Sorry for my recent absence! I actually missed the last show before the break due to a death in the family, and then the most recent one due to work, but I’m back and ready to go . . . are you?
The episode begins with the classic “Previously, on The Originals” spoken by Marcel. Freya reminds us all of the pending doom that Dahlia will bring, drawn by the magic in Baby Hope. Freya says that Dahlia will kill anyone that defies her, and Mr Awesome Scruff challenges that Freya herself is challenging Dahlia. Freya says that aligning with him and Klaus is her only hope in killing Dahlia. Klaus – ever the skeptic – isn’t sure that trusting Freya is in Baby Hope’s best interests. Mr Awesome Scruff thinks that, given the right weapon, they have to at least consider using it. To add more trouble into the mix, The Treme Coven wants Vincent Griffith returned to them. We’re reminded that Freya transferred Finn’s essence out of Vincent and into her pendant – and that he remembers nothing of the time Finn was inside him. Elijah confirms that Vincent is completely free of Finn. The medium Reuben tells Newbekah that the body she’s residing in, well, she wasn’t a very nice person. She killed a lot of witch children to consume their power. (Why? We don’t really know.) Rebekah asks Marcel to stay with her, because Eva Sinclair is trying to get out of her (and we’re reminded that Eva did gain control at least once) and Cami and Vincent meet again (or for the first time, depending on whose perspective you’re looking at it from). Vincent admits that he knew Eva, but if she’s back, he doesn’t want anything to do with his past love. We’re reminded that Eva got control and seems to have attacked Davina, and NewBekah realizes she’s missing time.
We’re shown a dark, abandoned building – lights flashing, water dripping – and NewBekah speaks over the scene, “All of us live with a demon inside. {Eva screams for REBEKAH MIKAELSON!! and a small girl looks frightened and runs away as Eva screams that she can’t hide forever.} Some days, you can control the demon . . . {Eva continues to stalk the LittleBekah and catches her this time, screaming in her face that THIS IS MY HOUSE. And NewBekah awakes from the dream.} . . . and other days, it controls you.” Marcel asks if NewBekah is ok. Well, NewBekah isn’t herself. Eva has control. She throws her power at Marcel and breaks his neck. NewBekah continues her voice-over as we see Mr Awesome Scruff and Gia having a make out session, “And it is always hungry. It feeds on lust. On longing. {We see Davina, something carved in her forehead, passed out on the floor, surrounded by A LOT of other people.} And while you may slumber, the demon never sleeps. {Eva walks past the portrait of Rebekah at the compound. Hope begins to cry. Eva is drawn to the sound.} It temps you into crossing every line you’ve ever drawn . . . {Eva approaches Hope’s room.} All the while it hunts you . . . haunts you {we see Elijah and Gia in the afterglow} . . . renders you incapable of telling friend from foe {Vincent drinks at Rousseu’s, looking at a picture of him and Eva} . . . {the guards around Hope lay on the floor, the same mark carved into their foreheads} but once it has turned your loved ones into enemies, {Hope lays calmly in her crib, with a stuffed wolf} the demon will have consumed you whole.” {Eva stares down at Baby Hope.}
Hayley appears, sees the guards on the floor, and looks at NewBekah. Immediately, her eyes wolf out and her face gets vampire vein-y, and she tells Eva to get away from Hope. Hayley gets the first hit in, but Eva hurls her across the room with magic. Eva goes again for Hope, and Klaus bursts in asking Rebekah what she’s doing, and gets the brain pain for his trouble. Hayley tries to attack when Eva is distracted, but Eva begins choking her. Klaus recovers enough to slash at Eva’s leg with his claws, and then Eva’s gone, the curtains leading to the balcony billowing and Hope still safe in her crib. Klaus and Hayley look down at her in relief.
Klaus has gotten the Shackles of Do No Magic out, and he’s complaining that he shouldn’t put them away, because there’s “always a family member in need of a good shackling.” He drops the shackles in Marcel’s hands and tells him to find Eva/Rebekah/Whoever the Bloody Hell That Was and put them on her without hurting her. “The nonpsychopathic bits are still my sister,” he says. Marcel warns that he won’t be the only one looking for her – she’s killed witch kids again – and the “24 hour hold” that Elijah bargained for has expired. Klaus looks to Hayley, tells her to go to Elijah and get him to “charm his elderly witch into calling off the hunt.” Hayley doesn’t want to leave Hope. Klaus reminds her that Jackson has been working to make the compound impenetrable (with his werewolf army) and also reminds her that he is there as well. He thinks that getting Rebekah out of “that serial killer’s body and back into the original model” is the best way to protect Hope as well. Hayley asks what Klaus will be up to while her and Marcel (and Jackson, in a way) are doing all the dirty work. Klaus responds that he’ll be doing the “even dirtier work, as usual.”
