Jake Lockley

The end credits scene for Moon Knight's finale in episode 6 finally confirmed a major fan theory about Marc Spector and Steven Grant.

As in this end credits scene, Jake is usually a driver – though in the comics he was a New York cabbie, with connections to the criminal underworld that were useful to Moon Knight’s crime-fighting. How exactly Jake was created in this TV version remains to be seen – as does whether we’ll see him again. He’s more of an assassin, a true “fist of Khonshu” who has no trouble executing people in cold blood. Later, when the duo escaped from an imagined mental hospital, Marc had to free Steven from a sarcophagus – but you also see another unopened sarcophagus standing in a room, which neither of them attempts to open. Well, in the comics Moon Knight almost always has his alternate Steven Grant and Marc Spector identities, and Jake Lockley is usually right in there with them. There had been clues for a while that Steven wasn’t the only extra identity Marc had.

We break down what happened in the 'Moon Knight' finale and what it means for the futures of Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley, and Scarlet Scarab.

For our money, a version of Moon Knight that dialed down the focus on Khonshu, Ammit, and the suspiciously Eternals-esque council of gods who creep on humanity from the sidelines, would've been a much better ride. Khonshu's inside, by the way, introducing Harrow to Lockley. Then? Lockley executes Harrow. If we're being honest, the permanence of Harrow's death probably depends on whether or not Ethan Hawke wants to return to the MCU after Moon Knight. (Considering how close he is with Isaac, we'd be willing to be he'll come back to the party.) Regardless, if/when Isaac returns, there will be three of him! Though Moon Knight found itself lost in the metaphorical and literal desert more often than not, it was nice to see Grant and Spector, as Mr. Knight and Moon Knight, respectively, finally fight alongside each other without bickering. In Moon Knight's mid-credits scene, we see Lockley pick up Harrow from the psychiatric hospital and toss him in an all-white limo. Admirable! Spector and Grant share a tender moment—as two Oscar Isaacses do—before resurrecting in the real world. Now, for the week of May 1, Chef Feige is serving up the season finale of Moon Knight, paired with the premiere of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. (Check back here this Friday for Esquire's coverage of Doctor Strange. Which, we promise, is worth coming back for.

Moon Knight's final episode makes a new Egyptian superhero out of Layla, the Scarlet Scarab — and finally reveals the third personality of Steven Grant and ...

And comics can’t help us much here, because Layla is an almost entirely original character to the Moon Knight TV series. Jake isn’t the only star of Moon Knight’s credits scene: Khonshu has picked up some modern threads and modern conveyance. A nattily-suited Khonshu is a staple of Moon Knight comics, and he looks just as good in live action as on the page. Moon Knight has been hinting at the existence of a third personality since early in the series, sprinkling the story with moments when both Steven and Marc experienced the blackouts that usually indicated the other one was taking over. Now we know exactly who was in there: The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s take on Jake Lockley. There’s not much we know about him at this point. There’s a third personality neither of them are aware of, and his name is Jake Lockley.

The Moon Knight Episode 6 finale finally introduced Jake Lockley, Marc's third persona, in its post-credits scene.

This figure brings Arthur outside and tosses him into a limo—and in the back of the limo, Arthur meets Khonshu. Khonshu is very leisurely sitting, and essentially tells Arthur that he's still got his fist of vengeance. This, too, was Jake. Some theorists also believed that one of the conversations in the asylum scenes with "Dr. Harrow" was Jake as well. At the actual end of the show, we saw Marc and Steven still in tune with one another. The only difference now is that Steven and Marc were awake at the same time, operating in coordination. Marc and Steven wanted to live their own life, and Khonshu (voiced with such wonderful wry frustration by F. Murray Abraham) held through with his end of the bargain. After six episodes establishing the identities of Marc Spector (Oscar Isaac) and Steven Grant ( British Oscar Isaac), then each identity denying the other exists, then each realizing the other has basically existed all along, and then, finally, becoming BFFs with each other, Moon Knight finally found its team up in its finale.

"Moon Knight" director Mohamed Diab talks introducing Jake Lockley in the season finale and creating the first Egyptian hero in the MCU.

There has to be a scene at the end that connects us to the MCU. But I think they decided, “You know what, the surprise is that there isn’t, and what’s going to make this show unique is it doesn’t need anything else.” The best compliment we get on the show is when people tell us, “This doesn’t feel like a Marvel show. It feels like a standalone show that feels more dramatic, more dark, grounded.” I feel like we succeeded in bringing Marvel more to our corner. “Moon Knight” is becoming a national pride in Egypt. People treat it like the Egyptian “Black Panther.” They love that behind the camera, there are Egyptians; in front of the camera, there are Egyptians. There’s Egyptian music that the world is enjoying. My answer is this is a show that needs to be watched once and twice and three times. I had to take her to Disneyland and tell Princess Elsa and Anna, “Please tell her that her hair is beautiful.” She never saw anything on TV that looks like her. Thank God I had the chance to do that on this show. Do you feel like the show ends with a definitive answer to that question? Maybe it’s going to be a journey like what happened with “WandaVision.” I wish one day, if there is an expansion, I would be a part of it. If you ask me, I would tell you that “Moon Knight” is here to stay. But the Jake scene certainly suggests that there is more story to tell. All of that suggests a wide-open future for Mark/Steven/Jake and Layla — something Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab, who directed the first, third, fifth and sixth episodes of “Moon Knight” — definitely hopes to help make happen. Marvel recently referred to the episode as the “season finale” of “Moon Knight,” not the series finale.

