The Ringer-Verse - ‘Secret Invasion’ Episode 4 Easter Eggs [VIDEO]

Episode Date: July 16, 2023

Jessica Clemons is breaking down all the easter eggs in 'Secret Invasion' Episode 4, including the de-aging of Nick Fury (1:19); Raymond Carver's book of poems, 'A New Path to the Waterfall' (1:50); a possible X-Men connection (5:40); and a liquor we've seen before in the MCU (6:50). 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 Ringerverse. I'll be showing up with theories, Easter egg breakdowns, and explainers on all your favorite content. And today, I'll be delivering a much shorter but still great Easter egg breakdown of Secret Invasion episode four. I'll be going scene by scene and order of appearance, pulling things you might have missed, and telling you things you just need to know. This podcast doubles as a video, and if you like to watch the amazing work our editors did, or you're just a visual learner, like myself, you can watch the video on Spotify, the ringer.com, or on the Ringers YouTube channel. The fourth episode might have brought in more evidence to the X-Men's rival, explore Talis' crappy plan, and dives into nanotech.

Plus, we learn why we should never drink expensive liquor because the government tracks you that way. Either way, here's your one and only spoiler warning. I'm spoiling all of secret invasion. The first four episodes, plus diving into things we might have seen from the trailer in a potential comic book arcs that could spoil the show. For adults with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis symptoms, every choice matters. Trimfaya offers self-injection or intravenous infusion from the start.

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On the computer to the right, it says extremists, Frostbeast, and Cole Obsidian's hand. Nothing on Groot sample. We only see Gaia regenerate using extremist's ability, so we're not sure what other powers she has yet. Then we see the machine built to make Super Scrolls active for the first time in the series. It radiates a ball of blinding white light. Flashback to 2012, and we're in Paris with Priscilla. She has a French newspaper that says,

Le Globe, the Avengers Battle for New York. The headline is referring back to the first Avengers movie, the team up of the century, where Hawkeye, Black Widow, Thor, Hulk, Captain America, and Iron Man took on Loki. During this scene, we have a D-Age, 2012, Nick Fury, and this is what Fury looked like in 2012 during the first Avengers movie. They made his skin so much smoother in de-aging, like airbrushed. It's been a while since we've seen a cleaner cut Fury. Also, I just think it's interesting to see a de-age concept of something we've already lived through and not too long ago.

Priscilla begins telling Fury about her book, A Book of Poems by Raymond Carver. We saw this book in Episode 3, A New Path to the Waterfall, and she's right about one thing. And Carver does have depth. His poems can range from an essay to a verse, but personally, I just can't stand a guy. And this is solely because we both grew up in Washington State. They forced me to read his stuff to the point that even looking at a cover makes me want to choke myself. This is forced education 101. Regardless, her favorite poem is late fragment.

And did you get what you wanted from this life? Even so. I did. And what did you want? To call myself, beloved. to feel my self-beloved on the earth. Okay, so firstly, two things. Priscilla said this is a conversation between two people,

but I read this as Raymond Carver talking with himself. This book is a collection of poems throughout the years, some before his death in 1988. Carver grew up extremely poor during the end of the Depression, married at 19, struggled with severe alcoholism, leading to his divorce in 78. He then remarried the poet Tess Gallagher two months before he died of cancer,

and the poem, Late Fragment, is inscribed on his tombstone. So that poem is authentic to Carver's entire life up until his dying day. Did he get what he wanted from this life? I think so. I would say so. Secondly, the poem is accurate to Varra's life as a scroll and what she wanted from it. In summary, she was loved by Fury. She was loved on Earth, a little on the nose, but whatever.

We're taking to St. James Church, where we see Priscilla right after the train station scene in the last episode. The choir is singing Deep River, and what a visual poetic device. A scroll in a church. Do you think they believe in Jesus Christ? Maybe this is a video for another day, but I'm going to get in. to it later. Regardless, it's revealed that Priscilla wasn't in the plan to fire Fury. To her surprise, Rody did it.

I fired Fury, okay? No, I'm sorry, correction. I DDTed that dude from the top rope. Yeah, it was like Undertaker level. The DDT move is where you have your like opponent in an inverted headlock and you fall down to drive their head into the mat. The Undertaker isn't known for that move. I mean, he's done it, but when Rody says, Undertaker Level, they really should have said, Jake the Snake level, because he's known for it. I'm just a mild wrestling fan and this part pissed me off. In hopes to persuade Rody from killing Fury, Priscilla's offers that Fury's old tired ass will be dead soon enough, which is messed up. It's, ouch.

And of course, Fury has this conversation bugged from the start. Rodi threatens he'll either kill Fury or Priscilla and Streets off. After a less than necessary conversation between Grovick and Pagan, we're at an empty lakeside park with Talos and Gaia. She needs a plan, and Talas offers the most half-ass plan imaginable. We take down the insurgency. You, me, Fury. Once that's done, we go to the president and we have a big bargaining chip. And we tell him, guess what, just saved your planet.

