[theme music playing]
♪ Our love story could be kind of gory ♪
♪ Far from boring ♪
♪ We'd meet at a post-apocalypse ♪
♪ Yeah, I'd be slowly walking in a group Stalking you ♪
♪ You'd be the only one alive ♪
♪ That I could not resist ♪
♪ Then all of your friends They'd try to kill us ♪
♪ But only because they'd be jealous ♪
♪ That our love is deeper Than Edward and Bella's ♪
♪ Oh, if I were a zombie I'd never eat your brain ♪
♪ I'd just want your heart Yeah, I'd want your heart ♪
♪ I'd just want your heart, yeah ♪
♪ Oh, if I were a zombie I'd never eat your brain ♪
♪ I'd just want your heart Yeah, I'd want your heart ♪
♪ I'd just want your heart 'Cause I want you ♪
["Chasing the Thrill" playing]
♪ You think that out of sight ♪
♪ Is out of mind ♪
♪ You think you gotta be cruel ♪
-♪ Just to be kind ♪ -[snake hissing]
♪ You think you're moving on ♪
♪ But God knows you never will ♪
♪ When you're chasing the thrill... ♪
[Calliope] My dad always says a hunter is only as good as her gut.
Shouldn't this gut thing guide me?
Give me confidence?
Or is it supposed to weigh me down
with guilt for doing what I know isrightfor me?
♪ You might lose your soul ♪
♪ In fact, you probably will... ♪
Juliette?
What are you doing here?
Where are we?
Eden.
The beginning.
I swear, when I bit you, I had no idea it would link us like this.
You don't believe me.
I don't know what to believe.
Or how to feel.
I mean, I shouldn't feel anything for you.
-But? -But you're nothing like the monsters
I grew up hating.
So just go with it.
Anything is possible here.
Juliette.
Run.
[knocking on door]
[Jack] Up, up, baby girl. The whole fam's already outside.
Nice. Nice form, Apollo.
Keep your distance.
Legacy blood touches your skin, you're done, paralyzed instantly.
-Good. -All right.
-That's some flash right there, Apollo. -You're telegraphing, Theo.
[Apollo chuckles]
You're telegraphing, Theo.
[Jack] Good.
Protect your neck. Let's go. Hoo! Winner.
-There's a first time for everything. -I don't know, Dad.
Sure he's ready for the Guild Academy? You might want to send your baby boy.
I'm almost 24. Guild Academy age.
-You'll never be ready. -Please. I was born ready.
You're too impressed with yourself. The worst thing a hunter can be.
That childish need for glory will get you killed.
Maybe our whole family killed.
Should I say I'm sorry about the Shambler again?
That's where this is going next?
You're quick and strong, son. But you're reckless.
A bit of your brother's humility would go a long way.
-You're lookout on tonight's hunt. -What?
Are you kidding me? You saw me. I beat him.
And now you'll watch him.
Wow.
-All right. -Cal.
-Tess. You're up. -Watch her.
-Sorry. -For what?
Embarrassing you in front of the fam.
-[Talia] Keep your eyes on her shoulders. -Never die.
-Come on. -Good.
-Let's go, T. -[Talia] You got this.
[Jack] Good.
That's Guild.
Good.
[eerie electronic music playing]
[Tate on TV] Welcome to Savannah's number one station
for news you need to know.
Savannah high school student Ashley Stanton will be laid to rest today.
What did you do with them?
Sources close to the family say Ashley was an outgoing girl--
It's rude to enter and not at least offer--
Where are my pills?
Calm down. It's not like you need them anymore.
Unless you haven't had your first kill
and this entire consecration ceremony is celebrating a--
Elinor.
Please.
Hear me on this. They won't solve your problem.
Where are the rest?
-It's not enough. -Exactly.
But I tossed the rest.
Motivation to get you to do the right thing.
Why do I even have to have this ceremony?
Because you lied, Jules.
Because it's our tradition.
