After nine episodes, Agatha All Along pulled out its final trick with a two-episode finale tonight. And true to form, it was as wild, twisty, and unexpected as the previous seven episodes of the Marvel and Disney+ series. So if you’re confused, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered with our Agatha All Along ending explained.
Leading into the finale, we’ve gotten revelation after revelation. Teen (Joe Locke) is actually Billy Maximoff! Rio Vidal (Aubrey Plaza) is actually Death! And multiple characters have died including Sharon Davis (Debra Jo Rupp), Alice Wu-Gulliver (Ali Ahn), and Lilia Calderu (Patti Lupone). Left alive are Agatha Harkness (Kathryn Hahn), Billy, and Jennifer Kale (Sasheer Zamata). They’re all still walking the Witches’ Road for different purposes… Agatha says she wants power, Billy says he wants his brother Tommy back, and Jennifer wants to unblock her powers.
So with that all in mind, and the Death reveal at the forefront, what went down in the final two episodes of Agatha All Along? Let’s try to do a relatively brief recap of Episodes 8 and 9, and then break down that magical ending, explained.
Oh, and hopefully I don’t need to say this, but: spoilers past this point.
Agatha All Along Finale Recap:
Picking up and doubling down on the Death reveal, we start Episode 8, “Follow Me My Friend to Glory at the End” with Rio bringing Alice into the afterlife. So yeah, she’s not “a” Death, she’s The Death. We also get a lot more about what Rio is doing there on the Witches’ Road… Specifically, she wants to retake Billy because he’s an “abomination.” After all, he died, then reincarnated in the body of William Kaplan. That’s against the natural order.
So, Rio and Agatha make a deal: Agatha will get Billy to the end of the Road, and then Rio can take him. In exchange, Rio will never bother Agatha again. And even when Agatha dies, she’ll never have to see Rio’s face. Why? We’ll find out next episode, so hold on to that thought for a second.
After Billy and Jennifer reunite with Agatha, they realize they’re back at the beginning of the road, where they left their shoes. Billy, pissed off, puts on his shoes… And they all wake up in body bags. Turns out that’s how you access the final trial. They’re in a metal room that Agatha notes is her basement — more or less — and there are grow lights that are slowly ticking down like a clock.
That’s when Jen realizes something: the way a normal doctor bound her and took away her magic in the 1920s? That was Agatha, who was doing a job. She rips out a chunk of Agatha’s hair, releases the binding, and disappears. She got what she wanted: her power back.
While Agatha’s motives are suspect, she seemingly helps Billy track down a lonely boy who is dying of drowning, in order to put Tommy’s spirit in that body. “Agatha, am I killing this boy so my brother can live?” Billy says… And Billy disappears, so presumably it works.
“No Billy,” says Agatha. “Sometimes, boys die.” That’s when she takes a lock of her son, Nicholas Scratch’s hair from her brooch. And under that is one seed of a dandelion. She plants it, it grows, and she escapes from the Witches’ Road…
…But she still doesn’t have her power and is in her own backyard. On the roof is Rio, ready to claim her prize. While Agatha tries to stop her with analog magic, Rio tears her to shreds with glass and binds her, ready to kill Agatha since she didn’t give her Billy.
Oh, but then Billy shows up, fully dressed like the superhero Wiccan. Trusting her, Billy gives Agatha her power back — and she does stop siphoning him before he dies, so good on Agatha? That is until Rio gives them a choice: sacrifice one or the other. Agatha says it has to be her, but Billy gives himself up… And Agatha agrees.
Feeling betrayed, Billy asks her if this is how Nicky died, and Agatha has a change of heart. She runs to Rio, kisses her, and Agatha dies in the process. She’s absorbed into the Earth, mushrooms and flowers grow around her, and the sun comes out. This is all a great relief to the residents of Westview, who were like, “Oh, is this happening again?”
Billy, exhausted, heads home, his parents see him beaten up, and he says he’s fine — then goes upstairs to clean up.
The end, right? Nope, the biggest, wildest twist is still to come.
Agatha All Along Ending Explained: Nicholas Scratch And The Origins Of The Witches’ Road
Once Billy gets back to his room, he starts to realize something viewers picked up on a few episodes back: everything on the Witches’ Road was toys, posters, records, whatever in his room the whole time. He remembers Agatha telling him way back at the beginning that the Witches’ Road isn’t real. But that can’t be right, can it? Feeling a presence behind him, he turns around, and we hear Agatha say, “boo!”
Cut to the finale, aka Episode 9, “Maiden, Mother, Crone.” So, rather than going through this beat by beat, here’s the gist of what happens in this episode, because it flips the whole series on its head.
Back in 1750, Agatha was in the woods about to give birth to a baby. The baby, though, was about to die — and Death (aka Rio) showed up to claim it. Agatha made a deal with Death for more time, and we get to watch her raise her son, Nicholas Scratch (Abel Lysenko) for six more years.
Over these six years and several montages, we learn that Agatha has been traveling from coven to coven, sucking them dry of their power. This doesn’t seem to be for Nicholas Scratch, so much as herself — though he often helps lure the unsuspecting covens to her. We also discover that Agatha and Nicholas wrote “The Ballad of the Witches’ Road” about their travels, killing time, and bonding as they wandered the countryside committing murders.
Ultimately, Death catches up to Nicholas and takes him in the middle of the night. But just as Agatha is burying her son, a witch approaches and asks if she knows the way to the Witches’ Road. She realizes she can pull the perfect con: gather a coven, and when the Witches’ Road doesn’t materialize — because it isn’t real — goad them into blasting her with their magic, and siphoning them dry.
And in fact, that’s what she was trying to do with the characters on this show, up until the door to the Witches’ Road actually appeared.
But there is no Witches’ Road. The “Ballad” isn’t real. So, did Agatha really die?
Er, yes. Turns out she’s a ghost now (“Yeah and now I’m a ghost. Can you dig it?”) and all she wants is her brooch back from Billy. But Billy is panicked and terrified because he realizes: he created the Witches’ Road, just how Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) created the hex over Westview in WandaVision. And that also means that Alice, Lilia, and Sharon died for no reason. Agatha points out he saved a life too — Jen, who flies away from Westview after clawing her way out of the ground.
Doesn’t matter, though. Not sure where to direct his anger, Billy goes back to Agatha’s house, and the door to the Road, which is still in the basement. He tries to banish Agatha, and when that doesn’t work — she grabs the brooch and explains she can’t die for real “because I can’t face him,” meaning Nicholas Scratch — Billy instead creates a memorial to their fallen coven members in the concrete on the floor.
The door to the basement opens, and the ghost of Agatha Harkness and Billy Maximoff, aka Wiccan, head up it together. “Let’s go find Tommy,” says Agatha. Yes, let’s. With all due Speed.
Will There Be An Agatha All Along Season 2?
Nope! Probably! Agatha All Along was technically WandaVision Season 2. And Season 3 of this cycle of TV shows is the upcoming Vision series, which stars Paul Bettany as the White Vision, searching for his identity. It comes from showrunner Terry Matalas and also stars James Spader and Todd Stashwick. It’ll film in England next year, and premiere on Disney+ sometime in 2026. Whether any Agatha characters will show up in it is TBA, though fingers crossed we somehow get the continuation of Ghost Agatha and Wiccan looking for Tommy.
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