Even Beth Doesn’t Know What Beth Chose In The ‘Rick And Morty’ Season Finale

The Rick And Morty season 3 finale managed to pack a whole lot of story development into an adventure ostensibly about Rick feuding with the president of the United States, but not in the way many fans were hoping for. Rather than featuring more of Evil Morty or returning to whatever is happening with Tammy and Phoenix Person, the show instead carried on from episode 9’s ‘ABCs of Beth’ and the repercussions of whether Morty’s mom took Rick’s advice and abandoned her family, leaving a Beth clone to fill in.

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We spent some time after that episode trying to analyze whether Real Beth or Clone Beth stuck around, and couldn’t come to a definitive conclusion. Funny enough, neither could Beth, who was stuck having an existential crisis after realizing she could be a clone and not even know it. In fact, all the happiness she was experiencing through the early part of the episode seemed to point to her being a replacement, a fact that was not missed by her or viewers.

By the end of the episode, Beth is convinced she’s Clone Beth, despite Rick’s best attempts to persuade her otherwise. Even when he refuses to terminate her like he said he would if she became self-aware, she ends the season permanently unsure as to whether she’s really Real Beth or not. That uncertainty drives her back into the arms of Jerry, who is too simple to wrap his head around the entire situation and therefore the perfect person to anchor her back to a state of mind where she’s the Beth she used to be.

“We’re a real family now,” she says at the end of the episode before breaking the fourth wall. “In many ways, things will be like season one, but more streamlined. Now Jerry and I are happily married parents, and the idea that I was motivated by a fear of you leaving can be eschewed.”

So season four wraps up by bringing us right back to where we were in season one. Except Beth may or may not be a clone, and at the very least will be subconsciously tortured by the idea that she is. Jeez. As promised, season three was dark, man.