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White 20. 20, set, hut.

Daniels rolls to his right.

Eyes scanning the...

Oh, my, the safety slipped.

Eleven's wide open.

I thought your arm was all busted.

Not anymore. There's this guy.

He hooked me up with the good stuff.

My arm feels...

even better than before the injury.

It's off-market, zero side effects

and totally undetectable.

What have you guys lost now--

three, four in a row?

Keep that up, there's no sectionals.

No state.

Just...

this.

This is who fixed you up?

I don't fix people.

I transform them.

At the old train yard?

Sure, buddy.

Just show me what juice you got.

Happy to.

You know what I've realized recently?

For centuries, I've been obsessed

with consuming everything I could.

I had it all backwards.

What the hell?

Help!

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful

than you can possibly imagine."

Those are Landon Kirby's favorite last words.

But, "help"?

That's a close second.

Ahsorum, dolusantum, infidictus.

All right, next part of the grid. Let's go.

Don't worry. We'll find them.

Sorry, Mr. Saltzman,

but I just checked with the dispatcher.

No sign of your missing students.

Okay. Thanks.

I'll, uh, try again later.

Yeah, all I could hear in the background was someone calling

to complain about their neighbor's dog.

Any luck with the locator spells?

Malidon must be cloaking himself.

So, what do we do next?

For now, nothing.

If the wolves pick up a scent,

then we'll have options, but until then, we wait.

You can't be serious.

This is a hostage situation, Hope.

Malivore has Landon, Cleo, Ethan.

If we do something reckless, we could risk losing all three.Okay.

Well, maybe we shouldn't have let him

walk out of the gym where we had him locked up.

There was no time to get help,

so I had to make a judgment call.

Kind of like the judgment call

that you two made not to tell me about Landon?

Think I'll...

...head back to the school.

Wish me luck.

Oh, and...

Hope's right.

You should've told her.

Well, at least one person thinks I can handle difficult news.

That is not why we kept it from you.

Then why?

Fine. Keep your secrets.

I'll deal with Malidon myself.

Look, Hope,

I can only imagine the pressure

that you're feeling, but this could make things worse.

Well, I can't sit here and do nothing.

Hey, don't do that, okay?

Don't act like you're the only one that cares.

What happened to being a team player?

Oh, well, I found out that my team lied to me.

Had to make a judgment call.

"Inspire yourself, Muse."

Oh, "Find a door, Muse."

Does this boy think I have not been looking

for a way out the darkness?

It is useless.

In here, we are as blind as...

bats.

Landon Kirby, I may have to kiss you one of these days.

Ohun.

Pada.

There is something out there.

Anything?

I feel terrible for Hope.

I can't believe that my dad lied to her.

Again.

Dr. S. was just doing what he thought was right.

Sometimes you got to prioritize the greater good.

Someone gets hurt no matter what you do.

Classic trolley problem.

Which pretty much sums up my love life at the moment.

If I hadn't gone on that date with Ethan,

then he'd be driving around Mystic Falls,

helping old ladies cross the street right now.

It's not your fault.

Ethan wanted to be supernatural.

He tried to get me to turn him.

I wouldn't do it.

I-I thought he wasn't ready,

or that he wanted to for the wrong reasons.

But either way, I just left him...

defenseless.

Well, sounds to me like you chose the greater good.

Trolley's got to go somewhere.

All units be advised,

we have a 10-66 at the packing plant.

Deputy is en route.

What's a 10-66?

Suspicious person.

We'll have to split the pack up.

You can lead the search party at the falls.

: Hey.

Brought you this.

I'm good.

Okay. Uh, funny story.

When we were kids, Lizzie once dared me

to hide by the falls and I got lost

for, like, a day and a half.

Can you guess why I might not be in the mood

for a story about Lizzie putting you in danger?

I get it.

I've had a year to come to terms with the merge,

and I kind of forced you to be cool with it overnight.

So, I just wanted to say...

take your time.

Whatever you need.

Here's what I need.

I need you to know that if the merge actually happens...

It won't come to that.

But if it does.

Tell me that you're actually gonna try to win.

I know how terrible that sounds, but...

I can't stay if you've already decided you're not gonna fight.

Yo, Jo.

We got squad business.

You're making so much noise,

I can only assume you wanted my attention.

Aquamalia.

Well, there's definitely

a climate change joke here somewhere.

Icaeus.

Why don't we just skip to the part

where you tell me where Malivore is.

He's right in front of you.

Do you like my new foot soldier?

