Warning! This text incorporates spoilers for Agatha All Alongside episode 4.
Agatha All Alongside episode 4’s ending handled the id of Teen, how he connects to Agatha, and what function Rio Vidal performs within the present’s story, all whereas fleshing out the newly fashioned coven. The numerous witches of Agatha All Alongside spent episode 4 attending to know one another barely higher after the tragedies of the final episode. The loss of life of Sharon Davis in Agatha All Alongside episode 3’s ending introduced the coven nearer collectively. Nevertheless, every witch has their very own secrets and techniques and backstory that can be slowly revealed over the approaching weeks.
In Agatha All Alongside episode 4, every witch revealed extra about what they’ve skilled previously; From the lack of Agatha’s son and her connection to Joe Locke’s mysteriously unnamed Marvel character to the true nature of Rio Vidal and the hints of tragedy relating to Lilia and Jennifer, Agatha All Alongside‘s solid of characters dug deeper into the world of witchcraft. By the point of Agatha All Alongside episode 4’s ending, these hints raised larger questions concerning the present as a complete, whereas exploring the familial historical past of Alice Wu-Gulliver probably the most.
Undoubtedly, the largest speaking level in Agatha All Alongside episode 4’s ending would be the remaining line. After a second of intimacy that builds on the romance theories surrounding Aubrey Plaza’s Rio Vidal from Agatha All Alongside episode 1, the Inexperienced Witch says to the titular character “That boy is not yours.” That is in reference to Teen, who was injured by a shard of glass in Agatha All Alongside episode 4. Agatha’s beforehand masked protecting tendencies over Teen got here to the fore as this occurred, main her to turn into more and more distressed as the opportunity of Teen dying grew.
This hyperlinks to the opposite generally held principle that Joe Locke’s Teen is Agatha’s son, Nicholas Scratch. Nevertheless, Rio seemingly debunks this principle by clearly telling Agatha that Teen shouldn’t be the latter’s son in Agatha All Alongside episode 4’s ending. How Rio is aware of this stays to be seen, but it surely hyperlinks to a different outstanding principle about her character whereas elevating different intriguing questions concerning the present’s future.
All Proof Teen Is not Nicholas Scratch
Firstly, Rio’s phrases in Agatha All Alongside episode 4’s ending spotlight the items of proof introduced by the present to this point to counsel Teen shouldn’t be Nicholas Scratch. For one, it is not uncommon information that Agatha’s son met a destiny darker than that of Joe Locke’s Teen. It was acknowledged in Agatha All Alongside episode 3 that Harkness traded her son for the Darkhold, main many to consider he was both lifeless, an agent of Mephisto, or one other sort of demon on this planet of Marvel witchcraft.
His standing as a homosexual teenager with a boyfriend aligns with Billy Kaplan’s early tales from Marvel Comics…
Secondly, the larger hints at Teen’s id tease him because the son of Scarlet Witch, Billy Kaplan. His standing as a homosexual teenager with a boyfriend aligns with Billy Kaplan’s early tales from Marvel Comics, and the character insisted that dangerous issues occurred to him when he was 13, aligning with the timeline of WandaVision. Lastly, there may be the sigil positioned on Teen that stops him from revealing his id. Whereas Agatha All Alongside episode 4 reveals this might have been positioned by Agatha, it’s extra prone to have been performed to cover Teen’s connection to the Scarlet Witch.
May Rio Be Mendacity?
In fact, there may be the likelihood that Rio is mendacity in Agatha All Alongside episode 4’s ending. What profit this may convey Rio is unclear, however she might concentrate on Teen’s id as Nicholas Scratch and hiding it from Agatha. This may very well be as a result of their evidently complicated relationship; Rio may very well be mendacity about Teen’s id to spite Agatha whom she has overtly admitted to hating, or to spare her the ache of Nicholas Scratch’s destiny on condition that she has additionally liked Agatha previously.
