WandaVision Finale Post Credits Scenes Explained: Nick Fury's Covert Move and Wanda's Darkhold Gamble

The WandaVision finale closed with two post credits scenes. The first pointed toward Secret Invasion by way of Captain Marvel 2, and the second was a clear setup for Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. When I broke them down, within 36 hours of the finale arriving, what struck me most was that second scene, because "they said quite a bit with no dialogue at all."

Below I go through both scenes: who the "friend of her mom" in the first scene is, why Darcy Lewis is missing from it, and what Wanda hearing her sons call for help in the second scene may have meant for Multiverse of Madness.

Darcy Lewis is missing from the first post credits scene, and I think I know why

The first post credits scene is far more straightforward than the second. The dialogue tells you exactly what is going on. Some of the lines are meant to be somewhat ambiguous, but they are easy to trace, and they explain who and what the agent means when she mentions a friend of Monica's mom and points to the sky.

There is one thing I did not notice until my third or fourth time through the episode: Darcy Lewis is absent from this scene. If they had got their way, and probably in the original draft, I would have expected her to share some dialogue with Monica and Agent Woo. Instead she is nowhere in the shot, even though Monica gives her a shout out.

The only reason I think this probably happened is that principal photography was postponed because of COVID. Nobody knows exactly what happened when production reconvened to finish the show and do reshoots, and she may simply not have been available. Darcy was a big enough character across the series that you have to think they would have written her into that final post credits scene if she had been around for those shoots. As it is, she barely appears in the finale at all, apart from the moment she rams Hayward.

The friend of Monica's mom is pretty clearly Nick Fury

In the scene, the agent takes Monica into the theater and explains that a friend of her mother's wants to see her. She says she has heard Monica has been grounded, and that this friend wants to meet with her. When Monica asks where, the agent points to the sky.

She is pretty clearly talking about Nick Fury, and she is pointing to the SWORD base we saw him on out in space in the post credits scene from Spider-Man: Far From Home. Thinking about it more, I started asking some questions. How is Director Hayward the director of SWORD, and how might Nick Fury fit into their chain of command? What exactly is he running?

It seems as though Fury may be running something a little more covert. The agent never mentions Nick Fury by name and instead uses somewhat ambiguous language, in case somebody is listening. I think that is a very clear setup for Secret Invasion.

Fury going covert points straight at Secret Invasion

If Fury is running something covert, it is because they are in the same situation they were in when SHIELD was infiltrated by Hydra. We have already seen how that plays out, except this time Nick Fury has a lot of experience dealing with this kind of thing.

This is also a good moment to point out that the show did quite a bit of subtle world building across the whole series. Early on, presumably Agent Woo or one of the other agents in the office wrote Skrulls on the whiteboard with a question mark, as a possible culprit for what was going on.

I have speculated before, like other people, that it seemed a little silly to do a Secret Invasion after everybody already knows about the Skrulls. Isn't the secret kind of out? But that scene showed us how easily they can infiltrate and move among society without being detected, hence the name. It looks as though the wheels are already in motion, at least on Nick Fury's side, to start moving secretly against a threat that has probably already been established and probably grew at an exponential rate between the snap and the blip, when everything was in disarray.

Wanda on the porch mirrors Thanos, and the Darkhold reads backwards

The second post credits scene is a lot less straightforward. First, something I missed in my Easter egg breakdown: it is not a coincidence that we see Wanda sitting on a porch the same way we saw Thanos at the end of Infinity War.

She gets up and walks into the cabin, and the camera moves through the cabin to the back room, where we see her doing what looks like a sort of astral projection while reading through the Darkhold. Something else I missed the first time is that the pages are turning in the opposite direction. I like that, as if the book could actually be written backwards.

Astral projecting while fully awake sets Wanda apart from Doctor Strange

There is something "very cool and very creepy" about the way they staged this scene. The last time we saw someone astral projecting to study a book, if that is indeed what she is doing, it was Doctor Strange, and it was a pretty cool scene at the time.

This is an analog to that, a parallel, but almost a clear dichotomy. They made sure to show us that Wanda is awake and conscious, living her life, and still able to do this at the same time. Agatha made a point during the series of saying Wanda is destined to become more powerful than the Sorcerer Supreme. Could she already be there? Presumably. And at the time I figured that if she was not there yet, she would get there by the time we got to Multiverse of Madness.

Alone with the Darkhold, Wanda has no coven to stop her

The second dichotomy in this scene is that Wanda is in solitude. There is no coven. She is learning this very dangerous magic from the Book of the Damned by herself.

That is a stark contrast with what we saw in the original Doctor Strange film. He had the mentors of Kamar-Taj, the Ancient One and the other sorcerers of the Sanctum Sanctorum, to burst into the library when he may have done something stupid with the Time Stone and risked getting caught in a time loop or never having existed at all, as Baron Mordo put it. As I see it, "there is a lot that can go wrong" here.

The whole series was a test of exactly that. Wanda wanted something and was able to achieve it through super dangerous means, to the detriment of, and almost maliciously against, everybody she was mind controlling in the town. She presumably said she was going to understand her power, and had hopefully learned her lesson.

Billy and Tommy calling for help could be a trap from Mephisto or Nightmare

Right before the scene ends, as the closed captions indicate, Wanda hears both of her kids, Billy and Tommy, saying "mom help." She reacts in a way that makes me think she is going to do something about it.

From the Hex rules established during the series, those kids technically should have disappeared when the Hex disappeared, because they were a function of the spell. Perhaps their souls actually continued. I said there might be something funny going on here, because the twins looked set to go on to become members of the Young Avengers. There were also photos on social media and Instagram, since deleted, suggesting they may have been filming on Multiverse of Madness.

Either way, Wanda is dealing with very dark and very dangerous magic, and this is where Mephisto or Nightmare may come calling. Either could easily be imitating her kids' voices to trick Wanda into doing what they want: casting a spell they want her to cast, or going somewhere they want her to go.

Leaving that speculation on the table, I think the other clear implication is that the souls of her kids somehow persisted in the multiverse or somewhere else beyond the Hex. They were expected back in the MCU as Young Avengers, if that roster ever came together. So I think something is at play to test Wanda again, except this time she understands her power and is probably infinitely more powerful than when she created the Hex. In the same way her magic attracted Agatha during the series, whoever is out there now knows how much more powerful she is, and knows her weakness for lost loved ones.

That is how this scene set up Multiverse of Madness. What lengths would Wanda go to, and what would she be willing to do with this newfound power to retrieve her kids from wherever they are, if they are her kids at all?

So what do you think: were those really Billy and Tommy calling out to Wanda, or was it Mephisto or Nightmare setting a trap?