The scene fades into an old-looking plantation house. Hayley has arrived with Elijah to talk to Josephine, and Gia is there. There is a very awkward moment with the three of them, and then Gia begs off to “find Josephine” as a way to escape it. Hayley clears her throat, again, and looks after Gia as she leaves, telling Elijah that now she knows why he hasn’t been answering his calls. Hayley asks why Gia had to come. Elijah explains that Josephine likes her, due to her musical ability and spunk. “So the baby vamp is now the witch whisperer,” Hayley snarks. She makes another dig at Mr Awesome Scruff for hooking up with Gia and he, in turn, asks what Hayley wants from him. Another awkward silence follows, and Gia returns with Josephine.
Josephine hardly even acknowledges Hayley’s presence, until she clears her throat – again. “What, pray tell, does this one do?” Josephine asks. “This one is family, madame,” Elijah answers and tells Josephine that they’ve come to ask a favor.
Back at the compound, we’re treated to another look at Rebekah’s portrait. Klaus is staring at it, as Freya comes down the stairs behind him. Klaus reminds Freya that she has said she can put Rebekah back in her original body, and tells her to “do it.” Freya takes a moment to gloat that Klaus finally trusts her, but Klaus counters that he still doesn’t, “circumstances dictate otherwise . . . for now.” Freya asks why the change, and Klaus tells her about Eva Sinclair regaining control of her body. Klaus demands, again, that Freya put Rebekah back. Freya says that it isn’t that simple. And, Klaus sees this as more stalling and more reason not to trust her. He realizes he can’t kill her, but he says he’ll have fun trying and asks her if she’s ever been skinned alive. Freya says that it isn’t that simple because “Rebekah’s condition has worsened” explaining that when she offered to help, Rebekah was still in control. She says that if Rebekah is lost inside Eva, she doesn’t have a spell that can “breach Eva’s mind” to find her. Klaus says that he knows someone that is versed in such spells, opens a box, and with hybrid speed slings another pair of Do No Magic Shackles onto Freya’s wrists. And then he says they are going to go meet this witch.
In the Quarter, at Rousseau’s, Vincent is sitting at a table looking at a picture of himself and Eva. After tossing it down in disgust, he looks up to see Marcel walking in. Vincent tells Marcel that he’s sitting alone because he’s “pretty much done with the vamps, wolves, and witches of this town” and from the looks he’s been getting from some of the same, he feels that they are done with him as well. He says he’s day drinking because, after a while, he won’t see them either. Marcel picks up the picture and asks how long it will take before Eva disappears, too. Marcel tells him that Eva’s on the loose, and that he has to find her before anyone else does to save Rebekah from inside her. Vincent is really the only person that knows Eva, and would know where to find her. Vincent says that he’s sorry for Marcel’s friend, but that “if Eva is back in control of her body . . .
. . . then you need to let the witches put that body down,” Josephine finishes. Josephine says that Eva will “use up” Elijah’s sister, “just like she did the others.” Hayley asks, “The others?”
And Vincent begins the tale. The first of the kids went missing two years ago. Vincent says he was going to college, working, and working with the coven, and he felt like he was living a normal life. He says that there was this woman that he met when they were both 16 and they did some magic together and “it was on.” Vincent says that it was “intense” and . . .
Josephine says that Eva was a “wild beauty, practicing a wild magic” but that she and Vincent seemed happy so the witches let them alone. Elijah fills in that this is when the children started disappearing.
Vincent tells Marcel that the first one was a little girl named “Amelie Dupres from Algiers. Then LuAnn Hughes from the Ninth, Nicolas Asace from The Treme” and they were all young and all “witch prodigies” and that they all seemed to vanish into thin air. Vincent put together a “posse of guys” from each of the local covens to search for them, but the killer hid the children with magic so quickly that the locator spells they used were completely useless.
“But because of Vincent’s tenacity,” Josephine continues, Eva was eventually caught.
