The Originals Season 2 Episode 14 Recap

A thrilling ending in the previous episode of the originals season 2 but this episode will turns the table of the storyline of the series. Cami is more than a little freaked out, what with a house just exploding in front of her, but Elijah finds her and keeps her and little Hope moving toward safety.

Hayley is packing to run, what with Hope’s safe house exploding and all, but Klaus shows up just in time to remind her that she is soon to be queen to an army that will no longer be loyal to Finn.

Freya visits the morgue to see Finn’s charred remains. More than a little disturbing if you ask us. He was wearing Freya’s charm when he died, and she begins a spell and sprinkles a little salt. While Freya works her magic, Kol and Davina perform the spell to create the anti-Klaus dagger. When the spell completes, Davina kisses him, but before they can have more than a quick moment, Kol begins bleeding from his nose. At that exact moment, Finn awakens in the body bag in the morgue.

Kol plays off the blood dripping from his nose to Davina, but the second she leaves the room, he calls Becs to ask for help.

Rebekah does her sisterly duty and brings Hayley a beautiful white gown to wear that night. Becs makes sure she knows that no matter who she marries, Hayley will always be a Mikaelson.

Josh is eager to beg for forgiveness after attacking Aiden while under Finn’s spell, but before he can be relieved that Aiden isn’t holding it against him, he finds out that Aiden is worried that Josh will have a huge target on his back if they continue to date when the wolves have the power to shift at will. Josh is more than a little miffed at being ‘protected’ by Aiden, and stomps off in quite the snit.

Cami, Elijah, and Baby Hope show up, and Hayley rushes to her. Hayley introduces the baby to Jackson, who seems enchanted by the youngster while Elijah watches jealously from the wings.

Klaus makes it clear to Elijah that he wants Hayley to go through with this wedding. He reminds him that they all must do their part, and for Elijah, that means staying out of it.

Elijah wants to tell Hayley how he feels, but she begs him not to. He never could vocalize his feelings before, and she understands, but wants it to stay that way.

Aiden and Jackson have an adorable, manly moment where Aiden addresses his worries about the wolf/vamp tension post-ceremony. Aiden quickly bows out when Hayley arrives to say hi to her betrothed. Jackson presents her with a special necklace, as a representation of something entirely hers being a part of the day.

Aiden arrives and sits next to Josh and our hearts do an adorable tumble. Hayley and Jackson walk into the hall and up the stairs to where the elder is awaiting them. At the top of the stairs, they are equal to the balcony across the way, where Klaus and Elijah are standing and watching the proceedings. The elder binds their hands together, and they light a candle. With a kiss, the bond is official, and the ritual is complete as the eyes of every wolf present flash white before settling back to their normal color.

Klaus runs out with a gleeful expression on his face, now that they ceremony is complete. He intends to kill Jackson that very night, and he believes that Elijah wants him dead even more. It wouldn’t be a big event if Klaus didn’t have some sort of death planned, that’s for sure.

Davina tells Josh that she wishes Kol were there, and seconds later sees him lurking in an alley. He doesn’t look great, a bit pale and shaking like a leaf, but he finally tells her what happened to him.

Hayley and Jackson are dancing and enjoying the festivities when Klaus arrives with Hope in tow. He announces her lineage and presence to the pack, and implores them to care for her as one of their own. He also invites Jackson and Hayley to live with the other Mikaelsons in the compound and welcomes Jackson to the family with a toast. Elijah is more than a little skeptical, and we sure as hell don’t blame him. Davina has joined Rebekah and Kol to help find a cure for the hex, but despite their frantic searching, he knows it’s pretty hopeless. He asks Rebekah to give him and Davina some time alone.

Hayley searches out Elijah to thank him for being present for the ceremony. He tells her that he plans to move out with Marcel and help him with the vampires. Hayley doesn’t want him to leave, but it seems that it might be best for all parties involved.

Rebekah arrives and lets Klaus know that Kol will not last the night. She couldn’t find anything to help him, and the three Original siblings leave to be with him in his final moments. We find Kol dancing with Davina in the cemetery, crying. He truly cares for her, and asks her to leave him alone for his final moments. Moments after he asks her, Klaus, Elijah and Rebekah arrive to be there for him.

Hayley finds Jackson on a balcony and they have a really beautiful moment in which Hayley tells Jackson that she has always felt safe with him. Since the moment he appeared out of the woods, she has known that he was trustworthy. She wants him to know that she didn’t marry him just for the pack, but that she did it for herself too. They kiss. We swoon a little.

