Hey remember that time after the Story Train episode when I said that the creators of Rick and Morty told us to go pound sand about asking for payoffs from any unresolved plotlines? And then remember when I said after all the non-canon vignettes in that episode not to expect anything for a while involving those? Well surprise surprise, they fooled me again! In what was an epic season 4 finale, both Tammy and Phoenix Person returned in a very much canon episode. However, they did not come after Rick. They came after Beth. It was revealed that the Beth’s clone (or maybe original, more on that later) is leading a group of space rebels called the Defiers, liberating planets and fighting the Galactic Federation. After realizing the possibility that she is a clone and removing a microchip from her neck, Space Beth returns to Earth to confront and kill Rick. Earth Beth and Jerry are at family therapy, while Space Beth and Rick agree to have a drink after their confrontation when the Galactic Federation invades Earth to capture Beth. They take both, after realizing that their is indeed a clone.

After some “Star Wars shit”, the Beths, Rick, Morty, Summer, and even Jerry defeat and kill Tammy and Phoenix person and return to their respective Space or Earth, with the Federation once again presumably defeated. Both Beth’s are content with not knowing which of them is the clone, and not even Rick knows. He had a machine switch them off camera at the end of Season 3. At the end of the episode it is revealed that Rick is keeping Phoenix Person in the garage with the hopes of rebuilding his friend.

So whats next? It’s honestly hard to say. I know that’s a lame answer but Harmon and Roiland don’t want us to know. They lead me and many others to believe we would not get any overarching story related answers any time soon and then they gave us several big ones in the Season 4 finale. The next logical overarching plot line to address now that the federation has again fallen would be what Evil Morty is doing in the citadel. Usually, when Rick and Morty does main story stuff, they then take an at least several episode break to focus on individual adventures before going back to it. So, it would make sense if we did not see Evil Morty until the very end of Season 5 or at all in Season 5. But that could be exactly what they want us to think and we could get a several episode arc of entirely Evil Morty’s story. We’ll have to wait and see. The only problem? Who knows when Season 5 will be aired?