I don’t think his plan would’ve worked anyway

The problem with collecting all the minds of his alt selves is that he’d also get all their collective trauma. This in no way would’ve benefited anyone

If anything he should’ve collected the top minds across the multiverse and asked them individually how he could’ve helped

Op did you break into their corpor office and take this pic?

Cecil isn’t known for being honest. Second he said he’d free Mark. He’s desperate enough to get out, why would he lie to the one man trying to free him?

Ok if you ever show me a picture of Omni Man clean shaven like that again, I’m going to beat you with a small child

A criticism about this episode I keep seeing is how it feels like filler, when it’s really not. It’s building up to several other plot lines. Tbf they could of just had the whole episode begin and end with one plotline, but realistically world threats don’t take turns as much as they tend to stack up from every side