Rick and Morty - S2E3 - Auto Erotic Assimilation
Sorry folks, I tried. I tried putting this all together in one post, but alas… this part 1 of a 2 part analysis.
This episode touches on a brand new sphere of philosophy, and Rick’s life–that of love and lust. It also explores the opposite extreme in how the secondary plot line plays out, the plot line featuring Jerry and Beth really digging into each other, really at each other’s throats–you would never think love and lust subsists between these two in this episode. And when it comes to Jerry in particular, he really hits the nail on the head–he delivers a blow of harsh truth to Beth that really hits home–he calls her on her daddy issues, going so far as to say: “Your relationship with your father is psychotic!” ← I wouldn’t exactly call this “manning up” though–more like reaching a breaking point and just saying what he really thinks.
But even in the main plot line–the one featuring Rick rekindling a lost love, a passionate, romantic affair with a girl–there is a sort of third plot line–one featuring Morty and Summer getting wrap up in some precarious affairs that touch on issues of race and prejudice, and here especially, in comparison to most other episodes, we see the folly of the liberal mindset, embodied in Summer and her liberal ideals. Morty, on the other hand, though of course still being somewhat on the liberal side of things, shows how he’s been “cultured”, or “nurtured” so to speak, by Rick’s leveling influence–he kind of stands back and watches, knowingly, Summer’s idealistic naivety.
The episode begins with Rick, Morty, and Summer flying through the ring of a planet, like dust, singing “Love!.. Connection!.. Experience!” ← Yes, even Rick can let loose when their lives aren’t in jeopardy.
Then the distress beacon goes off. It’s the S.S. Independence. Rick seems unusually happy about it. Morty questions this. Rick responds:
“The first rule of space travel, kids, is always check out distress beacons. 9 of out 10 times is a ship full of dead aliens and a bunch of free shiiit… [turns directions abruptly]… 1 out of 10 times it’s a deadly trap, but I’m willing to roll those dice!”
They arrive at the abandoned space ship–the S.S. Independence–and start exploring its dingy, cobweb covered halls (I guess spiders live on other planets). Rick spray paints the symbol of the Korblocks on the wall:
Rick: “This will makes the cops write it up as a looting by the Korblocks. [Summer: That’s horrible.] I hear ya, man. Cops are racist.”
Then the crew of the S.S. Independence show up. They look quit similar to humans except for their blue skin and three stubby antennae at the top of their head, looking like three small light bulbs.
They explain their situation of distress: “Can you help us? Our planet was taken over by some kind of… entity. It absorbed the minds of our people.” Another one says: “We didn’t notice it until it was too late. The people it takes over, they, they look like your friends, your family, your leaders, but they’re not… ‘themselves’ anymore. They’re part of… ‘it’.”
Rick: “And… how do you know it didn’t get on the ship with you? Those two ding dongs seem pretty calm about the whole thing.”
The two ding dongs point to Rick and let out a deafening screech not unlike that of the victims in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. They grab the other members of the crew and start puking neon green/yellow goop into their mouths. Rick pulls out a gun and says, “Hold it.” The now completely assimilated crew turns to Rick with a smug look on their faces and says: “Hello Rick, long time no see.”
“Unity?!” Rick says.
Summer: “Grandpa?” Morty: “Rick?”
Rick: “Oh boy, uh, these are my grand kids, Summer and Morty. Summer, Morty, this is, uh, Unity. We sort of used to, uh… date.”
The next scene pans through another world, the world of the blue light bulb heads, showing scenes of a kind of utopian society. It looks clean, advanced, peaceful, a paradise on Earth (or whatever planet they’re on). Music in the background plays not unlike that in the opening scene of Back to the Future III when Marty brings a passed out Emit Brown to his home. We see blue light bulb head fathers pushing their children on swings in a park. We see people watering their lawns in a peaceful neighborhood. We see citizens having lunch in the sun, sitting around tables in the open air, just outside cafes.
They land the SS Independence–now a joke of a name–and Unity (re)introduces herself to Rick–except this time in the body of a mega-hot bombshell of a super voluptuous woman–can’t be much older than 30–and note that Unity is not just the one woman, although she is, of course, possessing this woman. Unity gets to choose who she gets to engage with Rick as. And she knows Rick. She knows that Rick just wouldn’t have it any other way unless he gets to engage with Unity as a hot brunette with voluptuous curves and huge boobies. At the same time, also note that she engages with Rick as an intellectual, dressed like an aggressive business woman or politician. The glasses say it all: sexy but smart. It’s the only way Rick is going to be interested.
