Agatha All Along Episode 8 Summary

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the penultimate episode of Agatha all the time.

The conclusion of Agatha all the time is finally here.

Last week, more about Lilia's backstory was revealed, explaining why she seemed to be talking to herself all season. However, in the last two episodes, viewers also had to answer a lot of questions. Read on for a recap of the penultimate episode titled “Follow Me My Friend, To Glory At The End.”

The episode begins again in the cabin from episode 5, where the camera closes in on Alice, who died after Agatha lost her powers. A hand wistfully strokes her face and she awakens to find herself face to face with Rio, aka Death, as we learned in Episode 7.

Rio tells Alice, “It's time to go,” and points to her lifeless body still lying on the floor. Alice asks, “That’s it?” This is the only time I have?” She asks Rio for more time, but Rio reminds her that she died protecting someone, as any good guardian witch should. She and Rio disappear through the door together.

Meanwhile, Jen panics as she knocks on the door leading to her final trial, where Lilia has just sacrificed herself after the tarot reading to save her from the Salem Seven. Billy is also worried, but Agatha is a bit preoccupied when she meets Rio.

“Your circle is shrinking,” Rio scoffs. “The bodies are really piling up, just like you promised.”

Rio accuses Agatha of “distracting” her from Billy, whom she describes as an “abomination” who “disrupts the sacred balance.” Agatha becomes emotional when Rio reminds her that she is traveling with “someone else's son” and yells at her to stop talking.

Rio jokes that no one has received special treatment like Agatha, suggesting that Rio has ensured that she has narrowly avoided death so far, but Agatha disagrees and says Rio has only ever taken something from her.

“And that's usually your decision, right?” Rio quips before asking Agatha why she lets the Circle believe “those things” about her, about what she did to her son. Agatha says: “Because the truth is too terrible.”

Back at the courthouse door, Jen assures Billy that Lilia wanted to stay behind to save her. They then discuss Rio when Jen says that the Green Witch showed us who she was from the start.

“So Agatha’s ex is Death?” asks Billy. Jen shrugs. “That makes sense too.”

They set out to find Agatha, who is with Rio, and now discuss Billy's mission to find Tommy at the end of the street, which Rio calls a “violation” and Agatha thinks is a waste of time.

“His brother isn’t out there. At least not yet,” Rio says, explaining that Billy “stole a second life,” but his twin didn’t, and she wants to stop Billy before he helps Tommy.

“Then take it,” says Agatha. But then she realizes that Rio can't stand him because if he dies, he'll just reincarnate again and she'll lose him. He has to go with her willingly, which Agatha only promises to convince him to do if Rio lets her go. She wants death to stop haunting her, at least for now.

“And when I die… I don’t want to see your face,” she says.

Rio reluctantly agrees before heading to a distant spot in the forest where she cuts through the air with her knife, leaving a gaping hole as if the forest was just a paper background and not a practical world, and disappears.

When Agatha finds Billy and Jen, she overhears the teenager saying she will “never be more than a witch without a coven.” Ouch. But Agatha has bigger fish to fry, so she tells them they must carry on until their final attempt.

This test will involve earth magic, and they no longer have a Green Witch, so Jen must step forward again to use her potions knowledge to help them pass the test.

As they walk, Agatha trips over the shoes they left at the beginning of the street. You realize that the road is a circle. And the beginning is also the finish line.

So how do they get out?

Agatha is angry and desperate and insists that they move on. Jen says she doesn't want to endure the road again, to which Agatha replies, “Good!” Stay here!”

But when she leaves, Billy has other plans. He reminds them that they took off their shoes out of respect for the road, which he has completely lost. He puts his shoes back on his feet and boom…

Suddenly he opens up from a body bag in a steel room. Agatha is there too and so is Jen. Each in his own body bag. Agatha suspects that it is a version of her basement, although it looks completely different. Jen notices that it is lit with grow lights, but Agatha wonders how they could grow something without water and soil.

One of the grow lights burns out, indicating that the countdown has begun. They continue to flicker one at a time as they ponder what to do.

During the conversation, it turns out that Agatha is actually the one who stopped Jen from using her magic in the first place. This of course makes her angry, even though Agatha insists that she didn't know it was Jen she performed the spell on. In the 1920s, she merely performed spells for money, and Jen was someone else's target.

