So while many fans will choose to spend time endlessly sifting through plot points to try and make sense of the multiverse storytelling, it all comes down to Rick and Morty’s trust-lacking relationship.
The final episode was about bringing the characters’ relationship to the limit — going so far as to explain Rick’s bullshit is what inspired the “evil” in Evil Morty’s nature — and about showcasing Morty’s depthless well of empathy…and perhaps neediness, but also ample empathy.
Season 5’s final two episodes were a hilariously surreal and crow-filled exercise in giving Rick the mega-epiphany that he is guilty of forever fueling a highly toxic relationship with his (not exactly biological) grandson, arguably the only person in existence that actually chooses to hang out with Rick despite all of his red-flagged awfulness.