Legacies – There’s Always a Loophole

By starrymag | April 4, 2019

By: Atiya Irvin-Mitchell

 

 

It’s the season finale of Legacies and, boy, is it a bumpy ride. We open with MG (Quincy Fousse) talking to Nia (Joi Liaye), the gorgon.  She’s asking him to spring her from her cell, but MG says that’s Alaric’s call and he’s’ still M.I.A. The convo’s cut short by knockout darts to the neck shot by MG’s mother (Erica Ash). Uh-oh.

 

Elsewhere, Hope (Danielle Rose Russell), Rafael (Peyton Alex Smith), Lizzie (Jenny Boyd), Josie (Kaylee Bryant), Kaleb (Chris Lee) and Jed (Ben Levine) are about to head off to rescue Landon (Aria Shahghasemi). But little do they know they’ve got problems of their own. When the #superfriends get to the van a group of TRIAD men are waiting for them armed and dangerous. To make matters worse everyone’s magic from daylight rings to witch spellcasting is disabled. The ring leader, Burr (Rod Rowland), says to invite them in or else. Once inside, Burr gives the student an ultimatum to find the chalice or else.

 

Now for Landon, he’s in a warehouse with his new big brother Ryan (Nick Fink). The warehouse houses confiscated artifacts and he wants Landon to pick out the chalice. They find it, but when it breaks Ryan tells Clarke he failed the loyalty test. Landon says he’ll never give him the third artifact, but Ryan knows he already has it. When Landon took the knife he didn’t even know he was doing it as it was an unconscious instinct and sure enough the third artifact is in Landon’s pocket.

 

Dorian (Demetrius Bridges) and Ric (Matt Davis) try to get back to the school only to realize the old Wickery Bridge has been blown sky high.

 

MG wakes up and has an awkward reunion with his mother. He’s shocked Veronica’s working with the “bad guys.” She insists TRIAD are the good guys and they’re trying to stop a great evil from rising up. She also explains the foreboding blood fountain is what’s nullifying the magic and tries to send MG away. He starts to leave and then uses the dart on her and presumably rushes off to help.

 

Inside Ric’s office the twins and Hope try and fail to get some back-up with a few complications. The twins are still in a bad place and generally freaked out about who will survive the merge. Josie and Lizzie each think they’ll be the one to die. Hope finds the school phone and explains the situation to Ric. The bad news is Dorian says they don’t have the chalice. That’s not going to go over well with the armed and dangerous. Ric begs them not to do anything dangerous. Hope is going to ignore him.

 

Burr overhears Hope and decides he’s going to shoot one of the girls. Hope asks if he’d really shoot a kid. Burr the bigot says they’re not just kids and explains the bullets are made from malivore, ensuring a slow and painful death. Josie tells him they don’t know where the chalice is and Burr doesn’t care. He just hates supernaturals. He points the gun at Lizzie and Josie jumps in front of her taking the bullet.

 

So, the trio is ultimately locked up in the dungeons and have quite a few problems. First, Josie’s really hurt. Second, there’s still no magic. Third, Hope doesn’t know how to get them out of this. The twins disagree more about who’ll survive the merge, but with less anger than before. Each one just thinks the other’s stronger. Hope apologizes for dragging them both into this, but Lizzie gives her a very Lizzie Saltzman pep talk and says they didn’t wait a decade to become friends for it to all end today. As if on cue MG comes to their rescue with his handy dandy dart gun.

 

MG explains about the fountain to the girls, but he doesn’t know how to shut it off. Hope goes down the tunnel to try to figure it out. MG’s going to go rally the troops, but as he does Josie gives him the necklace Hope gave her to “make quiet things heard.”

 

More brotherly bonding. Since Landon activated the artifact a monster is coming. Ryan wants to let it take the artifact to malivoire. Landon doesn’t get why Ryan’s keeping him around, but then his brother explains their father needs him as a host to start a new species. Yikes! Landon’s doubly horrified because the monster of the week is the headless horseman, which he tries to hijack.

 

Ric and Hope run into each other in the tunnels. The good news is that Ric knows how to and successfully turns off the fountain. The bad news is that Josie is in bad shape. Hope wasn’t impacted by the bullet, so she tells Ric to give Josie her blood and promises to explain later. The two split up. This needs to happen fast because Lizzie can’t seem to siphon the bullet away. On the upside, the twins reconcile and decide to go help.

 

With the blood fountain disabled, it’s magic time. Lead by MG, the Salvatore Stallions rise us against TRIAD. The wolves and vampires work together to take down a few soldiers. The witches use fire and telekinesis to disarm the guards and the twins save MG from Burr. Kaleb gets the kids to the bus.  Unfortunately, Burr follows Kaleb to the bus wielding a gun. Luckily, Raf (in wolf form) saves the day and Nia turns Burr to stone

 

Landon’s brought to TRIAD HQ by the horseman. Ric feeds Hope’s blood to a dying Josie. And after the day’s events, Kaleb’s ready to take a crowbar to the statue of Burr, but he’s talked down by MG who says they need to be better.

 

After that Veronica and MG share a tense talk. Veronica attempts to apologize and says they were misled. MG says she’s ignoring a major issue and doesn’t get her involvement with TRIAD. She explains that they do good work and it was her father’s legacy and it would’ve been his if he hadn’t turned. MG says if this is his family’s legacy, then they can’t be family anymore.

 

At TRIAD HQ Landon’s having a tough faceoff with the headless horseman only to be saved by Hope, who says hand-to-hand combat should really become a part of Landon’s education. “Handon” make up.

 

At the school Josie’s healing up, but the twins mention Hope needs to get back fast. She’s the only one who can free Raf from his wolf form. But there’s something else Josie needs to tells Lizzie about. Josie took a magical object from Ric’s office. The girls don’t know why but it feels familiar. For those that didn’t see The Vampire Diaries it’s an ascendant which is keeping their homicidal uncle in a prison world.  This doesn’t bode well.

 

Ric’s giving a speech. He feels like he failed to protect the school. He admits he shared his contingency plan for the kids should they ever go nuclear with Veronica, who then shared it with TRIAD. Alaric says the kids can vote on if he should remain headmaster.

 

Hope and Landon defeat the headless horseman by skewering its head. Hope apologizes to Landon and tells him she loves him. He loves and forgives her. And then Ryan shows up and throws the artifact into the pit.

 

Landon takes the whip and kills Clarke and then explains the paternity reveal to Hope. Hope takes it in and then snaps his neck and calls Ric. She explains that having the blood of the big three (werewolf, witch and vampire) she’s the loophole. She can stop Malivore from rising. Ric begs her not to, but she makes a tearful goodbye saying she finally gets her purpose. She tells Ric to get rid of her stuff and says Ric trusts him and then has to go. Ryan rises and Hope throws the both of them into the pit.

 

Ric burns Hope’s files and Raf howls in the distance. In an instant Hope Mikaelson is forgotten.