While Kol suffers, each of the Mikaelsons gives him strength with their presence. He is surrounded by family and Davina as he exits this world. Rebekah promises him in his last moments that she will consecrate his body, and that before she leaves the witch body she is currently inhabiting, she will find a way to bring him back to them. The episode ends with Freya and Finn in the morgue after she has just used her magic to bring him back from death. So. Not. Fair.

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The Walking Dead Season 5 Episode 10 Recap “Them” Meeting a New Stranger Named Aaron

If you were expecting a barn-burner follow-up to last week’s The Walking Dead Season 5 emotional farewell to Tyreese, well you got your barn, but not much else. Think of a season of television as a rock concert, with each episode representing one song of a set list. This is the moment about three quarters of the way through the show where the band unplugs and plays a ballad or two. Maybe you spark up a joint, or sit down to rest for a minute, or hit the bathroom. Just as every song can’t be a mosh-pit anthem, every episode can’t be total zombie mayhem. Even Slayer knows you have to pace yourself or you’ll burn out.

So now we pause for a moment to examine the emotional and physical cost of what the survivors have been through. The opener is a close-up of Maggie’s tear-soaked eyes. She doesn’t so much as flinch when a walker approaches from behind. Knife to skull, slump to the ground, resume crying. This is life: killing zombies, crying, loss, eating the occasional worm. They’re 60 miles outside Washington, three weeks removed from the showdown in Atlanta, a day and a half without water and all running on empty.

No one’s unscarred at this point, but at the moment, it’s Sasha, Daryl, and Maggie who are suffering the most. It’s understandable, since the deaths of Tyreese and Beth hit those three the hardest. Each of the three depressives manage their pain differently. Sasha acts out, ignoring Michonne’s blunt advice to not act “stupid,” like her brother once did. Sapped of energy and faced with a posse of walkers, the gang decides, smartly, to simply shove the flesh bags down an embankment, rather than waste energy or ammo in killing them until Sasha goes rogue. As the others rush to her aid, Rick nearly gets chomped. Later, Sasha rejects the Sarge’s attempt to comfort her. Friends? We’re not friends, pal. Of course, we know that’s the anger and sadness talking.

Daryl is in pain, too. Instead of throwing tantrums that could get everyone killed, however, our favorite bike-riding bowman buries his grief. He's the only survivor who gets a pass whenever he decides to wander off solo in the woods to scavenge and brood sexily, but oh so vulnerably. Only when he’s alone does he allow himself to have a good cry.

Like Daryl, Maggie also manages to look hot while on the verge of a breakdown, which I imagine is a requirement for all potential cast members. In what seems to be an attempt to address the critics who wondered why Maggie seemed unconcerned with her missing sister’s fate, she offers a rather unsatisfying explanation as she opens up to Glenn: “I never thought [Beth] was alive. I just didn’t. After Daddy, I don’t know if I couldn’t. And after what Daryl said, I hoped she was out there alive. And then finding out she was and she wasn’t in the same day — seeing her like that, it felt like none of it was ever really there.” So she was in denial that her sister even existed? Otherwise, if she had hoped Beth was out there alive, why not, I dunno, go look for her?

It’s worth noting that Father Gabriel is also rather down, thanks in part to Maggie reminding him that he’s a coward who let his congregation get eaten alive. But Gabe is so one-note that really, who cares at this point? He cries out to God for forgiveness, ditches his collar and takes a big ol’ bite of dog meat. Maybe Gabe will toughen up a bit, finally. Eugene is more useful at this point. At least he was willing to run a “quality control” test on that water left behind by the mysterious “friend,” who also seems to possess loose-leaf paper and a Sharpie.

The tempo picks up when the thunderstorms roll in and the gang takes cover in a nearby barn. There, Rick says he was wrong about how tough life must be for Carl; he’s a kid, and kids grow with the world around them. It’s a fair point, even though he’s probably not going to get any No. 1 Dad coffee mugs with that kind of talk. Rick also tells a story about his grandpa who fought in the war. As if it weren’t clear enough throughout the episode — as we watch the survivors amble down the road, nearly lifeless, barely outpacing the zombies on their trailRick drives the point home: “This is how we survive. We tell ourselves … that we … are the walking dead.” Whoa! That’s like the Fonz saying, “Hey, Richie, these are happy days. Ayyyyy.” What they’re all debating at this point, either verbally or internally, is whether they can keep on keepin’ on. But amid the misery and the gruesome discoveries around every corner a walker in a trunk, bound and gagged; the zombie child in the barn there are still signs of hope. Just as it looked like the barn was about to be overrun, in comes a tornado to sweep the groaning horde away. Sasha and Maggie watch a sunset. The music box plays for a moment. The gals share a hard-earned laugh.

