A Mort Well Lived | [s6e2] Rick:

After a lore-heavy season premiere, Rick and Morty Season 6, Episode 2, "Rick: A Mort Well Lived," shifts gears into a high-concept, twin-narrative adventure that explores Morty’s fractured identity and a hilariously incompetent Die Hard parody. The A-Plot: Five Billion Mortys

Rick enters the game as Roy to convince the NPCs—who each represent 1/5 billionth of Morty—that they are part of a larger consciousness and must leave the planet in spaceships to "re-assemble". [S6E2] Rick: A Mort Well Lived

Review: Rick: A Mort Well Lived (S6E2) – A Fractured Soul and a Bad "Die Hard" After a lore-heavy season premiere, Rick and Morty

While Rick is inside the machine, he tasks Summer with defending the arcade from the terrorists by "doing a Die Hard". The episode returns to the intergalactic arcade ,

The episode returns to the intergalactic arcade , where Morty is playing the life-simulator game Roy: A Life Well Lived . When alien terrorists attack and cause a power surge, Morty’s consciousness is shattered and distributed across all 5 billion non-player characters (NPCs) within the game.

Because time in the game moves at an accelerated rate, Rick spends decades building a global movement. The fragments of Morty’s mind eventually form a religion around Rick’s message, though some factions resist, leading to a massive civil war.