'Agatha All Along' Episode 9 Recap: Nicholas Scratch's fate unravels, Billy comes to terms with his chaos magic and decides what to do next

Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers for the finale (episode 9). Agatha All Along.

Maybe the real coven truth was friendships formed along the way. Coven Two, however, is much more complicated.

Its last episode Agatha All Along The Witches covered many miles of tricks and trials on the road, but it left viewers with many questions about what happened and who ended up where.

Episode 8, titled “Follow Me My Friend/To Glory At the End,” suggests that the road itself was in Billy's mind. Episode 9, the show's finale, titled “Maiden Mother Crone”, expands on this idea while also filling in the history of Agatha, her son Nicholas Scratch, and what Rio did to make Agatha hate her. Deadline's recap of Episode 8 will refresh viewers' memories before heading to the finale.

The finale begins in the green expanse of the forest as the women chant in the background. A hooded woman in a purple dress wanders through the woods. It's 1750, and the woman is Agatha.
She is pregnant and, from the looks of it, in labor. He slices a lemon against a tree and bites into it to start the process. He looks up, and Rio, covered in green, is waiting for him by a lake holding a flower.

“It can't be,” Agatha tells him. “It has to be,” Rio replied. “You do this and I'll hate you forever,” Agatha says, begging Rio to let her live. This comes back to when Death mentions that he betrayed a woman he loved, making her his scar.

I can only give time, says Rio. Agatha asks what time. Rio disappears and Agatha gives birth to the child. “I didn't say any spells, I didn't say any incantations,” he says of his name Nicholas Scratch – made from scratch.

A fog envelops Agatha as she embraces her son and the episode moves on a bit. He walks her through the woods when she stumbles upon a group of women singing around a cauldron, crying.

“Sister come forward,” asks an older woman. “Is the little one better?” The woman lets Agatha into a circle of stones as the blue veins in them turn yellow, but she already looks at Agatha suspiciously. Agatha's excuse was “we haven't eaten for days”. Agatha absorbed all their energy.

Six years later, an elderly Nicholas sits at the foot of a well. He steals a bell – which looks suspiciously like Agatha's before he and his makeshift coven start singing – from a witch's stand, luring them to Agatha's cabin while she shuts down their powers.

“Mom, why did you kill the witch?” He asks “To survive,” she tells him, and he asks “Can't we live with the witches and live with them?”

Agatha says no, saying that she should get used to the feeling of being alone.

“Walk, walk, walk the road / I walk the windy road,” he sings in an early version of Ballad of the Witches' Road.

“I can't heal you, I can't protect you from what's coming,” she tells Nicholas when he asks her to make him a meal one day, knowing that death will return for her son.

Agatha and her son gradually merged the lyrics with the ballad of the Witches' Road, calling it Windy Road.

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Nicholas then performed the song as Agatha Skalsk through a bewildered audience. He pays him and encourages others to reward him as well. A red-headed witch asks where he came from in a curious song. Nicholas looks sick and when he is offered a warm meal he says, “Thanks, but no. My mother needs me at home.”

“We can kill more witches tomorrow,” he coughed, hitting the dark forest. As they fall asleep singing the song, Nicholas wakes up to Rio with a green flame, Rio waiting for them in the dark holding a torch. He motions to Nicholas, who picks something up from the blanket as he leaves with him. Agatha wakes up to find him dead.

“I want more time,” she cries. She buried her son under a rock with a bushel of lavender, singing the song with new songs. “I buried my own heart, here with you my child,” she sings.

“Then you must know the way,” a blonde woman tells Agatha, assuming she knows the way to the Magic Road. “I am in great need,” says the young woman, as she tells Agatha of the streets, which offer a reward worth a peril to brave and true witches. “Can you show me the way?” asks the young woman.

“You ask in good faith, so I will answer kindly,” said Agatha. “I know it by heart. First, we need to gather a coven.”