And then enters a hunky guy with an LL Bean vibe and what appears to be access to loads of drinking water, a working shower, and bath products. How does he know Rick’s name? Does he realize that saying “stranger danger” makes him more, not less, creepy? Is there any chance he’s not a cannibal or a rapist or a child molester or a sociopathic cult leader or a Scientologist or something even more twisted? And what is this news he brings? Gotta give it up to Sasha and Maggie even when the music box springs back to life, they keep this new friend squarely in their sights.

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The Originals Season 2 Episode 13 Recap Baby Hope’s Powers Revealed

Is it just us, or does the Mikaelson clan have a bad case of baby fever? The Originals Season 2 Episode 13 focused on Hope’s secretive storyline and Finn’s desperate attempt to find the missing child during “The Devil Is Damned.” However, Finn’s mission to track down Klaus and Hayley’s daughter came to an abrupt halt when Freya made her shocking debut.

After revealing her identity, the two siblings spent the rest of their time together catching up with one another. Freya explained that Dahlia, who is still alive, had cursed her by putting her into a deep sleep -- one that would only allow her to sparsely wake so that she could remain young and beautiful. And that’s not all she divulged during her one-on-one reunion with Finn. Freya revealed that Dahlia is not only a witch but also a hunter driven by deception. That’s when the two stumbled into the conversation of whom exactly Dahlia hunts. Freya explained that Dahlia tracks down the first-born of every Mikaelson generation but insisted Dahlia had no one left to chase down considering all the Mikaelsons were vampires. That’s when Finn let her in on Hope’s existence.

Freya’s eyes lit up with the mention of Hope. She then questioned Finn about the newest Mikaelson’s current location. But our suspicions only grew with Freya’s next statement. “You have to let some things die so that others might live,” she stated. Is it safe to assume that Freya has officially joined the dark side? Perhaps that’s why she’s back, to help her captor hunt down another first born child. While Finn seemed excited to welcome Freya back into the picture, Klaus couldn’t care less about the news of his sister’s return, which Rebekah had so kindly relayed. Instead, he was more interested in the woman who placed this curse on the family: Dahlia.

But Klaus had bigger things to worry about than his wicked aunt’s whereabouts like the death of Kol. In episode 12 Finn has cursed Kol with death and the life-loving which was anxious to reverse the spell. However, he didn’t want to pay the cost, which would involve Klaus slipping into his mind to unlock the spell Finn used.

After Klaus jumped into Kol’s head he could see that Kol was planning on deceiving him. But after a few moments of bickering the brother’s decided to put their issues behind them to save the life of Hope. Kol even turned out to be a useful ally as he informed Klaus that not only does Finn have an army of vampires hostage in his lair but he’s also torturing Marcel to get something top secret out of the head vamp: the location of baby Hope.

Finn sent his blood-sucking pawn on a wild goose chase to get Hayley’s blood so that he could track down the baby. But Marcel was reluctant to betray Hayley so quickly. Instead, he revealed to the hybrid just what Finn had up his sleeve, which is when Hayley decided to call Klaus, giving him an update. After Hayley’s check-in, Klaus, Rebekah and Kol picked up the pace on trying to take down Finn. But what they learned was frightening: Finn had known about Hope’s location all along. He was just toying with his family to distract them while he visited the baby’s current residence.

In order to protect Hope, Kol revealed he would need to channel some seriously dark magic with the help of his siblings. As Klaus collected the items to use against Finn, their treacherous, vampire-hating brother was already at the barn, searching for the baby.

However, Hope wasn’t home. Instead, she was out with Cami running errands while Elijah stayed behind, taking care of things around the house like evil brother’s wanting to kill his niece.

Finn greeted Elijah by stabbing him in the back and chest. But unfortunate for Finn, Elijah seemed to be stronger than he was before. As Finn searched the house, Elijah rose to his feet to return the hospitable favor, stabbing his brother in the stomach. The two than partook in a major brotherly show down until Elijah ended it with the flick of a flame. Just as Kol had used his dark magic to turn Finn powerless, Elijah had bravely self sacrificed himself to blow up Hope’s hideout -- with Finn inside.