She does, however, diversify herself, speaking to Rick through other beings close by. This bombshell of a gorgeous brunette is accompanied by what looks like secret service agents–men in black, so to speak–and they too engage with Rick: “Then I found this world, [switching to another agent:] where I was better able to focus on my passion for unification.” ← So obviously, Unity didn’t start as a blue light bulb head (and there’s no indication in the episode of what Unity did start out as).
Summer: “You mean stealing people’s bodies?”
Rick: “[slapping his forehead] Summer… rude.” ← Wow, Rick standing up for someone other than himself, not to mention Summer having no qualms about being rude, not unlike Rick himself–although it becomes obvious as the episode unfold that Summer is saying this out of moral principles, unlike Rick who would say such a thing out of callous disregard.
Rick sends Morty and Summer off with Unity, while he and Unity do some catching up–that is, a few blue light bulb heads escort Morty and Summer off the scene. But not without some resistance on Morty’s part: “Wait, Rick, aren’t these people gonna barf into our mouths and absorb us?!” Unity: “You’re guests here on my planet. You’re free to be yourselves.” ← Oh wow, what a privilege–but it does speak of Unity’s respect for Rick.
Beth: “Jerry, what’re, what’re you doing in here?” She catches him snooping for something in the garage.
Jerry: “Trying to find our weed wacker, 'cause our weeds are wack, yo.”
^ This sets the stage for the “lover’s quarrel” that Jerry and Beth are going to get into throughout the rest of the secondary plot line. And it’s interesting how it starts out: Beth notices Jerry looking for something in the garage–the most mundane, innocuous thing a man can do in his own house–and yet, she reacts with alarm, as though he is trespassing on forbidden grounds. Jerry confirms the innocence of what he’s doing by explaining, quite honestly, that he’s looking for the weed wacker–the kind of thing you would expect a man to do when he is focused on tending to his property. The idea that this constitutes “trespassing” or something worth being suspicious over, as Beth seems to be, is a little bit off to say the least.
And as an aside, I’m not sure what game Roiland and Harmon were playing by making Jerry speak in what Beth calls “that hip-hop dialect”–and he does lay it on pretty thick in this early scene–not sure what it’s supposed to imply–maybe that Jerry has to switch to this “hip-hop” mindset in order to call it as it is, to hit Beth with the harsh truth:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIwTi9nbNgk[/youtube]
Now, in Beth’s defense, Jerry is acting as the “man of the house”–even though, next to Rick, he rightfully should be–but next to Beth, perhaps he shouldn’t be–if in this day and age, both man and woman are supposed to share their assets, including the house, including the garage, then Beth’s say in this affair counts as equally relevant to Jerry’s. Nonetheless, if there was only one person in this lover’s tiff who was right and the other wrong, it would have to be Jerry. It is patently clear, at this point in the series, that Beth is obviously speaking from daddy issues whereas Jerry is peaking more from common sense. Jerry has much to learn about empathizing with his wife’s point of view, but even if he were to do so, he’s still be right.
But all that is interrupted by a strange alien-like gurgling screech. Jerry pushes away a rug to uncover a hatch (not one of Rick’s most brilliant moves, I have to say–it’s like hiding incriminating evidence under the bed).
Jerry: “Your father put a hatch in my garage!”
Beth: “You don’t know it was him!”
Rick stops by a news paper stand–the headline reads: “world peace achieved”–so simple for a borg like collective, hinting that maybe unifying, against their will, what were once individuals, is on the whole a good thing.
We see the news paper guy accept a few coins from a customer in exchange for a news paper, showing that even though Unity has joined an entire planet in one collective consciousness, she still has to make sure everything runs according to the ordinary agendas of the day, the economic pattern that was in place even before she took over; one might not think this is necessary, one might think that, once unified, what need would there be to exchange cash for goods and services, for a monitory or even a barter system at all. But it makes one think: how would the world run if not through an economic system, a system of give and take, of exchanges of this good or service for that good or service? Couldn’t a whole civilization make the world run just out of the sheer appreciation that work has to be done–if not only for others, then at least for the returns that come to one’s self? Couldn’t Unity provide some good or some service to herself (as another person) simply out of appreciation for the fact that, that person as Unity herself, wants–needs–that good or service just in order to survive, just in order to keep the world–again, as Unity herself–going? To preserve an economic system in this case would be like paying one’s self some amount of cash in order to provide to one’s self that which one’s self wants in the first place. Why?
