So, Alaric is off
doing some monster wrangling, leaving the school in the hands of his students
Again.
This man has no idea
how to headmaster or how schools are supposed to work
Anyway he’s worried
that the students don’t think they have enough power in their lives so he’s
going to set up a Student Council with 1 witch, 1 vampire, 1 werewolf and Emma
(or Emily? Honestly this character is so irrelevant I’m not looking it up) to
represent the little kids.
And this Council will have the power to free Kaleb (who is locked up for feeding on humans) and deciding whether to kick Landon out.
Uh… Student Councils
shouldn’t have this kind of power. This is not how they work.
So it’s
electioneering. Lizzie goes all out for the witch candidate - not actually
campaigning, she expects Josie to do it. Lizzie just accepts it as her due that
she will win because she’s just that special.
MG is campaigning for
himself because he wants to free Kaleb and stop feeling guilty about him being
locked up.
Rafael, meanwhile, is
running around trying to convince people who are going to be council members to
vote to keep Landon around. This involves Lizzie blackmailing him to go on a
date with her which is more than a little creepy, MG agreeing - and Rafael
trying to convince the werewolf alpha (who will obviously win the werewolf
vote) but Jed is an arsehole and refuses to even listen because he treats the
pack as his servants, including making them do his home work. So, obviously,
Rafael beats him in single combat and becomes the new alpha.
Hope is continuing to
test Landon for any kind of supernatural woo-woo and getting nowhere. He has no
apparent supernatural abilities and the truth spell she uses reveals he knows
nothing about his ancestry (has only a picture of his mother), has no
abilities, no idea why he’s glamour proof and no idea why he wants the knife.
They also bond over their mutual suspicion of others and inability to trust
because of painful childhoods.
Interestingly Hope
does a legacy spell on him to check his lineage for magic and finds none. Which
Emma considers weird because everyone has a little.
This lack of
supernatural powers is a problem because Jed blames him for losing his alphadom
and he beats Landon up. Hope becomes super concerned about him and whether he
feels safe at this school. Landon says yes. The lie detector spell says no
And my gods why hasn’t the eternally paranoid Klaus got one of these? WHY?! Like 80% of the Originals plot lines could have been solved by one of these.
So the Council
election: Rafael becomes the werewolf leader no surprise there. But Kaleb wins
the vampire leader which may point to the vampires really not being happy with
Alaric. MG is super sad since he only wanted to make up with Kaleb. And the
witch vote goes to… Josie
Turns out that Evil
Ex Penny has been campaigning for Josie above Lizzie. Lizzie is devastated and
super upset and Josie tries to comfort her and even offers to give up the role
for Lizzie - and Lizzie doesn’t refuse but apparently Lizzie wasn’t even the
runner up. Penny, when she rubs salt in that wound is right, the witches don’t
think Lizzie will represent them. And she’s not wrong - Lizzie is very self
focused. But the main reason why Penny hates Lizzie is because of how she
treats Josie - Josie exists to serve and support Lizzie. We’ve already seen
Josie backing off Rafael because Lizzie is interested and, as Penny points out,
Lizzie didn’t even pause to see whether Josie would like to be council head
before running for it.
Maybe Penny won’t be
so demonised.
