A red truck is driving through the desert. The camera pans to show a giant crater created by Thor's hammer. The truck pulls up outside of it and a man gets out, he walks toward the hammer and tries to lift it, he can't.
"How heavy is that thing?" Tony asked. "Its not a matter of weight but whether or not the hammer deems you worthy of lifting it." Thor answered.
A sign that reads 'Puente Antiguo city limit pop: 2,175 elev: 6,056' is shown.
"Jeez, that is one small town." Ned said.
"Every town is small to you, you live in one of the most populated cities in the country." Bruce said.
Erik asks if Jane thinks it was a magnetic storm.
Jane says that it had characteristics of an Einstein-Rosen bridge.
Darcy doesn't know what an Einstein-Rosen bridge is.
Erik says he thought she was a science major.
Darcy tells him she's majoring in political science.
"Than why is she interning for an Astrophysicist?" MJ asked.
Jane says Darcy was the only one who applied for the internship.
"Oh."
Erik says that an Einstein-Rosen bridge is a connection between two different points of time and space.
Jane says that its a wormhole. Then hands Erik a picture and asks what he sees.
Erik says he sees stars.
A few people laughed at that. He's not wrong.
Jane says that they're not their stars and that the alignment is wrong for the time of year it is. Then says that they're someone else's constellations.
Darcy says pointing to two pictures on a bulletin board and tells them to look at them.
Jane and Erik look shocked and Jane says that she left something at the hospital.
"Is that something a 6'3 man with blond hair who beat the shit out a bunch of nurses?" Tony asked, sarcastically.
"I am a person not a thing." Thor said.
Thor is lying, strapped down to a hospital bed. He starts pulling at the restraints then relaxes for a moment then wiggles his hand out of the restraint. A group of nurses and doctors are in the room Thor destroyed.
The nurse tells Jane, Erik and Darcy that Thor must have been on drugs because he went nuts. They walk past the room and into the room Thor was in previously, he's no longer in the bed.
"Where did you go?" Mantis asked.
They leave and get into their van and drive off.
Jane says that she lost her most important piece of evidence.
Darcy asks what they're going to do.
Jane says that they're going to find Thor.
"That wont be hard at all." Thor said.
"Why wont it be?" Peggy asked.
Erik tells her that its a bad idea and asks if she saw what Thor did to the hospital room.
Jane says that Thor can tell them what their data can't and that they need to find him.
Darcy agrees and pulls out her taser.
Erik asks if they're going to search all of New Mexico.
Jane goes to pull out her the parking spot and hits Thor with her car again.
"That's why it wont be hard." Thor said.
They all get out of the car. Jane apologizes and says that she promises she's not hitting him with her car purposefully.
"I'm just curious. How many times did she hit you with her car?" Tony asked with a laugh.
Outside of the crater, a bunch of people are line up to lift the hammer. Some are cooking and some are drinking. A truck backs up to the edge of the crater a chain is attached to the rear end, a man wraps the other end around the hammer.
"Oh this ain't gonna go well." Rocket said.
The man starts driving, the hammer doesn't move. He drives faster, the hammer still doesn't move and the bed of the truck gets torn off.
"Oh no."
The man(Stan Lee) asks if it worked. The others start laughing.
"No it didn't." Drax said.
A black car pulls up behind them, Agent Coulson gets out and says that they found it.
"Wait- wasn't that the one extra scene from the last one we watched?" Quill asked.
"It was." Coulson said.
Thor is standing shirtless adjusting a pair of jeans. Darcy says that Thor looks good for a homeless person.
"Does she just not have a filter?" May asked.
Thor grabs a shirt off of the sink and walks into the room. Darcy apologizes for tasing him.
"I really don't think she's sorry." Valkyrie said.
He picks something up from a table. Jane takes it from him and puts it down.
Thor holds out the shirt and asks what it is pointing to the name tag that says 'Donald Blake, MD'.
Jane says it was her Exe's and says that he was good with patients but not relationships. She says that they're the only clothes she has that will fit him.
Thor says that they'll suffice and says that his mortal form is weak and needs sustenance.
