Billy and Tommy, Fate of Agatha and others

SPOILER ALERT: This story includes main plot details from episode 8 and 9 of the series “Agatha All Along,” which is currently streaming on Disney+.

Agatha Harkness, a witch without a coven, and Billy Maximoff, son of the Scarlet Witch, reached the end of the Witch Road in the two-part finale of Agatha All Along — and it wasn’t as much as it first seemed.

Episodes titled “Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End” and “The Old Maid Mother” revealed the truth about how Witches’ Road was created, who wrote the ballad that led to its creation, and what happened to Agatha’s son Mykola Scratch. Agatha (Katherine Hahn) helped Billy (Joe Locke) to find her twin brother Tommy, Jennifer (Sasheer Zamata) has discovered how her powers have been tied up for 100 years, and Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza), aka Lady Death, has collected (almost) all the bodies she wanted

But almost none of this unfolded at face value. The Witch’s Road turns out to be fake, the Ballad means nothing, Tommy’s whereabouts remain unknown, Jennifer was completely wrong about who tied her up, and Nicholas’ tragic fate had nothing to do with the Darkhold or Mephisto. (Probably. More on that later.)

The sleight of hand behind these revelations deftly evoked a kind of narrative sorcery and the way we expect sorcery to reveal the truth hidden behind the veil of our expectations. good, some people’s expectations If you’re the kind of viewer who enjoys scouring the internet for fan theories — or hypothesizing your own — then you’ve probably come across some, if not all, of the twists in these latest episodes ahead of time. And yet Agatha All Along still dramatized them with such wit and care that it was a pleasure, not a disappointment, to learn that these theories were correct.

In addition, the denouements in this story also provoke some intriguing questions about the future of Billy, Agatha, Jennifer and Rio. Here are the highlights:

Jennifer learns that Agatha tied her up

Stuck on the latest trial, Jennifer learns that she was accidentally tied up by Agatha, not a nasty Boston obstetrician, as she passed through town. Outraged, Jennifer immediately grabs a lock of Agatha’s hair and performs an optional ritual that mostly consists of repeating “You’re holding nothing” over and over to Agatha’s face. As soon as she gets her powers back, Jennifer disappears; The next time we see her, she’s emerging from underground near Westview and flying to places unknown.

Her future in the MCU is unclear; in the comics, she crosses over with Doctor Strange, but she doesn’t actually cross over with any other notable MCU character except for the 2022 Disney+ special Night Werewolf. But given her affection for Billy—and her apparently cosmic connection to Agatha—Jennifer will easily reappear soon.

Billy created Witches’ Road

Just as Billy’s mother Wanda was unwittingly responsible for creating the world of the sitcom “WandaVision” as a way to escape her grief, it turns out that Billy was so desperate for a way to find his brother Tommy that he called everyone a witch. ‘ Sam dear. All the details—Nancy Myers’ beach house, the Ouija board horror house, the fairytale castle—stemmed from pop culture details infused in Billy’s impeccably tidy bedroom. To Billy’s dismay, this means that the deadly nature of the ordeal that led to the deaths of Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rapp), Alice (Ali Ahn), and Lilia (Patti LuPone) was also his hand.

This presents some exciting wrinkles for Billy’s future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is indeed as powerful and dangerous as his mother, and he bears the blame for the death of his coven (though Agatha points out that she killed Alice and that Lily chose to die) will likely depend on how Billy chooses to use his magic moving forward.

Agatha wrote “Ballad” together with her son.

The main part of “Maiden Mother Crone” is devoted to the dramatization of Agatha’s life with her son Nicholas in the 1750s. When Rio appears as Agatha gives birth to him, Agatha pleads for her son’s life; Ryo says all she can offer her is more time, but she doesn’t say how long. For the next six years, Agatha uses Nicholas in her cons to steal the life force from the other witches, and together they write a song about walking the “winding road” that eventually becomes “the witch’s road” where it begins to become a legend. Rio eventually takes Nicholas’s life at night due to an unspecified illness (he looks sick at the end and has a premonition of coughing). Agatha is left devastated and wants more than ever to manipulate the other witches (now using Ballad as bait) to drain their power—another example of Agatha All Together exploring the “trick” within the “magic trick.”

However, there are still several unanswered questions about Nikolai. When he’s born, Agatha notes that she created him “from scratch,” not through a spell or spell—but who fathered Nicholas, if he did at all, remains unknown. It’s just as unclear whether Rio is acting of her own free will or at the behest of a more powerful force, like, say, Mephisto, the Marvel comic book villain who seems to be constantly stalking the Maximov family. Speaking of stalking…

Agatha gives her life to protect Billy—and to haunt him as well

In the final confrontation with Rio, Billy voluntarily gives his life to save Agatha’s – and Agatha happily accepts it, until Billy asks Agatha telepathically if this is how Nicholas died. The memories are enough for Agatha to realize that she can save Billy’s life just as she couldn’t save Nicholas – since Rio took him at night, she didn’t even say goodbye. She kisses Rio, falls to the ground and dies.

But – happy Halloween! — she returns as a ghost, still unable to cross over to the afterlife to meet Nicholas. Instead, she returns to Billy, who is not only the son she never had, but also the partner in magic she was never able to keep.

Tommy is alive, but in a terrible life

In “Follow Me My Friend / To Glory at the End”, Agatha helps Billy connect with Tommy’s spirit and place him in a new body. But unlike Billy, Tommy’s new life is harsh: the body in which he lives has drowned as a result of a cruel prank by the pool, and Billy realizes in a panic that “there is no one to love him! He has no one!” (In the comics, Tommy—reincarnated as Tommy Shepherd—does lead a relentless life before being reunited with Billy.)

At the end of the series, Agatha’s ghost and Billy go out into the world to find Tommy. The Vision series with Paul Bettany or at some point between now and the next two Avengers movies — given that Tommy, aka Speed, is an integral part of the Young Avengers in the comics.