Legacies – Death Keeps Knocking on My Door

By starrymag | December 19, 2018

By: Atiya Irvin-Mitchell

 

 

The mid-season finale of Legacies is called “Death Keeps Knocking At My Door,” but an alternative title could be “Hope, Rafael and Alaric and the No Good, Very Bad Day.” It’s almost remembrance at the Salvatore school, the day of the year everyone’s meant to write letters to their dead loved ones. This year thanks to the necromancer (Ben Geurens ) Raf (Alex Peyton Smith) won’t have to write because his very dead girlfriend Cassie (Erinn Westbrook) comes back from the dead at the start of the episode. Oh boy.

 

Speaking of people who’ve been confronted with their dead loves, Ric’s (Matthew Davis) upset at having had to bury Jo (Jodi Lyn O’Keefe) again by trying to torture the necromancer. The problem is, this guy’s not feeling any pain. They’ve been at this for days and in addition to being unphased, the man in question giving up no answers. Hope interrupts the chat to tell her headmaster about Cassie. Apparently, her spirit was clinging to Raf.

 

Ric and Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) go to deal with the Cassie of it all and Hope says the necromancer can’t resurrect the ghosts of everyone’s loved ones. It’ll be the night of the walking dead. Also, she needles Ric about the interrogations ineffectiveness. Ric’s not hearing it and tells the youngest Mikaelson he’ll handle it, but in the meantime steer clear of the necromancer.

 

Now, for Raf and Cassie. Ric explains to Cassie that the accident she and Raf were in was two months ago. He explains that she didn’t survive and she’s been resurrected.

 

In the library Hope and Dorian (Demetrius Bridges) are in research mode. Necromancy is the practice of conversing with and raising the dead, but there’s no reference to a specific necromancer. They’re also worried about Ric since what happened with Jo hit him hard. But tomorrow on Remembrance Day and they’ll have to manage without Dorian because he’s taking the day off to mourn his dead family.

 

After the chat with Dorian, Hope goes down to the dungeon to have a word with this week’s monster. He tells her she has a powerful scent of death on her. He’s enjoys poking at her about her loss. She tries to stay in control by informing him that all record of him has been erased from history, along with a host of other creatures. He doesn’t take it well.

 

Dorian starts flipping out and doesn’t take it well. He’s angry about his legacy being erased. He wants to know who’s to blame. Hope says that’s what she wants to know, along with who’s pulling the strings. The necromancer says it’s an instinct to return the knife to Malivore to be free.

 

Back to the Rafael and Cassie saga where, understandably, like any teenage girl fresh from her grave Cassie wants to talk to her mother. Ric’s sympathetic, but he stops her saying it’ll be unfair to put her mother through that when realistically, Cassie has to go back to grave. Alaric says he’s sorry she has to go through this and asks her if she needs anything. Cassie stuns Raf and Ric by saying she’d like to get to the bottom of how Rafael murdered her.

 

In the dungeons the necromancer tells Hope the last thing he remembers is messing with some Nazis during World War II on beach and then there was just darkness. He doesn’t remember who killed him. Hope wants to access the memory, but she’s gonna need a vampire. Enter M.G.

 

M.G. is feeling inferior after an unsuccessful lifting session with Kaleb (Chris Lee). Kaleb says M.G. (Quincy Fouse) is so weak because he doesn’t drink human blood.   Hope walks into the gym and asks him to help her take a walk through the necromancer’s subconscious.

 

Meanwhile, Alaric cheeks in with Raf while Cassie’s in the shower. He’s been there with Jo and knows there’s nothing he can say to comfort him, but tries anyway. They talk a little about the accident and Rafael wants to know if Cassie can stay alive. Ric understands, but when the necromancer dies unfortunately Cassie will, too. He encourages Raf to use the time he has with Cassie to get closure.

 

With M.G. in tow Hope goes into the necromancer’s cage. M.G’s excited and then freaked out when he uses the memory of M.G.’s Nana to mess with him. However, apparently the necromancer and the grim reaper have some sort of beef. Well, it’s subconscious diving time. The necromancer takes Hope to New Orleans, specifically to Rousso’s where she spent a good chunk of her childhood. After using Klaus’s (Joseph Morgan) memory and the questions Hope has about him to torture her, he gives her the slip. She’s thrust out of his mind, but wants to head back in for answers despite M.G.’s objections. Inside his mind there more mind games. Think of it as the worst, most vain fun house ever.

