Moon Knight: Jake Lockley Got Steven His Episode 1 Date

While Moon Knight's Jeremy Slater didn't write the mysterious date into the script, he believes it was Jake Lockley who serves as Steven's wingman.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Moon Knight.

Moon Knight head writer Jeremy Slater believes it was Jake Lockley who got Steven that heartbreaking date in episode 1. Marvel Studios’ latest Disney+ series, which is directed by filmmaker Mohamed Diab’s team, including Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, follows Oscar Isaac as Seven Grant, a mild-manner gift shop employee living with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Steven is unaware he is part of a DID system until he comes face-to-face with his primary, Marc Spector, a mercenary who serves as the avatar for the moon god Khonshu.

Throughout its six episodes, Moon Knight foreshadows the possible existence of a third personality, unbeknownst to Steven and Marc. In Moon Knight episode 1, entitled “The Goldfish Problem,” Steven goes on a date he doesn’t remember arranging before realizing he’s days late for it. Given that Steven is vegan, has a British accent, and Marc is American and in love with Layla, fans speculated that the third personality, Jake Lockley, could’ve been the one to set up this steakhouse date. Now, Moon Knight’s head writer all but confirms it.

In a recent interview with ComicBook.com, Slater talked about who set Steven up on what was likely his first date ever. While explaining the moment wasn’t something he wrote into the script, Moon Knight’s writer said he thinks it was Jake. Slater points out that Marc being the culprit “doesn’t necessarily make sense.” Read the full quote below:

“I think it has to be [Jake Lockley]. The date thing wasn’t something that I wrote into the script. That was something that happened during production. It was an idea that came up. I think that was Mohammad’s idea. He would be a better answer. But for me, Marc doesn’t necessarily make sense if he’s trying to protect Steven from his life. It doesn’t necessarily make sense that he would also be hitting on his coworkers. So for me, yeah, that has to be Jake. But your guess is as good as mine at this point.”

Moon Knight finally introduces audiences to Jake in the finale’s post-credits scene, which begins with Arthur Harrow in a facility before being wheeled out by the third alter. After being thrown into a limo, Harrow feasts his eyes on Khonshu, who explains his new avatar is the flat-caped and violent driver. The scene ends with Jake saying “today is your turn to lose” in Spanish, executing Harrow, and driving away. Producer Grant Curtis revealed Isaac changed Moon Knight‘s post-credits scene so that Jake would speak Spanish as to completely distinguish him from the other personalities. If Jake did ask out Steven’s co-worker, Dylan, in episode 1, he likely didn’t do it in Spanish.

Having had a Latino mother, Spanish is part of Marc’s identity. Therefore, it makes sense for all of his alters to know to the language. However, Jake speaking Spanish to characters who have primarily spoken English throughout Moon Knight is vaguely confusing. This decision implies Jake primarily speaks Spanish, adding a level of difficult to setting up a date (unless Dylan speaks Spanish, and it’s not mentioned). That said, it’s not entirely important who asked out Dylan in episode 1. The date scene represents a low point for Steven, which allows the audiences to empathize with how DID is affecting his life. This is why Moon Knight‘s director wrote the scene and fought to keep it in; not as an arbitrary piece of foreshadowing, but as a human moment expertly acted by Isaac.