Agatha All Along's third episode has the first trial for Agatha and her coven along with the Teen! Re:cap, Episode 2; In Westview, New Jersey, Detective Agnes O’Connor is investigating a body of a woman who was crushed. Agnes arrests a young thief and helps break her spell. She discovers that the body is a W. Maximoff and that her true name is Agatha Harkness! She has broken free of the spell that took away her memory by Wanda Maximoff, but has lost her powers. Her rival, Rio Vidal, lets her go free, but tells Agatha that the Salem Seven will find her! Agatha and the Teen, whose identity is hidden from her, start to gather her coven. This includes the Divination Witch, Lilia Calderu, next, the Potions Witch, Jennifer Kale, Alice Wu-Gulliver, who is the Protection Witch, and lastly, Mrs. Davis, the Green Witch!
The coven begins to sing the “Ballad of the Witches’ Road.” Then, the Teen sees the approach of the Salem Seven! The ballad seems to have failed and they begin to argue with each other. Agatha calls them rejects and goads them on. Lilia realizes that Agatha is trying to have them blast her to take their power. There is a rumbling overhead. A blue pentagram forms on the floor below them! The Teen runs from the appearance of one of the Salem Seven in the house! They open the doors that lead to stairs circling down. The Teen runs down as they hear shrieks. The rest of the coven hurries down and Agatha sees a black robed creature at the stairs before closing the doors from the steps. There is a thumping and then Agatha finds the ceiling has turned to rock. There are formations like rocks in a weave or tree roots.
Agatha sees the Witches Road, shining stones winding through a dark forest with a moon overhead. Agatha removes her boots and the others also take off their shoes. Agatha tells them, “I never doubted us for a second” before the coven starts walking down The Road! Agatha All Along’s episode titles continues The Ballad of the Witches’ Road lyrics. Episode 3 is named “Through Many Miles/ Of Tricks and Trials.” It is directed by Rachel Goldberg who was the director of the Cloak & Dagger ep, “Alignment Chart” (2019). Cameron Squires is the writer who was the staff writer for WandaVision. The coven walks the Road, the Teen is impressed, there was disbelief by Alice. Lilia says, “Tame your fears”, they face their nightmares. They are being tested, each skill, each witch will have their trial! The Teen is eager, Jennifer asks who is he, and his answer is again hidden.
Lilia says he has a sigil on him. Jennifer explains he has a spell that hides him from witches. They find that Mrs. Hart has left them! Mrs. Hart is trying to find a way out, she sits down and her purse starts to sink in the ground! She starts to scream which is heard by the others. Mrs. Hart is being sucked into the ground, but Alice is able to pull her free! We haven't found Mrs. Hart's contribution as a Green Witch, maybe this will be much later. Agatha tells everyone to follow the Ballad. Jennifer’s attention is drawn to a golden light. A beachside house that has suddenly appeared. They walk the sand to the house. Lilia sees a circular symbol on the door which she says is the phases of the moon. Agatha enters the house and the others follow. They find themselves wearing posh clothes inside and are trapped there. The Teen finds an envelope which Jennifer reads that it is the First Trial. It ends with “My tricks are well known.” A trickster demon.
Mrs. Hart finds a bottle of wine on a dinner table. The Teen goes to find a corkscrew at the bar and Jennifer warns him that Agatha traded her son for the Darkhold! She says he might be an agent of Mephisto. This is a demon long rumored by fans to be in the MCU. He first appeared in Silver Surfer #3 (1968). Agatha pours the wine for all of the coven. Mrs. Hart downs the glass. A round clock on the mantle counts down from 30 seconds! Sinister music. Anything magical should not be drunk, “Drink me”, or eaten! Agatha leads a cheer. The Teen doesn’t have a glass. At the sofa, he takes interest in Alice’s tatoo, she says her mother made her get it. Agatha pours her wine into a planter. The Teen says the tatoo wards off curses. Agatha’s glass re-fills! Mrs. Hart says she would drink the blood of a virgin to smooth her wrinkles. The coven is shocked at her.
Mrs. Hart has a swollen face! It is freaky version of plastic surgery like Katherine Helmond in Brazil (1985! Jennifer says the wine is poison! Agatha tries to hide that she is unchanged. Jennifer asks Mrs. Hart, Sharon, about any symptoms. Lilia says she loves them. They find their faces are normal. Jennifer says that since the swelling went away so fast that the poison could only be Alwife’s Revenge. They get dizziness, Alice says her heart is racing, then Jennifer says it ends in death! The Teen finds Agatha’s cup and they say she is not following the Ballad. Agatha shatters the cup and Alice holds up her glass which refills. Teen tells her to drink it and then says he will drink it when she refuses. Agatha takes the glass and forces herself to drink the wine. Mrs. Hart asks Wanda to let her husband breathe, then drops on the sofa. Agatha with a swollen face tells Jennifer to brew an antidote.
