# Ultron goes bird watching

> VisionQuest’s emotional stakes pay off as Ultron hunts Butcherbird.
- Title: Ultron goes bird watching · AV Club | Shortify
- Summary: VisionQuest’s emotional stakes pay off as Ultron hunts Butcherbird. Vision and Thomas use a pool reboot to save Vision from exploding, but Butcherbird…
- Keywords: visionquest, ultron, butcherbird, vision, thomas, dum-e, edith, jim, katarina wells, malware, reboot, goes
- Source: AV Club — https://avclub.com/visionquest-recap-episode-3-reboot-episode-4-malware
- Read time: 2 min
- Topics: visionquest, ultron, butcherbird, vision, thomas, dum-e, edith, jim, katarina wells, ai, malware, reboot
## Butcherbird emerges
Ultron learns about Butcherbird from a news broadcast, curious about this 'busy little bird' who leaves wing-like markings.
## Butcherbird in action
She disables a man’s security system and shrugs off shotgun blasts before revealing robot eyes beneath her hood.
## Vision’s healing
Vision heals his injuries by dumping sulfuric acid into his wound, depicted as a house fire in the mind-mansion.
## Paladin’s past
Paladin recalls a werewolf adventure and a billy club incident, saying, 'If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of Hell’s Kitchen.'

> If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of Hell’s Kitchen
## Vision and Thomas
Vision insists he can’t be Thomas’s father, explaining it’s all due to Wanda’s magic, not his actions.
## Hotel conversation
Vision notes Thomas watches Small Wonder, hinting TV taste is genetic, and explains WandaVision without Evan Peters’ meta-casting.
## Vision’s reboot plan
Vision and Thomas use the hotel pool to reboot Vision’s core, with Thomas’s speed jumping-starting the system.

> the very essence of speed
## Butcherbird’s target
Butcherbird scans Paladin’s mind, revealing his father was abusive and he was murdered by the real Paladin.
## AI funeral
E.D.I.T.H. plans a funeral for J.A.R.V.I.S., with D.U.M.-E. reciting Keats’ 'On Death' and U. saying, 'Yeah.'

> Yeah
## Butcherbird attacks
Butcherbird reveals herself as Josephine Carrington, who was killed by Ultron in the comics.

> Josephine Carrington
## Katarina Wells
Katarina Wells hosts an AI gala on Remembrance Day for Ultron’s Sokovia attack victims.

> Remembrance Day for the victims of Ultron’s attack on Sokovia
## Thomas’s realization
Thomas realizes Vision’s fifth AI is Ultron, causing panic as he fears Vision’s connection to his past.
## Ultron takes over
Ultron helps Vision fight Katarina Wells, then locks the AIs in the house and kills Katarina.

> take the proverbial wheel
## Vision’s pool reboot
Vision’s core reboot works, but Butcherbird is attracted to the signal.
## Butcherbird’s threat
Butcherbird threatens to kill Vision’s team after learning about his past.
## Final scene
The episode ends with a tribute to J.I.M., the first synthezoid who overrode his circuits and caught fire.

> J.I.M.
## Key takeaway

Vision and Thomas use a pool reboot to save Vision from exploding, but Butcherbird attacks after learning about Vision’s past.