All the Easter Eggs and Fan Theories From The 'Agatha All Along' Series Finale

Previously on Agatha All Along: Agatha and Billy, despite their mutual animosity and distrust, must work together to survive their next trial, and Lilia must gain control of her mind and her powers if she is to help them, and Jen, do so. Not only does Lilia gain control over her powers, she reveals that Rio is the cosmic entity Death before sacrificing her life to protect the coven and take down the Salem Seven once and for all.

THE STORY SO FAR: Agatha, Billy, and Jen face the final trial at the end of the Witches’ Road, which leads to a confrontation with Rio/Death, and secrets being revealed that turn their worlds completely upside down.

WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT THIS EPISODE?: Alice’s soul being greeted by Rio/Death, her discovery that she really is dead, and that she won’t get any more time to live her life and do more with it, even though she had just broken her generational curse. (Rio/Death: “You’re a Protection Witch. You died protecting someone.”) Rio/Death confronting Agatha for hiding Billy’s real identity from her, and wanting to know why she lets everyone believe all of the horrible things that have been said about her, to which Agatha responds, “Because the truth is too awful.” The look on Rio/Death’s face when Agatha tells her that she will turn Billy over to her, and prevent him from reincarnating in another body, in exchange for Rio/Death leaving her alone and never crossing her path again, even at her moment of death. Agatha to Jen: “Your last name is a vegetable. Worst kind. It’s like swallowing a doily.” Agatha tripping over the coven’s shoes, and realizing that she, Billy, and Jen are back where they started, because the Witches’ Road is a circle.

The three of them waking up in Agatha’s basement (which looks like a morgue located in the X-Mansion), with the last trial beginning as the grow lights on the ceiling begin counting down. Agatha to Jen: “You seen relaxed. Usually at this point, you’re either complaining loudly, or freaking out loudly.” Jen discovering that it was Agatha who placed a binding spell on Jen a century ago, and took away her ability to do magic because someone (most likely the unnamed male doctor from Jen’s vision in Episode 3 who described her as inconvenient) paid her to do so, which is then followed by Jen performing an unbinding spell on Agatha and removing her spell entirely, which causes her powers to return and Jen to disappear and climb out from underground right outside of Westview, now that she’s found what she’s been looking for. Agatha helps Billy find out where Tommy is, only to reveal that he’s carrying Tommy’s essence and existence as part of him, and that he needs to pinpoint who his brother will choose for his own reincarnation. The final battle between Agatha and Rio/Death, and it comes close to Rio/Death being the victor, until Billy intervenes and makes his appearance floating down to the ground in his Wiccan costume, before allowing Agatha to absorb some of his power so she can fight back. (Rio/Death: “Power looks good on you.” Agatha: “Honey, everything looks good on me.”)

Agatha willing to sacrifice Billy to Rio/Death until he reminds her of Nicky and how he died. Agatha going back to save Billy by kissing Rio (and it’s not some wack-ass, G-rated, Disney Channel peck on the lips, either) and fatally absorbing her energy, allowing balance to be restored, and Rio/Death allowing Billy to continue living his life. (I’m glad that this series silenced my doubts and proved me wrong, as to whether there would be any actual kissing between Agatha and Rio.)

Billy’s realization that the Witches’ Road was never real and that everything about it, including the trials, was an illusion that he created with his magic, just like how Wanda created an entire reality with her magic where she and Vision were happily married and raising kids in the suburbs of Westview.

Agatha going into labor, and begging Rio/Death to not take her baby away from her. Agatha using her borrowed time with Nicky to gain the trust of other witches, right before killing them and taking her power. The discovery that Nicky created “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road,” which started out as a simple song about the numerous roads he has walked alongside his mother during their travels (“Walk, walk, walk the road/Walk the windy road”), with Agatha helping improve the song with her lyrical contributions that made it into the familiar ballad it is now. Nicky using the song to perform as a balladeer, and gain both money and attention from other witches, who Agatha can then rob and kill. Agatha waking up to Nicky’s corpse, and sobbing over his grave, right before she abandons her humanity, and spends the next couple of centuries using the ballad to manipulate other witches into thinking she knows how to find the Witches’ Road, and goading them into attacking her so she can steal their power and their life force for herself.