But perhaps this is the point Rick was making–as sort of self-mockery on the part of Roiland and Harmon–when he said: “Little weird to publish a paper about it for yourself, but hey.” ← Maybe narcissism is something Rick and Unity have in common.
From there, Unity explains to Rick, through a series of different blue light bulb heads, what her ambitions are: she has aspirations to join the galactic federation; she claims that “after I become a ‘type 1’ civilization, this world will be invited into the galactic federation.” From there, she claims, she will have access to countless worlds, world she can unify, thereby becoming, in her words, a god. ← Here we see one of the features which contrasts Rick and Unity: Unity aspires to become a god, Rick thinks he’s already a god (and skipping ahead to episode 1 of season 3, we see this may not be far off from the truth). This theme will tie in to the end scene.
Rick asks where they can get a drink. Unity informs him that she phased out recreational substances. She reasons: “There’s no need for escape from the self when your world is one.” ← This is one thing the Citadel of Ricks lacks: even though we see in episode 1 of season 3 that the Ricks seek out the same thing with themselves as Unity seeks out by assimilating herself with other beings (i.e. “Dude, you have yourself, your infinite selves, it’s a non-stop party where the only guests are the only person we like. You think it’s cool being the smartest man on Earth, but once we give you this technology, you become the smartest thing in every conceivable universe, the infinite Rick, a god.”) Obviously, this is not enough to compel Rick to kick his substance abuse problem, and according to Unity, it’s because the Ricks can’t psychically connect with each other to become a collective. ← I’m not entirely convinced this logic makes sense, however, unless what Unity means is that the main point of doing alcohol and drugs is to escape from other people who are not part of one’s self, or perhaps in order to join others who are not one’s self, as in the way alcohol can help a person bond with others, lowering his self-masking inhibitions (but I wouldn’t exactly call the drive to bond with others a drive to escape the self). But what Unity has established is a whole planet of beings who are psychically connected right down to the core of their being–there’s no hiding here–the catch being that it’s not genuine bonding with truly “other” people–for what Unity has done, after all, is replace others with herself.
Rick makes a dumb comment about how Unity used to be more wild. Unity responds that as she’s gathered more beings into her collective, she’s changed*, she’s grown. Rick tries to convince her that he’s grown too because he’s reconnected with his family. “Why is that, I wonder,” says Unity. “Maybe it’s part of getting old,” Rick says, “Maybe I just miss being with [grabs her hand] a collective.” Then he kisses her. He keeps on kissing her. Other blue light bulb heads surrounding them and chant: “Yes, Rick, yes… yes.”
(* It’s interesting that she ends this speech with “Sorry to disappoint you, I’ve grown” when just a few minutes earlier, she says to Morty and Summer: “I’ve never been any good at disappointing Rick.” As the episode unfolds, we see that what she means by the latter is that she knows how to sink to Rick’s level. Growing, in other words, is what’s disappointing to Rick, particularly in this scene where the conversation revolves around growing beyond drugs and alcohol.)
I find the hopping from one body to another throughout this scene very interesting. It really adds a sense of jarring contrast between the romantic reconnection that Rick and Unity are going through and who exactly Unity is, who Rick understands himself to be reconnecting to. This entire conversation starts with Unity as the hot babe she introduced herself as when they landed, and after the scene with Beth and Jerry discovering the hatch in the garage floor, we find Rick talking about achieving world peace with Unity as a newspaper salesman (literally a man), then the customer who buys a newspaper, then a young black woman (who is blue), then an old lady, then a mailman, then a greasy looking homeless man, and finally a sexy looking police officer. ← This is the one he kisses. What would happen if Unity ended with the homeless man? Would Rick have made the suave move that lead to the kiss? Makes you wonder who’s in control.
