The Originals – What, Will, I, Have, Left

By: Stacy Miller

Manosque, France. Antoinette (Jaime Murray) is surprised when her mother Greta (Nadine Lewington) arrives at the door.  Seeing Elijah (Daniel Gillies) in the background, Greta comments how happy she is to finally meet him.

Meanwhile, Roman (Jedidiah Goodacre) is driving with Hope (Danielle Rose Russell) to the location of the witch who will rid Hope of her werewolf side. He asks whether she is nervous.  Hope says that from what she’s read in her dad’s journal, triggering her werewolf side is a painful process.  However, she can’t imagine missing a part of herself that she never knew. Hope tells Roman that it doesn’t matter because she’s doing it. She gets a strange sensation and says “I think someone may be tracking me.” When Hope steps away for a moment alone, Roman calls Greta.  His mother tells him to take Hope to Shiloh’s Place. Hope returns and tells Roman that someone is definitely tracking them, but she can hide their whereabouts with a cloaking spell.

Greta sits down to dinner with Elijah and her daughter. Antoinette notices that her mother now wears the ring of a day walker. Greta talks about purifying the sanctity of the true vampire race. Greta admits that she came to see Elijah and Antoinette because of Roman; her son insisted on going to the Salvatore School and now has become taken with Hope Mikaelson and when her father Klaus (Joseph Morgan) finds out that his daughter is involved with a Sienna, he will kill Roman. “The only one strong enough to stop Klaus Mikaelson and save your brother’s life…” “Is me,” responses Elijah.

Back in New Orleans, Caroline Forbes (Candice King) tells Klaus that Hope is missing because she took off with a boy a few hours ago.  “Who’s this boy?” Klaus demands, “I’m going to kill him!” Caroline explains that they can’t pinpoint their location but know that they seem to be heading somewhere outside of New Orleans. “So she’s coming home…why?” Klaus wonders. “You can ask her when we find her,” Caroline says.

Hope and Roman arrive at an abandoned house. Roman tells Hope that he likes her but there will be some things he’ll have to explain to her.  After he breaks a spell put on the house, Roman tells Hope that she can go in. Hope is shocked to find Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) tied to a chair. “Mom? What is this?” Roman puts spell inhabiting shackles around Hope’s wrists so she can’t do magic and says “I’m so sorry.”

In France, Antoinette tells Elijah that her mother had no right to put this on him. “You never told me how she became your mother,” Elijah says. Antoinette explains how after she was stoned by her village, Greta found her and turned her. “She must have saw something in me.  I call her mother because she gave me life,” Antoinette says. Elijah agrees that Greta is right, he is the only one who can save Roman from Klaus.

Klaus is angry with Caroline for losing his daughter and for the advice she gave him to reconnect; advise he took at his own peril. Caroline reminds that she gave constructive criticism about Hope. “She’s not eight years old anymore, she doesn’t have to look up to you just because you’re her dad. You have to earn it.” Klaus tells Caroline that it’s been awful as the desire to keep Hope close and protect her is a pain he’s never known. Caroline says that Klaus has finally became a parent. She comments how some girls just have a thing for bad boys.  Caroline recalls how she was the same and could track a bad boy within a five mile radius and some were too old for her.

Back at Shiloh’s Place, Hope asks Roman what’s going on. “He’s the one that lead them to me in the church attic,” Haley tells her daughter. Hope realizes that Roman knew where Hayley was when he touched her (Hope) and tucked Hope hair behind her ear because he read her mind. Roman assures that everything will be okay once the witch does the binding spell. He says that has mother just wants to preserve the natural order. When she learns that Greta is his mother, Hayley demands to be untied.

In New Orleans, Declan (Torrance Coombs) is worried about Hayley being missing and how the police don’t seem to know. Freya (Riley Voelkel) wants to tell Declan the truth about Hayley. But Vincent (Yusuf Gatewood) starts a fire in the kitchen to keep Freya from telling Declan.

