Previously on the Originals
Elijah tried to support Klaus even though he's basically unhinged. Rebekah got a bit miffed cos Klaus wouldn't let her shack up with a man he'd raised to be as unhinged as himself so she called on a witch to summon Dad of the Millennium (DotM) Mikael to come scare Klaus off.
A century later that witch told Klaus everything making him a little bit cross and then another witch trapped all three of the Mikaelson siblings in a graveyard with 2 nasty weapons and a whole lot of angst.
Flashback time.
First up, how cute are these child actors and how much did the casting department get them spot on.
Young Rebekah is frightened of a storm and young Klaus comforts her and gives her a wooden knight he has carved for his father and promises to stay with her no matter what. Oh boy, I'm welling up already.
Present day
Elijah armed with Tunde's blade and Klaus armed with the indestructible white oak stake faceoff, Elijah attempts to reason with Klaus in defence of their sister while playing cat and mouse around the tombs. Elijah seems to have grown a serious pair since offing Celeste for good last week and it really suits him.
Marcel talks to Bekah on the phone while he goes to see the newly resurrected Davina and play nice in the hopes she'll be able to break the boundary spell, releasing Rebekah. Funnily enough returning from the dead after spending several months’ siding against your people with a bunch of vampires didn't exactly make for a very uplifting experience for the poor kid. Not quite sure what Marcel was expecting here, Monique came back and immediately went dark side, was he really expecting she'd be cool?
Sun's come up in the cemetery and no-one is bloody, have these two have just been having some kind of Zoolander-esque walk off to pass the time. Klaus brings up Elijah stabbing him with Tunde's blade and shifts his anger towards big brother for a bit. Why do I get the feeling someone might end up in a little bit of pain sometime soon? And I don't mean Klaus. Then Elijah pulls the dick move of telling Klaus he looks like their dad. Honestly, do these people really think that's going to help matters?
Oooh, another flashback. Elijah is teaching Klaus to shoot a bow when DotM shows up and kicks the crap out of Klaus basically just for breathing (Sidebar – I totally have a miniature version of the brooch Young Elijah is wearing). He stops Elijah teaching Klaus to shoot, then berates the poor kid for not being able to hunt...well if you won't teach him and you won't let his older brother do it how is the poor kid meant to learn?
“You ask me to show mercy to one who has wronged me?” Can someone give Klaus a dictionary? Who else would you show mercy to?
Then Bekah turns up and things all get a bit tense. I've got to say, this episode not filling me with warm fuzzies yet.
Back in the Quarter Cami comes to visit Davina, yep, cos the kid really needs psycho-analysing right now. Basically this whole scene is a plot device for Marcel to find out that Davina isn't going to be any use to him...which he probably should have figured out already. Downstairs a very casual looking Father K (considering the dude is walking a tightrope towards oblivion right now) lays it on the line for Marcel and makes him realise just how much trouble he is really in.
“So a century ago you betrayed Klaus, the most dangerous vampire in history and the only one that can save you is the girl you had locked up in my attic but she's a basket case so really your only hope is my niece, psycho-analyst to resurrected teen witches. Does that about sum it up?”
I stand by everything I've said online before now, a spin-off series of Klaus and Father Kieran sitting in a bar drinking Irish Whiskey and bitching about everyone else would be awesome. I'd tune in every week!
Anyway, back to the show. Father K also reveals that he lost his faith when his nephew died.
“When I returned to New Orleans I had nothing but hope of preventing a war between the vampires and the witches. But now the witches are out of control and you allowed an Original Vampire to take control of the Quarter. No, there is no hope, not for you, not for this city and certainly not for me.”
Back in the cemetery Klaus is waiting to hear Rebekah's side of the story before he metes out the punishment he thinks fits the crime. It's going to be the white oak stake isn't it though? Come on, he's way too far gone to listen to reason from either of his remaining siblings.
Elijah recalls another occasion when DotM beat Klaus so badly he thought he would actually kill him, Elijah tried to stop him and failed, but Bekah intervened with a sword aimed at her father vowing she would not let him hurt Klaus anymore.
Realising that his argument is starting to crumble a tad in the face of evidence that Rebekah has been more faithful to him than any of his siblings Klaus changes tack and attacks her relationship with Marcel but that one isn't going to get him anywhere, despite making the very valid point that when they fled New Orleans Marcel didn't follow her even though they were supposedly so in love. Instead he remained in the city and took everything the Mikaelsons had established.
After a bit of a scuffle Rebekah runs off again and we're back to brotherly recriminations. Does anyone else think that if Elijah and Rebekah had told Klaus half the stuff they are revealing now, oh, say a couple of centuries ago, he might not be the psychopath he is today?
