‘Agatha All Along’ Episode 8 Recap: The Witches Road Ends, But Billy’s Journey Is Seemingly Just Beginning
SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the penultimate episode of Agatha All Along.
The conclusion of Agatha All Along is finally upon us.
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Last week revealed more about Lilia’s backstory and explained why she’s seemingly been talking to herself all season, but it also left viewers with a ton of questions to be answered in the final two episodes. Read on for a recap of the penultimate episode, titled “Follow Me My Friend, To Glory At The End.”
The episode opens back in the cabin from Episode 5, with the camera closing in on Alice, who died after Agatha siphoned her power. A hand wistfully brushes her face, and she awakens to face Rio, aka Death, as we learned in Episode 7.
Rio tells Alice “it’s time to go,” pointing to her lifeless body, still laying on the floor. Alice asks, “That’s it? That’s all the time I get?” She begs Rio for more time, but Rio reminds her that she died protecting someone, as any good Protection Witch should. She and Rio disappear through the door together.
Meanwhile, Jen is panicked as she bangs on the door leading to their last trial, where Lilia has just sacrificed herself after that tarot reading to save them from the Salem Seven. Billy is also concerned, but Agatha is a bit pre-occupied as she runs into Rio.
“Your coven is shrinking,” Rio taunts. “The bodies are really piling up, just like you promised.”
Rio accuses Agatha of “distracting” her from Billy, who she calls an “abomination” who is “disrupting the sacred balance.” Agatha becomes emotional as Rio reminds her that she’s walking the road with “another woman’s son,” yelling at her to stop talking.
Rio quips that nobody has had special treatment like Agatha has, implying that Rio has made sure she has narrowly avoided death thus far, but Agatha disagrees, saying Rio has only ever taken from her.
“And that’s usually your move, right?” Rio quips, before asking Agatha why she lets the coven believe “those things” about her, about what she did to her son. Agatha says: “Because the truth is too awful.”
Back outside the trial door, Jen is assuring Billy that Lilia wanted to stay behind in order to save them. They then get to discussing Rio, as Jen says that the Green Witch has shown us who she was from the very beginning.
“So Agatha’s ex is death?” Billy asks. Jen shrugs, “That also makes sense.”
They set out in search of Agatha, who is with Rio, now discussing Billy’s mission to find Tommy at the end of the Road, which Rio calls a “violation” and Agatha thinks is a waste of time.
“His brother isn’t out there. Not yet anyway,” Rio says, explaining that Billy “stole a second life” but his twin has not, and she aims to stop Billy before he helps Tommy do so.
“Then take him,” Agatha says. But then, she realizes Rio can’t take him, because if he dies, he will simply reincarnate himself again and she will lose him. He needs to go with her willingly, which Agatha promises to convince him to do, only if Rio lets her go. She wants Death to stop pursuing her, at least for the time being.
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“And when I die…I don’t want to see your face,” she says.
Rio reluctantly agrees, before walking away to a distant spot in the forest, where she slices through the air with her knife, leaving a gaping hole as if the forest is just a paper backdrop, rather than a practical world, and disappears.
When Agatha finds Billy and Jen, she overhears the teenager say she will “never be anything more than a coven-less witch.” Ouch. But, Agatha has bigger fish to fry, so she tells them they need to keep it moving to their last trial.
This trial will involve earth magic, and they no longer have a Green Witch, so Jen will need to step up again to use her potions knowledge to help them get through it.
As they’re walking, Agatha trips over the shoes they left at the beginning of the Road. The Road, they realize, is a circle. And the beginning is also the finish line.
So, how do they get out?
Agatha is furious and desperate, insisting that they keep walking. Jen says she doesn’t want to endure the Road again, to which Agatha responds, “Fine! Stay here!”
But, as she’s walking off, Billy has other plans. He reminds them that they took their shoes off out of respect for the Road, which he’s entirely lost. He shoves his shoes back on his feet, and boom…
Suddenly, he’s unzipping himself from a body bag in a steel room. Agatha is there too, and so is Jen. Each in their own body bags. Agatha surmises that it’s a version of her basement, though it looks entirely different. Jen notices it’s illuminated with grow lights, but Agatha wonders how they would grow anything without water or soil.
One of the grow lights burns out, which indicates the countdown has begun. They continue to flicker out one at a time as they brainstorm what to do.
