The Originals s02e17 Episode Script
Exquisite Corpse
Previously on "The Originals" Dahlia will come here, drawn by your daughter.
She will kill anyone who would defy her.
Yet you would defy her.
My one chance is to align with you and kill her.
Should Freya betray us, what if Hope should be harmed through her actions? We have to consider every weapon at our disposal, brother.
The Treme coven wants Vincent Griffith returned.
Who are you? Vincent Griffith is alive and free from the influence of my brother Finn.
A witch named Eva Sinclair was stealing children to channel their power.
Given that there's a witch inside me trying to break out, probably shouldn't be alone right now.
I see Marcel let you out.
I told him what I knew, but if Eva's coming back here, I don't want anything to do with her.
Rebekah? Rebekah? I'm having flashes of memory, but they fade almost as soon as I've had them.
All of us live with a demon inside.
Rebekah Mikaelson! You can't hide from me forever! Some days, you control the demon This is my house! Aah! You ok? And other days, it controls you.
And it is always hungry.
It feeds on lust, on longing.
And while you may slumber, the demon never sleeps.
It tempts you into crossing every line you've ever drawn All while it hunts you Haunts you Renders you incapable of telling friend from foe But once it has turned your loved ones into enemies, the demon will have consumed you whole.
Get away from her! Ugh! Rebekah, what are you doing? Agh! Unh! Aah! Agh! Aah! I should stop packing these away.
There's always one family member or another in need of a good shackling.
Find Rebekah or Eva or whoever the bloody hell that was, use these to stop her from doing magic, and don't hurt her.
The non-psychopathic bits are still my sister.
All right.
I won't be the only one looking for her.
She killed witch kids.
The 24-hour hold that Elijah got the covens to agree to ended at midnight.
Every witch in the city is gonna be gunning for her.
Go to Elijah, get him to charm his elderly witch into calling off the hunt.
And leave Hope? Don't you think I should stay here and protect our daughter? Jackson has been working night and day to secure this compound, surrounding it with his werewolf army, not to mention the fact that I'm here, and I know the best way to protect our child is to get Rebekah out of that serial killer's body and back into the original model.
Hmm.
And what will you be doing while we're doing all the dirty work? Why, attending to the even dirtier work as usual.
Ahem.
I'm gonna go see if I can find Josephine.
Ahem.
Well, now I see why you didn't answer my calls.
Did she have to come with us? Josephine LaRue can be rather recalcitrant.
She is, however, enamored with Gia's musical prowess and cavalier spirit.
So the baby vamp is now the witch whisperer.
I'm just glad that you found someone so multitalented to spend your time with.
What exactly do you want from me? Madame LaRue.
Mr.
Mikaelson.
Hmm.
Have you come to impress me once more with young Gia's rare talents? Ahem.
What, pray tell, does this one do? This one is family, madame.
We've come to ask a favor.
Our sister was quite the beauty.
You said that you could put Rebekah back in her original body.
Do it.
Heh.
So you've come to your senses.
My senses have not faltered.
They still demand that you are not to be trusted.
However, circumstance dictates otherwise for now.
What's changed? Eva Sinclair has resumed control of her body, leaving Rebekah trapped and powerless, so make with your spells and enchantments and put my sister back in her true body.
I'm afraid it's not that simple.
More stalling.
Very well.
I know I can't kill you, but I shall have a fine time trying.
Tell me, have you ever been skinned alive? The problem is Rebekah's condition has worsened.
When I offered to help, she was in control of Eva's body.
If she's lost inside Eva, I don't have a spell that can breach Eva's mind and find her.
Fortunately for you, I know someone well versed in such spells.
Let's go meet her, shall we? A little early, isn't it? You know why I'm sitting here day drinking in the corner all by lonesome? No? Because I'm pretty much done and through with the vamps, wolves, and witches of this town, and from some of the looks I've been getting, they're through with me, too, so if I sit in here, they don't see me, and if I drink After a while, I don't see them either.
And how many is it gonna take before she disappears? - Come on.
- Uh-uh.
You need to know that she is back and on the loose.
Now I need to find her before the witches do so I can save my friend who is trapped inside of her, and I came to you because you are the only person in this city who knows her inside out.
Look, man.
I'm sorry about your friend, but if Eva is back in control of her body Then you need to let the witches put that body down.
Eva will use up your sister just like she did the others.
The others? First of the kids went missing two years ago.
Feels like a lifetime.
I was, uh, clocking in college, work, coven.
Felt like a normal life, but, um, had this woman.
Met when we were 16 years old, did our first bit of magic together, and it was on.
Insanely intense.
Eva was a wild beauty practicing a wild magic, but she and Vincent were so happy, we let them be.
And then the children began to disappear.
The first was a little girl named Amelie Dupres from algiers.
Then Luann Hughes from the ninth, Nicolas Asace from the Treme, all young kids, all witch prodigies.
Sssewp! All vanished into thin air.
So I put together a posse of guys from each of the covens, but the killer cloaked the kids so quickly, our locator spells was useless.