Vincent calls it a fluke, says he was able to slap a locator spell on one the the kids right after he was taken. He says that, at first, they got nothing from the spell. Then he got images, of a car and a face, and that face was Eva, “the love of my life.” He sorta glazes over how, but he says he caught her and confronted her, and then saw the truth about her. Apparently, she pleaded with him that she only needed 3 more little girls. Marcel asks, “Why 3?”
And Josephine answers, “to complete the Rite Of 9s.” Gia asks what the Rite Of 9s is.
And Vincent says that Eva thought that if she “sacrificed a witch from each of the 9 covens, it would create a new witch order in New Orleans.” This would have made her more powerful than any of the elders and any of the Harvest Girls. Marcel asks “But why kids?” Vincent says that it is because their magic is “untapped. Its pure and they’re a Hell of a lot easier to subdue.”
Hayley reasons that that is why EvaBekah came after Hope. Josephine tells Hayley that EvaBekah would have killed Hope, channeled her power, just like she did all the other children.
Vincent says that he never found the kids, so that means they died unconsecrated and unable to be with the ancestors of the witches, and continued to be the source of Eva’s magic. Marcel wants Vincent to help him find her before she kills any other children . . . or Rebekah. “Help me stop her,” Marcel pleads.
Josephine agrees that Eva needs to be stopped so that no more of “our youth” will die. She says that that is why she will not grant Elijah an extension on his 24 hours. “Eva Sinclair now has a bounty on her head.” Elijah is outraged, claiming that Josephine is condemning his sister to death. “I dislike the term ‘collateral damage,'” Josephine says, “but there it is.” She says that she doesn’t care if “one or two” die to take Eva down for good.
In the Cemetery, Klaus still has Freya in the Do No Magic Shackles and she’s upset about it. He says that he didn’t put them on her to protect him, he put them on her to protect “her, the one who knows more about mind invasion and body jumping than all of us put together.” They reach an exceedingly dark park of a crypt and Klaus tosses two blood bags into the darkness. A hand snatches the first bag, and we can hear it being sucked down. After the hand is singed in the sunlight, reaching for the second, Freya realizes who the vampire is . . . Esther. Well, Lenorsther. Klaus introduces them and Lenorsther denies the possibility and Freya is angry thinking that Klaus would trust Lenorsther over herself. “I trust my mother about as much as I would a stuck snake,” Klaus says. Since she is now a vampire, and he’s held her captive, she is vulnerable to his compulsion. He compels her to tell the truth. “Let’s raid Mummy’s mind for spells, shall we?” he asks Freya.
EvaBekah is mushing some paste-y stuff in a mortar and pestle, which we soon see is a salve of sorts for Klaus’s werewolf claw-induced wound on her leg. A few drops of something else on the wound – that makes it sizzle {EEEEWWWWWW} – and EvaBekah seems a little better off. We hear chains rattle and BOOM!! Marcel has put the Do No Magic Shackles on Eva while she was distracted. “Not really keen on another witch headache,” he says as she tries to strike him with her magic. She demands to know how he found her. Marcel admits that he had help . . . and Vincent emerges from the shadows. EvaBekah acknowledges Vincent, and then Marcel throws her against the wall by her throat, demanding Eva release Rebekah. “Best not damage the package, or you might never see her again, or your little adopted witch, Davina” EvaBekah snarks. Marcel asks her what she meant, and EvaBekah laughs. EvaBekah says that she’s been feeding off Davina “for days and you didn’t even know she was gone?” Marcel throws EvaBekah around, and she says she’ll tell Marcel where “what’s left” of Davina is, if he releases her. Marcel grabs the wound on her leg and says he’ll torture the information out of her. Vincent says that it won’t work, half the witches of NOLA tried that and “she ain’t say a thing.” {Ok, I get the heat-of-the-moment blurting, but do we have to butcher the English language when we do it?} Marcel lets EvaBekah get her breath again, and turns to Vincent and asks if he has a better idea, then. Vincent says that he does, “let me talk to her.”
