The first half of Legacies’ first season has already come to an end and it was so good. Now, many of us are counting down the days until it returns!
The episode begins with another person coming back from the dead: Rafael’s girlfriend Cassie, who shows up on Remembrance Day at the school. Her return is the Necromancer’s doing. Alaric has been keeping and torturing him in the basement for the past couple of days, but he is still playing games with them. This episode deals with a lot of heavy material: Raf’s guilt over Cassie’s death, Hope’s conflicting feelings about her father’s death (Klaus), and Alaric’s struggles with death cause he’s lost a lot of people.
Alaric hasn’t been able to get anywhere with the Necromancer, and Dorian hasn’t had any luck with research since the Necromancer has been erased from everyone’s memory. Dorian, also takes Remembrance Day off every year to honour his family that was killed by Stefan Salvatore. Hope is very impatient and decides to try to get her own answers, and breaks it to the Necromancer that no one knows who he is and he does not take this well. But, Hope offers him the chance to find out why no one remembers. They want to find out what permanent death is and how it’s a related to the knife.
They realise that in order to figure out why he wants that knife is to revisit how he died all those years ago since that was when he was thrown into darkness and faced permanent death. Unfortunately, the memory of his death is locked away in his subconscious, which means they have to go into it to get it. Hope recruits M.G. to help her enter the Necromancer’s mind (which is something vampires can do), and it does not go according to plan.
Once inside his brain, which looks like Rousseau’s in New Orleans (from The Originals), the Necromancer points out that the only reason she’s doing this is cause she wants to know what happened to her father, meaning did he find peace or is he suffering. And if we’ve learned anything from Hope, is that she doesn’t like to talk about her feelings or her past, so she denies that that’s why she’s there. But then the Necromancer traps her in his subconscious, which is a dark and empty space, and in the face of her loneliness, Hope breaks down and says that she wants to know about her father in the afterlife. With that confession, the Necromancer returns and frees her. During all this, MG is frantic as he can’t get her out and he goes to talk to Alaric.
Once she is back, Alaric and Hope argue as they are both very mad at each other. Hope calls Alaric out for his excessive drinking (some things never change), and he accuses her of not grieving properly. This argument has been a long time coming and it is not going to be resolved soon as Hope locks Alaric back in his office.
Hope returns to the cells and the Necromancer reveals that he remembered his death and it turns out someone killed him but he also learned a lot more. When he trapped Hope, he communicated with the spirit of the man who forged the knife and he learned that it is one of the three locks on Malivore, which was created to wipe the scourge of the supernatural from the Earth.
Unfortunately, one of those locks has been broken. The Necromancer ordered the resurrected Cassie to steal the knife and give it to the spirit of a Bennett witch (um yes!), which used magical transportation to take it to whoever needed it. In other words, Hope messed up big time. Before leaving, the Necromancer gives Hope an update on Klaus (her father): He’s watching over her everyday and doesn’t regret his choice to sacrifice himself for her, but he won’t find peace until she does.
Before fulfilling her objective, Cassie used her time in the land of the living to help Raf confront some lingering issues about her death, specifically that he was responsible for it since he was speeding when he took a dangerous in a storm because he was angry. Admitting his role in his girlfriend’s death sets Raf on the path to making peace with it. In fact, he even asks Alaric to help him deal with his anger and become a better man. Furthermore, Hope, who had originally rejected the Remembrance Day traditions decided to work on grieving her father.
We got some more TVD references besides Klaus and a Bennett witch as well. Kaleb tried to teach MG how to feed on humans but it got out of hand when MG couldn’t stop. Dorian revealed to Kaleb, after he caught them, that the reason he takes Remembrance Day off every year is because it’s the one day he allows himself to hate the school since it’s named after the vampire that killed his parents, Stefan Salvatore. Dorian is worried that MG is at risk of becoming a ripper if he does what Kaleb says and this upsets Kaleb who gets worried.
At the end, Hope apologises to Raf for not having his back and her Landon-alarm goes off. It then cuts to a mysterious figure watching footage of the knife being destroyed in black ooze and holding the picture of Baby Landon and his mother (it reminded me of A from Pretty Little Liars for some reason).
Final Thoughts:
I enjoyed this episode more than I thought I would. I liked seeing Hope get a little bit of closure as she desperately needs it. I am also excited to see Landon again soon! But I was a little upset that the twins weren’t in this episode as I enjoy them.