But because of Vincent's tenacity, she was caught.
It was a fluke.
I was able to slap a locator spell on one of the kids right after he got snatched, and I got nothing at first, and then a car and then a face, but that face It was Eva, the love of my life.
Heh.
So I caught her, confronted her, and then I saw the truth.
She kept pleading with me, "Vince, just 3 more little girls, Vince, just 3.
" Why 3? To complete the rite of 9s.
The rite of 9s? Eva thought that if she sacrificed a witch from each of the 9 covens, it would create a new witch order in New Orleans.
She would have been more powerful than an elder, any Harvest girl.
Wait, wait, wait.
But why kids? Because their magic's untapped.
It's pure, and they're a hell of a lot easier to subdue.
That's why she went after my baby.
She would have killed your daughter, channeled her powers, as she did those other poor children.
I never found those kids.
They died unconsecrated, unable to be with our ancestors, used as a source for Eva's magic.
So help me find her before she takes any more lives, including Rebekah's.
Ohh.
Help me stop her.
We agree she must be stopped.
No more of our youth will die.
That is why, Mr.
Mikaelson, I will not extend your 24 hours.
Eva Sinclair now has a bounty on her head.
You would condemn my sister to her death.
I dislike the term collateral damage, but there it is.
If one or two must fall in order to take Eva down for good, so be it.
I fail to see the need for these.
I'm not your enemy.
Oh, they're not to protect me, luv.
They're to protect her, the one who knows more about mind invasion and body jumping than all of us put together.
No, no! Mother Freya.
Freya, mother.
It can't be.
You won't trust me, yet you would trust her? I trust my mother about as much as I would a stuck snake.
Fortunately, she is now a vampire, and as such, vulnerable to my compulsion.
You will answer me truthfully.
There.
Now at lest everything that comes out of her wretched mouth will be honest.
Let's raid mommy dearest's mind for spells, shall we? Oh, yes.
Agh! Oh, ho ho ho! Not really keen on another witch headache.
Dark objects.
How did a damn vamp find me? Had a little help, someone who knew where an injured witch on the run might go to heal up.
Vince.
No time for catch-up.
Release Rebekah now! You best not damage the package, or you might never see her again or your other little adopted witch.
Davina.
What did you just say? Ha ha ha! Oh, some daddy figure you are.
I've been feeding off her for days, and you didn't even know she was gone? Erggh! Where is she? Release me, and you can have what's left.
No.
Aah! I think I'll just torture you until you give me what I need! Torture ain't gonna do it, man.
Half the witches in this city went after her, she ain't say a thing.
You got a better idea? Yeah.
Let me talk to her.
Let me assure you, madam LaRue, we will defend your witches with a fearsome vigilance.
You have wonderful way with words really.
Your cadence is pleasant.
Normally, I could listen to it all day long, but I grow tired of this.
My mind remains unchanged.
Are you serious? She puts on a talent show, he has every vampire in the quarter kissing you ass, and your final answer is "screw you"? - Hayley.
- Back off.
We came here to honor the alliance between us.
If this is something you wish to rescind, so be it.
Don't you dare walk into my house and threaten me.
I am not the one that needs you, Elijah Mikaelson.
It is you who needs us, or you will soon enough.
There's a storm coming, cherie, and your darkest demons ride upon it.
I do not know its name, but when I peer into your future, there is a blackness That should terrify you.
I heard they'd gotten you, that you'd been taken over by the crazed brother of the one that's still inside me.
Yep.
But I'm back now.
So you are, the man that sold out his own girl and gave up on their future.
Eva, don't start with me.
Now Marcel said that oh, Vincent, are you kissing vampire ass now? - Hoo! - This city could have been free of their kind if you hadn't been such a weak, little coward! You left me with no choice.
I couldn't let you go on doing what you oh, please.
You saw how beaten down we'd become covens from every ward fighting each other, half of them working with vampires.
Now change was necessary.
Unity was necessary.
Killing kids was necessary? Vincent, I didn't kill any kids.
They're still alive, just asleep, cloaked of course.
All of them? Uh-huh.
I just need their power.
They don't need to die.
My beautiful girl, my firstborn.
Touch me, and I will use these chains to strangle you.
Yes.
Well, now that we have the pleasantries out of the way, let's begin, shall we? It appears your delightful sister Dahlia is on her way to New Orleans and hell-bent on stealing my child.
I need Rebekah back in her original body so she can help me destroy her.
Your your child? Oh.
Yes, I suppose it is difficult keeping up on current events whilst rotting inside a tomb.
Very well.
The short version.
My child is alive, Dahlia is on her way, but now the previous tenant of Rebekah's body has seized control and isn't keen on giving it up.
Young Freya here, although powerful, lacks the spell to put Rebekah back in her true body, and that's where you come in.
I need you to be a dear and dig deep in that ex-witch mind of yours.
Give me the spell that puts Rebekah back.
You know, even when you betrayed me, I didn't blame you.