At the kitchen, Jennifer says she needs frankincense and an insect which Teen and Alice rush to find. Then, Jennifer says she needs a corpse decaying for 30 million years! She explains that it is zooplankton and says it is in petropleum products. Clever finding witch ingredients in modern things! She looks for a cauldron and then turns to the kitchen sink. Agatha and Lilia find that the garage is empty. She decides that they should look for petroleum jelly. At the bathroom, they find only Jennifer’s products, Kale Kare. This trial is for Jennifer to test her Potions skill. Lilia says they are all organic, but Agatha says she knows a “snake oil saleswoman.” Then, Lilia suddenly says, “Try to save Agatha.” She is unknowingly getting messages, from Wanda(?) who may save her? Maybe the soul of her son, Nicholas Scratch?
Alice and the Teen are searching the rest of the house and he spots a eucalyptus that will give them the ingredient. She pauses and then sees a strange door with steam. Of course she enters it! I think Alice is likely to be the Maiden of the trio, a daughter of a witch. Jennifer is at the sink when she remembers “eye of newt.” She goes into the pantry taking out mustard seed. Jennifer returns to see a frightful doctor in the kitchen! Lilia turns to see a girl in a pink dress right out of the The Shining (1980), redrum! This is Young Lilia (Chloe Camp). In the steam, Alice sees a lighted makeup mirror, her mother, Lorna Wu (Elizabeth Anweis)! Another series, Batwoman, had Catherine Hamilton-Kane played by Anweis. A mustached doctor (Scott Butler), from the turn-of-the-century?, says to Jennifer, “You are an inconvenient woman”, she is terrified. Butler starred in the horror movie, Hypochondriac (2022). Lilia follows the girl down a hallway that transforms into a house from the past. Lorna tells her daughter that her grandmother died, she could feel her death, and she is next! Nightmares from the past for all of the coven!
Lilia enters a dark room, there is a withered, elderly woman whose eyes suddenly open, Lilia's Maestra (Laura Boccaletti), a black robed figure appears with a skull face! Boccaletti was in the thriller, Painter (2020). Maestra as in teacher, of magic? I think it could be that Lilia is the Crone. The Doctor takes Jennifer and shoves her face into the water to drown her! We know that drowning is one of the ways witches die. He is a witch hunter? Alice’s mother screams, “I can’t protect you!” A cursed legacy? She scrambles out of the room. Jennifer suddenly breaks from the nightmare. Lilia stumbles back into the house’s hallway and runs into Agatha. She says in Italian, “They’re all dead!” Agatha reassures her. Alice escapes from the empty steam room and is found by the Teen who has found the frankincense. This feels like the scenes from Poltergeist (1982), I remember the man who pulls off his flesh in the mirror. They catch up with Jennifer and Alice asks her if she found the “gut of a eusocial insect.” The Teen realizes that it is honey. Agatha brings in the skincare products with Lilia ready for the next step. Then, there is a cracking noise! They find that the house is underwater and have to rush to move Mrs. Hart to the kitchen table. 3 minutes tick on the clock!
Jennifer says that they have to be added in a specific order. She drops in the guts and eye. Next, she asks about the zooplankton, and Agatha slyly shows her products. Jennifer has them throw them in. Then, she has Alice add three drops of the frankincense, and the Teen helps her. The sink glows pink. Still, Jennifer realizes that they have to boil the potion. The Teen mentions a sous vide. This feels like the witch version of Top Chef. He takes out the cylinder used to heat up food. Then, Jennifer has him stir the potion, she tells everyone to take out a single hair. Agatha hears a baby crying, she walks lost in the dark past, and reaches a cradle with a soft glow. She opens the blanket… and finds the Darkhold! This makes her fall back in sadness. Jennifer snaps her out of the nightmare. Agatha adds her hair and then Jennifer has them hold hands. They have to align their intentions, Jennifer reminds Agatha, “To not die.” The potion turns green. It is not complete and Jennifer panics forgetting a part of the potion since she is bound by “him.” Agatha All Along's coven faces the first trial of the Witches Road with nightmares from their past!
Five Lockets out of Five!
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