01x15 - Le Grand Guignol

Episode transcripts for the TV show "The Originals". Aired October 2013 - August 2018.*
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The Original vampire family, from The Vampire Diaries, return and settle in the city they helped build, New Orleans.
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01x15 - Le Grand Guignol

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Flashback – Jazz Club, 1919

[A Jazz number plays at a local club everyone is united enjoying themselves as people dance, sing, laugh, mingle and drink. At the bar Elijah, Lana, and Klaus turn to observe the scene before them]

Klaus: Well this is a first. Werewolves, vampires, witches and dirty cops. [glances at a group of cops toasting their glasses together and drinking to the occasion] All happy as clams and drunk as stoats.

[Klaus smiles as Elijah orders three sh*ts]

Lana: You gotta love this city.

Elijah: To a new era! Collaboration in the face of Prohibition.

Lana: To your docks, their booze, and our theatres to hide it under. You're welcome, boys.

[They happily toast their glasses together and drink]

Klaus: [smirks] Now, I shall have to think of a way to thank you personally, in a manner befitting a werewolf queen.

Lana: [strokes Klaus' face affectionately] Catch you on the dance floor.

[She walks past him and heads into the crowd]

Elijah: Who would have thought it possible, the unification of New Orleans?

[Klaus playfully grips Elijah's shoulders]

Klaus: We did it, brother.

[Elijah puts his arm around his brother's shoulder and whirls him around to overlook the scene before him]

Elijah: Oh, certainly, we worked together, Niklaus. But this vision? This was all you.

END FLASHBACK

Present Day – Compound, Klaus' Bedroom

[Klaus lies in bed shirtless; his eyes closed and gasping as Elijah watches]

Elijah: [to Klaus] This was all you.

[Cami rushes into the compound in a hurry. The other vampires glance at her, confused by her presence]

Vampire: What's she doing here?

Elijah: [calls out to Cami] Camille! [gestures for her to enter the room] Please.

Cami: Why did you call me? Have you found a way to help my uncle?

Elijah: I can try, but first, I need your help.

Cami: I don't have time for games, Elijah. The hex on him is getting worse by the day.

Elijah: My brother has a mystical t*rture device buried in his chest, and the mother of his child is inexplicably missing. So, I can assure you, I have no time to play any games, either.

Cami: [face grows serious] What do you need me to do?

[The scene changes. Now, they are in Klaus' bedroom]

Cami: The dagger the witch gave me is inside of him? [Elijah removes his jacket and rolls up his sleeve]

Elijah: And every second it remains causes Niklaus untold suffering.

Cami: Who stabbed him?

Elijah: I did, and now I intend to remove it. You might want to take a step back.

Cami: [shocked and confused] Why am I here?

Elijah: Because of all the people that could be here, you're probably the only one he wouldn't immediately slaughter. [He uses a scapel to slice into him along the red scar on his stomach] Also, he speaks of you [He plunges his hand into Klaus' chest] with what is a rare degree--for him, at least--of respect. I can see you challenge him to see himself and others in a new light [He finally pulls the Kn*fe out of Klaus' chest, and he groans]

Klaus: [in agony] AGH!

Elijah: A wonderful skill that I shall be counting on very shortly. You see, Niklaus will be weak as he recovers. So, watch over him and feed him, if you would. But slowly, please, and from your wrist.

Cami: Don't you guys have bags of blood in storage?

Elijah: We do, but your blood is laced with vervain. So, it will burn him. He'll ingest it slower. Perhaps you could use the time constructively, persuade him not to m*rder his baby sister. [to Klaus] Niklaus, It was not my desire to bring you pain, but I will not see you hurt Rebekah. [to Cami] Now, I fear Sabine may be making a final move against us. I intend to find her and to end this.

Klaus: [whispers weakly] Elijah. You will pay for this.

[Celeste (still in Sabine's body) has her hands tied in front of her as she leans back against a tree. Hayley and Eve stand in front of her, g*ns aimed at her, while the rest of their clan, stuck in wolf form, surrounds her.]