You just couldn't see the light, but you see it now, don't you, now that your body was stolen by the very same family of vampires that are trying to steal mine! You see what's got to be done.
Now I just need one more witch, and then we can finish the ritual together, take all the power we need, and then those kids can go home to their mums.
And we need never be under their control ever again.
I can hear her yapping, but clearly she's not talking.
I guess we're back to square one.
Actually, she did talk, and I decided to listen.
Aah! Great.
So Eva is still in the wind, although now she has a sidekick.
The charming Vincent Griffith.
It gets worse.
If Eva has Davina, then she has 8 of the witches she needs to finish the ritual.
She just needs one more.
If she comes after Hope, Rebekah or no Rebekah, I will put her down for good.
Fortify this house.
When they do come, kill him, - capture her.
- Capture? I will not abandon my sister.
Now gather what wolves you have.
With Vincent by her side, she will strike with considerable force.
The revered Josephine Larue.
How are you on this very fine day, dear? Oh.
You look nervous.
Are you nervous, Josie? You should be.
You see, I just need one more special witch to complete my circle.
Now the hybrid child was a target of opportunity.
You You're a target of choice.
Vincent, you're not listening to her.
You haven't been yourself lately.
You're right.
I haven't been, but now that I'm back, I realize something.
The only time I've ever been myself is when I'm with her.
Oh.
No! What is taking so long? You didn't tarry when you attempted to kill my child.
I took no joy in that.
I knew if your daughter lived Dahlia would come not only for her but for all of you, and however you may despise me, I would not wish that upon you.
How touching.
Isn't it? I always wondered what maternal compassion sounded like.
Of course, I wouldn't know since you sold me into slavery at the age of 5.
When I made that bargain with my sister, I had no idea what it meant to be a mother.
I thought if I had a dozen children I I would not miss the one, and then you were born.
You were beautiful.
You had a light about you.
It put a smile on the face of the hardest man I had ever known, and when Dahlia took you, I believed that same light might warm her embittered heart, that you would lead a good life.
A good life? You were my mother! You should have come for me.
Yes, I should have, but it would have been a mistake, the same mistake you'll be making if you let this girl help you.
For God's sake, speak plainly.
The light I saw in Freya as a child, it's gone.
While she was mine for 5 years, Dahlia was her mentor for a thousand, and like her mentor, she will offer to solve your problem but for a price.
There is no price.
I loathe Dahlia! 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.
There.
Where are the others? That's the Harvest girl.
Davina Claire.
Now once I link Josephine, we can begin.
Though I should admit I told a little lie earlier.
In order to save the many, we've got to sacrifice a few.
You understand, Vince? Yeah.
Unh! Yeah.
I figured as much.
Still no sign of her.
What the hell is Eva waiting for.
She didn't wait.
She took Josephine LaRue not half an hour a go.
If Eva doesn't need Hope, then where would she go? Same place she kept all the other captives, where she took Davina.
A place no one has been able to find for two years.
When I find you, I am going to rip your head from your neck.
You might want to hold off on that decapitation.
I found them all.
Davina's alive.
Sorry.
I had to make it look convincing.
If you were in on the plan, Eva would have known.
Yeah.
Blasting me through a couple glass doors really sold it.
All right.
Round of applause.
Now what? Now we got a problem.
These kids, they're all linked to her.
If she dies, they all die.
So we'll find a witch to unlink them.
We're gonna need somebody with some serious power.
I can't do this.
This spell requires an enormous amount of power.
Which you have.
And that power needs to be anchored, or I'll be lost inside Eva's mind along with Rebekah.
Unlike your magic, mine isn't anchored to any one place.
Because of you, I have no home.
Perhaps, but there is no other spell.
Oh.
You.
I can use you as my anchor.
I'll channel your power while I breach Eva's mind.
And there it is.
The price.
If she channels you, she will have access to your mind past and present.
She will know everything about you.
All of my strategies and all of my secrets laid bare to give to Dahlia.
You must think I'm a fool.
Unless it's not a trick.
I'll be the anchor.
Brother, I think not.
Brother, whatever this is, nothing must prevent us from saving our sister.
I will not lose Rebekah.
Oh, yes, by all means, let's give Dahlia's whelp access to all the information she needs to destroy us.
And since do we heed the word of this serpent? Enough! For an upgraded model, you're not very sharp.
Let's go.
Oh.
This place smells like werewolf.
Well, that's because Jackson has a whole platoon of them out there.
You know, you can go.
You don't have to stay.
Elijah says you and your kid have more than one enemy.
If someone manages to make it through the dog show outside, you and the baby run, I stay and stall them.
You don't know me.
Why would you put yourself in harm's way for us? I don't have to know you.
I know Elijah, and I know what you mean to him What this baby means to him.
He talks about me with you.
No, but I'm not blind.
It's pretty obvious you have the guy all bent out of shape.
Look.
After you got married, we started hanging out.
He was just so wound up.
I guess it must be tough to spend a thousand years being the shoulder everyone else leans on.
