The journey through the Witches’ Road comes to a dramatic end in the two-episode finale of Disney+’s Agatha All Along, as MCU’s metaphysical sphere finds a new gateway with Billy Maximoff’s rise to power. After a season full of unique call-backs to witches of every decade, putting Agatha’s coven of witches through trials, tribulations, and deaths, the finale makes shocking revelations about the true nature of the journey and Agatha’s past. Rio, the very personification of MCU’s version of Death, pursued the coven as she wanted to reunite with her estranged lover, Agatha—and the death of Agatha’s son, Nicholas Scratch, had resulted in their falling out with each other in the first place.
The Teen, who was revealed to be Wanda, aka the Scarlet Witch’s son, Billy Maximoff taking over the body of William Kaplan, participated in the journey through the Witches’ Road to find his lost twin brother, Tommy Maximoff. After losing Sharon, Lilia, and Alice during their personal trials, Agatha’s coven is now down to three members, as Agatha, Jen, and Billy seek to complete the journey and reap the rewards they wanted to obtain. However, as has been the case with every other episode of the series, the reality is often deceiving when magic is involved, and the eventful season finale proves it furthermore.
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Agatha’s Deal With Death
As the episode brings viewers back to the end of the fifth episode, Alice’s tragic demise comes into focus once again, as her life and powers were taken away by Agatha. Alice’s spirit finds it difficult to accept the end, especially because she was able to break her family curse, but Death reminds her that, as a protection witch, she has served her purpose well. It’s time for Alice to join her in the afterlife.
Afterwards, Death pays a visit to Agatha, mocking her for trying to make amends for the loss of her own son, Nicholas, by helping someone else’s (Wanda’s), and demanding Billy’s life from her, as she herself cannot claim him, because Billy’s existence itself makes him an anomaly. Billy’s motive of finding Tommy will result in Tommy’s soul taking over another host, and Death cannot allow the natural order to be maligned just like that according to the whims of the Maximoffs. His soul, the construction of Wanda’s hex, possessed the body of someone else, and if Death takes him away, he will once again do the same and gain another body. Billy needs to willingly accompany Death for her to take him away, and Agatha agrees to convince him to do so in exchange for Death stopping following her. More than Agatha confronting her mortality, the scene plays out as old lovers having an argument.
Jen’s Fate
The scene shifts to Jen and Billy, who are mourning the death of Lilia, who sacrificed her life to save the rest of the coven from Salem Seven. As the duo reunite with Agatha and follow the Witches’ Road, they realize they have arrived right where they started in the first place; the journey has come full circle. As the two elder witches get flabbergasted while pondering their next move, Billy unwittingly guides them to what seems to be the final trial, inside a morgue illuminated by a number of grow lights. The morgue is obviously symbolic of the witches she has killed through the centuries to gain her powers, and the grow lights indicate possibilities of redemption, which her later efforts of bringing her son, Nicholas, back to life by planting a tree convey. However, there is another connection at play here involving Billy, which is revealed a bit later in the episode. The grow lights in the chamber start turning off one by one, indicating they are on a time crunch, prompting Jen and Agatha to wonder how to get out of this mess. Their conversation leads to Jen finding out Agatha is responsible for her loss of power, and using a binding ritual, she manages to get her powers back from Agatha. However, Jen disappears right after, and Agatha explains the reason might be the fact that the Witches’ Road has given her what she wanted.
Did Agatha Accept Death At The End?
Agatha and Billy are left inside the chamber, and Agatha decides to help him find his brother, Tommy, by allowing Billy to reconnect with his memories from Westview. It is interesting because, like Billy and Tommy’s soul, these memories were a construction of Wanda’s hex as well, a reflection of her desires. Agatha helps Billy find a vessel for Tommy’s soul in a kid who was drowning to death as a bunch of bullies were pulling a devious prank on him. While Billy is horrified at the thought of replacing a soul to bring his brother to life, for Agatha, the death of a child isn’t really an unexpected occurrence. Her son, Nicholas, died at a young age, and the burden of the tragedy weighs heavy on her still. With Tommy seemingly gaining a life, Billy’s desire is fulfilled, and he vanishes like Jen as well.