I made him especially for you.

Cute.

Unless it's some special skill I haven't seen before,

I'd say maybe you bought yourself

about three minutes of monster distraction time.

Oh, it's not a distraction.

This is a warning

for what this fight is going to cost you.

'Cause they're gonna keep coming

and keep coming,

until all your friends are dead.

You know, let me offer you some constructive criticism.

Next time,

don't make a monster with such a loud heartbeat.

It's okay, guys. I've got it under...

♪

There is no way you could have known, Hope.

Let's go home.

There's nothing else we can do.

Yeah, there is.

The thing I should have been willing to do all along.

I have to become the Tribrid

before anyone else gets hurt.

Don't walk away from me when I'm talking to you.

What are they saying?Shh.

There's nothing more to talk about.ALARIC: Hope,

there is always another way.

Not this time.

We all knew this day was coming.

Here it is.

What?

I think Hope's gonna die and activate her vampire side.

Malivore just found a way

to turning innocent people into monsters that he controls.

They're not gonna stop coming.

And eventually we're gonna run out of cages

and chains and sleeping potions, and then what?

The longer we leave him alive,

the more innocent people are gonna die.

I can't live with that.

You are still in shock.

All right? So just calm down and take a second.

Don't tell me to calm down like I'm a child.

I just killed someone.

You know, the former vampire hunter

who took me in when I was little

would have made this choice in a heartbeat.

It's the right thing to do,

and you know it.It's not that simple.

Why not?

Because it's not gonna work.Why wouldn't it work?

Because you're not ready.

You don't trust me.

Just like you didn't trust me

to know that Landon was still alive.

We're talking about more power than anyone has ever had.

And no matter how strong you are,

you are still your father's daughter.

Get out.

Hope...It's not your choice.

Get out.

Ask yourself if you're ready to give up on Landon and Cleo.

Because if you destroy Malivore,

that's exactly what you're gonna do.

Dad...

How could you say that to her?

Everyone to the library. Now.

I think I know who he'll listen to.

Find anything on magically removing a parasite

from the host.

Doc, what are we trying to do?Find a way

to pull Malivore out of the people he's infecting.

And we have to do it before Hope goes through with her plan.

This is now a race.

I guess I'll start over here.

Yeah, we're not doing that.

You heard Doc. This is a race.

Research duties are for Pintos.

You and I are supernatural Maseratis.

We should be out there.

Look, even if we find the answer in one of these books,

you know Hope's gonna beat us to the punch.

I mean... it's her choice, right?

And what about Cleo's choice?

Or Ethan's?

Yeah.

It's time to pick a side.

I think I know how to stop Hope.

That's what I'm talking about.

If you're here to spell me in...

We're not here to stop you.

We made a promise.

We're here for you.

What do you need?

There's someone I need to see.

Someone who knows Landon better than anyone.

And I need your help to get there.

♪

You're really using Excalibur?

To fish?Yeah, man.

I use it on everything.

This thing is really amazing.

Never gets dull, never breaks.Hmm.

Guess you could've used it earlier on lava man, huh?

His name was Blake.

And he didn't deserve what happened to him.

Few of us do.

♪ You run without your feet...

Oh, my God.

You should have seen this catch that I had yesterday.

It was so big, and, like, everything here tastes better.

Like, maybe it's the-the air.

Hmm.

No, but I have been thinking,

we should change the name to a mirror world.

It's only a prison if you feel trapped.

♪ And you get what you really saw coming ♪

You really make the best out of wherever you're at.

Just something I learned from Landon in foster care.

See the potential.

♪ When you stay by the sea...

You know, if I have to kill Malivore,

there's a chance that...

everything inside of him dies, too.

If I have to do this...Hope.

Whatever you choose...

...I'll find a way to understand it.

Will Landon?

Of course.

Landon is willing to sacrifice everything

just to spare other people's pain.

And that's something that he learned from you.

Landon's my brother.

I know losing him will never be easy.

But out of all of us, he has the best chance

at finding peace.

And after the life that he's had to live,

I want that for him more than anything.

♪ Your house won't need as much ♪

♪ With her, you will see.

Josie called.

I heard what's going on.

I have something I think you need to see.

What is this?

It's my plan.

For the day of the merge.

It's a list of who we should call,

spells to have on hand.

And I have two blank letters

for Lizzie and Josie to write to each other.

That way, whoever survives gets

a goodbye from the other sister

and a reminder that they're forgiven.

Why did you make this?

Because I knew that if that day ever came,

you wouldn't be thinking straight.

