Danielle Rose Russell | Legacies | Season 4

 

"You Have to Pick One This Time"

The Super Squad trick Malivore. Alaric and Kaleb enter his conscious mind. Hope and MG sneak in undetected. Malivore tortures Kaleb with visions of his past, and leaves him to battle his bloodlust, while Hope interferes with Cleo's vision of peace within Malivore, alerting him to her presence. The real Landon saves Alaric and allows Kaleb to feed on him. Malivore takes Cleo, who secretly inspires Hope. Malivore tortures MG with his memory of killing Landon, and tells Hope she can find Landon if she abandons MG. Hope hesitates, but snaps out of it and saves MG. Landon convinces Alaric and Kaleb to kill his physical body. Hope, MG, Alaric and Kaleb exit. Alaric and Kaleb lie to Hope about Landon. Lizzie has a hard conversation with Josie and Finch. Hope and MG regain their connection. Lizzie tells Hope she wants the kind of relationship she and Landon, and Josie and Finch, have, and asks her to stay until she falls asleep. Hope drifts off to sleep but wakes as Cleo's Muse powers take effect.

"There's No I in Team, or Whatever"

Hope sees Cleo's memory of her grandmother performing a powerful transfusion spell, and she recruits the Super Squad, sans Lizzie, to use the spell to transfer Landon into Clarke's body, thus freeing him from Malivore, while Lizzie goes on her date with Ethan, volunteering at a school fundraiser. Clarke initially refuses to help, but finally agrees, wanting revenge on Malivore. Hope fails to complete the spell 11 times in a simulation. Josie warns her that she cannot focus if she is worrying about Landon, and takes her place when they finally perform the spell. Malivore subverts the spell and transfers a Dybbuk into Clarke, who attacks the fundraiser, knocks Ethan out and kidnaps Lizzie. MG takes Ethan back to the school. Clarke sneaks up on Kaleb, but Hope arrives, rescues Lizzie and transfers the Dybbuk out of Clarke. At the school, Malivore manipulates Alaric into letting him go, and converts Ethan into a drone. Hope learns of Alaric and Kaleb's lie regarding Landon.

"We All Knew This Day Was Coming"

Ethan helps Malivore convert a Mystic Falls High student, Blake, into a drone. Hope clashes with Alaric and Kaleb over their deception regarding Landon, confronts a Malivore monster on her own and kills it, only to find out she killed Blake. Devastated, Hope makes the decision to turn. Seeking reassurance that Landon will understand, Hope visits Raf in the prison world. Dorian arrives to convince Alaric that Hope needs her family by her side when she turns. MG incapacitates Kaleb to prevent him from sabotaging Hope's plan. Kaleb becomes a Malivore drone under duress. Reassured by Raf, Hope has a last supper with her friends and family. Lizzie and Josie reassure Hope that her future is bright. Malivore tricks Cleo into revealing her secret. Freya arrives to be by Hope's side and stops Hope's heart in order to trigger her transformation and Hope finds herself at the edge of a lake with Charon near a boat and Peace visible in the distance. Kaleb arrives at the school and takes Hope's body with him.

"See You on the Other Side"

In Limbo, Hope is asked to surrender her necklace to cross over into Peace. She finds Ted the Necromancer, who cannot remember if Klaus will find Peace if she does. Hearing this, she forgoes Peace, waking up in transition. Ethan and Kaleb have been turning townspeople into Malivore drones. Ethan now has supernatural powers and almost kills MG until Lizzie saves him. Hope completes her transition, and she and Landon share a final goodbye. Cleo outwits Malivore and exits his mind with help from Josie. Hope kills Landon with a weapon made out of her blood, ending Malivore. Landon finds himself in Limbo with Ted, who reminds him that they have both found their way out of worse situations. Both Ethan and Kaleb retain their Malivore-granted powers, with Kaleb remaining part dragon and Ethan possessing invisibility, strength and teleportation. Overwhelmed by having had to kill Landon, Hope turns off her emotions and calls Alaric to meet her. She tells him she does not want anyone looking for her and approaches him menacingly.

