Warning! This article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along Episodes 8 & 9.
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Marvel’sWandaVisionsequel seriesAgatha All Alonghas come to a close, bringing some major changes to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Agatha All Alongpicks up with Agatha Harkness after the events ofWandaVision, finding the witch still trapped in Wanda’s reality-altering spell. She is broken free by Joe Locke’s new characterTeen (aka Billy Maximoff)and tasked by him to take him down the fabled Witches Road, which is said to grant the survivors whatever they most desire. Together, the duo gathered a coven of witches including Jennifer Kale, Lilia Calderu, Alice Wu-Gulliver, and Sharon Davis to walk the road, only for members of their group to slowly be picked off throughout the season. Things finally came together inAgatha All Along’slast two episodes.
Agatha All Along Episode 8 and 9 Explained
Agatha Faces Death
Agatha All Along’sseventh episode revealed that Aubrey Plaza’sRio Vidal is actually Marvel’s Lady Death. This picks up in Episode 8, where Agatha and Death have a confrontation, and Death explains that she sees Billy as an abomination for gaining a second life, which upsets the sacred balance. However, Death can’t forcibly take Billy’s life because he will just reincarnate again, and she will lose track of him, so Agatha agrees to coerce Billy to surrender himself, and in exchange, Death will leave her alone forever.
Later, after Agatha helps Billy escape the road, Death gets into a fight with Agatha over breaking their deal. Billy returns, in his full Wiccan costume, to help Agatha fight and Death gives them an ultimatum, one of them lives and one of them dies, but they can choose who. Agatha initially gives Billy up to Death, but then he changes her mind by reminding her of her son, Nicholas. Agatha then gives herself up with a literal kiss of Death and dies.
What Was at the End of the Witches Road?
Agatha All Alonghas been framed bya journey along the Witches’ Road, with each episode containing a new trial. In Episode 8, Billy, Agatha, and Jen find themselves back where they started at the beginning of the road, which leads to plenty of confusion. After being transported to a morgue, each of the witches finds a way to get what they desire. Jen performs an unbinding spell to free her from Agatha, Billy manages to locate his brother’s soul and place it into a new body, and Agatha completes her trial.
As it turns out, none of the witches needed to walk the road for this to happen, as the Witches’ Road itself was nothing but a lie. In a flashback sequence in Episode 9, it’s revealed that the ballad of the Witches’ Road is a song thatAgatha and her soncame up with while they lived on the road. Eventually, the lyrics caught on and witches started searching for the road. Agatha, who killed witches for their power, decided to play into this lie and used it to tempt covens of witches to find her over the years so she could pretend to guide them down the Witches’ road, only for her to turn around and steal their power. So if the Witches’ Road was not real, what did the coven walk down inAgatha All Along?
Billy Maximoff, it turns out, is very much like his motherand managed to fabricate an entirely false reality of the Witches’ Road using his magic. This meant that Billy was responsible for the deaths of Lilia, Sharon, and Alice, but as Agatha reminded him, she was going to kill them all anyway, and his spell resulted in Jen surviving.
What Happened to Nicholas Scratch?
The fate ofAgatha’s son, Nicholas Scratch, is finally revealed inAgatha All Along’sfinal episode. When Nicholas was born in 1750, Death arrives to take his life, however, Agatha begs her to let him live, to which she agrees but warns that one day she will come for him. After years on the road together, eventually Nicholas grows ill and Death arrives to collect him in the night, which breaks Agatha. This event is the root of why Agatha hated Death throughout the show, but as Death explained, it’s her job to keep the natural order of things, and that required taking Nicholas.
Did Agatha Die?
Agatha does give herself up to Death in Episode 8, which ends her time in the human realm. However, she isn’t gone for long and returns in Episode 9 as a ghost to haunt Billy. Billy returns to Westview to try and banish Agatha with her locket, but Agatha comes clean with Billy and reveals she can’t leave because she’s not yet ready to face Nicholas on the other side. Billy asks Agatha to be his guide, and together theyset out to find his brother, Tommy.
Where is Tommy Maximoff?
Following the reveal that Billy Maximoff was reincarnated into another human body after the events of WandaVision, the question on every fan’s lips was whether his brother, Tommy, did the same.Agatha All Alongreveals that Tommy’s soul did not automatically find another host like Billy’s, but using his magic, Billy was able to find Tommy’s spirit and guide it into the body of a drowning boy. Billy does not know where exactly this boy is, but he can sense that he is lonely with nobody to love him. This may tie intoTommy Shepherd’s originsin the comics, which depict him as a child of divorce, who winds up in juvie after he struggles to control his powers. It may be that by the time Billy locates his brother, he is not in the best place.
He’s gonna drown… It’s a bad place. The people, the family, there’s no one to love him. He’s got no one.
Will Agatha All Along Season 2 Happen?
Agatha All Alongleaves things open-ended, with Agatha and Billy on the road again (albeit nottheroad), as they set out to find Tommy Maximoff. While Agatha could definitely appear in the MCU again in her new ghost form, it feels like this Disney+ series was the conclusion of her solo story. It seems more likely that Billy’s story will be continued in a Wiccan-focused series, or perhaps he may even be seen again inVision’sWandaVisionsequel series,Vision Quest.
