Agatha All Along Episode 8 Recap

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

The conclusion of Agatha all the time is finally upon us.

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, In Honor of the End.”

The episode opens back in the cabin from episode 5, where the camera closes in on Alice, who died after Agatha sucked her power. A hand longingly brushes her face and she wakes up to the face of Rio, aka Death, as we learned in episode 7.

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

Meanwhile, Jen is in a panic as she knocks on the door leading to their final trial, where Lilia has just sacrificed herself after that tarot reading to save them from the Salem Seven. Billy is also worried, but Agatha is a bit preoccupied when she runs into Rio.

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

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

Rio states that no one has received special treatment like Agatha, implying that Rio has made sure that she has avoided death thus far, but Agatha disagrees, saying that Rio has only ever taken from her.

“And that’s usually your move, isn’t it?” 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 would stay behind to save them. They then get to discuss Rio as Jen says that the Green Witch showed us who she was from the very beginning.

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

They go 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 “transgression” and Agatha thinks is a waste of time.

“His brother isn’t out there. Not yet, anyway,” Rio says, explaining that Billy “stole another life” but his twin hasn’t, and she aims to stop Billy before he helps Tommy do it.

“Then take him,” says Agatha. But then she realizes that Rio can’t take him because if he dies he will simply reincarnate himself again and she will lose him. He is allowed to go with her, which Agatha promises to convince him to do only if Rio lets her go. She wants Death to stop stalking her, at least for now.

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

Rio reluctantly agrees before walking away to a distant location 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 vanishes.

When Agatha finds Billy and Jen, she overhears the teenager saying that she will “never be more than a witch without a coven.” Practice. But Agatha has bigger fish to fry, so she tells them to keep it going for their final test.

This trial will involve earth magic, and they no longer have a green witch, so Jen will have to go back up to use her knowledge of potions to help them get through it.

As they walk, Agatha stumbles upon 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?

Furious and desperate, Agatha insists they keep walking. Jen says she doesn’t want to endure the Road again, to which Agatha replies, “Fine! Stay here!”

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

Suddenly he lifts himself out of a body bag in a steel room. Agatha is there too and so is Jen. Each in their body bags. Agatha assumes it’s a version of her basement, though it looks completely different. Jen notices that it is lit with grow lights, but Agatha wonders how they would grow anything without water or soil.

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

In the conversation, it is revealed that Agatha is actually the one who obliged Jen to use her magic in the first place. This naturally annoys her, although Agatha insists that she didn’t know it was Jen she was performing the spell on. She was just 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 a noncommittal ritual. “You have nothing,” 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,” explains Agatha. She tells Billy, “This could end right here right now. I came for power. You have power. Put me up.”

Billy refuses, believing that he would be left alone in that room if Agatha got her way. So Agatha offers to help him find his brother. She tells him that Tommy isn’t waiting “out there.” Not in a body, anyway.

She tells Billy that Rio is trying to stop him from finding his brother because it would require him to steal a body, which 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 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 world as it collapses.

Agatha grabs Billy’s head and tells him to find Tommy somewhere 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 is drowning. In agony, 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 while the grow lights flicker out one by one. Only three are left shining as she opens her locket and takes out her son’s hair and rubs it across her face before realizing that this may be the key to her escape.

“Out of death, life,” she says breathlessly, before letting her tears run down her hair and burying it in a small patch of soil in the room. Just as the last light flickers out, a flower grows out of the ground. All the lights turn 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 and she climbs out of the way and she’s back in Westview. She looks up to find 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 kid out as agreed!” Agatha insists. But that wasn’t the deal. He had to surrender himself. So Rio takes Agatha instead. She begins performing earth magic to “exorcise the evil” that is Rio, but Rio quickly thwarts her plan. Between Rio’s attacks, Agatha continues to try to perform magic, but soon Rio has her bound and unable to move.

Just in the nick of time, a blue light blows Rio to the side. And there’s Billy Maximoff, or should we say Wiccan, 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 had what she needs (and a little more, admittedly) and she’s returned to her full glory, she lets go of Billy’s magic.

Rio still wants one of them, which means a duel in the making. Agatha blasts Billy away, probably hoping to save him from the crossfire, as she goes toe-to-toe with Rio. He heads back just in time to save Agatha from a fatal blow, causing Rio to fly back.

Agatha and Billy have a heart to heart where Agatha says they won’t be able to avoid death. She offers herself so Billy can live. When Rio returns, Billy tells her that he will willingly come with her.

“Take him. You heard him. The boy, as promised,” Agatha tells Rio, leaving Billy 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 around, walking over to Rio and kissing her passionately on the lips. Rio’s magic envelops Agatha, who soars into the sky and lets Death take her. She falls gently to the ground, and as her body sinks into the ground, daylight emerges over Westview.

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

He goes home to Eastview, where William’s parents are distraught. After freshening up, Billy goes into his room to find more reminders of the road, 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 that “it was me.” He hears a laugh and turns, screaming at what he finds behind him.

And rolling credits. For a recap of the final, click here.