Legacies -- "There's Always a Loophole" -- Image Number: LGC116b_0004bc.jpg -- Pictured (L-R): Ben Levin as Jed, Christopher De'Sean Lee as Kaleb, Kaylee Bryant as Josie, Danielle Rose Russell as Hope, and Jenny Boyd as Lizzie -- Photo: Mark Hill/The CW -- ÃÂ© 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Legacies concludes its first season with episode 16 “There’s Always a Loophole” on Thursday night. Here’s how to watch the episode online. When season 1 began, the meaning behind the tile of the show being Legacies was straight forward. The leads of the show were the daughters of characters from The Vampire Diaries and The Originals. It also turned out to be a clue to the big mystery of Malivore. Turned out he was simply a monster eating Golem who was lonely and wanted to created a family. Not content with kids made of clay, Malivore wanted biological children who could continue on his legacy. So, as expected, the giant mud pit big bad of the season turned out to be Landon’s father. Only, Malivore isn’t really the big bad, Triad, the secret society of humans who control pit Malivore are the truly evil ones. Seeing as Malivore was created by a witch, a werewolf and a vampire, those three species are immune. Triad has been experimenting for decades with how to get Malivore to erase witches, werewolves and vampires to truly end all supernatural life on Earth. It is now up to Landon and his new found brother (Agent Clarke, who is made of mud) to find the last key to free their father from pit form. Landon, as Malivore’s only biological son, is drawn to the keys explaining why he took the knife in the premiere. While Landon is trying to free Malivore, the Triad has attacked the Salvatore school in an effort to keep Malivore as a pit. Led by Hope, the students will try to defend their school against Triad. A task made more difficult by the Triad somehow binding all of their powers. MG will also learn that his mother is a Triad agent because Legacies really is all about family. Here are the details on where to watch Legacies season 1 episode 16 both on TV and online. Date: Thursday, March 28 Start Time: 9:00 p.m. ET Episode: ”There’s Always a Loophole” TV Channel: The CW Live Stream: Watch live on Fubo TV. Sign up now for a free seven-day trial. You can also watch on The CW website or app. For fans in Canada, Legacies airs on Showcase at the same time as in America.<doc-sep>Legacies has done a lot in its first season. It established a whole band of characters, gave them all fully fleshed out identities, and now, we know where we’re leaving them… until season 2, of course. There are a LOT of things to cover in the Legacies season 1 finale, what with a whole Triad vs. Salvatore School battle, a headless horseman, a betrayal, a sacrifice, and a major game-changing cliffhanger. So, we’re gonna take this one step at a time and try and hit all the important notes. Let’s start with the Triad battle We saw Triad breaking open the gates to the Salvatore School at the end of last week’s penultimate episode, so we knew we were about to watch a showdown, but this was actually one hell of a battle. First, Josie gets shot with Malivore mud bullets that have the ability to disintegrate any supernatural creature from the inside out. She sacrifices herself to save Lizzie, and we quickly learn that not only can their magical properties not be siphoned away, but the only cure is a dose of Hope’s blood. At least we don’t have to worry about Josie’s fate all summer as she was clearly cured by the end of the episode. We also saw M.G. really step up as a leader in this episode. Not only did he dart his own mother with her own sedative gun, he went on to help everyone get organized to fight Triad. No one questioned his orders, either. Kaleb even listened when M.G. stopped him from taking extraordinarily vicious actions after the battle was over. I was really impressed by M.G. in this episode. He didn’t have to ask people to listen to him, he just knew he was the right man for the job. I LOVED watching Pedro and Raf and Jed and Kaleb and all the witches battling Triad. We haven’t seen a ton of magic this season, so watching the different covens gang up on Triad was incredibly entertaining. I hope we get another chance to watch the school do what it does best. AND they managed to do so without permanently harming any of Triad’s goons. That is pure class. These supernatural creatures are proving they are the best of humanity, not the worst. Alaric’s surprising betrayal After all Headmaster Saltzman has been through in his life (much of which we watched play out throughout eight seasons of The