"Previously on "The Originals"..." "This town was my home." "I want it back." "All of your scheming, the enemies that you have made every single day of your miserable life, what results did you expect, that your child would be born into a happy life?" "This was our family's hope." "We need to regain control of the city." "You want allies, right?" "This is ground zero for a new vampire community." "You may think that you're better than us." "We're all you got." "We made a deal." "He'll pledge his loyalty to Cassie, report back, and tell me everything that he learns." "Her name is Gia." "She's the first one that I turned." "She's gonna need a mentor." "We should've known our mother would not be bound" " by anything as obvious as death." " Where is she?" "Finn, Kol, we have a family reunion to plan." "So..." "Which restaurant is missing a compelled chef?" "It was certainly a card I played in the past, but I had no hand in this." "Oh." "Well, then I guess we have Elijah to thank." "This wasn't my doing." "Then where did this all come from?" "Oh!" "What the hell was that?" "An invitation from our mother." "Ha ha ha!" "Now, children, it's very hot." "Rebekah, Kol, be careful." "Where's Niklaus?" "Elijah, Finn, where's your brother?" "He's in the woods, mother, hiding." "What are you doing here?" "Father said he's to take me hunting later, but I'm no good, not with him." "He gets angry at me." "I understand." "Do you know what I do when I'm afraid?" "I listen to the starlings." "When I was a little girl, my mother taught one of them a tune, and since they mimic each other's songs, it spread until every starling in the forest sung it." "When we made this our home," "I brought those same birds to these woods." "Whenever you hear one sing, Niklaus, remember, I'm with you..." "Always and forever." "It is times like this I'm really glad that I never knew my mother." "We have enough enemies here, and now the war for our home is to be fought against my own family." "Your wretched mother and her disciples tried to put a carving knife through our baby's heart." "I will happily add to the body count." "You will do no such thing." "Esther is a master in the art of possession." "We know whose body she currently inhabits." "We must decipher her intentions before she finds a new host." "Was an assassination attempt on all her children." "I think we can assume her intentions are decidedly foul." "Well, then we have..." "This afternoon to prepare for the worst." "Bloom is off the rose, I see." "Shut up." "Wondered when you'd show up." "You pupil is waiting." "It's not like you to shirk your responsibilities." "As you well know, she is not my burden to bear." "You turned her." "You teach her." "Why'd you come?" "I'm looking for a cooperative witch." "I don't know where Davina is, and, given the fact that she's got your father on a leash, I wouldn't put her in the cooperative category." "Not Davina." "Perhaps another witch on another leash." "What makes you think I got another witch?" "Perhaps the daylight ring on your new librarian." "Good point." "My memory is a little shaky." "Lucky for you, though, I know someone who can help." "Gia..." "Why don't you take Elijah to meet our friend Lenore?" "If this is your idea of a joke," "I can assure you, I'm not amused." "Oh, there's nothing funny about what's going on." "Mikael is back, witches causing chaos." "If just seems like you need all the friends that you can get." "You're Oliver, correct?" "Do I know you?" "No, but I am, in fact, the person you're meeting with this afternoon." "Look." "I'm here to meet Cassie." "I don't know who you are, friend, but you certainly are no teenage girl that has magic powers." "What a keen observation, friend." "My name is Vincent, and when you speak to me, you are, in fact, speaking to Cassie, hmm?" "I offer this as proof" "so if I decide I don't want to answer to number two in chain of command?" "Phht." "I could make an example of you, show your pack what happens when Cassie's requests are denied..." "Or..." "We could start again." "That ring comes at a price, and you'll begin paying for it today." "And skip the salad course." "Let's not make this dreadful evening any longer than it needs to be." "So I guess letting Oliver live paid off." "He just informed me your mother has a partner in crime, another witch." "Building alliances in her quest to destroy us, I imagine." "Why does she hate you so much, Klaus?" "She had 6 kids." "It's not like she doesn't have the maternal Gene." "7, actually, and I think at one time, she loved us very much." "One died before I was born." "I didn't know that." "Years later, my brother Henrik was killed by the werewolves in our village." "The loss of another child pushed my mother over the edge." "So she used her magic to turn us into immortals." "I think that's when she loved us the most, but it was her undoing." "It triggered a sequence of events that led