So kill someone before Grandmother
and the entire Legacy community arrive for the big show.
I know it's tradition.
But I hate that it is. I mean, Oliver never had to do it.
We're a matriarchy. That's the part worth embracing.
Really worth embracing.
And Oliver almost destroyed this family.
Do you really want to follow in his footsteps?
So cute.
Now put those away and let's find a little concealer before the big fitting.
[pop music playing]
♪ Ooh, ah ♪
♪ I'll make it effortless ♪
♪ I got a way about my walk, my talk No doubt about it... ♪
I look like I sleep in a coffin.
Well, perhaps this isn't your era.
Let's try something else.
♪ Can't even try it ♪
♪ I'll make it, I'll make it ♪
♪ Yeah, I'll make it effortless... ♪
-No. -No.
Buttercup, can you at least attempt to be happy?
We are doing all of this for you.
Well, if it were for me, my friends would be invited.
The guests wouldn't be from Madrid and Tokyo and Lagos.
There wouldn't be a...
creepy snake ritual or human sacrifice hunt.
And this is why children are not entrusted to uphold tradition.
I thought you were going to call when you got to the hotel.
Surprise.
-[Elinor] Grandmother. -Hello, my darling.
You're keeping your hands clean and your bodies well-buried?
Just like you taught me.
Juliette.
That dress is hideous on you.
Let me look at you.
Well, you have your father's eyes,
but you have your mother's thirst, I'm told.
Grandmother, please tell your daughter that this moth trap belongs in a museum.
This moth trap was my consecration gown.
You see what happens when you procreate with a vampire you've made?
They lack the respect-for-their-elders gene.
-Sorry, I didn't mean to-- -Darling.
For a thousand years, our family has been the most powerful among Legacies.
The only ones deemed worthy of guarding the Emerald Malkia,
the queen mother serpent from which all Legacies draw strength.
So when you descend those stairs tonight,
when that serpent travels from my arm to yours, you--
-[car horn honking] -Shit. I forgot to cancel with Ben.
That's Juliette's human.
It's so lovely to see you, Mother.
Well, I certainly hope he tastes better than he behaves.
She doesn't feed from him.
-He's her friend. -Darling...
do your grandmother a favor.
Make sure she doesn't disappoint me.
Not easy. She's allergic to listening.
So wrangling your little sister is above your abilities then, yes?
I'll take care of it.
Good girl.
["Send Me To Hell" playing over stereo]
Oh, my God, you're like a two-year-old. What are you doing?
Wondering where's my invitation to that masquerade ball.
It's just a dinner.
It's a pretty elaborate dress for meatloaf and potatoes.
Savannah Blooms Florist.
-That's a lot of flowers for a-- -Grandmother.
She's in town. Fancy's kind of her thing.
Enough already.
Admit and Forget.
Fine.
Your parents are having a party and I'm not invited.
Admit.
Okay.
Forgive and forget.
Thank you.
I guess this means you're not coming with me to visit Ashley's parents,
pay our respects?
You know death freaks me out.
Does it look like I can go?
You look like you should be frantically teaching the Beast to waltz
before the last petal falls.
So go get changed, I need you for investigative purposes.
I think Ashley was murdered.
What? Who on earth would...?
You're traumatized because you stumbled onto her body.
Discovered. Not stumbled onto.
-And what if I'm right? -Okay.
If she was murdered, her parents should know.
I'm wearing a dress that weighs as much as I do
and as I stand here sweating buckets, you're talking nonsense.
Leave Ashley's parents to their grief. Go home. I'll call you later.
I say a girl was murdered.
You say, "My dress is heavy, go home"?
-Okay, yeah, I can do that. -No, you know I didn't mean it that way.
-Really? -[engine starting]
-Come on. -["Send Me To Hell" resumes playing]
Admit and Forget.
Fine. I admit I hate you right now.
That is not how the rules work.
You're supposed to say, "Forgive."
[pop music playing]
Her intensity reminds me of another badass hunter.
