Of course Marinette does try to quickly confront her about the matter of her possibly impersonating Ladybug by attempting to lead her into conversations that could get her to admit she was dressed as Ladybug, unfortunately, this does not go so well as Socqueline manages to avoid saying anything that could confirm Marinette's suspicions.

Marinette takes note of the alliance ring on Socqueline’s finger and is surprised by  just how realistic the digital Adrien is, making her feel a little conflicted about how Adriens image is still being used for modeling purposes. 

When the subject of people trying to be superheroes like Ladybug and Cat Noir comes up, Socqueline is unable to understand that peoples attempts to mimic heroes like Ladybug is to dangerous and doesn’t think there’s anything wrong in doing things just like them if it means they are helping the real Ladybug.

Of course Ladybug does encourage others to do what they can to help and be heroes in their own way, but when those people are unable to see that they are putting themselves in serious danger in order to risk mimicking the actions of the real superheroes themselves and forget that they are just regular people who do not posses magic suits that can protect them, well, that’s when it becomes a problem.

(don’t try this at home kids, pic from “Origins part 1″)

As Marinette tries to explain the reasoning behind why others shouldn’t try to be like Ladybug in every way, Socqueline tells her that even though it might be risky doing the same things Ladybug does, being willing to step up and take action just like the superheroes is worth the risk if it means changing things for the better. Marinette understood her message well in the past, but her experience as Ladybug has completely changed her outlook on what it means to be a real superhero who is watching others want to live her life and put themselves in similar dangers just to be heroes like them and save others, leading to a very interesting reaction from Marinette that reveals some bottled up feelings as she tries to explain how people do not  understand that Ladybug does not want to see others endanger themselves and that their actions can lead to consequences the superheroes will inevitably need to fix. Wanting to do everything a real superhero does is not as great and as simple as some people thinks it is.

 Marinette’s talk about why people shouldn't jump at the idea of being heroes just like Ladybug, makes Mr. Damocles believe that she is jealous and secretly wants to be a hero, to which Marinette very quickly and without hesitation responds by saying that she doesn’t and is thankful for being a normal girl with a normal life and that everyone should be happy for the same thing. 

Marinette's response really gives us a deeper insight to how she feels about living a normal life within the the life of a superhero. Due to her life as a real superhero, Marinette can no longer be just a normal girl with a normal life and as much as she knows other people, like Socqueline and Mr. Damocles, have the desire to live the life of a real superhero, it is her job as Ladybug that is very slowly revealing to her the fact that even though she wants to do so many things in her normal life, she can’t focus all her attention on what she wants to do, she can’t have the kind of life everyone else has, she has to balance being a superhero and a normal girl and that’s very very hard. 

Marinette learned to embrace being the superhero she never thought she wanted to be, but even she has begun to realize that its not all that its cracked up to be as she has experienced first hand the unfortunate consequences, responsibilities and burdens of a hero, and so to see all these other people feel eager to share the same superhero life she has, makes her upset over why on earth anyone would want that kind of life and not enjoy just living and loving their normal lives while they can and being heroes in their own way?

 When Marinette says these things about how dangerous it is to risk mimicking real superheroes and being happy to just be normal, of course it makes Mr. Damocles feel down as he does not wish to be limited to being just a normal man, he wants to be a superhero like Knight Owl, Ladybug and Cat Noir, but considering what happened when he nearly fell off from the billboard and was saved by “Ladybug”, Mr. Damocles has now begun to realize a very cruel reality he has avoided for a very long time, which is that he really is just a normal guy and his reckless actions may be causing more harm than good, to himself and the heroes of Paris.

As Socqueline takes Mr. Damocles away to help him shop, Marinette decides to use Socqueline’s alliance ring to look at the path of her steps around Paris and finds that she really was at the billboard the same time she saw the fake ladybug, confirming her suspicions. But as she leaves to deal with some flying dinosaurs, she forgets that she is still wearing the alliance ring, which is now currently keeping track of her steps throughout Paris!

And surprise surprise, Gabriel decided to use the alliance rings features to keep tabs on all the Parisians who bought them and be alerted the moment any of the rings record anything that is beyond the abilities of a normal human. 