Agatha returning as a ghost, and attempting to console Billy, who is blaming himself for the deaths of his fellow witches. Billy casting a banishment spell on Agatha at her house, and her admitting that she won’t move on into the afterlife because she can’t bring herself to face Nicky. Billy using his magic to remove the door of the Witches’ Road, and inscribe the names of Sharon Davis, Alice, and Lilia into the ground as a memorial to them. The two of them agreeing to be a coven of two, as they decide to work together and find Tommy.

WHAT’S NOT SO GOOD ABOUT THIS EPISODE?: No answers as to how Agatha got her hands on the Darkhold in the first place, especially since it turned out to be a lie that she exchanged Nicky’s life for it. After seeing for ourselves what Agatha was willing to do to gain power, and how many witches she was willing to kill so she could make that happen, the show’s treatment of the Salem Seven becomes even more disappointing. To have Agatha hunted by the children of witches she murdered is a storyline that had so much potential for greatness, but there was nothing memorable at all about the Salem Seven (other than their deaths at the hands of Lilia), or about their pursuit of Agatha and her coven.

DO ANY OF THE AVENGERS APPEAR IN THIS EPISODE?: No.

DOES WANDA MAXIMOFF APPEAR IN THIS EPISODE?: No, but as Agatha is sitting with Billy to help him find where Tommy is, and how he will appear, we hear her dialogue from the WandaVision finale in which she tells Billy and Tommy, “Thanks for choosing me to be your mom.”

SERIOUSLY?! THAT’S ALL OF THE WANDA WE GET AFTER THIS ENTIRE SEASON?: Pretty damn much. If you bet any amount of money on Elizabeth Olsen making an appearance as Wanda Maximoff in this series finale? Feel free to go ahead, and get all of that anger and disappointment out of your system.

DO WE GET TO SEE EITHER VERSION OF VISION (ORIGINAL FLAVOR, OR THE WHITE ONE WHO WE HAVEN’T SEEN ANYWHERE SINCE THE WANDAVISION FINALE?): No.

ANY EASTER EGGS WE SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR?: Rio/Death using her knife to cut into the fabric of reality and make her exit is similar to how Clea made her entrance to recruit Stephen Strange for assistance in the mid-credits stinger of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. (It’s also an inventive way to show Rio/Death breaking the fourth wall by just bursting through the set of a place that she knows isn’t real.) Nicky’s singing ability was hinted at in the first episode, when Agatha/Agnes walks into Nicky’s old bedroom and the camera shows a plaque that was awarded to him, which read: “NICHOLAS SCRATCH - BEST VOCALS - CHILDREN’S CONCERT CHOIR.” The dandelion seed that was in Agatha’s brooch along with a lock of Nicky’s hair was from one of the dandelions he was seen playing with in the montage of his time spent with Agatha. Agatha surviving the trial and leaving the Witches’ Road through the cellar door of her house parallels how Dorothy’s family in The Wizard of Oz went into the Gale household for shelter from the tornado via a cellar door. Agatha and Nicky are accompanied during their travels by a goat, which has been connected to Satanic imagery. Agatha traveling with her child on the road, and using his adorable presence to catch other witches off-guard so she can kill them before they can kill her first (or so Agatha believes) is reminiscent of the classic manga series Lone Wolf and Cub.

Rio/Death exploding the windows of Agatha’s house so she will “[die] by a thousand cuts” is similar to the scene from Jessica Jones, in which Kilgrave controlled Wendy Ross-Hogarth by making her try to kill her wife, Jeri, by using a knife to inflict death by a thousand cuts. Billy putting his hood over his head as he leaves Agatha’s house after her death is much like how Wanda placed her hood over her head as she prepared to make her exit from Westview once the hex was finally removed. The fact that Billy largely used popular media he was familiar with to help create the Witches’ Road is just like how Wanda used the sitcoms she watched in her youth to help create her illusion with Vision, Billy, and Tommy. The entire scene of Billy in his room, realizing that the Witches’ Road was never real, and that nearly every object (including posters, Ouija board games, and Wizard of Oz figurines) that decorates his room, was used to help create that illusion. (All that was missing from that scene was Billy dropping a coffee cup on the floor in shock, and looking closer at it to see “Kobayashi Porcelain” printed on the bottom of the cup.)

