Well, Cami’s a vampire. Tristan is trapped in a box in the ocean. How’s that going to play out? Who or what is still plotting against our favorite vampire family? Stay tuned!
1. The Strix are using witches to test the loyalty of its members AND to keep an eye on the goings on in NOLA.
Marcel passed with a “The Knight of Cups” tarot card. (The Knight of Cups in my tarot deck means victory is not just an exercise in strength of arms, but can be achieved through cleverness and a savvy mind; you must seek novel paths to accomplish goals, but also not lose sight of where you are going.)
2. Josh is still the best best friend a girl could have. (Full disclosure: MY best friend is also gay, and the best best friend a girl can have.)
3. Elijah still remains the only person who can keep Klaus focused on the problem at hand.
There’s still something out there that can kill them, remember – even if he isn’t the first to sort out just exactly what that something is. (More on that later.)
4. Elijah answers Hayley first on whether or not she can stay under their roof again.
But Klaus has the more eloquent explanation, “Hayley, this family comes with many, many hardships, but there is at least one benefit. You will always have a home here.”
5. Elijah saying “I don’t play well with others,” to Aya is something to behold.
But, them pooling their resources is probably the best idea Aya’s had in a while. (After all, there is a weapon out there that can kill them, remember? A point that was driven home – no pun intended – several times in the first few minutes.)
6. Davina may be shunned, but she still has a role to play in NOLA. Now, whether that is as The Strix’s pet witch, or something else is yet to be seen.
“Witches for hire can only be trusted so far,” Aya says, telling Davina that if she no longer has a place among her own coven, she can join The Strix’s. Offering her a spell that will raise the dead, Aya may be giving Davina the one thing that she most desires….Kol back in her arms.
And, she does get him briefly, although he’s not wearing the face she recognizes. And he tells her that the spell they’ve given her is a fake, trying to dissuade her from doing it. Guess what? Its dangerous! *fake gasp* (Hold up, didn’t the Other Side recently implode? The writer’s got around that one with on snarky line from Josh, calling it “Witch Purgatory” which may or may not be a different place. I’ll let you be the judge on that one.)
7. Watching Hayley decide which of Hope’s toys to bring to the compound.
Touching several toys, a stuffed animal, the knight that Klaus carved for Rebekah, the thing that may be the Mikaelson’s downfall in the process – takes only a second, but her anguish at losing her husband is still evident. Cami takes a swipe at her love for Elijah in a fit of anger, later on, while figuring out what everyone else spends the whole episode stressing . . . WHAT IS THE THING THAT CAN STILL KILL THEM?
8. Another piece of the prophecy is revealed – once again in riddle form.
“All your family has endured, and yet the worse is still to come. An un-ending darkness lies before you. A lone figure. A pale horse. A flame that will burn you all.” (Figured it out yet? Well, the Mikaelsons haven’t either.)
9. Klaus tries to coach Cami on how to be a vampire.
She turns out to be just as stubborn in un-death as she was in life. Always challenging him. And, in battling the darkness within her, she even snaps his neck. We see flashes of the Cami she used to be, but we’re left to wonder if they are just calculated glimpses as her vampire persona takes over.
10. We see Detective Will Kinney again (YAY), but he continues to be a pawn (BOO).
(I miss his Moonlight character Josef’s snark so very, very much.) And then Cami and Klaus get into an argument over who the Dark Objects actually belong to. Kol made them, but Cami’s family has been the curator for them for generations.
11. Mr Awesome Scruff is wrong about what the “pale horse” refers to. It is not a constellation, or a biblical reference.
It refers to the knight that Klaus carved for Rebekah when they were children. He carved it out of . . . you guessed it, THE WHITE OAK. Cami figures it out before everyone, gives a tearful apology for the low-blow she batted at Hayley, makes excuses to go home, and steals it.
12. When Hayley takes a verbal swipe at Klaus, “Yeah? Well, guess what?
The people you think you’re keeping safe – Elijah, Rebekah, even Hope – sometimes you do more harm than good,” he figures out what the weapon is, and, “I made it myself!” . . . The White Oak of that little knight.
13. WE GET TO SEE MR AWESOME SCRUFF’S FANGS!
I can count on ONE HAND the number of times we’ve actually seen them, so the brief flash of them before he sinks them into The Strix’s seer is DEVINE . . .but therefore killing her for what she had seen, which was kind of sad.