In any case, this scene raises the larger question: who is Unity really? On a first impression, we get to know her as the hot bombshell we saw near the beginning (when Rick, Morty, and Summer dismounted from the ship), and the writers intend for us to continue with this impress as this woman fills in as the “default” representative of Unity, but really she could just as easily be represented as the old woman who explained how all drugs and alcohol were phased out. It’s questionable whether we even have the right to assume Unity is female. I mean, Rick and Unity did have a love affair some time in the past but in Unity’s words: “Rick, when we met, I was a young hive mind at the time, with the population of a small town.” It’s not even clear from this whether Unity had assimilated blue light bulb heads or some other species (probably some other species given that it took so long for Rick to recognize her at the beginning). Either way, Unity was (most likely) a mix of men and women when they first met. What was Unity’s original sex? Male or female? Does Rick know? Does the fact that she’s sexually attracted to Rick indicate that she was female? Or does she simply become attracted to Rick in virtue of occupying female bodies from time to time (or if she was originally male, was she gay? Would Rick have been informed of this?). Or perhaps she was originally from an asexual species or some kind of asexual life form. In any case, it’s a mystery, and it’s unclear how much Rick knows about the original Unity.
(For that matter, why would her parents have named her ‘Unity’? Did they expect that she was destined to assimilate whole civilizations? Was she born of a species for whom psychic assimilation was perfectly natural, and in that case, why ‘Unity’? That would be like naming your newborn baby ‘human’.)
Rick’s words: “Maybe I just miss being with a collective,” needs to be interpreted subtly. At first, it sounds like it echoes Rick’s longing to belong to a family again, or just to a community of some kind. But why did Rick say with a collective rather than part of a collective? He wants to be among friends and family, among lovers, among a community, but without being assimilated like a mindless borg. He wants to be accepted but still an individual.
Then Rick breaks from the kissing and says to Unity: “Wait, wait, stop. Ho-hold it. Not like this. We need a hang glider, and a crotchless uncle Sam costume, and I want the entire field of your largest stadium covered end to end with naked redheads, and I want the stands packed with every man who remotely resembles my father.” ← The ultimate pornography. It’s interesting that having his father watch him bang a bunch of redheads is important to Rick. What does this say about him? Could it be a glimpse into his past, of his upbringing? What was his father like? How did he treat him? (If the theory that Rick is really an old man version of Morty, then Rick’s father is Jerry.) I wonder if Rick’s father shamed Rick when he was a kid. Maybe Rick was a nerdy little kid only interested in science, too shy to talk to girls, too awkward for girls to take an interest in him, and maybe his father shamed him for sticking his nose too much into science and not enough into going out and chasing girls. Maybe this is Rick’s way of making himself feel redeemed in his father’s eyes. Maybe daddy issues run in the family.
Meanwhile, a bunch of blue light bulb heads are carving out a mountain in the image of Morty and Summer, much like Mount Rushmore, while Morty and Summer sit back eating hamburgers, watching the whole thing unfold in a matter of seconds.
Morty is (as usual) quite impressed. Seeing that Summer still looks miffed, he says:
“What’s your problem? They’re making you into a Mount Rushmore. They made burgers.”
Summer: [Sits up as a blue light bulb head fans her with a giant leaf] “Morty, open your eyes. There is no ‘they’. These poor people’s bodies are being used. They’re a planet of puppets.”
The man fanning Summer says: “I can hear you.”
Morty: “Well, it seems like everybody here’s cool with it… except for all those redheads. They seem like they’re in a hurry to be somewhere else.”
Then the sex scene happens:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GupdoBXMt3M[/youtube]
Now Rick did say he wanted a crotchless uncle Sam costume, and if you pause the scene right at this shot here, you can see a little something:
One can only imagine how he landed.
I also take the Uncle Sam outfit to be a sign of right-wing conservatism.
Cutting back to Beth and Jerry, they’ve somehow managed to open the hatch. They hear gargling, like from an alien creature writhing in pain. Jerry says he’s going down there:
“Beth, this is my house, which makes this my garage, my secret hatch, my subterranean lair, and my faceless gargler. Now, are you gonna keep hatin’ this player, or are you gonna jack my steez?” Beth responds: “Okay, you’re just making stuff up now.”
^ Still not sure what this urban dialect is supposed to insinuate.
