The shift from X-5 being a supporting guy to the main focus of the episode, hitting the ground running at that, threw myself and Mrs. Orbert off, too. So you're not alone there. They were suddenly chasing down this Brad Wolfe guy, and Mobius kept calling him X-5, which sounded familiar, but honestly they've been throwing around a lot of names and ideas very quickly and don't always give the viewer half a second to put things together before jumping on to the next thing. Renslayer got named-dropped again and I went "Okay, she was..." and then something else happened. Casey and OB and Dox and Sylvie and B-15 and X-5 and Brad Wolfe and Miss Minutes is working with Renslayer and the TVA has somehow gone from the folks officially and thoughtlessly pruning timelines (and people) to the folks who now go "Those are people!" Meanwhile Sylvie is at the McDonald's in the 80's and wants to stay there, even though that timeline is going to be pruned. Sylvie just says the TVA is a bunch of shit and goes back there anyway (to die?) And the Temporal Loom (?) is overloaded, or was, because of all the splits and variants, but it's okay now (?) because those other "bad" TVA agents pruned a bunch of them, before the "good" TVA agents blew them up (?)
By the end of the episode, I just turned to Mrs. Orbert and said "I officially have no idea what the fuck is going on anymore."