Last week on The Originals, Marcel tricked the Mikaelson brothers into making him the biggest threat they’ve ever known. Will this week bring their ultimate demise?
Marcel wakes in the water and swims to the surface. He looks like hell.
Hayley wakes next to Elijah. He feels terrible about killing Marcel. Hayley reminds him that they’re still alive, despite all they’ve lost.
Klaus promises to do right by Hope. He’s upset with Elijah for tearing out Marcel’s heart. Elijah claims he would protect their family at any cost, but admits he’s upset too.
Freya feels like something bad is coming. She traces Klaus’s enemies and finds they’re all converging on New Orleans.
Marcel thanks Vince for doing his part. Vince asks Marcel if he’ll be able to kill his own family. He says his family killed him in cold blood. Vince asks him about the innocent bystanders of New Orleans. Vampires are flocking to town.
A vampire breaks into the Mikaelson home and slices Freya’s neck. How did she get in when Freya holds the deed? The brothers hear something fall and they investigate. They find their home invaded by hundreds of enemies led by Marcel. He had his connections nullify the deed.
Klaus and Elijah are astonished to see Marcel alive. Klaus is relieved. He offers to negotiate. Marcel wants a fight. Elijah says his quarrel is with him, but Marcel has brought Klaus’s sire line to bear witness to what happens next.
Vince addresses the witches and asks them to trust him. Detective Kinney interrupts to ask Vince for help with a crime scene.
Hayley kills the vampire that attacked Freya. Freya has been poisoned. Another vampire enters and Hayley kills him too. How long can she keep this up?
Kinney’s crime scene if full of dead Strix members. One has enough life left in him that he attacks and bites Kinney when he gets too close. Vince kills the vamp.
Hayley gives Freya her blood to prolong her life. She has an idea for fighting Marcel.
Kol tries to stop Marcel from starting a war. It’s an insult to Davina’s memory. Marcel bites him and throws him across the room. Will Kol be the next to die? Marcel bites Elijah next. Klaus is the last to attack him, but Rebekkah stops him. She sends her brothers away and speaks to Marcel alone.
Hayley and Freya look for the cure Klaus stole from Lucian, but can’t find it. Klaus and Elijah carry Kol into Freya’s bedroom for help. They need three different cures to three different ailments. How will our favorite family make it through the day?
Rebekkah begs Marcel for a cure. He says there is none and Klaus will die next. He won’t hurt Rebekkah. She says he’s not the same man she loved.
Kol pleads with Freya to put him to sleep. Elijah asks Klaus to take care of Hayley and Rebekkah. Klaus vows revenge, but Elijah says it’s his fault.
Vampires run rampant through the Mikaelson home, destroying everything in sight. Rebekkah calls Klaus to say Marcel wants to put him on trial. If he doesn’t go, his army will destroy everyone who gets in their way. Klaus knows this means Hayley and Hope as well.
Freya thinks she can save her family, but Klaus needs to get through the trial alive. Klaus apologizes for taking Hayley away from Hope and asks her to take care of their daughter.
Klaus joins Rebekkah for the trial. What are the odds that she won’t go mad from her mark, or that Klaus won’t die on trial? Marcel sits on a throne at the side of the room. He brings up all the terrible deeds Klaus committed when he turned each individual vampire. Klaus says it taught people to fear him and protected his family. Marcel says he took away everything that they loved.
Rebekkah asks to speak on Klaus’s behalf. She asks how Marcel’s army of vampires is any different than their sire. They all fight for power. She asks if they would do any less to defend their family.
Marcel brings up Klaus’s sins against Rebekkah. Her madness starts to return and he pushes her towards hating her brother. She speaks of all the times Klaus has turned on his own family. She’s jealous of those that have broken free from his tyranny. Marcel asks for a decision from his soldiers.
Freya draws with runes. Elijah hallucinates. He asks Hayley to leave New Orleans if the Mikaelsons die.
Klaus lectures Marcel for using his sick sister against him. Marcel offers him the final word. Klaus says what happened to Davina was Marcel’s fault for not warning her about what would happen if she crossed the Mikaelsons. He says the trial can only take place because he gave everyone the gift of immortality. In this, he wins and they will remember their maker.
Rebekkah calls out that death is too good for Klaus – that he should be made to suffer. Is she up to something? Is this how she’ll save him? The crowd goes wild. Marcel pulls out the cursed blade. Klaus will live in constant agony. Marcel stabs him through the heart.
Rebekkah calls Hayley to say that Klaus is still alive. Freya uses Rebekkah’s blood from her dagger to spell the whole Mikaelson family and put them to sleep.
Vince tells Marcel that he’s making the gym back into a church. It will be a sanctuary away from Marcel and the Mikaelsons. He says Marcel’s handy work with the Strix was unnecessary. He’s just as dangerous as Klaus.
Hayley weeps and kisses Elijah. She loads the Mikaelson family into coffins in the back of a moving truck. She and Hope move out. Only Klaus is left behind. Marcel seals him inside a wall.
The Mikaelsons wake in a world of Freya’s making. They are linked to Klaus’s life force. What will the next season bring?
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