The Originals – Haunter of Ruins

By: Stacy Miller

What happens when a family of centuries old original vampires are trapped together under the same roof? Bickering about when they should separate. Kol (Nathaniel Buzolic) and Freya (Riley Voelkel) think they should leave and put an ocean between the Mikaelsons and Marcel Gerard (Charles Michael David) as soon as possible.  But Klaus (Joseph Morgan) wants a day with his daughter before they pull of stakes.  Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) comes out of the house with Hope (Summer Fontana) and Klaus greets his daughter. Hope’s hello is quiet and she appears uncomfortable before asking her mother if she can play in the garden.

As he looks at the spell notebook with the strange symbol, Vincent (Yusuf Gatewood) remembers a time with his witch wife Eva (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) when he learned that she was pregnant with his child. Vincent had assured Eva that given six months he would come up with a way to make the quarter safe for the witches by ending Marcel’s control. Vincent wanted it to be the New Orleans he grew up in. His thoughts are interrupted by Marcel, who received Vincent’s voicemail message about the missing child Adam (Alkola Bronson). Vincent believes that the same evil thing that turned his once beautiful wife into a child stealing psycho is back and trying to sacrifice nine children.  Vincent tells Marcel how dangerous the spell notebook is and wants Gerard to kill him if Vincent ever attempts to take possession of the tome.

Klaus watches Hope painting in the garden and asks Hayley what she told their daughter about him.  Hayley says that she told Hope that Klaus was a hybrid, but decided that their daughter could wait to hear the rest of his murderous history when she gets older.  Klaus is worried that Hope is afraid of him, but Hayley says that he is Hope’s prince and only needs to prove it. Klaus goes down to the garden to get to know Hope and they end of painting together. Klaus tells Hope about his childhood and how he made his own paints from flowers and berries. Hope uses her magical abilities to heal a butterfly with a broken wing, but asks him not to tell her mother. Rebekah (Claire Holt) questions Elijah (Daniel Gillies) as to what he intends to do now that he’s no longer linked to Klaus.

In the house, Rebekah finds Kol feeding off a servant and wants him to leave the room because she wants to be alone. He knows how she feels as Kol is getting stir crazy at being trapped in a house together with his siblings since they were magical linked for five years.

Vincent tells Marcel that in his quest to take him down he started looking for forms of magic that Marcel couldn’t defend himself against. Then one night, Vincent walked into his house and found the spell notebook sitting on the table.  It contained sacrificial magic the likes of which he had never seen. So, Vincent performed a spell from the book.  The weird thing was that the book was written in Vincent’s handwriting, but the witch doesn’t remember ever writing it. He and Eva performed a spell together and became addicted to the power. He was willing to stop, but she wasn’t then kids started going missing.

Hayley tells Elijah about all the terrible things she did to keep Hope safe and would do them again to protect her daughter. But when she wasn’t thinking about Hope, Hayley couldn’t get Elijah off her mind. She is feeling guilty about holding Keelin (Christina Moses) so that Freya can use the wolf’s venom to make more cure for the Mikaelsons.  Elijah reminds Hayley that the reasons for her actions are different than that of his family so she can’t feel guilty for anything the Mikaelsons do. With that, Hayley lets Keelin go and warns her that she has to keep running from her old life because she’ll be hunted. Freya is furious when she finds that Hayley let Keelin go; accusing Ms. Marshall of sentencing her family to death.  Hayley tells Freya that she couldn’t have Hope stumbling into the barn and finding them torturing a captive; as Hope’s mother she has to protect her innocence.  “She’s a Mikaelson, she can live without her innocence but she can’t live without her family,” Freya tells Hayley. Elijah enters and orders his sister to stop before she says something that she’ll regret.  Fine, Freya has a wolf to catch then leaves the barn.

Hope and Klaus having spent the day together are growing close.  She tells her father how Aunt Freya has said that she will learn powerful magic one day, but Hope admits that sometimes her magical abilities scare her. “You are the daughter of Klaus Mikaelson, you are going to be the greatest witch the world has ever seen and nothing will scare you,” Klaus says, assuring his daughter he’ll never let anything harm her. Hope is cold so Klaus carries her to the house. Looking over her father’s shoulder, Hope notices a strange blue light.

That evening, Klaus and Rebekah have a heartwarming talk.  Rebekah tells Klaus that although she knows that she is his favorite sibling, Klaus no longer needs her and she wants to find her own happiness. Rebekah wants them to have an amicable parting this time, without daggers or exile. “For centuries my place was beside your side. Now I belong by my daughter’s. Perhaps you need to find your place,” Klaus tells Rebekah.  So, Rebekah leaves town with Kol.

Meanwhile, Elijah questions who he is if Klaus doesn’t need him and tells Hayley that she’ll never be a Mikaelson because she’s better than them. Elijah and Hayley then make love. Freya tracks Keelin down and uses a spell that causes Keelin to hold her head in pain. Freya warns Keelin that unless she comes with her, it will get worse.

Marcel and Vincent go to the Strix mansion where they find a powerful witch with a group of kids, including Adam. The witch is able to temporary immobilize Marcel, then he and Vincent fight. He tells Vincent that Griffin is there because the darkness wants him there. “You think that it only chose you? You freed it. You gave it breath. And now it must be fed.”

Meanwhile, Hope comes to Klaus and tells her father that she had a dream that a bad man was hurting kids and thinks that he is coming after her. Hope is cold and feeling sick.

Marcel and Vincent are able to kill the witch, who was binding the children with a spell by using things that belonged to them. Marcel picks up an antique hairbrush with the letter “M” and realizes that Hope Mikaelson is in danger. Vincent tells Marcel that he can perform a spell to save Hope’s life but they need to get her back to New Orleans. Gerard is all for saving the child, but can’t believe that he finally got rid of the Mikaelsons only for them to have them come back. Marcel tells Vincent that he doesn’t want anyone to know that he allowed the Mikaelsons to return to New Orleans. He questions Vincent about why Hope Mikaelson was chosen, especially since she is a thousand miles away. Vincent says that Hope is a powerful witch from a powerful bloodline.  He finishes his story about Eva and how he tried to get her cleanse from the demon he thought was possessing her. But Eva wasn’t possessed yet consumed by evil.  And, unfortunately, their baby was a casualty.

Freya tells Keelin that she wants her to help her kill Marcel Gerard. Hayley receives a message from Vincent via magic that Hope needs to come to New Orleans in order to be helped. Elijah and Klaus argue over which of them should return to the city as it could be a trap set by Marcel. Elijah reasons that he should go because Klaus spent half a decade as Marcel’s prisoner. But Klaus thinks his brother needs to remain there in case Hayley needs him.  “We’re all going, she needs me and I need both of you. We’re family, we stick together,” Hayley tells Elijah and Klaus.

Vincent remembers Eva telling him about the evil “What lives in me lives in you. It’s still there. You got away because it let you. It needs you. It’s beating in the hearts of your people.”

And it looks like we see this evil has taken over good Detective Will Kinney (Jason Dohring) as he kills the ambulance driver transporting Adam and the other children then drives off with them after telling them that everything is going to be alright.