WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Legacies Season 4, Episode 4, “See You on the Other Side,” which aired Thursday November 4th on The CW.
The last episode of The CW’s Legacies ended with Hope accepting her fate as the Tribreed only to end up stuck in the underworld. At the end of the previous episode The Ferryman beckons Hope to cross the River Styx to find peace, aka chill in Heaven with her The Originals family, leaving Hope unsure if she wants to return to the land of the living. “See You on the Other Side” picks up from this cliffhanger moment. But Hope’s indecision doesn’t last for more than a few sad sighs — thanks to a surprise cameo from the Necromancer, who reminds her that being a hero is likely why she has the chance to enter Heaven. Hope then jumps into the river to save the world with an arms-spread leap that’s oddly similar to Buffy‘s heroic leap to death in Season 5’s “The Gift.”
Hope wakes up in a glass box. It turns out Kaleb’s big evil plan was just to keep her in a glass box so, unable to feed on human blood, the newly turned vampire Hope would die. After a few quips from Malivore, Hope, even without her magical powers, breaks free. While she hunts for Malivore, even in a weakened state, Hope comes across Kaleb almost killing Alaric. She stabs him to death and passes out from exhaustion. Good ol’ vampire hunter turned headmaster Alaric gives her his blood to feed on so that she won’t die and can fulfill her destiny.
A bunch of swirling red clouds later, Hope rises with newly formed vampire teeth, ready to kick some butt. She finds Malivore and yet another face-off begins. As she punches him to high heaven and back again, half of the Super Squad tries to save Landon and Cleo.
Josie decides that she’s ready to use black magic again and uses a super difficult summoning spell. However, doing so brings backs Dark Josie, who meets Finch for the first time. Finch has zero patience for Dark Josie’s corny banter and brings back Josie with a passionate kiss. Jed, Wade, and Finch stick around to support Josie trying her summoning spell one more time.
The other half of the Super Squad — Lizzie and MG — are off to find Ethan and save him from Malivore’s grasp. Ethan almost kills MG, but then Lizzie stabs Ethan in the back to save MG — whoops! On the bright side, this sacrifice finally forces MG to confess he still likes Lizzie and she’s taken aback by the good news. Remembering her quasi-boyfriend is still dead, Lizzie snaps back to the present and uses her siphon magic to jump-start Ethan’s heart. Ethan returns, no longer affected by Malivore, and manages to keep his invisibility powers. That surprise leads him to decide he’s joining in on the chaotic fun of the Salvatore School. Anxious as heck, Lizzie chugs a beer as she’s now stuck in a surprise love triangle.
Last but certainly not least, Hope gets one last chance to say goodbye to the real Landon. Cleo uses some muse magic to temporarily allow Landon to have full control of his body and mind again. The ill-fated duo kisses and Landon convinces her to stab him in the heart. Eventually, she does, and we see both Malivore and Landon die. Although Cleo was still inside of Malivore as he was dying, Josie’s summoning spell works in the nick of time and returns Cleo safely to the Salvatore School. After Landon dies, we see him in the underworld, chatting with the Necromancer. We don’t see if he passes on to Heaven or if he decides to roam aimlessly with his foe-turned-friend — but it’s fair to secretly hope the duo finds some path out of limbo soon. And, hey, when someone is hanging out with someone who used to be the master of resurrection, it’s not impossible that Landon too might return to the land of the living.
The Legacies episode ends with Hope and Alaric having a chat. Now realizing that she’s killed the love of her life and can’t feel her humanity anymore, Hope tells Alaric she’s not coming back to the Salvatore School and doesn’t want her “little friends” coming after her. Hope gives a flash of her new Tribreed look and tells Alaric that she’ll send a message to them that makes it very clear that they should stay away from her. Now it’s Hope’s turn to play a baddie and the Super Squad’s moment to truly pay back Hope for all the times she saved their lives.
New episode of Legacies air Thursdays on The CW.
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