Legacies – The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do

By starrymag | March 14, 2019

By: Atiya Irvin-Mitchell

 

 

Tonight we learn that at the Salvatore school the worst Spring break ever can always get worse. We pick up right where we left off with Ric (Matt Davis) thinking the trouble’s over, only to be confronted by a worried Kaleb (Chris Lee) who informs him MG (Quincy Fousse) is MIA. And due to the full moon it’s a bad night for a vampires to be out and about. For the unfamiliar, werewolf bites are lethal to vampires. The cherry on top? Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) says Landon (Aria Shahghasemi) and Rafael (Peyton Alex Smith) are nowhere to be found either.

 

A frantic Hope and Ric have taken to the woods to look for the boys. Her locator spells aren’t working, which means they’re cloaked or dead. The pair stumble on a disoriented Rafael, but he can’t remember anything that’s happened the day before. Yikes.

 

Ric calls in Emma (Karen David) because as the school’s psychologist and a witch they’re gonna need her. Raf’s experiencing lunar psychosis, which is a thing that happens when werewolves are forced back into human form prematurely, usually due to trauma. The good news is it will pass. The bad news? For the time being Raf’s not gonna be able to remember where Landon and MG are on his own.

 

Hope’s freaking out and Emma tries to get her to leave. She’s too emotional to be helpful right now. She leaves the room and starts breaking down, it’s clear this is bringing up a lot of issues for her.

 

Inside Ric’s worried about Raf getting wolfy again. The school’s got a lot of sleeping vampires. Emma’s gonna keep him sealed inside with a spell until the full moon’s over. In the meantime, she says Rafael needs to be surrounded by familiar things so he can connect with his humanity. Ric gently encourages Raf to walk him through the events earlier in the break and it’s flashback time.

 

Earlier in the week while one half of the gang headed on a road trip, Rafael and Landon stayed behind. While Ric’s laying out the rules for kids who aren’t going home for spring break, Kaleb asks Raf for a favor. It turns out that despite the happy face MG’s putting on his family never invites him home. Kaleb wants Landon and Raf to keep MG company while he’s away. Raf reluctantly agrees.

 

Raf and Landon humor MG by attending his trivia session and they’re losing. MG explains that ruling the game’s in his blood, he’s been playing with his father for years. At least, he admits, he used to before he turned. MG’s family hasn’t adjusted well to the vampire thing. His mom calls, his father never does. Landon finds the paternal ghosting unacceptable and comes up with an idea: MG should venture to Maryland to see his dad. Raf says maybe they should just let sleeping distant fathers lie. Landon presses on and MG agrees.

 

It is now resent day again. Ric is trying and failing not to be angry. It’s against school rules to leave during a break without a guardian. Emma tries to reign it in and tells Ric there will be time for yelling later. Ric agrees and cryptically says it’s not Rafael’s fault and that it’s his and rushes off, but not before telling Hope to stay behind. He goes to Kaleb’s room and takes tells the baby vamp he needs his help.

 

With Rafael there’s more storytelling. It seems Penelope (Lulu Antariska) gifted the trio with a cloaking spell. Hence, the failed tracking spell. We get a flashback and learn that in MG’s hometown everyone thinks he’s dead, so no one can see him. Also we find out that MG’s father is running for mayor, which his mother never mentioned. With a little prompting he agrees to see his family. We’re pulled back into the present because Raf’s having a meltdown. Hope’s desperate to find out what happened to Landon, but Emma puts on the breaks on the count of #safetyfirst. He starts hyperventilating and Emma sedates him. Before he goes under Rafael murmurs there was a monster after Landon.

 

Hope talks with Emma and is confused. TRIAD has the urn, so why would another monster come after them? Hope wants to wake him up, but Emma says sleeps safer. Hope says he’s the only one who knows where the boys are. Emma goes into shrink mode and tries to talk to Hope about her own trauma and how what’s happening might be triggering things inside of her. Hope wants to focus on finding the boys.

 

We then get more flashbacks. The boys talked to MG’s mother, Veronica (Erica Ash), and got a seriously chilly reception. She wouldn’t even let them inside. MG’s clearly hurt that he didn’t know about his father’s mayoral campaign. Veronica just says a lot has changed since he died. She also says his father doesn’t want to see him as his belief system doesn’t allow for accepting people coming back from the dead. Except for Jesus, ten points to Landon.  She says his dad will come around, but in the meantime she tells MG and company to leave because no one can know he’s alive.

 

In present time Kaleb and Ric are at MG’s family home. Kaleb wants to know why it’d be so catastrophic for MG to go home. They talk to an unwelcoming Veronica and we learn there was an “arrangement” between her and Ric. She doesn’t seem overly concerned about her missing son and is upset that he showed up in the first place (#motheroftheyear). She assures Ric that MG didn’t see his father and with all the affection of a rattlesnake she says to go find her son.

 

Back at the school Hope’s got an idea. Her mother’s side of her family can control their werewolf transformations, but before that they’d devised an elixir to access their wolf selves’ memories. Hope wants to give it to Raf, but Emma says no. She does not want to risk Raf’s mental health, but Raf’’s willing to take the risk. He knocks Emma unconscious and drinks the elixir.

