'Agatha All Along' Recap: The Witch's Road Ends, But Billy's Journey Seemingly Begins
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Last week revealed more about Lilia's backstory and explained why she's seemingly been talking to herself all season, but it left viewers with plenty of questions to answer in the final two episodes. Read on for a synopsis of the last episode titled “Follow Me My Friend, To Glory At The End.”
Reopening in the cabin from episode 5, the camera closes in on Alice, who dies after Agatha steals her powers. A hand accidentally brushes her face, and she wakes up to face Ryo, aka Death, as we learned in episode 7.
“It's time to go,” Rio tells Alice, pointing to her lifeless body, still lying on the floor. Alice asks, “So? All the time I can get?” She begs Ryo for more time, but Ryo reminds her that she died protecting someone, as any good protection witch should. She and Ryo disappear through the door together.
Meanwhile, Jane is horrified when she knocks on the door leading to their final trial, where Lilia sacrifices herself after reading that tarot to save them from the Selim Seven. Billy is also concerned, but somewhat preoccupied as Agatha rushes to Rio.
“Your coven is shrinking,” Rio joked. “The bodies are indeed piling up, just as you promised.”
Rio accuses Agatha of “distracting” him from Billy, whom he calls an “abomination” who is “disturbing the sacred balance”. Agatha becomes emotional when Rio reminds her that she's walking down the street “with another woman's son,” yelling at her to stop talking.
Rio quips that no one gets special treatment like Agatha, implying that Rio has confirmed that she has avoided death thus far, but Agatha disagrees, saying that Rio has only accepted from her.
“And that's usually your move, isn't it?” Rio jokes before asking Agatha why she let the Coven believe “those things” about her, about what she did to her son. Agatha says: “Because the truth is too terrible.”
Back outside the courthouse, Jane reassures Billy that Lilia wanted to stay behind to save them. They then start discussing Rio, as Jane says that the Green Witch showed us who she was from the beginning.
“So Agatha's former death?” Billy asks. Jane shrugs, “That makes sense too.”
They set off in search of Agatha, who is with Rio, now discussing Billy's mission to find Tommy at the end of the road, which Rio calls a “transgression” and Agatha thinks it's a waste of time.
“His brother is not there. Not yet anyway,” Rio says, explaining that Billy “stole a second life” but his twin didn't, and he aims to stop Billy before he can help Tommy.
“Then take him,” said Agatha. But then, she realizes Ryo can't take her, because if she dies, she'll just reincarnate herself again and she'll lose him. He volunteers to go with her, which Agatha promises to persuade him to do, only if Rio lets him go. He wants death to stop following him, at least for now.
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“And when I die…I don't want to see your face,” she says.
Ryo reluctantly agrees, before moving to a remote part of the forest, where he slices through the air with his knife, leaving a gaping hole as if the forest were just a paper backdrop rather than a real world, and vanishes.
When Agatha finds Billy and Jane, she hears the teenager say that she “couldn't be anything less than a witch.” Ouch. But, Agatha has bigger fish to fry, so she tells them they have to take it to their last trial.
The trial will involve Earth magic and they no longer have the Green Witch, so Jane must step in again to use her knowledge of potions to help them.
As they walk, Agatha trips over the shoe she left at the beginning of the road. The road, they realize, is a circle. And the beginning is the end line.
So, how do they get out?
Agatha, furious and desperate, insists they keep walking. Jane says she doesn't want to put up with the road anymore, to which Agatha replies, “Good! Stay here!”
But, as she leaves, Billy has other plans. He reminds them that they took off their shoes out of respect for the road, which he completely lost. He puts his shoes back on his feet, and boom…
Suddenly, he's unzipping himself from a body bag in a steel room. There's Agatha, there's Jane. Each in their own body bag. Agatha assumes it's a version of her basement, though it looks completely different. Jane notices that it's lit up with grow lights, but Agatha wonders how they're going to grow anything without water or soil.
One of the grow lights is lit, indicating that the countdown has started They kept shaking each other as they pondered what to do.
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In conversation, it emerges that Agatha was actually the one who bound Jane from using her magic in the first place. Naturally, this annoys him, although Agatha insists that she did not know that Jane performed the spell. He was merely performing spells for money in the 1920s and Jane was someone else's target.
