Warning: This article contains spoilers for Agatha All Along episode 5, “Darkest Hour, Wake Thy Power.”Agatha All Along showrunner Jac Schaeffer opened up about the wild ride that was episode 5. Not only did the episode contain the much-awaited reveal of Teen’s identity, but it also featured the most shocking character death of the series so far. Since its airing, fan speculation has run rampant regarding how Agatha’s trial unfolded.

In an interview with The Wrap, Schaeffer addressed the theory that the trial wasn’t for Agatha, explaining that she “wanted to do Agatha’s trial earlier than people expected.” The Agatha All Along boss further stated that the trial did go as planned:

Yes, they did pass this trial. The power piece of it is a larger conversation, but the sort of mechanics of the trial, what we were trying to do — and again, like always, I love everyone’s interpretations. And I do believe, you know, both with “WandaVision” and this show, we put so much love and intention into it, but once it’s once it leaves us, it belongs to everyone else and their interpretations.

But our intention was that, in every trial there is a stated goal, a stated thing that they are supposed to accomplish. And in this case, the stated goal is punish Agatha. And what happens is she’s put in a situation where she kills one of her own coven members and then has to look in the faces of the rest of her coven. And that’s when the door opens, because she is punished.

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