Legacies – Maybe I Should Start from the End

By starrymag | January 30, 2019

By: Atiya Irvin-Mitchell

 

Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) is trying to sneak out, only to be thwarted by Alaric (Matt Davis). Afterall, it is his car she planned on taking. Ric demands to know where Hope thought she was going and why he shouldn’t suspend her. She tells him that she got a magical bat signal from her bracelet. Landon’s (Aria Shahghasemi) in trouble and she’s going after him. Admitting defeat, Alaric says he’s driving.

 

We zoom in a coffee shop in Kansas and see Landon. The woman working there comments to him that she’s worried about his caffeine intake. Then, it turns out that Landon hasn’t been coming there for the coffee. The woman is Seylah (Ayelet Zurer) and Landon tells her he thinks she’s his mother.

 

On the way to Landon, it seems Alaric is determined to use the road trip to prepare Hope for midterms with trivia and dad jokes. Hope’s not interested because she’s on top of everything school-wise. We do learn that the twins are in Europe with Caroline post-Necromancer fiasco.

 

Seylah’s taken Landon back to her house, which is filled with artifacts from around the world and she is harshly telling him not to touch. It’s awkward. Landon’s told her his entire life story, but she’s not appearing so forthcoming. Landon wants to know more about her, and she seems to warm up…except it turns out that she drugged him. Landon faints.

 

Nearly twenty hours later Ric and Hope arrive at where they think Landon is located. Alaric wants to be clear with Hope that he’s in charge. He asks her not to use magic, but she doesn’t listen. After hearing a scream inside the house, she magics her way in. The problem is there’s an elderly couple inside but no Landon. His captor stuck the bracelet Hope gave him in their mailbox.

Landon’s day is getting worse. When he comes to, he finds himself tied to a chair. The captivity isn’t mixing well with his claustrophobia, but Seylah’s unmoved. She doesn’t believe Landon’s her son. She’s willing to torture info out of Landon, but he says he’s told her the truth and the stories he’s not telling she’d never believe. Wielding a very hot iron Seylah says everyone talks eventually. Fearing being burned, he tells her about the Salvatore school and the parade of fantasy villains they’ve been encountered.

 

The lights go out and Seylah says “they’re here” and leaves Landon – without untying him. Something slimy and not human stomps down the stairs only to be sliced in half by Seylah.

 

Meanwhile, Hope did a locator spell which led her and Ric to a road that’s being closed off. One of the workers tells the pair there’s been a gas leak. Ric pretends to believe the story but knows it’s a coverup. They leave and realize they’re not the only ones looking for Landon.

 

Speaking of which, Seylah’s taken him to a motel. She thinks whoever’s following them wants Landon. Landon says he would’ve noticed, but it turns out Seylah’s got more experience running then he does. She asks Landon to tell her more about himself. He tells her a little about Hope and their history. Landon says Seylah and Hope probably would butt heads. After hearing about Hope, Seylah comments that boys date girls that remind them of their mothers. She believes him.

 

The bonding moment is interrupted by Alaric and Hope. Seylah pulls out her gun and Hope magics it away and threatens to blow her head off. Ric presumably defuses the situation. They make introductions or at least they are, Ric points out Seylah hasn’t told them anything about herself.

 

Backstory time. When Seylah was young she served in a foreign army. When her time was up, she was recruited by an intelligence organization. She thought the states sounded cool, so she accepted. The organization specialized in keeping the supernatural world a secret. She spent a few years supernatural hunting. A few years in she saw something she shouldn’t have and had to go into hiding. Seylah noticed the “monsters” she’d encountered had disappeared and her memories were being erased. She wanted to know how. Ric realizes it was likely Malivore. He explains about the knife and Seylah knows about Malivore at least. But for the newcomers, Hope explains that it’s a hell-dimension that consumes creatures right out of existence and anyone’s recollection.

 

Seylah says things will only get worse if Ric, Landon and Hope don’t leave and forget they met her. But Landon wants to know more. Seylah bluntly tells him she doesn’t know who his father is and she says her job was stressful and she had flings to blow off steam. With no emotion she tells Landon she’s not mother material. She leaves the room and leaves Landon heartbroken.