"Please tell me you eventually learn how to talk like a, as you so kindly put it, mortal." Scott said. "Because I don't know how much more of 'ye old English' I can take.
"Its not technically old English or even middle English." Bruce said. "It's just very formal."
Back on Asgard Sif, the warriors three and Loki are in a room. Volstagg says that they shouldn't have let Thor go to Jotunheim.
Sif says that they couldn't have stopped him.
Thor sighed, she was right.
Fandrall says that they're lucky Thor's banished and not dead. Then he says that they'd all be dead if the guard didn't tell Odin where they were.
Behind them Loki is staring at his hand. Volstagg asks how the guard knew.
Loki tells them that he told the guard to go to Odin after they'd left. He says that the guard should be flogged because he tool so long and that they weren't supposed to even reach Jotunheim.
"So your plan was to get Thor to try to go to Jotunheim, Odin would stop you and realize that Thor was reckless and maybe he should hold off on making him king?" Tony asked for clarification.
"In a perfect world yes that is exactly what I planned to happen." Loki answered.
Volstagg is upset with Loki because of this.
Loki defends his actions saying that he saved their lives.
"Not that anyone would ever give me credit for it." Loki said, a little bitter. Thor winced.
Loki then says that he didn't know Thor would be banished because of it.
Sif stands up and walks over to him and tells him he has to convince Odin to change his mind.
Loki asks what would happen if he does. He says that Thor is arrogant, reckless and dangerous. And asks if those are qualities Asgard needs in its king. He leaves.
"Why do you have to have such valid arguments?" Tony asked, a bit annoyed.
Sif says that Loki might speak for the good of Asgard but he's actually just jealous of Thor.
Loki rolled his eyes.
Volstagg says that they should be grateful that he saved their lives.
Hogun reminds them that Laufey says that there were traitors in the house of Odin. He says a master of magic could've let the frost giants in.
Fandrall says that Loki has always been mischievous but this was something completely different.
"Wait. I'm confused, do they think you did it? Or do they not think you did it?" Scott asked.
"They think I did it but they also believe that I wouldn't have done it." Loki answered.
The casket is resting on its pedestal. Loki walks up behind it and his hands hover over either side, he shakes his head and lifts it.
Loki sighed, he really did not want to see this.
Odin, standing on the stairs behind him, tells him to stop.
Loki asks if he's cursed.
Odin says he isn't.
Loki sets the casket down and asks what he is.
Odin says that Loki is his son.
Loki turns around, completely blue, eyes red.
"Oh my god." Peter whispered.
"So that's why you said it was ironic when younger you asked if they still lived." Valkyrie said.
The blue starts to fade away. Loki says that the casket wasn't the only thing that Odin took from Jotunheim, then walks to the foot of the stairs.
Odin says that he found a baby in the aftermath of the battle. He says that ot was small for a giants offspring and that it was abandoned and left to die. He says that it was Laufey's son.
Loki repeats it.
Odin confirms.
Loki says that Odin was knee deep in Jotun blood and asks why he took him.
Odin says Loki was an innocent child.
"No, that cant be the only reason, he wouldn't just take the offspring of his enemy because he believed it to be innocent." Steve said.
Loki denies and says that Odin took him for a purpose and asks him to tell him what it was. There are tears in his eyes.
Odin says that he thought he could unite the two kingdoms through Loki.
"That's why he took you?" Gamora asked.
"Wrong answer." Quill said, referring to what Odin said.
Odin says that the plans don't matter anymore.
Loki realizes that he's just another stolen relic locked up until he can be of use.
Odin asks him why he's twisting his words.
"He didn't have to twist words at all that is pretty much how you explained it." Nebula said, she understands, sort of, maybe not the exact same experience but a similar one.
Loki tells Odin that he could have told him what he was earlier and asks why he didn't.
Odin says he wanted to protect Loki from the truth.
"Yeah because withholding the truth from people to protect them always works out exactly how you want it to." Steve said. "Lying in the name of protection is still lying."
"You speak too soon Captain Rogers." Loraine said. Steve looked confused. Who was he keeping secrets from? Bucky looked worried.
Loki asks if it was because he's the monster parents tell their children of at night.
