After a month-long break, 'Legacies' is finally returning to The CW this week with new episodes. It might feel like a long time has passed since the last episode, so let's go through what happened when 'Legacies' aired last.

The last two episodes of 'Legacies' were the two-part ones that featured Kai Parker's return. After the witch, Alyssa Chang, sends Alaric Saltzman and his daughters, Josie and Lizzie to the prison world, Kai finds out about Malivore and gets back through the real world through the portal.

Meanwhile, Josie is forced to unleash her dark self in order to find a way out of the prison world for herself, Alaric, Lizzie and the students Alaric sent to the prison world when he thought they were irredeemable. However, Sebastian, Lizzie's vampire boyfriend, does not make it.

Understandably, everyone is quite traumatized after the events that transpired. While Alyssa did help Hope in the end to defeat Kai, it cannot be easy going back to what it used to be.

And so, Emma suggests that the students of Salvatore School participate in a group simulation exercise that transports them to a film noir world. We think by now these alternate worlds should be retired, but hey, Emma's plan might do the trick.

However, Hope, Lizzie, Josie, MG and Rafael "quickly learn that they must confront their conflicts head-on or risk facing the game's catastrophic consequences."

We are worried about the marked absence of Landon in the synopsis and the promo (though he is mentioned in the latter), but it is possible he is the most well-adjusted teenager of the lot.

The promo also shows that Professor Vardemus will be back — as Sherlock Holmes, no less — and that Lizzie might be in danger from her own sister. There could also potentially be a relationship developing between Hope and Rafael.

'Legacies' airs on Thursday nights at 9/8c on The CW.