 

Out at the pool Seylah and Ric share parental woes. Alaric tells her he’s got experience lying to his own children and knows what Seylah told Landon wasn’t true. He tries to bond with her over his experiences with the twins. She agrees to tell Ric the truth, but she doubts he’ll believe her.

 

Her organization guards the entrance to Malivore. When she realized the gaps in her memory, she started writing everything down. Up until she found herself trapped in a black pit. This was Malivore.

 

Inside the motel Hope’s trying to comfort Landon. He knows he can’t trust Seylah, but all he’s ever wanted was a family. He doesn’t want to give up. Hope understands, but Landon doesn’t like appearing weak.  Hope says it’s not true, but they both agree Landon’s a danger magnet. Landon tells Hope he wrote her letters. They talk about what the letters said and the two share a kiss.

 

Outside, Seylah tells Ric she was thrown inside the pit when her ex-employees realized she was investigating them. When she emerged two years had gone by, no one remembered her and this is the really weird part: she was pregnant.

 

Back inside Landon’s thanking Hope for coming to his rescue. He hasn’t had the best luck with girls. Hope comments she knows the feeling, her first crush helped kill her mother. With those disturbing facts on table they make-out some more and Landon promises not to hurt Hope.

 

Ric summarizes the story with Seylah. Landon’s a supernatural immaculate conception. She’s shocked he believes her. Ric just says he’s got experience with the unbelievable. Seylah says she can’t be the mother Landon needs so she tells Alaric he’ll be better off without her and leaves.

 

With Seylah gone Ric goes inside to break the news and walks in on Hope and Landon’s make-out session. He tells Hope to get a separate room and decides to explain the circumstances of his birth to Landon.

 

Hope catches Seylah leaving. She accuses her of abandoning Landon again. Seylah says she’d wondered about Landon over the years and she feels he deserved better. Hope says no matter Seylah’s intentions Landon will only remember that she bailed. Seylah tells Hope he won’t remember anything and that neither will Hope. Then, she shoots Hope with a tranquilizer.

 

In the motel room poor Landon’s struggling to process the news that Seylah left and more importantly that he was likely conceived in “Satan’s mud bath.” Ric tries to help, but it’s a lot to take in. And then a fish monster attacks them. Hope walks in and holds it off. She wonders why the monsters are still coming since the knife is gone. Plot-twist: Landon reveals he thinks it wants the urn form Seylah’s house which is in his bag, but he doesn’t remember taking it.

 

Hope believes him and has a plan. They let the fish monster take the urn and follow it to Malivore. Ric says no at first, but when Hope says she thinks Seylah’s going there he agrees. She puts the tracking bracelet in the urn, and they head out.

 

Apparently, fish monsters can move pretty fast on land because the trio’s on a high-speed chase. Landon’s kind of bummed his mother would rather erase herself than know him. Alaric’s freaked out and Hope’s just impressed the fish monster can move so quickly. They arrive with no real plan and run into a fence. The fortress has a sign called Triad. They look around and realize the fish chewed threw so they follow him. The fish gets to a certain point, a ball rises from the ground and there’s an explosion.

 

Inside the fortress it’s much what you’d imagine a secret organization to be like with lots of armed guards. Seylah busts inside and takes out most of the guards. Then, after a sad look at the picture of her with baby Landon, she throws herself into Malivore.

 

The next day Hope, Landon and Ric wake up with no clue how they got there. With nothing else to do, they head back to school. Ric’s decided to keep Landon afterall. He says it just feels right. But they’ve still got problems, like the 72-hour memory gap.

 

At school Hope and Landon talk. He’s sad he’ll never meet his mother (memory loss). On the upside, he’s a student now and Hope wants Landon to be her boyfriend.

 

But this relationship going to have some bumps in the road. It turns out Hope remembers everything that happened but doesn’t know why. She told Ric the whole story and wants to know what to do. Alaric’s unsure of what will happen next and as if on cue the earn starts to glow.