Oscar Isaac stars as Marc Spector and Steven Grant, alongside May Calamawy, Ann Akinjirin, David Ganly, Fernanda Andrade, Antonia Salib, Karim El-Hakim, Rey Lucas, F. Murray Abraham, and Ethan Hawke.

Critics highlighted the episode for its plot twists, emotional weight, Isaac's performance, and its portrayal of Spector and Grant's dissociative identity disorder (DID).

Steven Grant identifies the hippopotamus-headed woman as the Egyptian goddess Taweret, who explains to him and Marc Spector that they are dead and that the "psychiatric hospital" is actually inside a boat sailing through the Duat.

She weighs their hearts on the Scales of Justice to determine if they would be allowed to enter the Field of Reeds, and she advises them to help each other uncover hidden memories causing their imbalance.

Spector and Grant convince Taweret to let them return to the living world to stop Arthur Harrow, who has released Ammit, and she steers the boat towards the Gates of Osiris.

[4] Diab executive produces alongside Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige, Louis D'Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, and Grant Curtis, star Oscar Isaac, and head writer Jeremy Slater.

Diab also explained that the episode was a "major turning point" in the series, as both Spector and Grant begin working together, adding that "Marc and Steven are a fraction of the same person.

As such, he felt that there was no need for them to balance Jake Lockley's soul, another identity of Moon Knight, as Grant and Spector were not aware of his presence.

He also felt that Grant would be the one to balance their scales at the end because "realizes that he is the protector of the system, and him finally stepping up and doing that job, and sort of assuming the mantle of what he was always supposed to be", while Spector was aware of who he was throughout the episode, and was "repressing it and delaying it" throughout.

He also consulted with the pre-visualization team, who created computer-generated animatics for Taweret's characters, and sought to capture Salib's performance as much as he could during filming.

[25] Whip Media, which tracks viewership data for the more than 21 million worldwide users of its TV Time app, reported that it was the top-streaming original series in the U.S. for the week ending May 1.

The site's critical consensus reads, "Moon Knight turns inward with a self-contained installment that fills in the hero's backstory while deepening the overall season's emotional stakes.

Boccella said that the idea of Grant having to "die" for Spector's scales to balance felt like "a betrayal of everything up to this point"; She theorized there might be a much deeper meaning to this, noting Marvel Studios' history of unexpected twists.

Club called placing Spector and Grant in a psychiatric ward "quite ingenious", noting that given the series' interest in mental health and the ways people develop coping mechanisms to grapple with what we'd rather forget, it was "no surprise to have Moon Knight become a splintered, [Christopher] Nolan–esque psychological drama."

What worked best for Betancourt was the way the psych ward conceit mixed in with the weighing of the heart mythology allowed the series to bring its two main thematic concerns together.

As the duo relived the traumatic memory of Randall's death, the site felt that Isaac was able to use his face and voice to convey the urgency as Grant asked Spector "why are you remembering her like that"?