"Loki-" Thor protested, remembering the words he spoke when he was a child. 'When I'm king, I'll hunt the monsters down and slay them all.' Loki ignored him an indifferent look on his face.
Bruce winced, but it went un-noticed to everyone except Natasha.
"The Kronan are considered an aggressive species, would you ever call Korg a monster?" Valkyrie asked.
"No. Of course not." Loki said. Korg was possibly the nicest being he's ever met.
"Then you see my point and I rest my case. You aren't a monster... or at least not because you're a Jotunn." Valkyrie said.
"Monsters aren't born, they're made. If anything it was your later actions*cough cough* New York that made you one, not your race." Peter said. Loki glanced at him but said nothing.
Loki says Odin favoring Thor for their entire lives finally makes sense.
Nebula felt a small pang of sympathy for Loki, after all she knew firsthand what is was like to always come in second best.
He says no matter how much Odin claims to love him he wouldn't risk having a frost giant on Asgards throne.
A few of the avengers had a newfound, small amount, of sympathy for Loki. They were starting to understand his motivation better. Finding out that you're are the very species that your parents told horror stories about, and neglected to inform you that you were part of said species was bound to make anyone a little insane. Not that it justified anything, cause it really didn't, but at least they knew what caused it.
Odin falls to the floor. Loki bends down next to him and calls the guards for help. Two guards come rushing in.
"What happened to him." Howard asked.
"He fell into the Odinsleep." Thor explained.
People still looked confused. "What is that?" Tony asked.
"A sleep where he recharges the Odinforce, which is what gives him his power." Thor answered.
Thor, Jane, Erik and Darcy are sitting at a table in a diner. Jane asks Thor how he got inside the cloud.
Darcy asks how he could eat a whole box of poptarts and still be hungary.
"Was it the value pack or the regular one?" Peter asked.
"Really? That's your question?" MJ asked.
Thor drinks something from a mug and says that he likes it.
Darcy agrees and says that its great.
He says he wants another and throws the glass on the ground.
A few people laughed, others rolled their eyes. "Please tell me that you learn proper table manners during your time on Earth." Tony said.
A waitress walks over, Jane stands up and apologizes. She starts to pick up the broken glass and asks Thor why he did that.
"Yeah, what was that?" Clint asked.
"On Asgard, that is how we ask for another drink." Thor said.
Thor says that the drink was delicious and he wanted another.
Jane says he could've just said that.
Thor says that he did.
Jane says she meant he should've asked nicely.
Thor says he meant no disrespect.
Jane tells him not to smash any more glasses.
Thor says he won't.
"Ah, yes the slow evolution of manners." Tony said happily.
A man walks into the diner and asks Izzy for his usual.
A man tells him that he missed some excitement at the crater and that a satellite crashed into the desert.
Another guy says that they were having fun until the feds came.
Jane asks if they said that a satellite crashed.
Darcy pulls her phone out to take a picture of Thor for her facebook.
Everyone laughed.
Erik asks what the satellite looked like.
A man says that it was heavy and no one could lift it.
"They are not worthy." Thor says and flips his hammer in the air and catches it.
Thor stands up.
A man says that the feds told them it was radioactive.
Thor walks up to him and asks which way it was.
The man tells him that its 50 miles west and tells him not to waste his time because the government is there.
Thor walks out of the diner, Jane follows. Thor starts walking down the middle of the street, drivers start yelling at him.
"You can't just walk down the middle of the road, Thor." Rhodey sighed.
Jane catches up to him and asks him where he's going.
Thor says that he's going 50 miles west.
Jane asks why.
Thor says he's retrieving his belongings.
Jane asks if he owns a satellite.
"Its not a satellite." Thor said.
Thor says that its not what people are saying it is.
Jane says that the government thinks its theirs so he can't take it.
"The government thinks everything is theirs." MJ said, everyone gave her an incredulous look. "Tell me I'm wrong." She said.
Thor tells her that if she takes him there he'll tell her everything she wants to know. And that all of the answers she needs will be hers once he has Mjolnir back.
"So you bribed her?" Maria asked.
Darcy asks what 'mew-mew' is.