The discovery that Billy used his magic to create the Witches’ Road (and that it unfortunately led to the deaths of several witches) also explains this exchange in Episode 4 between Agatha and Billy when she was crouched over Sharon/Mrs. Hart’s body shortly after her death:

Agatha: Hmmm. I didn’t think you had it in you.

Billy: You didn’t think who had what in them?

Agatha: (looks up at Billy, winks)

ANY FAN THEORIES SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE ACROSS THE INTERNET BECAUSE OF THIS EPISODE?: Mephisto’s name was mentioned on the show, but when will he finally make his appearance? Is he really being played by Sacha Baron Cohen, and will that character make his debut on Ironheart? When Billy said “Earth magic with no Green Witch? Looks like we’re back to square one,” that is what led to Agatha, Billy, and Jen ending up back at the very beginning of the Witches’ Road, because his magic unintentionally put them there. (Further proof of this particularly fan theory is that Billy has a poster of the Moon on his bedroom wall, which strongly resembles the tarot card for the Moon, and that card signifies subconscious fear and /or desire.)

Wanda/Scarlet Witch didn’t appear on Agatha All Along, which has fans wondering when and where she will make her return. (Vision Quest? The next two Avengers films? Her own self-titled movie or television series?) Agatha has been maintaining the balance between life and Death by killing witches and offering up their lives in exchange for hers and Nicky’s, so when Nicky chose to not help Agatha kill any witches after his performance of “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road,” it was when Rio/Death appeared to take Nicky away. Agatha killing hundreds of witches over hundreds of years in exchange for her own life has also been her way of keeping Rio/Death from claiming her. Tommy Shepherd (a.k.a. Speed) will make his debut in either Vision Quest, which will see White Vision (which always sounds so f-cking problematic in my head whenever I type that out) being reunited with both of his sons, or in the next two Avengers films. The colors of each trial on the Witches’ Road, and the order in which they appear, matches the colors of the Infinity Stones, and the order in which we first see them appear in the MCU.

ARE THERE ANY SCENES DURING THE CLOSING CREDITS?: No.

NOTHING ELSE? NOTHING AT ALL TO TEASE WHAT COMES NEXT?: The only teaser we get of things to come is the sizzle reel attached to Episode 8 before it starts, which not only announced that Deadpool & Wolverine will be streaming on Disney Plus next month, but shows footage from the numerous Marvel shows scheduled to premiere next year: Daredevil: Born Again, Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Ironheart, What If?, Marvel Zombies, Eyes of Wakanda, and Wonder Man.

According to this Variety interview with Agatha All Along showrunner Jac Schaeffer, it wasn’t her decision to not include any stingers in the end credits:

Basically every Marvel Studios project has a post-credits scene, but Agatha All Along did not. Why wasn’t there one? That’s a Marvel decision. I know nothing more than that.

Did you have one in mind?
Yes, I wrote a number of tags, because you always do on every Marvel everything. I love writing tags. I think some of my best writing is in the tags that were never made. I should have a little binder of my tags. They’re so fun to write, because you’re writing the promise without having to deliver on anything. They’re the best. But there are so many things that factor into those. And I was told that we weren’t going to do a tag on this show. That doesn’t affect my work, or my vision for the show.

Is there one tag that wasn’t used that you were particularly proud of that you can tell me about?
Yes. I’ll tell you this one, because it’s been a long time, and so maybe the statute of limitations is up on it. Initially, Doctor Strange was going to appear in the tag for WandaVision. It’s Wanda sitting on the porch of that cabin, and she’s rocking peacefully. And you know how Strange can do those circles around someone, and make them go somewhere? The circle starts around her, like she’s going to be teleported somewhere, and she stops it, so Strange has to show up in person. I just loved that so much, that Wanda would be like, “No, I’m not going to go where you want to teleport me. You’re going to have to come to my door.” It was a good one, but another tag took its place.

IS THERE GOING TO BE ANOTHER SEASON OF AGATHA ALL ALONG?: As far as I know, this will be the only season of the series.

