Agatha All Along Recap: Death Becomes Her — Plus, Could Wanda Be Alive?
This week on Disney+’s Agatha All Along, Death was in the cards for one of our makeshift coven.
The Marvel series’ seventh episode of nine picked up with Billy insisting to his begrudging traveling companion that the Scarlet Witch is “not my mom; I have a mom” (meaning Rebecca Kaplan). Still, Billy found himself moved to ask Agatha if Wanda is “really dead.”
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“Yes. No. Maybe…?” answered Agatha. She saw a dead body, sure, but did anyone else? “Hard to say,” she again hedged. After all, “If you want a straight answer, ask a straight lady.”
Billy and Agatha were steered to a medieval castle, inside of which they turned into Maleficent and the green Wicked Witch, respectively. They found a library with a tarot card table, and Billy began drawing cards and trying to divine each one’s meaning, racing against the sands of this trial’s nearby hourglass. With every wrong guess, one of countless swords dangling from the high ceiling plunged into the floor below. Agatha had even worse luck, dismissing tarot as “a con” and sloppily drawing/slapping down cards.
Meanwhile, we caught up with Lilia and Jen, who apparently fell through the Road’s mud into a network of tunnels. The scenes in the tunnels unfolded in reverse order, because, as Lilia informed Jen, “The flow of time is an illusion.” Lilia shared that ever since childhood, she has experienced “gaps and lapses,” and it’s happening again — but worse. Case in point: Suddenly, they found themselves in the castle library, dressed as Glinda and Snow White’s Evil Queen. Lilia remembered Billy from the bar mitzvah, and he apologized for, you know, the whole mud thing. Lila explained putting the sigil on him, saying, “I saw what was going to happen, who you were and who you’d become. I knew you needed time.”
Sprinkled throughout the episode were flashbacks to a “young” Lilia receiving lessons (on reading tea leaves, etc;) from a Maestra. Here, appearing as her current self, she revealed that she preferred the “hermit” life over being with a coven. But we also learned a likely reason why: her past coven was wiped out by a fever. “Death comes for us all,” said Maestra. “When will it come for me?” asked Lilia.
Back in the tunnels (but earlier!), Lilia told Jen that the next trial was afoot and it’d involve tarot. We also saw Lilia discover (but conceal) Teen’s book of spells. When they found the “shelving” that Lilia was on the lookout for, they arrived in the library, again for the first time, but now Lilia knew what to do. She deemed Billy querent, had him shuffle and cut the tarot cards, and prompted him for a question “vital to his journey on Earth.”
“Am I William or am I Billy?” he asked.
Explaining what each of the spots on the tarot table was for, Lilia had Billy pick a first card, that ID’d him as Magician. Next up, what he is Missing — and he drew the Sun card, which can mean “reunion” (with Tommy).
The tarot sesh was interrupted by another return to the tunnels (but even earlier!), soon after Lilia and Jen first tumbled trough the mud. This time, they sensed the Salem Seven coming around a corner, and hid. Once the coast was clear, Lilia chose the path that will not lead them off the Road to safety — and invited Jen to join her. “You are my sister in the craft,” she warmly noted. Plus, this time, “I know what I did wrong,” she asserted.
Back in the library, Lilia took over as querent and in rapid succession drew cards that told her own story. Identity: Queen of Cups. Missing? A coven. Path Behind: Knight of Wands aka Alice. Path Ahead: High Priestess/Jen. Obstacles: Three of Swords. And the Windfall? “The Tower” card, reversed, Lilia said, flashing back to the bar mitzvah booth.
But what is Lilia’s Destination…?
And… we are back in the tunnels again, this time the earliest of all, just as Lilia and Jen fell through the mud — and as a cloaked figure loomed. It was Rio, with a skeletal face. “Rio… is Death,” Lilia in the library stated as she drew the Death card and placed it in her Destination.
The others asked Agatha: Is it true?
“What can I say?” she shrugged. “I like the bad boys!”
The Salem Seven closed in on the library, so Lilia directed everyone to an iron maiden that had just opened up and revealed the exit. To Agatha, she cryptically advised, “When she calls you a coward, hit the deck.” To Billy, she returned his spell book. She urged Jen on ahead, then slammed closed the iron maiden behind the others. Lilia faced off against the Salem Seven alone, first warning them that it’s unwise to linger on the Road too long — and then reversing the Toward card on the table. And with that, the tower itself ‘flipped” and the Salem Seven plunged to the sword-filled ceiling below. Lilia held into the edge of the table, but then let go and floated down to her own apparent death.
Shortly thereafter, we see a young Lilia arrive for what looks to be her first lesson, from Maestra….
What did you think of Episode 7, and what are your predictions for next week’s final two episodes?
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