The following contains spoilers for episode four of WandaVision.
The first three episodes of Marvel’s WandaVision on Disney+ have a very different vibe than the fourth. While the initial episodes follow a sitcom format, the fourth takes the audience into Agents Of SHIELD territory with a team of government (SWORD) agents and scientists trying to figure out just what’s going on in Westview. That team never would have made it to Westview, however, if FBI Agent Jimmy Woo didn’t have the foresight to call in a little assistance when one of his witnesses goes missing.
The only reason this strange reality of Wanda and Vision living out their happily ever after in sitcoms is discovered is because Agent Woo thinks something is hinky. As he points out to Monica Rambeau when she arrives on the scene, he can tell that the town doesn’t want him to come in; he can feel it. It’s also notable that no one around the bubble surrounding the town seems to remember it exists at all. While all of that creates an entertaining and compelling mystery for the audience, some viewers find themselves wondering: who is Jimmy Woo’s witness and what exactly did they witness?
When Ant-Man And The Wasp introduced Jimmy Woo as a supporting player, he was assigned to Scott Lang because Lang was on house arrest for breaking the Sokovia Accords. It’s not clear if this is a witness for a case in a similar vein, or if they just know something about garden variety criminal activity. The fact that this mysterious person is in witness protection, however, suggests that whatever they know, it’s very important to the case Woo was working before Westview ended up on his radar.
Though Jimmy Woo refers to the witness as “him,” he only does it after Monica uses the same pronoun. That could be done simply to keep the identity a secret since he never names them. There are some interesting possibilities for his witness – both male and female.
One of the most mysterious residents in Westview is Agnes. She’s one of Wanda and Vision’s next-door neighbors and always seems to have tips for Wanda about how to get by in her new neighborhood. Agnes also, however, seems to know a bit more than she’s letting on. She stops Herb from talking to Vision in the third episode, but offers up information about Geraldine, letting Vision know the latter isn’t from Westview.
While some fans theorize that Agnes may be comic book character Agatha Harkness, that particular theory hasn’t been proven or disproven just yet. What is interesting about her is that she’s one of the few Westview “characters” who isn’t identified when Jimmy Woo and Darcy Lewis start figuring out their real names. Though there’s a dossier for her, there’s no state ID attached. It could be that she has no identifiable real world counterpart – or it could be that Agent Woo is keeping her real name to himself because she’s the witness he’s looking for.
Just who is Ralph? The audience doesn’t know. Agnes frequently references Ralph, her husband she seems to not even particularly like. Most of her one-liners are related to their relationship. The audience, however, still hasn’t seen him on screen despite all of her mentions. Even when Agnes attends the charity event in the second episode, Ralph doesn’t make an appearance.
Agnes talking about him, but never being in the same frame as him, only makes the audience more suspicious. Some suspect he doesn’t exist at all. That might not be the case. It’s entirely possible that Ralph, like Agnes and Herb, is at least partially aware that something strange is going on and stays out of sight as a result. There are only a handful of people who regularly interact with Wanda in her constructed reality. If he’s in the witness protection program as a result of a connection to a super-powered person, he might suspect the weirdness in town relates to him. Ralph could simply be playing it safe.
One of the first Westview residents to break through the sitcom facade, Dottie questions who Wanda is briefly. That questioning, however, disappears in an instant. The mysteries of the reality of Westview aside, Dottie is a good candidate for Woo’s witness for one reason: her photo doesn’t make it onto the board.
While Darcy identifies several residents, Dottie isn’t one of them. When Dottie appears, it’s while Woo is outside on the radio. He tries to communicate with Wanda while Darcy watches the sitcom events play out. Woo never sees Dottie through the events of the fourth episode that the audience knows of. She could be his witness simply because he hasn’t had the chance to identify her yet.
There is, of course, the possibility that the cast of characters the audience already met doesn’t include Jimmy Woo’s witness. There are quite a few people in Westview who haven’t interacted with Wanda or Vision at all. Westview might be a small town but not everyone in town plays a part in Wanda’s sitcoms.
If Woo’s witness hasn’t been introduced, it leaves the audience to wonder if the witness is important at all. The witness could have simply been the excuse to get Woo to notice Westview, nothing more than a plot device that the audience never gets the whole story for. The witness could also be part of a larger story coming to the Disney+ corner of the MCU. They could even be the “unbelievable” actor previously teased by Paul Bettany. The audience will just have to wait and see.
WandaVision is currently streaming on Disney+ with new episodes available on Fridays.
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