[Talia] Yeah, she's been at it for a couple of hours.
-Good. She has a lot to learn. -Yeah.
Your training sessions with her have been paying off.
I can see that myself.
She's only 16, Jack.
Theo was 12. Apollo, 14.
And Cal was 15 when that damned wraith almost killed her.
Then we moved here, she faced a Legacy and won.
Okay, that's not exactly how it happened and you know it.
Well, I know the Guild rewarded us for her actions.
By sending us to hunt monsters we don't know how to kill?
-No. -Just because we haven't
-doesn't mean we can't. -Jack.
And plus, they sent us our best friends Mike and Sarah, who are damn good hunters.
-Baby-- -Jack.
Cal ID'd a family of Legacies that no one knew existed.
The Guild is entrusting us to take them out.
We haven't been promoted to Helmers yet and they're giving it to us.
I know Blades don't get this kind of opportunity,
but it's a dangerous assignment, even for the best of us,
let alone for a first hunt.
No, I'm not letting her anywhere near this one, you hear me?
Baby, one, it's not the first hunt.
And two, it's been almost 400 years
since a hunter squared off with a Legacy and lived to tell the tale.
Until Cal.
Our baby girl.
Doesn't she deserve to finish it?
Not if it puts her life at risk.
What I'm saying is that if she's not with us when we're out there,
then we're not a family.
-You understand? -Okay. Stop.
She is our daughter first.
I know that.
No, sometimes I think you forget.
Sometimes you put our duties as hunters before everything else.
And sometimes I want you to respect how I feel.
Respect my position, instead of always trying to think of ways
to bring me around to yours, because it's exhausting.
And I don't know why you can't see that.
Why you can't see how frustrating that is for me.
All right. All right.
I hear you.
And I'm sorry.
You should be.
Get out of my kitchen unless you wanna make dinner.
Happy to.
But first, can I get a little dessert?
Brushing up on our history?
And so Eve fled the serpent while Lilith embraced its bite.
I always found that part a bit kinky.
Will the snake really bite me?
Only if you've committed your first kill.
Oh.
Okay.
If you haven't had your first kill, it'll reject you,
in front of the entire Legacy community.
Our family will be humiliated.
A scramble for control of the mother serpent would follow.
Pure anarchy.
Come on, I have a surprise for you.
[pop music playing]
♪ You come over late Just to stay up and talk ♪
♪ Tell me all your secrets Or anything... ♪
-[Calliope] Go ahead, it's your play. -[Mike] Check this out. Here we go.
So your Uncle Mike goes from Blade Hunter to Helm status,
and finally I get to kill the monster that made me start hunting in the first place.
It was a Kitsune.
A demon that can take the form of everything it kills, killed my brother.
Took me years to track it down.
Fifteen months, honey. [chuckles]
-So, what happened when you found it? -I didn't.
Walked right up to me one day, it tapped me on the shoulder,
wearing my brother's face.
Even pretended to be him.
I say all this to say...
I know how hard it is to kill a monster that looks and feels human.
I respect you, Cal, which is why I hate to do this.
-Domino! [laughing] -Cal, you over there, losing like that?
Well, I think now is a good time for a toast.
Now, the Guild sent us here for one simple mission,
to find out why there are monsters back in Savannah.
Now, we all know how hard it is to shock a hunter.
Well, that's because we're trained to expect the unexpected.
But, Cal, you shocked us all.
You took initiative, trusted your instincts,
and single-handedly led us to Legacies.
Now, if we win this battle, we just might be promoted.
Blade class would be in our rearview mirror.
Which is why we've decided you're ready for your first kill.
What?
-[Apollo] Let's go, sis. -[Sarah] Welcome to the hunt.
You're joining the hunt, baby girl.
Yep, you'll have the honor of killing Juliette.
-[Mike] Congratulations. -[Theo] Congratulations.
-There you go. Proud of you. -[Calliope] Thank you.