Rick steps out of the stadium in a yellow house coat (same one he wore in S3E1 in his memory of where he was on 9-11) looking rather exhausted. He leans up against a lamp post and chugs his water. Unity comes out as 3 young redheads also in house coats (and high heels) plus 4 men in white button up shirts and ties who are presumably Sanchez Senior look-a-likes? If this really is what they represent, then we at least get an idea of what Rick’s father looked like… except for the one with the goatee–he looks a little off from the others–but Rick did say “every man who remotely resembles my father”–that covers pretty much anyone.
The lead redhead says:
“Oh Rick, that was so bad.”
Rick responds: “What’s this ‘was’ stuff. I just need to rehydrate, then we’re doing that again.”
Now we all know that Rick excels at everything, but usually that’s because of his higher intelligence. Now we see him excelling at sex, able to satisfy a whole stadium of redheads and ready to do it again. Did his intelligence help him here? Did he invent a gadget to give him more stamina, a bigger erection, extra appendages? Maybe intelligence isn’t his only virtue.
Then 6 ships land in their vicinity. “Oh damn,” says Unity. Rick: “Listen, if this is an invasion, I gotta sit this one out, but I’ll-I’ll be back to have sex with the survivors.” Unity: “It’s a neighboring hive mind species, beta-7. Our planets maintain a practical alliance for exchange of vital resources… [whispers] so be nice.”
Beta-7 definitely isn’t a hot sexy bombshell. In fact, his hive seems more assimilated than Unity–at least the bodies that Unity takes over are all different in appearance–all beta-7’s bodies look identical–a race of pale white, sickly, somewhat chubby, cyborg men:
Unity introduces Rick, calling him her “single minded friend”. Beta-7 responds that Unity has spoken of him. Jokingly, Rick says in a pompous tone “All bad I hope,” and slaps the lead Beta-7 on the shoulder, eliciting the same loud, screechy, Invasion of the Body Snatchers reaction. Rick reacts: “Woaw, Jesus Christ!” Unit gives Beta-7 shit. Beta-7 responds in the manner of what Trixie calls a cuck: “When Beta-7 expresses concern, i-it’s only b-because…”
Rick interrupts: “Oh snap! Powdered neutronium?! Amphetetron?! You know what I can make with this stuff?” Unity hesitates, but Rick twists her very rubbery arm, and she gives in–effectively ending years of complete drug abstinence (or however long it was). They walk off together giggling and being flirtatious. Beta-7 walks off looking rather dejected, even a bit miffed. “You know, I think,” says Rick before belching, “Beta-7 over there’s hoping your alliance can be more than practical.” They both laugh it up as Beta-7 leaves.
So Rick almost abandons Unity on the pretense of an impending invasion and says he’ll return to have sex with the survivors, while Beta-7 expresses concern for Unity on the pretense that Rick might be a threat to her, and guess who gets the girl. Not the nice guy, that’s for sure. Furthermore, one might think that Beta-7, a hive mind like Unity, having assimilated a whole planet like Unity, might be the better match for her. Rick is just a single mind. Yet Unity is far more attracted to Rick than to Beta-7. In fact, it’s kind of telling that her reaction to seeing Beta-7’s ship landing is: “Oh damn.”
Beth and Jerry make their way down into the subterranean lair, which turns out to be a high tech control center of some kind. They discover the faceless gurgler chained to the wall:
Jerry is not the least bit impressed and starts digging into Beth.
Cutting back to Summer and Morty, Summer is standing atop a box of some kind, shouting into a mega phone to all the blue light bulb heads walking passed: “Wake up people! You have to fight it! You’re under the spell of an evil monster!” Meanwhile, Morty is kinda just standing by watching Summer do her thing. One blue light bulb head, Steven Phillips, stops in front of Summer (odd that a member of an alien species would have the name Steven). He tells her: “I can hear you.” Unity explains to Summer that the man she is currently engaging Summer with used to be a sex offender before she took over. Unity approaches Summer with a woman’s body: “This woman was a drug addict on the verge of suicide, and now she’s a marine biologist.”
^ This hints at a bit of the liberal vs. conservative controversy, Summer acting as the typical liberal who fights on moral principles but only on the whims of a knee jerk reaction, not really thinking about the alternate possibility in which setting these people free from the hive mind may not be the best course of action after all. Unity nicely explains the other side of the coin, but to no avail. Summer isn’t listening. On the other hand, Summer would have an equally powerful point if she had pointed out that real marine biologists and other well-to-dos are also assimilated, and while Unity most likely didn’t make their lives worse off (at least on the surface), she cannot use the same excuse for everyone on this planet.
