Many of the new top loaders do not have agitators.
screw that
it you have a top loader, with an agitator,..take hold of the agitator and pull it straight up....We had a smell in ours and found that within the agitator was a filtering device which was EXTREMELY FOUL.....built up residue for probably YEARS,,,,,,,PATHETIC, but easily cleaned. Ours is an old Maytag which does a excellent job but since it was here when we moved in, I didn’t
know about the lint trap in the agitator....