to the reveal of her long-held secret." "My birth father was the werewolf whose pack killed my little brother." "Of course, when Mikael found out, he murdered my real father, and so my mother lost her lover, too." "Wow." "No wonder she's crazy." "I'm out of my mind having just given away hope." "I can't imagine if she'd actually died." "You know, my siblings used to tell each other she didn't hate us." "She hated herself for what we'd become." "I think they believed that, even after she tried to kill us all." "What did you believe?" "I don't know." "I just knew I wanted her dead." "Well, every good story needs a wicked witch." "It'll be all the more satisfying when we melt her." "So you're not much of a talker, huh?" "No problem." "Last guy I hung out with, he wouldn't shut up." "So I guess I was due for a change." "Your task is to lead me to someone." "Let's just do that, shall we?" "You want to walk in silence, cool, but you're going the wrong way." "Marcel believes I can instruct you." "First lesson..." "Do your best not to waste my time." "Go away." "I'm busy." "Just blatantly practicing magic, I see." "Herbal remedies for a neighbor who lost her insurance, but my guess is, an original ain't here to talk neighborhood gossip." "I have a favor to ask you." "Quarter is crawling with witches." "Go ask one of them." "Don't typically ask favors of my enemies." "So you come across the river to bother me." "It's unfortunate, isn't it?" "Bureaucracy has not been kind to your community." "Those tax incentives on local businesses, been stalling for months." "Of course, a persuasive person could potentially remove any red tape." "I'm listening." "A certain someone..." "Let's say, a witch..." "Has a troublesome tendency of jumping into other bodies." "When she does so again," "I'd like to know into whom she jumps." "Soul branding." "It's a sacrificial spell." "I'm gonna need an item that's been spelled by the witch in question and a python." "I shall retrieve the enchanted item." "My partner will take care of the python." "Ew." "What?" "Second lesson of the day..." "Acquisition through mind compulsion." "How the hell do I do mind compulsion?" "Can I help you?" "I'm most certain that you can." "Let me guess." "You need a favor." "Painless one, I promise." "There was a necklace I gave you a long time ago." "It was a leather strap with a metal bird on the end." "Yeah." "You gave it to me when I turned 11." "You remember." "Mikael is back." "Elijah is babbling on about family drama." "Come here, Klaus." "Birds are sacred to the vikings." "It's how we find land." "It's how your father and I found our home here." "Here." "If ever you are lost or scared or in need of me, just clasp the bird and I will come." "Do the others get one?" "I love all my children, but you, Niklaus, you're the most special." "That is why I'm giving this to you and you alone." "Promise me you will wear it always." "I promise." "Your father may teach you to hunt, but I shall teach you to win the heart of the prettiest girl in the village." "Where's your starling necklace?" "Oh, must've fallen off." "You need to find it now, immediately." "It's all right, mother." "I found it." "You owe a great thank-you to your brother, don't you?" "Don't you?" "Thank you, Finn." "Do I even want to know why you're asking for a necklace that your mother gave you?" "Believe me, Marcel, you want no part in the latest chapter of our sprawling family saga." "Thank you for holding on to this." "I've heard from Kol." "He's still looking for the young witch." "I imagine he'll find her soon enough." "A shame he'll miss dinner, although it is best that his new identity remains unknown." "This new witch you've brought me," "Lenore, she seems rather stubborn." "Mother, I'd be happy to open her up to new possibilities." "Have Oliver handle her." "Your means of persuasion will be needed for dinner." "Have we received any response to our invitation?" "I imagine your message had quite the effect." "Both he and Elijah have been on the move all day." "Of course." "Clever boys." "Make sure you're ready for them this evening." "I've handled everything exactly as you've instructed." "I'd expect nothing less from you, Finn." "You torture your own?" "I persuade." "I'd like for you to do the same." "She had some visitors earlier today." "I'd like to know what they wanted." "Don't daily." "Your Algiers witch is being held captive in the quarter." "Oh, perfect." "Mother is a step ahead of us, as usual." "Oliver is with her." "I'll go, and I'll get her to do the spell, but I need the necklace." "I don't like this..." "No." "You don't get to ignore me for days and suddenly act like you're concerned, Elijah." "Just for once, please, will you trust me that I will do something and it will get done?" "Thank you." "Wait." "I don't want to hear..." "There's something else." "A disciple of Marcel's was instructed to fetch another ingredient." "Ask