Elijah is still trying to barter more time from Josephine and the witches. He says that the family will defend the witches “with fearsome vigilance.” “You have a wonderful way with words, really,” Josephine replies. {Yes, Madame LaRue, he does!} She says that, normally, she could listen to his voice all day long {JOIN THE CLUB} but she grows tired of all this. She says that she won’t change her mind. Hayley is livid, “Are you serious? She {Gia} puts on a talent show. He has every vampire in the Quarter kissing your ass, and your final answer is ‘Screw you?'” she asks. Gia tries to talk Hayley down, and Elijah reminds them all that they came here to “honor the alliance between us” and if it is something that Josephine wants to end, “so be it” he says, echoing her own words from earlier, and walks away. Josephine takes issue with being threatened in her own house. She says that she isn’t the one that needs him, he needs them, “or you will soon enough.” She turns to Hayley and grabs her hands. “There’s a storm coming, cherie, and your darkest demons ride upon it,” she says to Hayley in a strained voice. “I do not know its name,” she continues, “but when I peer into your future, there is a blackness . . . that should terrify you.” Hayley looks frightened and swallows hard.
EveBekah says that she’d heard that Vincent had been taken over by the brother of the one that is still inside her. He tells her that he’s free of Finn now, and she agrees that he is. She says that he sold out “his girl” and “gave up on their future.” He starts to tell her something that Marcel said, and she accuses him of kissing vampire ass. She says that the city would have been free of vampires, had he not been a “weak little coward.” But he says that she left him with no other choice. EvaBekah believes that what she was doing was necessary because the covens were beaten down and in-fighting. He counters by asking if killing kids was necessary. She says that she hasn’t killed any kids – they are still alive, “just asleep, cloaked of course.” She explains that she just needs their power, that she doesn’t need to kill them.
Back at the Cemetery, Lenorsther tries to be affectionate to Freya – and that goes about as well as you’d think it might. Klaus jokes that they have gotten the “pleasantries out the way” now and he wants to begin. Klaus informs Lenorsther that her “delightful sister Dahlia” is coming and “Hell-bent” on stealing his child. Klaus says that he needs Rebekah back in her original body, to help him destroy Dahlia. Lenorsther didn’t know that Hope was still alive, and Klaus snarks that “I suppose it is difficult keeping up with current events whilst rotting inside a tomb” and gives her the short version of recent events. He tells her that he needs her to “dig deep in that ex-witch mind” to “give me the spell that puts Rebekah back.”
EvaBekah tells Vincent that she never blamed him for betraying her. She says that he just couldn’t see “the light” but she says that he sees it now. She says that he understands now because he has experienced his body being stolen from him by the very same vampires that are trying to steal hers. She says that she just needs one more witch, and then they can finish the ritual together. She says that they’ll just take all the power they need, and then they can send the children back to their families. She says that if they do this, they will never be under vampire control again. Marcel walks in, and says that he can hear EvaBekah talking, but she’s not really saying anything and says they are back to square one. Vincent pauses for a moment and says that EvaBekah did talk, and he “decided to listen.” {Looks like Vincent has no more spine than Finn.} Vincent uses his magic to give Marcel another “witch headache” and throws him out the window. Eva stands up and Vincent snaps his fingers, removing the Do No Magic Shackles from EvaBekah. {DUN DUN DUN}
Hayley, holding Hope, snarks about Eva now having a sidekick. Elijah snarks, too. Then Marcel reminds everyone what’s at stake here. She has Davina, making 8 of the 9 witches she needs for the ritual. Hayley says that if EvaBekah comes for Hope again, she will “put her down for good” even if Rebekah is still in there. Mr Awesome Scruff {who is decidedly less scruffy than he used to be} demands that the compound be “fortified” and says that “when they do come, kill him, capture her.” Hayley doesn’t like the idea, but Elijah isn’t giving up on Rebekah. They discuss gathering the wolves and just how hard EvaBekah and Sidekick Vincent will strike.
An old record is playing in an older yet record player in Josephine’s house. She sits, drinking tea, and then EvaBekah scratches the needle across the record. EvaBekah says that Josephine looks nervous. Well, she should be. EvaBekah Josephine how she just needs one more special witch to complete her circle. She says that the “hybrid child” was just a target of opportunity, whereas Josephine is a “target of choice.” Josephine tries to talk sense into Vincent. He doesn’t listen, but agrees that he hasn’t been himself lately. Now that he’s back, though, he’s realized that the only time he’s really himself is when he’s with EvaBekah. Josephine is clearly disappointed with this news.
