaia storms past the human Chris Stearns, the UK Prime Minister, the real Fairbanks, and we see the female scientist that's been recreating the DNA. Gaia begins searching his memories and we see his life with his son. She pieces together the password must be his son's name, Zachary. Though the plan is successfully aborted, Brovick's true plan was to find the infiltrator.

He kills Gaia, but I don't think that's actually her. We've got a ton of pieces from the trailer we haven't seen yet, like the part where she finds the people glowing blue. the scene where she's coddling someone's body, who I assume is her father Talos, and her conversation at the table with Nick Fury. For a big surprise, Priscilla suspiciously gets a text and grabs her keys. Then she's at a train station and a mustache man watches her and it's Wanda Vision all over again. That was my grandmother's piano.

And now Vara's got a gun. This could be the gun she used after becoming a spy for Fury. Her returning to the gunbox is kind of symbolic to her telling Fury that she's back to the woman she was before him. It's safe to assume that Vara probably feels directly responsible for Gravik. She was there to guide him alongside Fury. To make matters worse, Vara gets a call from someone, and it sounds just like Rody. St. James Church, one hour. I need to speak to graphic.

Yeah, well, you're talking to me. Another scroll in the White House. And that's it for my Easter egg video on episode three of Secret Invasion. We broke down how many times Fury actually didn't help the MCU, the scroll connection to the Incredible Hulk, and the danger in comparing your work to your art. Subscribe to the Ring Reverse on Spotify, wherever you get your podcast. make sure to follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter at Ringerverse, and on YouTube at YouTube.com slash the ringer.

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