The Originals – An Unblinking Death – Episode 19 recap

Previously on The Originals

The fragile peace that Elijah has created balances on a knife edge, the wolves are plotting with Klaus to steal power and Father Kieran's days are numbered thanks to those pesky witches and their curse.

Now.

Kieran is hallucinating the witch who cursed him and his nephew instead of Cami and Josh, when she catches a brief glimpse of his true personality underneath the crazy she comes up with a plan. I think I know what Cami has in mind...and I'm pretty sure it puts her on a level even crazier than her poor uncle.

Klaus is hunting for his mother's grimoire which Elijah has hidden from him since he knows Klaus is up to something with the wolves. Klaus says he's only doing it to help the Crescent pack. The idea of Klaus playing champion to anyone other than his own selfish interests would almost be laughable if there wasn't just the hint that he's actually interested in helping them to ensure Hayley's safety. Elijah says he is determined to prevent a war starting to which Klaus replies that war was pretty much a foregone conclusion before they ever set foot back in the city.

Back in the attic of the crazies, Cami tells Marcel not to come to see her and then Josh rocks up with a cute doctor in tow.

Marcel calls Klaus to tell him that Kieran is going downhill and Cami needs someone, despite knowing that Klaus wants him dead.

Josh compels the doctor to chill out and just look after him. Cami asks him about ECT as a treatment for psychosis. Yeah, there it is. You really think frying your uncle's brain is the way to help him?

Out in the swamp Eve is playing midwife to Hayley who is worried that since she never had a mother of her own she's not going to know what to do when her baby is born. Elijah turns up to have a chat to her and her co-conspirators about their plan with Klaus. While they are chatting they hear an engine and all run out just in time to have a very brief chat with a guy on a motorbike before it goes boom. Elijah, Jackson, Oliver and Hayley are all down, Hayley is first up and runs to help those injured. The bomb was spiked with wolfsbane so whoever sent it Hayley snaps into mama wolf mode, tending to the injured. I think she's gonna make a pretty good mother.

Oliver snaps, blaming the vampires for the attack and wants to go after them, but a good mother wolf protects her cubs right? We've all seen what Hayley is capable of when she's riled up, remember that plank to the face for Sabine/Celeste? Well I think she's plenty riled up after this and she heads straight for Marcel.

Back with the crazy priest in the attic he's being prepped for Electro-Shock therapy, Kieran snarls at poor Josh that “There's a special place in hell for your kind.” to which everyone's favourite gay vampire replies “Not the first time I've heard that one.” 

Klaus arrives to try and talk Cami out of frying her uncle's brain. The doctor begs her not to make him do it, so the mad blonde (seriously, starting to wonder who the crazy person in this attic really is) does it herself.

Hayley calls to ask Elijah to look after the pack while she goes on her potentially suicidal mission to kill Marcel. He and Jackson discuss the fact that the bomb went off in the open being a saving grace as it did not result in fatalities. As they walk into the central clearing the entire pack seems to be gathered there, at which Elijah realises that it was a set up, the entire camp has been rigged. Right as everything goes boom.

Kieran wakes up after round one of having his brain fried and seems to be lucid for all of about 5 seconds so Cami obviously thinks she needs to keep going. Klaus lays it on the line for Cami, this so called “treatment” is going to kill her uncle even faster than the hex will and that she needs to let go.

Back in the bayou there are dead werewolves everywhere and Oliver and Elijah rescue Eve from being pinned under a caravan.

Hayley is on a rampage and works Diego over pretty well in her search for Marcel's whereabouts.

Cute doctor wants to talk to the witches responsible for Kieran's hex cos he thinks it's fascinating. While Josh is distracted by the cute doctor's inane ramblings Kieran bites off his own thumb and slips his restraints to try and attack the doctor. While Klaus is holding down Kieran, preventing him from harming anyone else he has a cosy little phone chat with Hayley about the bombing. Mama Wolf lies to the big bad Hybrid about the fact she's alone in her hunt for Marcel, saying Elijah is with her. But he's not, he's back in the bayou finding out that the reason why Eve isn't healing from her wounds is because although she carries the werewolf gene she has never killed anyone, so she never activated her curse. I always wondered why the wolf form curse never affected her, why she remained human, guess that's why. Oliver storms out when Jackson denies his desire to go out and take revenge.

Hayley and Marcel have a nice little chat and he drops some serious knowledge on her about her family's history and their enemies. Her family tried to take the city back in the 90s, which is why he had them cursed, it was either that or kill them and as we know he doesn't like to harm children. Hayley says she's heard that about him and he replies that she did more than hear, and then calls her by her true name, Andrea Labonaire.

Klaus has apparently been practicing his amateur medical skills since pulling daggers out of his brother a few months ago and gives a demonstration when Kieran goes into cardiac arrest, plunging his hand into the poor guy's chest to massage his heart. Cami asks if Klaus's blood would help, but at this point Klaus says it would only mean Kieran coming back as a vampire in transition, but that he might still be hexed. Cami begs Klaus to turn her uncle and he does so, grudgingly. It does seem that he wanted to let Kieran die with some dignity but that he could not deny Cami in her time of need.