Vampire Diaries), it makes sense that he had a contingency plan for protecting the world from his school. He’s watched witches, hybrids, vamps, and wolves use humans for their own purposes and not care about the consequences time and time again. Article Continues Below I was a little surprised that he ever told anyone else about his plan, though. That was a huge mistake on his part. All it would have taken to prove to parents that he had things under control would have been assurances that he has spent his life fighting supernatural creatures, so he knows their strengths and weaknesses and is more than capable of protecting the world from their powers. That was the most disappointing part of his betrayal. I’m really glad he took responsibility for the part he played in Triad getting the upper hand at the school, and that he is willing to suffer the consequences that might come from those actions. We will have to wait for season 2 to find out if Alaric will continue to be Headmaster, but I have a good feeling we haven’t seen the last of the Salvatore School’s resident Dumbledore. A headless horseman? I was most definitely taken by surprise when Ichabod Crane showed up in the Triad artifact warehouse. I mean, the last thing I expected to see show up for the final Malivore key was a headless horseman, but he was a lot of fun to watch in action. We got to see both Landon and Hope do battle against the horseman. Landon’s was more like throwing witty quips at it and trying to stay out of its reach, but Hope was a freaking badass. It was fantastic to watch Landon see his girlfriend kick ass and use his brain to solve the dilemma instead. We even got a neck snap. The Vampire Diaries perfected the art of the broken neck as the vamps used it time and time again to put one player or another down for the count for a little while. It’s the most surefire way to guarantee that a vampire sits out a fight or confrontation. So to see Hope employ it here to keep Landon from stopping her from doing what she has to do is a bit of a trip down memory lane. Hope’s sacrifice I’m not gonna lie, ever since we watched Seylah swan dive into Malivore, I felt like SOMEONE was going to end up in the pit before this season wrapped up. I didn’t necessarily believe it was going to be Hope, though. I really thought it was going to be either Landon or one of the Saltzman twins. Hope really is the hero of this season. She has always charged into danger to save her friends, and this culminated in her making the ultimate sacrifice for all of them. By throwing herself into Malivore to neutralize his power, Hope gave all of the people she loves a chance to survive. And she lost everything. We won’t know what comes next for Hope, or even where she is until the show returns next fall, but we know that no one remembers her and Alaric has burned most of the proof that she ever existed. And Malivore is no more One look at the former pit of black tar known as Malivore, and we basically know that Hope was at least somewhat successful. The pit has dried up, so either Malivore fully formed despite her sacrifice and is walking the Earth somewhere, or mixing her tribrid existence with Malivore was the only way to neutralize it and eliminate the threat once and for all. So, what is next for Hope and ‘Legacies’?<doc-sep>Legacies wraps up its freshman run with a heartbreaking finale. Fans have been speculating all week which character would bite the dust in “There’s Always A Loophole”. With that promo and the ever-present Merge, Legacies seemed to be angling in the direction of a Josie sacrifice. However, the show shockingly had that tension-filled “eeny meeny miny moe” sequence get resolved relatively quickly. The School is Stormed This hour picks up directly where last week left off: Hope assembling her Avengers squad. Raf is sitting this one out though, and Jed shockingly decides to step up in his place. While he hasn’t had a large part in this season, there has been a big push by Legacies fans to have him upped to a series regular. He may have originally been an alpha jerk, but now Jed seriously wants to put the wellbeing of the pack above everything else. Sadly, we don’t get to see this team in action because Triad storms the building just as the group is preparing to leave. The leader is the kind of typical macho man who harbors a deep hatred for all things supernatural. He doesn’t care this a school full of kids, in his opinion they’re all just monsters. Nevertheless, Triad has a job to do so he gathers up all of the students to tell them about the chalice they’re searching for. Without their magic, the kids don’t