for Gia." "Ok." "What's going on with your two?" "Nothing." "She's stronger." "That's all that matters." "A snake." "That was my big lesson of the day..." "Snake fetching." "Hold on." "You compelled yourself a snake?" "No!" "I stole the damn thing." "Captain condescension didn't feel the need to cover the mind control chapter in today's lesson." "Did you even try?" "I don't even know where to start trying, Marcel." "Why Elijah?" "I'm not stupid." "You want something from him." "I just can't guess the reason you think" "I'm the way to get it." "Actually, I want something for him, and it's the same thing that I want for you." "Which is what?" "This." "Us." "Our new community." "Look." "I learned my lesson the hard way." "You can't make your way in this town unless you have an original looking out for you." "Klaus is so fixated on those wolves, and Elijah is so wrapped up in centuries of his family's old crap that he can't see it, but we need him." "We need him to see us as family, too." "I couldn't even get my own family to care about me." "How am I supposed to win him over?" "I've known that man 200 years." "He's cranky." "He's fussy." "He can ride your last nerve, but he has an Achilles' heel, ok?" "He can't help trying to fix what's broken." "You don't need to be anything other than what you already are..." "Someone who needs his help." "Are these outfits really necessary?" "Appears as though we're showing respect, Niklaus." "Mother will be more likely to surrender her true intentions." "Well, I doubt her guard will drop just because I'm dressed like a bloody lawyer." "We need every advantage we can get, Niklaus." "You always did excel at diplomacy." "Just know if she tries anything," "I'll tear her new body to pieces." "Ha ha ha!" "You two haven't changed a bit." "Linens and silk can't disguise your pathetic self-loathing, and you, despite the arrogant facade, you're still the same paranoid little boy full of hate and fear." "Forgive me." "I don't believe I've had the pleasure." "You mean, you don't recognize me?" "Huh?" "So much for the unbreakable bonds of family, huh?" "Always and forever, indeed." "It's been a long time..." "Finn." "Now that the introductions are out of the way, let's eat." "They worked her over pretty good." "We need to get her out of here." "What?" "Well, then what?" "They'll know that I let her go." "Look." "You asked me to infiltrate Cassie's coven." "I'm not gonna blow my cover for some has-been, hippie witch, no offense." "I guess we could always make it look like you got jumped, tell Cassie that Lenore got rescued by her people." "Let me guess." "You want to beat the hell out of me, make it look convincing?" "Oh, I can't say I won't enjoy it." "Ok." "Just..." "Just not the face, ok?" "Mm." "What an aromatic Bordeaux." "Well, it was a challenge to find a good pairing." "What wine goes well with treachery?" "Don't pout, brother." "Tonight is meant to be a happy occasion." "What, exactly, are we celebrating?" "Well, my return, of course." "Remember, I spent 900 years, right, lying daggered in a box." "I'm rather enjoying this new body, strolling about your lovely city that you've made your home." "Do tell me, what'd I miss?" "Regale me with your contributions to society..." "Medicine, philosophy, art..." "Or have you two merely cut a path of destruction across time?" "The last time we met, you were helping our mother try to annihilate the lot of us." "Let's not throw stones in glass houses." "Are we expecting another guest?" "Mother will sit at the head, and as for the seat across from me, that's reserved for another of our clan." "Care to wager an educated guess?" "How about a paranoid one?" "Well, there's no way Kol would listen to anything other than his ego." "And yet our mother has made such a compelling argument that even he, the wildest of us Mikaelsons, has seen the error of his ways and accepted his new form with vigor." "Change, dear brothers, is inevitable." "You would dare face us as a mortal?" "The only thing inevitable is your death." "Hmm..." "I suppose the honor of carving should go to the oldest." "We have much to discuss." "It's gonna be ok, I promise." "What's your dog in this fight?" "You're not a Mikaelson." "I sort of am in spirit." "The werewolf mother." "Turned witch rescuer, apparently." "Listen." "Can we do the spell, or not?" "After what that bitch and her lackey did to me," "I'll do any spell you want." "I'm rather enjoying my evening." "And I'd enjoy you getting to the point." "I had 900 years to learn to be patient, although I am curious why you kept me daggered in a box for so long." "You were daggered for being an ever-simpering sycophant." "Did mother bring you back from the dead so you could wash her knickers?" "She raised me because I was treated unfairly, cheated out of all but the smallest portion of my life." "Elijah, I can understand such cruelty coming from him, but I always