-Baby sis about to show 'em proof. -Yes, sir.
[Sarah] Theo, Apollo, we're ready.
There's one Guild record of a Legacy killing.
The tips of these six spears were forged from the silver stake used by that hunter.
Thought we'd never get a chance to use 'em. Until now.
Thanks to you, young warrior, we do.
Yo.
Cal.
[Mike] This silver is from the only spear to ever...
My princess warrior.
[Mike] This goes back hundreds of years.
Come here.
Hey.
It's okay to be nervous.
Everybody is the first time.
Once those monsters come for you, your instincts kick in.
Do you, uh...
-Never mind. -No, say it.
Do you ever ask yourself
like, what if they're not all monsters?
Like inside?
What does that mean?
I don't know, I just--
Sometimes I think about how they must see us.
Like, what if maybe we're the monsters in their story.
-Killers don't get a story, Cal. -We kill.
To protect people. They don't feel. They don't love.
The more you hunt, the clearer that'll become.
Yeah. I'm sure you're right.
Thanks.
[jazz music playing over speakers]
-Want to tell me why we're here? -To save you from yourself.
Oh, Elinor.
Juliette, meet Eve.
Hi.
Shall we?
Oh, are we not having lunch?
-In a bit. Come on. -Oh.
-We'll all ride over to the rehearsal. -Oh, and lunch?
I'm kind of famished.
-There's food there. -Oh.
That's Eve.
At least the actress playing Eve in tonight's Legacy hunt.
But we can find a replacement. Drink up.
Wait, you want me to bite her?
Okay.
Oops.
Okay.
No, I want you to drain her.
No, I'm not killing anyone.
Your grandmother is a monster.
If she finds out you're weak, a vampire afraid to kill, she'll shun you.
Just because I'm not a killer doesn't mean I'm weak.
Finally. The truth. Thank you.
I tried, okay?
I really did.
-I couldn't. -Couldn't or wouldn't?
Wouldn't.
I mean, I could, but I won't, because I like her.
Aw, you've got a crush.
Luckily, it'll pass.
Maybe. Maybe it won't.
Okay, so what's your plan, when the Malkia refuses the bonding bite
because she knows you haven't made your kill?
Then what?
Sweet little, fate dealt you a beautiful hand.
You are a Legacy vampire of Atwood lineage.
I find that to be the coolest thing in the world.
Made vampires would love to see their reflection in a mirror,
be able to spend as much time in daylight as they'd like to,
eat human food and not get ill.
But you and me, we woke up like this.
I'm begging you, free your mind,
stop wishing to be something you'll never be and appreciate what you are.
You don't understand.
Change of plans. Lunch on me.
Uh, thanks.
See you this evening.
Let's go.
[hip-hop music playing over speakers]
The way you did that was pretty amazing.
Mike, I was just telling Cal here how you killed that banshee with a wrench.
Greatest freehand kill I ever saw.
It was a lucky shot.
-Can we talk for a minute? -Yeah, sure.
Listen, man, you my boy.
We go way back. So I'm gonna be straight with you.
Cal's out the hunt.
-Where's this coming from? -Me.
-With the Guild's blessing. -The Guild?
I don't know what is going on here, but you can't.
She's ready for this.
-This is bullshit, Mike. -If you don't want to be a Blade,
you'll hear me on this one, man.
Hey, everybody.
We got something we need to deal with.
Earlier today, Cal told Tess she has doubts about killing vamps.
And she implied we're just as bad as the monsters we hunt.
Give me a break. Cal wouldn't--
Calliope?
-I was just trying to explain that-- -Yes or no, Calliope.
[Mike] Tess wouldn't lie.
Hmm?
-Yes. -[Jack] Shit.
[Calliope] I don't know. I mean, I didn't.
Not like that.
-You guys see that? She's been bitten. -What are you talking about?
-If Cal's been bitten, I would know. -Actually, you wouldn't.
Legacy bites, they disappear.
