WandaVision's Seventh Episode Clues: Agatha's Lair, Monica's Powers and the Nexus Ad

WandaVision episode seven confirmed Agnes as the witch Agatha Harkness, revealed in a basement dungeon full of demonic imagery. There is a great deal hidden in this episode, so this is my shot by shot breakdown of the details I think point to what Agatha was doing in Westview, from a pharmaceutical ad that proved one of my theories right to a plant I suspect she was using on Wanda.

Wanda's fading 'previously on' and her hexagon bedding mirror her collapse

Each episode, the way Wanda says "previously on WandaVision" gets less and less cheerful. I read that as a reflection of her worsening mental state as the fourth wall illusion collapses around her. The fourth wall is broken here, and Agatha takes control, reframing this Hex as her own show, Agatha All Along.

Wanda's cover has a hexagonal pattern, and so does Vision's pillowcase, even though he isn't there. Wanda's own pillowcase isn't hexagonal. Maybe that reflects that she isn't really part of this Hex, but in her shame she chooses to blanket herself in it to try to escape her reality.

The boys' remotes glitch back into GameCube controllers, then two Atari joysticks, then Uno cards. Uno was the game a young Monica Rambeau played with her Skrull friend in Captain Marvel, a relationship I believed we might be revisiting.

The radio and a milk carton fed my theory about the children of Westview

As Wanda makes cereal, the radio station is WNDA, for Wanda. The DJ also calls the children of Westview little ghosts. That may be another clue for a theory I pitched the week before: that the children who suddenly showed up in Westview could be the souls of dead children, maybe children Agatha killed over the years.

One of those kids could be reflected on the milk carton, which glitches to show a missing child photo. This comes after the milk switched from almond milk to vitamin D milk, from something vegan to the milk with the most fat in it. I'm not saying they're eating babies. Well, I kind of am, because my read was that this Hex is for the children, for Agatha to consume their life force.

The cereal has a circus theme, with a clown on the box and a circus tent maze on the back. That matches the circus Wanda's expansion turned the SWORD camp into. Similarly, Vision and Darcy get lost in a maze of sorts trying to get away from that circus and back to the heart of Westview.

The opening credits fuse The Office, Happy Endings and Modern Family

The piano music is based on The Office. The rapidly shifting titles are based on the Happy Endings intro, a show produced by the Russo brothers before they moved on to Marvel. The final title, white and red on black, is based on the Modern Family logo, and the confession cams and handheld camera movement are all based on Modern Family's cinematography too.

The flashing titles hide plenty of fun details. A license plate reads 12 28 22, a nod to the birth date of the late Stan Lee, December 28, 1922. Another sign puts Wanda where the word closed would go, the way she has closed herself off from the outside world. There are straight up kidnapper letters reading "I know what you are doing Wanda," which is very I Know What You Did Last Summer. I like the idea that this could be coming from Agatha, shaming Wanda into closing herself off and leaving her kids vulnerable.

Another title shows fridge magnets with a B and an S visible in frame, which I took as a blunt verdict on this Westview sitcom.

The expanded Hex may be a transdimensional shape

From Hayward's new SWORD camp, you can see the expanded Hex's top edges are angled, not unlike a circus tent, like the circus the SWORD agents are now trapped in. It's a 3D hexagonal prism where every angle you look at shows a hexagon, which shouldn't be possible. Think about how you would link a bunch of flat hexagons so they all fit neatly together.

So this is a theoretical shape, like a tesseract, which in physics is a fourth dimensional hypercube that human eyes can only see as a 3D cube as it passes through our dimension. I bring this up because this hyper Hex could be a similarly transdimensional phenomenon: a Hex from a dimension beyond our perception that passes through ours and warps the nature of the system within it.

Over in the circus, one agent is now the strongman and Darcy is an escape artist. Some employees wear jumpsuits with a circus version of the SWORD crest, and there's a booth for fooling the guesser, which I feel is what this show is trying to do to us. Back home, the weather shows sunny skies with a chance of clouds. Later, Darcy comments that it never rains in Westview, yet it rains on them, right after the Nexus commercial in which dark rain clouds form.