Lenorsther is drawing in a Book of Shadows, and Klaus is as impatient as ever. He says that she didn’t take so long to decide to kill Hope. Lenorsther says that she was just trying to save them all from Dahlia. Klaus and Freya make some pointed snarks about not knowing what maternal compassion sounds like and Freya accuses her of selling her into slavery at the age of 5. Lenorsther admits that when she made the bargain with Dahlia she had never been a mother and didn’t know how much it would hurt to lose one – she thought if she had a dozen, she wouldn’t miss just one. Freya is angry that Lenorsther never came after her, once Dahlia took her, and Lenorsther admits that was wrong of her not to. Lenorsther believes that to have been a mistake, as is Klaus trusting Freya. Lenorsther tells Klaus that Freya will indeed help him with his problem, but, like her deal with Dahlia, it will come at a price. Freya insists that she loathes Dahlia and would never help her. Freya lunges at Lenorsther and Klaus yells “no violence until she’s finished writing the spell, please! Honestly, it’s all temper and no timing with this one. Heh. I for one am glad you gave her away so that I could be born. You should think of me as an upgrade.”
Vincent, carrying Josephine, and EvaBekah walk into a warehouse. Vincent puts Josephine down where he’s told, and asks where the others are. EvaBekah uncloaks them all. He’s standing in the midst of them. Vincent recognizes “the Harvest girl” and EvaBekah goes about linking Josephine in with the rest of them so they can begin. EveBekah admits to telling a “little lie” earlier. She admits that some of the children will die. Vincent seems untroubled by that, but picks up a nearby pipe and slams it into the back of EvaBekah’s head. “Yeah, I figured as much,” he says.
Hayley’s at the compound, saying to Elijah and Gia that EvaBekah hasn’t made an appearance yet and wonders what she’s waiting for. Marcel storms in, and tells them that EvaBekah took Josephine a half an hour ago. Hayley wonders if EvaBekah doesn’t need Hope anymore, where would she go? They discuss that she probably went to the place she’s hidden the children, but no one has been able to figure out where that is for two years. Marcel’s phone rings. He answers it by threatening to decapitate the person on the other end. Its Vincent. He tells Marcel that he’s found all the children – Davina’s alive – and he had to make it look convincing if they were going to catch her again. Marcel asks what’s next, but there’s a problem. All the children are linked to EvaBekah, so if she dies . . . they all die. {DUN DUN DUN} Marcel says they’ll find a witch to un-link them and Vincent says that it will have to be someone with some serious power. {Oh Lord, they’re gonna trust Momma Dearest or Freya, aren’t they?} And Elijah does The Most Spectacular of Nods once again.
Freya is reading Lenorsther’s notes and saying the spell needs enormous amounts of power – which Lenorsther says she has – and she needs to be anchored, or she’ll get lost in Eva’s head just like Rebekah is. Freya says that her magic isn’t anchored anywhere because she never had a home. It dawns on Freya that she can use Klaus as her anchor, channeling his power while she breaks into Eva’s mind. “And there it is. The price,” Lenorsther says. When someone is channeled, Lenorsther says, they have access to your mind – past and present – and Freya will be able to learn everything about him. “All of my strategies, and all of my secrets laid bare . . . to give to Dahlia,” Klaus concludes. Klaus accuses Freya of thinking him a fool {you’ll notice she doesn’t protest, like she has every other time he’s accused her of something} and Elijah appears behind Klaus, wondering if it isn’t a trick. Elijah offers himself up as the anchor. Klaus objects, of course. Elijah says that it doesn’t matter what this is, he will not lose Rebekah. Klaus warns that Freya isn’t to be trusted – quick glance down at the Do No Magic Shackles – and Elijah counters that they are to trust Lenorsther?! {Yep, here it comes.} Freya breaks herself free of the Do No Magic Shackles and snaps Klaus’s neck. “For an upgraded model, you’re not very sharp,” she says to the prone Klaus. “Let’s go” she says to Elijah.
With Hope making noise in the room, Gia complains that the place smells like werewolf. “Well, that’s because Jackson has a whole platoon of them out there,” Hayley replies. She tells Gia that she doesn’t have to stay. Gia says that Hayley and Hope have more than one enemy, and if someone manages to make it through “the dog show outside” she wants Hayley to run with Hope and she’ll stay and try to stall whoever it is. Hayley asks Gia why she would do that for someone she doesn’t even know. “I don’t have to know you. I know Elijah, and I know what you mean to him . . . what this baby means to him,” Gia says. Hayley is curious now, and asks if Elijah talks about her to Gia. Gia says no, but she isn’t blind and tells Hayley that after she got married to Jackson, Elijah and Gia started hanging out. She tells Hayley that he was just very “wound up” and surmises that being the shoulder that everyone else leans on for a thousand years must be tough. Picking up something from the table next to her, Gia says that maybe Elijah just needs to live his life for himself for once.