Maybe he just needs to live his life for himself for once.
Lay her inside the salt and lie on either side of her.
Each of you take her hand.
I will act as a bridge into her mind, but I'm trusting you to anchor me, brother.
Do what you need to do.
Rebekah's buried deep.
Eva will not give her up without a fight.
Then she gets a fight.
Be careful.
You're entering Eva's mind.
If she kills you in there, you will be lost, and if you kill her before you free Rebekah, then Rebekah will be gone forever.
Once you have Rebekah, then and only then can Eva be dealt with.
We got it.
You need a weapon.
How am I supposed to take that with me? Lamina ferri in mentem.
Lamina ferri in mentem.
Lamina ferri in mentem.
This is going to hurt.
Aah! Ok.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Aah! Rebekah! Gah! Marcel! You recover fast, but they're gone.
I compelled you to tell the truth, not state the bloody obvious.
She will poison them against you.
You know that.
And you suddenly care, do you? Klaus, lying here, starving in the darkness, I have thought of nothing except what could have been if I had left you to live a single mortal life.
We would have burnt bright for a while and then burnt out.
You see, you think of turning us as your greatest sin, but the truth is it's the only one of your many faults I've come to forgive.
I prefer us as we are.
No, my son.
We are a macabre echo of a family, and I take all the blame for that.
I only wanted to undo my evil that you might love me again.
My mother The comedian.
Enjoy the darkness.
Rebekah? Rebekah, it's ok.
It's safe.
You people just don't give up, do you? Run.
You think you're a vampire in here, in my world? I'm the one who makes the rules in here.
I'm the one who says how you die.
Aah! The great Marcel, one-time vampire king.
Eva! That's enough.
It's over.
Not a bad bit of acting, fooling me back there.
Pretty slick and cold.
Colder than I remembered you.
It's your eyes, those damn sexy eyes, making me think you love me right before you bury a knife in my back.
You break my heart, Vince.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice Aah! I'm losing them.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
We're not finished, you and I, but for right now, save my sister.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
- Agh! - Aah! Aah! Is that what you think heartache feel like, Eva? Oh, you got no idea.
I wanted to rip my own heart out every time I woke so I couldn't feel what you did to me, that bone-deep hurt knowing that I could not save them kids from you, the woman I loved more than my own life.
Aah! We could have had everything.
You chose this.
It's on you.
Eva.
Good-bye, Vince.
Aah! Aah! Did it work? Somebody? Where am I? They're ok! Marcel! Why isn't she waking? Bloody hell.
What? You're not fishing for a thank you, I hope.
I'd find myself freezing in hell before I got one from you.
Well, come on then.
Let's get you back in your proper body, though I'll likely have to torture Freya and Esther to do so, which actually might be quite fun.
No, Nik.
I'm staying put.
Eva's gone for good, but her body, this body is still linked to Davina and those children.
I can feel it, and if I leave it, then it dies, and Davina and the others die with it.
So bloody what? I happen to like Davina.
I'm not about to let her die.
Besides, do you really want the wrath of every New Orleans witch upon us just as Dahlia arrives? We need them on our side or at the very least not siding against us, and there's also the matter of Kol.
I vowed I'd bring him back.
I can't even attempt to do that if I'm not a witch.
Freya's been inside my head.
She knows my secrets.
So she knows you go very far for very few? So bloody what? Niklaus, just for one second, can we just be what we need to be, a family united? For now, for you.
Nik.
Thank you.
There's a saying in my family "kill a demon today, face the devil tomorrow," yet even as you dance on that demon's grave, you can't help but wonder was that demon alone Or do you have other, deadlier ones to fight? And though you celebrate having won the battle You are one of us now.
New Orleans is your home.
Your friends are our friends, your enemies ours.
Have you really prepared for the war? Come to check on me again, brother? Maybe you've wormed your way into the witches' good graces and my siblings', too, but I see you for what you really are, even if they cannot.
They are not burdened by crippling paranoia, the kind that leaves you muttering to yourself alone in the dark, "where has everyone gone?" Mean of me, yes.
Shouldn't bring up your childhood secrets, but don't worry.
All I saw when I channeled you were anger issues and a questionable taste in women.
I was once alone, brother.
It would be a shame if you were the one who now found himself so.
It doesn't have to be like this of course, but be careful.
I have only so much patience.
So as we dress ourselves in the armor needed for this new fight We must first tend to our wounds, starting with the deepest.
Freya.
You were wrong about me.
I loathe Dahlia more than you could ever know.
You don't see that light in me? That's because she 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.
You are no longer my mother, but I am not her child.
I am so sorry.
Ahh.
It's a little late for that, but it turns out you were right about one thing.
Maybe Klaus shouldn't have let me glimpse inside his mind.
I warned him to be wary of you, of what you might see.
Oh, I saw quite a bit, but I only learned one thing.
Klaus and I can never be allies.
I now see that he will never trust me, so he leaves me no choice.
I will have to turn the family against him one by one, and now I know how to do it.