But it wasn’t Elijah’s selflessness that surprised us. What shocked us at the end of episode 13 was a glimpse at Hope’s powers. While the baby and auntie Cami were driving back to the house of horror, Cami’s car suddenly stopped. A moment later the two witnessed their home being blown to smithereens. Cami looked at Hope, wondering if it was the baby who had prevented them from being barbecued with the rest of their belongings.

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The Walking Dead Season 9 Sum Up The Cost of Living

In Sunday’s midseason premiere, one of Noah’s zombified brothers put the bite on Tyreese, and rather than try to hang on post-amputation, the gentle giant decided that he was through paying “the high cost of living at The Walking dead Season 5 episode 9 episode.

Don’t let the oddly literal and unsexy title of this episode fool you the kickoff to the back eight of season five is a stunner. You want action? There’s plenty. Existential apocalyptic angst? Check. Good, old-fashioned zombie gore? In spades. Ghost cameos? Yes, ghost cameos. And it all ends with a triple-Kleenex moment that reminds us why these survivors are still trying to push forward after all they’ve been through rather than simply wave a white flag and call it quits.

The opening scenes are moody and impressionistic, with only enough dialogue to set the table for what’s happening. We see Maggie weeping, and then catch a brief glimpse of Father Gabriel presiding over a burial: “We know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God. A house not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens.” Logic would suggest it’s Beth’s funeral we’re witnessing; last we saw of the group, they’d reunited as Daryl carried Beth’s body out of the hospital. But what of these flash vignettes? Photos of two young black children — brothers, it seems. Abandoned cars. Skeletal remains. A framed painting of a small cottage, splattered with blood. Trees passing by. Soon it becomes clear that these are all pieces of a puzzle that’s assembled slowly over the course of the hour, and the picture it reveals is a grim one.

Noah tells Rick that he and Beth had a plan to head back to Noah’s house just outside of Richmond, Virginia, where his family had fortified themselves. So it’s back on the road again for them, along with Michonne, Glenn, and Tyreese behind the wheel. I’m still puzzled by the existence of working walkie-talkies at this point in mankind’s collapse, but Rick uses one to keep in touch with Carol back at base camp.

Here’s where those puzzle pieces begin to fall into place. Noah’s father is dead, he says, but he hopes his mother and twin brothers the boys in those photographs are still safe. As they pull off the roadside near Noah’s old neighborhood, the Shirewilt Estates, there’s those abandoned cars and that skeleton. Tyreese also tells a story about his father, who probably listened to NPR and read the newspaper at the kitchen table every morning. Follow the news, take note of what’s going on around you, he’d tell little Tyreese and Sasha. “Paying the high cost of living,” he called it facing life head-on. Whatever safety Shirewilt once offered is now gone; it's been replaced by bodies and burned-out homes. Noah collapses in tears and Tyreese tries to comfort him with a “choose to live” speech. “This isn’t the end,” he tells him. It’s typical Tyreese playing the role of protector, the good guy. He’s arguably the purest “hero” still left among them. It’s also cruelly ironic, given what’s to come.

The group agrees to stick around and scavenge a decision that seems sound at the time, but as we know, there’s no such thing as an easy errand for this crew. Noah can’t help but return to his house and see for himself if there’s any trace left of his family. Turns out it’s the house we saw in the opener, with clothes scattered on the lawn and crimson splashed across the open front doorway. Noah’s mother is face-down on the carpet, a large chunk of her skull no longer there. Tyreese finds one of Noah’s brothers on his bed, partially eaten. Above hi m on the wall, those photos of the boys that we saw earlier it’s such an unsettling tableau the corpse of a child in his bedroom, still decorated with toys and snapshots that Tyreese doesn’t hear the undead twin brother behind him. The tussle ends with Noah finishing his little bro with a fighter jet to the face and Tyreese losing a chunk of his forearm to a zombie bite. The episode kicks into another gear as Noah runs off to get help, leaving poor Ty alone to bleed out and hallucinate. There’s the asshole from Terminus whose life he spared, chewing gum and saying I told ya so. If Tyreese had killed him when he should have, maybe none of this would have happened. “Domino shit,“ he says. Nonsense, says one-legged Bob, insisting this was all meant to happen. The feverish cameos continue — the Governor barking about earning your keep; the bloody Lizzie and Mika; and Beth, who even in death is still haunting this world with her incessant singing. When the imaginary Guv morphs into a very real walker, Ty has little choice but to use his forearm as a zombie chew-toy. Of all the tight-quarters combat we’ve seen, this moment could be the most intense. The close-ups of the monster snapping its jaw in Tyreese’s face, nose to rotted nose, is a reminder that this show can still be horrifying.

