"For a thousand years..." "My family has walked this earth." "The original vampires." "The first of our kind." "Hated and hunted by our parents" "My siblings and I searched the world for a place to call home finding it centuries ago in a muddy patch of land called New Orleans." "We swore to stick together, always and forever." "We failed." "And when I left the town I had built from nothing..." "I swore I would never return." "Now I'm told that a witch there named Jane Anne Deveraux is plotting against me." "She should know better." "I will not be hunted again." "Third time in here this week." "I'm obsessed with the gumbo, Jane Anne." "The old ladies in the night ward says my sister Sophie bleeds a piece of her soul into every dish." "I asked around the quarter about my family." " And?" " Nothing." "Zero." "I can't find a single person who remembers them." "Because Hayley, people like you were run out of her years ago." "What do you mean people like me?" "In the Bayou they call the werewolves "Ru-Garu".." "You head out there, you'll find what you're looking for." "Be careful." "It's the last place you'd ever want to go." "SOPHIE :" "Don't do it." "Please." "What if I'm wrong about her." "That's the beauty of you you're never wrong." "She's the only way we're going to get to Klaus." " Can we get someone else to do the spell?" " Who?" "Half the witches don't believe you, the other half is too scared." "Because I know we're going to get caught, Jane Anne." "We don't have any other options, Sophie." "This is our town." "If we don't fight for it, we all may as well just pack up and get out." "Now go." "You know what you need to do." "What the...?" "Are you kidding me?" "[Frog croaking]" "[Dialing phone]" "Hey, I'm looking for a tow service." "[Humming]" "[Screeching]" "[Screeching Stops]" "Transcript by alth" "MAN :" "Welcome to the dark side of New Orleans." "A supernatural playground where the living are easily lost the dead stick around to play." "[Music playing]" "REBECCA :" "New Orleans?" "Why the bloody hell did Klaus go back there?" "Evidently their witches conspire against him." "So knowing our brother this was a mission to silence the sloth." "[Music playing]" "REBECCA :" "Well, the French quarter witches are not to be trifled with." "You don't suppose they found a way to kill him once and for all, do you?" "Rebecca, in the name of our family you might try to dial down your glee." "What family?" "We're three distrustful acquaintances who happen to share a bloodline." "I've for one hope they've found a way to make that traitorous bastard rot." "Good afternoon." "Time for one more?" " I have nothing to say to you?" " Oh, now that's not very amiable is it?" " You don't even know me." " I know what you are." "Half vampire, half beast." "You're the hybrid." "I'm the original hybrid actually but that's a long story for another time." "Where are you going?" "Find out who's making a move against our brother." "And then..." "I'll either stop them, or I'll help them." "Depending on my mood." "Let's cut to the case, shall we?" "I'm looking for someone." "A witch." "Perhaps you might be able to help me find her." "Jane Anne Deveraux." "Sorry, I don't know." "Well now, that's a fair bizznit." "Now you see, I know that you're a true witch amongst this sea of posers." "So enough with the fabrications." "I've quite the temper." "Witches don't talk out of school in the quarter,..." "The vampire won't allow it." "Those are the rules." "I don't break Marcel's rules." "Marcel's rules?" "Where do you suppose I might find Marcel?" "[Music playing]" "Thank you." "[Crowd cheering]" "[Music stops]" "Klaus." "Marcel." "Must be a hundred years since that nasty business with your papa." "Has it been that long?" "The way I recall it, he ran you out of town." "Left a trail of dead vampires in his wake." "And yet how fortunate you managed to survive." "My father I'm afraid I recently incinerated to dust." "Well, if I had known you were coming back in town." "If I had a heads up..." "What, Marcel?" "What would you have done?" "I would have thrown you a damn parade." "[Chuckles]" "Niklaus Michaelson." "My mentor, my savior, my sire." "I had written you up as dead." "I rose like a phoenix from the ashes." "Come on, Let's get you a drink." "Yeah, Heh." "It is good to see you." "It is good