"I Thought You'd Be Happier to See Me"

Hope renders Alaric comatose and turns off her humanity. Rebekah finds her and tries to help. MG takes Lizzie and Josie through Alaric's memories where he feels he failed Hope and the twins. Alaric's condition worsens, and Lizzie finds him at his memory of her birth. Alaric's body begins to shut down and he says goodbye, apologizing to Lizzie for all his wrongdoings. MG and Ethan work on Ethan's new powers. Rebekah daggers Hope and plans to take her to New Orleans, but the bartender snaps her neck. Hope awakens and hears him talking to a mysterious woman. She tortures him and he reveals that he is working for the Triad, one wolf, one witch, and one vampire who are monitoring Hope now that she is the tribrid. He says she should speak to "Aur-" but bursts into flames and dies. Hope gives Freya's charmed necklace back to Rebekah, warning her to stay away. Rebekah tells Hope that Klaus would be ashamed. As Hope drives off, she calls the woman again who says she cannot wait to meet her.

"You're a Long Way from Home"

Cleo and the Super Squad work toward helping Hope but they find that every one of their simulation attempts failed. Lizzie finds a spell in Alaric's journals meant to resurrect someone using a human sacrifice and tries to talk Josie into helping her with the spell but fails to do so. She almost completes the spell but cannot go through with it. The Super Squad works on their teamwork out in the field but Kaleb decides to take matters into his own hands and loses control of his powers when Jed provokes him. Hope finds Clarke and tries to find the originators of the Triad bloodlines – a witch, werewolf, and vampire – and attempts to turn Clarke over to the dark side. Hope sets a monster free and the Salvatore School receives a call from Clarke warning them about Hope. Cleo finds that her stake can kill Hope. Clarke reveals his secret life to his new girlfriend, Trudy, and surprisingly, she seems interested to know more. Landon and Ted prepare to head to Peace and are greeted by Alaric's arrival.

"Someplace Far Away from All This Violence"

In the therapy box, Lizzie is in the Wild West, where her father has been imprisoned and accused of burning down his school and killing his students and Josie has been kidnapped and turned into a vampire by Hope Mikaelson. In the real world the super squad is looking for a way to bring back Hope's humanity. Cleo's inspiration and Josie's revelation that they must get to Hope emotionally helps the Squad make a plan. Meanwhile, Hope sneaks into the school to get some weapons, but Cleo, Josie, and MG stop her and offer her a deal: they will give her the weapons as long as she gives them a chance to bring her back. She accepts. The plan fails as not even the letter Landon wrote for Hope before he died manages to get to her. Josie realizes that Hope is just afraid to get her humanity back, but Hope imprisons her in the therapy box. Josie meets Lizzie, who tells her that she has found the loophole that will kill Hope. Hope talks on the phone to the mysterious Triad member who reveals she is waiting for Hope.

"You Will Remember Me"

In the therapy box, Josie and Hope are surgical interns. Josie struggles unlike Hope. One day, Hope screws up in the OR, and their superior decides to fire her. Josie retrieves a report signed by Alaric that could clear Hope, but gets fired instead for accessing the report behind her superior's back. Josie confronts Hope when she discovers Hope lied. Hope reveals that Alaric cleared Klaus just like Josie cleared Hope. Josie realizes that the pressure is making Hope lose sight of who she is, validating Josie's worst fears. Josie decides to figure out a way forward on her own. In Limbo, Alaric makes amends to Landon, gets a coin and plots to steal the boat from Charon. Meanwhile, Hope kills both Triad members except Aurora, who Freaky Fridays them. At the school, Cleo keeps the red oak tree a secret from Lizzie and even burns it down, but Lizzie finds out anyway and fashions a stake from its ashes, sharpening it in preparation for confronting Hope.

"I Can't Be the One to Stop You"

Jed claims Kaleb is responsible for burning a man to death. Kaleb later reveals that the man caused him to act that way and he could not control it. Lizzie finds Hope and quickly learns she is Aurora. Aurora tasks her with tricking Hope so she can get her revenge. Lizzie knocks Aurora out and plans to stake Hope but cannot go through with it. Hope pretends to have her emotions turned back on by Lizzie. Lizzie helps her get her body back. Alaric, Ted, and Landon ask the Sphinx to help them find another way home. The mystery man affects Ethan, causing him to injure Jed and almost kill the man. Ethan confesses he lied to MG. Josie leaves town, feeling it is her only way to save Hope, while Finch decides to stay with the pack. The man wakes up – he is charming and attractive while approaching Jed. After Lizzie switches Hope and Aurora's body, Aurora escapes and Lizzie plans to go after her soon. Hope reveals her deceit and kills Lizzie, who then awakens in transition to a Heretic.