Why are you telling me this? Because you won't be around to see it.
She will kill anyone who would defy her.
Yet you would defy her.
My one chance is to align with you and kill her.
Should Freya betray us, what if Hope should be harmed through her actions? We have to consider every weapon at our disposal, brother.
The Treme coven wants Vincent Griffith returned.
Who are you? Vincent Griffith is alive and free from the influence of my brother Finn.
A witch named Eva Sinclair was stealing children to channel their power.
Given that there's a witch inside me trying to break out, probably shouldn't be alone right now.
I see Marcel let you out.
I told him what I knew, but if Eva's coming back here, I don't want anything to do with her.
Rebekah? Rebekah? I'm having flashes of memory, but they fade almost as soon as I've had them.
All of us live with a demon inside.
Rebekah Mikaelson! You can't hide from me forever! Some days, you control the demon This is my house! Aah! You ok? And other days, it controls you.
And it is always hungry.
It feeds on lust, on longing.
And while you may slumber, the demon never sleeps.
It tempts you into crossing every line you've ever drawn All while it hunts you Haunts you Renders you incapable of telling friend from foe But once it has turned your loved ones into enemies, the demon will have consumed you whole.
Get away from her! Ugh! Rebekah, what are you doing? Agh! Unh! Aah! Agh! Aah! I should stop packing these away.
There's always one family member or another in need of a good shackling.
Find Rebekah or Eva or whoever the bloody hell that was, use these to stop her from doing magic, and don't hurt her.
The non-psychopathic bits are still my sister.
All right.
I won't be the only one looking for her.
She killed witch kids.
The 24-hour hold that Elijah got the covens to agree to ended at midnight.
Every witch in the city is gonna be gunning for her.
Go to Elijah, get him to charm his elderly witch into calling off the hunt.
And leave Hope? Don't you think I should stay here and protect our daughter? Jackson has been working night and day to secure this compound, surrounding it with his werewolf army, not to mention the fact that I'm here, and I know the best way to protect our child is to get Rebekah out of that serial killer's body and back into the original model.
Hmm.
And what will you be doing while we're doing all the dirty work? Why, attending to the even dirtier work as usual.
Ahem.
I'm gonna go see if I can find Josephine.
Ahem.
Well, now I see why you didn't answer my calls.
Did she have to come with us? Josephine LaRue can be rather recalcitrant.
She is, however, enamored with Gia's musical prowess and cavalier spirit.
So the baby vamp is now the witch whisperer.
I'm just glad that you found someone so multitalented to spend your time with.
What exactly do you want from me? Madame LaRue.
Mr.
Mikaelson.
Hmm.
Have you come to impress me once more with young Gia's rare talents? Ahem.
What, pray tell, does this one do? This one is family, madame.
We've come to ask a favor.
Our sister was quite the beauty.
You said that you could put Rebekah back in her original body.
Do it.
Heh.
So you've come to your senses.
My senses have not faltered.
They still demand that you are not to be trusted.
However, circumstance dictates otherwise for now.
What's changed? Eva Sinclair has resumed control of her body, leaving Rebekah trapped and powerless, so make with your spells and enchantments and put my sister back in her true body.
I'm afraid it's not that simple.
More stalling.
Very well.
I know I can't kill you, but I shall have a fine time trying.
Tell me, have you ever been skinned alive? The problem is Rebekah's condition has worsened.
When I offered to help, she was in control of Eva's body.
If she's lost inside Eva, I don't have a spell that can breach Eva's mind and find her.
Fortunately for you, I know someone well versed in such spells.
Let's go meet her, shall we? A little early, isn't it? You know why I'm sitting here day drinking in the corner all by lonesome? No? Because I'm pretty much done and through with the vamps, wolves, and witches of this town, and from some of the looks I've been getting, they're through with me, too, so if I sit in here, they don't see me, and if I drink After a while, I don't see them either.
And how many is it gonna take before she disappears? - Come on.
- Uh-uh.
You need to know that she is back and on the loose.
Now I need to find her before the witches do so I can save my friend who is trapped inside of her, and I came to you because you are the only person in this city who knows her inside out.
Look, man.
I'm sorry about your friend, but if Eva is back in control of her body Then you need to let the witches put that body down.
Eva will use up your sister just like she did the others.
The others? First of the kids went missing two years ago.
Feels like a lifetime.
I was, uh, clocking in college, work, coven.
Felt like a normal life, but, um, had this woman.
Met when we were 16 years old, did our first bit of magic together, and it was on.
Insanely intense.
Eva was a wild beauty practicing a wild magic, but she and Vincent were so happy, we let them be.
And then the children began to disappear.
The first was a little girl named Amelie Dupres from algiers.
Then Luann Hughes from the ninth, Nicolas Asace from the Treme, all young kids, all witch prodigies.
Sssewp! All vanished into thin air.
So I put together a posse of guys from each of the covens, but the killer cloaked the kids so quickly, our locator spells was useless.
But because of Vincent's tenacity, she was caught.
It was a fluke.
