After spending most of the Agatha All Along premiere inside an entirely fake episode of “true” crime drama, “Circle Sewn with Fate, Unlock Thy Hidden Gate” shows us more of what the series might look like down the road (pun intended; I’ll rein it in eventually). Agatha needs to get her powers back ASAP before the so-called “Salem 7” tracks her down and tears her apart — and much like Velma Kelly, she can’t do it alone. This is extremely annoying for Agatha, a loner of legendary proportions.
She’s such an iconic figure among witches, in fact, that her teen stowaway reveals himself to be a diehard fan who knows such “an egregious amount” about Agatha that he took it upon himself to jailbreak her from Wanda’s spell. Agatha’s impressed. If this kid could break the Scarlet Witch’s magic, she reasons aloud, he’s no ordinary kid.
He also seems physically incapable of telling her who he is or where he came from, though he doesn’t seem to realize that his mouth appears as an eerily stitched squiggle to Agatha whenever he tries. That gives Teen (as Agatha calls him) a certain level of intrigue. Still, his most convincing point is that Agatha’s plan to physically outrun an almighty cabal of witches without any powers of her own is the kind of stupid move that usually ends up in a stupid death.
And so they go on un petit road trip in the hopes of picking up a few witches, the better to summon “The Road.” As per the breathless Teen, the Road will gi.