Sabine: [frustrated] So what's this, payback? Look. I'm sorry I tricked you. I wasn't after you.

Eve: What, and we were just collateral damage? You almost b*rned her and Jackson alive in that plantation fire.

[Sabine struggles against the ropes to free herself as Hayley fires the g*n]

Hayley: [sh**t a warning sh*t near Celeste] Careful, Sabine, or Celeste or whatever you like to call yourself. Sudden moves make me jumpy. [she cocks the g*n again] And homicidal.

Sabine: What, you're gonna k*ll me, honey?

Hayley: No. I know better. [the wolves growl behind her] See, I know all about you. I know that you like to off yourself and then jump into other people's bodies. Well, that's not gonna happen here. I know I can't k*ll you, but try hexing me, and my friend Eve here will kneecap you. Go for her, and then, well, I'll really make it hurt.

Sabine: So, what do you want?

Hayley: Back in the 90's, you inhabited a witch named Brynne Deveraux, remember? Marcel had her, you, put a curse on a lot of werewolves so they'd only turn human on a full moon.

Sabine: I see. Yes. That was me.Let me guess. You want revenge.

Hayley: I want you to undo the curse. [Sabine smiles smugly]

[Cami sits by Klaus bedside]

Cami: Wow, things I never thought I'd be doing- Feeding a vampire. My 16-year-old self would think I'm really cool right now. [she offers her wrist to him and he drinks quickly]

Klaus: Mmm.

Cami: Ah! Slow down.

Klaus: Okay.

Cami: Doesn't the vervain burn?

Klaus: [releases her arm] As you may have yet to realize, Cami, the line between what brings us pain and what sustains us is far thinner than one imagines.

Cami: You talking about my blood or your need to hunt down the people you love most?

Klaus: I'm too weak for one of your talks right now.

Cami: She's your sister. How can you hate her?

Klaus: Because she has done what no one else has managed to do to me for 1,000 years...Rip my heart out.

Flashback – Jazz Club, 1919

[Rebekah and Marcel walk into the Jazz Club and approach the bar together as Elijah and Klaus watch from a nearby table]

Klaus: Look at these two pretending to be apart while so clearly a pair.

[He stands up but Elijah puts his hand on his arm to stop him from making a scene]

Elijah: Niklaus, not now. Why must you cause trouble?

[He finishes; Klaus two glasses off the table and clinks them together to get everyone's attention; he raises his hand and the band stops playing]

Klaus: I'd like to take this opportunity to draw attention to two people who have been sneaking around behind my back together. As we move into a new era, we require more progressive attitudes to match. So, to my loving sister and my right-hand man and best friend Marcel, may they find joy in each other. [Everyone drinks; Marcel and Rebekah are equally startled by Klaus speech] Enough talk...Music! [The band starts again and everyone returns to their party as Klaus approaches Rebekah at the bar]

Klaus: Over the years, I've thwarted your loves simply to protect you. I knew if we had to run again, your heart would be broken, but we don't have to run anymore. We've found a home. [kisses her cheek] Be happy, my sister. Klaus: [in present day, to Cami, in voiceover] I'd let my guard down and given in to happiness, more fool, I.

End of Flashback

[Klaus sits up in bed buttoning up his shirt]

Klaus: Turns out, they'd already betrayed me, and brought to town the one thing I'd been running from for centuries...My father.

Cami: Oh.

Klaus: Yes. Oh.

[Klaus lays back down]

Cami: So, you're consumed by revenge you'll never achieve. Elijah implied Rebekah and Marcel could be anywhere in the world by now.

Klaus: Oh, I'm not so sure about that.

Flashback – Jazz Club, 1919

Rebekah: Can you believe we're sitting out here in the open bold as brass?

Marcel: No. Ah, it feels like heaven.

Rebekah: You know, it's been over 6 months since Genevieve summoned my father, and nothing. Her spell must have failed.

Marcel: Hey, if so, we dodged a b*llet.

[Marcel smiles, and they kiss]

Rebekah: Right. I am off to speak at the Women's Temperance Society meeting to make sure the wives of this city urge their husbands not to drink.