I was able to slap a locator spell on one of the kids right after he got snatched, and I got nothing at first, and then a car and then a face, but that face It was Eva, the love of my life.
Heh.
So I caught her, confronted her, and then I saw the truth.
She kept pleading with me, "Vince, just 3 more little girls, Vince, just 3.
" Why 3? To complete the rite of 9s.
The rite of 9s? Eva thought that if she sacrificed a witch from each of the 9 covens, it would create a new witch order in New Orleans.
She would have been more powerful than an elder, any Harvest girl.
Wait, wait, wait.
But why kids? Because their magic's untapped.
It's pure, and they're a hell of a lot easier to subdue.
That's why she went after my baby.
She would have killed your daughter, channeled her powers, as she did those other poor children.
I never found those kids.
They died unconsecrated, unable to be with our ancestors, used as a source for Eva's magic.
So help me find her before she takes any more lives, including Rebekah's.
Ohh.
Help me stop her.
We agree she must be stopped.
No more of our youth will die.
That is why, Mr.
Mikaelson, I will not extend your 24 hours.
Eva Sinclair now has a bounty on her head.
You would condemn my sister to her death.
I dislike the term collateral damage, but there it is.
If one or two must fall in order to take Eva down for good, so be it.
I fail to see the need for these.
I'm not your enemy.
Oh, they're not to protect me, luv.
They're to protect her, the one who knows more about mind invasion and body jumping than all of us put together.
No, no! Mother Freya.
Freya, mother.
It can't be.
You won't trust me, yet you would trust her? I trust my mother about as much as I would a stuck snake.
Fortunately, she is now a vampire, and as such, vulnerable to my compulsion.
You will answer me truthfully.
There.
Now at lest everything that comes out of her wretched mouth will be honest.
Let's raid mommy dearest's mind for spells, shall we? Oh, yes.
Agh! Oh, ho ho ho! Not really keen on another witch headache.
Dark objects.
How did a damn vamp find me? Had a little help, someone who knew where an injured witch on the run might go to heal up.
Vince.
No time for catch-up.
Release Rebekah now! You best not damage the package, or you might never see her again or your other little adopted witch.
Davina.
What did you just say? Ha ha ha! Oh, some daddy figure you are.
I've been feeding off her for days, and you didn't even know she was gone? Erggh! Where is she? Release me, and you can have what's left.
No.
Aah! I think I'll just torture you until you give me what I need! Torture ain't gonna do it, man.
Half the witches in this city went after her, she ain't say a thing.
You got a better idea? Yeah.
Let me talk to her.
Let me assure you, madam LaRue, we will defend your witches with a fearsome vigilance.
You have wonderful way with words really.
Your cadence is pleasant.
Normally, I could listen to it all day long, but I grow tired of this.
My mind remains unchanged.
Are you serious? She puts on a talent show, he has every vampire in the quarter kissing you ass, and your final answer is "screw you"? - Hayley.
- Back off.
We came here to honor the alliance between us.
If this is something you wish to rescind, so be it.
Don't you dare walk into my house and threaten me.
I am not the one that needs you, Elijah Mikaelson.
It is you who needs us, or you will soon enough.
There's a storm coming, cherie, and your darkest demons ride upon it.
I do not know its name, but when I peer into your future, there is a blackness That should terrify you.
I heard they'd gotten you, that you'd been taken over by the crazed brother of the one that's still inside me.
Yep.
But I'm back now.
So you are, the man that sold out his own girl and gave up on their future.
Eva, don't start with me.
Now Marcel said that oh, Vincent, are you kissing vampire ass now? - Hoo! - This city could have been free of their kind if you hadn't been such a weak, little coward! You left me with no choice.
I couldn't let you go on doing what you oh, please.
You saw how beaten down we'd become covens from every ward fighting each other, half of them working with vampires.
Now change was necessary.
Unity was necessary.
Killing kids was necessary? Vincent, I didn't kill any kids.
They're still alive, just asleep, cloaked of course.
All of them? Uh-huh.
I just need their power.
They don't need to die.
My beautiful girl, my firstborn.
Touch me, and I will use these chains to strangle you.
Yes.
Well, now that we have the pleasantries out of the way, let's begin, shall we? It appears your delightful sister Dahlia is on her way to New Orleans and hell-bent on stealing my child.
I need Rebekah back in her original body so she can help me destroy her.
Your your child? Oh.
Yes, I suppose it is difficult keeping up on current events whilst rotting inside a tomb.
Very well.
The short version.
My child is alive, Dahlia is on her way, but now the previous tenant of Rebekah's body has seized control and isn't keen on giving it up.
Young Freya here, although powerful, lacks the spell to put Rebekah back in her true body, and that's where you come in.
I need you to be a dear and dig deep in that ex-witch mind of yours.
Give me the spell that puts Rebekah back.
You know, even when you betrayed me, I didn't blame you.
You just couldn't see the light, but you see it now, don't you, now that your body was stolen by the very same family of vampires that are trying to steal mine! You see what's got to be done.