“Where is the door? Pathetic, embarrassing,” Agatha shouted at a group of women she had gathered to conjure up the rumored street. They then try to blast him with their magic, which he sips from them, leaving them dead.

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A montage unfolds as Agatha appears in different fashions from time to time and takes on more power, finally catching up to when she did this to Alice, Sharon Davis, Jane and Lilia. He is completely shocked when a door appears, but he knows it's Billy.

Flash forward to Billy from episode 8 “It Was Me.” The evil smile was actually Agatha, but appeared as a gray-haired ghost dressed as she appears in the comics.

“Anyway, I didn't sacrifice myself for you. I took a calculated risk,” she tells him. “I'm still figuring out the rules.”

“Did I make the road?” Billy asks him.

“Unlike your mother, sorry, Wanda, you've done something interesting with your power. It was just a confirmation. The song makes no sense. It never did,” she tells him. “The road wasn't real until you made it real.”

“If I make the road it means I am,” Billy concludes. “I killed them. Are they ghosts? I'm a murderer.”

Agatha says that she killed Alice and that Lilia chose to die.

“My mind killed them,” he tells Agatha, who says “don't give yourself too much credit. If you really do the math on it, you'll save a life.” Cut to Jane crawling through the dirt on the border of Westview near the sign. She flies away with her newly recovered pink power.

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“I'll kill them all in my basement on the first day,” Agatha says. “If you want to be a witch, get used to this feeling”

“I'll never get used to it,” says Billy, to which Agatha replies, “We'll see.”

Billy meets Agatha – formerly Ralph Bonner – all up in the yard with her purple mushroom grave. He goes to the basement, where the pentagonal door awaits him with a blue glow behind it, as does the ghost of Agatha, who says she took something from him and wants it back.

“Give me what I want and I'll be on my way,” she tells Billy, who draws a pentagram in chalk and places some candles around the border, performing analog magic in Agatha's eyes, or not.

It's so cool to look like Wanda when she's walking in a dream using similar materials. Suddenly, her black notebook comes out from behind Agatha in her hand. He pulls out his brooch as he finds a page in the spell book reciting a spell to drive him away.

“Time to go to the toxic embrace of light or Rio or where you deserve to spend eternity,” he says. “I don't really care anymore.”

“You think you can send me to the afterlife with a spell and a personal item?!” Agatha asks Billy, who says “It worked on the Wonder spell.”

“It wasn't you,” Agatha says, laughing. “Well, maybe you loosened the jar.”

“Five seconds ago, you were all out of shape to kill a witch!” He tells Billy.

“You're already dead!” He fired back at her.

His translucent form shimmered as he repeated the words. “Why are you still here? Why didn't you just die?” Billy asks Agatha, who exclaims “Because I can't face him!” meaning Nicholas, as Billy deciphers. He pushes his brooch to the floor, and as he picks it up, it's on his chest. by touching where it sticks.

“I'm sure he'll forgive you for everything you've done,” Billy tells her.

“Look, when you talk like that,” Agatha tells him. “That you remind me of him.”

“You picked it up,” observed Billy.

“I'm a quick study,” he said.

Billy says maybe being a ghost might suit him – “with me as my guide,” to which Agatha says “we could make a good team, you and me.”

“Coven two?” Billy said with tears rolling down his face. They then realize that they both tend to kill their coven members.

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Billy looks at the floor and draws the hex he's made, labeling the stone tile on the floor with the names Sharon Davis, Alice Wu-Gulliver, and Lilia Calderoo in the center of the pentagram.

“A door closes,” says Agatha.

“And another opens,” Billy finished his sentence, and a stairwell opened in white light.

Then Agatha says “Let's go find Tommy.”

Thus the visitors have reached the end of the path Agatha All AlongBut hopefully we haven't seen the last of Agatha Harkness or Joe Locke's Wiccan aka Billy Maximoff aka William Kaplan.

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