"Did she just call your hammer the noise that a cat makes?" Loki asked.
Erik asks if he could have a word with Jane. Jane, Erik and Darcy walk away Erik asks her not to go with him.
Jane says that it cant be a coincidence and they need to find out what's in the crater.
Erik says he's talking about Thor not the crater.
Jane says that Thor promised answers.
Erik says that he's delusional and that everything he's saying is from stories he grew up with as a kid.
"Most of those stories, you will find to be false." Loki said, before anyone could get any ideas.
"You said most... that means that at least some of them are true." Natasha said.
Jane says that she's just driving Thor to the crater.
Erik says that Thor's dangerous.
Jane apologizes to Thor,saying that she can't take him.
Thor says goodbye and kisses her hand then bids farewell to them.
Erik says to get back to work and the three of them walk away.
A car drives past them with a truckload of equipment Jane notices that they have her stuff.
"See. The government thinks everything is theirs to do with what they please." Mj said, clearly having made her point.
She runs into the house and asks what's happening.
Coulson introduces himself and says that he's with SHIELD.
Jane asks if that's supposed to mean something to her and tells him he can't take her stuff.
Erik runs up to her and says that the situation is more serious then they thought and tells her to let it go.
Jane says that its her life and she can't let it go.
Coulson says that they're investigating a security threat and that they need to appropriate all of her data.
Jane asks if he meant they're going to steal it.
"Yep."
Coulson hands her something and says it should compensate her.
Jane says she can't buy replacements and that she made most of the equipment herself.
Coulson tells her that she could do it again.
Jane says she could sue them for violating her constitutional rights.
"She could."
Coulson apologizes and says that they're the good guys.
"That probably means nothing to her right now." Strange said.
Jane says that her group is too and that they're close to understanding something extraordinary and that everything they know about it is in her book or in the lab and that they can't take it away. Someone takes the book.
"Did you guys really have to take the poor girls research?" Shuri asked as she and the other scientists in the room started glaring at Coulson.
She went to run after him, Erik held her back. Coulson thanks her for her cooperation.
"What cooperation, you all just went in there while she was gone and took all of her stuff." Tony said. "See this- this is why I don't like nor trust SHIELD." He whispered to Pepper.
Erik, Darcy and Jane are sitting on the roof and says that years of research is gone.
Darcy says that they took her iPod.
"You took her iPod, really? Was that necessary?" Shuri asked.
Erik asks about the backups.
Jane says they took those too.
"You guys are nothing if not thorough." Hope muttered.
She says that they took the backups of the backups and says that they were thorough.
Darcy says that she just downloaded 30 songs onto her iPod.
Jane tells her to stop talking about her iPod and asks Erik about the people who took their stuff.
Erik tells them about a scientist he knew, he says that he was a pioneer in gamma radiation. He says that the scientist was never heard from again once SHIELD showed up.
Everyone looked at Bruce. "You?" Tony asked.
"Yeah." Bruce said. "There's obviously more to the story but yeah."
Jane says that SHIELD won't do that to them and she's going to het her research back.
Erik asks to let him E-Mail a colleague that has dealt with SHIELD before.
Darcy reminds him that SHIELD took his laptop.
"Damn."
Sif and the warriors three walk into the throne room. Sif says that they must speak with Odin but she pauses when she sees who is on the throne, the camera pans to show Loki.
"You." Clint snarled.
"Of course it was me, Father was in the Odinsleep and Thor was banished." Loki said.
Loki greets them.
Fandrall asks where Odin is.
Loki tells them that Odin has fallen into the Odinsleep and that Frigga fears he may never awaken.
"Is that why you told me father was dead or was there another reason?" Thor asked, still bitter that Loki lied about that, bitter about a lot of things that Loki's done. So much of it was unforgivable, more of it was shocking more than anything else. It was like suddenly there was a switch flipped in his brothers head. He was a little malicious when they were young. Some of his 'pranks' went too far sometimes, but whatever that has been replaced with was almost incomparable.
"That was a part of why I told you he was dead. The other reason, the larger reason was because I wanted-" Loki said, cutting himself off. He knows what he would tell Thor wouldn't have been the truth anyway. He couldn't say that he wanted him to feel as lost, alone and angry as he did, that- for a time- he'd wanted Thor to suffer the same hurts that he had.