Marcel: [laughs] Aren't you all in the booze biz now?

Rebekah: Yes, but the more one tells you you can't have something, the more you crave it at all costs.

[She kisses him again. Marcel laughs as she heads for the door. A gentlemen at the bar watches her go. When the camera turns toward his face, we see that it is Mikael]

End of Flashback

Present Day

Rebekah: He'll chase us to the ends of the earth, and he'll find us. No one can hide forever, especially not from an angry Mikaelson.

Marcel: Then we go through with the plan. There's only one way that we'll truly be able to hide from Klaus forever.

Compound – Klaus' Bedroom

Klaus: They'll need a cloaking spell, and for that, they'll need a witch.

Fork in the Road – Marcel's Car

Marcel: Davina is our one sh*t.

Rebekah: If we go back and get her, it's a su1c1de mission.

Marcel: It's our only hope. We resurrect her, take her with us, and get out of town. Then, she can hide us from Klaus so he'll never find us.

Rebekah: We don't even know the right witch to k*ll to bring her back.

Marcel: Then we'll k*ll them all.

Rebekah: [skeptical] Just k*ll the three witches that brought the mighty Klaus Mikaelson to his knees, no big deal.

Marcel: Look. Unless you want to spend eternity looking over your shoulder, there's only one thing that we can do.

Compound – Klaus' Bedroom

Klaus: There's only one place they can go.

Fork in the Road – Marcel's Car

[Rebekah leans her head back into the seat of the car; her eyes wet with tears. She sighs as Marcel turns the car around and they head back toward the city]

Klaus: Home.

[Monique lays on the ground in the tunnel surrounded by candles chanting in French Creole at the sound of approaching footsteps she stops]

Monique: When order is restored, your kind won't be allowed in here.

Elijah: Well, fortunately, that day has not yet come. I need to find Sabine. I believe she's taken someone very important to me.

[Monique sits up]

Monique: [scoffs] And you thought I'd help you? [she stands up and faces him] Sabine is one of us, committed to the rise of the witches.

Elijah: The only thing Sabine is committed to is the destruction of my family.

Monique: And that would be a bad thing why?

Elijah: Like your mother, my mother was also a witch, a very powerful witch. In fact, because of my family, her power now flows through your veins. Now, once Sabine manipulates those around her, she will do what she has always done. She will jump into another body and disappear, leaving your witches powerless.

Monique: No. She has the faith. She will see our power restored.

Elijah: There's a way of guaranteeing this. I'll also secure the safety of yourself and your kind. Here. [He hands her a spell] This is from my mother's grimoire. Celeste used a similar spell to body jump. If what Sabine says is true, when she sacrifices herself, all of her power will flow back into the earth. However, if she has lied and tries to take another body, this spell will deliver her to a very different destination. Now, please locate Sabine.

[Rebekah and Marcel meet with Thierry]

Rebekah: Papa Tunde is dead. That leaves Sabine, Bastianna, and Genevieve.

Marcel: We want to k*ll them all, and as soon as Davina rises, we take her with us.

[Thierry pours himself and Marcel a drink]

Rebekah: Look. We have one sh*t at this, and I know our chances of success are sweet bugger all, but we've got to do it. So please, one stray dog to another, help us.

Thierry: Not many go up against those odds and live to tell the story. Have you? [he hands Marcel a drink]

Marcel: I'm still standing here, aren't I? I've gone up against the worst of them all.

Flashback – Jazz Club,Bar, 1919

[Mikael sits at the bar alone drinking as Marcel approaches his side to order himself a drink]

Marcel: [to bartender] I'll take another

Mikael: You're a lucky man. [Marcel turns to face him, but doesn't recognize him]

Mikael: Men search the world over for a woman like her.

Marcel: Well, she's taken, friend.

Mikael: Oh, I can see that. It's just that she reminds me so much of my departed wife as a girl. See, I've been traveling for such a long time that it's a blessing to see a familiar soul so far from home.

Marcel: I'm sorry for your loss. Here's to old faces in new places.

