Last week ended on a dramatic moment – the witches were
all going to die! So clearly this week must begin with a flashback to one year
ago
Alistair setting up a kinky sex video but turns into him
apparently transferring a woman’s self into her body (or so I guess). I assume
the woman is Clara, Alistair’s evil witchy mentor
In the present Jeremy is feeling a little guilty about
trying to kill Clay but they patch him up with, apparently, no side effects
except some weird eyesight stuff which I’m sure will develop ominously.
Savannah wakes up after being kidnapped by Alistair in a
room with Clara and Clara has Savannah’s talisman. She also tries to peddle the
idea that the coven just wants to control her. Savannah isn’t buying it and
Clara goes to Alistair to demand he use more woo-woo on her. Alistair doesn’t
really care about the witches who will be dead soon – he’s more worried about
angry werewolves hunting him down.
Ruth lay down the deadline – they have until sunrise
until all the witches die (at this point I am kind of tempted to have the
werewolves say “well, good luck with that – door’s over there.”)
Jeremy asks Ruth how they can fight someone who can kill
from so far away and she describes the “left hand path” to which Jeremy asks
why they aren’t using this nifty path themselves and killing him already. She
takes his advice and casts a nasty egg death spell
Alistair feels it and it’s very unpleasant. Time for a
magic duel! Or using Savannah to contact Ruth to whine at her killing her own
son (oh please, guilt trips after the mass murder spell?) Ruth still makes
excuses for herself then asks that he just kills her not all witches. That doesn’t
work and Jeremy decides to drop in for some vague threats. It does get Jeremy
to see the location Savannah’s being kept in – but all he gets is “basement”
which isn’t really useful. Also the communication spell apparently prompts
werewolf change.
Apparently basement is sufficient and Clay, Elena, Nick
and Paige go search a house. They find Alistair’s sex/murder/ritual basement
and a mummified head. They also find the video of Clara possessing people
mainly just to test the spell though not to permanently change. Of course it
still involves killing someone. Thinking very slowly they realise that Clara
intends to possess Savannah since Savannah and Alistair will be the only 2
witches unaffected by the Undoing. Also giving Clara magic again.
Rachel and Logan aren’t dead! But Rachel has gone back to
her family and is trying to put some space between her and Logan. Even
acknowledging he can’t help being a werewolf and that they love each other, she
can’t escape the fact that she was kidnapped and experimented on all because
Logan is a werewolf. She has also had an abortion (or so it’s implied).
Logan wanders off and intervenes to help a random damsel
in distress. His fighting skills are noticed and he’s recruited into a bare
knuckle fight club sold as some kind of ridiculously macho therapy. Worse, his
opponent is Cain, the werewolf Clay castrated last season. Thy fight but in the
middle of it Cain loses control of his werewolf and asks Logan to choke him
unconscious so he doesn’t change in the middle of the crowd.
So random stuff with Clay and Cain and Jeremy are
apparently linked, as Ruth expositions, to the werewolf curse being lifted as the
witches die. When the witches are dead all werewolves will be stuck in the form
they’re in – just wolves or humans.
They pass the information onto Logan who goes to warn
Cain – pointing out that his injuries from the fight aren’t healing either.
Cain also has Amber, the woman he loves, on life support.
Leblanc bit her last season to change her but, like most people and all but
one woman, she didn’t survive the change and is now brain dead – and, despite
what Logan tells him, Cain can’t let her go.
Logan gets another call from Rachel – something’s wrong
with the baby. And, no, she didn’t have an abortion (on television it seems
easier to show the ritual murder of tiny babies than it is to have a woman have
had an abortion). When Logan is gone, Cain turns off Amber’s life support. A
scene which could have been far more moving with better acting
Among all this Elena and Clay take a moment to reflect
their lives would actually be easier if they weren’t werewolves but Elena can’t
forget that the wolf saved Clay from Alistair – and that being a wolf has now
become a major part of their identity.
To make things more confusing, a magical wall appears to
block the basement – trapping Nick and Paige downstairs and Elena and Clay
upstairs. All made worse by Paige who can barely stand, staggering to her feet
so she can collapse with appropriate amounts of drama (I have to admit that I
laughed). So Nick has to have a big loving moment with Paige
Alistair sends a random possessed minion to attack Clay and
Elena. He dies. And Nick gets the door open and finds Paige some medicine
Ruth isn’t doing so well either but she still keeps
throwing dark magic at Alistair. She needs a bigger battery so thinks about
going to her coven’s catacombs for corpse batteries. But Jeremy can’t take her
because Logan arrives with Rachel who is in a lot of pain from the cursed
babywolf – and Logan is also looking forward to the curse being lifted. This is
heard by Jeremy who isn’t exactly thrilled by that pronouncement, announcing
that Logan has made his choice. Ruth sneaks out while they’re dealing with the
drama. Because her fainting behind the wheel is such a great idea.
Still she seems to be the only one still actually focused
on stopping Alistair so kudos for that. She goes to her magical battery in
Boston just as Alistair decides the best way to attack the werewolves is to
lead a one man assault against Stonehaven. Again Jeremy is pretty helpless in
the face of Alistair’s magic – but Logan leaps on him in wolf form (but doesn’t
bite him? Whyyyy?) Instead he gets stabbed in the chest
Ruth finishes her magical death spell now empowered by dead
people magic. It still doesn’t kill him but it drives Alistair away
But Logan is fatally wounded. Of course for extra pathos
Rachel has to accept his wolfiness on his death bed.
Alistair and Clara figure out where Ruth must have gone to get the power boost and head to Boston, just as Jeremy sends Elena & co. Well as soon as they finish dramatic speeches to each other. At least Cain shows up on Stonehaven’s doorstep to ask to help fight the witches. Someone else focused on the mission
Ok, I know there was no chance of the werewolves kicking
the witches out, but at the same time the werewolves have little reason to feel
anything other than anger towards them. Alistair was and is a witch problem
because the witches were incapable of handling their own business, in turn his
machinations caused them some difficulty with the Alpha Council. Helping rescue
Elena and the afterthoughts Rachel and Logan was something of a side quest to finding
Savannah and, again, she only needed rescuing because the witches couldn’t take
care of business. I would like to see some acknowledgement on the part of the witches
that they’ve dragged the werewolves into their troubles and the werewolves have
not only gained little from that but the witches have treated them in a pretty
shoddy fashion.
I think a lot more could have been made of Elena arguing
in favour of the wolf (even while acknowledging it’s an amazing concession for
Clay to make since he has been a werewolf sine he was a small child). After
all, a huge part of the first season was defined by Elena running from her
wolf, trying not to be a wolf and avoiding the pack – this concession from her,
this embracing of being a werewolf is a huge character shift for her and shows
how much she now rests on the pack. Even accepting the losses of the pack as
part of her past and history rather than blaming them on her wolf. There’s a
lot in that little scene, a lot of Elena’s personal story that has been lost
this season.
So, Logan has been pretty much a side character in two
seasons, disappeared for several episodes and now they bring him back expressly
to kill him? Well he lives longer than in the books but it’s still a pretty
shameful criticism on this show’s already very limited racial diversity. Are we
now replacing Logan with Cain?
