All the Easter Eggs and Fan Theories From Last Week's 'Agatha All Along'

Previously on Agatha All Along: Agatha and company realize that the Salem Seven are on their trail and must rely on desperate measures to escape their grasp and move on to the next trial. Once they do, they soon discover what the Witches’ Road wants from them: the punishment of Agatha Harkness, and even her long-departed mother, Evanora Harkness, is willing to show up so she can be a part of it. It all leads to Agatha’s body being possessed by Evanora, Alice summoning her magic to release her, Agatha siphoning Alice of her magic and her life once her mother releases her, and Teen summoning his own magic to attack Agatha and reveal that he truly is the son of Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch.

THE STORY SO FAR: We learn all about who Teen really is, how and why he crossed paths with Agatha in the first place, and how exactly he turned out to be Billy Maximoff.

WHAT’S GOOD ABOUT THIS EPISODE?: William Kaplan celebrating his bar mitzvah in the presence of his friends and his adoring parents. William getting his fortune read by Lilia, who turns out to be the witch who placed the sigil on William after seeing his future, and being disturbed by what she saw. The reveal of how exactly William Kaplan turned out to be Billy Maximoff, when his parents’ car crashed during the events of the WandaVision finale when Wanda was releasing her hold on the town of Westview, resulting in William losing his life to a fatal head injury, and Billy Kaplan taking over his body as his existence (and Wanda’s illusion) came to an end. The look in William/Billy’s eyes in the ambulance when he realized where he was, and what he looked like, followed by him looking at his reflection in his bedroom mirror and introducing himself. Discovering how William/Billy had previously crossed paths with every other witch in the coven, from Lilia reading his fortune at his bar mitzvah, to Alice being the first officer on the scene at the car crash, to Jen being one of his favorite YouTube influencers to watch.

William/Billy’s relationship with Eddie, and how much they clearly love and trust each other, enough that Eddie remains open-minded after learning who William/Billy is, and what he’s willing to do to learn more about what happened to him. (“No distractions, please. I’m gonna need you to hide those arms.”)

The return of Evan Peters as Ralph Bohner, a.k.a. Not-Quicksilver, a.k.a. everybody’s favorite part of WandaVision.

The return of Debra Jo Rupp as Sharon/Mrs. Davis, for the sole purpose of using her car to keep William/Billy from getting away during his foot chase with Agnes/Agatha, so she could get out and call him a hooligan.

Seeing just how powerful Wanda’s spell on Agatha was, as evidenced by Agatha and Teen’s first conversation/interrogation being shown from Teen’s perspective (in which he wasn’t being rude or sarcastic at all to Agnes), and how Agatha was fully committed to her Agnes of Westview persona. (You can see Joe Locke trying very hard not to break character and burst into laughter as he kept getting asked if he wanted to poke the bear.) William/Billy to Agnes/Agatha, who has him tied up in her house and is about to hide him, “Oh, come on, I do not want to go back in the closet!”

William/Billy saying out loud who he really is (“I’m Billy Maximoff”) to Agatha, Agatha still not getting Tommy’s name right (“You’re looking for Toby!”), and the two of them confronting each other about how Billy was lying the whole time about what he wanted from the Witches’ Road, and how they must keep working together to get to the end of their quest, whether they like it or not.

I’m including this from the very first episode, but seeing the interrogation scene as it really was just reminded me how much I love this line reading from Kathryn Hahn, which turns out to be even more ridiculous when we see how she actually says it:

WHAT’S NOT SO GOOD ABOUT THIS EPISODE?: If you ask certain fans on social media, particularly the Marvel stans who are obsessed with the relationship between Agatha and Rio, the worst thing about this episode is the fact that this episode was all about William/Billy, and making the show about him instead of focusing on Agatha and Rio. (They also don’t like that he’s more interested in finding his brother than he is in finding/resurrecting Wanda.) Which has led to quite a few arguments between those who think the show isn’t giving us the lesbian-focused content that was promised and is deserved, and those who see nothing wrong with a main character spending more time in the spotlight to fill in the blanks about his background, while also providing some much-needed gay representation in the MCU. The second worst thing is that a few fans who weren’t pleased about the show caring about Jewish representation appearing onscreen, but not caring enough to hire an actual Jewish actor to play William/Billy.

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

DOES WANDA MAXIMOFF APPEAR IN THIS EPISODE?: No.

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. But we do hear his voice and Wanda’s on the Kaplan family’s car radio (which is just snippets of a conversation they’re having in the second episode of WandaVision) as they’re driving back home from William’s bar mitzvah during The Hex weakening and beginning to release its grasp on Westview.

ANY EASTER EGGS WE SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR?: Everything regarding William in this episode is focused on the color blue, from his yarmulke, to the lighting at the bar mitzvah while he’s dancing, which matches the color of his magic whenever he uses it. William saying how Lilia’s fortune teller booth reminds him of early Argento is a reference to Dario Argento, the Italian writer-director of such films as Suspiria, Deep Red, and Inferno. posters of The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, The Black Cauldron, a movie called The Goofballs, which is patterned after The Goonies, and Harry Houdini are all over William/Billy’s bedroom walls, along with some background figures of the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy, and Scarecrow on a shelf. The car crash that Agnes and Rio discussed in the first episode while seated in Agnes’ living room is the same car crash that the Kaplan family was involved in. When Lilia reads William/Billy’s fortune, she tells him that his lifeline is split in two (which seems to be a reference to when the timeline in Loki began to split in multiple directions at the end of the Season 1 finale), and also states, “The tower reversed,” which is a tarot card that symbolizes transformation, the breaking down of old beliefs, and resistance to change while delaying an inevitable upheaval.