"You were angry so you told Thor Odin was dead." Tony said slowly, not entirely sure he was hearing this correctly.
"I should have you know that for some people, a sudden surge of overwhelming negative emotions can drive a person mad." Loki explained.
Sif asks if they can speak with Frigga.
Loki says that Frigga refuses to leave Odin's bedside and that they can bring their urgent matter to him then he calls himself their king.
Sif and the warriors three kneel. Sif requests that he end thor's banishment.
"Is Loki even allowed to end the banishment? Like how does that whole thing work?" Sam asked.
Loki says that his first act as king can't be to undo Odin's last act.
"Guess that answers that question." Steve said.
He says that they are on the brink of war with the Jotuns and that the people need a sense of continuity in these times.
Sif stands up, Hogan and Fandrall grab her arms. Fandrall agrees that they should stick together.
Loki tells them to wait for his word.
Volstagg asks him to reconsider.
Loki says that they're done speaking.
"So they're all mad at you because they think you're up to no good and you wont go against your father's wishes and bring Thor back?" Rocket clarified.
Erik is sitting at a desk, on a computer. He stands up and walks over to a bookshelf and picks up a book on Norse mythology. The first page he turns to says 'bifrost.' The next one says 'Thursday: Thor's day.' He scoffs and closes the book.
Jane is sitting in a van outside, she watches Thor walk into a pet store.
"Why do you need to go to a pet shop?" Peter asked.
Thor walks in and says the he needs a horse.
"You did not just walk into a small town pet shop and demand a horse." Clint sighed.
The man at the counter says that they don't have horses and they only have dogs, cats and birds.
Thor says to give him something big enough to ride.
"Yeah, you can't really ride a cat or a dog, Thor." Bruce said.
Jane pulls up outside of the pet shop and honks and asks if Thor still needs a ride.
Thor walks over to her and gets in the car, she starts driving and says that she's never done something like this before and asks if Thor has.
Thor says that he has many times and calls Jane brave for doing it.
Jane says that they stole her life's work and she has nothing to lose.
Thor says that she's more clever than anyone else in the realm.
"It looks like Thor has a crush." Tony teased.
Jane repeats the word 'realm', confused.
Thor asks if she thinks he's strange.
Jane says she does.
"Well at least she's honest." Pepper said.
Thor asks if its a good or bad strange.
Jane says that she's not sure.
"I'm not too sure there is a good strange but of there is, I'm willing to bet she thinks you're that." Clint said.
Jane accidentally drives off the road and asks Thor who he really is.
Thor says that she'll see soon.
Jane says that she promised answers.
Thor tells her that she's looking for a bridge.
Jane asks if he means an Einstein- Rosen bridge.
Thor says he meant a rainbow bridge.
Jane says she hope's Thor isn't crazy.
"She's probably so confused." Ned said.
Frigga and Loki are sitting on either side of Odin, who's sleeping. Loki says that he never gets used to seeing Odin like that.
Frigga says she's afraid of what will happen because he put it off for so long.
"Wait so this happens regularly, but he just decided to hold off on this one until his spontaneous collapse?" Quill asked. Thor and Loki nodded.
Loki asks how long it'll last.
Frigga says that she doesn't know because they were unprepared for it.
Loki asks why Odin lied about his adoption.
Frigga says he kept the truth so Loki wouldn't feel different. She says that they're family and they shouldn't lose hope that Thor and Odin will return to them.
Loki asks what hope is left for Thor.
"You didn't think I could change and learn" Thor asked, hurt.
"To be fair, it is hard to change someone who has thought the same way for their entire life, especially when that person had lived as long as we have, but you should have more faith in him Loki." Valkyrie said.
"When did you become logical?" Loki asked.
"I would say when but since we 'had to have a talk about things we cannot say' I won't say when." Valkyrie said.
Frigga says that Odin has a purpose for everything he does.
Loki scoffed at that. What purpose did he have to lie about Hela only to tell us what was coming right before he died, unleashing her and leaving them do deal with his mess.