"The Story of My Life"

Hope visits Vardemus, hoping he will destroy the artifact she has placed Lizzie in. Vardemus realizes the artifact has ties to the Gods. He then tricks Hope, placing her in a chambre de chasse. He awakens Lizzie and she feeds off him. Lizzie tries to kill Hope but realizes she cannot because she is sired to her. The trio finds that one of Vardemus' students, Jen, is stealing the artifact. Hope confronts Jen, but she flies away, and they realize Jen is a God. Ben tells Jed his story: he is a God who was estranged from his father. When his boyfriend became ill, he begged his father to save him, but he refused. He stole the magic from the Gods to save him, but it was too late. Magic was released into the world, and he was cursed. Cleo creates a band that will protect Ben. Hope orders Lizzie to come with her. Jed tells Ben he realizes Ben is Prometheus and that he wants him to stay at school, with him. Alaric, Ted, and Landon head to the clocktower where they find a genie and ask him for three wishes.

"Follow the Sound of My Voice"

Hope's attempts to train Lizzie at a carnival are futile as Lizzie attempts to save a girl's missing sister. Hope ends their partnership. Lizzie is captured by the vampires who run the carnival. Aurora kills the new headmistress and puts a truth weed in the school's water supply, trying to find a way to kill Hope. Jed feels weird around Ben and pushes him away. Aurora steals Cleo's inspiration, which leads her to Ben. She threatens Ben who gives her the secret to kill Hope. Aurora leaves the school. MG and Kaleb find Ethan hiding at his mom's house, afraid to reveal his powers to his family. MG tells him he can come back to school, and he tells his family the truth about his powers. Hope saves Lizzie and they kill the vampires running the carnival. Jed reveals his struggle with his new and unexpected romantic feelings for Ben to Finch. Hope and Lizzie reconcile and plan to find a way that works for them. The loss of her ability to inspire leaves Cleo deeply hurt. Ben reveals that he told Aurora about the Gods.

"Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost"

Hope and Lizzie find and capture Aurora. Lizzie clashes with Hope, whose use of increasingly violent methods to extort information from Aurora alienates her. Disgusted, Lizzie instead attempts to treat Aurora with compassion. Aurora tells Lizzie everything, although under the impression that Lizzie is her brother Tristan. Lizzie breaks free of the sire bond and escapes with Aurora. They bond over their shared experience of being treated as unstable and dangerous because of bipolar disorder and Lizzie asks Aurora for help in locating the God Vulcan, aka. Jen. Jen can manipulate time, and Lizzie notes she can possibly bring them back to when Tristan was alive and her life wasn't in a shambles. The Jinni grants Landon and Alaric's wishes – Alaric's wish brings him out of his coma. Landon is forced to stay in Limbo with Ted, who is the Necromancer again. Hope starts to feel her humanity slowly coming back due to Lizzie's efforts to get through to her, and lashes out, killing a man who nearly hit her with his car.

"Was This the Monster You Saw?"

Aurora and Lizzie road trip to find more information about the Gods and track down Jen. Hope returns to the Salvatore School, just as Alaric returns from the hospital, with the goal of finding an army to take down the Gods with. The Super Squad is not ready to accept her proposal, but she is set on getting them to. She destroys Ben's bracelet and a monster attacks the school that they must defeat. The monster can bite people and make them relive their darkest moment. Flashbacks reveal Jed went through a very conservative and strict upbringing which caused him to repress who he really was. His father wanted him to fight his childhood friend and crush Trey to the death, but he ended up killing his father and triggering the curse. Hope's bite takes her back to when she turned off her humanity, and she confronts her conscience. Finally ready to be himself, Jed confesses to Ben that he knows what he wants now and that he likes him and they kiss. Alaric and the students grudgingly agree to work with Hope, just as her conscience appears to her in the real world.

