We Just Got the Craziest WandaVision Episode So Far — Here Are All the "New" People

This isn't Parris's first episode, but it's the first one where she's basically the protagonist of the whole episode — and going by her real name, rather than her "Geraldine" alter ego. After waking up from having been snapped out of existence by Thanos, she learns that five years have passed and that her mother, Maria, died of cancer in the interim.

She returns to work at S.W.O.R.D., where, after being sent to investigate an apparent missing persons case, she discovers the strange mystery of Westview and gets sucked into (and eventually kicked out of) its sitcom bubble. At that point, she reveals what she's learned, or at least what she's pretty sure: Wanda's in control of it all.

When Monica arrives at the border of Westview, she meets with the FBI agent who's asked for S.W.O.R.D.'s help: Jimmy Woo, an ex-S.H.I.E.L.D. agent last seen in Ant-Man and the Wasp as the parole officer assigned to monitor Ant-Man's house arrest. He's had plenty of experience with weird stuff, which is why, when an informant of his goes missing in Westview, he quickly realises that something is very wrong — starting with the fact that the local police don't remember the town even existing.

As the investigation unfolds, we get confirmation of a popular theory: that Woo is the voice Wanda hears on the radio during the '60s episode. It's part of an attempt to contact Wanda within the bubble, although we see that most of his attempt gets "censored" out of the "broadcast" visible to the outside agents.

Last seen in Thor: The Dark World, grad student Darcy has risen up in the world in the decade that's passed since then! Now an astrophysicist with a doctorate, Darcy is one of four elite scientists (in wildly differing fields) who are brought in by S.W.O.R.D. to try to figure out what's happening in Westview.

Darcy is the one who figures out that there's a signal emanating from the bubble — a mix of cosmic/magical energy and what turns out to be a broadcast signal — and sets up a way to "watch" the "episodes." Another fan theory gets proven true: she's the person watching TV at the end of the first episode, watching and taking notes in front of a TV.

When Monica returns to work at S.W.O.R.D., she's greeted by the acting director of the organisation, Tyler Hayward, who she apparently knows from before the Blip. She learns that he became the director after Maria's death, and he's the one who sends her on the Westview missing persons case, apologetically telling her that it's a S.W.O.R.D. policy put in place by Maria: when (not if, but when) the Blipped operatives came back, they'd need to be kept on Earth missions for the time being.

Also worth noting: way back on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a character named Brian Hayward was an ex-soldier who got involved with the cyborg project called Project Centipede, which was revealed to be a HYDRA operation. Given the sneaky HYDRA imagery popping up throughout WandaVision and Wanda's origins as the victim of HYDRA experiments, is this a coincidence or not?