Leave no physical trace, and itch like hell.
And the venom can alter the mind,
and make the most devoted hunter question her beliefs.
I would never go against my family.
-Of course you wouldn't. -Ever.
We can't take any chances. We've got good intel.
All the Legacies will be in one location. We won't get this opportunity again.
Sorry, Talia. The Guild's sending someone to watch Cal while we hunt.
For her own safety.
[band playing classical music]
[indistinct chatter]
It'll be fine.
Don't worry.
[clinking glass]
Tonight, a young Legacy will bond with the Emerald Malkia Serpent,
just as Lilith the First Keeper did in the Garden of Eden.
The Atwood family is honored to uphold the name of Lilith,
both in practice and in lineage.
Who will present Juliette Anastasia Atwood at this Legacy consecration?
We will.
Margot and Sebastian present our daughter.
Tonight, Juliette Anastasia Atwood Fairmont
will take her rightful place in the line of succession.
[Ben on voicemail] It's Ben. The average person lives 41 million minutes.
Tick-tock.
[heartbeat thumping]
[eerie electronic music playing]
[Elinor] Jesus, you're a mess.
I swiped this from downstairs.
Drink it now. Mom will kill you if you get blood on the Valentino.
Yes, well, you're out of options.
No, I'm not. I'm gonna tell them the truth.
The truth is overrated.
Now, pull yourself together before your thirst takes over
and you kill whoever happens to be nearest.
Maybe it'll be a stranger.
Maybe it'll be Ben.
Good.
-We'll figure out your first kill. -No, I--
Don't worry, we'll honor your sensibilities, but get it done.
Finish getting ready, go downstairs and stall the hunt as long as possible.
Wait, stall? Why?
Juliette, we are at the big-sister- knows-best part of the story.
I got this, if you just trust me.
Okay. Stall. Got it.
As it has been and always will be.
It is time for the mature vampire to pass through the garden.
A Legacy of the Atwood line.
Allow me to present my granddaughter Juliette Anastasia Atwood.
[guests applauding]
Look who's all grown up.
Oliver.
Hey, baby sister.
Her bite marks disappeared. I didn't think it was important.
-We understand. -Actually, we don't.
You're part of a family of Guild-sanctioned hunters.
More importantly, you're my daughter.
Everything that happens to you is important to me.
Is there anything else you need to tell us?
Anything.
No.
Okay, sorry, baby girl, but we have to do what we gotta do.
Juliette and every Legacy in Savannah dies tonight.
Let's move out.
-So, what are we watching tonight? -[Theo] We've got this.
What do you got in your queue?
-Dad. -It's time to go.
[Cook] Okay.
You seem nervous. Are you getting cold feet?
No.
-Oliver. -We both know you're not like them, Jules.
You know all this Legacy nonsense is, well, it's nonsense.
Margot. Sebastian.
Look at Margot and Sebastian, the stupid looks on their faces.
If you hate them so much, then why did you come?
-For you. -My darling daughter...
may I have this dance?
Hello, darling.
-A word? -Of course, Mother.
That was quite the grand entrance.
Make sure your hasty exit isn't nearly as dramatic.
Oh. Why so ornery? Afraid I'll embarrass you
and you'll have to send me away?
-Pretend I don't exist? -We've never denied your existence.
You wanted to upset us. You have.
Now leave before you ruin your sister's big night.
I think I'll stay.
[suspenseful music playing]
You look worried. Are you worried about your family
or your vamp girlfriend?
Here.
My first kill 20 years ago. Staked that first one.
Sorry not sorry.
My brothers have been pulling that move on me since I was two.
Wonder what promotion I'd get
if I dragged you out of here because you started acting,
I don't know, all twitchy.
Excuse me?
You were bit by a Legacy, weren't you?
Who knows how that would affect you.
You might attack me, I'd have to restrain you...
drag you in.
-Look how erratic you're acting. -You're invading my personal space.
[shouts]
Get back here!
