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Why the twist about the client doesn't work Spoilers for Visionquest episode 7 In this episode we finally get revealed (sort of) who the client is. It's Phineas Horton's grandson. But that twist doesn't work storytelling wise. In this episode we learn about the family history of Phineas Horton. That he was obsessed with completing the human torch because he couldn't deal with the death of his son James. His wife leaves him and his daughter steals the notebook with the source code. In Jocasta's memory we learn that there was a sixth member of their company, the one that Ultron based his avatar on. he was the one who handed the source code of the human torch to them. The one they used to develop Proto-One. How did he get it? He inherited it from his mother, Phineas Horton's daughter. He's the one who built the body of Jocasta. Now why does this plot twist not work? If you think about good plot twists in storytelling there usually some sort of recap of all the hints that were dropped throughout the story. That way you can rewatch or reread the story and it becomes a completely different story given the knowledge you have now. Think of Pulp Fiction for example. But that doesn't work here. There was nothing in the previous six episodes that pointed towards there being a sixth member of the company. There was nothing pointing towards Phineas Horton having a daughter and how the source code got to the company through her son. None of that was even hinted at. All that info was dropped on us right before the reveal. That's not a clever reveal. That's not a good plot twist. At first I thought the client would be Jim Hammond himself. There have been several hints towards that. And we got him in this episode restoring Vision's identity. So we did get that. But Horton's grandson? He came out of the blue.