(having dead/comatose wife as avatar to talk to?, *checks square on bingo card*)

Gabriel cant identify Ladybug in her civilian form, but because Ladybug was wearing Socqueline’s ring, he immediately assumes that she is the real Ladybug after seeing the crazy distance Socqueline’s rings says she covered in a matter of minutes, all of which happened during the exact time Ladybug appeared to deal with the flying dinosaurs. When Marinette realizes that the alliance ring kept track of her movements as Ladybug, she freaks out and worries that Socqueline will suspect something, but in the end she just thinks its a bug in the system and reboots the ring. 

While Marinette was away to deal with the dinosaurs, Mr. Damocles pondered over his actions as The Owl and how it is causing trouble. Socqueline tries to comfort him by explaining to him that what happened at the Billboard with him and “Ladybug” was not a problem so long as no one got hurt and that so long as he continues in his true mission in life, then he is already being as heroic as can be, his mission being to be a good principal to his school, which sadly was not what Mr. Damocles wanted to hear, he wants to be a superhero. So to hear Socqueline say his true heroic duty is being a principal, it makes him feel like she was basically telling him to give up being The Owl, something which he considered to be his true calling in life.

When Monarch senses Mr. Damocles’s negative emotions from a far distance, we see that he uses the new miraculous rings to touch the cages of the kwami and draw them into the rings.  Kwamis have always had the ability to work around technology, it can’t detect them and they can easily pass through any forms of technology to mess around with it, like how Tikki fazed through the elevator door to open it for Marinette and Adrien back in “Obliviio” , and it seems like Gabriel has learned to harness the kwamis abilities to transfer their power through the alliance rings to temporarily allow his akumatized villains to use the power of the miraculous without actually carrying the jewels.

 Although Socqueline didn’t take Marinette's word about how dangerous it is to mimic Ladybug and the other heroes of Paris, it’s in that very moment where she is confronted by a real villain, Darker Owl, that she begins to understand what Marinette said.

As she tries to explain to Darker Owl that she only dresses up as ladybug and was never the real one, Darker Owl quickly uses the power of jubilation on Socqueline which reveals that her deepest desire is essentially the same as Mr. Damocles, which is to be recognized for her heroic efforts to the point of finally being recognized by the heroes of Paris themselves and be called on to fight alongside them as a real superhero.

Although Monarch and Darker Owl realize Socqueline was never Ladybug, Monarch decides to instead use her as bait to lure the real Ladybug out.

After seeing a good portion of Marinette, we finally get a look at what Adrien is up to and it is not good. Due to the events of Destruction, Adrien has now entered a state of depression as he struggles knowing that his cataclysm hurt another human being. With all that guilt weighing down on him we see by the contents of his messy room that he’s been trying not to think about what happened with Monarch, but can’t .

(not the depression room :( )

As Ladybug and Cat Noir try to fight off Darker Owl, the two of them accidentally get hit with the power of Jubilation at the same time. The power throws the both of them into a dream like state where they watch their deepest desires play out. The power of jubilation was able to affect the both of them and throw them into the same trance because unbeknownst to them, they both share the same desire, which is to be together and live happily with one another. 

They don’t know each others identities but the power of jubilations didn’t need to show them that, it just showed them what they desire most. The crazy thing about this is watching how both of their desires overlap, its Marinette's desire to not only defeat Monarch, but also be with the one she loves (Adrien) and one day get married and have a family with him. It’s Adrien’s desire to finally defeat Monarch so he can be with the one he loves(Ladybug, who is actually Marinette) and runaway together to get away from everything and live on an island, and so when those two things come together we see the two of them realize something they never thought to consider.

Ladybug saw that a life with Cat Noir as her lover actually leads to a wonderful and quiet life, while Cat Noir realized that having a family with Ladybug and being a loving and devoted father gives him a sense of happiness he never though was possible. And so to be able to live normal and happy lives together no matter where they go and what they have to deal with as heroes, made them feel like they finally accomplished a happy ending they likely felt they had to learn to re-evaluate or give up on.