Now I just need one more witch, and then we can finish the ritual together, take all the power we need, and then those kids can go home to their mums.
And we need never be under their control ever again.
I can hear her yapping, but clearly she's not talking.
I guess we're back to square one.
Actually, she did talk, and I decided to listen.
Aah! Great.
So Eva is still in the wind, although now she has a sidekick.
The charming Vincent Griffith.
It gets worse.
If Eva has Davina, then she has 8 of the witches she needs to finish the ritual.
She just needs one more.
If she comes after Hope, Rebekah or no Rebekah, I will put her down for good.
Fortify this house.
When they do come, kill him, - capture her.
- Capture? I will not abandon my sister.
Now gather what wolves you have.
With Vincent by her side, she will strike with considerable force.
The revered Josephine Larue.
How are you on this very fine day, dear? Oh.
You look nervous.
Are you nervous, Josie? You should be.
You see, I just need one more special witch to complete my circle.
Now the hybrid child was a target of opportunity.
You You're a target of choice.
Vincent, you're not listening to her.
You haven't been yourself lately.
You're right.
I haven't been, but now that I'm back, I realize something.
The only time I've ever been myself is when I'm with her.
Oh.
No! What is taking so long? You didn't tarry when you attempted to kill my child.
I took no joy in that.
I knew if your daughter lived Dahlia would come not only for her but for all of you, and however you may despise me, I would not wish that upon you.
How touching.
Isn't it? I always wondered what maternal compassion sounded like.
Of course, I wouldn't know since you sold me into slavery at the age of 5.
When I made that bargain with my sister, I had no idea what it meant to be a mother.
I thought if I had a dozen children I I would not miss the one, and then you were born.
You were beautiful.
You had a light about you.
It put a smile on the face of the hardest man I had ever known, and when Dahlia took you, I believed that same light might warm her embittered heart, that you would lead a good life.
A good life? You were my mother! You should have come for me.
Yes, I should have, but it would have been a mistake, the same mistake you'll be making if you let this girl help you.
For God's sake, speak plainly.
The light I saw in Freya as a child, it's gone.
While she was mine for 5 years, Dahlia was her mentor for a thousand, and like her mentor, she will offer to solve your problem but for a price.
There is no price.
I loathe Dahlia! 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.
There.
Where are the others? That's the Harvest girl.
Davina Claire.
Now once I link Josephine, we can begin.
Though I should admit I told a little lie earlier.
In order to save the many, we've got to sacrifice a few.
You understand, Vince? Yeah.
Unh! Yeah.
I figured as much.
Still no sign of her.
What the hell is Eva waiting for.
She didn't wait.
She took Josephine LaRue not half an hour a go.
If Eva doesn't need Hope, then where would she go? Same place she kept all the other captives, where she took Davina.
A place no one has been able to find for two years.
When I find you, I am going to rip your head from your neck.
You might want to hold off on that decapitation.
I found them all.
Davina's alive.
Sorry.
I had to make it look convincing.
If you were in on the plan, Eva would have known.
Yeah.
Blasting me through a couple glass doors really sold it.
All right.
Round of applause.
Now what? Now we got a problem.
These kids, they're all linked to her.
If she dies, they all die.
So we'll find a witch to unlink them.
We're gonna need somebody with some serious power.
I can't do this.
This spell requires an enormous amount of power.
Which you have.
And that power needs to be anchored, or I'll be lost inside Eva's mind along with Rebekah.
Unlike your magic, mine isn't anchored to any one place.
Because of you, I have no home.
Perhaps, but there is no other spell.
Oh.
You.
I can use you as my anchor.
I'll channel your power while I breach Eva's mind.
And there it is.
The price.
If she channels you, she will have access to your mind past and present.
She will know everything about you.
All of my strategies and all of my secrets laid bare to give to Dahlia.
You must think I'm a fool.
Unless it's not a trick.
I'll be the anchor.
Brother, I think not.
Brother, whatever this is, nothing must prevent us from saving our sister.
I will not lose Rebekah.
Oh, yes, by all means, let's give Dahlia's whelp access to all the information she needs to destroy us.
And since do we heed the word of this serpent? Enough! For an upgraded model, you're not very sharp.
Let's go.
Oh.
This place smells like werewolf.
Well, that's because Jackson has a whole platoon of them out there.
You know, you can go.
You don't have to stay.
Elijah says you and your kid have more than one enemy.
If someone manages to make it through the dog show outside, you and the baby run, I stay and stall them.
You don't know me.
Why would you put yourself in harm's way for us? I don't have to know you.
I know Elijah, and I know what you mean to him What this baby means to him.
He talks about me with you.
No, but I'm not blind.
It's pretty obvious you have the guy all bent out of shape.
Look.
After you got married, we started hanging out.
He was just so wound up.
I guess it must be tough to spend a thousand years being the shoulder everyone else leans on.
Maybe he just needs to live his life for himself for once.
Lay her inside the salt and lie on either side of her.