-[knocking on door] -Just a minute.
[door opens]
-Can we talk? -You are my youngest daughter.
When you say, "Can we talk?" I am supposed to say, "Of course."
No, not with this surprise appearance from Oliver.
Not with the entire Legacy community waiting to see you--
[Juliette] It's not my place.
I don't want it.
I have been saying this for months and nobody is listening to me.
So here I am, embarrassing the entire family.
I didn't want that either.
I'm sorry.
I know I ruined everything...
but please call it off.
You haven't ruined everything.
I did that a long time ago.
Have you ever wondered why I have three sisters that you've only met once?
It's because I humiliated my family by running away with my human plaything.
They have children that I have never met.
Family events that I have not been invited to.
All because I refused to marry Henry Davenport.
I'd fallen in love with your father.
So...
on my wedding day...
I ran.
I have had no relationship with my family since.
They came to Elinor's ceremony because Mother
is the most revered Legacy.
They didn't come to yours because she gave them permission not to.
They abhor the fact that I am Keeper in Waiting.
Their...
disdain... for me, it's palpable.
-You don't deserve to be treated that way. -Neither do you.
I made choices for my life.
I want you to do the same.
But very soon you are going to have to make your first kill
or you will get very sick.
You know?
We wouldn't be standing here if you had.
You are a good girl, who loves her family.
If the hard part were done,
you would have gone through with the easy part, the ceremony.
Okay.
I'll tell your father we have an announcement to make.
No.
I'm making the choice, right?
I should tell them myself.
It's gonna be all right, Mom.
Well, it'll have to be, sweet girl.
[cell phone chimes]
Before the days of recorded history,
Eve and her sister Lilith frolicked in the Garden of Eden.
As they admired a perfect peach tree, ripe with fruit,
a serpent slithered down from his perch atop the highest branch.
Eve, frightened, begged the serpent not to bite her.
Where is she?
She should have come down before Mother got all worked up.
-Stay here, for appearances. I'll get her. -[Davina] God, unimpressed with Eve's
cowardice, made her human.
But Lilith embraced the snake.
She welcomed its bite, and so became the first vampire,
the vampire from which all the Legacies are descended.
And now my granddaughter will receive
the bite of bonding from the Queen Snake, just as Lilith did.
Behold the Emerald Malkia.
Once she has anointed Juliette with her venom,
we will release the ceremonial Eve.
And hunt her.
Come, Juliette, step into your Legacy.
Damn.
Where the hell is she?
Oh, my God, you scared me.
The ritual's starting and I have to get back.
Then we'll hurry.
No, I told Mom everything, she supports me.
I smell blood. Elinor, I smell--
What did you do?
I scrolled through your phone and found her.
You're welcome.
I told you Mom knows and I'm gonna tell everyone the truth.
I told you that I don't want my Legacy ripped from me
just because you and Mom don't care about yours.
-Oh, my God. -I am second in line to be the Keeper.
You know her, you like her, drain her.
No more migraines, burning throat, tears of blood, sweaty pale skin.
Jules, this really is the way.
No.
-Finish what you started. -[Oliver] Or don't.
Wow.
Really?
Calliope? Calliope?
I told Dad Prague wasn't far enough.
No place would keep me away from these shenanigans.
A silver box at the bottom of the ocean would've kept you away.
You don't have to live like this.
-I'm proof. -[Elinor] Of what?
I got all the good genes.
No, that's what you manipulated everybody into believing.
-That's why I'm taking Juliette away. -Wake up, Calliope.
Untie your friend, Jules. I'll make sure Elinor behaves.
My, what big teeth you have.
-No. Run. -What?
Hit the sound blast. Move.
Set.
[sound blaring]
-Run. Now. -[Juliette] No!
-[grunting] -[suspenseful music playing]
[Juliette] Some decisions you have to mull over, consider, contemplate.
But sometimes, you know inyourgutthe right thing to do.
[Margot] Juliette.
[theme music playing]