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I couldnt quite connect with the show the way my two colleagues were, it seemed.
But reader, Im here to tell you that hope springs eternal.
This episode or, at least, the sitcom-subversion parts of it really got me going.
I once was blind, but now I (kinda) see.
Wanda enters in a dimestore-spandex version of her classic original comics costume, as designed by writer/artist Jack Kirby.
Im a Sokovian fortune-teller, she announces.
(Not exactly the most sensitive depiction of Eastern Europe, but okay.)
Wanda says she doesnt remember it that way; Pietro says its because she suppressed the trauma.
Wanda is disappointed, but Pietro volunteers to step in as father figure.
All the pieces are in motion for sitcom-y action.
She and the rest of the Virtuous Trio are officially off the case.
Back in town, Wanda and Pietro are wandering the streets while the boys scrounge for sugar.
According to him, Vision is not actually participating in the Watch.
You want something changed?
Herb asks, oddly and portentously.
One of them has a tear rolling down her frozen face.
Yo-Magic: The Snack for Survivors!
Wanda asks him what happened to his Sokovian accent; What happened to yours?
The boys run back and now, it seems, Tommy has his own super-speed abilities.
Who knows what lies beyond?
And then he spots Agnes.
This is the scene I was talking about before.
Agnes, too, is frozen, stuck inside her car.
Town square, I expect, Vision says with a nervous laugh.
She chuckles lightly; Got lost, she says.
Vision takes a bold step and touches her to reverse her mind-control.
Agnes suddenly looks at him in panic.
Youre one of the Avengers!
Are you here to help us?
Vision, bewildered, replies, I do want to help, but whats an Avenger?
She asks if hes dead and starts yelling, Dead!
Desperate, Vision mind-whammies her back into submission.
Agnes looks right at him, smiles a terrifying smile, and declares, Okey-dokey, neighbor!
and keys up the car.
she shouts as she drives off; we zoom out to see were on the dreaded Ellis Avenue.
God, this scene is unsettling.
Monica is undeterred and says she has to help Wanda.
You handled the ethical considerations of this scenario as best you could, he adds.
Darcy runs to him and yells to the feds that they have to help him.
She gets handcuffed to a cars grille for her troubles.
Now both boys are super-powered individuals, for better or worse.
Pietro makes a joke about her dead husband dying again and Wanda mind-tosses him into the scenery.
Enraged and frightened, Wanda activates her powers andeveryonein town freezes.
An energy pulse emanates out from her.
Jimmy and Monica, driving, see the Hex expanding, as do the feds.
Darcy is abandoned while still cuffed and looks on as the Hex approaches her.
We zoom out and see just how big the Hex has become.
There is no twist this time, only terror.
And thats where it ends!
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