doesn't pick up where left off so much as it actually starts a few minutes before the end of Loki's screen time in that movie: In a quick recap of the Time Heist, we establish the events that led to the 2012 iteration of Tom Hiddleston's God of Mischief — that is, before his redemption arc and death at the hands of Thanos — getting ahold of the Tesseract and teleporting to who knows where.Now, we know where: the Gobi Desert in Mongolia, where he's promptly picked up by intergalactic time cops.