to be home." "Although please the current state of Bourbon Street is not your doing." "Some things got to draw in the out of towners otherwise we'd all go hungry." "I see your friends are day walkers." "Yeah, yeah, I shared the secret of your daylight ring with a few buddies." "Just the inner circle though, family." "Tell me,..." "How did you find a witch willing to make daylight rings?" "I got the witches here wrapped around my finger." "Is that so?" "I'm looking for a witch by the name of Jane Anne Deveraux." "Has some business with me." "Looking for Jane Anne?" "Then you ought to come with me." "Show time." "[Music playing]" "[Car alarm blaring]" "Oh, How's the family?" "Those who live hates me more than ever." "Well, forget them." "If your blood relations let you down, you make your own, eh?" "You taught me that." "And what's mine is yours as always." "Even my night-walkers." "The riff-raff." "They're hardly subtle, are they?" "It's the quarter, there's no such thing as subtle, baby." "[Whistles]" "[Crowd cheering]" "Jane Anne Deveraux." "Give it up for Jane Anne." "Come on." "Let's hear it." "Jane Anne Deveraux, you have been accused of the practice of witchcraft beyond the bounds of the rules set forth and enforced by me." "How do you plead?" "Was that convincing?" "I studied law back in the fifties." "[Whispers] Hold that thought." "Seriously Jay, tick tock." "You know the drill, How do you plead?" " [Crowd murmuring]" " I didn't do anything." "That's a lie." "You know it." "I know it and you hate that I know it." "It drives you witches crazy that I'm aware of your every move." "That you can't do magic in this town without getting caught." "So, why don't we just cut to the case, huh?" "You tell me." "What magic you're brewing." "I mean tell me, I'll grant you leniency." "Hey, I am after all a merciful man." "Rot in hell monster." "I'll tell you what." "I give you one more chance." "Or not." "[Gasping]" "[Crowd cheering]" "[Laughs]" "Yeah." "What was that?" "Hey, come walk with me." "Witches aren't allowed to do magic here." "She broke the rules." "I told you, I wanted to talk to her." "Hey, I'm sorry." "I got caught up in the show." "Those witches, they think that they still have powers in this town." "I have to show them that they don't." "I never waste an opportunity for a show of force." "Another lesson that I learned from you." "And besides, anything that you could have gotten out of her I can find out for you and I will, I promise." "Well, whatever is was doesn't matter anymore, does it?" "Good." "Then let's eat." "Because all that spilled blood made me hungry." "Hey." "Tierry isn't it?" "Any more Deveraux witches where she came from?" "You're Klaus." "I am." "And you're upset." "Sophie, isn't it?" "I assume this is because of what I just witnessed with your sister on the corner of Royal and St. Anne." "Did you enjoy the show." "It was a little melodramatic for my tastes." "What did your sister want with me?" "Why did Marcel kill her?" "I see you brought friends." " They're not with me." " They're with Marcel, that's all that matters." "He killed my sister because she broke the rules." "So I talk to you in front of him I'm next." " Are you two gentlemen following me?" " Marcel said we are your guides." " Oh, he did, did he?" " He did." "Well the, let me be exceedingly clear about something." "If either of you follow me again, you'll do so without the benefit of a spine." "Sorry for the wait." "If you're here for the gumbo I'm about to break your heart" "We just ran out." "Your oldest scotch for my two friends here, love." "Marcel wants to know what I'm up to he can ask me himself." "[Music playing]" "You got me into this, Jane." "Give me the strength to finish it." "The doors work you know." "You doing magic?" "I'm praying to my dead sister, go ahead, pay your respects." "Don't make this a thing, Sophie." "The hybrid was looking for Jane Anne, Marcel wants to know why." "Whoa, that sounds like witch business." "I'd say ask her yourself but I guess you can't seeing as Marcel killed her." "I'm Elijah." "You've heard of me?" "Yes." "You're Klaus' brother." "I've heard of all of you." "Well, I'm an original." "And I could kill you before you make a move." "So why don't you tell me what business your family has with my brother?" "Here you go." " Where