"The Only Way Out Is Through"

Jen reveals that her family, the Gods, treated her terribly, and her father, their king, Ken, cast her out. But the Gods' power came from belief, and they faced a mortal threat in Malivore, who could make the world forget them. Jen locked them in sarcophagi and planned to leave the key with Ben because she trusted him, but she was forced to abandon him when she realized the Gods would not be neutralized unless the key was in Malivore with Ben. She says that Chronos, the God of Time, was a better God. Lizzie and Aurora decide to wake Chronos up, and they abduct Ben. Vardemus helps the Squad wargame a battle against the Gods, but Hope's conscience forces her to realize that they will lose unless she turns her humanity back on. A final simulation with Hope's humanity on is a success, but the struggle between Hope and her conscience comes to a head and she screams at her friends to stop her when she realizes she is about to kill them. Alaric snaps her neck and locks her in the werewolf transition cell before making a call. In Limbo, Landon and the Necromancer are taken captive by bandits.

"Everything That Can Be Lost May Also Be Found"

Through astral projection, Hope is brought back to New Orleans where her family, Rebekah, Marcel, Kol, and Freya are holding a funeral for Klaus. The family does their best to get Hope to turn her emotions back on, reminiscing about their families' and Klaus' history. Rebekah and Marcel are now married, while Kol and Davina are going strong. Freya and Rebekah hope to give Hope something to look forward to by revealing she can still conceive. Hope initially fights her humanity, but turns it back on. The family has had Klaus' ashes and decides it is Hope's choice to decide where they will be scattered. She decides to take his ashes, along with her necklace, back to Mystic Falls, which was once his home and where the school was started. Elsewhere, Lizzie and Aurora form an unlikely partnership with Ben when he learns about what is going on in their attempt to find Chronos. Alaric talks with his younger, The Vampire Diaries/vampire hunter self, and learns how to prepare to lead a fight against the Gods. Cleo has a vision of the school in rubble, Mystic Falls on fire, and all their friend dead. Jen reveals Ben has deceived them, he wants to awake Ken, to break his curse and bring his boyfriend back. He then knocks out Aurora and kidnaps her, devastating Lizzie and sending her home for Alaric's help. Ben awakens Ken, and Hope awakens but her no humanity self is around and promises her the war is just beginning.

"I Wouldn't Be Standing Here If It Weren't For You"

Cleo is horrified to learn that her visions are not predictions, rather, she is an Oracle, they can see events that will happen and she cannot change them. However, Jen later tells her she is more than an Oracle if she can change the future. Landon and the Necromancer were kidnapped by Seylah, who wants to get to know Landon and they work together to help her find peace. MG and Kaleb evacuate all of Mystic Falls and close off the roads to prevent anyone from entering. Kaleb finds Ben preparing to burn the town down in an attempt to buy Hope time from Ken. Ben finds Ethan and MG and attacks them along with Kaleb, and Jed intervenes. Lizzie helps Hope to get rid of her no humanity counterpart just as Ken arrives at the school, wanting Jen. Ben tells Jed he only awoke Ken so he could break his curse. Hope tries to fight Ken, but her magic does not work nor can she handle his power and as Ken is about to kill her, Jen surrenders herself to him. Ben tells Jed he loves him, but Jed is mad that he fought against them. MG finds Ethan on the shower floor, bleeding and glitching while in pain. Hope will not wake up and awakens in limbo where she runs into Landon and they hug.

"Into the Woods"

Lizzie and MG work together to figure out what is causing Ethan to glitch. Hope tries to get Landon out of limbo, but learns there is nothing she can do, she is not fated to die, and that she must live without him. Hope promises Landon she will always love him and never forget him. Ken courts Aurora asking her to rule alongside him and help him kill Hope. Aurora wants him to revive Tristan, but he refuses, and promises to treat her right and convinces her to help him as he shows her Jen deceived everyone and that Tristan treated her wrongly. They seal the deal with a kiss. Alaric and Ben devise a plan to fight Ken, by siphoning Ben's magic and using it to attack Ken, which could kill Ben, but Ben is fine with it if it kills Ken. Landon learns the Ferryman has the deed to his soul. MG confesses to Lizzie that he loves her, just as she learns Ethan's powers make him not fated to live long and that he will die soon. Hope wakes up and tells Alaric there are battles that cannot be won alone. He tells her he is glad she is back and that it is her move now.