In the conversation, it emerges that Agatha is actually the one who bound Jen from using her magic in the first place. Naturally, this pisses her off, even though Agatha insists she didn’t know it was Jen who she performed the spell on. She was merely performing spells for money in the 1920s, and Jen was someone else’s target.
Jen rips out a piece of Agatha’s hair and binds her hands together with it to perform an unbinding ritual. “You hold nothing,” 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,” Agatha explains. She tells Billy, “This can end right here right now. I came for power. You have power. Juice me up.”
Billy refuses, believing that he’d be left alone in that room if Agatha were to get what she wanted. So, Agatha offers to help him find his brother. She tells him Tommy isn’t waiting “out there.” Not in a body, at least.
She tells Billy that Rio is trying to prevent him from finding his brother, because it would require him to steal a body like Billy did. Agatha tells Billy to sit down and close his eyes, which he obeys.
She then has him recall his last moments with Billy — they were 10 years old, living 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 has Billy breathe to the same rhythm, encouraging him to block out the noise of his mother’s world as it collapses.
Agatha grabs Billy’s head, telling him to find Tommy a place 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 to not have a body.
Finally, he lands on one. A boy who was pushed into a pool as a prank, but he’s going to drown. In agony, Billy asks, “Agatha, am I killing this boy so my brother can live?”
He screams one final time, and then he disappears. “No, Billy,” Agatha responds once he’s gone. “Sometimes, boys die.”
She sits alone in the steel room, as the grow lights flicker out one-by-one. There’s only three left shining when she opens her locket and takes her son’s hair out, rubbing it across her face, before she realizes this could be the key to her escape.
“Out of death, life,” she says breathlessly, before letting her tears spill onto the hair and burying it in a small patch of soil in the room. Just as the last light is flickering out, a flower grows out of the soil. The lights all turn on again, and the room begins to collapse. Rocks and soil fall on Agatha, and she runs to the door, screaming for someone to let her out.
The door opens, and she climbs out of the Road and she’s back in Westview. She looks up to find Rio sitting atop her house. The sky is dark and green as the wind blows, Rio cackling. Agatha tries to use her powers, but they are nowhere to be found.
“I got you the kid out, as agreed!” Agatha insists. But that wasn’t the deal. He was supposed to surrender himself So, Rio is taking Agatha instead. She starts performing earth magic to “expel the evil” that is Rio, but Rio quickly foils her plan. Between Rio’s attacks, Agatha continues trying to perform magic, but soon Rio has her tied up and unable to move.
Just in the nick of time, a flash of blue light blasts Rio to the side. And there’s Billy Maximoff, or should we say Wiccan in full garb, here to save the day.
“Don’t take it all,” he says before blasting Agatha with his powers. And she doesn’t. Once she’s got what she needs (and a little more, admittedly) and she’s returned to her full glory, she lets her hold on Billy’s magic go.
Rio still wants one of them, which spells a duel brewing. Agatha blasts Billy away, likely hoping to save him from the crossfire as she goes toe-to-toe with Rio. He makes his way back just in time to save Agatha from a deadly blow, sending Rio flying back.
Agatha and Billy have a heart-to-heart, where Agatha says that they won’t be able to evade death. She offers herself up, so Billy can live. As Rio returns, though, Billy tells her that he will go with her willingly.
“Take him. You heard him. The boy, as promised,” Agatha says to Rio, leaving Billy feeling betrayed and confused. “What can I say? I’m a coven-less witch.”
Billy pleads with Agatha inside his head: “Agatha, I know you can hear me. Is this how Nicky died?”
She stops in her tracks and turns back around, walks over to Rio and kisses her passionately on the lips. Rio’s magic wraps around Agatha, who floats up into the sky, letting Death take her. She gently falls to the ground and, as her body sinks into the ground, daylight emerges over Westview.
Rio tells Billy he’s free to go, and he leaves without hesitation after grabbing Agatha’s locket off the ground. He walks through Westview, gets in his car, and drives away, reeling from everything that’s just happened.
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He goes back home to Eastview, where William’s parents are distraught. After freshening up, Billy goes into his room to find several reminders of the Road, including a Lorna Wu poster, a figurine of the Wicked Witch of the West, a ouija board and more.
As he reflects on the journey, he realizes “it was me.” He hears a chuckle and turns around, screaming at what he finds behind him.
And, roll credits. For a recap of the finale, click here.
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