is Marcel." " And who the hell is asking?" "I assume you are joking." "I only answer to Marcel." "Well then, in that case perhaps you'll answer to this." "You're aware the bite of a werewolf can kill a vampire." "Well, as you can see I'm half werewolf so I'm going to ask you one more time." "Where is Marcel?" "He-hey, I'm right here." "I'm right here." "Easy now, Diego is just looking out for me." "Nobody harms my guys, those are the rules." "I don't care about your rules, Marcel." "And I don't need chaperones." "Why are you having me followed?" "Come here." "I get it, huh, show of force." "You made your point." "Let it go friend." "For me." "Fine." "Why don't you show me what you've done with the place while you explain exactly what you've been up to in my town?" "Follow me." "Look at that skyline, huh." "That there, that's progress." "More hotels, more tourists, more fresh blood." "And the humans, I taught them to look the other way." "And what of the witches?" "In my time they were a force to be reckoned with and now they live in fear." " How do you know when they're using magic?" " Maybe I got a secret weapon?" "An ace up my sleeve you know." "Something that gives me complete control over all the magic in this town." " Is that a fact?" " Might be." "Maybe I'm just bluffing." "Don't be mad about that chaperone thing I told my guys to look out for you that's all." "That's what we do here." "Look out for each other." "New blood." "Bartender." "Walking alone at night." "She's either brave or dumb." "Let's see." "Brave I let her live, dumb she is dessert." "You know it's not safe here alone." "You know I have a black belt in karate." "[Chuckles]" "Evening, Elijah." "Niklaus." "What an entirely unwelcome surprise." "And what an entirely unsurprising welcome." " Come with me." " I'm not going anywhere, not until I find out who is conspiring against me." "I believe I just found that out for you." "KLAUS :" "What are we doing here?" "Want to know what the witches have in store for you?" "Follow me." "[Gate creaks]" " Sophie Deveraux." " What is this?" "He's all yours." "Proceed." "You know you're famous in this town?" "Witches tell bedtime stories about the powerful vampire, Klaus." "We know Marcel was nothing but an orphan street rat until you made him what he is." "And now he's out of control." "He has put the witch community in subjugation." "He does what he wants, kills who he wants." "I'm going to stop him." "And you're going to help me." "This is why you brought me here?" "You want to recruit a wolf to hunt down a dog." "This was your big plot?" "Only trouble is, I don't take orders from anyone least of all you." " ELIJAH :" "Hear her out." " I don't need to hear her out." "I assure you love, there is not a thing on this earth that will matter enough for me to waste even thirty more seconds of my time." " Elijah, what madness is this?" " HAYLEY :" "Klaus ?" "You need to listen to them." "[Laughs]" "You are all out of your minds if you think some licker-fueled one night stand, no offense sweetheart, means a thing to me." "SOPHIE :" "Marcel may be able to keep us from practicing real magic in this town but as keepers of the balance we still know when nature's cooked up something new." "For example, I have a special gift of sensing when a girl is pregnant." "What?" "I know it's impossible." "What are you saying?" "ELIJAH :" "Niklaus." "The girl is carrying your child." "No." " It's impossible." " I said the same thing myself." "This is a lie." "You're all lying." " Vampires can not procreate." " But werewolves can." "Magic made you a vampire." "But you were born a werewolf." "You're the original hybrid." "The first of your kind." "And this pregnancy is..." "One of nature's loopholes." "You've been with someone else, admit it!" "Hey!" "I've spent days held captive in a freaking alligator bayou because they think I'm carrying some magical miracle baby." "Don't you think I would have fessed up, if it wasn't yours." "My sister gave her life to perform the spell to confirm this pregnancy." "Because of Jane Anne's sacrifice the lives of this girl and her baby are now controlled by us." "We can keep them safe." "Or we can kill them." "If you don't help take down Marcel so help me." "Hayley won't live long enough see her first maternity dress." "Wait, what?" "Enough