Everyone is still
grieving over Freya and things are generally all sad and terrible. Caroline has
sent a letter saying “yeah that’s all sad - I’m off to my school that admits
Nazi vampires. Toodles” and she’s out.
Hope is grieving
deeply with Freya trying to provide comfort and being deeply aware that Hope
having a melt down may actually melt the whole city. The plot remembers Josh
exists and he’s feeling guilty for some reason. And Vincent is worried because
of the whole scary scary shadowy darkness that happens when several Mikkaelsons
are together and everyone’s kind of down - and hoping Klaus leaves because
Klaus and Hope in the same place is such a bad bad idea.
There’s also the
funeral about to happening only none of Hope’s family can attend without
bringing about terrible dark apocalypse. Klaus intends to attend astrally
But dark and horrible
things are already happening - because Elijah is in town. He and Antoinette
have decided to see Nazi Greta’s Nazi folllowers so they can pay their respect
to this dead Nazi. Disturbingly they find a whole army of Nazi vampires
passionately dedicated to Greta’s Nazi ways and Antoinette is a little freaked
out because she’s not really that on board with the whole Nazi-ness. Despite
this they don’t look at this packed room full of Nazis and think “hey Elijah is
an Original, let’s kill all the Nazis”
Antoinette also
belatedly realises that maybe, just maybe Nazi Greta was probably a bad guy and
it’s all her fault that Hayley’s dead
Y’know despite her
not really caring last episode and being quite willing to have Elijah used as a
Nazi tool for her Nazi mother. This shaky characterisation comes from the
writers wanting us to be sympathetic towards Antoinette despite the whole Nazi
thing.
Following that shaky
characterisation we also have Elijah still defending the whole thing. This is
necessary because we need to dangle the idea that Elijah may join the Nazi
vampires despite it making absolutely zero sense. But the plot demands it
The plot demands it
because Klaus is very very very very very very pissed and has imprisoned both
Elijah and Antoinette - and has bitten Antoinette. That means she’s now dying
from werewolf venom unless Klaus heals her. Which Klaus is not willing to do
even when Elijah offered to get his memories back: as far as Klaus is concerned
Elijah is dead to him because of Hayley’s death. Antoinette is also not
thrilled with Elijah getting his memories back because a thousand or so years
of his co-dependence with his family are likely to overwhelm their 7 year
relationship
This is a recurring
thing this episode, everyone wants Elijah to have his memories back despite
everything knowing there is a reason they were taken from him
Marcel is one of
those- he doesn’t want to antagonist Greta’s nazi followers by killing
Antoinette, the belatedly repentant Nazi. For some reason placating the Nazis
has taken precedence over murdering them all.
So Marcel, with
Vincent in tour, takes the deal: they will cure Antoinette (because they always
keep a vial of Klaus blood around in case he gets bitey) and resotre Elijah’s
memories and he and Antoinette will return to France and take all the Nazi
vampires with them.
This plan does not
explain:
A) why they need to
restore Elijah’s memories to have him feck off the France
B) why the Nazi
vampires would follow them to France anyway, they all seem quite content in New
Orleans; or
C) Why we’re not all
coming together, declaring Nazi vampires bad and just BBQing every last swastika
waving one of them
They go ahead and
perform the spell - which ends up with Elijah unconscious on the floor
overwhelmed with badness and possible black magic. As Klaus says when he’s told
what happened, he points out he was trying to protect Elijah. Elijah is a man
defined by his guilt, his memories back + being responsible for Hayley’s death
will cause Elijah a guilt-splosion
And no-one seems to realise that Elijah lost his memories because there’s no way his utterly dependent nature is going to allow him to remain in France away from them.
In other grim news we
have Ivy warning Vincent that there’s more to all this apocalypse when two or
more Mikkaelsons are together - as the omens build eventually they reach the
very Biblical point of killing all the first borns in the city. Have we kind
of… forgotten the whole cursed Native American girl hollow/darkness/thing from
last season?
So when Hope is at
Hayley’s public funeral and deeply sad because everyone around, celebrating
Hayley, are strangers -the people who actually knew and loved Hayley can’t be
there. Klaus manages to appear astrally only and only briefly
Because the Nazi
vampires have prepared some kind of ambush at the funeral. And Hope loses it -
setting one entire van on fire - the other decides to run
Finally, someone is on board with killing nazi vampires!
Klaus naturally wants
to run to the rescue - but Ivy (who is providing the astral projection despite
them obviously not liking each other very much) warns him of the whole first
born massacre. Which will include Hope, of course.
After the battle and
when Hope returns home, Klaus does use astral projection to catch up: but Hope
banishes him. She doesn’t want this half-Klaus. She wants his real presence
with her. While Freya confirms the prophecy of first born death is legit, Hope
has a new mission: break this and make “Always and Forever” real again
Which, yeah it’s good to have a hobby. But can I draw everyone’s attention to the last 5 seasons and how every single problem these guys have is caused by the endless family dramas caused by them all. Honestly they should all pick a Continent and stick to it
Klaus still decides
to hang around with Hope offering lots and lots of comfort while the water
actually catches fire. Maybe have less emotional scenes while the water
actually on fire. Maybe. But it’s a nice big party along with Keelin being
reunited with Freya. I’m both happy to see her and worried she’s going to get
murdered.
And the episode ends
bizarrely with Elijah and Klaus transported into a prison