Roman says werewolves kill because that’s who they are whereas hybrids are a perversion that trigger their curse by killing. He mentions Klaus and all the cruel things the hybrid has done and how Henry was only a hybrid for a day and killed. Hayley says that being a hybrid has nothing to do with it; Klaus does what he does because he’s Klaus. And as far as Henry is concerned, he’ll learn to curb his urges. Hope tells her mother that Henry is dead.  Roman assures that once Hope and Hayley bind themselves, they’ll be okay but Hayley disagrees. “Your mother doesn’t want to bind us.  She wants to kill us.”

As they are driving in the car, Klaus asks Caroline whether she regrets the time they spent together. Caroline says that she doesn’t regret it but adds that she was so young back then that he both intrigued and terrified her.  Caroline believes that she represented something innocent that he was trying to get back. She tells Klaus that she doubts whether he’d even look at her if they’d met today. Klaus disagrees; Caroline is not easy to overlook.

Roman tries to call Greta but his mother isn’t answering. He tells Hope and Hayley how werewolves killed his family but Greta found him, took him in and gave him a new one.  That is, until Klaus killed them. And then Roman spent fifty years desiccating in a cave.  But Greta never stopped looking for him because she is a good mother. “No she’s not,” Hayley says, telling Roman that a good mother wouldn’t use her son as a soldier.

Freya asks Vincent why it’s so important that she doesn’t tell Declan the truth about Hayley.

Hope blames herself for trusting Roman and because she cloaked them (she and Roman), Freya won’t be able to locate them.

Vincent talks with Ivy (Shiva Kalaiselvan) about Freya’s decision to tell Declan about Hayley and the supernatural.

Antoinette calls Roman and learns what Greta told she and Elijah wasn’t entirely the truth. Roman isn’t in danger from Klaus because of his interest in Hope Mikaelson since Greta was the one who sent him to the Salvatore School and encouraged her son to get involved with Hope in the first place. Antoinette tells Roman that she’s taking the first flight there and says for Roman to play along with their mother and not make Greta mad.

Meanwhile, Klaus and Caroline find Hope and Roman’s cell phones where they left them on the road in order not to be tracked.  When Klaus sees a photo of Greta with Roman, he asks Caroline “Why is he with her?” Klaus learns that Greta is Roman’s mother. “This isn’t just two kids run away, my daughter’s in real danger,” Klaus tells Caroline.

The witch (Esmeree Sterling) arrives at Shiloh’s Place and performs the binding spell on Hayley, who manages to fight their (hers and Hope) captors.

Vincent decides to tell Declan about Hayley and the supernatural but changes his mind when he finds Declan at the grave of his cousin Cami O’ Connell, the same Cami that was involved with Klaus and was turned into a vampire.

Hope tells Hayley that Freya will be able to find her now. Hayley realizes that they could have killed her anytime; it’s not Hayley they want, it’s Hope.  “You are a Mikaelson witch with a werewolf mother and an original father.  You are the one that can finally unite all the factions and that goes against everything that they believe in,” Hayley tells her daughter.  She explains that Hope is their worse fear and tells her to go. But as she starts to leave, Greta arrives and stops Hope, then tosses Hayley against a wall. “If you lay one finger on my daughter,” Hayley warns. Greta finds Roman on the floor and asks whether he’s alright. “Hayley did the binding spell and Hope’s going to. Now we can let them go,” Roman tells his mother. “My sweet boy, if only we could,” Greta says.

Both Klaus and Elijah arrive at Shiloh’s Place. Elijah tells Klaus that he’s there to protect his family. “The woman I love has a brother in there.” Klaus can’t believe Elijah thinks of Greta, Roman and Antoinette as his family. It also proves how much Elijah doesn’t remember his old life if he thinks that he can stop Klaus.

While Elijah and Klaus fight, Greta encourages Roman to kill Hope, reminding that even though Klaus was bound, he found a loophole around the curse. Roman begs his mother not to make him do this. Greta and Hayley begin fighting. Elijah puts a stake in Klaus’ back and goes inside and asks Roman whether he’s okay. Greta punches her fist through Hayley’s chest. Looking towards Hope and Klaus, Hayley finds her last ounce of strength to rip off Greta’s finger. Then, Hayley sacrifices herself to save her daughter by throwing both she and Greta outside the door where they are burned to death in the sun.