Oh boy. I knew it wasn’t going to
be pretty when Klaus woke up after having been betrayed by his own siblings and
daggered by none other than Elijah. What I couldn’t possible have known was
that it was going to become un-pretty way before he even woke up. Turns out I
didn’t take Dahlia into consideration, but then again neither did Elijah, so I
guess I shouldn’t blame myself. In any case, what a great episode! It’s
probably gonna get old real soon if I keep saying this every week, but I can’t
help it, and anyway it’s always true – this show is really something else.
Honestly, if someone came to me when I was watching season two of The Vampire
Diaries and told me that only a few years from now I’m gonna willingly follow a
series centered on the Mikaelson brothers, and what’s more, I’m going to adore
it, I probably would have laughed for a good twenty minutes. Oh how things have
changed. Anyway, enough about me, let’s talk about The Originals!
Last week I was wondering whether
Klaus would appear in this episode at all, being vampire-dead at the moment and
everything, and even thought aboout the possibility that maybe Joseph Morgan
had some pressing matters to attend to when they were shooting this, and asked
for a little time out. Well , it turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong:
this episode was still very much about Klaus, as we joined him in the Dahlia’s
memories and learned a whole lot about her past and motivations. To be honest I
don’t remember this kind of mind control (or whatever you want to call it) ever
having been used or even just mentioned on either of the two shows, but I guess
Dahlia is not an ordinary witch and she can do things no one else can? The only
other person I can remember being able to get into people’s heads and showing
them things that weren’t really there is Damon Salvatore, who’s very much not a
witch... but then I remember that when Klaus was first introduced he was able
to use Alaric’s body as his temporary vessel so he could delay showing his true
form, and that’s something he never did ever again, so maybe I shouldn’t really
think too much about supernatural powers coming and going when it comes to the
TVD-verse, and just accept that there’s always going to be things that I can’t
possibly anticipate because I literally couldn’t known that they were even an
option.
Anyway, as I was saying, Dahlia
got into Klaus’ head, or she made him get into hers, whatever, and started
showing him around her childhood memories. Namely, the one where she and her
sister Esther were kidnapped by some vikings. I guess I never really thought
about their original nationality before, but given all this, they were probably
English. That would at least explain the accents of some of the Mikaelson
children. At this point it’s not really clear why exactly are we watching this
particular memory, but Dahlia cuts right in the middle of it: she has a
proposition for Klaus, and if he’s willing to hear her out, there’s a
possibility that they can be allies. Uh-oh. Literally none of this sounds good
in any shape or form.
Then we jump forward a little to
watch a young Dahlia being forced to perform dark magic so that in exchange the
vikings wouldn’t abuse Esther. The problem is, Esther is not really at risk of
being abused anymore, because as it turns out, she’s been very willingly
hooking up with a dashing young viking called Mikael. She even plans to give up
her magic so she can have a family with him. Young Dahlia understandably feels
upset and betrayed, and it was at this point that I started to wonder why are
the writers tryng to make her likeable. The best villains are always the ones
who are evil with no excuse, and sure, all these memories might make me pity
her a little bit but they won’t change the fact that she wants to take Hope
away from her family? I pray to God this won’t turn into one of those „Dahlia
is actually completely justified in everything she’s doing and if you really
think about it, she’s not evil at all” kind of scenarios, because I’m not sure
I’m quite ready to start watching a Dahlia-centric spinoff just yet.
All these memory-flashbacks
finally paid off towards the end of the episode when Dahlia showed Klaus a
young Freya, unable to control her immense powers, and very obviously being in
need of Dahlia’s assistance. Dahlia says that when she took Freya away from her
mother it was actually to „save her from herself”, because firstborn witches in
this bloodline possess devastating power, and if kept out of check, there’s no
telling of the destruction they might cause to themselves and everyone around
them. Hope will suffer even more because, as Dahlia put it, her magic will be
tainted with vampire blood as well as the aggressive wolf temperament. So
really, Dahlia only wants to help Hope by channeling her magic, and she doesn’t
even want to take her away. Now that definitely puts things into a different
perspective... except that she wants Klaus to raise her, without Hayley being
around. Yeah, that doesn’t sound shady at all. In any case, she gave Klaus some
time to think, and she even woke him up magically despite the dagger in his
chest. What will Klaus do with all that information? Well, let’s just take a
look at everything else that happened in the episode, and we’ll find out soon
enough.
While all of this was going on
inside Klaus’ head, his siblings were busy devising their ultimate plan to
defeat Dahlia. Of course, it wasn’t easy to come to an agreement at first:
Freya wanted to use Hope as bait to lure Dahlia to a ground where she will be
made mortal and could be killed, but Elijah basically said „over my dead body”,
and besides, Hayley and co. were still gone, so there was no way they could get
their hands on Hope anyway. The plan itself wasn’t that bad though, and Elijah
decided that they should create a magical decoy to lure Dahlia. The only witch
around to help was Vincent, who didn’t want to do so because he’d just about
had it with all these vampires and their assistance-seeking, and besides, he
was already working on a different spell for a different Mikaelson – more on
that later.He also thinks their plan is simply stupid: they had previously
decided to replicate Hope’s powersource and transfer it to a Golem doll, but
now Vincent insisted that a doll won’t fool Dahlia, and that they need
something with a heartbeat instead. Fortunately, Elijah already seemed to know
what to do: he tracked down Hayley’s pack, told her about the plan, and asked
for a little bit of Hope’s blood, which he then promptly injected into Freya’s
neck. Now she has both a heartbeat AND Hope’s magical blood in her system, and
thus the perfect bait for Dahlia is ready. Freya was understandably not happy
about any of this but you gotta do what you gotta do to help your family,
right?
