Agatha All Along season recap and ending explained

We knew it was Agatha All Along, but the cunning witch wrapped up the first season of her Marvel spinoff series on Wednesday with perhaps one of the worst road trips ever. The magic-filled mystery show transported viewers from a boring story to a menacingly satisfying place. The double dose of finale episodes gave us a glimpse into Agatha Harkness' origin as an evil witch and Billy's powers.

At the beginning no one could guess the real villain: Mephisto, Salem Seven, Wanda Maximoff, Rio, Agatha, Agatha's mother? We love a good knockoff and appreciate the Easter eggs that showrunner Jac Schaeffer and his team have embedded throughout the series. Given the deaths along Witch Road and the sacrifice Lilia has made in this incredible Tarot episode, we wonder who poses the greatest threat. Agatha's selfish antics made us believe she was up to no good all the timebut Rio, the Green Witch who represents Death, gave us a big reveal.

At the start of the two-part finale, only three covens – and Rio – remained. Billy misses his brother Tommy; Agatha wants power. The twists, moon phases and mommy issues in the series made us wonder who really is the main character on Witch Street: Billy Kaplan/Maximoff, Agatha, Jennifer or Rio? And which witch would have her greatest wish come true?

Let's move on to the final two episodes of Agatha All Along: Follow Me My Friend/To Glory at the End and Maiden Mother Crone. Don't read on if you haven't watched the finale on Disney Plus yet as there are spoilers ahead.

Growing Lights, Wiccan Glory and the Kiss of Death

One thing is certain: Billy is his mother's child. In the eighth episode, Jen, Billy and Agatha wake up in a morgue, open their body bags and find their personal belongings hidden inside. Above them, the grow lights shine brightly, but there is one twist. Once the witches show growth, the lights begin to go out. Jennifer discovers that Agatha stole and bound her powers 100 years ago and demands them back from her. She then disappears from the room. Only Billy and Agatha remain and they embark on a psychic journey to locate Tommy. We learn that his soul piece ended up with another boy who drowned and was near death. Tommy was reborn inside the boy, and he's out there somewhere. Billy disappears from the room, leaving a crack in the floor.

Agatha wants her wish to come true. Her cameo locket contains a lock of Nicholas' hair, along with a sprout. She plants the sprout in the earth lying in the cracked ground and begs for more time. A dandelion blooms and then dies and the room begins to collapse. She manages to burst through a basement door just in time, only to be drawn into a battle with Death, who wants to kill her with 1,000 cuts and a severe beating.

Billy interrupts their confrontation in his full Wiccan costume and uses his powers to save Agatha. But she leaves him to die (as promised) and walks away. Stunned, he communicates with her psychically and asks if that happened to Nicky (her son). In a moment of reflection, she turns, kisses death, and dies in a swirl of black mist. Her decayed body turns into a bed of purple flowers. What is clear here is that Agatha, like Wanda (particularly Wanda in the Multiverse of Madness), was and is a grieving mother who feels guilt over her role in her child's death.

Billy makes his way home to his parents in Westview and soon finds out that he created Witch Street from his own imagination. The clues were always there: the Wizard of Oz poster and characters, a Lorna Wu concert poster, the vision board, a flashback to Agatha's wink when she said, “I didn't think you had it in you,” and Lilia, who told him, had the ability to turn his goals into reality. Like Wanda/Scarlet Witch, his magic can shape reality. A voice from off-screen startles him and it sounds exactly like Agatha.

Agatha and little Nicolas Scratch

It is the final episode, Mother Maiden Crone, that shows the origins of Agatha's power-hungry behaviors. Death comes for her when she gives birth to Nicolas Scratch, and she begs for her life. This time she is spared, but she doesn't know when death will return. She would rather kill witches she meets to appease Death and gain more time with her child. This is how she goes about it for years: she meets witches, strips them of their powers and leaves them for dead. As her son grows up with it, he composes a song: Down, Down, Down the Road… Down the Witches' Road.

Eventually, one of their nomadic stops along the way leads to the reappearance of death. She comes secretly in the middle of the night while they are sleeping in the forest. Agatha wakes up and finds Nicky dead. However, that doesn't stop Agatha from using the false promise of the false witch road to lure witches to their doom.

Back in Billy's room, Ghost Agatha tries to get him to accept that he is like her and he will get used to killing witches and people. His anger causes him to banish her to her home with her Triple Goddess Medallion, the last tie she has to this plane. It begins to work, but she summons enough physical strength to take the locket from Billy, while also admitting that she is not ready to face her dead son. Instead, she offers to team up with Billy. They set out to find Tommy, but not before Billy seals the door to Witch Street and turns it into a memorial to Alice, Lilia and Sharon.

The open-ended finale could lead to more comic stories

Agatha All Along took creative liberties with some comic plot details, such as Agatha's ghost guiding Billy. She is known to mentor Scarlet Witch as a ghost, but this series opens up a new opportunity from that and potentially new storylines if the series continues. What we do know is that Tommy Shepherd is Billy/Wiccan's brother Speed ​​and has abilities like his uncle Quicksilver.

In the comics, Tommy grew up in a New Jersey town where he was bullied for being different. He and Billy reunite after years apart, unaware of how their mother's powers created them or even caused them to break up. The comical adventures of Tommy and Billy are once again drawing Wanda's attention, and a sequel to this story could delve into the lore surrounding it, or perhaps there will be a connection to the upcoming Vision TV series. A full-fledged family reunion? Fans can keep their fingers crossed for that, or perhaps an appearance from Billy's friend Hulkling.

The comics also pair the brothers with Marvel characters from the Young Avengers, including Ant-Man's Cassie Lang. In the meantime, Marvel fans familiar with Scarlet Witch's story context should stay tuned for Wonder Man in 2025 and the future release of Vision Quest.