This week’s Legacies episode is one of my favourites (and I know I say that about like every episode, but still, this series just gets better and better).
The episode starts out showing us Alyssa’s past (you know the annoying mean girl who is now rooming with Hope) and we see how she ended up at the Salvatore School and how she is annoying Hope by making out with Jed in Hope’s bed! We are also introduced to the monster of the week, who people can’t seem to see at the moment, but it gets in their heads and and manipulates their thoughts.
Meanwhile, Josie, Lizzie, and Alaric are trying to figure out a way to banish the mora miserium and the darkness, but nothing is working. According to Alaric, they have tried more than ten different spells and when the twins suggest they put it in the prison world with their Uncle Kai, Alaric refuses and heads off to find another way. However, the two girls talk about creating another prison world.
Landon and Hope are training as Landon asked her to start training him and Hope is very frustrated because of Alyssa. Landon tells her that she’s a bully and says to talk to her as bullies hate being confronted.
In other news, Emma is back to run Coven Day and Alaric talks to her about helping Josie, but she doesn’t quite know how to help as she didn’t know they still existed. Also, cue a super awkward reunion between Emma and Dorian.
Coven Day is an opportunity for the witches to come together, learn about each other, and celebrate being witches. Hope tries to talk to Alyssa who says that she doesn’t like Hope. She then asks if they can start over, but the monster is speaking to Alyssa telling her that she has to get rid of Hope. Alyssa says she wants the room back to herself.
Wade gives a presentation about his coven and says he doesn’t fit in and Alyssa and others laugh at him. He says that he has been misdiagnosed and is a fairy, which is super weird and no one really understands. Alyssa teases him and makes Wade run off the stage in shame, and Emma gives Alyssa detention.
Now, Hope is affected by the monster and is acting rude to her classmates. She steals shoes from another girl, saying they look better on her and also takes someone’s milkshake. Landon asks her how everything went with Alyssa and the monster tells her to get rid of him and so she tells him that his advice was useless and so is he.
Landon is obviously hurt and Wade shows up in his dorm saying he has a theory as to why Hope is acting the way she is. His theory is that they’re dealing with a monster called a kareem, which is from Arabian mythology and feeds off insecurities. He says that he can see the kareem because he’s a fairy, but the others can’t until it crosses over to their plane.
Emma decides to have a sort of meditation exercise to get the witches to calm and work on themselves. Lizzie interrupts them, and Emma makes her join them. She tries to get them to keep positive thoughts, however the kareem gets in their heads and soon a sort of screaming fight ensues and Emma sends them all to their rooms. Hope figures out that something is wrong and recruits Lizzie.
Meanwhile, Alaric speaks to the Sheriff about his daughters and her children, which is honestly a cute moment and he asks her out for dinner and it really makes me miss Ethan and Maya.
The fighting and rude comments get worse, and Wade and Landon tell Lizzie and Hope about the kareem and they try to come up with a plan. Wade and Landon look for the kareem’s weakness and Wade finds out that it’s weak to fairies and myhr, but Hope still doesn’t believe he’s a fairy, plus Hope is still being affected by the kareem and picks on Wade and Landon. They are interrupted by Alyssa who informs them of the monster who is now able to be seen by everyone.
Meanwhile, Josie gets knocked out by the kareem and seems to encounter her dark side and when she wakes up, she finds out that the sand clock was taken by the kareem. Landon then realises he’s infected when he says something rude to Hope and Lizzie, and then goes to find Wade for his help. Landon tells him that fairies run on belief and they need to get other people to believe in him so he can defeat the monster.
This doesn’t work though as the students don’t really believe, however, Landon believes and he is able to prove it by getting the monster’s attention so the monster fights Landon. This ends up working and Wade shows that he has wings and defeats the monster, while Hope saves the sand clock, but it’s starting to break.
We then get a flashback with Alyssa who apparently did something to Josie and Alaric wants to send her away. But Emma, decides to wipe her memories instead so she can stay at the school.
Lizzie and Josie then talk to Alaric again about the mora miserium and ask him for permission to handle it. Emma and the other witches help them out with the spell to create a new prison world and Josie and Lizzie apologise to each other and finally say they love each other, which is super cute. The spell works and they banish the mora miserium to a new prison world. However, Alyssa acts really suspicious during it which makes me nervous.
Hope then seeks out Landon and apologises, saying that she loves how he uses his brain to help them. But she says she doesn’t want him to be the hero because she doesn’t want him to die and she says she’s going to stop training him. However, Landon says he’s going to find someone else to train him if she won’t.
Lizzie and Josie have a cute heart-to-heart in their room and Hope joins them, asking if they have room for another. However, as soon as the moment starts, it ends with the twins disappearing into thin air, leaving Hope confused.
Emma then admits to Dorian that she’s in town to help a troubled student, but they are interrupted by Alyssa who wants to confess something to Emma. Alyssa says she remembers her erased memories and something Dr. Saltzman did and then says she sent Lizzie, Josie, and Alaric away for revenge. She says she switched the ascendants when they were performing the spells and linked the Saltzman’s together with a linking spell to send them to the prison world, but not the new prison spell. Alyssa then erases Emma’s memory.
However, Hope figures it out herself and threatens Alyssa, saying they need to talk about boundaries and she asks Alyssa what she did. The episode ends with the Saltzman’s in a prison world that isn’t the one they made that day along with Sebastian (who’s not dead, yay!) and the mora miserium. Turns out Josie’s problems are far from over.
Final Thoughts:
Ah! I am so excited to see Kai, whose return is approaching fast. Also, I do not like Alyssa who seems like she’s trying too hard to be like Penelope or Katherine, and it’s not working. Overall, I loved this episode.