exactly have any way to fight back. Hope, Lizzie, and Josie team up immediately to form their own search party. However, they’re looking for the lone school cellphone to contact Alaric. While Hope is tearing apart Alaric’s office, the twins are arguing over their impending Merge. Lizzie is coping with their realization she will probably be absorbed after losing the battle last week. Who Got Shot? While they’re bickering, Hope manages to find the phone and contact Alaric. He’s stuck with Dorian on the other side of the bridge and jokingly offers up extra credit to whoever found the cell. When Hope relays the current situation, he promises to get back to school soon and tells her to cooperate. Cooperation isn’t exactly Hope’s forte and she announces they’re going to fight back. Sadly, the Triad leader overhears and decides the best way to scare kids is to shoot one. After a sick game of eeny meeny miny moe, the guy fires in Lizzie’s direction. She was anticipating this and made sure to antagonize him slightly to guarantee he would shoot at her. However, Josie would never let her sister die that easily and she dives in front of her sister to take the bullet instead. Thankfully, Legacies isn’t going to kill off the twins this early! Josie is fine but suffering from the Malivore bullet and all of the girls are locked up. Poor Hope apologizes because she is finally out of good ideas. Showcasing her character development this season, Lizzie tells her that giving up is not an option. She didn’t wait years to become friends with the hero of the school for Hope not to come through now. A Leader Rises MG may have been just a bumbling adorable nerd at the beginning of Legacies but now he’s a guy who will spring into action for his friends. He’s the one who comes crashing into the jail cell to take out the Triad guards and free the girls. In the beginning of the episode, he’s even given the opportunity by his mother to get to safety on his own. MG has come a far way though, and he tranquilizes his mom before heading back to defend his school. He encourages Hope to go after Landon, as do the twins because he knows the students can handle Triad. When she leaves, he devises a plan with the rest of the student body. Allowing himself to get caught, MG matriculates with his friends in the hallway. He briefs Kaleb, Jed, Raf, and Pedro of the current situation. On her way out, Hope will disable the blood fountain, which is something out of nightmares, which will return their magic. Then, it’s time to attack. While the twins are staying out of sight to heal, Josie does pass along her pendant to MG. When Alaric stops by to disable the fountain instead of Hope, MG rallies the students to fight back. Jed uses a golden football to take down guards left and right, Kaleb zips the younger kids out to safety on the bus, and even little Pedro helps out by tying the guards’ legs together. Stronger, Faster, Better Even though the chalice isn’t there, the Triad leader just wants to kill people. He boards the bus full of kids and threatens to shoot them while Kaleb begs for them to be left alone. Luckily, Raf is turned invisible by the twins and wolfs out thanks to Hope. It’s nice to see one of the wolves actually go full wolf on Legacies, especially because the werewolves have felt the most underdeveloped all season. The final nail in the Triad guy’s coffin is when the Medusa from last week reemerges from getting tranquilized to turn him into stone. She kisses MG on the cheek, which is a cute moment for a guy who’s been put through the wringer recently, before seemingly leaving to reunite with her family. Meanwhile, Kaleb is furious about what happened and goes to murder the now stone statue. MG stops him by reciting the lesson which Kaleb taught him: they’re stronger, faster, and better. They’ll always have to deal with ignorant and violent people, but they can be better than them. Kaleb tearfully remarks his baby brother is al grown up before sparing the Triad guy. MG’s mom comes out to apologize but he rejects her words. If Triad is going to be her legacy, then she will have to learn to live without him. He has his own legacy now and its one which doesn’t involve destroying lives. Brotherly Bonding Naturally, the road trip with Landon and Clarke doesn’t go all that well.