Morty: Listen Unity, I don’t think my sister’s trying to say that life would be perfect without you, I think she’s just saying life would be, you know, life.
A different man approaches them: “I have transformed life here into a paradise. Prostitutes are now scientists, the homeless are now phisosophers.” The man tries a few times to pronounce “philosophers” properly, and then ends up puking up that yellowish/green neon goop we saw at the beginning. He passes out on the ground, followed by every other blue light bulb head end-to-end–like a line of dominoes. Obviously something’s up. Unity’s effect is wearing off.
Why?
Because she’s getting drunk with Rick:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkT8Lp6RHqE[/youtube]
This is going inside the massive phallic symbol of a building:
Yes, Unity and Rick are getting drunk and high together, essentially throwing a wild party involving Rick, Unity, and… more Unity. ← This is Rick’s corrupting influence. For years (we are to presume) Unity has done away with all drugs and alcohol, a measure taken to improve life on this planet.
Several things are packed together in this brief scene. Starting with a coked up (or something) Unity saying to Rick: “D’you know what I love about you, Rick? You’re the only single mind I’ve met that really sees the big picture.” ← That’s what she likes about Rick? His vision? His intelligence? Well, I’ll admit, it probably is an attractive feature to most women (or whatever Unity is), but he’s the only one? Well, I guess that depends on what the “big picture” ultimately is. Maybe it’s something that can only be understood after years of reality hopping (of which, as far as we know, Rick is the only one to have discovered the technology and to have used extensively). Or, I suppose, being a collective. ← Would that mean Beta-7 also sees the big picture? I doubt it. Maybe Unity’s statement is just a glorified consensus–as in: “I like you because you agree with me.”
An ego-stroked Rick responds: “You got that right… but baby, listen, y-y-you’re talkin’ about taking over plants, and galaxies, you gotta, you gotta just remember to let go sometimes.”
^ Uncannily similar to the speech he gave to Morty at the house party back in S1E11.
“I can let go,” says a desperate-to-impress Unity hopping off the table, motioning towards the window and watches, with Rick by her side, as a nuclear warhead completely obliterates a nearby town. ← This is Unity not wanting Rick to think of her as “uptight”–as if that were a problem–and even after Rick understands that no one was hurt, I still don’t think that’s exactly what he meant. It seems Unity is trying to be wild and crazy in order not to disappoint Rick–breaking her vow to abstain from all drugs and alcohol being a prime example–and now, when Rick hints that maybe he is a bit disappointed in something (not what she thinks it is), she hikes it up a notch, goes above and beyond wild and crazy, up to bat-shit insane. I think what Rick meant by “let go” is exactly what he does when he “let’s go”–essentially, stops caring, following through with the ultimate nihilism–whereas Unity seems to think of it as “letting go of pursuing her goal,” which involves being serious about improving life on this planet, doing business with the galactic federation, as opposed to more spontaneous, chaotic behavior.
And of course, we get another glimpse of Rick’s softer side–worried about his grand kids–then dismisses it by asking for a refill on his drink; it’s also interesting to see, not only that he cares for his grand kids but for life in general: his reaction, “Woaw! That’s not what I meant!” shows that he has enough moral sensibility to at least recognize what counts as crossing the line.
(On a practical note, how did Unity get the town’s people to safety so fast?.. unless this was planned in advance… or perhaps they were all out on an excursion for some other purpose, and Unity just recognized the opportunity.)
Cutting back to Morty and Summer, they’re running around trying to stay safe. A barf-o-rama is going on around them, neon yellow/green puke is being hurled from the mouths of almost every blue light bulb head in the region. They can’t really control themselves and seem like they’re in a kind of delirious frenzy. Cars run into each other, spaceships crash, and a man controlling a towering crane loses control and drops tons of steel bars onto a port-o-potty just as another blue light bulb head leaves it. It also just barely misses Summer and Morty as they run by. The blue light bulb head who just came out of the port-o-potty happens to be the sex offender whom Unity spoke through earlier informing Summer and Morty of just that fact. He is now free of Unity’s influence and asks to take a picture of Morty and Summer’s feet.