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Agatha All Around Episode 8 Recap
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Agatha All Around Episode 8 Recap

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

The conclusion of Agatha all the time is finally ours.

Last week revealed more about Lilia’s backstory and explained why she’s been seemingly 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 starts back in the cabin from Episode 5, with the camera closing in on Alice, who died after Agatha siphoned her power. A hand runs wistfully across her face and she wakes up to look at Rio, also known as Death, as we learned in episode 7.

Rio tells Alice, “It’s time to go,” pointing to her lifeless body, which is still on the ground. Alice asks, ‘Is that it? Is that the only time I get?” She begs Rio for more time, but Rio reminds her that she died protecting someone, as any good Protection Witch should do. She and Rio disappear through the door together.

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

“Your coven is shrinking,” Rio taunts. “The bodies are really piling up, like you promised.”

Rio accuses Agatha of “distracting” her from Billy, whom she calls an “abomination” who “disrupts the sacred balance.” Agatha becomes emotional when Rio reminds her that she is on the road with “another woman’s son” and yells at her to stop talking.

Rio jokes that no one has had special treatment like Agatha, implying that Rio has ensured that she has narrowly avoided death so far, but Agatha disagrees and says that Rio only took her away.

(L-R) Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) and Death (Aubrey Plaza) in Marvel Television’s AGATHA ALL ALONG

“And that’s usually your move, right?” Rio jokes 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 terrible.”

Back outside the trial door, Jen assures Billy that Lilia wanted to stay behind to save them. They then discuss Rio, with Jen saying that the Green Witch showed us who she was from the very beginning.

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

They went looking for Agatha, who is with Rio, and now discuss Billy’s mission to find Tommy at the end of the Road, which Rio calls a “violation” and Agatha thinks it is a waste of time.

‘His brother isn’t there. Not yet anyway,” Rio says, explaining that Billy has “stolen a second life,” but his twin hasn’t, and she wants to stop Billy before he helps Tommy.

“Then take him with you,” says Agatha. But then she realizes that Rio can’t take him with him because if he dies, he’ll just reincarnate himself again and she’ll lose him. He must go with her willingly, which Agatha promises to convince him, only if Rio lets her go. She wants Death to stop chasing her, at least for now.

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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 secluded spot in the forest, where she cuts 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 hears the teen say that she will “never be anything more than a witch without a coven.” Ouch. But Agatha has bigger fish to fry, so she tells them to let the fish move on to their final trial.

Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) and Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata) in 'Agatha All Along'

(L-R) Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) and Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata) in Marvel Television’s AGATHA ALL ALONG on Disney+

Chuck Zlotnick. © 2024 MARVEL.

This trial will involve earth magic, and they no longer have a Green Witch, so Jen will once again have to go the extra mile to use her knowledge of potions to help them through.

As they walk, Agatha trips over the shoes they left at the beginning of the Way. The road, they realize, is a circle. And the beginning is also the finish.

How do they get out?

Agatha is furious and desperate and insists that they keep walking. Jen says she doesn’t want to put up with the Way again, to which Agatha replies, “Good!” Stay here!”

But as she walks away, Billy has other plans. He reminds them that they have taken off their shoes out of respect for the Way, which he has completely lost. He puts his shoes back on his feet and boom…

Suddenly he unzips himself from a body bag in a steel room. Agatha is there too, and so is Jen. Each in their own body bags. Agatha suspects it’s a version of her basement, even though it looks very different. Jen notices that it is lit with grow lights, but Agatha wonders how they could grow anything without water or soil.

One of the grow lights burns out, indicating the countdown has begun. They continue to blink one by one as they brainstorm what to do.

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The conversation reveals that Agatha is actually the one who stopped Jen from using her magic. This, of course, angers her, even though Agatha insists she didn’t know it was Jen she was performing the spell on. In the 1920s, she only performed spells for money, and Jen was targeted by someone else.

Jen rips out a piece of Agatha’s hair and ties her hands together with it to perform a dissolving ritual. “You’re not holding anything,” she repeats over and over. 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 could end here and now. I came for power. You have power. Give me juice.”

Billy refuses, believing that he would be left alone in that room if Agatha got what she wanted. 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.

(L-R) Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn) and Billy Maximoff (Joe Locke) in Marvel Television’s AGATHA ALL ALONG

She tells Billy that Rio is trying to prevent him from finding his brother because that 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 makes him remember his last moments with Billy – they were 10 years old and living in Westview. He remembers being at his parents’ house and 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 sound of his mother’s world as it crumbles.

Agatha grabs Billy’s head and tells him to find a place for Tommy. He says he can’t find a place, but Agatha knows that’s not true. Too many people die every day because Tommy doesn’t have a body.

Ultimately he lands on one. A boy who was jokingly pushed into a swimming pool, but he ends up drowning. In agony, Billy asks, “Agatha, am I killing this boy so my brother can live?”

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

She sits alone in the steel room as the grow lights flicker out one by one. Only three more shine as she opens her locket and takes out her son’s hair and rubs it on her face, before realizing it could be the key to her escape.

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“From death, to life,” she says breathlessly, before letting her tears flow over her hair and burying it in a small patch of dirt in the room. Just as the last light fades, a flower grows from the ground. The lights all come back on and the room starts to collapse. Rocks and dirt fall on Agatha, and she runs to the door and screams for someone to let her out.

The door opens, she climbs out of the Road 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, Rio cackles. Agatha tries to use her powers, but they are nowhere to be found.

“I got you, the child, out, as agreed!” Agatha insists. But that was not the agreement. He would give himself up. Rio takes Agatha instead. She begins performing earth magic to “drive out evil”, i.e. Rio, but Rio quickly foils her plan. In between Rio’s attacks, Agatha continues to try to perform magic, but soon Rio has her tied up and unable to move.

Just in time, a flash of blue light shoots Rio aside. And there’s Billy Maximoff, or should we say Wiccan in full garb, here to save the day.

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

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Rio still wants one of them, prompting a duel. Agatha blasts Billy away, likely hoping to save him from the crossfire as she takes on Rio. He returns just in time to save Agatha from a fatal blow, sending Rio flying back.

Agatha and Billy have a heart-to-heart talk, during which Agatha says that they will not be able to avoid death. She offers herself so Billy can live. But when Rio returns, Billy tells her he’ll be happy to 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 witches.”

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

She stops and turns back around, walks towards Rio and kisses her passionately on the lips. Rio’s magic wraps itself around Agatha, who floats into the sky and allows Death to take her away. She falls gently to the ground and as her body sinks into the ground, daylight comes over Westview.

Rio tells Billy he is free to go, and he leaves without hesitation after grabbing Agatha’s locket from the ground. He walks through Westview, gets into his car and drives away, reeling from everything that just happened.

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

As he looks back on the journey, he realizes that ‘it was me’. He hears a chuckle and turns around, shouting at what he finds behind him.

And role credits. For a summary of the final, click here.