Before Noah returns with reinforcements, Rick agrees with Michonne’s new plan head to Washington, even though Eugene’s cure is fiction. Her rationale makes sense. Where the hell else would they go now? Three of the night’s most intense moments follow. What looks like an easy kill for Michonne turns into a struggle when her sword bounces off a piece of rebar stuck in her target’s neck. Moments later, the sisters holding Ty’s hand morph into Rick, who’s prepping his pal for samurai-sword surgery. “One hit, clean, go!” he yells, and Michonne cuts Ty’s arm in half, as he and most of the viewing audience passes out. Finally, as they scramble to escape, there’s a dazzling slow-motion fight scene at the Shirewilt gates, featuring some of the coolest special effects in the series to date. Michonne decapitates one zombie and gives another a nasty lid reduction as Rick pumps two bullets into a third walker as it closes in on Noah.

They make it to their truck, where they discover what happened to the tops of all those zombie bottoms they found outside the Shirewilt walls.

Tyreese is not looking good, figuratively or literally: He's still seeing visions of the dead. Some of those puzzle-piece snapshots from the opener were actually a preview of Tyreese’s final thoughts trees passing by, the watchtower at the prison, the train tracks to Terminus. Tyreese hears a news report in his mind, a reminder that life is hell. “Turn it off,” he says. His last words suggest he can’t bear to see this world for what it is anymore. He can’t be the hero in a place where the white hats either get dirty like Rick and Glenn, who admit they both would have killed Dawn if Daryl didn’t first or die. “People like me,” Tyreese told the Guv, “they can’t live.”

So, it turns out that wasn’t Beth’s burial we saw in the opener. Sasha stumbles in a daze in just a couple days, she’s now lost her boyfriend and her brother leaving Rick to finish the job of putting shovel to earth. The episode ends with a shot of Tyreese’s cap atop a makeshift cross. No music over the closing credits, only the sound of Rick digging, ringing out to a most haunting effect. Now it’s on to D.C., in search of safe haven and a new babysitter for Judith, since we know that deadbeat dad of hers won’t be carrying her around. Almost as cruel as Tyreese’s death is the thought that the thug from Terminus was right all along. But through him, we understand why these survivors haven’t given up to honor the hero’s spirit inside each of them, and to pay tribute to those they’ve lost. Rest in peace, big man.

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The Originals Season 2 Episode 12 Sum Up Sanctuary

It must be the season of the witch. The Originals returned with more mystical madness when Season 2 of the hit CW series aired episode 12 entitled Santuary.

When we last saw Rebekah she had summoned a spirit to help her escape the insane asylum that Kol had trapped her in. But little did she know it was her very own sister Freya who had answered her cry for help. Freya was taken centuries ago due to Esther’s fertility deal with her sister Dahlia. In exchange to have children, Dahlia would require the first born of every generation as collateral.

However, it looked like Freya wasn’t killed by her evil aunt. As Rebekah slept, she had visions of her long-lost sister being taken from their mother all while a ghost, who we theorized was Freya, watched her from the hallway. While Rebekah endured her nightmare of a situation, Klaus battled his own demons in wolf form. Klaus was on the hunt for Hayley to put an end to her marriage to Jackson. Klaus discovered that in order for Hayley’s wedding to Jackson to be legitimate, she would have to partake in a marriage ritual that required her to divulge her deepest and darkest secrets to her husband to be. Yes, that meant revealing Hope was actually alive.

“Some secrets are meant to stay buried,” Klaus said in the previous episode. But Hayley was rather skeptical about showing Jackson the skeletons in her closet. She claimed that whatever he was going to tell her during their truth session wouldn’t come close to the secrets she was hiding.

That’s when Jackson intrigued her with a teaser to his own secret. “It has to do with how your parents died,” he stated. Jackson then took Hayley to a werewolf graveyard filled with pack members who acted treacherous. One of the deceased wolves was his grandfather. According to Jackson, his vampire-hating grandpa killed Hayley’s parents after they tried to make amends with the vampires in their community.

