Going into spoiler territory here so if you haven't seen it, then sorry.
To give you the basic premise. Morty is playing the video game "Roy, a life well lived" which is a simulation of a man's life. However during a hostage situation that is explicitly referred to as a "Die Hard", the power is cut, the game is rebooted, and Morty is now basically all of the NPC characters. Rick has to go in as the player, Roy, and wake up all 5 billion Morty fragments to get them out, during this time he has to insinuate that his movement is "not a religion". So basically Rick is "Q" in this case. Morty on the other hand takes an inordinate amount of time to wake up, at one point Rick even highlights that all but 8% of Morty is woken up. Then when Rick meets with the president, he tells Morty that it's better for Morty to stay in the simulation. This seeds doubt in Morty's mind and leads to an all out war, in which there are mass casualties. Eventually the Morty that led the resistance to waking up finally relents after losing his "daughter" and "father", telling the other fragments to wake up, while opting to stay behind as "Marta".
I feel like this is a white hat move, because a lot of this is very in line with "great awakening". What are your thoughts.
Dan Harmon has stated that he loosened the reins and let the younger writers run with the stories this season.
Soo… maybe. We’d have to research the writer of the episode. IMDB says it was written by Alex Rubens.