‘VisionQuest’ Episode 2 Is a Huge Turning Point in the MCU

The following post contains minor SPOILERS for VisionQuest. If you’re concerned about spoilers and don’t have a good Vision handy to touch you on the forehead and mess with your brain while telling the story of the Ship of Theseus, I’d avoid reading further.Marvel has already announced the cast and creative team of their first X-Men movie, but the official introduction of mutants to the Marvel Cinematic Universe still resembles a leaky faucet. Drip ... drip ... drip.The latest droplet with potentially major ramifications for the future of the MCU happens in Episode 2 of VisionQuest. In a broad sense, the show has nothing to do with the X-Men; it follows Paul Bettany’s Vision, who is a psychological mess following the events of WandaVision. He’s trying to piece together who or what he is at this point, after his body was reassembled by scientists at S.W.O.R.D. and his old memories were re-implanted in his robot brain by the artificial Vision created by his love and Avengers teammate, Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen).Meanwhile, Vision is being pursued by a ruthless bounty hunter named Paladin (Todd Stashwick) who kidnaps a young man named Thomas he claims is actually Vision’s son Tom...