(yeah yeah, goofy mustache, funny fake baby blah blah blah)

Of course the two of them remain completely unaware of the fact that they are stuck in a dream and that the battle against Darker owl is still going on. Ladybug does eventually realize everything is just a dream as she finally takes note of all the alarm clocks ringing(her lucky charm), but at this point the two of them are in to deep, to us it might seem funny to see them care for doll babies and for Cat Noir to have a silly moustache all while they stay the same age, but that’s only from our point of view to show us this was all fake. To them, these babies were 100% real, they spent years together and they got older, time passed and all those moments we saw play out like a dream wasn’t a dream to them, it felt like it all really happened! 

And so to find out that none of it was real and would all be taken away in an instant, well, of course Cat Noir would refuse to let it be taken away from him, this is the life he always wanted and never knew he could have, the same goes for Ladybug, but now that reality is setting in, the two of them know that they have to put their duty as heroes first and continue to face Monarch and his villains together.

(ice cream represents Ladybug and Cat Noir finally together) 

(reality of their situation sets in as “In the rain” plays, *flips table* cries)

(let this be a lesson to everyone who underestimated the power of the Pig miraculous)

This is the power of the Pig miraculous, it has the power to show people their greatest desires, but when in the wrong hands, it can make a person see, feel and remember an entire life around that desire, it can take the most personal of information like emotions, dreams, and wishes and show a person exactly what they want and what they never knew they wanted, then play it out in the best way possible. But it can just as easily take it all away, leaving you an emotional wreck who is desperate to keep the life and the world it showed you. 

Once Cat Noir does come back to reality he becomes enraged at  Darker owl for using the pigs power to toy with their feelings, so much in fact that he even considers straight up using his cataclysm on Darker Owl rather than return him to normal!

(Cat Noir NOOO!!!!)

Ladybug stops him from doing this of course, but as Cat Noir Comes back to his senses we see that he feels ashamed for what he almost did and saddened that his happy ending was taken away from him. There aren’t that many things that can push Cat Noir to the point of actually being willing to consider hurting someone else, but being shown a life where he experienced all the happiness he never knew he could have and then suddenly see it stripped away from him in just a moment is definitely high up on that list. Its as if season 5 is hinting that Cat Noir is being pushed more and more into purposely using his Cataclysm on others, how this will all play out in the end is anyone’s guess, but we all have reason to be worried.

To make things even sadder, we see that both Ladybug and Cat Noir hope their dream wasn’t all fake as Ladybug checks Mr. Damocles’s pocket, the very pocket they dreamt had a clue to Monarch’s location. Although they succeeded in saving the day, this victory was not something to end on a “pound it” to mark a job well done as the two become to emotionally drained after seeing so much be taken away from them, even if it wasn’t real.

Once Mr. Damocles is freed of the akuma, the pigs power is removed from his ring and Daizzi reappears in her cage to be fed food pellets to recover. This is how Gabriel intends to force the kwamis to live so long as they are with him.

( Gabriel you monster, give them sandwiches or something! :’( ) 

As Ladybug makes sure Socqueline is ok,  Soqueline contemplates everything that happened and apologizes for impersonating her (which is what they believed lead Monarch to pursue Soqueline). Of course Ladybug understands that she only wanted to help but explains that she would prefer people like her help in their own way without constantly endangering themselves. 

After Ladybug comforts and praises Soquelines heroic efforts and ends on a good note with her, Marinette returns home and discovers that her mom bought an alliance ring for her, but due to what happened with Soquelines ring when it tracked her movements as Ladybug, Marinette decides to let her mom keep it now that she knows having a piece of technology like that will only endanger her secret as Ladybug, she doesn’t know that Monarch used the rings to try and find her.

Near the end of the episode, as Ladybug and Cat Noir ponder over what they experienced under the effects of the pigs power, they accept the reality that it was all fake but secretly wonder if it could still happen in real life. These events make Ladybug realize something she has been trying to avoid, especially ever since Cat Blanc told her their love destroyed Paris, which is that she might really have feelings for Cat Noir. However, these events also makes Cat Noir realize that his love for Ladybug can be used against him and others in terrible ways. The only thing keeping the two of them from being together without leading to disaster again is of course, Gabriel/Monarch. They do not understand why they both saw the same things but Ladybug tries to believe Monarch messed with the pig miraculous and learned a trick to better get to them.

(The two sit as “In the rain” continues to play. No one touch me! *cries*)