[They toast their glasses together and drink]

Mikael: I've been in New Orleans for a day, and I find it to be quite surprising. Had I known of its charm and fascinating denizens, I would have come ages ago. Don't suppose I have to thank you for extending this invitation.

Marcel: Who are you?

Mikael: Oh, you're a smart man. I think you know. [He reaches into his pocket and hands him the photograph of Klaus that Genevive had sent him him] I'm an intelligent man myself. [starts to compel him] So, have a seat. [Marcel immediately sits next to him]

Mikael: Let me tell you what I learned about you this afternoon, Marcel Gerard. You chafe under the control of my son Niklaus and would do just about anything to get rid if him, even call the one man on this earth who hates him more than you do. But, I couldn't understand what you hoped to gain. Rule of this city? Well, as I said, New Orleans has its charms, but to call me, the one they call the Destroyer, the one who's burnt cities far more charming to the ground in pursuit of his children. But now I see. You did it for love, the love of my daughter.

Marcel: Don't you dare touch her! [he grips the bar and glares at him threateningly]

Mikael: Mmm, so I'm going to make you a promise. I won't hurt Rebekah. Truth be told, she was always my favorite. And this city, you can have it, but first, you must tell me where to find my son.

End of Flashback

Present Day – Compound, Klaus Bedroom

[Klaus sits up, he attempts to get out of bed but he is too weak. He nearly falls, but Cami catches him]

Klaus: Ugh.

Cami: You're still weak.

Klaus: I'm still hungry. There's a fresh blood supply in the kitchen.

Cami: You won't make it that far. So, be a good little boy and get back into bed.

Klaus: If I had a quid for every time a woman has tried that line on me

Cami: You'd have, like, no money. Klaus: I beg to differ. Some women actually find me quite charming.

Flashback – Compound, Klaus' Bedroom, 1919

[Lana and Klaus are hooking up in Klaus' bed when Elijah enters the room]

Lana: Uh! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!

Elijah: Sleeping with the enemy, I see.

Lana: I'm the ally now, darling.

Elijah: Well, indeed. Klaus: Oh, and as a gesture of goodwill from our old enemy...[he holds up four tickets] tickets to tonight's opera, "Le Grand Guignol."

Lana: They have a soprano to die for. I'll introduce you if you promise not to eat her.

Elijah: Oh, Lana, a good soprano is never dinner.

Klaus: Tell Rebekah to bring Marcel. Feel free to tell her now, big brother. I have some business I need to discuss with our new ally.

End of Flashback

Present Day – Compound, Klaus' Bedroom

Cami: Why am I not surprised you like opera?

Klaus: I always had a particular soft spot for Le Grand Guignol. I like the story. It was a (he gets up out of bed) tale of forbidden love, a "Romeo and Juliet" of sorts. On the day they are to marry, family and long-festering hatred intervene. Thousands are massacred. A father even kills his own child in the final act. I can almost appreciate the irony.
The Bayou

[Sabine sits on a tree stump her hands still tied together but she has managed to mix together some herbs into a mason jar]

Sabine: Here. [Hayley takes the jar from Sabine] It's herbs ground into paste. It'll act as a conduit for the spell. On the next full moon, your people become human. Feed it to them, the curse will be broken.

Hayley: Great way to poison us all at once.

Sabine: Look. I know you have no reason to trust me, but, Hayley, I actually like you. I was you, caring for Elijah when he cared more for his brother, and I ended up dead. So did a lot of others. This, call it a chance for me to give you what I was too in love to give myself. It's a chance to free yourself from The Originals.

Eve: You believe her? [a wolf growls behind her]

Elijah: Whatever she's promised you, it's a lie.

[Elijah appears in the bayou]

Hayley: Elijah, it's okay. I'm okay.

Elijah: She cannot be trusted.

Hayley: She's the only one that can help my pack.

Elijah: Do you have any idea what she has done to our family?

Hayley: I know you want revenge, and come the next full moon, when I'm sure her cure works, she's all yours.

Elijah: Are you suggesting that we hold her, her, c*ptive for an entire month? It would take an army.

Hayley: And I've got one. [the wolves howl] So help me or get out of my way.