thought of you as being the compassionate one." "What did I do to deserve you turning your back on me?" "Were you afraid of Niklaus?" "Are you still, or perhaps jealousy is why you kept me locked in a box." "You coveted the duties of the eldest brother, in which case, you had near on a millennium to fix the problems of this family and instead produced 9 centuries of failure." "You might reside..." "Somewhat parasitically," "I might add..." "In another body, but let me assure you, in 900 years, your tedious sentiments remain quite the same." "You see, Finn, like father, you've always despised our supernatural existence." "Father, of course, slaughtered and consumed his own, whereas you, you became pretentious and dull, much like this meal." "I will not ask you again." "Where is mother?" "Ah, my darling son, I've missed you, too." "So will this take long?" "You want me to soul brand the resurrected spirit of a 1,000-year-old witch." "It's best I take my time and do it right." "For what it's worth, I'm sorry." "No one should ever have to lose a child." "No." "No one should." "You have the talisman?" "Yeah." "So how does this work?" "You brand Esther with the spell, and then what?" "The next time she jumps into a body, she'll be marked with a distinctive symbol on the back of her hand." "This way, you always know who she is." "I'd sooner know why she's here." "When Esther held you captive, did she give you any idea why she's doing all this?" "Love." "How hard did they hit you?" "What besides love inspires such pain and cruelty?" "And Esther..." "Her love is..." "Very, very strong." "Why don't you say what you came here to say so this wretched night can end." "It pains me that you and Elijah look at me with such disdain." "I wish you could see that my every action has been to protect you." "You actually believe that, don't you?" "I knew you were a liar, but now I see you're utterly delusional." "If you can, forget the hatred that you cling to and remember all the times I've mended and healed you." "Ha ha!" "Elijah, do you recall the day Niklaus challenged your father to a duel?" "Did I leave your brother to die alone?" "What did I say when you came to me and asked me to help him?" "That you would rather die than to watch any of your children suffer." "Aagh!" "Oh!" "Tell me what happened." "I challenged him." "What were you thinking?" "I thought if I could just best him just once, he would see that I'm worthy." "You need to hold still." "D'aagh!" "Oh..." "Niklaus, calm down." "Everything is going to be fine." "He laughed at my challenge." "He said he would take this from me as a prize after defeating me." "We began to fight, and he knocked me down." "He cut the bird from my neck, and I grew so angry," "I hit him again and again, and then I cut him." "What happened next?" "The look on his face, I'd never seen it before, and I was so proud." "Mother, I held this up to show him I had kept my prize, and then he..." "Why would..." "Your father in his rage struck you with his sword." "I wouldn't let him take this from me." "It was your gift to me." "You're a good boy, Niklaus." "You did the right thing." "The necklace." "It wasn't a spell to protect me." "Promise me you will wear it always." "It made me weak." "I sought to protect you from yourself." "If you would've killed your father in that duel or anyone else over the course of your life, you would've activated your curse." "You ruined me." "You left me to suffer at the hands of a father who valued only strength." "I kept you from becoming a beast for as long as I possibly could." "Oh, you lied to me to hide your own transgressions because of your own fear!" "My whole life, I sought the approval" "I was denied by the man I thought was my father." "You turned me into the weakling he hated!" "Look at me!" "You rant, and you rage about the monster I've become, but you, mother, you are the author of everything I am." "She's gone." "Where is she?" "Are you ok?" "Yes." "You sure?" "Just getting my bearings." "Oh..." "The mark." "It's you, isn't it?" "Esther." "Where is our mother?" "Where am I?" "What's happening?" "Leave her." "She's a puppet." "Niklaus, look at her." "She has absolutely no idea." "What are you talking about?" "Who are you?" "Shut up." "Stop talking right now." "Our mother orchestrates this entire evening just to torture us and then simply vanishes." "Why?" "What if we are not the only minds she was hoping to poison tonight?" "Go ahead." "You can answer it." "Elijah, I'm at Lenore's shop." "That'll be enough." "They're gonna come for me." "My darling, it's been the idea all along." "Why would she want Hayley?" "To kill her, to punish us, to learn the truth about the child, for one of any number of reasons, all of which will be rendered moot when I send her screaming back to hell." "It's so lovely to finally meet you." "Tell me, do my sons ever acknowledge the good you bring into their