The Originals Episode 115
“Le Grand Guignol”
Written By: Declan de Barra and Diane Ademu-John
Directed By: Chris Grismer
Original Airdate: 4 March 2014
In This Episode…
Elijah digs out the bone dagger from Klaus, then leaves him in the care of Cami because she is the only one he thinks Klaus would not immediately kill on sight. He wants her to feed him from her vein because the vervain in her system will keep him from gaining full power. But with so much rage flowing through him, he cannot be stopped. Cami tries to talk him out of slaughtering Rebekah, but he reveals the whole story, and we get to see what a monster Mikael truly was.
Flashback to 1919. In the face of Prohibition, New Orleans is a united city. Werewolves, witches, vampires, and corrupt cops all drinking together in a speakeasy. Klaus is spoken of with reverence, not fear. He even toasts Rebekah and Marcel - their relationship was a poorly kept secret, and he urges them to not hide it any longer. Six months had passed since Rebekah and Marcel summoned Mikael, and they thought maybe they had dodged a bullet.
But of course, they didn’t. Mikael was just biding his time. He makes his presence known to Marcel, swearing he will not hurt Rebekah (“Truth be told, she was always my favorite”) and even tries to enlist Elijah onto his side. Elijah steadfastly refuses to help him kill Klaus. But that’s not going to stop him. The kids are going to the opera, and while Rebekah is in the lobby looking for Marcel, Mikael slips into their box and presses his white oak stake into Klaus’ back. The fear in his eyes makes Klaus look like a frightened child. Mikael promises they are going to chat first, but Klaus has nothing to say. Mikael has plenty, and tells him what an embarrassment he has been to him. Frankly, it sounds like more than a little of Mikael’s vitriol should be directed at the wife that cuckolded him.
Anyway, the curtains go up but instead of an opera, it is the Grand Guignol. A half-dozen people and supernaturals are on stage, staked, trussed, crucified, and set on bloody display for a compelled audience. Mikael is impressed that Klaus is spoken of in such regard in New Roleans, but he can’t live with that. He vows to kill everyone who had ever known Klaus simply so that no one could speak of him, and there would essentially be no memory of Klaus. All the Mikaelsons’ fight, with Elijah insisting that that Rebekah and Klaus get out of there. They try to free the still-living Marcel, but cannot get his binds undone. He is left behind, while Elijah fights off Mikael long enough for his siblings to get out town. Mikael burns down the opera house and everyone inside it. They assumed Marcel died in the blaze.
Int he present day, Cami is horrified by Klaus’ story, but tells him not to turn into his dad, chasing Rebekah and Marcel to the ends of the earth like Mikael did to him. Klaus has never been called something so offensive. He assures Cami that he will not torment them; he will find them and end them, swiftly. He has with him a white oak stake that he “fashioned himself” that cannot be destroyed. I don’t know how all that happened, but maybe that is because he will sink it into Rebekah’s heart and nothing will happen. Maybe he found a scientist to create a new white oak seedling.
Rebekah and Marcel have, obviously, not left town. They have decided that the smartest thing they could do is revive Davina so she can cast a cloaking spell on them. Of course, that means killing three very powerful witches. Thierry agrees to help them, and calls the witches forth. Only Genevieve and Bastianna show (we will get to Sabine in a minute) but it is all a set up to kill them. Marcel and Rebekah sneak-attack them, and while Marcel pops off Bastianna’s head like the cork off a champagne bottle, Genevieve throws up a spell that will set them on fire if they try to follow her.
Elijah is desperate to find Hayley, and thinks Sabine has her. He seeks out Monique’s help in casting a locator spell, but Monique has no interest in helping a vampire. She believes that Sabine is on their side, that she will sacrifice herself and all the power will return to the earth, but Elijah knows better and shows her a page from his mother’s grimoire as proof that Sabine / Celeste will simply jump into another body.
Hayley and Eve are holding Sabine at gunpoint in the bayou. Sabine doesn’t hate Hayley, even feels for her, so when Hayley demands she cure the werewolves, she whips a potion. Elijah shows up - he and Monique have made a little bet on whose side Sabine is on, and he discourages Hayley from taking the potion. Elijah spirits away Sabine and the potion, and Sabine insists that she isn’t lying - that potion will cure the werewolves. It is a win-win for Sabine. If he trashes the cure and kills Sabine, Hayley will hate him forever. If he does nothing, and the spell is successful, Hayley will leave him eventually to be with her own kind. Elijah realizes this is true and return the potion to a gleeful Hayley. Elijah takes a big, bloody bite out of Sabine and whisks her off to the cemetery. When she wakes, she is amused - she knew he would bring her there. But she has a secret for him. She has cast a boundary spell on the cemetery: Originals can get in, but they can’t get out. It is a lunar spell, so it will be broken on the next new moon - but she doesn’t think Rebekah will make it that long. Sabine exits and kills herself so she can jump into another pretty young body. Monique comes out of the shadows, shocked that Elijah was right - Sabine was only out for herself. Celeste resurrects in her own body, and Elijah is there to kill her with the bone dagger.
Rebekah and Marcel are in the cemetery, retrieving Davina’s body. Rebekah cannot leave, and insists that Marcel take Davina’s body someplace safe, that she will meet with them as soon as she can. Marcel doesn’t want to leave her, but he has few options. So he returns Davina to her church attic bedroom. She wakes, and he clutches her, swearing to keep her safe.
Elijah finds Rebekah in the cemetery and is upset to see she hasn’t left town. And who is that coming down the path… but Klaus. With murder in his eyes. The three of them face off, vamp out, and growl, ready to attack.
Dig It or Bury It?
Sooooo good. Next week is going to be brilliant, with original versus original versus original. But leading up to the inevitable face off was pretty awesome as well. I felt like with tonight’s episode, we finally got an insight into how horrible Mikael really was. In The Vampire Diaries, I never got the sense that Mikael was any more a monster than any other child abuser. But the glee he took in killing people and then stringing them up on display, and the fact that he would destroy an entire theater full of people just because he could… that’s pretty damned monstrous.
Prophecies?
Vampire on vampire on vampire action!