Now, give me a little something in return and wait and see what can happen next. After being stuck on this planet, on this rock, in disguise for 30 years, and that's your plan, tallos. Guy's face says what we're all thinking, what the fuck. It feels like what Wakanda did in Black Panther, but Wakanda had a lot. lot more resources. I'm only team Gaia because I don't want them to have to change for us, and they shouldn't have to. We're back at Fury's home, and I didn't recognize how covered in Arthur house was, like with the ancient Greek mask, kind of like symbolism of the scrolls wearing masks. After a short discussion, it's evident that Fury knows Priscilla is working

with Grobik. They put their guns down and finished her conversation where Priscilla tells Fury that the identity she assumed was a doctor. The doctor was dying of a congenital heart defect, and in her last moment, she made Vara promise her that she'd be buried at sea, that Vara would keep being a daughter to her parents, which is insane, and that she would never hurt Fury. And a heart-wrenching moment between Fury and Priscilla reciting late fragment, they both shoot their pistols. We don't know who's dead, but we see close-ups of their home

and a framed book cover of Dr. Priscilla's decoding the superhuman gene, which could be a reference to the X gene from X-Men. This also means human or scroll Priscilla was studying it. We don't know whether the book came out before or after Human Priscilla's death, so it's up in the air whose idea was, but still good for us as the fans in the MCU. Want to support your gut health? Take Activia's gut health challenge

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may help reduce the frequency of minor digestive discomfort, which includes gas, bloating, rumbling, and abdominal discomfort. For those that don't know, the X-Gene is a major gene needed to be a mutant. We haven't seen the X-Gene in the MCU yet, but we've introduced some mutants, No more, and Miss Marvel. This little nod paves the way for the X-Men entering the MCU down the line, something we've all been waiting for. Priscilla and Fury couldn't kill each other because love, so they both intentionally missed. Fury leaves and Priscilla knows she must go underground or die so we can expect to never see these two again unless it's undercover. And luckily, all Vara has to do is take on a new identity, so it's easy for her.

We cut to a scroll showering. She folds her towel around her chest, basked in her undisguised self, and it turns into Rodi. Her name is Rava. This is another scroll from Marvel Comics. In the comics, Rava was against the scroll Empire

and was sentenced to a lifetime in prison, and there she made friends with Black Bull. So that's pretty cool. When Rody steps out, he's met with Nick Fury, pushing his 5,000 bottle of Pappy Van Winkle, which we've seen before in Sheehulk episode two. Holden Holloway was drinking it.

So these men, just like smooth, expensive bottles of liquor, and they always do. Should I be worried about poison? Poison? No. Nanotachs? Nanotac is used a lot of the time between shifting in and out of costumes.

Even Shuri makes fun of how prehistoric some costumes are without it. They used it in the Iron Spider suit in No Way Home and the Mark L Iron Man suit we see in Infinity War. Even Shurry mentions using Nanites in the Black Panther suit to absorb the kinetic energy to shoot people back. Mynites absorb the kinetic energy and hold it in place for redistribution. That are nice. This is also a little callback to the episode two When Fury was worried Rody was poisoning him at Burner's Tavern When Fury asked for his job back,

Rody counters that he'll make things worse and uses the evidence he has of Fury shooting Maria Hill from episode one, which we know was actually grove it. But then it's revealed Fury put a liquid location tracker in Rody's drink. That's how they follow Rody and the president to the ambush. Before the attack, Skrull Rody recites a Vladimir Lenin quote to President Ritson. Lenin served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924

and the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. He also clarifies that Lenin should not be confused with John Lennon, who in the comics was an actual scroll, a member of the scroll Beatles, and it's beautiful. This is the caravan we've seen from the trailer, and we know exactly what's about to happen. Grovick and his men, posing as the Russians, attack the president.

They land and shoot like crazy. It's all a mess, and scroll road he sits unfazed in his seat. All of this in President Ritson is still unconscious. Furant tells arrive to save Ritson, Gravig wanted to make it look like Russia was doing all of this, but then he uses Groot's powers to strangle a guy, so I don't think it looks like the Russians anymore. When Talos tries saving the president, Pagan shoots Talos in the chest. Talos starts shifting to his original scroll form, just like we saw the other scrolls in

episode one and two. A soldier notices and aims to shoot Talos, but Fury intervenes saying, he's with me! And the soldier turns around with no questions asked. Fury believed humans and scrolls couldn't coexist in episode three. He said it was nearly impossible. But saying, he's with me, made the soldier turn around. Turn around. This scene, along with Vara explaining the relationship with Dr. Priscilla Davis,

was a smack in the face of Fury's theory that they couldn't coexist. Fury tells Talos to hang on, he'll be back, and once again, Fury fails. Gravig is disguised as a soldier and stabs Talos. We're left with another episode of someone dead on the ground, or are they? I have no evidence from the trailer that Talos is alive. And as far as we know, he's not a Super Scroll. Talos might actually be dead in the series. If there's anything we've learned from the MCU, though, it's that not everyone's dead,

but unless you throw his corpse into the machine, then give him extremist abilities to regenerate, I just don't see him coming back, and I think he might actually be dead. That's it for my Easter egg video on episode four of Secret Invasion. We talk about Iron Man's nanotech, X-Men entering the MCU,

and the Beatles being scrolls. 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. Thanks for watching. Happy Van Winkle.

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