of this." "If you want Marcel dead he's dead, I'll do it myself." "No, we can't." "Not yet, we have a clear plan we need to follow and there are rules." "How dare you command me?" "Threaten me with what you wrongfully perceive to be my weaknesses this is a pathetic deception." "I won't hear anymore lies." "ELIJAH :" "Niklaus." "Listen." "[Fetal heartbeat]" "Kill her." "And the baby." "What do I care?" "Screw this, I'm out of here." "No one touches the girl." "I will fix this." "ELIJAH :" "Niklaus." "It's a trick, Elijah." "No, brother, it's a gift." "It's your chance, it's our chance." " To what?" " To start over." "Take back everything we lost, everything that was taken from us." "Niklaus, our own parents came to despise us." "Our family was ruined, we were ruined and since then, all that you have wanted all that we have wanted was a family." "I will not be manipulated." "So they're manipulating you, so what?" "With them this girl and her child, your child, live." "I'm going to kill every last one of them." "And then what?" "Then you return to Mystic Falls to resume your life as the hated one as the evil hybrid." "Is it so important that people quake with fear at the sound of your name." "People quake with fear because I have the power to make them afraid." "All this child offer me, will it guarantee me power." "Family is power, Niklaus." "Love, loyalty, that's power." "This is what we swore to one another a thousand years ago before life tore away what little humanity you had left before ego, before anger, before paranoia created in this person before me someone I can barely even recognize as my own brother." "This is us." "The original family." "Now we remain together always forever." "I am asking you to stay here." "I will help you and I will stand by you." "I will be your brother." "We will build a home here together." "So save this girl." "Save your child." "No." "He's doing what he does." "Given a chance at happiness, Klaus runs in the opposite direction." "Then let him run." "That child is heaps better off without him." "He's not better off without that child, Rebecca and neither are we." "Darling kind, Elijah." "Our brother rarely brings us anything but pain." "At what point in your immortal life will you stop searching for his redemption." "He has changed over the centuries, Rebecca, I will grant you that." "But, time has not erased from me the memory that I have of my little brother." "Before we were vampires, before he was this hybrid he was so full of love." "All he ever wanted was to be loved in return." "I'll stop searching for his redemption when I believe there is none left to be found." " [BEEP]" "[Music playing]" "Hey, man, where'd you run off to?" "You mean your minions aren't still documenting my every move." "Someone put you in a mood." "What can I do?" "What you can do is you can tell me what this thing you have with the witches." " Oh, we're back to that." " Yeah, we're back to that." "You know I owe you everything I got but I'm afraid I have to draw the line on this one." "This is my business." "I control the witches in my town." "Let's just leave it at that." " Your town?" " Damn straight." "That's funny." "Because when I left a hundred years ago you were just a pathetic little scrapper still trembling from the lashes of the whips of those who would keep you down." "Now look at you." "Master of your domain." "Prince of the city." "I'd like to know how." "Why?" "Jealous?" "[Crowd murmuring]" "Hey, man.." "I get it." "Three hundred years ago you helped build a backwater pin colony into something." "You started it, but then you left." "Actually, you ran from it." "I saw it through." "Look around." "Vampires rule this city now." "We don't have to live in the shadows like rats." "The locals know their place." "They look the other way." "I got rid of the werewolves." "I even found a way to shut down the witches." "The blood never stops flowing and the party never ends." "You want to pass on through, you want to stay a while, great." "What's mine is yours but it is mine." "My home, my family, my rules." "And if someone breaks those rules?" "They die." "Mercy is for the weak, you taught me that too." "And I'm not the prince of the Quarter, friend." "I'm the king!" "Show me some respect." "[Biting]" "Your friend will be dead by the