“That was my secret. Whatever yours is, if you don’t want to tell me – don’t. It doesn’t change a thing, least of all how I feel about you,” Jackson stated. That’s when Klaus appeared from the woods. Prior to showing up out of thin air, Klaus visited Jackson’s grandmother to track down the duo. But she was no help. Instead, he was forced to follow his nose -- and as it turned out, he’s got a good one.

“Quite the romantic sentiment,” Klaus chimed in, before asking for a moment alone with Hayley. As Hope’s parents hashed it out, Finn spent episode 12 torturing Klaus’ secrets out of Marcel. But Finn quickly realized that Marcel truly didn’t have any valuable information for him to use.

While Finn tortured Marcel and his vampires, Rebekah was getting tormented by the staff of the mental institution for witches. Rebekah had given the new witch of the asylum an apple to munch on but her rebellious behavior got the newbie in trouble with the staff. After having her head slammed into the table a few times, Rebekah decided to step in. She punched the torturer in the face, which resulted in her hand getting broken. The new girl asked why Rebekah stood up for her. “Maybe I just like the idea of us girls sticking together,” she sweetly said.

Back in the bayou, Klaus revealed that he feared for Hayley to tell Jackson about their daughter being alive, suggesting that the outcome of her strategy wasn't worth the risk.

“Dammit, Klaus. This is our chance. We can bring her home,” she argued. But Klaus wasn’t hearing any of it. Instead her forbade Hayley to marry Jackson.

“It’s a good thing I don’t take orders from anyone especially not from you,” she said. Hayley elaborated on her frustration with Klaus claiming that it was he who was the threat, not the wolves. “You’re so paranoid that you can’t see that this wedding can help her. She can home. The wolves are on our side,” Hayley cried. Klaus then brought up that he killed his own father to protect Hope, which is when Hayley challenged Klaus that maybe he’s just scared to let people in.

“You have to trust me,” she begged only to have her neck snapped by Klaus. “I just don’t trust Jackson,” Klaus replied.

Klaus then sought out Jackson to put an end to Hayley’s plan by killing her soon-to-be-husband. However, his plan was foiled when Jackson asked Klaus to help save the wolves after he was dead and gone. Klaus paused, which is when Hayley arrived in the nick of time.

“Go on tell him. Have your wedding. Save your wolves,” he gave them his blessing before threatening to stick Jackson’s decapitated head on a spike in his grandmother’s garden if he betrayed Hayley. Back at the asylum, the new girl paid Rebekah a visit in her sleep and questioned her about her brothers. “Why do you fight with your own family when you should stand beside them?” she wondered. “It’s complicated,” Rebekah revealed before beginning her journey to sneak out of the institution. When Rebekah walked into the mystical room to gather help from the strong, mysterious energy she found the woman who broke her hand dead. That’s when the Harvest girl Cassie walked in, revealing that she was never Rebekah’s friend.

But the new witch wasn’t going to let Rebekah get hurt. She took Cassie’s face and basically melted it in her hands. “I despise traitors,” she said, fixing Rebekah’s hand. “You didn’t disappoint me. There’s a spark in you Rebekah. You’re willful and also kind. You’re not half as bad as our brothers.”

Rebekah couldn’t believe she was meeting Freya. But this was actually their second meeting! Freya once made an appearance at one of their parties many moons ago. Freya revealed to Rebekah that she would be paying her brothers a visit very soon.

Episode 12 concluded with Finn figuring out that Klaus was hiding a secret about his daughter. Why else would he have washed memories from Marcel’s head?

“She’s still alive. And now you and your vampires are going to help me find her,” he stated.

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The Originals season 2 episode 11 Sum Up "Brotherhood of the Damned"

A werewolf bite, a plotting Mikaelson, and a whole lot of talk about secrets and truths make up the bulk of The Originals season 2 episode 11.

Marcel, his vampires, and Kol are still trapped in the compound, and Klaus is eager to find a way to get them out. Marcel breaks the bad news that he was bitten by a werewolf during the earlier struggle. So, many years before, in response to Klaus’ forbidding his romance with Rebekah, Marcel enlisted and went to fight Nazi’s with the Harlem Hellrazers. While in the trenches, a fellow soldier suspects him to be something more than human. When their commanding officer falls in the middle of a less than inspirational speech, that man proposes that Marcel be their new leader.

Davina has little luck working her locator spell against Finn/Vincent, so she tries another route. She uses a spell to see what Finn is doing, and where he is. She is able to pinpoint his location, and she also knows that he is channeling the power of both parents and using totems. She and Klaus turn to go after him, and Klaus passes out.

