After Rick refuses to join up with the rest of the Rick multiverse, his wife Sarah and child Beth were killed. While Rick had teased that the version of his origin we had first seen in the Season 3 premiere, "The Rickshank Redemption," was actually a joke, it turned out to be totally true. As Evil Morty explains, the Central Finite Curve is a version of the multiverse Rick had created for himself that only gathers and interacts with other universes where Rick is the most dominant being.Īs Evil Morty begins his plan of using all the remaining portal fluid and sacrificing many of the Ricks and Mortys from other universes, we finally get a full look at Rick's backstory. Following his taking over the Citadel, Evil Morty reveals his grand plan is to basically sacrifice the Citadel in order to break free of the Central Finite Curve. Heading to the Citadel, it's here they meet with "Evil Morty" for the first time. While Rick is hesitant at first, he ultimately decides to try for a classic adventure between the two of them. The finale, "Rickmurai Jack," opens with Morty appealing to Rick to try to get him back. Thus he decides to fully leave Morty heading into the final episode. It starts out as Rick's usual passive aggressive dig at Morty, but through this new partnership Rick realizes just how toxic and co-dependent his relationship with Morty really had become. Leaving Rick behind, this leads into the events of the final two episodes, "Forgetting Sarick Marshall" and "Rickmurai Jack." When Rick and Morty have a fight, Rick decides to replace Morty with two crows. It's revealed through all of this that Birdperson actually had a child with Tammy, and Rick had been keeping this from his friend for fear of losing him again.īirdperson is able to return to his body, and although Rick is successful in saving his friend, Birdperson prioritizes saving his daughter and starting a new phase of life. This rejection serves as one of the many roots for Rick's current cynical side, but more importantly also colors more of his relationship with Birdperson. It's revealed that Rick had confessed to Birdperson that he was having much deeper feelings for his friend than Birdperson had for him, and was unfortunately rejected. This takes Rick on a journey through his memories with Birdperson, and notably their time together fighting for the resistance. Rick begins to try and save his old friend by venturing into his mind to find the original, unbrainwashed Birdperson. The plot in full kicks in at the eighth episode, "Rickturnal Friendshine of the Spotless Morty," as it finally picks up from the Birdperson tease following Season 4's finale. Which plays an important role later.Įpisode 5, "Amortycan Grickfitti" and Episode 6 "Rick and Morty's Thanksploitation Spectacular" don't really have too much of note other than he fact that Rick gets a little closer to Jerry, and Rick and the President find some common ground as rivals for the first real time moving forward. Notably, Season 5 didn't follow up on Season 4 bringing back Space Beth until "Mortyplicity." The second episode of the series also made sure to destroy every copy of Rick made of the Smith family to act as decoys. It's revealed that he has a much deeper past with Rick than one would expect (even knowing Rick's wife Sarah), and the two of them come to a sort of understanding at the end of the episode. Nimbus in "Mort Dinner Rick Andre." A take on Marvel's hero Namor, Mr. Rick and Morty Season 5 opened by introducing Rick's rival, Mr. So in this recap you'll find many of the elements that will likely lead to some bigger reveals in the rest of the series, and many of the character moments that should be important later. When thinking back on Rick and Morty Season 5, it's best to highlight the stuff that will seemingly play a role in future episodes rather that detail every single thing that happened. Yet like other seasons in the past, this was still in between lots of episodic adventures that likely won't be playing into the future of the series.
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