What Actually Occurred To Agatha’s Son
In mild of Rio’s phrases, and the can of worms it opens relating to Teen, the burning query popping out of Agatha All Alongside episode 4’s ending is what occurred to Nicholas Scratch. If certainly Teen shouldn’t be Agatha’s son, it nonetheless appears Nicholas’ destiny is left unanswered. Teen’s query to Agatha of what actually occurred to him in Agatha All Alongside episode 4 could trace that the story of her buying and selling Nicholas for the Darkhold shouldn’t be fully true. In that case, Nicholas may very well be alive.
Agatha’s rabbit was named Nicholas Scratch in WandaVision, one other reference to her son’s destiny as she needed to maintain one thing considerably resembling him shut by.
Nevertheless, a touch at Nicholas’ loss of life hyperlinks to a principle that Rio Vidal is definitely the MCU’s model of Woman Dying. Rio reveals in Agatha All Alongside episode 4 that she needed to “do her job” in a method that harm somebody she liked, clearly which means Agatha. If Nicholas died, Rio’s job can be to take him, thus paining Agatha.
The Clues To Rio Vidal’s True Id Defined
The potential for Rio being Woman Dying was hinted at in Agatha All Alongside episode 4, offering extra credence to the concept she took Nicholas away from Agatha. Except for the exploration of Rio’s backstory with Agatha, the opposite hints to her id as Dying comes courtesy of Agatha All Alongside episode 4’s disco-inspired trial on the Witches’ Highway. The primary trace was when Agatha and Rio had been speaking within the sound sales space. Rio acknowledged that she was impatient, referring to her ready for the time to kill Agatha.
She then insisted that she was a part of the coven to attend for Agatha to kill the opposite witches round her. Rio insisted that after Agatha does so, “I get my our bodies.” These two feedback about Rio’s seeming dominion over lifeless individuals assist the speculation of her being Dying. The ultimate trace got here as Teen was bleeding out in Agatha All Alongside episode 4’s ending. Agatha checked out Rio pleadingly and mentioned “Do not.” This suggests Rio is Dying, with Agatha asking her to not take Teen away.
How The Witches Broke Alice’s Curse Defined
The second trial of the MCU’s Witches’ Highway in Agatha All Alongside episode 4 was admittedly much less simple than the earlier one. Fairly than brew a potion that may save the witches from poison, they needed to break a curse that had been positioned on Alice’s household for generations. This curse was damaged in a extra easy method because the witches sang the model of the Ballad of the Witches’ Highway recorded by Lorna Wu, Alice’s mom.
The flashback to Lorna in Agatha All Alongside episode 3 foreshadowed the curse positioned on Alice’s household.
This music was revealed as a safety spell towards the familial curse that may by no means lose its energy. The explanation for that is that the music will ceaselessly be sung by somebody, someplace on this planet, thus defending Alice and every other surviving girls within the Wu household. Though it isn’t outright acknowledged precisely why singing Lorna’s music breaks Alice’s curse, the witches handle to take action and cross the second trial of the Witches’ Highway.
Why Rio Vidal Seems On The Witches’ Highway
The ultimate query raised by Agatha All Alongside episode 4 is why Rio Vidal appeared on the Witches’ Highway. After the loss of life of Sharon, the coven assembles to discover a new Inexperienced Witch, ultimately revealed to be Rio herself. Later within the episode, Rio offers some perception into why it was she who appeared; The character states it was not her selection, and that magick took the trail of least resistance and carried probably the most applicable candidate to hitch Agatha’s coven to the Witches’ Highway.
The explanation as to why Rio was the trail of least resistance was additionally revealed in Agatha All Alongside episode 2. The listing of names Lilia got here up with utilizing her divination gave the members of Agatha’s coven, one in every of which was merely a black coronary heart. In Agatha All Alongside episode 1, Rio insisted she had a black coronary heart that beats for Agatha. As such, she was initially meant to be a part of the coven in Agatha All Alongside fairly than Sharon Davis, with the ethereal power of Magick course correcting to convey Rio to the Witches’ Highway.