 

More memories. Rafael is telling Landon that this was a terrible idea. Landon says as someone with zero answers about his family, it’s always better to know the truth. Raf says the truth can hurt and if their foster parents (the ones that tried to perform an exorcism on him) taught them nothing it’s that religious people rarely budge. MG agrees and wants to go home and it’s same for Rafael because the full moon’s approaching. But, wait, it turns out MG’s father got famous for a sermon about missing his dead son. Landon says it’s wrong of him to exploit MG for votes and the boys are off to confront Mr. Greasley.

 

The boys go to a church and Terrence Greasley (Christopher B. Duncan) is shocked to see his MG. At first he thinks God’s testing him and then he’s overjoyed. MG’s father had no idea he was alive. He wants to tell the world, MG puts on the breaks. It’ll look like he faked his son’s death to launch his political career. Mr. Greasley says he doesn’t care. They hug.

 

Raf says the boys didn’t want to leave MG behind, but a werewolf and a vampire on a full moon rarely even ends well and it was getting late. Plus, MG wanted some facetime with his father.

 

Not so shockingly, Landon and Raf didn’t make it back to school on time. So they decide to head to the woods and try to deal with the transformation together. And it’s call out time. Rafael tells Landon it was wrong to project his parental issues onto MG. With Rafael all tied up Landon decides it’s time for the two to talk about Raf’s feelings for Hope.  Rafael admits it, reluctantly and apologizes. Landon says it’s fine because he knows Raf would never hurt him.  Rafael remembers the location and they’re off.

 

While Kaleb and Ric search the forest, with Raf and Hope not far behind, it storytime. When MG turned Veronica was convinced her husband wouldn’t be able to handle the vampirism of it all. So, she sent MG to the Salvatore school on the condition that his father never know. Ric didn’t like it, but he didn’t want to leave MG high and dry, so he agreed. Kaleb admonishes Ric for his shady actions, but Ric tells him that when he’s older he’ll realize life is complicated. The conversation on morality is cut short because Kaleb smells blood. Good(ish) news though, the blood’s MG’s. They find him curled up and clearly not in his right mind. He’s been bitten by a werewolf.

 

As mentioned werewolf bites are lethal to vampires, but according to Ric there is a cure in the form of Hope’s (the tribrid) blood. The only problem is that if MG was bitten yesterday he doesn’t have much time and Hope’s not there yet.

 

While they wait for Hope, a delirious MG explains what happened with his dad. Things were going well until MG showed his father his fangs. His dad flipped out and started calling MG a demon. MG tries to convince his father that he’s still the boy he remembered, but as far as Mr. Greasley is concerned his son is dead. This devastated MG and he compelled his father to forget he was ever there.

 

Kaleb and Ric try to comfort MG to no avail. But apparently the parental rejection isn’t as bad as the story gets. He says he can never go home and he can’t go back to the school either because he’s a killer. Before he can finish explaining Hope and Raf arrive and all the pieces come together.

 

Rafael remembers what happened now. When Rafael was turning Landon refused to leave his side. MG found them, but after the encounter with his father he was pretty out of control emotionally. He blamed Landon for the emotional beating he’d taken. Landon tried to apologize, but MG couldn’t hear it. He punched him which made him bleed. Rafael, seeing where this is headed, tried to get out of the chains to protect Landonyyet MG vamped out and bit him and unfortunately killed him.  This caused a domino effect of Rafael flipping out and biting MG.

 

So, here we are. Hope and Rafael are devastated. Ric and Kaleb are shocked. MG tearfully says he’s a monster, while Hope and Raf cry for Landon.

 

MG explains he was just so angry. Rafael in tears storms off and says he’s going to go find his brother’s body.  Kaleb’s fighting back tears, but he’s worried. What if Hope won’t cure MG. Ric assures him she will, just give her a minute. Hope stands up, asks for Ric’s knife and gives MG her blood. Elsewhere, Rafael finds Landon’s body. A few moments later Hope sees and breaks down.

 

Kaleb and MG wait in the car and MG feels awful. He says his parents hate him and now everyone at school will, too. Kaleb says he’ll be MG’s family now and although the whole immortality thing isn’t easy anyone who wants to hurt MG will have to go through him. Kaleb says they should go help bring Landon’s body back.

 

MG’s appearance isn’t well-received by Rafael, who wants to kill him. But Hope stops him by saying that Landon wouldn’t have wanted that. They try to comfort each other, but are still pretty inconsolable. The grief is interrupted by Landon’s smoking body. No one’s really clear on what’s happening. Raf tells Hope to put him out, but her magic’s not working on him. He continues to smoke until his body’s engulfed in flames while the group watches shocked. When the flames die down, a very confused Landon rises from the ashes and wants to know what the heck just happened.

 

He is indeed supernatural. The kids look to Ric for an answer and he asks, “Have you ever heard the legend of the phoenix?”