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The ‘Agatha All Along’ Premiere Revealed a Major Clue Most Fans Missed
Teen (Joe Locke) in Marvel Television’s AGATHA ALL ALONG, exclusively on Disney+. Photo by Chuck Zlotnick. © 2024 MARVEL.

The two-episode premiere of Agatha All Along set the stage for plenty of mystery and mischief to unfold over the next six weeks. Though there truly wasn’t much mystery behind the identity of Episode 1’s murder victim, there are still plenty of questions left unanswered by the end of the series’ double-dip debut. There seems to be much to discover about Aubrey Plaza‘s Rio Vidal and her past with Agatha Harkness and, of course, the true identity of Joe Locke‘s Teen will haunt theorists and speculators for the duration of the show. However, creator Jac Schaeffer may have already given away more information about who Teen truly is than you might think.

Episode 1 of Agatha All Along, “Seekest Thou The Road”, makes an overt effort to drag viewers in one particular direction when it comes to the true identity of Teen. While still trapped within Wanda’s spell as Agnes, it’s revealed that Agatha once had a son named Nicholas Scratch. If that name isn’t too familiar to you, you’ll be forgiven, but it is a name that fans and leakers alike threw around as the “true” identity of Locke‘s characters dating back to when he was cast in the series. GIven the way Episode 1 plays out, it’s understandable that fans might conclude that Locke is Scratch; however, the devil (Mephisto!!) is in the details.

Misdirection is well utilized by magicians and it seems as though Schaeffer has employed some “look over here” type shenanigans in Episodes 1 and 2. While fans are busy Googling Nicholas Scratch, growing his fan club to nearly 4 dozen, Detective Agnes O’Connor dropped a fairly important clue of her own in Episode 1 that likely went unnoticed. When she was visited at her home by Rio Vidal, Agnes mentioned a car crash that took place one hour before the time of death of the murder victim she found in the creek. When found in Eastview, the car’s front two airbags had been deployed and there was blood in the backseat. Though Agnes is sure there’s some connection to the dead body that was recently discovered, she’s unable to make all the pieces fit. However, her intuition is sound as the car accident is very likely related to the true identity of Locke’s character.

Schaeffer has sprinkled clues to the identity of Locke’s character everywhere and more will pop up as the show goes on. Everything seen and heard in the first two episodes was seen and heard for a reason. Agnes’ conversation with Rio about the car would be completely unnecessary if it weren’t going to come back into play sometime down, down, down the road. And while the full reveal hasn’t come along just yet, Episode 2 holds further clues that tie to the car accident. While Teen and Agatha go witch shopping, they hop into Teen’s car…or at least a car he says is his.

While Teen is clearly comfortable with the vehicle and familiar enough with its contents to know that there’s a pen in the dashboard compartment, there’s at least one compelling reason to believe that it doesn’t belong to him but rather to his mother. Remember that lovely string of pearls that Agatha “borrows” from the mirror and wears around her neck while collecting the coven? That might just be one of those clues you were supposed to notice but missed. And why might that matter?

If he’s not Nicholas Scratch, Teen is probably Billy Kaplan, a character he’s looooong been rumored to be. And if he’s Billy Kaplan, he’s also Billy Maximoff, kind of…and it’s all pretty confusing how that works out; however, it’s very possible that the car crash has a lot to do with how Billy Maximoff’s disembodied soul might find its way into Billy Kaplan’s body. Unless you had the captions on, you probably missed the dialogue in Episode 2 that revealed that Teen was born and raised in Eastview…where the car crash happened. Delievered during a conversation with Agatha in which she realized she couldn’t hear him speak, it may have seemed like some throwaway lines that were just part of the sigil gimmick but pretend for a minute that it wasn’t. One possible explanation that does provide a somewhat reasonable explanation for what’s going on is that Billy Kaplan died in a car crash, his body was taken over by Billy Maximoff’s soul, he abandoned the car found his way to his house where he took his mom’s car and hatched his plan to get down the Witches’ Road. And why might it be his mom’s car? That string of pearls looks just like the one worn by Rebbecca Kaplan, Billy’s mom, in Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #1.

It’s all conjecture at this point but as the show progresses and we all continue to wonder what Agatha is up to, what’s up with Rio and what surprises await down the Witches’ Road, keep in mind that the most innocent member of the group might just be the one dissembling the most and hiding his true intentions.

The first two episodes of Agatha All Along are now streaming on Disney Plus.

This article first appeared on Murphy's Multiverse and was syndicated with permission.

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