Each of you take her hand.
I will act as a bridge into her mind, but I'm trusting you to anchor me, brother.
Do what you need to do.
Rebekah's buried deep.
Eva will not give her up without a fight.
Then she gets a fight.
Be careful.
You're entering Eva's mind.
If she kills you in there, you will be lost, and if you kill her before you free Rebekah, then Rebekah will be gone forever.
Once you have Rebekah, then and only then can Eva be dealt with.
We got it.
You need a weapon.
How am I supposed to take that with me? Lamina ferri in mentem.
Lamina ferri in mentem.
Lamina ferri in mentem.
This is going to hurt.
Aah! Ok.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Aah! Rebekah! Gah! Marcel! You recover fast, but they're gone.
I compelled you to tell the truth, not state the bloody obvious.
She will poison them against you.
You know that.
And you suddenly care, do you? Klaus, lying here, starving in the darkness, I have thought of nothing except what could have been if I had left you to live a single mortal life.
We would have burnt bright for a while and then burnt out.
You see, you think of turning us as your greatest sin, but the truth is it's the only one of your many faults I've come to forgive.
I prefer us as we are.
No, my son.
We are a macabre echo of a family, and I take all the blame for that.
I only wanted to undo my evil that you might love me again.
My mother The comedian.
Enjoy the darkness.
Rebekah? Rebekah, it's ok.
It's safe.
You people just don't give up, do you? Run.
You think you're a vampire in here, in my world? I'm the one who makes the rules in here.
I'm the one who says how you die.
Aah! The great Marcel, one-time vampire king.
Eva! That's enough.
It's over.
Not a bad bit of acting, fooling me back there.
Pretty slick and cold.
Colder than I remembered you.
It's your eyes, those damn sexy eyes, making me think you love me right before you bury a knife in my back.
You break my heart, Vince.
Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice Aah! I'm losing them.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
We're not finished, you and I, but for right now, save my sister.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
Pontem praesidio.
Anchora immortalibus.
- Agh! - Aah! Aah! Is that what you think heartache feel like, Eva? Oh, you got no idea.
I wanted to rip my own heart out every time I woke so I couldn't feel what you did to me, that bone-deep hurt knowing that I could not save them kids from you, the woman I loved more than my own life.
Aah! We could have had everything.
You chose this.
It's on you.
Eva.
Good-bye, Vince.
Aah! Aah! Did it work? Somebody? Where am I? They're ok! Marcel! Why isn't she waking? Bloody hell.
What? You're not fishing for a thank you, I hope.
I'd find myself freezing in hell before I got one from you.
Well, come on then.
Let's get you back in your proper body, though I'll likely have to torture Freya and Esther to do so, which actually might be quite fun.
No, Nik.
I'm staying put.
Eva's gone for good, but her body, this body is still linked to Davina and those children.
I can feel it, and if I leave it, then it dies, and Davina and the others die with it.
So bloody what? I happen to like Davina.
I'm not about to let her die.
Besides, do you really want the wrath of every New Orleans witch upon us just as Dahlia arrives? We need them on our side or at the very least not siding against us, and there's also the matter of Kol.
I vowed I'd bring him back.
I can't even attempt to do that if I'm not a witch.
Freya's been inside my head.
She knows my secrets.
So she knows you go very far for very few? So bloody what? Niklaus, just for one second, can we just be what we need to be, a family united? For now, for you.
Nik.
Thank you.
There's a saying in my family "kill a demon today, face the devil tomorrow," yet even as you dance on that demon's grave, you can't help but wonder was that demon alone Or do you have other, deadlier ones to fight? And though you celebrate having won the battle You are one of us now.
New Orleans is your home.
Your friends are our friends, your enemies ours.
Have you really prepared for the war? Come to check on me again, brother? Maybe you've wormed your way into the witches' good graces and my siblings', too, but I see you for what you really are, even if they cannot.
They are not burdened by crippling paranoia, the kind that leaves you muttering to yourself alone in the dark, "where has everyone gone?" Mean of me, yes.
Shouldn't bring up your childhood secrets, but don't worry.
All I saw when I channeled you were anger issues and a questionable taste in women.
I was once alone, brother.
It would be a shame if you were the one who now found himself so.
It doesn't have to be like this of course, but be careful.
I have only so much patience.
So as we dress ourselves in the armor needed for this new fight We must first tend to our wounds, starting with the deepest.
Freya.
You were wrong about me.
I loathe Dahlia more than you could ever know.
You don't see that light in me? That's because she 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.
You are no longer my mother, but I am not her child.
I am so sorry.
Ahh.
It's a little late for that, but it turns out you were right about one thing.
Maybe Klaus shouldn't have let me glimpse inside his mind.
I warned him to be wary of you, of what you might see.
Oh, I saw quite a bit, but I only learned one thing.
Klaus and I can never be allies.
I now see that he will never trust me, so he leaves me no choice.
I will have to turn the family against him one by one, and now I know how to do it.
Why are you telling me this? Because you won't be around to see it.