[Elijah pauses only for a moment and then at vampire speed he grabs Sabine and the jar from Hayley she gasps as he and Sabine disappear. Elijah has gotten far enough away from Hayley where he and Sabine are alone now in the bayou; he throws her up against a tree, she grunts as he holds the jar of herbs]

Elijah: You tricked her.

Sabine: It's no trick. You're holding the cure for Hayley's clan in your hand. If her wolves take that elixir, the curse is no more. They're free.

Elijah: You condemned her people to decades of agony, and now you just break the curse without so much as a whimper. Why?

Sabine: Because it's the best thing I could do for her and it's the worst possible thing I could do to you.

Elijah: What are you saying?

Sabine: That, no matter what happens now, you've lost her. You destroy that jar, you k*ll me, Hayley will hate you for snatching her family from her. Now, if you give her the jar, we both know that she'll leave you in the end to be with them, and I know that as long as she's alive and happy and fulfilled in ways that you can't even imagine, then I get my revenge. So, you decide. Give her everything she ever wanted and lose her or deny it, see what happens then.

Docks

[Thierry sits down with Bastianna and Genevieve]

Thierry: Where's the third one, Sabine? I asked to meet with all three of you.

Genevieve: Our meeting you at all is a courtesy for your being a friend to witches in the past, but courtesy has its limits. Now, you said you had information of interest to us.

Thierry: Rebekah and Marcel are back. They came for Davina, and they think that they can get her if they k*ll all three of you. [The two witches smile at one another, amused] Now look. I can lead you straight to them, but there's something I want in return.

Bastianna: And what's that? Thierry: [stands up] Your life.

[He vamps out, baring his teeth at the witches and lunging towards them. Before he can att*ck, Bastiana uses magic to give him an aneurysm, and he falls to the ground, unconscious. Marcel vamp speeds into the room and slams Bastiana's head against the table. Rebekah follows in behind him and throws Genevieve against the wall. Marcel easily rips Bastiana's head from her body, but as Rebekah attempts to k*ll Genevieve she chants at her and gives her an aneurysm as well. Rebekah grabs her head and screams in pain. Marcel attempts to att*ck but Genevieve stops him by chanting a spell that lights his jacket on fire]

Genevieve: Follow me, and I'll turn you both into ash. [She leaves. The fire on Marcel's jacket goes out. Rebekah attempts to follow but Marcel stops her]

Marcel: Forget her. We'll get her later.

Rebekah: Marcel, all we have is the element of surprise, and we have lost it. If we don't leave now, there will be no one to save us.

Marcel: I already failed Davina once. I'm not leaving her behind.

Compound, Living Room

[Cami comes into the room, Klaus is pouring himself a drink]

Cami: Not sure that helps. Klaus: Not sure it doesn't.

Cami: You want to self-medicate your self-pity, fine. Better scotch than my blood, no matter what Elijah says.

Klaus: Don't speak to me of Elijah.

Cami: He loves you. Klaus: Yes. He does, and he proves it time and again, even when my father enlisted him to k*ll me.

Flashback – Elijah's Room, 1919

[Elijah is getting ready for the opera he stands in front of the mirror but turns at the sound of footsteps entering the room. He is absoutely dumbfounded by the one that stands before him]

Mikael: "Le Grand Guignol." Saw it in Venice, marvelous production.

Elijah: You-

Mikael: It's all right, son. I just want to talk.

Elijah: You mercilessly hunt us for centuries. You laid waste to half of Europe. Now you simply wish to talk?

Mikael: It was your bastard brother I hunted, not you, never you. You're my blood, one that I'd be proud to call son. So I came here to give you a chance to help me put down that whelp for good.

[Elijah att*cks his father in a rage slamming him against the wall. Mikael throws Elijah across the room he slams into the opposite wall, wood splinters come crashing down around him as he falls to the floor]

Elijah: Do you really not know me? [he gets to his feet] Do you think I could or would believe in anything that you say? If you honestly believe that I would betray my own brother for you, you're a fool without equal.