Marcel tells Hayley that he was the one who saved her after her parents were killed and gave her to the priest. He hands her a bag of money and stuff to try and get her out of town, hoping that Klaus and Elijah would follow her but she refuses it. As a parting shot Marcel lets Hayley know that the gossip in town suggests that the suicide bomber was in debt to the casinos, or more specifically the humans that run them. I knew it, I knew that slimy wench Francesca wasn't to be trusted any farther than I could throw her (not very far, bad shoulder).

Klaus talks Cami through what is going to happen next, he has to go see to Hayley but he promises to be back before Kieran wakes up. Cami realises how much Kieran will hate her for turning him into a vampire but Klaus again reassures her that Kieran will not become a vampire, this was only a way for Cami to be able to say goodbye to her uncle. Klaus once again cannot deny Cami when she asks him to stay and he remains with her instead of going to see Hayley.

Back in the bayou the wounded werewolves are being treated while Elijah and Jackson talk about Klaus's plan. Jackson says that if the rings work it won't just free them from the pain of turning but it will release them from the hatred they have had to deal with their entire lives. Elijah questions the werewolf's intentions toward Hayley, Jackson says he wants to make the bayou a safe place for her and the baby. Why is Elijah so damned hard to read? That look on his face could be a 'never in a million years mate' just as easily as it could be a 'this guy is a stand up dude and I think I shouldn't be such a dick to him'.

Kieran wakes up, lucid at last and the mark of the hex is gone. Klaus tells Kieran about his newly undead state while Cami whimpers in the corner and Kieran confirms that he won't complete the transition. Klaus leaves them alone after Cami thanks him for being kind which is a complete 180 for her all things considered.

Oliver is watching over Eve, he begs her to trigger the curse, become what she truly is, so that she can heal. He starts ranting about the state of the werewolves and Eve realises something is wrong, that he was the one who set up the bombing to try and galvanise the werewolves into action. Oliver kills the poor, helpless werewolf woman to prevent his secret getting out – who the hell is going to help Hayley with the birth now?

Cami brings Kieran a collection of items that he has requested except for the key that he normally wears around his neck, she couldn't find it. Kieran tells her it's an important part of their family legacy and that she must find it. Kieran apologises for ever getting Cami involved in all the supernatural crap that she is dealing with and then they say their goodbyes.

Hayley returns to the bayou to find Oliver inciting the pack to revenge and Elijah advises her that Jackson will need her help since in times of trouble people do not look for the best, but for the loudest voice.

Kieran dons his robes and prays one final time as Klaus goes to see Genevieve to question her about the explosion. Genevieve is still jealous about Cami, and comments what a pity it is about Kieran. Klaus tells her that Kieran has been released from the hex by his death, that he is in transition but Genevieve has one last barb to throw. The hex is back and Kieran has lost it. He picks up a crucifix and pulls it apart to reveal a hidden blade, intending to take his own life as his nephew did before him but Bastiana appears to him once more and tells him there is still work to be done. The boundary spell is down now that he is dead and he leaves the attic.

Evil Kieran slashes Cami and licks her blood from the knife (which might just be the single hottest thing I have seen in this show so far), thus completing his transition. Cami jumps from the balcony to avoid her uncle's fangs but he follows her downstairs and chucks her about a bit before he drags her to the altar. His hallucinations of Bastiana and Shawn exhort him to kill Cami and he bares his fangs and goes for the kill, as Klaus arrives and snaps his neck. Cami falls to the ground as Klaus pulls Kieran's prone body back. He looks to Cami and she gives him permission to end her uncle's life permanently. Klaus does so, murmuring that Kieran deserved far better. Not sure he deserved better, cos he's had one hell of a storyline, but I wish they'd let him have more. Watching Todd Stashwick make Father Kieran into such a well rounded, conflicted, totally human character has been an absolute pleasure this season. His departure is going to leave a bigger hole in the show for me than Claire Holt's has (mostly cos we all know Rebekah will be back at some point) and I hope that they can find a way to bring him back in future, even if only as flashbacks or as a spirit, but I wish him all the best with his next project.

Klaus calls Marcel to tell him Kieran is dead and that he is free to return to the Quarter for 24 hours to pay his respects and comfort Cami. After doing so he meets with Diego and Josh, and Josh gives him the key that Cami had been looking for, having taken it from Kieran at Marcel's order. He tells them that people will be looking for the key and that Cami isn't ready to handle that, and that war is brewing and they need to prepare.

Klaus returns home and asks Elijah is he's ready to give up his quest for peace, Elijah responds by giving Klaus the grimoire he'd been searching for earlier. It seems spending time with the werewolves during their crisis has softened Elijah to their plight, and I'm pretty sure that speech from Jackson actually hit right where it was meant to, nice one wolfboy.

Elijah pours two drinks as he tells Klaus, “The rifts in this city run far deeper than I even imagined Niklaus. These tribes, these factions, they're families. And families will choose to fight. Mayhem has descended upon our home and if I'm to choose a side. To our victory brother.”

Considering the venom that Elijah spewed at Klaus last week after Marcel's attack on the witch festival and the tension that has been eating at their familial bond ever since Rebekah's century old betrayal was revealed I cannot tell you how happy I was to hear Elijah say that. Now all we need is for Klaus to stop sneaking around behind his brother's back cos if these two actually stood united for once then I really don't think there is anyone who can stand against them.