Agnes's purple outfit and loaded lines pointed to Agatha Harkness

When Billy asks about Uncle P, Wanda tells the boys not to believe anything that man said, and threateningly points the remote at them. They look shaken, as if mommy might change them the way their game controllers were just warped. Then Agnes arrives wearing purple, the color of Agatha Harkness. We see Agatha's ornate purple dress and boots for a brief second at the end of the episode, but Agnes has been wearing Agatha's brooch the whole time.

In the comics, Agatha often accompanies Wanda. She isn't always evil; most of the time she's neutral or even a good guy. But in the West Coast Avengers run that WandaVision seems partly based on, Agatha gaslights Wanda into thinking she has kids who are actually pieces of Mephisto's soul. Pietro called them demon spawn in the previous episode.

Agnes says she got there in the nick of time, because Wanda was one split end away from cutting her own bangs. Nick of time and the name of her rabbit are things some think could be nods to Agatha's son, Nicholas Scratch. As for cutting her bangs, Agnes might have been afraid Wanda was about to cut, or erase, her kids. Am I reaching?

Agnes also mentions a suspicious mole on her back. Moles are associated with witches; people thought they were a mark of the devil. The camera cuts away right as she lifts her top, but Wanda's and Tommy's faces aren't just weirded out, they're disgusted by whatever they see. I'm assuming there's a hideous festering mole under there. Then Wanda repeats that she's fine, channeling Mrs. Hart's "stop it" scene.

A decoy email from Hayward and a possible Skrull link for a SWORD major

When Jimmy receives Darcy's email, his screen shows it ends with "this is a decoy communique" that Hayward sent to Vision's office. That answers who sent Vision the email in episode five. It was a ploy by Hayward to shake Vision out of the trance and get him to leave Westview, so Hayward could retrieve his sentient weapon.

Monica then meets a SWORD unit led by a major. Is this major the mystery engineer the previous two episodes were setting up, the one everyone thought was going to be Reed Richards? The major likely worked for the SWORD space program. I'm assuming these are the astronauts who didn't report back to Hayward, maybe because they didn't like him undoing Maria Rambeau's legacy.

I had a suspicion that this unit is a SWORD division of Skrulls, maybe the unit Fury is attached to on that space station. The major could be a grown version of Talos's daughter, Monica's Uno playing pal, steering clear of Hayward because, unlike Maria and Monica, he views aliens as threats. They may not be revealing themselves to Jimmy Woo because he brainstormed Skrulls as possible perpetrators, though they could totally trust him. The tag number 9219R is probably for rover, and 9219 could nod to 1992, within the window Soren, her daughter and the other Skrulls were hidden in Earth's orbit, 1989 to 1995. Maybe something big happened in 1992, or maybe it was the year they built this rover.

Darcy's lobster, a hula girl and Kathryn Hahn's disguised voice

Darcy tells Vision she'll go out with him but she's ordering the lobster. Lobster was on the menu in the first episode, so I like the idea that even inside the Hex, Darcy might subconsciously still be shipping herself with her sitcom dream boo. A hula girl could be a nod to the one Skye had in the Framework episodes of Agents of SHIELD, the same stretch where Coulson ranted about the Hydra soap.

As the house glitches, the stork returns and Wanda tells the confession cam she can't fix it. A voice replies: "do you think maybe this is what you deserve?" At first this reminded me of the moment in The Office when a crew member appears on screen for the first time. Modern Family pretended there was no reason for a documentary, which made it creepy that a crew would be filming.

This is my favorite detail of the episode. The Agatha All Along sequence later revealed Agatha to be the one behind the camera, probably the director of this show. That male voice is Kathryn Hahn's voice pitch shifted downward.

The Nexus commercial proved my prediction and pointed to Wanda as a Nexus being

My theory was right: I had said not to be surprised if the Modern Family era commercial was a stereotypical pharmaceutical ad for anxiety and depression. The Nexus taglines, the reality of your choice and the world revolving around you, are all references to Wanda Maximoff being a Nexus being. In Marvel lore, that's an individual who exists separate from any one reality or timeline, which is how Wanda was able to flip realities in House of M.

That told me the series was probably setting up the Marvel multiverse. A bottle behind the woman reads multi, probably from multivitamin, but the word is there. Even if Evan Peters's Pietro isn't Quicksilver from the Fox X Men universe, this expanding Hex could be one way reality gets rewritten in a House of M way to create the multiverse, a crisis I expected Loki, Spider-Man 3 and Multiverse of Madness to deal with. Jean Grey and Kang the Conqueror are also technically Nexus beings, so I thought we'd get a clearer definition with the TVA in Loki.

The active ingredient ends in cide, a suffix meaning something that kills, and the ad lists 10.3 percent. That could mean Wanda using her Nexus status to reset reality and kill off 10.3 percent of people, as in no more mutants. Or it could be an ingredient that reduces one's affinity to chaotically rewrite reality by 10.3 percent, giving Wanda greater control.

I love how the ad is shot. The woman lies down in bed, then the set is rebuilt so the bed is on a wall she steps away from, her reality turned on its axis so she can step forward from that depression sinkhole on a level plane. The corner reads see our ad in the Westview Gazette, a nod to the newspaper ads for appliances, reflecting Vision as an appliance in Hayward's eyes. Ask your doctor could nod to Doctor Strange as the one I thought might help break Wanda's reality warping addiction in Multiverse of Madness. It ends with her stepping into a red glow, as if to say: take Nexus, become queen of your own reality, warp into a red tinted Hex.

I believe Agatha has been drugging Wanda with the Wundagore Everbloom

Billy tells Agnes she's quiet on the inside, a signal that Billy, a telepath deafened by all the noise in Westview, can't read Agatha's thoughts or those of her quiet rabbit. When called out, Agatha freezes her hand just over the rabbit, almost as if ready to activate him into a new form.

On the table are violet flowers with leafy stems that look like the flowers all over her yard, and the leaves look like what Billy was feeding the rabbit, though it could have been spinach. My theory is that this is the Wundagore Everbloom, the plant that grows in Agatha Harkness's yard in the comics and, once eaten, gives visions of what life could be via feelings of pain. In Tom King's Vision comics, Sparky had eaten it, discovered after Virginia beat him to death. I believe Agatha killed Sparky for digging up this plant in her yard.

I also believe she has been drugging Wanda with it all along: the plant tied with a purple ribbon in episode one, the dinner in episode one, her booze in episode two, the lavender spray in episode five, and now a medicinal form. Wanda pops pills, and what does Agnes do when she arrives? Brews her tea, which I'm assuming is herbal. She even made an herb out of Herb. My reasoning was that the drugging keeps Wanda in the fantasy so Agatha can consume her children's life force.

Monica's run through the Hex turned her into Photon

Monica activates a spectrometer in the rover cockpit, which measures radiation; it's the same device Bruce Banner used to track the Tesseract in The Avengers. As she pushes through, we hear audio from Captain Marvel, also heard softly when she unblipped in episode four. It's the scene before Carol, Maria and Fury launch, where young Monica asks, "maybe I could fly up and meet you halfway," and hears, "only if you learn to glow like your Auntie Carol."

Monica's face stretches from itself like Jodie Foster's interdimensional travel in Contact. Scott Derrickson said that visual inspired Doctor Strange's trip through the multiverse, and that's essentially what's happening here. Monica splits into the roles of her life: unblipping and looking for her mother in the hospital, then an astronaut, a government agent, and Geraldine. I see this as the order of her priorities: daughter first, then explorer, then agent, then maximum selflessness, even in defiance of her country, a sacrificial empath trying to talk an Avenger off a ledge.

She pulls herselves into one and sticks a superhero landing, with another later in the episode. Her eyes glow blue and she sees the anomaly in its true irradiated state, like Neo in The Matrix. Monica became Photon, an Avenger with powers similar to Captain Marvel, and it's fitting that her transformation matches how Carol went Binary, by syncing all her past selves. But this one looks way cooler, and her clothes underneath match Photon's comic color scheme.

Dennis's rabbit logo and the trick behind the moving chair

Dennis the mailman now works for Presto, with a rabbit logo on his hat. Pixar has a short called Presto about a rabbit feuding with his magician on stage, similar to Agnes's rabbit running amok during Vision's magic show, something Agatha revealed was her doing. I believe Agnes's rabbit is either Agatha's son Nicholas Scratch, which might be who Evan Peters's Pietro is, since rabbits are quick little speedsters, or Old Scratch, Agatha's husband Ralph. I won't go as far as saying that's the mailman, but the rabbit logo suggests he's under Agnes's control. I wondered whether his packages held supplies to help Agatha maintain the drugging.

Agnes breaks up the heartfelt moment between Monica and Wanda with little old lady colloquialisms like young lady and run along, dear. In her home, the cups have hexagon patterns, and Yo Gabba Gabba on the TV chants jump, almost inviting Wanda to take the plunge into the basement. Some say a chair moves on its own behind Wanda, but that's a trick of the eye: the camera starts in a pan and curves around her face as she turns her head, so the chair seems to scoot behind the wall.

Then Wanda sees a cicada. Cicadas are said to symbolize immortality and sleep for about 17 years before they hatch, which could parallel Agatha staying dormant for years and then reemerging. Personally, I see a nod to The Silence of the Lambs, when Clarice Starling sees the moth in Buffalo Bill's home and realizes she's in the home of a killer hiding horrors in the basement.

Agatha's basement is a satanic temple, most likely holding the Darkhold

The aspect ratio widens, telling us Wanda has temporarily left the Hex; this dungeon is in the real world. There's an animal head that's either a goat, a ram or maybe a yak, something Baphomet like. Demonic faces are carved into the pillars above hexagons etched with golden symbols. There are animal bones in a red lit cabinet and a winged creature in a corner.

The big one is the glowing book, most likely the Darkhold, the ancient Marvel book of the dead created by Chthon, the demon who in the comics cursed Wanda with her powers as a baby. The Darkhold appeared in Agents of SHIELD with a different cover, but that show isn't really considered canon by Kevin Feige, so this is probably a new version. Its symbol looks like two keys joining to open a central lock.

I'd speculated the book could be from the Kamar-Taj library, which would root Wanda's sorcery in Doctor Strange's eldritch magic and explain the Hex's geometric shape, since many sorcerer spells take angular shapes. Some say it could be the Necronomicon, which was derived from the Darkhold, but I think it's more likely the Darkhold, and I expected it to be used to justify supernatural elements in the MCU like Blade. Here, it's likely the source of the hex this witch is putting over Wanda, because this is a satanic temple, and the witch who occupies it reveals herself.

Agatha All Along casts her as a meddler, and Monica's purple eyes aren't a trance

The revised intro opens with Agatha floating down to help a domestic family like Mary Poppins, who is a witch, don't forget that. The lyrics say she pulled every evil string, but interestingly they don't say she created the Hex, which makes her sound like she's meddling in it. That includes the rabbit, Herb, Pietro and killing Sparky. She lied to Vision, and it looks like that was to get him out of the picture so she and Pietro could move in on those kids. The music sounds like a monster's theme, and the female vocals are by Kathryn Hahn herself. As Pietro arrives in the sequence, perhaps that creepy appendage we saw in the mirror was her magic pulling him into the house.

Pietro appears in the scene after the credits, surprising Monica as she snoops into the basement. Monica's eyes glow purple, but I don't think that means Agatha's magic has hold of her, because she still reacts cognitively to Pietro. I think as Photon her eyes illuminate to reveal energy not normally visible, like how they glowed blue earlier.

Agnes's car has a Connecticut license plate, not a New Jersey one. She mentioned that her and Ralph's anniversary was June 2nd, the day the Salem witch trials began in 1692. Salem is in Massachusetts, but witch trials and executions were happening all over New England, including Connecticut. As Monica peeks in, a shadow in the window moves independently of her reflection. I'm thinking that could be the rabbit turned Pietro darting over, presto, to catch her.

I'm not going to try to fool anyone: Agatha is clearly the villain of the show, Westview is her operation, and she has associations with witchcraft and dark magic. As great as this Agatha reveal is, I think most of us did see it coming.