Speaking of family, the Crescent
wolves were still in mourning after Aiden’s death. Jackson decided to bury him
in a little grave by the side of the road so that the pack can proceed quicker,
but Hayley insisted that they give him a proper, true Crescent funeral. She
even invited Josh to it which was very nice of her. I’m gonna go ahead and
admit that I never cared much for Aiden or his relationship with Josh, but I do
love Josh himself and I felt really terrible watching him say goodbye to his
love. And now he’s gone, who knows where... I wonder if he will come back to
the big finale, or at all... maybe the actor got another job and they needed a
way to write him out too? I’ll better look into that. Anyway, as I said
earlier, Elijah showed up in the wolf camp to talk to Hayley, but before he got
to do so he had to endure a little bit of taunting from Jackson, in the vein of
„I got the girl and you didn’t”. Ugh Jackson. Let’s just wait and see who’s
gonna have the last laugh, shall we? Right now Jackson has every reason to feel
confident because after Elijah has left, he told Hayley that if she goes back
to the Mikaelsons after all this Dahlia business ends, he won’t go with her, so
she has to choose between them, and Hayley immediately chose Jackson. Eh. We
all know this isn’t going to last for long, right? Right...? As of now, Hayley
seems pretty determined about this. At the end of the episode she left Elijah a
voice-mail, which was nothing short of heartbreaking:
"Elijah, I'm calling to say
goodbye. Hope and I, we can't be part of your family anymore. All Hope's ever
had for family tried to destroy her. That can't be my little girl's story.
Family is supposed to love you. Even if she is free of Dahlia's firstborn
curse, Hope would still be Klaus' daughter. She'd inherit a thousand years of
enemies, all his anger and rage. I don't want Hope to be a Mikaelson. All the
pain that comes with that name, she doesn't deserve that. Elijah, I...
goodbye."
And guess who just happened to
overhear all that? That’s right. Klaus. So naturally, he went to Dahlia and
accepted her offer. I guess that makes sense – he has been hurt by pretty much
everyone he loves in a very short amount of time, and Dahlia’s proposition does
seem reasonable as long as you don’t think about it too much. However, we also have
reason to believe that he’s just playing his aunt and will end up betraying her
in the end. Because this quote: "I never cared for Hayley. But you should
know, the rest of our family will stand against us, in defense of her."
Come on dude. You can fool yourself but you can’t fool your audience. And also,
"They have more than earned everything that is to come", he said of
his siblings, and that sounds way too dramatic a statement, even from Klaus. So
I guess what remains to be seen is, how far along is Klaus willing to go to
convince Dahlia that he stands with her? Will he torture? Will he kill? And if
he does, what kind of contrived way the writers will manage to find to redeem
him yet again after he inevitably wins the day for Team Good? I guess we’ll find
out soon enough.
Episode MVP: Joseph Morgan as Klaus Mikaelson
Quote of the episode:
Hayley’s message to Elijah, see
above
Random tidbits:
- I mentioned Vincent working for
another Mikaelson earlier – Rebekah, to be precise. Marcel brought him in to undo
the spell that was binding her to those eight teenage witches, which include
Davina. He reluctantly did the spell ("When we're done, we're done. I'm
not your witch for hire." Sure Vincent, whatever you say ;), but the
episode ended without it being actually cast. Maybe next week, then?
- Meanwhile, Davina has been
working on a resurrection spell for Kol, the execution of which is, I guess,
yet another thing we can look forward to in the finale.
- And then there’s the tiny fact
that the covens wanted Vincent to be their new leader now that Josephine is
dead, but he doesn’t feel like practicing magic anymore, so he decided to ask
Davina to take his place instead. She definitely seemed to take to the idea
after he has tempted her with the promise of necromancy, so we’ll see how all
that’s gonna play out.
- Cami told Elijah the truth about
Klaus not killing Aiden, but at this point it doesn’t really matter anymore. Elijah
is going to have unwavering faith in his brother whatever he does anyway, but
still, it’s nice that he knows. Now, if only Hayley could find out as well...
- Speaking of Elijah, him catching
that arrow and then the axe at the wolf camp was one of the most badass things
he’s ever done, and that’s saying a lot.
- Marcel giving leadership advice
to Hayley was all kinds of awesome.
- I can’t help but think that under
normal circumstances – that is, if it did not come right after having been
betrayed and thus angered by his siblings – Klaus might have understood where
Hayley was coming from. After all, she didn’t say she doesn’t want Hope to be
Klaus’ daughter because of him personally, but because of all the enemies that
he and his family have stacked up over the centures. Even Klaus has to see that
that’s a perfectly reasonable line of thought.
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