Agatha, mourning Nicholas, opens the locket that belonged to him to bring out strands of hair and realizes that she needs to find life in death to escape the final trial. Agatha manages to escape after creating a sapling by planting Nicholas’ hair with her tears as the final grow light flickers in the chamber, an act that symbolizes her effort to redeem herself. Finally, Agatha finds herself back in Westview, right outside her house, where Death is waiting for her to keep her end of bargain. Billy, now in his Wiccan garb, arrives to lend his powers to Agatha, who battles with Rio, aka Death. However, Agatha ultimately betrays Billy by offering him to Death after tricking him to sacrifice himself in order to save her. At this point, Billy mentions Nicholas’ death to Agatha, which instantly triggers Agatha’s guilt and agony, and Agatha shares a kiss with Death, accepting her at long last. This is significant, as for the first time an instance of lesbian intimacy has been featured in the MCU. Billy watches in disbelief as Agatha sacrifices herself for him, and Death asks him to take his leave. For now, she will settle for Agatha.
There Was No Witches’ Road
A disheartened Billy returns to William’s family—the boy whose body he has obtained—and realizes that everything he experienced in the Witches’ Road was linked with his own obsession with witchcraft, as he identifies visual cues scattered across his room—right from Lorna Wu’s poster to the Wicked Witch of West figurine. The Witches’ Road wasn’t a real thing to begin with; it was Billy’s hex that created the elaborate, trap and trial-filled phantasmagoric world. Just like how Wanda lived her fantasy life out of a sitcom during the events of WandaVision by using her hex to trap the residents of Westview, Billy was living his fantasy of journeying through the Witches’ Road to bring his brother, Tommy, back to life. Like mother, like son.
What Happened to Nicholas Scratch?
His assumptions are confirmed further as Agatha, now in a spirit/ghost form, appears in front of him, resembling her elder comics counterpart. In a prolonged flashback scene, it was revealed that Agatha’s son, Nicholas Scratch, was doomed as Death wanted him ever since Agatha brought him into the world in 1750, and Agatha pleaded with her lover to help Nicholas survive on borrowed time. The ballad of the Witches’ Road was nothing but a rhyme recited by Nicholas, which Agatha used to lure unsuspecting witches through the ages and take their lives, growing her powers exponentially. However, Death eventually arrived one day to take Nicholas away from her, much to Agatha’s dismay. From then on, Agatha was fixated on luring witches with the false promise of taking them to the journey through Witches’ Road, only to siphon their powers to increase her own. Agatha mentions to Billy that she planned to do the same with Jen, Lilia, and Alice as well, until Billy’s hex created a Witches’ Road out of nowhere, and she decided to go on the journey anyway.
Did Billy Find Tommy At The End?
Jen is shown to have survived the Witches’ Road after all, as she emerges outside Westview, now with her powers back, and leaves by taking flight—hopefully, we will see her in a more substantial role in the near future. Billy is distraught as he holds himself responsible for the deaths of Alice and Lilia, and Agatha’s apathetic, nonchalant gesture about it ticks him off. Agatha justifies killing witches for survival, something Billy can never wrap his head around, and he goes on to begin a ritual to banish Agatha forever. However, as she reveals her fear of going to the afterlife, as she doesn’t want to face her son, whose death tormented her every living moment, Billy takes pity on her and gives her Nicholas’ locket. Despite her spirit form, Agatha is able to interact with this one object as she picks the locket to wrap it around her neck, a memento of her son. Agatha reveals that Billy reminds her of Nicholas, and the broken emotional bond between the duo is somewhat mended as Billy offers her to join him as his guide.
Billy uses his powers to activate the entrance to the Witches’ Road, and for a moment it seems he is going to find his brother, Tommy, who is now host to a new body. But instead, it is revealed that Billy sealed off the entrance and acknowledged the departed ones—as Lilia, Alice, and even Agatha’s gardener neighbor, Sharon’s name is seen engraved on the entrance seal. As the finale ends, Billy and her ghost guide, Agatha, begin their journey to find Tommy Maximoff, which opens up new possibilities for the future of the MCU. The Maximoff twins are going to be a prominent part of the roster of MCU’s new generation of heroes, Young Avengers, but given the dark nature of chaos magic being the foundation of their very existence, it remains to be seen how their presence affects the future. Like his twin brother, Tommy Maximoff possesses superpowers as well, although his powers—superspeed—match those of their uncle, Pietro Maximoff, aka Quicksilver. Tommy, aka Speed’s introduction to the MCU will be intriguing to watch, although we are not sure which of the upcoming MCU projects is going to feature him given the recent shakeup in the MCU’s future slate.