Freya is directing Marcel, Elijah, Vincent, and Klaus on where they need to be during the ritual. EvaBekah is laid on the floor inside a triangle of salt, and Freya says that she will act as a bridge into Eva’s mind. Freya cautions that Elijah must anchor her well, because Eva isn’t going to give up without a fight. Then a fight she will get, says Marcel. Freya warns that since he will be entering Eva’s mind {um, ok} if she kills him in there, he will be lost too. {So this just turned into Nightmare on Elm Street?} And, if he kills Eva before they manage to free Rebekah, then Rebekah will be gone forever. She says that they need to get to Rebekah first, then deal with Eva. Vincent and Marcel lay down on either side of Eva in the triangle. Freya asks for a weapon. Vincent asks how he’s supposed to take it with him, and Freya begins to chant. She warns him that this is going to hurt, and then plunges the knife into his arm. {Ummmm….Ok?} Elijah offers her his arm for support as she exits the triangle and they hold hands, and Freya begins to chant. As she chants, wind begins to build up around her, and she seems to be trying to get free of Elijah, but he hangs on. Marcel and Vincent wake up in the weird abandoned warehouse thing that we saw at the beginning of the episode, Vincent screaming in pain. They hear a little girl scream, and Marcel believes it to be Rebekah and takes off in that direction. Vincent pulls out the knife from his arm, and yells for Marcel.
Klaus wakes up in the crypt with his mother. “You recover fast, but they’re gone,” she says. “I compelled you to tell the truth, not state the bloody obvious,” he counters. Lenorsther thinks that Freya will poison Elijah and Marcel against him. And he asks her why she suddenly cares. She says that she’s had a lot of time to think since she’s been stuck in this crypt. She says she has thought of nothing except what “could have been if I had left you to live a single mortal life.” “We would have burned bright for a while. And then burnt out,” Klaus says and he admits that her turning them all into vampires is the only one of her many faults he’s been able to forgive her for. “I like us as we are,” he says. “No, my son. We are a macabre echo of a family, and I take all the blame for that,” Lenorsther says. She says that she wanted to undo her evil, so that he might love her again. “My mother . . . the comedian,” Klaus whispers and he leaves her in the crypt.
Marcel is running through the flashing lights of the warehouse. He hears Rebekah crying, and follows the sound to a tall filing cabinet that has been locked up from the outside. He breaks the locks and pulls the little girl into his arms. Eva comes up from behind him, and Marcel tells the little girl to run. Eva lashes out with her magic, saying that if he thinks he’s a vampire in there, he’s mistaken. She makes the rules in here, and she’ll be the one who says how he dies. Marcel screams in pain.
Freya is still chanting, Elijah is still holding on. Marcel is clearly in distress and Elijah is fighting to hold on. Marcel begins to bleed from the eyes as Eva gauges his eyes out in the warehouse world of her head. Vincent finds them then, and tells her that it’s over. She congratulates him on his acting and calls him cold. She tells him that its always been his eyes that make her think that he loves her – right before he drives a knife into her back (he hasn’t . . . yet) – and she tells him that he breaks her heart. Eva says, “Fool me once, shame on you. {Vincent goes for the knife that’s tucked into his jeans} Fool me twice . . . ” and he pulls out the knife and goes to stab her. She attacks with her magic before he’s able to do any damage. He gets stabbed with the knife instead.
Elijah screams with the effort to try and hold onto Freya, who worries she’s losing them. Klaus runs in and breaks in between Freya and Elijah. He tells her that he’s not done with her, but she needs to save his sister. Now holding both Elijah and Klaus’s hands, she begins to chant again.
Vincent recovers from the stabbing, pushing Eva off him. He asks her if that’s what she thinks heartache feels like. He says that he wanted to rip out his own heart every time he woke so he didn’t have to feel what she’d done to him. He was hurting because he knew that he hadn’t saved those kids from her, too. They fight a little, and she tells him that he chose this. She kisses him in goodbye, and then gets stabbed from behind. Little Rebekah stabbed her in the back! Eva falls, bleeding from her mouth, on top of a {possibly} mortally wounded Vincent.