weekend which means I've broken one of your rules." "And yet I cannot be killed." "I am immortal." "Who has the power now, friend?" "The hundred dollar guy." "The brave bartender." "Camille." "French name." "It's a grandma's name." "Call me Cammie." "Amazing isn't he?" "Do you paint?" "No, but I admire." "Every artist has a story you know." "And what do you suppose his story is?" "He is angry." "Dark." "Doesn't feel safe and doesn't know what to do about it." "He wishes he could control his demons instead of having his demons control him." "He's lost." "Alone." "Or, maybe he just drank too much tonight." "Sorry, over-zealous psych major." "No." "I think you're probably right the first time." "So, do you..." "paint?" "If you're here to give me another pep-talk on the joys of fatherhood..." "ELIJAH :" "I've said all I've needed to say." "I've forgot how much I like this town." "I didn't forget." "All the centuries we've spent together and yet I can count on one hand the number of times that our family has been truly happy." "I hated leaving here." "Are you aware that the witches can't leave here?" "They practice ancestral magic, they draw their power directly from their dead in those cemeteries." "If they go they leave the source of power behind." "I suppose that explains their hunger for revolution." "That and I believe Marcel has found a way of controlling them." "I want to know what it is." "What is on your mind brother?" "This town was my home once and in my absence Marcel has gotten everything I ever wanted." "Power." "Loyalty." "Family." "I made him in my image and he has bettered me." "I want what he has." "I want it back." "I wanna be king." "And what of Hayley and the baby?" "Every king needs an heir." "Tell Sophie Deveraux, We have a deal." "ELIJAH :" "So, how do you propose this will work?" "Your brother needs to cement his place in Marcel's world." "His inner circle, the day-walkers." "That's were we being." "They're his friends, his family we'll be hitting him where it hurts." "I had time to sleep on it last night." "I am not your enemy." "Where my family and I failed this town." "Marcel succeeded." "My blood will heal him." "As though it never happened." "The Quarter is your home but I would like to stay a while if I'm still welcome." "No one can know of our arrangement." "Marcel will retaliate and I won't allow any more dead witches." "I want you to make him suffer." "Undermine his rule, distract him." "But above all keep him alive." "And why is that?" "You need to earn my trust before I let you in on witch business." "Just know he needs to remain unharmed." "Oh, you have no idea what you're asking." "My brother's temper is legendary." "Well, then I guess you got your work cut out for you." "What the hell?" "You leave me in some filthy tomb over night." "Has everyone forgotten that I'm pregnant?" "Release her to me." "As a token of good faith, the girl is carrying my family therefore she too is my family." "Can you not talk about me like I'm not here?" "Forgive us." "Let her come with me." "You've done what you needed to do to keep her safe." "Now let me do the same." "I can assure you there is no one stronger." "Wait." "There's a chill out there." "Please." "I guess chivalry is not dead." "Just really damn late to the party." "If Klaus betrays us,..." "Hayley will die." "You have my word on that." "Then I will give you my word." "We will be your partners" "We will end Marcel's reign." "But know this, if anything whatsoever happens to that girl or her unborn child, you needn't fear Marcel, nor Klaus nor anyone more than you will need to fear me." "Goodbye." "Whose life are we celebrating?" "Old Abe from the butcher shop." "Nice guy." "Handy with a meat cleaver." "What happened to him?" "He broke the rules." "Marcel's rules." "But how does he know when they are broken?" "What secret weapon does he posses that gives him control over the witches?" "If I'm to claim his throne what must I take from him?" "Devina." "You know Marcel doesn't want you standing by the window." "I'm hot, I need air." "But you can't." "I said I need air." "Marcel's asked me to find out if the witches are quiet today." "Yes." "There's no magic out there." "Honestly child, you can't." "Can't." "Can't." "I'm so sick of that word it makes me want to vomit." "Transcript by alth"