lives?" "After all, it was you who gave them hope." "The promise of a child shows us all the possibilities of a future that could be." "Children are meant to save us from the worst parts of who we are, a truth that makes my own circumstances all the more tragic, wouldn't you say?" "I don't pity you, Esther." "Hmm." "It's a terrible thing for a mother to fail her child, as you well know..." "But now I offer you freedom, the gift of a new body, freedom from being a hybrid." "I have the ability to return to you all that you have lost, Hayley, to make it so you can have a family of your own, more children of your own." "Wouldn't that be nice?" "I assume I have the misfortune of speaking to my mother." "You hide behind your spells like a coward." "I did not come here to wage war." "Everything you do is an act of war." "If you touch her, so help me..." "Hayley is free to go." "I've spoken my piece." "She knows why I'm here." "I have come to heal our family, Elijah." "Well, that's a grim sentiment coming from you." "Go now." "My intent was never to harm, only to heal, as I have already healed your brothers Finn and Kol." "For you, I will undo everything that has been done, thereby giving you a new life, one without the vampire curse" "I inflicted upon you." "Ask Hayley to share with you my loving proposition." "You're a fool if you think we'll accept anything you offer." "Oh, you are wrong, Niklaus." "There will come a time, my darling..." "When you will beg for it." "Of course she used those damn birds to make her escape." "Besides mother's offer of rebirth, what else did she say?" "I don't know." "She rambled a lot." "She blamed the two of you for what happened to hope, to me." "Well, I trust you're not thinking of taking her offer." "Hayley, I'm talking to you." "What do you want me to say, Klaus?" "I lost my daughter, so, yeah, when your mother offers to wipe the slate clean, excuse me if I'm tempted." "By the way, thanks for your help tonight, Elijah." "I'm sorry that it takes me being in danger for you to even talk to me." "Leave her." "I need you with me." "Our mother, Elijah, the woman brought us into the world, made us what we are, and the whole time, she lied to me." "She made me weak." "You were never weak, Niklaus." "You are and you have always been the most fierce of us all." "In a thousand years, I've never seen anyone successfully stand against you, not even our wicked father, not one of the countless devoted to your destruction." "You will protect our home, even in the face of an adversary such as our mother, because that, brother, that is what you do." "You remain ever the wise counsel, brother." "The rest of the family could learn something from you." "♪ Left-handed voodoo ♪" "♪ sure do got a spell on me ♪" "What?" "You need another python?" "Oh, one can never have too many." "♪ Yes, I am ♪" "You playing tonight?" "I don't think so." "It's a shame." "You're rather good." "Ever since I turned, I haven't been able to play." "I don't know why." "♪ Won't you give me something about it?" "♪" "It's different for us." "Cadence, rhythm... ♪ Woke up this morning ♪" "Harmony, our experience of the senses is altered." "We move faster." "We hear things with a greater acuity." "Silences are at once longer and more profound." "♪ This you should know ♪" "Sounds are simply different to our ears, and then there is the ocean." "For a vampire, it's extremely heightened... ♪ Hey, mama, kiss my worried mind ♪" "♪ all the time ♪" "♪ if you don't love me, won't you... ♪" "Sometimes difficult to express." "Huh." "Yeah." "That's..." "That's exactly it." "Your music, the joy you felt when playing, you can learn again." "I can help you." "Why?" "Because if someone had done the same thing for myself and my siblings, I'm quite certain history would have unfolded differently." "Where were you?" "I saw Elijah." "You were right." "He found something he wanted to fix." "He's gonna help me." "He's gonna help us all." "Now, you must have known they would never give in without a fight." "Of course." "Tonight was not an ultimatum." "It was an invitation." "Just want to get them thinking." "After all, only those who know they are lost will ask to be found." "They're defiant by nature, and they've grown very strong." "How do you expect to show them the error of their ways?" "I will systematically destroy everything they hold dear." "I've already taken the wolves from Niklaus and made them my own." "It is time now to focus on the prodigal son Marcel and his small nest of vampires across the river." "Now that we have cleansed the quarter of his kind, perhaps it's time to turn our attention to the outskirts of our beautiful home." "We will take their pride, their joy, their love." "We will lay it all to ruin, and when they are at their lowest point, in their deepest despair, they will have no choice but to beg me to release them from their pain, and because I love them," "I will."