I still haven’t recovered from the episode where we can enjoy all of Patti Lupone‘s talent and one that completes the wave of deep themes and great character development that several series have been presenting. Agatha All Along is already among Marvel’s best because of a great cast and a great story to tell. And yes, when it makes sense, a non-linear narrative works!

Death Hand in Mine, part of the lyrics of the Ballad of the Witches is because here we have the big revelation about Rio (Audrey Plaza) that I, who am not a reader of the comics, paid less attention to. Apart from this spoiler that was suspenseful until it was confirmed in the episode, there are many more interesting hints and metaphors.

We start with the fall of Lilia (Lupone), which will only make sense at the end. On the road to the next trial, Billy (Joe Locke) and Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) are alone and trying to understand each other. First, he asks where Rio (Plaza) is and Agatha refuses to talk about her. Trolling the fans, he asks if the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) is dead. “Yes,” Agatha says. “No. Maybe,” she adds. We will have to wait and see which option Marvel will eventually use.

What is clear, although he does not believe it, is that Agatha still has some maternal connection to Billy, and he resents her falseness. He wants something at the end of the road, we know it is to find Tommy, and he rejects being Wanda’s son. There is an important hint: since they are lost, Billy questions whether Agatha has really walked the witches’ path. With the tarot game later on, it seems to me like a big hint at the end of the series.

When they arrive at the judgment castle, there is a tribute/joke with the evil witches of pop culture: Agatha is the Wicked Witch of the West (they were inspired by me, she suggests) and Billy is Maleficent (if their cheekbones match, he celebrates). Well, the judgment is a tarot game and without Lilia with them, they have to improvise. I will talk about the game separately because I have a tarot reader in the family, it is important to see it from the perspective of the game as well.

With the timer running, the risk is the swords that are on the ceiling or falling on top of the two. Agatha and Billy try, but they are clearly not prepared for the challenge. And so, he regrets that Lilia is not with them.

This is the cue that we, crazy about Patti, were waiting for. In the cave with Jen (Sasheer Zamata), Lilia is still confused, but now we understand what is happening. She explains that time is not linear and her ability would be to jump from reality to reality, hence her ‘disconnections’ and surprises. We go back in time and see a young Lilia talking to her mentor and how over time, when she could see the pain and suffering of the future, she began to refuse her Power and began to live as a hermit, but there is no escaping destiny.

Reunited with Agatha and Billy, Lilia is like Glinda, the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz, and Jen the Witch from Snow White, and she immediately starts the game to try to save everyone. Billy has to ask a question essential to his journey (the road is his, super sign!) and although Agatha wants to know if they will survive, he wants to know if he is William or Billy.

The question is the right one and the game (which gives us all the clues about what will happen) explains that life is meant to have obstacles and that we must overcome them to reach our destination. The game takes another wrong turn because the swords start to fall and Lilia realizes that now it is with her, not Billy. Since death comes to everyone, she understands that it is her turn.

With the Salem Seven also closing in on them, Lilia warns everyone about Rio’s true identity, which is Death (and the original Green Witch, as she warned), and paves the way for everyone to leave and sacrifices herself to kill the Seven and move on to her next stage.

It’s a powerful ending and episode, full of metaphors for regaining identity, faith, and sacrifice. A Patti Lupone show, just as we knew it would be. We’ll miss her!

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