- Wanda embarks on a troubling journey revisiting her past for insight into her present and future.
- Agatha takes wanda into her memories to find out how she was able to create and control westview. Revisiting her childhood, the death of peitro and what happened when she returned from the snap, we finally find out how this is all possible.—Madislak
- Agatha's past is revealed, and she magically takes Wanda through the younger woman's past to determine how Wanda gained the immense power power to transform Westview and its inhabitants, bring Vision back to life, and created the barrier around the town.—Gislef
- Salem, Massachusetts, 1693
A group of robed women take Agatha Harkness and magically bind her to a stake. The leader, Evanora, accuses Agatha of betraying her coven, stealing knowledge above her age and station, and practices the darkest magic. Agatha protests her innocence, insisting that she didn't break the coven's rules and claims that they bent to her power.
The coven members begin chanting, and Agatha says that she can't control it and asks for their help. She calls to the leader, her mother, and Evanora joins in the chanting. They unleash their magic on Agatha, and she screams in agony. After a moment, Agatha stops and drains the magic from the coven. Evanora levitates into the air and blasts her daughter, and Agatha breaks free of her mystical manacles and pulls the coven women toward her.
Agatha blasts their corpses back, draining them of their life force. She tells Evanora that she can be good, and her mother says that she can't and pins her to the stake with another blast of mystical energy. Agatha drains the life force from Evanora, and Evanora's body falls to the ground. Agatha walks to her mother's body and takes her cameo, then flies off.
The Present
Agatha talks to her rabbit, Mc. Scratchy, and says that Wanda does look shocked to see them as they really are. Wanda tries to use her mental powers on Agatha, and Agatha tells her that she's immune to them. When Wanda asks where her children are, she tries to use her magic but nothing happens. Agatha says that she has runes inscribed in the walls that prevent anyone from her but using magic there, and magically immobilizes Wanda. Agatha wonders why Wanda doesn't know the basic rules of magic. She asks Wanda who she is, and has been waiting for Wanda to reveal her true self.
Circling the immobilized Wanda, Agatha tells her that she was crippled by her self-doubt that she believed the Pietro she conjured was real. She explains that she sensed what Wanda had done in Westview, but couldn't figure it out. Agatha admires how Wanda is manipulating thousands of people in complex storylines, as well as transmuting the town, and asks what Wanda's secret is.
Wanda says that she doesn't know how she did it, and Agatha slams her around the chamber and tells Wanda that she's rather fall apart then face her truth. She repeats Wanda's words earlier that she felt empty inside, and says that they'll start there.
Agatha takes a strand of Wanda's hair and uses it to cast a spell to look at Wanda's past. She release Wanda and leads her through a door that she's conjured. When Wanda hesitates, Agatha reminds her that she's holding Tommy and Billy hostage to Wanda's good behavior. The boys in the distance call to Wanda, and Wanda goes through the door that Agatha has conjured.
On the other side is Wanda's family's apartment in Sokovia. Wanda's mother Irnya finds her husband Olek's collection of old sitcoms on DVD, and he says that he'll sell them off the next day but until then they have them for TV night. A young Pietro comes in and says that they have to speak on English on TV night, and calls Wanda in. Wanda reverts to her younger self, and hugs Olek, then picks out her episode of 'The Dick Van Dyke' show for them to watch.
The family sits down to watch the recording, and laugh at the sitcom antics. A bomb crashes in, and Wanda wakes up to find her parents dead and the apartment in ruins. Pietro gets Wanda to cover under a bed, as more shells rain down. A Stark bomb lands in the apartment but doesn't detonate, but it ticks ominously. Pietro says that they have to go, but Wanda tells him that they can't.
The children hear people outside, but don't know if the people are there to help them or who launched the bombs. The TV is still playing, and Wanda says that like in the show, they have to realize that it's all a bad dream and none of it is real. She reaches out to the bomb, and...
Agatha pulls Wanda out from under the bed and she reverts to her current age. She asks Wanda if she used a probability hex to stop the bomb. Wanda figures that the bomb was defective, and explains that they were trapped there for two days. Agatha asks where Wanda got her current power, and another door appears. Wanda says that she doesn't want to go back, and Agatha tells her that the only way forward is back.