Elijah is working with Cami to find a way to put his demons behind him, particularly those that involve the red door, and most specifically those involving Tatia. While they work, Elijah too grows faint and passes out just like Klaus. Kol is similarly brought down.

Finn uses those totems to put all three of his siblings down for the count. Once they are all unconscious (Klaus, Elijah, and Kol), they ‘awake’ in a nightmare of a cabin. Their bodies remain behind, but their minds are trapped with Finn’s.

Davina tries to rouse Klaus to no avail. While doing so, she discovers Klaus’ phone and answers it. When she learns from Cami that Elijah collapsed too, Davina instantly knows what she saw was Finn working a spell against all three of his brothers.

Back in dreamland, Finn tells the boys that he intends to keep them until sundown in the real world, when the barrier spell will drop and the vampires will be released upon the unsuspecting locals. Finn/Vincent, then releases Kol back to the present, just in time for Kol to tell Marcel everything.

Hayley and Jackson meet with a Crescent wolf elder to complete the wedding rituals that must be performed before they can be bound in mystical matrimony. Hayley becomes unsettled when she learns that one of the rituals involves smoking a special herb that will force her and Jackson to spill all their secrets. She immediately refuses and hustles away.

Finn continues to hold Klaus and Elijah hostage as he is most eager to know what Klaus truly values the most. Finn has been systematically pulling on strings to figure it out to no avail. Elijah was broken, Rebekah taken, the city is about to be lost, and Klaus still hasn’t reacted. We all know what Klaus protects. It’s the same secret Hayley doesn’t want to divulge. There’s a little baby whose very life hangs in the balance if anyone finds out she’s alive.

Jackson hurries to catch Hayley. While we know she has a good reason for keeping her secrets, Jackson does a heck of a good job of convincing her that he will not only protect her, but that her secrets and burdens will become his and she will never have to fight them alone again. It’s moments like these that have us truly questioning if Jackson is a better match for Hayley than Elijah appears to be.

Marcel’s visions show that back in the war, when all the soldiers were down on their luck, one man, Joe, asks to be turned so the fight would be even. Marcel agrees and turns them.

In present day, Marcel proposes a solution to his vampire brethren. When the barrier drops, rather than eating the locals alive, he wants them to follow him to his place across the river where they will have all the blood they need, and he has a vial of Klaus’ blood to cure himself. Gia is the most critical of Marcel, but even she sees the logic and wisdom in his plan. The barrier drops and the vampires leave the compound.

Finn thinks he has the remaining two brothers at his mercy, but when Elijah points out the flaw in the magic of their prison, the walls come tumbling down. Representational magic must be very precise, and Finn chose animals to represent the boys, but Elijah’s harboring of the secret regarding Tatia’s true murderer and Klaus’ willingness to forgive him show that the stag and the wolf are poor representations of their true spirits. Both awake where they fell.

Marcel leads the vampires in the present, and in the past addresses the vampire soldiers he commanded once in war to harness their hunger and use it to make them stronger. The past needed the men to feel upon enemy soldiers, and the present needs these vamps to fight it with everything they have until they reach a safe place and a safe blood supply. Marcel collapses in the street.

Marcel awakens in his loft, in Gia’s care after she administered Klaus’ blood to him, and set the vampires loose on Marcel’s blood bag stores downstairs. She apologizes for being so much trouble, and Marcel tells her that only the weak refuse to question authority. Finn shows up to congratulate Marcel and his vampire brethren on their strength of character. He then tells Marcel that his brothers have gone to some lengths to keep a secret from him. He knows he has no chance of getting it out of them, but he believes he can rip it from Marcel and kidnaps him.

Klaus arrives to Marcel’s loft, but he finds the vampires and Marcel gone. Aiden arrives per Klaus’ request to help, and the two get to talking. Aiden unwittingly lets Klaus in on Hayley’s plan to free her people. Klaus is unnerved when Aiden talks of them smoking the Blue Carumus plant, as he knows exactly what that herb is used for. He plans to go to the bayou and put a stop to this before Hayley can divulge the secret they all must keep: Hope.