You'd be fighting till the last second

to try and save them.

But if the worst happened,

I knew we'd need a plan.

Because there are some things

that can't be avoided...

...no matter how hard we try.

When Josie called, I knew right away

this was one of those days we've been trying to avoid.

Ric, you know as well as I do,

Hope can only outrun this for so long.

It's happening.

Whether you're ready for it or not...

it's happening.

So the only question is,

when the worst comes,

are you gonna make her face it by herself?

So, you ready to tell me the plan yet?

Or explain to me what we're looking for out here?

MG...

something you want to tell me?

There's this trolley.

And-and it's-it's...

it's running on a track that splits two ways.

And if it stays on the path it's following,

it's going to kill...

...dozens of people.

But there's this lever.

And if you pull it, the trolley will switch

to the second track,

and it'll only kill two people.

But, man,

sometimes the greater good

means pulling the lever.

We have to save the greatest number of people.

You said it yourself.

We all got to make a choice.

Yeah.

You made yours.

Now I'm gonna make mine.

I'm sorry.

I know you'll understand when you wake up.

But Hope deserves our trust.

♪

♪

I should go.

Lizzie and Josie will be pulling me out any second now.

One last question.

Any advice on facing your last day?

I remember you were pretty good at it.

I was only as good as the family I had around me.

Hmm.Hey.

I know you, Miss Lone Wolf.

Don't go through this by yourself.

I'm not sure I have much of a choice this time.

It was really good to see you.

Hope?

We thought we'd have a meal

and tell some stories.

This is your home, Hope.

And if this is going to happen,

it should happen here.

With us.

♪

Jed!Cleo!

Oh, my God.

How did you...

Did I arrive in time?

Is Hope all right?

I think Hope's back at the school.

Why, what's going on?

I thought of a way Malivore could destroy Hope

and he might already have figured it out.

We need to warn her.All right, come on.

♪ When it's not always raining

♪ They'll be days like this

So, we had already been up for two days at this point,

uh, because of the Night Hag.

But anyway,

Dr. Saltzman was still making us take exams,

and Hope was so annoyed by that one blowhard professor.

And Hope had spelled him so that he could only speak

Ancient Babylonian.

But he was the only one

that didn't realize.

We were all dying.

You can't prove that that was me.

Okay. It was Sumerian.

I got a favorite Hope memory.

No...It was when we had the slugs.

Hmm...

Hope had a slime trail going from her cheek

into her nose.

What are you gonna miss the most?

A lot of witches, when they've transitioned,

lost their ability to do magic.

I mean, I don't know what's gonna happen,

but if I never got to do a spell again, I'd miss that.

Especially with you two.

♪ When you don't meet a chancer... ♪

We were hoping you'd say that.

♪ When all the parts of the puzzle ♪

♪ Start to look like they fit, yeah ♪

♪ Oh, I must remember

♪ They'll be days like this.

What spell are we doing?

Just repeat after us.

Phesmatos Tribum, Veras Regenera.

Phesmatos Tribum, Veras Regenera.

Phesmatos Tribum, Veras Regenera.

What is that?

The promise of new life.

And a new life full of promise.

I think I'm ready.

Almost there.

Perhaps we're in time to warn her.

We never left the darkness.

It was all a trick.

Malivore.

What can I say?

You inspired me to try a new approach.

But I impressed even myself with the level of detail.

And that idea of yours

about how to destroy the Tribrid--

that was genius.

Look what I found.

How'd you find me?

That magic candle you got--

it's also eliminating sounds and smells

so that the wolves don't find you, right?

So I just listened for a place that seemed a little too quiet.

Clever.Yeah. I woke up in

the middle of the woods with a bad headache

and gave me a little quality time alone to think.

Still.

Coming to fight the big bad alone

was a poor choice.

I'm not here to fight you.

I'm here to make you an offer.

Take whatever you need.

Photos, mementos, anything comforting.

Because when you wake up your emotions will be

on overdrive and you'll be disoriented.

This should be good.

There's, uh...

one last thing. Uh...

You know, when you first arrived here,

you said that you liked painting,

and so I got you and art set.

You made that for me.

Your family seemed so happy.

All I wanted was to be a part of it.

♪ When you're beaten down and the truth is out of reach... ♪

You are.

And what I said earlier, uh...

it was wrong.

It's not that you're not ready.

♪ I need someone who understands... ♪

I'm not ready.

I mean, you were right, I...