<doc-sep>Legacies type TV Show network The CW genre Fantasy Drama Some answers are really worth the wait, and that’s precisely how I feel about the reveal of Landon Kirby’s supernatural species!! Not only was it an amazing reveal — I won’t ruin it in the first paragraph of my recap just in case but I will ruin it at some point so beware — but this show crafted one of its strongest hours, if not the strongest hour thus far, around said reveal. Every show out there that’s unraveling a mystery, take some notes! We start by returning to the Salvatore School following last week’s road trip and finding out that MG, Rafael, and Landon are all missing … on the night of a full moon. And when Hope’s locator spell doesn’t work, that means one of two things: Either someone cloaked them, or they’re dead. Thankfully, it doesn’t take them long to find Raf. But here’s the bad news: He can’t remember where MG and Landon are or if they’re okay. Seeing as how the full moon is still in the sky, it’s unclear how Raf is back in human form. Emma explains that he’s in something called lunar psychosis — his mind is trapped between his wolf and human states, which makes it difficult to bridge the gap and access his memories. Lunar psychosis only happens when someone’s transformation is stopped prematurely. Something has caused Raf’s body to shift back to its human form before the full moon ended. What could do that? Trauma. Flashing back to Ric’s pre-spring break assembly, we learn that MG is staying on campus and, as head of the holiday committee, planning all the week’s activities. We see Kaleb talk to Raf (before setting out on his journey to help Ric with last week’s mummy), and he asks Raf to look after MG while he’s gone. It seems MG gets a little weird around holidays because his family never invites him home. And seeing as how Raf slept with the love of MG’s life, it’s the least he could do. The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good to Do Legacies — “The Boy Who Still Has a Lot of Good To Do” — Image Number: LGC111b_0084bc2.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Aria Shahghasemi as Landon, Quincy Fouse as MG, and Peyton Alex Smith as Rafael — Photo: Bob Mahoney/The CW — ÃÂ© 2019 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved. | Credit: Bob Mahoney/The CW Raf, properly guilted, agrees, which results in him and Landon playing “Faction Feud,” a.k.a. a game MG made up, for hours. And when Landon can’t take anymore, he asks about MG’s father. MG says he doesn’t talk to him anymore, and Landon, being far too familiar with parental issues, suggests they go to MG’s home and get MG some answers. After all, he lives just over the state line in Maryland. Back in present day, Raf tells Ric that they were supposed to make it back before the full moon. And with that, Ric wakes Kaleb up and they hit the road: They’re going to MG’s house. After Raf freaks out and claims a monster was after Landon, Emma sedates him, leaving Hope without all the answers she wants. Although, the audience gets a few… In another flashback, we see MG, Landon, and Raf make it to MG’s house, where his father is running for mayor and his mother tells her son, “Your father doesn’t want to see you. His faith is everything to him. There’s no room is his belief system for people dying and coming back to life.” As Landon puts it, “Except for Jesus … and Lazarus.” MG’s mother keeps MG from seeing his dad, but Landon won’t give up. When he finds a newspaper that says MG’s father ran for mayor following a speech that went viral about how he’d do anything to get his son back, Landon tells MG that his dad is using his memory to get votes. So Landon thinks they should attend his father’s next speech … tonight. In present day, we find out that Penelope gave the boys a cloaking spell before she left for spring break, which is why Hope can’t find them. And when Ric and Kaleb show up and talk to MG’s mom, she is not too happy with the fact that Ric has lost her son. She lets Ric know that she’d like him to hold up his end of their “arrangement,” which Kaleb rightly thinks sounds suspicious. What is that arrangement? Well, as MG finds out when he goes to visit his dad during a speech rehearsal, MG’s father actually doesn’t know that he’s a vampire, and Ric promised not to tell him. (Next: The road trip goes terribly awry) Back at the school, Hope crafts an elixir to help Raf access his memories, and when Emma tries to stop her from using it, Raf wakes up and sedates Emma himself. He wants answers too. After he takes a sip, he remembers more of the trip. When MG shows up at his father’s rehearsal, his father embraces him, calling him a “miracle sent to me from our Lord in heaven.” It doesn’t take MG long to realize his father doesn’t know the truth, but Raf and Landon can’t stay. They are running out of time before the full moon, so Landon takes Raf out into the woods to chain him up. Once Raf’s secured, Landon forces Raf to admit his feelings for Hope so that he won’t do what he always does and leave things bottled up. But Raf swears to never act on his feelings, a fact Landon absolutely believes. Then, just as Raf starts to transition, they hear something else in the woods… In present day, Kaleb and Ric go to the location in the woods that Hope tells them about, and there, they find MG. He’s been bitten by a werewolf and is delusional. He only has an hour or two to get the cure, which is Hope’s blood, by the way. So it’s a good thing she’s on the way.<doc-sep>