Eddie saying about The Hex, “I thought that was an Avengers training exercise gone wrong,” is similar to what Rhodey said in Iron Man when he described Shellhead’s first public appearance as simply a military training exercise. Ralph referring to William/Billy as “bub,” which is a favorite term often used by Wolverine. Ralph describing everything that Wanda did to the people in Westview in WandaVision, and how Agatha also had him under her control, making him kidnap Monica to hold her captive, and also kill Sparky, the dog. Ralph offering half-off tickets to his one-man show in Paramus, which clearly isn’t selling as well as Rogers: The Musical. Ralph has a cross made of chicken bones affixed to his hat, which is meant to help protect his mind from being controlled again by Agatha, or any other witches. Agatha is who Dolly Parton was writing and singing about in her classic song “Jolene,” as she was in Nashville back in 1972 going after Dolly’s man. (Fortunately for her, Agatha didn’t make that same mistake with Beyoncé before the release of Cowboy Carter.)

DO WE FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REST OF THE COVEN? WHY IS AGATHA THE ONLY ONE TO CLIMB HER WAY OUT?: No. Both Jen and Lilia are still drowning in mud, thanks to William/Billy, and Agatha is fully convinced that they’re both dead, which is fine by her. As for why Agatha is the only one to make her way back to the surface, it could be because she can’t be killed, and if Rio really is Death, then Agatha was telling the truth when the two of them were fighting and she said, “You can’t kill me! It’s not allowed!”

WAIT, WHERE IS RIO ANYWAY? WE DIDN’T SEE HER ANYWHERE AFTER TEEN ATTACKED AGATHA, OR WHEN SHE PULLED HERSELF OUT OF THE MUD!: My answer to your question about Rio’s present whereabouts is this:

ANY FAN THEORIES SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE ACROSS THE INTERNET BECAUSE OF THIS EPISODE?: The black heart drawn on the original list of names wasn’t for Sharon/Mrs. Hart, but for William/Billy, since Lilia was unable to write his actual name. The souls and personalities of William and Billy will completely merge into one being at the end of the season as their reward for reaching the end of the Witches’ Road. Lilia placing the sigil on Billy is why Wanda has been unable to find him since the post-credits stinger seen in the WandaVision finale. The reason why Agatha was present at all of the mass tragedies that have happened throughout history (the sinking of the Titanic, the crash of the Hindenburg)is because she was in a relationship with Rio, who of course would be the one responsible for causing so many lives to be lost while in Agatha’s presence if she really is Death.

Eddie is actually Hulkling, and because his name sounds similar to Hulkling’s first name (Teddy), and the two characters being romantically involved in the comics, some fans think that he is really another teenage boy who has yet to learn the full extent of his superpowered origins and abilities. Billy Maximoff might have a lot to answer for in the near future, due to him possessing the body of William Kaplan, because when Doctor Strange used his magic to activate the dead body of another Strange variant in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, he was told that possessing a dead body is forbidden. So who knows what eternal consequences Billy Kaplan may have to suffer as a result of his trespassing?

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

TO SUM IT ALL UP: There were a lot of fans who both hoped and predicted that Teen would be none other than Billy Kaplan/Wiccan himself, and not only did they have the pleasure of being proven right, we all had the pleasure of seeing just how this happened in another great episode of Agatha All Along. It took a unique approach in showing how Billy Kaplan was reincarnated to appear in the 616 Marvel Cinematic Universe, through the tragic circumstances that also resulted in William’s parents having to deal with being strangers to their own son, and not knowing what to do about it. (All of which was somewhat reminiscent of Bobby Drake, a.k.a. Iceman, visiting his parents in X2: X-Men United, and revealing to them that he is a mutant. And yes, I’m aware of the irony that the comics version of Iceman later comes out of the closet as a gay man.) Props to Joe Locke for doing more outstanding work with his performance as happy and carefree William Kaplan (who looks nothing like a 13-year-old boy in those flashbacks, but we can suspend our disbelief about that), confused and terrified William/Billy right after the car crash, and 16-year-old William/Billy who was grown more comfortable in his own skin (so to speak), but is still determined to find the answers he’s looking for.

His closing scene with Agatha is one more example of the amazing chemistry between him and Kathryn Hahn, as she goes from teasing him about his deception and the similarities between him and Wanda, and telling him what she herself needed to hear from another witch in her youth, in that he shouldn’t feel any guilt or shame about his power, or about breaking the rules for his survival by possessing William Kaplan’s body. It was also a wonderful surprise to see Evan Peters not working on another damn project with Ryan Murphy back in the MCU as Ralph Bohner, and his scene opposite William/Billy and Eddie, was hilarious, as he has reached The Lone Gunmen-like levels of paranoia, and we learn all of the ways that Agatha ruined his life, took away his peace of mind, and worst of all, deprived him of his Blu-ray collection (#SupportPhysicalMedia) when she took his house (which also explains why she was wearing a “Bohner Family Reunion: Pitch A Tent” shirt during her “interrogation” of Billy). It has been delightful to see Agatha and Billy in a mentor/mentee relationship these last few episodes, but it’s safe to say that most of us are completely locked in now that their bond has become largely antagonistic on both sides now that Alice has died at Agatha’s hand, and Billy’s identity has been revealed.

Only three episodes and two more weeks to go. Place your bets on what we’ll see first that could possibly break the Internet: a kiss between Agatha and Rio, the long-awaited return of Wanda Maximoff, or Marvel stans cursing all over social media like Malcolm Tucker if they don’t get either one.

This episode of Agatha All Along was brought to you by “Born This Way (The Country Road Version)” by Orville Peck:

And “Jolene” by Beyoncé: