Youre Up to Your Old Tricks Again Esther Originals
When the Saints Go Marching In
Let me showtime by maxim that I hoped you watched both hours of this crossover, not only considering they both contained useful information, but besides considering they tied together in a really wonderful fashion, and if yous missed the first half, you lot likely macerated the affect. That being said, even outside of the crossover business, we have even so some other very potent hr of The Originals on our hands.
Before we go started, I will relay one flake of information in case you didn't watch the first hr of the crossover: When Caroline traveled to New Orleans three years in the future, she was informed that nobody had heard from or seen Klaus in, well, three years. And then could this prophecy be the finish of Klaus Mikaelson? It's not looking great.
Act One: A Magical Timeout
Working out the kinks in their newly formed partnership, Aya is trying to convince Aurora to give her the Original-killing gun. As much equally Aurora wants to impale Elijah to put her brother out of his misery, Aya isn't exactly a fan of dying. She tells Aurora nigh the Strix'southward plan to sever the sire lines, and in exchange for Aurora's help, Aya gets 1 of her witches to send Aurora'southward heed to some sort of magical realm.
With Tristan'southward torso drowning repeatedly, Aya had the witches build a sanctuary of sorts for Tristan's listen. And the ii of them won't be solitary hither for long.
At the compound, Elijah finally tells his siblings about Rebekah'south cede, which ways they just need to find the friend and the foe who will betray them: Enter Klaus' "old friend" Stefan Salvatore! And P.S. Freya, he needs your help.
Unbuttoning Stefan's shirt — she gets right to it! — Freya gives the Originals audience a quick take hold of-upward on what's happening with Stefan (for those of yous who don't watch TVD). Basically, he's been marked past a mystical vampire hunter who's impossible to kill because she regenerates. And she uses her victims' scars to rail them. Freya'southward solution? Create a paste to cover the scar and block its signal.
In one case that'south taken care of — which seemed oddly uncomplicated — Freya then catches Stefan upward on what's been happening in New Orleans, what with sire lines and prophecies and all that good stuff. And at this point, Klaus and Elijah agree: Aurora dies start.
Simply so, Hayley calls challenge that the wolves take plant Aurora'southward location … and then she goes to cheque things out ALONE. Even Klaus and Elijah are working as a squad right now, Hayley. Get with information technology.
Heading to the old dilapidated trailer we saw earlier in the episode, all Hayley finds is a desiccated Lucien, who's able to leave one sentence: "Become Klaus out of here."
Only it's already too late. Klaus and Elijah, having met upwardly with Aya to try and call back Aurora's body, are dropped by a Strix witch who sends their minds to Tristan's magical safety place. The programme, equally Tristan describes is: Klaus and Elijah's minds will remain hither while the Sisters work on the spell to sever the sire lines. With their bodies lying useless in a pool of h2o in the existent world, the spell will be completed in time for Aya to impale them both.
My favorite response to Tristan'southward speech communication?
Elijah: "Our second-rate Napoleon, desperately trying to leave his marking on the world with those filthy niggling claws."
Klaus: "Even if in the end he's left with nothing but the scars of his failures."
Oh how quickly — and poetically — those two can knock a man down a few pegs.
Now stuck in this room, Klaus and Elijah are searching for what represents them. We've seen representational magic on this evidence before: If they find the thing that represents them in the room, they can escape.
Side by side: Stefan meets Lucien
Then while Klaus checks out the swords, Aurora decides to play a few heed games. They might non be able to physically hurt each other in this magical place, just Aurora proves they can yet injure each other in other means when she asks about Cami. As for Elijah, he sits at the chessboard with Tristan, who informs him that Aya designed the room, if that helps his search. When Tristan starts in on the "nosotros are your children" bit nigh how they begged him for aid, Elijah cuts him off with a judgement I never idea I'd hear Elijah Mikaelson say: "Would y'all heed terribly if you lot spared me the deadbeat dad lecture?"
Instead, Tristan takes a page out of his sister'due south book and tries to hurt Elijah with words, claiming that the years he spent believing he was Elijah taught him exactly how Non to be Elijah in real life. "Where you lot beguile, I prove loyal. Where y'all abandon, I remain." And y'all know how much Elijah honors loyalty.
