VisionQuest episodes three and four are here and boy do things end with quite the conundrum. Vision and his fellow AIs are piecing together the mystery behind the Butcherbird and why there are several people from the same company who are coming up missing. Well, almost every AI is helping him. Of course, much of the conundrum that Vision is in with the Paladin is thanks to Ultron, who is up to his own agenda. By the end of episode four, Ultron has taken over Vision’s body, killed a woman, and taken Tommy to parts unknown. But, what does Ultron want in VisionQuest? Let’s get into it.
After some extensive research, Vision, Tommy, and Lisa end up at a gala hosted by Katerina Wells. She’s the only one left of an executive team that Butcherbird has taken out one by one, and they hope to encounter her and find out why she’s doing this. Of course, Vision is still not operating at his maximum capacity, so he does not have all of his abilities. And, while Tommy is a speedster, he’s still not quite in control of his powers yet.
As expected, Butcherbird appears and things get crazy. She reveals herself to not just look like the deceased Jo Carrington, who was CEO of the company prior to her death, but to actually be Jo Carrington. She morphs into Jocasta and starts beating the crap out of Vision. Ultron says that Vision’s fear of Tommy getting hurt is holding him back, and to let him “take control.”
Vision, being the loveable dummy that he is, let’s him do this and things go awry immediately. Ultron pulls a little trick that leads to Katerina being vaporized, and Jocasta/Butcherbird is upset that he’s taken away her change for revenge. For what, we don’t know at this time. And, Ultron takes over Vision’s mindspace, locking everyone into place before walking off with Tommy.
So, what does Ultron want in WandaVision? Well, if we look towards the comics, it is clear that he’s connected to Jocasta. She was built by Ultron himself to be his bride, but she was based off of Janet van Dyne, aka the Wasp. It doesn’t seem that Jocasta has any affinity at this point, or even knows him very well. Ultron also doesn’t want to be confined to that loft space in Vision’s mindspace anymore, so he will certainly craft some way to be able to get all the way out. Right now, using Vision’s body and perhaps putting Tommy in danger will force Vision’s hand to let him run free.
And we all know that if Ultron gets free, he just wants to kill a bunch of humans for the heck of it. That’s not good at all. We will see more of Vision’s diabolical plan as VisionQuest continues.