We break down every twist and turn from Oscar Isaac's Disney Plus series as Steven Grant and Marc Spector face Arthur Harrow.

Now, Marc and Steven are able to exist in a new harmony – and curiously, the Harrow doctor’s feet begin to bleed in the vision, to his confusion. In the series’ first post-credits scene, it’s revealed why Khonshu so readily let Marc and Steven leave his employ – he actually still had a way to keep them on the payroll. In the Moon Knight comics Jake Lockley is a regular alternative personality alongside Marc and Steven (and one or two others), so it makes sense Marvel would include him in this story. As Khonshu and Amit fought across the Egyptian skyline, Layla, Marc and Steven fought a parallel battle with Harrow and his followers on the ground. The next thing we know, Marc and Steven wake up again in Steven’s London flat. Reluctantly, Khonshu agrees – at which point Marc and Steven appear to return to the dreamlike mental facility their subconscious has regularly trapped them in.

Starring Oscar Isaac as the titular vigilante, Ethan Hawke, Gaspard Ulliel, and May Calamawy, the series created by Doug Moench, Jeremy Slater, and Don Perlin, ...

The MCU has also made Jake a much more violent version of the comic book alter-ego. The scene ends with Jake shooting and killing Arthur in the backseat, confirming that Marc is still Khonshu’s avatar, but Jake speaks Spanish which has confused Marvel fans. With Jake only speaking Spanish during the scene, we reveal if the character is Spanish in the comics.

Moon Knight episode 6 finally introduced the Jake Lockley persona. What costume will he get, and how will it differ from Marc and Steven's?

And based on how Jake seemingly defeated Arthur Harrow when Steven and Marc couldn’t, his version of Moon Knight could turn out to the most powerful one of them all. The decision to use Mr. Knight as Steven’s costume indicates that Marvel’s intention was to ensure that like the Steven and Marc personalities, their suits would be inherently different from the other two. Moon Knight’s Jake Lockley could get his own unique costume when the character makes his MCU return.

Moon Knight director Mohamed Diab wants all the fans to know one very specific thing about Jake Lockley's debut in the mid-credits scene of the season ...

“Initially in the writers room we did talk about front-loading Jake a little bit more,” said EP Grant Curtis. “But you do realize that the more you have [Jake’s] story to tell, the more you take away from the emotional journey that Marc and Steven were going on and trying to reconcile their lives. But if he was involved in a second season, he knows what he’d like to see. “I was rooting for every time they made [Jake’s action take place] off-camera,” Diab told Decider. “I told my stunt coordinator [Olivier Schneider], who is a fantastic guy, that the most fascinating thing that we have in our action is the blinks. “It was absolutely not [Jake],” said Mohamed Diab, director of the scene in question. In it, Marc has a broken nose and threatens Harrow with a pyramid-shaped paperweight. That’s just part of the Marvel brand, and you know Moon Knight did not disappoint.

The season finale of Moon Knight introduced a new superhero, a new identity for Marc Spector and Steven Grant, and the possibility of a second season.

Marc might, perhaps, be the only “real” one, but that doesn’t make Steven any less a part of Marc. As different as they are, they are really one and the same. But Issac does such a gorgeous job understanding his characters’s needs that even the sappiest lines—“You saved me”—are enough to prick tears. After Khonshu “releases” Marc and Steven from their service as his avatar, they awaken—twice. First, they come to in the mental health facility from episodes 4 and 5. There, Marc and Steven confront the supposed “Dr.” Harrow, who is suspiciously bleeding from his feet. As Ammit gobbles up a bunch of sinners’s souls—sinners who have yet to commit their sins, remember—Khonshu takes her on, while Marc, Steven and Layla attempt to bind her soul to Harrow’s. They are only able to succeed after they’ve seemingly lost; as Harrow stands over Marc’s body, Marc blacks out, only to wake moments later to find himself clutching an ax over Harrow. It’s clear he’s experienced another one of the incidents he and Steven fretted over in earlier episodes, where both black out only to awaken and discover they’ve committed some heinously violent act. As Harrow uses his glowing purple cane to suck souls out of the border patrol agents in his way, Layla stows away with his crew and watches the massacre take place. Meanwhile, Layla’s snuck off to smash Khonshu’s ushabti, in the hopes the newly released god can solve their present problems, but he offers yet another conundrum: Only a human avatar can “rebind” Ammit and spare the world her wrath. There’s no question that the season finale is far from the best episode of Moon Knight, but it does do an excellent job of smoothing the edges around Marc and Steven’s dissonance while retaining their singularity as characters. (You’ll recall Ethan Hawke’s Harrow shot him in the chest a few times last episode.) Harrow’s goons drag him out and steal the ushabti of Ammit while Layla sobs over her husband’s dead body and vows to finish the job. Episode 6, “Moon Knight,” opens with Marc/Steven’s body floating in the waters of the tomb, his bullet wounds seeping red into the water. Episode 1 positioned Steven as the lonely “Man Without Love,” implying Marc as the same. But the reason why the show worked on any level, even with the frothing franchise machine nipping at its heels, was thanks to Marc and Steven’s emotional push-and-pull, executed with alacrity by Oscar Isaac, an actor who peels back new layers of his range every time he appears on screen.