Jane rips out a piece of Agatha's hair and binds her hands to her in a disobedient ritual. “You keep nothing,” he repeated over and over. And just like that, Jane has her magic back.
But then, he disappears.
“The road gave him what he had lost,” Agatha explains. He tells Billy, “It could end here right now. Come for power. You've got power. Give me the juice.”
Billy refuses, believing that if Agatha gets what she wants he will be left alone in that room. So, Agatha offers to help him find his brother. He tells her Tommy isn't waiting “over there”. At least not in the body.
He tells Billy that Rio is trying to stop him from finding his brother, because it would require him to steal a body like Billy's. Agatha tells Billy to sit down and close his eyes, which he complies.
He then reminds her of her last moments with Billy — they were 10 years old, living in Westview. He remembers being with his parents, falling asleep, with Tommy by his side. He hears Tommy's heavy breathing as he sleeps, and Agatha forces Billy to breathe in the same rhythm, encouraging him to shut out the noise of his mother's world.
Agatha grabs Billy's head, telling him to find a place for Tommy to go. He says he can't find a place, but Agatha knows that's not true. Too many people die every day because Tommy doesn't have a body.
Finally, he landed on one. A boy who is pushed into a pool as a prank, but ends up drowning. In agony, Billy asks, “Agatha, am I killing this boy so my brother can live?”
He gives one final shout, and then he disappears. “No, Billy,” replied Agatha as she left. “Sometimes, boys die.”
He sits alone in the steel room, while the grow lights turn on one by one. When she takes off her locket and pulls out her son's hair and rubs it in his face, she realizes that it may be the key to her escape.
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“Beyond death, life,” she breathed, before spreading her tears through her hair and burying them in a small patch of soil in the house. Just as the last light is fading, a flower sprouts from the ground. The lights all turned on again, and the room began to collapse. Rocks and dirt fall on Agatha, and she runs to the door, yelling for someone to let her out.
The door opens, and he steps out of the street, and he returns to Westview. He sees Ryo sitting on top of his house. The sky is dark and green as the wind blows, Rio cackling. Agatha tries to use her powers, but they are nowhere to be found.
“I brought you out the kid, as agreed!” Agatha insists. But that was not the deal. As he was supposed to surrender, Rio took Agatha instead. He begins to conjure the earth to “exorcise the evil” from Rio, but Rio quickly foils his plan. Amid Rio's attack, Agatha continues to attempt magic, but is soon tied up by Rio and unable to move.
Just in time, a flash of blue light knocks Ryo to the side. And there's Billy Maximoff, or should we say Wiccan in full costume, here to save the day.
“Don't take it all,” he says before blasting Agatha with his powers. And she didn't. Once she's got what she needs (and a little more, admittedly) and she's back to her full glory, she lets him hold Billy's magic.
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Rio still wants one of them, which spells a conflict. Agatha blasts Billy away, presumably hoping to save him from the crossfire as he goes toe-to-toe with Rio. He turns back just in time to save Agatha from a fatal blow, sending Rio flying back.
Agatha and Billy have a heart to heart, where Agatha says that they cannot escape death. She offers herself, so Billy can live. Although Rio returns, Billy tells him that he will go with him willingly.
“Take him. You've heard of him. The boy, as promised,” Agatha tells Rio, leaving Billy feeling betrayed and confused. “What can I say? I'm a greedy witch.”
Billy pleads with Agatha inside his head: “Agatha, I know you can hear me. Is this how Nicky died?”
He stops in his tracks and turns around, walking over to Rio and kissing her passionately on the lips. Rio's magic surrounds Agatha, who floats in the sky, letting death take her. He slowly fell to the ground and as his body sunk to the ground, daylight burst into Westview.
Rio tells Billy he's free to go, and he leaves without hesitation after grabbing Agatha's locket from the ground. He walked through Westview, got into his car and drove away from everything that had just happened.
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He returns home to Eastview, where William's parents are upset. After freshening up, Billy goes to his room to find several reminders of the street, including a Lorna Wu poster, a Wicked Witch of the West statue, a Visa board, and more.
As he reflects on the journey, he realizes “it was me.” He hears a moan and turns around and yells at what he sees.
And, roll credits. For a summary of the conclusion, click here.