"By the End of This, You'll Know Who You Were Meant to Be"

Hope and her friends come up with a plan to defeat Ken once and for all, but it will require Lizzie to potentially sacrifice herself to pull it off which she accepts; after having a hard time dealing with her emotions, she admits her love to MG. Ethan's powers are causing him to have health issues, if he uses then again, he could die. So he says goodbye to MG and leaves school. Jed is cold towards Ben until he learns that Ben was willing to sacrifice his life to save the school and the two reconcile. Cleo dives into Ken's mind, learning that he is planning to attack the school. Ken captures her and reveals that Cleo's efforts to change the future have turned her into a Fury. Revealing that he plans to have Jen forge a weapon from the ashes of a Red Oak stake to kill Hope, Ken tries to convince Cleo to give him Hope and then threatens Kaleb's life when she refuses, ultimately killing Kaleb in front of her. Jen reluctantly agrees to forge the weapon, but not before revealing to Aurora that Ken is just using her. In Limbo, the Ferryman is revealed to actually be a goddess named Lynn who is Ken's sister; Lynn's compassion for the souls in her care had led to her becoming cursed to ferry them for eternity. Landon accepts Lynn's offer to take her job before using his new powers to turn the Necromancer back into Ted and bring him to Peace. Alaric and the school hold a final celebration to mark their accomplishments where Hope thanks everyone for their support, helping her be a better person, and says it has been the honor of her lifetime to fight alongside them. Alaric and Lizzie have a father daughter dance. Lizzie and MG are about to kiss as Cleo returns to reveal Kaleb is dead.

"This Can Only End in Blood"

Jen crafts Ken a spear capable of killing Hope out of Red Oak ash and god magic; using astral projection, Hope challenges Ken to combat which he accepts. As the school prepares for battle, Ken triggers the curses of the werewolf students, creating chaos and turning them against everyone; Alaric is forced to kill Jed in self-defense while MG is killed sealing the werewolves away in the tunnels. Cleo attempts to kill Ken's sleeping family but is stopped by Jen who reveals that the Furies were one thing that Ken feared. In Limbo, Kaleb, Jed and MG seek out Landon's help and Landon agrees to resurrect them even though it means that he will be cursed to lose his empathy. Hope and Aurora battle but Hope attempts to make peace with Aurora rather than kill her; Aurora ultimately sacrifices herself to save Hope from the spear and makes peace with her and her family. Lizzie siphons Ken's power and blows him up, but she only succeeds in weakening him while Ethan sacrifices himself to save Lizzie. Following a failed attack by Hope, Lizzie, Jed, MG and Kaleb, Cleo uses her Fury powers to pass judgement upon Ken before teaming up with Hope to impale Ken upon his spear which, being made out of god magic, kills him. Ben is now mortal. As everyone celebrates their victory, Hope and Lizzie give Aurora a Viking funeral and Ethan arrives in Limbo.

"Just Don't Be A Stranger, Okay?"

Alaric decides to shut down the Salvatore School, despite the protests of Hope and MG. Hope summons Landon and asks him to bring her Klaus' spirit; Landon reveals that he no longer feels emotions as a result of resurrecting their friends. Landon and Ethan discover that Klaus has already found Peace, but arrange for him to send Hope a final message where Klaus gives Hope guidance for the rest of her life and says he loves her, always and forever. After receiving a gift from Josie, Alaric decides to keep the school open, but leaves to write the definitive history of the supernatural beings that he has known so that the world can know their stories, leaving Caroline in charge instead. Ethan finds Peace while Jed, having discovered that his resurrection has reset his curse and left him human again, leaves with Ben to find a new life. While using her powers to see Kaleb's hidden past, Cleo has a vision that reveals that Kaleb will do a lot of good in the future for people like them and it is implied that Cleo will one day become headmaster. Lizzie initially decides to join Josie in Belgium, but changes her mind and stays, continuing her relationship with MG. Hope says goodbye to Alaric and thanks him for being her second father, prompting Alaric to thank her in turn for being his third daughter. Hope and Landon spread Klaus' ashes and Landon reassures her that he is content with his new role as the Ferryman; Hope decides to send Josie Ken's spear in case it is ever needed again. After Hope puts her necklace back on, she, Caroline, and the students welcome a new class of students to the school as Hope greets them by saying “welcome home”.