Spoilers for Legacies “There’s Always A Loophole” past this point. The freshman season of Legacies is in the books, and with the Season 1 finale I think it’s safe to say nobody could have predicted how that would end: with Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) sacrificing her life to save the world from mud-monster Malivore. But with that event in the rear-view mirror, is Danielle Rose Russell leaving Legacies? What’s next for Season 2? And are the students of the Salvatore School about to take on The Vampire Diaries Big Bad, Kai Parker (Chris Wood)? Before we get to all that ~speculation~, a brief recap of what went down in the episode. Triad, the maybe evil, maybe good organization trying to take down every supernatural creature on Earth has invaded the school, so it’s up to the students to go Die Hard and take it back. They succeed, minus Hope, who heads off to Triad headquarters to rescue her boyfriend Landon (Aria Shahghasemi). Landon, it turns out, is the child of Malivore — a human/phoenix hybrid meant to bring three artifacts back to Malivore and release the golem from his soupy prison. Landon also has a “brother” named Ryan Clarke (Nick Fink), who is more mud-person than human-person, and kind of hate/loves their father because of that. Families: they’re complicated! Anyway, it all comes down to a fight near Malivore. Hope and Landon kill a headless horseman (really), but Ryan gets the last artifact and throws it into the pit, starting to process of turning the melted Malivore back into humanoid form. Landon kills Ryan, and then Hope kills Landon (which is fine because he’s a phoenix and will just come back to life). Hope calls Alaric (Matthew Davis), the head of the Salvatore School and lays out her plan. Since the blood of the original Triad — a witch, a vampire and a werewolf — created Malivore, Hope’s blood — since she’s a tribrid herself — should eliminate the being. It’ll also erase Hope from human memory, because that’s what happens when things go inside Malivore. In order to prevent the intrepid kids of the Salvatore School from tracking her down, she makes Alaric promise to burn any records related to her; which he does. Ryan comes back to life since he’s made out of mud, Hope casts a mirroring spell on him, and they both tumble into Malivore. The last shot we see is the empty pit where Malivore used to be, and nobody back at home remembers Hope at all — including Landon, who is very confused about his now mysterious rebirth. To zip back in time a bit, Saltzman sisters Lizzie (Jenny Boyd) and Josie (Kaylee Bryant) are trying to figure out how to get rid of the Triad goons from the school and discover a weird box hidden in their dad, Alaric’s office. Josie gets shot with a bullet made of Malivore (hey, wonder if that’ll come in handy in getting Hope back next season???) but recovers thanks to a sip of Hope’s blood (also perhaps a way of getting Hope back???) — and after everything is over, reveals to Lizzie that she got the box open. She pulls a device out of it, which looks familiar to both of them, but they can’t figure out why. Hey guess what? It’s because Josie and Lizzie helped power the device, called an ascendant, when they were little kids. An ascendant (this is the simple version) is a key to a prison dimension that can only be unlocked with a few key requirements, including a celestial event like an eclipse. And this particular ascendant is most likely the third of its kind, created partially by the behbeh Saltzman twins to help imprison Kai Parker, one of the biggest, baddest villains The Vampire Diaries franchise has ever seen. Again, here’s the short version, because it’s very complicated. Kai Parker is part of the Gemini Clan, a group of witches. He, like Josie and Lizzie may have to do down the road, participated in a merge, essentially Highlander-ing the power out of his siblings. He also obliterated the entire Gemini Clan, killed Alaric’s wife on their wedding day (his twin sister! ), and later tried to kill Josie and Lizzie, his nieces (though clearly they were too young to remember).