In Lovecraft Country season 1, episode 7, "I Am", much of the story focuses on Hippolyta (Aunjanue Ellis), though it's not clear what will become of her in future episodes. In the episode, Hippolyta discovers that Atticus (Jonathan Majors) lied to her about the circumstances surrounding George's (Courtney B. Vance) death. This upsets her and causes her to investigate Hiram's orrery more deeply; she is accidentally transported to the distant future as a result.

After she finds a key and a set of coordinates in the orrery, she ends up at an abandoned observatory in which she discovers Hiram's time machine. She uses her love of math and science to figure out how to operate it, but she is interrupted by two police officers, who begin to question her violently. Atticus arrives just in time to help her, but in the resulting fight, one of the officers is killed and the machine is accidentally activated. It opens a portal into which both Hippolyta and Atticus stumble. Hippolyta wakes up naked in a futuristic room with implants in her wrists. She encounters a giant, futuristic woman who introduces herself as I Am (the title of the episode).

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I Am tells Hippolyta to name herself, and asks her what she wants to be most of all. Hippolyta doesn't know how to name herself, but tells I Am that she most of all wants to be dancing with Josephine Baker (Carra Patterson)—and suddenly, that's exactly where she is. It seems that she is able to become anyone she wants; she becomes an Amazon warrior—like her namesake—and leads a fight against a horde of white colonists; she becomes her old self and talks to George about the limits their marriage placed on her; lastly, she becomes Orithyia Blue, the character her daughter created as an homage to her. As Orithyia Blue, she realizes her true self, but it is not clear what will become of her after this episode.

Lovecraft Country episode 7 Hippolyta at the observatory with time machine

Through her otherworldly adventures, Hippolyta realizes how strong she is. Once she realizes this, I Am officially welcomes Hippolyta to their "community" and says that she can now choose to join them, or return to "her Earth". The episode ends before Hippolyta makes her decision, and Atticus is shown emerging from the portal, frantically searching for his aunt before he grabs the key to the machine and flees. Unfortunately, he leaves behind an issue of Orithyia Blue, which will likely lead the authorities back to Hippolyta's daughter (Jada Harris), putting them all in danger.

Hippolyta's transcendent experience in episode 7 leaves her with an open-ended fate. She might be trapped in the future because Atticus destroyed the time machine and took the key, but this is unlikely because I Am explicitly states that Hippolyta can choose to either return home or remain. Additionally, Hippolyta almost certainly will not abandon her daughter to the antagonistic world in which she lives. If she does return, there is a very good chance that she will bring some new powers along with her, since her name, Hippolyta, is a direct reference to the demigoddess Hippolyta—daughter of both the god of war and the queen of the Amazons—in Greek mythology.

Episode 7 is about Hippolyta's re-creating herself, and it is possible that she will come back with some god-like powers, since gods are often depicted as being self-created. This is supported by the fact that the god-like character I Am (loosely named after the ancient Israelite god, Yahweh, which is often translated as I Am Who I Am) states that Hippolyta has become one of their kind. Additionally, because she is named after a warrior god, it is very possible that if she does come back, she will use her new powers to help Atticus and the others to fight off the evils that surround them. On the other hand, she may simply return in future episodes of Lovecraft Country without supernatural powers, and instead with a restored confidence, one that she had lost long ago because of the oppressive nature of the world into which she was born.

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