 

Cassie and Raf talk about the accident. She remembers why they crashed and says it wasn’t just the rain. Rafael keeps saying he loves her and doesn’t understand what she’s talking about. She presses him to think about why he took the turn too fast and he loses it knocking over a tray of food before storming out.

 

Ric tracks Raf down who admits the day of the accident he was angry about the track meet. He got upset that he didn’t medal and accused Cassie of flirting with the guy who beat him. He picked a fight and took the turn too fast. He finally says it wasn’t just the storm, it was him.

 

The necromancer continues to torture Hope. Before he says Hope wants answers about if Klaus is at peace and if he regrets sacrificing himself to save her. Hope, alone in the darkness, says he’s wrong and she’s at peace with her father’s death. When she gets no answer, she says she wants to leave, but this is easier said than done much to M.G.’s dismay.

 

Near the lake Rafael finds Cassie. His says he can admit now what happened and apologizes to Cassie saying he’ll never forgive himself. She says she didn’t call him out to punish him, but because she wanted him to be honest. Raf explains some of the finer points being a baby werewolf, but Cassie says when they were together despite knowing he wouldn’t intentionally hurt her that Rafael scared her sometimes. She says he’s got a lot of work to do werewolf or not and asks for a few moments alone in the sun.

 

A frantic M.G. goes to Ric and explains Hope is stuck in the necromancer’s mind. Speaking of which, trapped alone Hope admits she’s desperate to know if her father’s at peace. The necromancer ejects her from his mind and they come face to face with a very angry Ric.

 

M.G. shaken by not being able to help Hope goes to Kaleb and says he needs to be strong because when he’s weak people get hurt. He says he’s ready to feed on human blood.

 

In Alaric’s office he tells off Hope for being reckless. She says he wasn’t getting anywhere and calls him out for his drinking. He says he’s grieving and the necromancer is manipulating her and brings up the lengthy list of dead people he could use against her including her parents. She tells him he’s not her father. The fight ends in her storming out and sealing him in the office. She’s going to go finish what she started.

 

Downstairs the necromancer tells Hope he remembers dying. A searing pain was involved and he was stabbed through the heart with the knife. While he was messing with Hope he summoned the spirit of the creator of the knife. Apparently, he wasn’t a fan of supernatural creatures. He created Malivore to erase supernaturals from existence. The place itself was sealed, but then the knife started calling to them. There are three locks that keep Malivore shut and the knife is the first one. When all three locks are gone, the creatures of Malivore are free. If it opens, the necromancer says it’s gonna get ugly.

 

Kaleb takes M.G. to a cemetery, which is packed for remembrance day. They find a boy and Kaleb says they’re going to snatch, eat, and erase his memories. Of course this doesn’t go according to plan. M.G. feels guilty, but Kaleb insists it’s no different than eating a burger. M.G. bites the boy, but he can’t stop feeding. Luckily Dorian who’s there for his day off, stops him with a syringe of vervain.

 

Hope’s still talking with the necromancer and things are about to get bad. In addition to his chat with the knife’s creator, he found the knife by controlling Cassie.  Cassie took the knife and he summoned a witch’s ghost to transport the knife. Then, he metaphorically twists the knife in Hope. He tells her Klaus did die with love in his heart. He doesn’t regret his choice, but he watches over Hope everyday and won’t find peace until she does. After that revelation he vanishes.

 

Elsewhere Dorian scolds Kaleb for what happened in the cemetery. Kaleb tries to call him out for the school’s bunny blood diet. Dorian shuts him down by explaining how his family was murdered by a ripper – Stefan Salvatore to be exact. He explains a ripper is a vampire driven only by bloodlust and some vampires, particularly ones with M.G.’s personality type, are predisposed.

 

The episode ends with a voiceover of Hope’s letter to her father. She says she’s glad he’s with her, but wants him to find peace. With that in mind, she says she needs to get to work on making peace with his death. As the letters are scattered through the cemetery with Remembrance Day wrapping up, Rafael says he wants to be a better man like Cassie wanted. He asks Ric to help him with that and Alaric says he’ll try and gives Raf a hug. MG dries out in the dungeons, while a remorseful looking Kaleb looks on.

 

As Hope delivers her letter, she runs into Rafael and apologizes for not being around for him today. He says it’s okay and they discuss impending doom, until Hope’s bracelet glows. Landon’s (Aria Shahghasemi) in trouble.

 

We see a screen being watched by a faceless figure. The knife has been absorbed. They’re wearing gloves and holding the baby picture of Landon and his mother.