The humans got their shit together, and I think that's mostly because Abolish decided to lock in and actually take action rather than confining himself to the shadows. No one expected him, because he allowed himself to lie low and present as not a threat. Each episode I flip flop between which faction I think is going to win, and this episode it definitely seemed as though the humans would.
The vampires are fs heading towards a coven civil war, they're breaking into factions and that's way obvious when they're all gather around the table. Cleo and Drift, Scott and Shelby, Owen and Pyro. The problem is that the vampires are all too proud and too stubborn. While their emotions are heightened they cannot put aside grudges, they cannot put aside differences, they cannot accept any slight made against them. Owen and Pyro killed someone Scott saw as his own, and that will be paid back in turn (despite Scott's insistence that it was just a bad move strategically. And while he's not wrong, Avid was definitely a drain on limited resources considering when they're all full strength they can't breed animals for a reliable food source. It honestly wasn't good but it wasn't terrible). Scott vowed to kill everyone. The only way the vampires win atp is if they all as individual factions turn the remaining humans.
And that's not happening.
Why is that no happening?
The indomitable human spirit or whatever.
The humans are willing to put their differences aside. They're willing to ignore differences in ideology and method. It doesn't matter if you want to cure the vampires, or if you want to kill the vampires. They have to work together, and they have to work as one. They know they have to operate as a single unit, or else they're doomed. Desperation, and the willingness to put their own pride aside, is what's going to bring them to victory.
When they work together they are efficient. They overtook what was it 3? 4? beacons during the episode. If the vampires don't get over themselves they're doomed.
Also the Veylockes are SO TOTALLY AN EQUIVALENT TO THE VAN HELSINGS AND I FEEL SO VINDICATED BC I WAS SAYING THAT SINCE THE BEGINNING