'Agatha All Along' Episode 8 Recap: Closure for Witches, New Horizons for Billy's Character

The end of Agatha All Along is finally here.

Last week revealed more about Lilia's past and explained why she appears to have been talking to herself throughout the season, but it also left fans with a slew of unanswered concerns for the last two episodes. Read on for a summary of the penultimate episode, "Follow Me, My Friend, To Glory At The End."

Agatha All Along.

Chuck Zlotnick

The episode resumes in the cabin from Episode 5, with the camera focusing on Alice, who died when Agatha sucked her power. A hand longingly strokes her face, and she awakens to confront Rio, nicknamed Death, as we saw in Episode 7.

Rio tells Alice, "It's time to go," pointing to her lifeless body, which remains on the floor. Alice asks, "That's it?" Is that all the time I get? She begs Rio for more time, but he reminds her that she died protecting someone, as any good Protection Witch would. She and Rio disappear through the door together.

Meanwhile, Jen is terrified as she bangs on the door leading to their final trial, where Lilia had just sacrificed herself following the tarot reading to save them from the Salem Seven. Billy is also anxious, but Agatha appears to be preoccupied as she races into Rio.

"Your coven is shrinking," Rio mocks. "The bodies are really piling up, just like you promised."

Rio criticizes Agatha of "distracting" her from Billy, whom she considers a "abomination" who is "disrupting the sacred balance." Agatha becomes distraught as Rio tells her that she is walking the road with "another woman's son," and yells at her to stop talking.

Rio quips that no one has received special treatment like Agatha, meaning that Rio has ensured she has narrowly avoided death thus far, but Agatha disagrees, claiming that Rio has only ever taken from her.

"And that's usually your move, right?" Rio chuckles before asking Agatha why she allows the coven to accept "those things" about her, namely what she did to her son. Agatha explains: "Because the truth is too awful."

Back outside the trial door, Jen assures Billy that Lilia wanted to stay behind to save them. They then debate Rio, with Jen claiming that the Green Witch had revealed her identity from the beginning.

"So Agatha's ex is death?" Billy asks. Jen shrugs. "That also makes sense."

They head out in pursuit of Agatha, who is now discussing Billy's mission to find Tommy at the end of the Road, which Rio refers to as a "violation" and Agatha considers a waste of time.

"His brother is not out there. Not yet, anyway," Rio replies, revealing that Billy "stole a second life" but his twin has not, and she wants to stop Billy before he helps Tommy do the same.

"Then take him," Agatha responds. But then she understands Rio cannot take him since if he dies, he would simply reincarnate himself, and she will lose him. He must accompany her freely, which Agatha swears he will do if Rio allows her to depart. She wants Death to stop following her, at least temporarily.

"And when I die...""I do not want to see your face," she says.

Rio hesitantly agrees before heading out to a remote location in the forest, where she chops through the air with her knife, creating a gaping hole as if the forest is just a paper backdrop rather than a real world, and vanishes.

When Agatha discovers Billy and Jen, she overhears the girl declare that she would "never be anything more than a coven-less witch." Ouch. Agatha, on the other hand, has more pressing matters to attend to, so she advises them to move on to their final trial.

This trial will entail earth magic, and because they no longer have a Green Witch, Jen will need to step up once more to use her potion knowledge to help them get through it.

As they travel, Agatha trips over the shoes they left at the start of the road. They understand that the road is a circle. And the start is also the end line.

So, how can they get out?

Agatha is furious and frantic, insisting that they continue walking. Jen claims she doesn't want to go along the Road again, to which Agatha responds, "Fine!" Stay right here!"

But as she walks away, Billy has other intentions. He tells them that they removed their shoes out of respect for the Road, which he has completely lost. He pushes his shoes back onto his feet, and bang...

Suddenly, he's unzipping himself from a body bag inside a steel room. Agatha is also present, as is Jen. Each has its own body bag. Agatha believes it is a version of her basement, despite the fact that it appears to be completely different. Jen notes that it is illuminated with grow lights, but Agatha worries how they can grow anything without water or soil.

One of the grow lights burns out, indicating that the countdown has started. They continue to flicker out one at a time while they consider what to do.