The former vampire hunter, uh,

who took you in--

he would make that decision without hesitation,

because he was an idiot.

He didn't know what it was like to watch you grow up.

He didn't know who you were going to become.

♪ I hope we find it, I hope we find it... ♪

Someone he respects.

And loves dearly.

You have everything you need.

♪ Oh, I'm trouble...

Thank you.

Don't thank me just yet,

'cause I have...

one last confession to make.

The family meal, uh, the magic spell--

that was, uh, a bit of a stall

'cause there's somebody who wanted to make it here in time.

Aunt Freya.

Hello, gorgeous.

♪

You're still wearing it.

Always.

It's like having my family close.

Oh, God.

You're going to be this beautiful forever.

Rebekah's gonna be so jealous.

She wanted to come. There just...

there wasn't enough time.

I'm glad you came.You know, I'm a Mikaelson,

so I'll take any opportunity for a good dramatic entrance.

What will it feel like?

Elijah described it to me once,

in his oh-so-poetic way.

He said at first,

there's nothing.

But then you slowly start

to realize that there's nothing.

That's your consciousness reigniting.

Then,

the light will trickle in.

You'll open your eyes,

and you'll be back in this room,

but the colors will be different.

The sounds will be fuller.

You'll feel small movements of air on your skin

that you've never felt before.

It can be overwhelming.

But I am sure you can handle it.

So there's really nothing to worry about.

Frankly, I'm only here

to get a milkshake from the Grill and...

to be able to say that I was present

for the birth of the one and only Tribrid.

Family bragging rights.

Whatever it is, you can say it.

There were...

really wonderful parts of my father.

But...

what if I have all the other parts, too?

He used to always say that the good in me came from my mom,

and if I become more like him,

what if I lose the only piece of her that I have left?

You are equal parts your father and mother.

And she would never disappear without a fight.

Ever since you were little,

people were terrified of what you could become.

Because they were afraid

that you might turn out like your dad.

But you know what I think?

I loved Niklaus.

He was...

complicated...

and flawed and...

...loyal.

And he would have let the world burn

just to save the people he loved.

But you...

You are willing to let go of someone you love

to save innocent people

that you'll never even meet.

So, I think...

that you're already better than all of us.

And that your father and mother would say the same.

How long will it take?

Oh, a few hours or so.

When she wakes up she'll be in transition.

Then all we need to do is feed her blood

and her transformation will be complete.

Is it an option that we should be talking about?

Josie or I

becoming a vampire.

That would solve the merge, right?

In theory, it's possible.

I'm not saying I want that. I'm just...

saying.

I think we need to keep all options on the table.

Because that day we're afraid of just might come.

Can we just...

talk about it more?

Instead of the merge being this big unspoken thing?

I think we should.

How's Hope?

With her aunt.

About what you asked earlier.

Of course I won't say that I'll try to win the merge

if it means murdering my sister.

But you already knew that before asking.

Because you weren't looking for a reason to stay, you were

looking for an excuse to go.

There's a lot that I don't know about you,

but I know that you've spent your life running.

Is it easier when it's the other person's fault?

It's never easy.

But what's the alternative?

What am I supposed to do if the person I'm falling for

might just disappear one day?

You stay anyway.

Today, Hope is

having to do the unthinkable.

It's sad and it's scary.

But it's also kind of beautiful.

Because she is surrounded by people

who are willing to walk through it with her.

Someday,

the unthinkable may happen to me.

And no--

I don't know what I will choose in that moment.

But I need someone who will love me no matter what I choose.

Because if that day comes,

I want to be surrounded by people

who are willing to look death in the face with me

and not run.

♪ Baby, can you find a way to stay... ♪

For once,

I want someone

to love me enough to stay

and fight.

Even if it is a lost cause.

Because I'm worth that.

♪ If this doesn't work, don't know what will ♪

♪ Not sure how much more I can cry. ♪

I am so proud of you, Hope.

Okay.

Close your eyes.

Focus your breath.

Corum spiritus prohibera.

♪

♪

Hello?

Who's there?

Am I supposed to go there

to complete the transformation?

I don't understand. What is it?

Is that peace?

Kaleb?

Figured you could use some company.

Hey, man, I, um...

I get it.

There's no stopping Hope Mikaelson, right?

I, uh...

I almost went too far today.

But then you convinced me.

Someone's gonna get hurt no matter what.

We're going to find a way to save Cleo.

I promise.

I already did.

Take your pick, MG.

I have coffee, black tea,

and those illegal sodas that you can get from the gas...

♪