Mikael: I'll forgive you your sentimental affections for the thing you call brother, but you need to realize, as I did when I learned his mother had lain with a beast to beget him that Niklaus is an abomination. You do not talk to abominations. You do not reason with them or try to change them. You erase them. So, yes, I am asking you to help me k*ll your brother.

End of Flashback

Present Day – Compound, Living Room

Cami: You keep saying k*ll, but you're immortal. You can't be k*lled.

Klaus: Oh, but we can, love, and my father was the only one with the means to do it. A white oak stake fashioned by my father to take from us the very thing he forced upon us all--our immortality.

Flashback – Elijah's Room, 1919

[Mikael takes out the White Oak Stake; Elijah att*cks his father again. Mikael slams Elijah up against the wall and pushes the stake toward Elijah who desperately uses all his strength to fight him off]

Mikael: Stand with me or fall with him. Choose, son.

[Elijah throws Mikael off of him]

Elijah: I will ALWAYS...Choose him!

Mikael: Fine.

[At vampire speed, Mikael grabs a wooden splinter and stabs Elijah in the heart with it]

End of Flashback

Present Day – Compound, Living Room

Klaus: Elijah has always carried guilt for that night for not stopping our father. I told him not to blame himself. When your father wants to k*ll you, he wants to k*ll you, nothing you can do about it. [Klaus' cell phone vibrates, and he checks it] Oh, I hate to be a know-it-all. My sister and her lover have been spotted in town. So story time endeth here, I'm afraid. ( [He walks over to a statue on the table and knocks it over. The statue breaks on the floor, revealing the indestructible white oak stake inside]

Cami: What is that? Klaus: A White Oak Stake, my own special version. And, unlike my father's, this one cannot be destroyed. [He vamp speeds out of the room]

New Orleans, Street

[Cami comes out of the compound and into the street to find Klaus feeding on a man]

Cami: What are you doing?

Klaus: Well, if you have to ask, you obviously haven't been paying attention. I'm going to k*ll my sister, but first, I needed some sustenance with a little less vervain in it, no offense.

Cami: When Davina showed me all you did to me, all you took from me, I wanted to k*ll you. I even thought about burying that blade in you like the witches asked me to, but I didn't. I stopped. I thought. I weighed the good I see in you versus the horrible things I know you've done, and I realized if I hurt you, I'd be filled with a terrible regret. You will, too, if you hurt your sister, your sister, Klaus. As a person who has lost a sibling, who has felt that pain, you won't survive if you're the one who kills her.

Klaus: I'll tell you what I almost didn't survive, love...My sister bringing the most vile creature ever to have walked the earth down upon me.

Cami: Yes, your father, but by hunting Rebekah and Marcel down to the ends of the earth, by terrorizing them the way you yourself were terrorized Don't become your father.

Klaus: I've been called every shade of monster, but that's new. My father? Mikael was the monster monsters were afraid of. Come. Let me show you. [He grabs hold of her]

The Bayou

[Elijah and Sabine return to the Bayou where Hayley sits on a log; she is alone with the exception of one wolf who has stayed behind; Jackson]

Hayley: You came back.

Elijah: I'll always come back. Take it. It will work.

Hayley: Eve and I will round up as many of our people as we can. Come full moon, I can finally free my family. [She hugs Elijah]

Elijah: Hayley, I wonder if they have any idea how lucky they are to have you. [Hayley smiles and leaves with Jackson, still in wolf form]

Sabine: Mmm. That was touching, such a chaste, little kiss. The Elijah I knew was never so meek.

Elijah: Well, the Celeste I knew was never so cruel. What is it that you want? What's your end game?

Sabine: Oh, this game never ends, Elijah. We're both immortal, you know.

Elijah: Then what's the point if you can't possibly win?

Sabine: [smirks] But, I have. You just lost the girl, the girl you never made a move on because you were so desperate to save your family. And now, your family lies in ruins.

Elijah: My family, despite all that you have done, will heal in time.

Sabine: If you had the time, maybe, but you really think Rebekah ran far and fast from here? I bet she didn't.

Elijah: She's long gone.