During the conversation, it is revealed that Agatha is the one who prevented Jen from using her power in the first place. Naturally, this irritates her, despite Agatha's claim that she had no idea Jen was the one she cast the spell on. In the 1920s, she was simply casting spells for money, and Jen was another person's target.

Jen takes out a strand of Agatha's hair and uses it to link her hands together in an unbinding ritual. "You hold nothing," she says over and over. Jen's magic is suddenly restored.

But then she vanished.

"The Road gave her what she was missing," Agatha explains. She warns Billy, "This could end right here, right now. I came for power. You have power. "Juice me up."

Billy resists, knowing he would be left alone in that room if Agatha gets what she wants. So Agatha agrees to help him find his brother. She informs him that Tommy is not waiting "out there." Not in a body, anyway.

She informs Billy that Rio is attempting to prevent him from locating his brother since it would require him to steal a body, as Billy did. Agatha advises Billy to sit down and close his eyes, which he does.

She then has him recollect his last moments with Billy, when they were 10 years old and living in Westview. He remembers being with his parents, preparing to fall asleep, and Tommy by his side. He can hear Tommy breathing hard as he sleeps, and Agatha instructs Billy to breathe in the same rhythm, pushing him to drown out the cacophony of his mother's world as it falls.

Agatha clutches Billy's head and tells him to find Tommy somewhere to go. He claims he cannot find a place, but Agatha knows this is not true. Too many people die every day for Tommy to be without a body.

Finally, he settles on one. A boy was shoved into a pool as a prank, but he will drown. In agony, Billy begs, "Agatha, am I killing this boy so that my brother can live?"

He cries one more time before disappearing. "No, Billy," Agatha replies after he's gone. "Sometimes, boys die."

She sits alone in the steel room, the grow lights flickering off one by one. When she unlocks her locket and rubs her son's hair across her face, she understands it may be the key to her freedom.

"Out of death, life," she whispers frantically, before allowing her tears to fall upon her hair and burying it in a little spot of soil in the chamber. Just as the last light fades, a flower emerges from the soil. The lights all turn back on, and the room starts to fall. Agatha is pelted with rocks and earth and rushes to the door, yelling for help.

The door opens, and she climbs out of the Road and returns to Westview. She glances up and sees Rio sitting atop her house. Rio cackles as the wind whips over the black and green sky. Agatha attempts to employ her abilities, but they are nowhere to be found.

"I got you the kid out, as agreed!" Agatha insisted. But that wasn't the bargain. He was expected to surrender himself. So Rio is taking Agatha instead. She begins using earth magic to "expel the evil" that is Rio, but Rio rapidly deflects her scheme. Between Rio's attacks, Agatha tries to do magic, but Rio eventually has her bound up and unable to move.

Just in time, a burst of blue light knocks Rio to the side. And there's Billy Maximoff, or should we say Wiccan in full robes, to save the day.

"Don't take it all," he urges, before blasting Agatha with his abilities. And she does not. Once she has all she needs (and a little more, admittedly) and has regained her full glory, she releases her grip on Billy's powers.

Rio still wants one of them, indicating a potential duel. Agatha blasts Billy away, most likely attempting to save him from the crossfire while she confronts Rio. He returns just in time to save Agatha from a fatal blow, which sends Rio flying back.

Agatha and Billy have a heart-to-heart, in which Agatha admits that they will not be able to avoid death. She offers herself up so that Billy can live. As Rio returns, however, Billy informs her that he will leave with her willingly.

"Take him. You heard him. The boy, as promised," Agatha tells Rio, leaving Billy feeling misled and puzzled. "What can I say?" "I'm a coven-less witch."

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

She comes to a halt, turns around, walks over to Rio, and gives her a passionate kiss on the lips. Rio's power wraps around Agatha, who floats up into the sky, allowing Death to take her. She softly descends to the earth, and as her body sinks into the ground, daybreak appears over Westview.

Rio tells Billy he's free to leave, and he does so without hesitation, snatching Agatha's locket off the ground. He walks through Westview, gets into his car, and drives away, reeling from what had happened.

He returns home to Eastview, where William's parents are devastated. After freshening himself, Billy enters his room and finds various reminders of the Road, such as a Lorna Wu poster, a Wicked Witch of the West figure, a ouija board, and more.

As he reflects on his adventure, he realizes, "It was me." He hears a chuckle and turns around, screaming at what he discovers behind him.