The door opens and Wanda reluctantly goes through. Beyond is the Hydra test chamber, and Agatha goes with Wanda and puts out that in response to her parents being killed, she joined an anti-freedom terrorist group organization. A younger teenaged Wanda enters the test chamber, and the Hydra tech assistant warns the head Hydra scientist that no one previously has survived contact with the Staff in the next room.
The Mind Stone in the Staff breaks free and floats over to Wanda, hovering in front of her. She reaches out and touches it, and it sheds its exterior, emits a glowing golden light, and flares up. Wanda stares at it for a moment and then collapses as the light dies.
The Hydra scientist and tech run into the test chamber and confirm that Wanda is alive. Later, Wanda sits in her cell and watches a sitcom on the TV. The two Hydra operatives watch footage of Wanda and the Stone and try to figure out what happened. Meanwhile, Wanda stands up and stares at the TV. Agatha and the real Wanda watch, and Agatha figures that the Infinity Stone amplified Wanda's power... but she needs more to complete her theory. She conjures another door, and Wanda goes through to a bedroom where her adult self is sitting.
The past-Wanda is in her room at the Avengers compound, watching a sitcom. Wanda says that it's after Pietro died, and she was alone. Vision comes in. past-Wanda invites him to sit with her, and they watch the sitcom. Wanda explains that it's a sitcom and the actor isn't hurt, because it's not that kind of show.
Vision says that he wants to know what she's feeling, if she wants to talk to him. past-Wanda says that the only thing that would bring her comfort is seeing Pietro again. She talks about her grief, that keeps coming for her, and figures that it will drown her. Vision tells her that it won't, because it can't all be sorrow. He explains that he's never felt loss because he never had a loved one to lose, Vision then laughs at the sitcom, and Wanda chuckles with him.
Wanda goes to the now-empty bed, and Agatha wonders what happened when Vision died and he wasn't able to pull Wanda back from the darkness. Wanda says that she can't do it, but Agatha tells her that she's almost there and figures that Wanda wanted Vision back.
Another door materializes, leading to the SWORD HQ lobby. The two women go through, and past-Wanda demands to see Vision, and she and he both deserve a funeral for him. Hayward calls her to his office, and tells Wanda that he wants to show her something. He takes her out on a balcony overlooking a lab where scientists are taking apart Vision's body. Hayward then tells her that they're dismantling the most dangerous sentient weapon ever made, and they're not going to let her leave with $3 billion worth of Vibranium. The best Hayward can do is let Wanda says goodbye to Vision, and she can't have him because he isn't hers.
Wanda blasts her way in and TAC troopers arrive, aiming their guns at her. Hayward orders them to fall back, and once they do Wanda goes over to the parts of Vision's body. She touches Vision's head but can't sense his mind, and turns and leaves.
Driving to Westview, Wanda finally comes to the foundation of an old house, that she and Vision had chosen to grow old in. Wanda stands among in the center of the foundation, screams in rage, and energy emerges from her body and spreads throughout the town. Everything it touches, it changes to a 1950s black-and-white sitcom setting. The energy builds the house and recreates Vision, as a 1950s sitcom father. As Wanda goes to him, she changes to a 1950s version of herself. Vision welcomes her home, and they sit on the couch and kiss before Vision turns on the TV.
The real Wanda watches, and the house turns into a TV studio. Agatha mockingly applauds, then disappears. Wanda hears Billy and Tommy yelling for help, and runs out of the studio onto the street to find Agatha magically choking her sons. Agatha tells Wanda that she knows what she is, and Wanda is dangerous. She is also a myth, a creature capable of spontaneous creation, that is using its powers to make a sitcom. Agatha says that Wanda is wielding chaos magic, and that makes her a Scarlet Witch.
At the SWORD base outside of the hex barrier around Westview, Hayward receives word that a team is about ready to launch. They pump magical energy from the drone-missile into a pod holding Vision's body. Vision comes to "life" and looks at his now whited-out skin and costume.
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