Lilia’s head-scratching story leaves many questions as the Sabbat faces a tarot test

On October 24, 2024By Yukito

SPOILER ALERT! This post includes details from Wednesday’s episode Agata all the way.

Now that we know the motives of Teen, aka Billy Maximoff, he and Agatha return to Witches Road.

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To catch up on episode 6, click here. Otherwise, let’s move on to episode 7, which begins not with Agatha or Billy, but with Patti LuPone’s Lilia. She and Jen (Sasheer Zamata) were also kicked off the Road by Billy and haven’t been seen since.

Lilia falls when she first appears on screen, wearing a pink gown and crown, dressed much like Glinda, the Good Witch. But that’s all for now as the scene fades out and Agatha and Billy are walking down the road again.

Agatha tries to get Billy to talk to her, but all she gets out of him is, “Where’s Rio?” – an important question because the Green Witch of Aubrey Plaza is also missing in action. Agatha hesitates.

“Do you have any other questions for your old babysitter?” she says. “I’m your mom’s best friend.”

He shoots her another sharp one: “Is Wanda Maximoff really dead?”

“Yes. No. Maybe,” Agata replies shyly.

Agata claims that she saw the body, although she is not sure if anyone else saw it. Soon another process begins when they notice an eerie mansion looming before them. Billy still has a hard time trusting Agatha and says he’s begun to doubt whether she ever walked the Way at all.

As they walk through the door of the mansion, their clothes change again. Agatha is dressed as Elphaba Mean (green skin and all), and Billy wears horns similar to Maleficent’s. When they notice their new appearance, they find a stone table in the center of the room with an inscription on it: “Your path winds through time.” Then Billy notices a tarot deck. When he picks it up, the timer starts.

He gives Agatha a tarot reading, which turns out to be deadly, as they soon realize there are swords in the ceiling that will fall if they get the reading wrong. Agatha snatches the deck from his hand, saying that tarot requires no skill, and starts throwing random cards. More swords fall from the ceiling, and one almost impales Billy, who jumps out of the way just in time.

Meanwhile, we are back with Lilia and Jen is with her now. This seems to have happened moments after they disappeared into the mud. As they try to find a way out, Lilia is confused and Jen is quite furious.

Lilia acts more confused than usual and soon the audience is drawn into her mind as she asks Jen, “What is it, am I mean or crazy?” You may remember this is what Lilia accidentally asked Alice in the music studio in episode 4. While she was saying this, the scene flashed back to that moment. Lilia then continues her outburst and says, “Alice, don’t do it!” and the scene flashes back to the previous trial from episode 3, where Lilia accidentally shouted “try to save Agatha!” while brainstorming a challenge.

Then someone asks, “Lilia, what do you see?” and an old Renaissance woman talks to a young girl. She replies in Sicilian and the old woman replies, “You are traveling. How long did it take?

The next time the camera pans, Lilia is sitting across from the older woman and replies, “Forever.”

This woman claims to be giving Lilia her first lesson on tea leaves. When Lilia looks into the cup, she is transported back to Jen, under the Road. She holds her breath and Jen assumes she’s confused again, but Lilia gets mad, insisting she’s not confused. She accuses Jen of thinking she is old and senile, and Jen denies it, asking what she is should see instead.

“The passage of time is an illusion, Jen. Most people don’t realize this,” she says, explaining that as a child she experienced life out of turn. She saw flashes in her mind, and now it’s happening again… and it’s getting worse. He doesn’t know why, but he can only assume it means he’s “close to the end.”

That’s when she’s dragged into the courtroom, dressed in Glinda’s outfit, with Agatha sitting on top of her. It turned out that Agatha was pushing her down to protect her from being impaled by the sword. Oh, and Jen is there too, dressed as Lady Tremaine Cinderella.

When Lilia sees Billy, she lunges at him, pinning him against the wall. He apologizes profusely, explaining that he didn’t hide his powers because they were a surprise to him. Lilia realizes that he is reading her mind and now that the seal has been destroyed, she says that she remembers Billy from his bar mitzvah. She puts aside her anger because she realizes they need her help in the process. Billy asks if she was the one who put the seal on him and she admits it was her because she saw what would happen to him that night and knew he needed time.