Human action Two: A Helpful Salvatore
At the compound, Marcel, Hayley, and Lucien are trying to come up with a plan bickering, when Lucien brings up the actually bad news: Once Davina completes the spell, Aya's going to want to test it. So whether or non it works, Aya is going to put a White Oak bullet in Klaus' heart. And if Davina isn't potent enough to complete the spell, Marcel and Lucien are both dead along with Klaus. And you know who else would be expressionless? Stefan Salvatore, a.yard.a. that guy Hayley sort of remembers from Mystic Falls.
In one of my favorite moments of the episode, Lucien is unimpressed with Stefan'due south power to help. After Stefan suggests using admission tunnels to find their manner in, Lucien simply asks, "Is this really the best help we can get?" Apparently, there are Strix members flight in from all over the world to make sure this spell goes off without a hitch. The proficient news? Freya has a plan to get her brothers out of the magical prison world/sanctuary/thing. But she needs to channel something powerful. And considering Finn is the worst and wants to come across his brothers perish, Lucien is the next best thing.
Afterwards Freya impresses Stefan by snapping Lucien's neck — yeah, the witches are cooler in New Orleans — he comes up with the second half of the plan. We're not entirely certain what information technology is, but we know it leads to a wonderful scene in which Stefan and Hayley are stuck in the body of Marcel's car.
In the body, Stefan sees that Hayley'south telephone background is her girl, and when he asks if Hope is her reason for risking her life for Klaus, Hayley admits that she doesn't desire her daughter to grow upwardly without a father. But equally Stefan sees it, that depends on the father. As he admits, he probably wouldn't have survived his if it weren't for his blood brother. Piecing together Stefan'due south entire life, Hayley realizes that Damon stood up for Stefan when they were kids, so now, Stefan risks his life for Damon.
In another parallel between Stefan and Damon and Elijah and Klaus — a theme that began in the get-go hr of the crossover — Hayley admits that she never understood the brotherly bail until she met the Mikaelsons. They hurt each other more than than anyone, merely they're vicious when it comes to protecting each other. Stefan's response: "And the ones they care about?"
It'south such a pointed and heartbreaking question, especially considering that the crossover'south first hour ended with Klaus telling Stefan to let Caroline go "or spend an eternity sacrificing everything good you lot accept with her for your brother." Clearly, that's an idea Stefan's wrestling with, and more than likely, i he doesn't want to believe.
And speaking of Caroline, yeah, she'due south the background on Stefan'due south telephone.
Back in the magical world, Aurora once again brings upwardly Cami, to which Klaus abruptly informs her that if she mentions Cami'south name again, she'll regret it. Trying to figure out what represents Klaus in the room, Aurora talks about how he always claims to be the king, the "greatest and weakest piece on the lath." She and then reminds him that everyone who fights for Klaus does it because they have to, not out of beloved. "You're their eternal burden," she says, trying desperately to get inside his head.
And from there, the listen games only escalate. Aurora recalls how Elijah and Klaus have ruined each other's love lives "all in the name of always and forever," and how that's the thing that ensures they'll both spend their immortality alone. And of class, that strikes a nerve with Klaus, who's greatest fright is being alone.
Just Elijah's non about to let that slide. He fires right back at Aurora, mentioning Tristan'due south tendency to abandon his sis. "You are a deranged and ridiculous kid who cannot exist left unsupervised," Elijah informs Aurora. And equally far equally Elijah's concerned, the greatest mercy he paid his blood brother was compelling Klaus to leave Aurora. 10 centuries later, Klaus sees the light. And now everyone seems to have struck a nerve.
Back in the real earth, Marcel goes to inform Davina about Aya's programme to kill Klaus and Elijah, but for her, it changes nothing. Klaus has had his plough, and if Marcel can put his religion in her, she knows that she can do this. And with a hand on her shoulder, she moves forward.
NEXT: I sire line is broken
Deed Iii: Sire Line, Interrupted
With Marcel inside and the spell beginning, it's go fourth dimension. Stefan begins to remove the paste from his scar, which quickly draws Rayna to the location.
Equally Freya channels Lucien — who is seriously winning this episode with his snark — she'south able to enter the magical globe just in time for the witches to slit the throats of both Elijah and Klaus. Freya is running out of fourth dimension and she needs to know what represents her brothers. Elijah thinks it'due south the knights on the chessboard. Klaus thinks it's the kings. Only when Aurora tin can't assistance but run her mouth about how Klaus will never learn from the sins of the past, he realizes: It's the queens. They represent Aya and Aurora, the women they've betrayed.
With Rayna keeping the Strix vamires occupied, Freya destroys the black queen, which wakes Elijah up long enough for him to attack and kill 2 of the Sisters. Hayley takes out another and Marcel helps. Only when Freya destroys the white queen, waking up Klaus, Davina stalls Klaus in midair. Claiming that Klaus has had his time, she throws him back into the puddle and finishes her spell. As Elijah runs to Klaus subsequently, Klaus tells him, "I felt them leave. My sire line is broken." (Poll: Was this the coolest scene this evidence's ever done? Yes or yeah?)
With the excitement over, Elijah goes to kill Aya for her betrayal (even though she's been marked past Rayna and is therefore as good equally expressionless). After all that, Aya is still connected to Elijah, and as he tells her, he can't let her hurt his family. As for her, he says, "you tin can't hurt me more than you already have." Aya is quick to defend herself. She stood past Elijah! He betrayed them!
And in our Elijah Moment of the Week, an emotional Elijah admits that he volition never forgive himself for failing her. But he as well can't forgive what she just did. Putting the gun upward to Aya'south heart, Elijah can't pull the trigger. Simply Hayley's at that place to stake Aya from behind, on behalf of Jackson.
With the magical realm collapsing, Aurora says good day to her blood brother as he once once more starts to drown. Waking upwards in the real world, Aurora is greeted past Klaus, who's currently encasing her in bricks. Thank you to a spell from his sister, she'due south trapped, and before long enough, she volition live behind a brick wall, simply similar his painting of her. In an incredibly Klaus — and as well but incredible — moment, Klaus reminds her that while the fishes consume Tristan and the worms eat her, he wants her to remember "it was I who took everything from you." Talk about revenge.
From at that place, Klaus heads out to say goodbye to his "old friend" Stefan Salvatore. Stefan wants to know if he's being too optimistic past thinking they'll never see each other over again, but Klaus says it depends … on whether Stefan is going to exercise the right affair "by her." Yep, he's talking about Caroline. Stefan promises, "I love her. I know that you did once too. I promise I volition only do right by her." Klaus thanks him, but that leaves the states with the question of: What is the definition of doing right by Caroline? Based on Klaus and Stefan's car chat in The Vampire Diaries, it's Stefan letting her go.
But before he leaves, Stefan gives Klaus a bit of his ain advice: Hayley risked her life today to relieve him, and Klaus should make sure to do right by her. (Again, what does that mean in this case?)
And with that, Stefan and Klaus shake easily as Klaus tells him, "Y'all take care of yourself, old friend," and I showtime crying at the idea that this could exist the terminal scene nosotros come across between these two (though I promise that'south non the case).
When Klaus nearly collapses moments later, Freya explains that he hemorrhaged an enormous amount mystical free energy today. It volition all be healed after a proficient night'south sleep, simply the bigger question is where the energy went.
And cue Davina, who'south furious at Marcel for siding against her, taking some leftover Mikaelson blood and combining it with Kol'south ashes to reach her goal: She brings Kol back from the dead! (And is he naked?! If so, well played, Davina.)
I spoke a lot almost the brother parallels in my Vampire Diaries epitomize, so I won't say too much here. But I then savour watching the story of Klaus and Elijah and what they're willing to cede for each other, no matter how dysfunctional it makes them. And the question is whether Damon and Stefan will follow along the aforementioned path after realizing what it means — or perhaps more chiefly, whether they should follows along the aforementioned path.
What did you think of the hour? Hit the comments with your thoughts or find me on Twitter @samhighfill. As well, Paul Wesley took over Julie Plec's web log this week, and you Exercise Not want to miss information technology. Cheque it out hither!
When the Saints Go Marching In
The Originals
Joseph Morgan and Daniel Gillies star as Klaus and Elijah Mikaelson in this Vampire Dairies spin-off near the first family of vampires, their life in New Orleans, and the witches and werewolves who live in that location.
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