Sabine: Is she? She's with Marcel. Now, Marcel loves Davina. Davina is dead, but she could come back under the right circumstances.

Elijah: They wouldn't dare.

Sabine: If you hadn't been so worried about Hayley, you might have figured it out sooner, but you know who did have the time to think about it? Your brother. I wonder what he'll do. [Elijah grabs Sabine by the neck and vamps out]

Sabine: Do it. [Elijah bites into her neck]

Main Street – Old Opera House

Klaus: [to Cami] You know your city's history. That night in 1919, when the opera house b*rned down on this very spot? That was my father at his worst.

Flashback – Opera House, 1919

[It's a full house tonight as Rebekah and Klaus sit in a private box; Klaus looks at the program]

Klaus: Well, this is off to a bad start. Your first big date together in public after I gave you my blessing, and he stood you up.

Rebekah: Something must have delayed him.

Klaus: Or, now that your elicit affair is out in the open, he finds the whole relationship a tad lackluster and has run off to Havana with a showgirl.

Rebekah: Don't be such a toerag. I'm going to check the lobby.

Klaus: See if you can't find our brother while you're there. The curtain is about to go up.

[Rebekah leaves, and Klaus sets the program down. Someone enters the box and sits down behind him. It's Mikael. He pokes his white oak stake against Klaus' back]

Mikael: I would advise against trying to flee, boy. I can drive this into your heart before you can even think of getting to your feet, and I don't want you to die yet.

Klaus: Father--[he breathes out, shocked]

Mikael: "Father"? Ha ha! Still clinging to that word after all these years, a bastard desperate for a daddy? I wonder if your real father would be as embarrassed as I was of you before I discovered you were not mine. Most likely. [Angry, Klaus is about to turn around but Mikael stops him] Oh, oh. Uh-uh. Easy now, boy. Don't worry. Death will come, but we need to have a little chat before you shuffle off your immortal coil.

Klaus: Any words we have for each other have been spoken long ago, but know this-- I am no longer the animal begging for scraps of your affection. I will die knowing my hatred for you was just. I will fall proud of all I have achieved here. So, Mikael, if you're going to k*ll me, then get on with it.

Mikael: Au contraire, Niklaus. Some things remain unsaid. For instance, you were right to be proud of your achievement here. As I walked the streets, your name was spoken of in reverent tones by the city's finest. So, after I k*ll you, I will remain here in New Orleans until every last person who remembers you is dead. The deeds of the mighty Klaus will be remembered by no one And you, boy, will simply never have existed. [Orchestra tuning] Ah. The grand show. [Mikael relaxes pulling the stake away from Klaus, as the lights go down] Oh, [Mikael leans forward and touches Klaus' shoulder] I made some alterations in your honor. You'll love it. [Baton taps]

Klaus: [voice-over from present] And what a show it was.

[The curtain goes up to reveal Marcel staked in the hands to a wooden X. He is barely conscious. Lana is dead and is propped up on a swing, her mouth taped shut and a stake through her chest. The audience laughs and applauds]

Klaus: [voiceover] Mikael compelled the audience to watch it all, applaud as if it were the drollest of comedies, and then to leave celebrating a terrific night at the opera. I tried to save Marcel. [Klaus is on stage. He tries to pull the stakes from Marcel's hands but Mikael stops him] My father had other ideas. Rebekah attempted to intervene. [Applause from the crowd as Mikael pushes Rebekah to the ground and stabs her in the stomach] All these years, I actually believed she was trying to save me. [Klaus tries to att*ck again but Mikael throws Klaus across the stage]

Klaus: Agh! [Laughter and applause] [voiceover] But then big brother swooped in.

Elijah: [in flashback] There's no helping Marcel.

Klaus: [voiceover] Just when we thought all was lost.

Elijah: We must run.

[Klaus scooped Rebekah up in his arms, and as they leave, Mikael feeds off of Marcel then grabs a lantern from the stage]

Klaus: [voiceover] And so I ran, beaten like the dog my father believed me to be And as we fled for our lives, he burnt it all to the ground [Mikael walks up toward the exit past the audience which is now silent and staring straight forward all compelled not to leave. He throws the lantern and it crashes and catches the Opera House on fire. Mikael leaves] and with it we assumed, Marcel.

