🚨 There are obviously MASSIVE spoilers ahead for Agatha All Along Episode 6, as well as WandaVision and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness! 🚨
1. First, this episode is titled "Familiar by Thy Side," which continues the trend of the episodes being named after lyrics from "The Ballad of the Witches' Road," but also connects to Agatha referring to Teen, aka Billy, as her "pet" and "familiar" in earlier episodes.
2. William Kaplan's Jewish heritage is taken directly from the Marvel comics and is a big part of his identity and backstory. Billy Kaplan, aka Wiccan, first appeared in Young Avengers Issue #1 (2005) and was created by Allan Heinberg, who is gay and Jewish, just like Billy.
3. You can see that William's Bar Mitzvah theme was "magick," as seen on the program here.
4. When Lilia tells William that his lifeline is broken in two, you can see that inside her glass ball is William as Billy, wearing his now signature hoodie and sweater.
5. Lilia mentions "The Tower reversed," which is a nod to the tarot card The Tower. This is one of several times Lilia has mentioned tarot cards in episodes. When The Tower tarot card is reversed, it typically signifies "personal transformation, fear of change, and averting disaster," which foreshadows William's accident and him becoming Billy Maximoff.
6. Now, I might be stretching this, but "The Tower reversed" could also be a nod to Wanda's "death" in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and how the literal tower at Mt. Wundagore crumbled on her. Maybe she reversed the avalanche, and she's alive?!
7. William mentions that the vibe in Lilia's palm reading tent is "very early Argento." Dario Argento is a director and screenwriter who is often known as the "Master of the Thrill" or the "Master of Horror."
8. We find out that Lilia is the one who put the sigil on William, which hides Billy's magic and presence from other witches, including herself. In the tarot card promotional posters for Agatha All Along, you can spot the sigil in the corners.
9. While driving in the car before the accident, you can hear the radio playing snippets from Wanda and Vision's conversation in WandaVision Episode 1.
10. As William dies in the car, you can hear Billy and Tommy Maximoff saying goodnight to each other. This is because this exact moment is happening at the same time Wanda is taking down the Hex in the WandaVision series finale and saying goodbye to Billy, Tommy, and Vision.
11. Alice shows up as the police officer who helps the Kaplans following the car accident. In Episode 1, we found out that Alice had the job at the mall because her former lieutenant helped get her the gig.
12. When Billy goes up to William's room, you can spot numerous posters relating to magic, like Houdini, as well as movies that have been referenced in previous episodes of Agatha All Along, like Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz.
13. There's also a poster that resembles The Goonies, but instead it says The Goofballs.
14. You can also spot The Wizard of Oz figurines on William's bookshelf.
15. Then, three years later, when Billy transforms the room to make it more his own, you can spot posters for The Craft, Saw, and Carrie.
16. And, Billy has a "Trans Lives Matter" poster hanging up, too.
17. There are also posters for Evanescence's album Fallen, The Wizard of Oz, and a Lorna Wu tour poster.
18. While talking to Billy and Eddie, Ralph mentions that he poisoned a dog because of Agatha, thus revealing that he was the one who actually killed Sparky in WandaVision Episode 5.
19. When Ralph tells Billy about the Maximoff twins, it's similar to how Maria Hill described Wanda and Pietro back in Avengers: Age of Ultron.
20. You can see that Billy has research on both destructible and permanent sigils on his wall.
21. While searching for info on Agatha, you can see a post about Evanora Harkness's coven and how the children of her coven might've survived. In Episode 5, we learned that the Salem Seven are made up of the children of the members of Evanora's coven.
22. On the Encyclopedia of Witches page, you can see the names of prominent people linked to witchcraft throughout history. For instance, Abigail Williams was notably one of the first children to falsely accuse her neighbor of witchcraft in Salem. She is a prominent character in Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
23. Eddie sends Billy a black heart while they're texting. In Episode 2, Lilia writes down the names of the people Agatha needs to walk the Witches' Road, with one being a black heart. Like me, many assumed that it symbolized Rio, who talks about her black heart in Episode 1, but maybe it actually symbolized Billy because Lilia couldn't say his name because of the sigil.
24. When Billy walks up to break into Agatha's house, you can hear her having the conversation she had with Rio in Episode 1. However, now it's a little unclear whether or not Rio was actually there or Agatha imagined her as part of Wanda's spell that was placed upon her.
25. Obviously, we finally get to see what was really happening when Agatha thought she was a Westview detective in Episode 1, and I just need to shoutout the Bohner family reunion shirt she's wearing — because she's taken over Ralph's house — and how she's using a hose nozzle as a gun.
26. In the closet Agatha shoves Billy into, you can see Ralph's Blu-ray collection that he mentions earlier in the episode, as well as the guitar he played in WandaVision.
27. When Billy tells Agatha he's not like her, it's similar to when Wanda also said she wasn't like Agatha in the WandaVision series finale.
28. Billy losing Tommy (and now wanting to search for him) mirrors when Wanda lost Pietro in Age of Ultron. Both Billy and Wanda have lost their twins.
29. And finally, Billy says he can "sense" Tommy, which is similar to how Wanda could always sense Pietro and even knew when he died in Age of Ultron.
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