Rick and Morty season 5 sneak previews the premiere episode’s twisty and action-packed cold open. It’s been a year since season 4 of Rick and Morty ran on Adult Swim. Amazingly given the show’s notoriously long turn-around times, season 5 is already set to debut this weekend.

The COVID pandemic and resulting quarantines no doubt played a part in Dan Harmon, Justin Roiland and company getting down to business and delivering season 5 much faster than expected. Thus far, fans have been teased with Rick and Morty season 5 trailers promising more Smith family dynamics, including an episode where the whole clan teams up Voltron-style. There’s also a horror-centric episode that takes on the classic Clive Barker movie Hellraiser. It’s also been teased that this season Morty finally takes matters into his own hands and stands up to the bullying Rick.

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As anticipation builds for this weekend’s premiere, Adult Swim has whetted fans’ appetites with another release, dropping the entire season 5 premiere episode cold open. In fact, this sequence was previously previewed as a rough animatic, so fans have already seen what goes down. But now the fully finished version of the scene has been released, and there’s a lot happening. See the clip in the space below:

The clip begins with Morty literally carrying an injured Rick through some kind of horrifying nightmare landscape, the two of them surrounded by crystals that appear to show images from their past adventures. Just as they’re arriving at Rick’s ship, a terrifying monster bursts from the ground, ready to eat them. Rick begins blubbering in a self-pitying fashion, possibly feeling the effects of blood loss. Given Rick’s state it’s up to Morty to fire up the ship and get them out of danger. Morty points the ship toward Earth, which appears at the end of a shrinking portal. It seems they’ve escaped but the collapsing portal clips the ship and damages it, sending it on a death plunge toward Earth.

All seems lost for Rick and Morty as the flaming ship hurtles toward the ground. In his apparent dying moments, Morty’s thoughts naturally turn to his crush Jessica and he puts in a call to her to say goodbye. Things go the exact opposite of how one would expect though, as Jessica opens up to Morty and ends up asking him on a date. The chance of finally hooking up with Jessica causes Morty to find a renewed will to live and he manages to pull the ship out of its fatal dive. It seems Morty has indeed saved the day as the ship touches down on the ocean. But things take yet another twist as Rick landing on the ocean summons his old enemy Mr. Nimbus.

So in the course of a single scene Rick and Morty sets up an adventure involving time fracturing (as implied by the crystals showing scenes from past episodes), Rick finally feeling remorse for his past actions, a new relationship between Morty and Jessica and a new enemy. It will be fascinating indeed to see where all this leads as Rick and Morty season 5 kicks off on Adult Swim on Sunday, June 20 at 11pm ET.

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