Filmed against the gorgeous backdrop of Hatfield House, VisionQuest treats us to a feast of throwbacks and brand-new surprises. But what answers did the finale of the WandaVision trilogy give us, and what does it mean for the future of its cast of characters going forward? Let’s break it down together.

The first answer that episode eight offers up is the second half of one of the main questions of the series so far: what is the identity of the mysterious client who hired the Paladin? Episode 7 had previously revealed that the character seemed to be a human version of Ultron, or was at least being played by his human avatar, James Spader. So, who is this new version of James Spader? The opening sequence wastes no time in revealing him to be Virgil Horton, the bitter grandson of Phineas Horton and the husband of Dr. Josephine Carrington. Virgil is a completely new creation for the MCU and has no comic counterpart, so, like Josephine Carrington, everything we know about him comes from what’s shown to us on screen.

However, he immediately makes himself useful within the MCU, as he is also the answer to the question of who rebuilt the Vision. While alive, he and Jo had used their own minds to complete and perfect his grandfather’s code, making ‘the artificial real’. Horton reveals that he resents carrying the Horton name, as it’s somewhat of an in-universe joke: if you mess something up, you ‘Horton’ed’ it. Grandstanding like any good villain, he explains that he wanted to reclaim his family legacy and, of course, profit from it. Thus, against Jo’s wishes, he sold the codes to Stark Industries in order to buy back his family’s house and assets. Then, after getting himself a job at S.W.O.R.D., Virgil recreated the Vision while siphoning off materials to build Jocasta at the same time. However, when she woke up, he wiped her memories himself, fearing that she wouldn’t love him in her new, improved form. Now, what does he want? Vision’s body, so that he can be Jocasta’s equal in vibranium, which is very Ultron of him.

Horton survives as a villain only long enough to fatally wound Jocasta, who throws Ultron’s files into her nanobot nest and gives us what any fan of Ultron has been waiting for: Ultron back in physical form. After murdering Horton for his crimes against Jocasta, he cradles her in his arms as she dies. Unfortunately, Ultron then goes about handling his grief the Maximoff way and immediately decides that a world free of his beloved Jocasta will also be a world free of living humans. So, he sends a cloud of Jo’s nanobots forth to cull the nearest human population, which in this case would be London.

Vision realises that only Ultron himself can stop the horde, leading to the funniest callback that the show could possibly have conjured up: UltraVision. Yes, Vision traps his grieving father in a sitcom, complete with theme song, to try to get him to call off the bots and come back to the light side. This show has everything you could want: cameos for Jocasta and Wanda in the form of gravestones, comic artwork sneaking in and, of course, F.R.I.D.A.Y. revealing that Ultron saved her when Vision believes that all hope is lost.

Now to the question that’s been burning away for most of the series: do the Maximoff twins reunite in this episode, as was set up in the finale of Agatha All Along? Don’t worry, VisionQuest doesn’t let us down in this department. They don’t just reunite once. The first time they come together, Tommy is looking for help. With his father captured, he wants the help of his magical brother, but in order to reach Billy, Tommy must return to the water, as only when he is drowning is he able to reactivate the psychic link between the two of them. Fans of the twins will be delighted to learn that the two of them immediately share a hug before Tommy echoes the calls of the audience by asking, “Why didn’t you come and find me?” According to Billy, he wasn’t able to find Tommy’s psychic signals until the night before, when Thomas rewatched WandaVision and fully regained his memories of being Tommy Maximoff. This implies that perhaps he hadn’t truly been Tommy Maximoff until that moment.

As for Agatha Harkness, while she doesn’t physically appear, it does seem that she’s still around, as Billy clearly responds to something she says, leaving poor Tommy to ask, “Does everyone have an imaginary friend but me?” Billy’s second appearance comes in the nick of time to save his father at the end of the episode, as the twins combine their powers to save Vision from completely shutting off after burning through his power core while holding back Ultron.

So, what’s next for our cast of characters? Well, E.D.I.T.H., along with Lisa, are now working for the Paladin and making him do more good than evil, with a unicorn rainbow logo to boot. F.R.I.D.A.Y., DUM-E and U are all headed out of the mindspace and into the world. Vision wants Tommy, who is now officially dating Lisa, to finish his schooling. And it seems that the family is meeting up regularly now, as Tommy is headed off to meet Billy for dinner in Eastview, with Vision set to meet them there. As for our favourite android, well, he’s leaving behind the mindspace and re-entering the world, but not before he gets one last phone call from the past.

You guessed it, Ultron isn’t dead after all, and he’s calling his son to remind him to take his hat with him when he goes. Vision asks Ultron, who is now inhabiting the Horton estate, most likely posing as Virgil, what he will do with his newfound freedom, and the answer is as Ultron as ever. He’ll either go to the Louvre to see the art or he’ll murder us all. A coin toss, 50/50. His only caveat is that he doesn’t want to do it alone anymore, and in the post-credit sequence, we see that he, like Tony before him, holds the mind of Jocasta in his hand. So, it seems that the Maximoff grandmother may also make a future return.

But you ask, if the Maximoff family have hugged and made up, is there hope for the matriarch? Hope for the return of Wanda Maximoff? Well, within the show, VisionQuest gives an old but hopeful answer. When Tommy asks Vision directly if they’ll ever see Wanda again, Vision replies, “We have said goodbye before, so it stands to reason that we will say hello again.” More upbeat than Agatha All Along’s answer, which was simply a shrug, but there’s no direct hint at where that hello might be.

Then, in a post-credit scene that seems like something out of a Wanda fan’s dreams, Wundagore appears just as the Scarlet Witch is collapsing it. We see, as we did in Multiverse of Madness, her bring the temple down on top of herself, but this time Doom is there to clear the rubble. He has only one line before her eyes flutter open: “Scarlet Witch, your power will be mine.” It seems that the children we’ve followed through Agatha All Along and VisionQuest may have a crusade to go on, and that, alongside their father, whose appearance in the movie was confirmed by Antony Mackie to Entertainment Tonight, the entire Maximoff family will return in Avengers: Doomsday, though their mother will not stand alongside the Avengers.

VisionQuest rebuilds the WandaVision family as much as it can. It reunites father and sons and builds bonds old and new, leaving space for almost all of its cast to reappear at some other point in the Marvel universe. Both Vision and Tommy accept that their ‘something’ is, in fact, their father and that family is forever. The question remains: what is next for the Maximoff family, and where will we see them next? I, for one, can’t wait to find out.