Jac Schaeffer and Patti LuPone, you will pay for the pain you’ve caused.

On Wednesday, a new episode of Agatha All Along hit Disney+ and immediately foreshadowed a tearjerker ending for one key character.

**Spoilers ahead for Agatha All Along Episode 7, “Death’s Hand In Mine” ahead**

The new episode marked the end of the road for Lilia Calderu (LuPone), the quirky but clairvoyant witch who seemed slightly off her rocker throughout the first six episodes. During her time on screen, Lilia would often seem puzzled, displaced, and would shout out random words and tarot cards, much to the confusion of her makeshift coven members.

In Episode 3 (“Through Many Miles of Tricks and Trial”), as the witches were walking around looking for clues during their first trial on the Witches Road, Lilia caught Agatha (Kathryn Hahn) off guard as she yells “Try to save Agatha” out of the blue. An episode later, while conversing with Alice (Ali Ahn), she abruptly shouts out, “Alice, don’t,” again confusing her friend.

At one point in Episode 5 (“Darkest Hour / Wake Thy Power”), Billy (Joe Locke) even calls out Lilia’s wackiness as they are facing Agatha’s trial, saying, “Lilia’s being weird again.”

Sure, she seemed a little kooky, but kind of in the same way as your elderly grandma or oddball aunt — never fully there, you know? Well, leave it to Schaeffer and the show’s writers — the same team who gave us a line like “What is grief if not love persevering?” — to hand us more emotional trauma, this time in the form of a beautifully misunderstood character.

After six episodes of Lilia’s antics briefly disrupting each trial, the audience is finally given her backstory in Episode 7 and, in turn, dosed with a heartbreaking look at how she became a witch without a coven.

Earlier in the season, Lilia stumbled into a room during a trail where she discovered a gaunt and ghostly-looking woman in medieval attire, teasing a juicy origin to be revealed in later installments. That reveal finally came in Episode 7 as we were introduced to a young Lilia, learning the art of witchcraft from her maestra in Sicily hundreds of years ago.

You see, Lilia has always struggled with seeing time as linear. In previous episodes, she mentioned that her former coven kicked her out for predicting that they would be wiped out by a fever. Similarly, Episode 6 (“Familiar By Thy Side”), revealed that she was the one who put the sigil on Billy/Teen, after seeing his life-line split in two, signaling his death as William Kaplan and his rebirth as Billy Maximoff. The ability is very much a gift and a curse, however.

For Lilia, the show explains that it means she lives in a perpetual state of semi-consciousness — receiving pieces of different timelines and having to position them together in order to get the full picture.

It’s a solid storyline and character development explanation and an even more effective storytelling tactic. Agatha All Along takes the “show me, don’t tell me” approach here and takes us along with Lilia who is zapped in and out of moments without warning. It’s a head-spinning feeling that would make even the most sane among us lose their mind after a while and it’s the perfect way to make us sympathetic to her character.

Combine that with the fact that LuPone — a veteran stage actor with four Tony Awards, two Laurence Olivier Awards, and four Drama Desk trophies — is fighting back tears in nearly every shot of the episode and you have an episode that feels like it was conjured up to make us all cry.

Now maybe it is the writing — which is certainly not to be overlooked because it was excellent by all accounts — but we’re going to give LuPone her flowers here and even toss out the word we’re all thinking: Emmy. At multiple points throughout the episode, even when dressed up in a Glinda the Good Witch costume or covered in mud, the actress sells the role with such honesty and earnestness that it’s hard not to get emotional.

Just as she predicts during her test, she is the “Queen of Cups,” a tarot card she reads and assigns to herself, identifying her as the mature woman meant to guide and support the other witches on their journey. In this realization — and the acknowledgment that all of the other cards she has shouted out throughout the series perfectly align with cards for each coven member — Lilia accepts her fate and understands the path ahead for her only has one destination: death.

While LuPone gracefully portrays a doomed woman who knows her fate, it’s the quiet moments where her eyes show her as a witch of a certain age who has been disregarded by society. In the show’s silent pauses, she looked not like someone who was filled with vigor and excitement to get to the end of the Witches Road and reclaim her power, but rather like an elderly woman who longed for companionship after centuries without a coven. It immediately strikes a chord with anyone who has felt alone, but add to it the feeling that Lilia has been disregarded in her older years — especially because of her mental state — and you have a gut punch of an episode.

The feeling only grows as Lilia realizes the tarot trial is her own and that she must read the cards for herself. Luckily, they are all the cards she has already seen in the events leading up to the task — although that did not come without her being reminded by her maestra that she must see, rather than just look. Ultimately, Lilia finds comfort in accepting her fate is to save the witches of her coven — something she could not do for her previous coven.

“Death comes for us all,” the maestra tells Lilia as she responds, “You say it like it’s a comfort.” To that, her teacher — who is spitting straight bars for someone in centuries-old garb — says, “It’s what we all have in common.”

In understanding that death is not the enemy, Lilia decides she will sacrifice herself for the greater good of the ones she loves. With the success of a Witches Road trial under her belt, she opts to face the Salem Seven alone and pushes Jennifer (Sasheer Zamata), Agatha, and Billy toward the road and onto their next test. Being the diva that she is, though, she delivers one final line to Jennifer, making sure that she knows their magic is a beautiful thing.

“I loved being a witch,” Lilia says with a touch of sadness and hope in her voice. The line is evocative of the “we were girls together” park bench that I both love and strongly recommend you do not look at unless you want to cry for approximately 12 hours.

In a baller move, Lilia reverses the tower card and flips the room upside down, sending the Salem Seven — or at least five that we can see for sure — to their deaths as they meet the swords that were falling from the ceiling throughout the trial. Lilia, having seen the death tarot card and knowing what to do, lets go of the table she was grasping and cinematically falls toward the swords, just as the opening shot of the episode foretold. There is a slight tweak worth mentioning, though. Rather than reaching out for help as she appears to do in the beginning of the episode, the last shot shows Lilia with open arms, signaling her welcoming death.

While we never see her impaled (thank god), the next scene shows the younger version of Lilia running out to her maestra for a lesson as “Time In a Bottle” by Jim Croce plays over the sound of the audience at home sobbing collectively.

To me, Episode 7 is an origin story for a character that may have otherwise gone overlooked. It reminded me in many ways of “Yuki,” an episode from Hulu’s PEN15 that poetically told the story of an immigrant mother and wife who had been nothing more than a background player up until that point. There’s just something so moving about that narrative. And hey, to take a character that may not have otherwise gotten the spotlight and give them their own platform, that’s kind of the whole point of Agatha All Along, is it not?

Alas, we want to say rest in peace to a true queen. Alive for hundreds of years and still gone too soon.

The first seven episodes of Agatha All Along are streaming on Disney+. The final two episodes drop on Wednesday, Oct. 30 at 6 pm PT.