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The Vampire Diaries Season 6 Episode 12 Sum Up "Prayer For The Dying"

I’m not sure about the rest of you, but I sure am ready for some loose ends to be tied up in this week’s episode of The Vampire Diaries, which is why the mysterious opening scene, consisting of Caroline and the cancer patient she healed at Duke doesn’t bode well for me. In short, the guy shows up in Mystic Falls on Caroline’s front door step begging her to tell him what she’s done. And in true Caroline fashion, she phones the help of a friend (Stefan), who is able to solve the puzzle in seconds. “He’s a vampire,” he tells her…so what does this mean for Sherriff Forbes? In other news, the rekindled flame between Damon and Elena seems to still be blazing. The two lovebirds share a series of flirtatious moments and she eventually informs him he’ll have to start at the very beginning…aka – she wants to be full on courted. This should get fun to watch. Speaking of love being in the air, in the next scene, we’re taken to Liv’s bedroom where she and Tyler have collectively decided they won’t be leaving anytime soon…until Liv’s dad shows up, that is. He’s come to take the twins to dinner, and perhaps talk about this impending merge between Kai and Jo? I vote yes. Let’s get back to the Caroline saga –she and Stefan have enlisted the help of Jo to determine if there is anyway to save her mom from turning. (fyi – it’s not looking hopeful). Collin (Duke cancer guy) has officially died and come back as a vampire, meaning Sheriff Forbe’s days are numbered…but, of course, witch doctor Jo has an idea. She thinks if she completely transfuses Collin’s blood with human blood, it will somehow counteract the magic of Caroline’s forced dose of vampirism. In a matter of a few scenes later, we learn that won’t be the case. In short, and in the eloquent and always sensitive words of Damon…Caroline just killed her mom. Turns out this whole merger ordeal is going to have to happen sooner rather than later. Liv and Luke turn 22 in just two weeks, so unless they can convince their dad that Jo can beat Kai…he’s going to insist Liv and Luke go through with it. Translation Tyler loses Liv forever. And not to top off the continuous stream of bad news with more…well, bad news, but Caroline has officially lost all hope. In fact, when Stefan finally finds her, she’s in the process of planning her mom’s funeral by picking out flowers. She’s too ashamed to face her mom after what she’s done, but Stefan insists she has to go back to the hospital. “She doesn’t think there is anything to forgive,” Stefan whispers. “She just wants you to be with her. While Caroline heads back to her mother, Liv and Luke are failing miserably at convincing their father that they don’t need to merge over a nice dinner conversation. Luke refuses to kill his own sister, which you think a dad would understand…oddly enough, he doesn’t.

Oh, and I guess I forgot to mention that the gang has Kai drugged out in a state of comatose in order to give Jo time to grow stronger in her powers. This seems like a great plan before Damon takes matter into his own hands and transfers the zombie-like-state to Tyler…officially waking Kai up. But why you ask would Damon do such a thing? Aside from losing his mind, Damon thinks Kai can suck the magic out of Sheriff Forbes, effectively saving her from her vampire-induced fate. So what’s the tradeoff, you ask? If Kai saves her, he wants to merge his twin sister tonight. You know what that means…let the merging games begin.

Well, actually, before we do that there’s something else you should know. The twins have no idea what Damon’s done, and they have actually persuaded their father to allow Kai and Jo to merge instead of them…sound to good to be true? Yeah, that’s because it is.

Just as we feel the fatherly love, he quickly turns his back on his children. He knows Kai is loose and about to merge with Jo…meaning he attempts to force Liv and Luke into a merge…fortunately, Tyler breaks it up before Jo loses. And now that the blond twins know what’s going on, Luke’s got a plan. He’s going to merge with Kai. Basically, it’s about to go down.

And not to end this recap on a bad note, but it’s time I clue everyone in on something else. Despite the fact that Kai absorbed the magic from Sheriff Forbe’s body, her vampire-bloodless self is proving not strong enough to withstand the transition. Just as her body is about to turn lifeless, Elena and Damon enlist the help of a doctor to paddle her back to life. Unfortunately, it’s just too late…and Caroline isn’t even there to…

Plot twist. This last paragraph summary was all in Caroline’s dream. Sheriff Forbes is going to make it. Damon, for once, was right. Guess what that means? Elena is totally and completely in love with him.

Okay, so now for the real final scene of this week’s episode. Luke and Kai have officially gone through with the merge – resulting in both of them ending up on the ground…both appearing dead. Jo shows up hoping to stroke the life back into her little brother, but, sadly, it doesn’t work. And just like that we hear the words no one was wanting.

“I always win,” Kai quips.

Could this be real? Is Luke really gone and Kai really the leader of their coven? And what about Liv and Tyler, what will this mean for them?

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