Just then, he has flashbacks again, going back to the last trial, when everything in that cabin was going crazy and Lilia screamed, “I hated it the first time.” Then he thinks back to the first time they met her, when she turned away from them and started screaming with her hands over her ears. Suddenly he returns to the old woman and she is still screaming.

“Tell me about your life now,” the woman demands, asking if she has a Sabbath. Lilia wonders why, since she’s never been able to do it in the past. He asks the woman how to control what is happening, but the woman replies that her only job is to “see”.

He then returns to the tunnel with Jen, trying to find a way to escape after being thrown off the Road. (Talk about a confusing timeline.)

Jen asks why Lilia’s abilities finally stopped manifesting, and Lilia replies that it was because she wanted it to. She started ignoring it and it went away. They then come across Agatha and Billy arguing as she and Jen burst through the door. This time, when she comes to the table to observe the tarot, no sword falls on her.

She sits across from Billy, ready to give him a reading. He must ask a question necessary for his existence on Earth. “Am I William or Billy?” – he blurts out, and the table stops spinning. A very good question, he says.

Billy pulls out a card and it’s the Magician. She puts it on the table and the sword keeps falling, but Lilia is confident that she did it right. He continues as Billy pulls The Sun and then… then the sword falls on Lilia and she screams, “Get off me!” just like she did in Agatha’s basement in the second episode.

He returns to the old woman and asks, “What am I missing?” The old woman pushes her, asking Lilia why she is making this journey, to which Lilia replies, “To get my powers back.”

“Has it passed? Where did it go? That’s not the real reason,” the old woman provokes. Lilia replies, “I am a forgotten woman,” so the woman says she must remember. Lilia then reveals that the old woman was once part of their coven and with her abilities she saw that her entire coven would die from the plague before that happened. Still, she couldn’t change it. The old woman had come to terms with her death, but Lilia had clearly not.

“When will it come to me?” – he asks. “I was falling. I will fall.”

The woman replies, “Yes. What will you do with the remaining time?”

Suddenly, Lilia floats above Jen, who is covered in mud from being thrown off the road. He explains that the Scarlet Witch’s son threw them out telepathically and they must find their way back. He tells Jen everything, knowing that in a few minutes she will forget everything. Just then, they hear Salem Seven on their tail and hide. As they watch them fly by, Jen wants to see what they are doing. Instead of pursuing them, however, Lilia explains that they must find Agatha and Billy at the next trial.

Coming back to the process, all the pieces fall into place. She realizes that she is the Traveler, i.e. the Queen of Cups. She is empathetic, intuitive and has an inner voice you can trust. He places it in the middle of the table and all the swords remain on the ceiling. He casts the Three of Pentacles in exchange for what is missing. The Path behind him is the Knight of Wands, and the Path in front of us is the High Priestess. Obstacles? Three of Swords. With little time left, he finally reaches the Destination… and the scene returns to Lilia and Jen, who stumble onto the Road again.

This time Lilia meets Rio. Only it’s not Rio. This is death. Or Rio is death. Remember how the Ouija board swore that Death was in the room with them? Looks like there was nothing wrong with it after all.

It cuts back to the courtroom where the sword ceiling is about to collapse on everyone and Agatha takes the Death card from the middle of the table, saving them from being impaled. The ceiling recedes and the door opens onto the Road. Lilia tells them that she realized that Rio is Death.

Agata admits that she has always been famous, shrugging and saying, “What can I say? I like bad boys.

Lilia leads them back to the Road, then locks herself in a room, sacrificing herself for her coven. It appears that the Salem Seven have been lurking, and Lilia manages to lure them into the rehearsal room, where she flips the Inverted Tower card so that it is vertical, lifting the entire room. He stuns the witches, sending them all flying as the room spins upside down and each of them falls on a sword. Lilia, trying to save herself, holds on to the table, but finally lets go and allows herself to fall.

This is the scene we saw at the very beginning of the episode. The screen fades to black and then we see a young Renaissance girl running to begin her first lesson on tea leaves with an elderly woman in Sicily.

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