Vincent and Marcel wake inside the triangle and Klaus, Freya, and Elijah pull apart. Eva remains still. Klaus asks if it worked. Before anyone can answer, we hear Davina’s voice asking where she is. Marcel whooshes to her, and everyone else begins to wake. Marcel calls to the others, to tell them that the children and Josephine are ok. Marcel and Davina hug.
Vincent remains sitting in the triangle, holding his wounded arm. Elijah takes a few steps toward Eva, and Klaus screams at Freya, asking why she isn’t waking. Just then Eva takes a breath. She looks around at everyone. “Bloody Hell,” she says – NewBekah is back!
Back in the Quarter, NewBekah stands staring at her portrait and sighs. Klaus walks up, drinking from a bottle of bourbon, and NewBekah asks if he’s fishing for a thank you. “I’d find myself freezing in Hell before I got one from you,” he says. He says that she should come along, so they can get her back into her real body. He says that he might have to torture Freya and Esther to get there, but that could be fun. NewBekah says that’s she’s staying put, since Eva is gone for good, but her body is still linked to Davina and the rest of the children. She says that she can feel it. And if she leaves this body, the body dies, and so do those children. “So bloody what?” asks Klaus. NewBekah admits that she likes Davina and she doesn’t want her to die. NewBekah says that she could be a liaison between the witches that are against them, or at least get them “not siding against us.” And she reminds Klaus that she promised Kol she’d try and get him back, and she can’t even try to do that if she isn’t a witch.
Klaus looks a little defeated, but accepts NewBekah’s decision. He tells NewBekah that Freya has been inside his head. She knows his secrets now. “So she knows you go very far for very few. So bloody what?” NewBekah asks. She asks him if – just for one second – can they just be what they need to be . . . a family united. “For now. For you,” he answers and they touch their foreheads together {which sounds dumb when you read it, but looks adorable}. Klaus kisses her on the forehead and starts to walk away. She says his name, getting him to stop, and quietly says “thank you.”
NewBekah’s voice-over: “There’s a saying in my family . . . {Vincent is sitting at Rousseu’s, looking at that picture of him and Eva again} Kill a demon today {he lights the picture on fire} face the devil tomorrow. Yet even as you dance on that demon’s grave, you can’t help but wonder was that demon alone . . . {people are congregated around Freya, and it seems Josephine is putting a necklace on her} or do you have other, deadlier ones to fight? {Klaus stands off by himself, looking concerned. Josephine and Freya hug.} And though you celebrate having won the battle . . . {Josephine tells Freya, “You are one of us now. New Orleans is your home. Your friends are our friends, your enemies ours.” Klaus looks even more worried.} Have you really prepared for the war?”
Freya sits, holding the pendant given her by Josephine. And Klaus walks up behind her. He says that maybe she’s “wormed” her way into the witch’s good book, and his siblings’, but he says that he sees her for what she really is. Freya says that they aren’t burdened by the “crippling paranoia” he has that leaves him alone in the dark, wondering where everyone else has gone. Apparently that was a memory she saw while in his head. She says that it was mean of her to bring it up, but all she really saw inside his head were “anger issues and a questionable taste in women.” She says that she was once alone, and it would be a shame if now, he should find himself in such a position. She tells him that it doesn’t have to be like this between them, and she only has so much patience.
NewBekah voice-over: “So as we dress ourselves in the armor needed for this new fight . . . we must first tend to our wounds, {the crypt where Lenorsther is being kept comes into view} starting with the deepest.
Freya comes into the crypt. She tells Lenorsther that she was wrong about her, she loathes Dahlia more than Lenorsther could ever know. She says that if the light that Lenorsther saw in her as a child has gone out, it is because Dahlia “snuffed it out. I was 5, and she was the devil. She took my light, my love, my will to live, my ability to die.” Lenorsther apologizes and Freya tells her its a bit late for that. Freya says that Lenorsther was right about one thing, though, he shouldn’t have let her see inside his mind. She says she only learned one thing – that she and Klaus could never be allies – he will never trust her, so he leaves her no choice but to turn the family against him one by one and now she knows how to do it. When Lenorsther wonders why Freya is telling her all this . . . Freya says its because Lenorsther won’t be around to see it, and touches her mother’s forehead. Lenorsther screams and bursts into thousands of Starlings. Freya smiles as she walks away, stepping on the corpses of some of the birds.
The end.
Hmmmmm . . .