IS THERE GOING TO BE A ROMANTIC OR SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DEADPOOL AND RIO/DEATH, JUST LIKE IN THE COMICS?: If so, that also remains a complete mystery, as Marvel Studios already has fans wondering just what is going to happen between Deadpool and Thor in the near future that will have the God of Thunder shedding tears in his presence.

TO SUM IT ALL UP: I honestly didn’t have the highest of expectations for Agatha All Along before its premiere, outside of being happy that Kathryn Hahn would once again appear on my television screen every week. The last few Marvel shows on Disney Plus didn’t really impress me as much as I would’ve liked, and I expected the same from this series as well. So I was pleasantly surprised that Agatha All Along not only surpassed those expectations, but that it kept doing so week after week. And unlike many other Marvel shows, its quality remained consistent as it got closer to the finale, and the finale itself was actually worth watching and caring about. No, we didn’t get a reunion between Billy and Tommy, the long-awaited return of Wanda Maximoff, or any Skippy McDippy cameos created for the sole purpose of whetting our appetites. But what we got was incredibly good, and at this point, a lot of Marvel stans should’ve learned their lesson by now about getting mad at a show for not bringing their fan theories to life as to who will show up and what will happen next. (Seriously, why were you thinking that Daisy “Quake” Johnson, of all people, was going to show up in Secret Invasion?)

We got some incredible performances by Joe Locke, Aubrey Plaza, Sasheer Zamata, and of course, Number One on the call sheet, Kathryn Hahn. They gave us Billy wrestling with the knowledge and the guilt of creating the Witches’ Road and contributing to the deaths of his fellow witches as a result. Jen repeating one statement with increasing intensity to take back the power that was thoughtlessly stolen from her, and crying with joy and relief at the realization that it worked. (Yes, the fact that this moment happened between a Black woman and a white woman made it even more powerful, and if you have to ask why, I got nothing for you.) Rio/Death showing the pain and heartbreak on her face at Agatha begging for the life of her child, and then being rejected by Agatha centuries later before kissing her goodbye for the last time. And Agatha? There are too many moments to list, so I’ll go with these shots of Agatha breaking the fourth wall when the Witches’ Road actually becomes a reality before her very eyes.

(chef’s kiss)

I have to give credit to Marvel Studios for the one-two punch they delivered this year with their television shows to remind us how great their entertainment can be. We were already blessed with X-Men ‘97 (despite all of the behind-the-scenes f-ckery regarding former showrunner/executive producer Beau DeMayo), and Agatha All Along gave everyone reasons to sing its praises. (It also gave us reasons to laugh at everyone who predicted/hoped that the show’s ratings would be horrible, and that it would be the least-watched Marvel show on Disney Plus, when it turned out to be anything but.)

BUT WHAT ABOUT DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE? WASN’T THAT MOVIE ALSO A REMINDER THAT MARVEL STUDIOS IS REALLY GOOD AT WHAT THEY DO?: I really enjoyed Deadpool & Wolverine, and had a blast when I saw it on opening night, mainly because I made damn sure to see it on opening night before the Internet spoiled every damn thing about it by Friday afternoon. But I also know that not everyone felt the same way about the film. Some people thought it was amazing and fired on all cylinders. Others thought that it was two-and-a-half hours of Ryan Reynolds doing his usual shtick as the Merc with a Mouth while throwing memberberries at the audience. I’ll leave you to decide which category you fall into.

The cast and crew of Agatha All Along deserve a standing ovation for what they accomplished, and I truly hope that the next chapter of the Maximoff family is just as well-made and entertaining as WandaVision and Agatha All Along whenever it actually drops. (Yes, both shows have their flaws, but what I liked about the shows far outnumber the things that I don’t.) Now all that’s left to do is wait to see if next year’s Marvel shows on Disney Plus will also surpass expectations and be worth the wait.

The two-hour series finale of Agatha All Along was brought to you by “Just An Illusion” by Imagination:

“Make Me Feel” by Janelle Monáe:

“Tears In Heaven” by Eric Clapton:

And “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road (Pop Version)” by Japanese Breakfast: