We’re already halfway through Agatha All Along‘s 9 episode run, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore how well it’s setting up Scarlet Witch’s MCU return. And it can’t come soon enough. Elizabeth Olsen’s MCU Avenger has now been dead for two years after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ ending, but there has always been a route back to life (especially since we never actually saw what happened to her body).

Agatha All Along obviously opened with her corpse being part of Agatha’s Mare of Easttown style opening episode, but that was a projection of Agatha’s warped mind. And the longer the show goes on – particularly after Teen was revealed to be Wiccan in Agatha All Along episode 5’s ending – the more it feels like that fantasy was setting up a grand finale where Wanda is resurrected. Even more importantly, though, the show is already subtly working on restoring Scarlet Witch’s reputation, with a major point in episode 5 speaking to her inherent goodness.

Scarlet Witch’s Name Has Been Dragged Through The Mud In The MCU

Wanda Was More Sinned Against Than Sinning

Since Scarlet Witch’s introduction to the MCU for real in Avengers: Age Of Ultron, her arc has positioned her as a morally complex character. Her origin story was one of dramatic trauma – thanks to Stark Tech weaponry killing her parents – and exploitation – when she became a Hydra test subject. The version we first met, filled with fury and a burning urge for vengeance, made sense, and yet, despite her ill-treatment throughout the MCU, we were all told to believe Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness‘ conviction that she was a villain.

Even after Age of Ultron, which also saw her brother killed, Wanda was repeatedly traumatized. She was imprisoned for accidentally killing civilians in Captain America: Civil War‘s opening, ostracized for her potential threat, and then robbed of her happy ending when Vision was killed twice in Avengers: Infinity War. From there, her breakdown in WandaVision added depth, but Multiverse of Madness painted her as an unreasonable and selfish killer without exploring her trauma in a satisfying way.

Agatha All Along Confirms Wanda Isn’t Inherently Evil

There Was Always Goodness Behind Wanda’s Trauma

It has taken a long time, but Agatha All Along subtly restores something of Scarlet Witch’s inherent goodness. When Teen is revealed to be Wiccan, Agatha goads him, saying “you’re just like your mother” as an attempted insult. This comes asTeen balks at the idea of killing people for power, which Agatha and her surviving coven members seem to suggest is just a fact of being a witch. That apparently proves to be Teen’s inspiration to reveal his power, despite his own expressed desire to complete the Witches Road for power.

In saying Teen is just like his mother because of his reluctance to accept the nefarious truth of witchcraft, Agatha indirectly identifies Scarlet Witch’s inherent goodness. Teen explicitly says “That’s what it means to be a witch? Killing people to serve your own agenda? No. Not for me,” and while that’s exactly what Wanda did when she was lost to the Darkhold’s influence, Agatha is underlining the fundamental truth that Wanda is nothing like her, or even the other members of the Coven.

“You’re Just Like Your Mother” Could Have Two Meanings

Is Agatha All Along Going To Reveal Another Big Teen Twist?

There’s actually more to Agatha’s barbed insult that Teen is just like his mother, if you choose to believe the theory that he has been manipulating things all along. It feels like no accident that Teen has been instrumental in discovering key clues during all three of the trials so far: he just seems to be fortuitously in the right place at exactly the right time. What if he knows exactly where to look because he’s the one pulling the strings, flipping WandaVision‘s story on its head?

From Teen’s point of view, his reluctance to accept evil is necessary would make him like Wanda, who eventually fought back against the Darkhold and allowed her essential good to triumph when she sacrificed herself to destroy it. But from Agatha’s point of view, if Teen is behind the trials and brings her to the Witches Road because he knows what it takes to get to the end, he would be no better than the witch who imprisoned her for three years. Agatha now believes Teen is evil, and the question we need answered is how aware he was that the Road was going to claim the lives of some of the triallists.

In that respect, if Teen unwittingly condemned Sharon and Alice to their deaths in Agatha All Along, he is like his mother, and it’s how he reacts that will define whether he is truly Scarlet Witch’s heir. Hopefully, an attack of conscience wouldn’t stop him finding a way to revive his mother, because the MCU needs Scarlet Witch’s return.