*High-fives Davina* Yeah Cami, please stop trying to use your book learning on a bunch of Supernatural entities. I know they are almost all completely bonkers, but I seriously doubt there's anything in your fancy degree that can sort this lot out. And saying you made a choice to stop feeling sad about your brother's death...uh, didn't Klaus compel you to stop feeling sad?
Klaus is convinced that Rebekah wanted him dead when she summoned DotM so Elijah lays another bit of knowledge on him, the fact Rebekah was moments away from killing DotM to protect Klaus. One wonders why Elijah didn't do it himself. He had the weapon, the opportunity and motive enough. Another example of his failure to protect his younger brother despite his supposed dedication to doing just that.
Remember Elijah's dick move earlier, telling Klaus he was just like DotM? Well Klaus gets a nice bit of revenge by telling Elijah that they are more alike than Elijah wants to admit in attempt to provoke Elijah to use the white oak stake. I knew he was broken inside, but never realised DotM had destroyed him to the point where he'd rather have Elijah kill him, for good. Elijah admits he would make Klaus suffer to protect Rebekah, but wouldn't kill him. Klaus has a good chuckle about that before turning the tables and skewering big brother with Tunde's blade...just as Bekah rocks back up with the white oak stake.
I'm gonna take a moment just to say that this entire episode is an absolute tour de force of acting from our leads, specifically Miss Claire Holt and Mr Joseph Morgan. The twisted and broken love-hate relationship between them is visible in every single look and it's heart-breaking to watch these two characters who have been together for so long tear themselves apart.
Ooooh, hi Genevieve! Marcel has gone to the witches to try and help Davina and Rebekah at the same time, or more specifically to their new leader, the hot red head witch who is kinda to blame for this whole mess anyway. Hey...has no-one else noticed that yet? Genevieve agrees to bring down Celeste's spell in exchange for Davina. That cannot possibly be a good thing...for anyone. Davina seemingly still has a tonne of power from the Harvest ritual and Genevieve is about as bonkers as the rest of the supernatural denizens of New Orleans.
Klaus goads Bekah into admitting that perhaps she did want him dead instead of just gone. He stakes her and lets her fall. I sort of expected a slightly better ending for ...wait...she's not dead!
*happy dances*
“It was Mikael who ruined me.” says Klaus.
Rebekah replies “He ruined me too, that's what you forget. Centuries later each of us is broken. You with your anger and paranoia. Me with my fear of abandonment and poor Elijah. He dedicates himself to everyone but himself. We are the strongest creatures in the world yet we are damaged beyond repair. We live without hope but we will never die. We are the definition of cursed. Always and forever.”
Oh, joy, back to Davina the basket case and Cami the walking cliché (she said it, not me) who thinks that a mental asylum would be a smart place for a witch who died and came back. Clearly Marcel has accepted Genevieve's deal as he wants to give her back to the witches instead.
Klaus performs a little amateur surgery, hybrid style, to remove Tunde's blade from Elijah. None of the nice cutting and removing as demonstrated by Elijah or Genevieve, nope, straight into the chest cavity up to the wrist...like a bull at a gate. Not a scene to watch while you're eating, take it from me.
Genevieve takes her turn at putting Marcel in his place, he seems to be everyone's bitch this week. A little harsh when you're facing death at the hands of the man who effectively raised you for everyone to indulge in a little face to face character assassination but that's what we get. First Davina, then Father K, now the hot witch.
Klaus gives Rebekah her freedom with the words “perhaps it's time for a new story.”
Marcel challenges Klaus who simply walks away from him, it's Elijah who kicks his ass and promptly banishes him from the Quarter. Seems like several hours with Tunde's blade in his chest has jacked Elijah's badass levels to sky high, a fact even Klaus acknowledges when he points out that Elijah is starting to sound like him.
Bekah makes her farewells, first to Marcel and then to Hayley (which was when the tears properly started), telling her that her baby is probably the only thing that can give Klaus a fraction of what he wants, which is to become the man that the little boy who loved music and art should have become. I am so nervous to see how Klaus actually reacts when the baby is born. Will he become a doting dad? Will he still be the paranoid narcissist? How long does a hybrid baby take to be born anyway? Cos it seems like Hayley has had this miraculous bun in the oven for years!
Bekah drives off into the sunrise with the most incredible smile as we see Klaus with a box of his most treasured possessions, the knight he gave to Rebekah to comfort her the night of the storm.
I'm a little concerned, if that's Rebekah gone for good we're rapidly running out of Originals vampires for a show called...The Originals...but I am intrigued to see how things work with just Klaus and Elijah. So long as this doesn't spiral into them scrapping over Hayley I think I can take it. Elijah has enough to worry about with the now human again Jackson and Klaus's position is probably more tenuous than ever now since with the witches in town now able to use their powers against him and Marcel in rebellion.
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