Jen tears out a strand of Agatha's hair and uses it to tie her hands to perform an escape ritual. “You don’t hold anything,” she repeats over and over again. And just like that, Jen has her magic back.

But then she disappears.

“The Road gave her what she was missing,” explains Agatha. She tells Billy, “This can end right now.” I came to gain power. You have power. Juice me.”

Billy refuses, believing that if Agatha got what she wanted, he would be left alone in this room. So Agatha offers to help him find his brother. She tells him that Tommy isn't waiting “out there.” At least not in a body.

She tells Billy that Rio is trying to stop him from finding his brother because it would require him stealing a body like Billy did. Agatha tells Billy to sit down and close his eyes, which he does.

She then has him remember his last moments with Billy – they were 10 years old and lived in Westview. He remembers being with his parents, about to fall asleep, with Tommy by his side. He can hear Tommy breathing heavily as he sleeps, and Agatha makes Billy breathe in the same rhythm, encouraging him to block out the noise of his mother's collapsing world.

Agatha grabs Billy by the head and tells 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 for Tommy not to have a body.

Eventually he lands on one. A boy who was pushed into a pool as a prank, but he will drown. In pain, Billy asks, “Agatha, do I kill this boy so my brother can live?”

He screams one last time and then disappears. “No, Billy,” Agatha replies when he’s gone. “Sometimes boys die.”

She sits alone in the steel room as the grow lights gradually go out. There are only three left glowing as she opens her locket, takes out her son's hair and rubs it over her face before realizing that this could be the key to her escape.

“Out of death, into life,” she says breathlessly before letting her tears fall onto the hair and burying it in a small piece of earth in the room. Just as the last light goes out, a flower grows out of the earth. All the lights come back on and the room begins to collapse. Rocks and dirt fall on Agatha, and she runs to the door, screaming for someone to let her out.

The door opens, she gets out of the street and is back in Westview. She looks up and sees Rio sitting on top of her house. The sky is dark and green as the wind blows and Rio cackles. Agatha tries to use her powers, but they are nowhere to be found.

“I got the child out of you, as agreed!” Agatha insists. But that wasn't the deal. He should have surrendered. So Rio takes Agatha instead. She begins to use earth magic to drive away “evil” Rio, but Rio quickly foils her plan. Between Rio's attacks, Agatha continues to attempt magic, but soon she is bound by Rio and can no longer move.

Just in time, a flash of blue light throws Rio to the side. And there's Billy Maximoff, or should we say Wicca, here to save the day.

“Don’t take everything,” he says before attacking Agatha with his powers. And she doesn't. Once she has what she needs (and admittedly a little more) and is back to her full glory, she unleashes Billy's magic.

Rio still wants one of them, threatening a duel. Agatha shoots Billy away, probably hoping to save him from the crossfire while she has to deal with Rio. He makes his way back just in time to save Agatha from a fatal blow, sending Rio flying back.

Agatha and Billy have a heart-to-heart conversation in which Agatha says that they cannot escape death. She offers herself so that Billy can live. However, when Rio returns, Billy tells her that he will willingly go with her.

“Take him. You heard him. “The boy, as promised,” Agatha tells Rio, leaving Billy feeling betrayed and confused. “What can I say? I am a witch without a coven.”

Billy pleads with Agatha in his head: “Agatha, I know you can hear me. Is that how Nicky died?”

She stops, turns around, goes to Rio and kisses her passionately on the lips. Rio's magic envelops Agatha, who floats into the sky and lets death take her. She falls gently to the ground and as her body sinks into the ground, daylight appears over Westview.

Rio tells Billy he can leave, and he leaves without hesitation after picking up Agatha's locket from the floor. He walks through Westview, gets into his car and drives away, shaken by everything that just happened.

He returns home to Eastview, where William's parents are distraught. After freshening up, Billy goes to his room and finds several mementos from the street, including a Lorna Wu poster, a Wicked Witch of the West figurine, a Ouija board, and more.

As he reflects on the journey, he realizes, “It was me.” He hears a laugh, turns around, and screams when he sees what he finds behind him.

And roll credits. For a recap of the finale, click here.