Moon Knight Episode 4 Ending Explained

In the comics, however, Crawley is one of the most important members of Moon Knight’s supporting cast. An unhoused person and sort of street philosopher, Crawley generally interacts with Jake Lockley. On visits to Gina’s Diner, Crawley provides info to Lockley, and sometimes needs rescuing by Moon Knight.

Crawley also appears in the mental hospital in the Lemire and Smallwood run, in which he serves as something of a guide for Marc. Like Marc, Crawley exists on the margins of society, which gives him special insight on the rest of the world. As such, he’s able to help Marc break from the influence of Khonshu and embrace his own powers.

So, Everything is Fine in the Mental Hospital?

Well, probably not. In the Lemire and Smallwood comics, the hospital is operated by Doctor Emmet, a Nurse Ratched type who may or may not be someone that we’ve heard a lot about, but not yet seen: the goddess Ammit. In the same way that Harrow appears in the hospital as a doctor trying to convince Marc that everything is in his head, Doctor Emmet tells comic book Marc that he made up Moon Knight as a child.

So as much as the mental hospital may be Marc’s way of reshaping reality to battle Harrow, it may also be a construction of Ammit working through Harrow. Director Mohamed Diab references the influence of the Lemire and Smallwood comics on the show when he says, “We are seeing [the story] through someone who has DID, and the whole story could be in his head, you never know.”

In other words, as much as we can answer some questions inspired by the episode, the real answer may be, “We don’t know for sure.” And that can be very exciting.

We Gonna Talk About Taweret, the Hippo Lady?

Yes, the hippo who greets/terrifies Marc and Steven at the end of the episode is Taweret, Egyptian goddess of childbirth. She was briefly mentioned in “The Goldfish Problem,” but we know little about her purpose in this story because she’s absent not only from the Lemire and Smallwood comics, but also from the entire Marvel Universe (given some of Marvel’s iffy portrayals of pregnancy, that might be a good thing).