Taking a small break from the Witch’s Road, Episode 6 primarily focused on the path Billy Maximoff took to get to where he is now, and it’s quite a crazy one. Between body snatching from William Kaplan, journeying as a lost soul in a world he doesn’t recognize, and increasing issues with reading other people’s minds, all roads eventually led Billy to Agatha and the Witch’s Road. In showing all this, the show confirms what many felt from the very start, which is that while the show is still named after Agatha, Billy Maximoff’s story is the one shining through most prominently, and where it goes from now could decide the fate of all the other witches who joined them.

A Family Full of Body Snatchers

The flashback episode began with William Kaplan at his bat mitzvah, celebrating the momentous occasion and not realizing his life would be entirely altered in only a few hours. Or rather, it may be easier to say that his life would end but his body would go on to live with another soul inside of it. Picking up at the end of WandaVision, when Wanda is pulling the Hex down, William and his parents are driving home to avoid the chaos of whatever is happening when they get in a car accident, smashing William’s section of the car up against a tree. The show beautifully shows the moments William’s heart beats for the last time when suddenly he wakes up screaming ‘Tommy’ as Billy Maximoff enters his body. Agatha said it before, just like his mother, Billy, knowingly or not, took William’s body for himself, subsequently allowing him to become a real person and not just a soul within the Hex.

Believe it or not, this is fairly accurate to how Billy Maximoff becomes a real boy, if you will, in the comics. In this case, William’s body just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, as the Hex coming down forced Billy’s soul to flee. It’s unclear how far his soul could have gotten to find another vessel, but in this case, he didn’t travel far before settling into William’s body. However, something that should be remembered is that the whole idea of body snatching, more officially called dream walking, is extremely frowned upon, and Wanda only did it after being under the influence of the Darkhold. It may not have been exactly what Billy was doing, nor was he necessarily aware he was going to do it, but taking residence within a dead body to live again breaks the natural laws. Someone may likely be after Billy to punish him for these actions, maybe even the Salem Seven who didn’t appear to go after Agatha until Billy found her. The other option is Rio, who is still predicted to be Death and might be pretty unhappy that instead of getting a dead body, Billy snatched it away to take up residence.

Who’s Coven Really is it?

The flashback that overtook a majority of the episode also confirmed that Billy had interacted with all the other witches of the coven at least once before meeting them on the Witch’s Road. Beginning with the most important, Lilia is the only one who meets William while working at his bat mitzvah and she is also now confirmed to have been the one to put the sigil on him. Her divination abilities exposed that William’s lifeline was split into two and whatever her vision showed her convinced her she needed to protect his identity from whatever was coming for him. Moving on, directly after William’s crash and Billy’s body takeover, it’s revealed that Alice is one of the police officers who respond to the accident, although it appears there is very little interaction between the two. Lastly, Billy watches one of Jennifer’s videos, meaning that she of all people is likely someone he recognized when they were gathering the coven.

Speaking of the coven, all of this calls into question the actual members of the coven and who the leader may be. The coven consists of Agatha, Alice, Lilia, and Jennifer, with Billy along for the ride but very clearly, as mentioned several times in the series, not a member of the coven. But from the very beginning, the black heart drawn by Lilia has remained in question, along with the missing green witch, with many assuming it was Rio. Agatha used Mrs. Hart instead to fill the void of the missing green witch initially, but a small detail in this episode may say otherwise. In a text exchange between Billy and his boyfriend, his boyfriend refers to him in a text message as his love, using a black heart emoji, calling into question the possibility of Billy being the true green witch and final member of the coven. Otherwise, the other possibility is that the coven, calling back to the fact the other three all interacted with him in his life at another time, could have formed around him rather than Agatha. Calling back to our reactions from Episode 2, is this show Agatha All Along or Teen/Billy All Along?

The Search for His Twin

Billy’s initial reason for traveling the Road was supposedly for more power, something many fans felt they debunked early into the show. Episode 5 confirmed that Billy had no need for more power, making the question become whether he was looking for his mom or brother and we have gotten the answer. Billy Maximoff walks the Road to find his brother because he can feel his brother has survived, likely in a very similar way to him, but can’t locate him. This shouldn’t be too surprising, as they are twins and the Young Avengers are assembling across the universe, a group both are members of. Yet, rumors that Tommy is likely going to get his own show similar to Billy to introduce him properly to the MCU, bring into question whether Billy is actually going to find him at the end of the Road.

The simple answer, at least from our end, is no. Billy’s words, as said above are that he has just not been able to locate him. Between Billy’s identity struggles which seem to be causing his magic to fluctuate and the fact he is still very young with little training of any kind, Billy may not have been fully lying about needing power from the Road. The Road is likely going to help him locate his brother or give him the proper tools to do so, but it seems unlikely that Marvel will give us Tommy Maximoff at the conclusion of this show. That being said, it seems plausible that Tommy should still be relatively nearby if he had also jumped into someone who died close to the Hex, although the rules around that are unclear. His soul may have jumped to someone who has since left the area or just straight-up traveled far away to find the proper host. No matter the case, Tommy, if he does get his own show, would likely be found by Billy at the very end of that one, rather than him showing up now at the end of Agatha All Along.

What to Expect in Episode Seven

While this episode spent very little time in the present, the part that it did reveal was that Agatha and Billy are going off on their own journey down the Road. Rio is still MIA after the events of Episode 5 and while it appeared Billy may have killed Lilia and Jennifer, the mid-season trailer drop revealed both are still alive. The coven appears to be splitting up, even though it was been hinted at that the next trial is actually Lilias. Will the group be reconvening?

The timing of the remaining scenes from trailers seems fairly unclear, as it seems both Lilia and Jennifer end up at one point coming out of the ground into Westview, but also Lilia, at least very clearly participates in her own trial. What we propose is that Billy didn’t actually kill them, but instead pretty much sent them back to the starting point of the Road, which is back in Westview. Essentially, the game is restarting for them. The two of them likely renavigate down to the Road, as we know the doors are still open thanks to the Salem Seven crashing down them. Since the other trials have already been completed, including Jennifers, Lilia and Jennifer most likely stumble quite quickly onto the fourth trial. As for Agatha and Billy, it seems they will struggle to find the next trial, as their coven is not complete with the witch who is needed to succeed within the test itself. This delay is what should bring them all back together, even though other scenes in trailers show that Lilia and Jennifer don’t necessarily finish the Road. Scenes that many assume are from the final two episodes only reveal Agatha and Billy, and we can’t forget the suspicious still released early on of Billy doing his own spell on top of the doors to the Witch’s Road. Could this game come out with only one winner, as it did with Agatha? Excitement is mounting for the final three episodes of Agatha All Along as still so much remains unclear.

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