'Agatha All Along' Episode 9 Recap: 'Maiden, Mother, Crone'

Even though she was dead and buried at the conclusion of Agatha All Along Episode 8, we see a very alive and distraught Agatha Harkness at the start of the series finale. In any case, she simply cannot give up Rio Vidal. It's 1750, and Agatha is in labor. While it's painful enough to self-deliver your infant kid while braced against a tree trunk, it's far terrible to look up and see his fate calling to you from afar. "It can't be! "Please, my love." Agatha shouts out to a green-cloaked Rio, who just answers, "This is the way." Death will take him. But Rio does give her lover an unspecified period of time to be with her kid, the boy created "from scratch" - as in Nicholas - and six years later, he's become a collaborator to his mother's succubus scam. Nicky (Abel Lysenko) queries why they spend their days destroying covens and seizing power. But Agatha attributes it to the Darwinism of witchcraft. With her "purple," she can create illusions and manipulate feeble minds. But until Death comes for him, all they can do is endure.

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This is what Rio was talking about at the end of Agatha Episode 4. They loved each other, but her executive position in the department of death dealing required Rio to take Nicholas and leave Agatha permanently traumatized. In the eighteenth century, as take your son to work day continues, Agatha employs Nicky to draw unwary witches into her trap. She steals their strength, and the two of them continue to live, constantly singing the song. "We carry on, always forever by your side; My blood, my tears, my bone; maiden mother crone." However, Rio's permit expires after six years. She emerges in the night, illuminated by a green torch flame, and Nicholas takes Death's hand as they cross the bridge into the hereafter.

Agatha's devotion for her kid is genuine. It could be the only true thing we know about her. But once he's gone, she seizes every chance, and "The Witches' Road" becomes key to the coven-building scheme she orchestrates over time. Agatha repeats the phony coven ploy from her Westview basement throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, including the Roaring Twenties and the Me Decade. Witches congregate and finally use their powers against her, only for Agatha to drink it up with all the merriment a many-wigged Kahtryn Hahn can manage. Until we go back to present, with Lilia, Jen, Alice, and even Sharon Davis performing the song that opens the Witches' Road gate. After doing this for years, decades, and millennia, it's little surprise Agatha was astounded when Billy Maximoff's power made it work.

This also confirms what we learnt at the end of Agatha Episode 8, when Billy realized it was himself, the Tarot's Magician, who built the Witches' Road. And that's where Episode 9 picks off, with Billy turning around in his bedroom only to be ghosted by Agatha Harkness in her newest incarnation. Yes, she died and was buried. "But now I am a ghost. "Could you dig it?"

Billy accepts that he created the Road because he needed an outlet. But it's more difficult for him to see how his need indirectly caused the deaths of Mrs. Davis, Alice Wu-Gulliver, and Lilia Calderu. "My mind killed them," he laments to Ghost Agatha, who, unsurprisingly, seems unconcerned. She technically murdered Alice. And Lilia chose to remain behind. But Billy thinks it's enough. He grabs his spellbook and prepares to banish her. "Valia lucem, relinque terrum, Naliese fantasmo," he says, which translates to "Value the light, leave the land, and meet the Ghost." After centuries of devastation, he wants no more chances for Agatha. "It's time to move toward the light, into Rio's poisoned embrace, or wherever you deserve to spend eternally. "I don't care anymore." 

The vibe is similar to how we felt when Agatha Harkness' body was recovered by the ground in her Westview lawn. This must be the end, right? Billy is simply spellcasting away this cheeky marvel of a character, who has survived and flourished despite her bad behavior and quadruple-crosses. No, not really. There are no promises for Agatha All Along Season 2. However, the fact that Hahn is equally as approachable/hateable as Ghost Agatha suggests that such a specter should definitely stay with us. Agatha and Billy may make an excellent combination, given Billy's talents and feeling of loss - he, like her, is a coven murderer. They may go out together to locate what they both still desire, which would be the real manifestation of his twin Tommy Maximoff and most likely another meeting of those witchy ladies, Agatha and Rio.