End of Flashback

Present Day – Main Street, Old Opera House

Klaus: I lived, but all that we had built d*ed, as did the last shred of me that felt human. That is what my father took from me that night. I assure you, Camille, I will not terrorize my sister and her lover for centuries. Nor will I humiliate and torment or dehumanize them. No, none of that. I will simply and quickly end them. [he lets go of Cami and vamp speeds away before Cami can catch him]

Cami: Klaus, wait!

LaFayette Cemetery

[Celeste sits against a grave in the cemetery awakening after Elijah bit her]

Celeste: Now, you didn't have to bite me to get me here. I wanted front-row seats to this show.

Elijah: And what show would that be?

Celeste: [stands up] The one where you see your "Always and Forever" pact come crashing down around you. It's a myth, Elijah, a myth I d*ed for.

Elijah: And yet here you stand alive...For now.

Celeste: Is that a thr*at? Oh, there's always another pretty, young body for me to jump into. From now on, every time you feel a connection to a woman, you'll be forced to wonder if it's me. [as she talks, she backs away towards the entrance] You'll trust no one and spend the rest of eternity alone. [She crosses the threshold, and when Elijah tries to run after her, he's stopped by an invisible barrier] Hahaha! Hahaha! [Sabine laughs as he falls to the ground] I'm afraid you're trapped. Boundary spell. The Originals can enter, but they can't leave.

Elijah: You wouldn't.

Celeste: I would, and I did.

[On the other side of the cemetery, Marcel and Rebekah have just dug up Davina; she was buried in a white cloth. He lowers the cloth to look at her face then covers it back up again]

Marcel: I got you, D. I got you. [he picks her up in his arms and they hurry toward the exit. Marcel is able to leave freely but when Rebekah tries to follow she realizes she is trapped] What is it?

Rebekah: It's a trap. Run. Get Davina out of here.

Marcel: I'm not leaving you behind.

Rebekah: You must.

Marcel: I will not leave you behind!

Rebekah: I swear I will join you. Go. Get Davina someplace safe.

Marcel: I will [They stare at each other for a moment and then he vamp speeds away]

[Return to where Celeste and Elijah are talking]

Celeste: Don't worry. It's a lunar spell. You'll be free by the next moonrise. My guess is, your sister won't last that long. Ah, while this body has been a hell of a lot of fun, I do think it's time I find someone else to play in, don't you?

[Celeste bends down and picks up a candle on the ground. She smashes it against a tree and picks up a shard of glass. She stabs it into Sabine's neck; coughing she falls dead to the ground. Monique comes out of the shadows, disappointed, as she looks at Sabine's body]

Monique: You were right.

[Monique points toward the tunnels, revealing to Elijah that she had performed the spell. In the tunnel, Celeste awakens in her original body covered by a white sheet, gasping awake. She is shocked and confused as to this sudden turn of events]

Elijah: Hello, Celeste. [Elijah enters as she gets to her feet and backs away from him]

Celeste: How is this possible?

Elijah: Monique Deveraux and I had a little wager regarding your ability to keep a promise. It appears I won. You were so consumed with my downfall, that you lost the trust of one of your own.

Celeste: Non. Mon cheri, non. Tout est possible. Ce n'est pas fini. Aah!

Elijah: Désolé.

[Elijah stabs her in the stomach with Papa Tunde's blade, she screams then drops to the ground dead]

St. Anne's Church – Attic

[Marcel lays Davina on the bed and waits anxiously and nervously. A moment passes when suddenly Davina awakens, she gasps and tries to fight her away out from under the sheet. Marcel rushes to her side]

Marcel: Davina [sitting her up] You're ok. You're safe now. You hear me? You're safe. I won't let anyone hurt you, ok?

LaFayette Cemetery

[Klaus walks into the cemetery wielding the indestructible white oak stake, screaming in a rage for Rebekah]

Klaus: REBEKAH! REBEKAH! Cherish the breath in your lungs! It'll be your last.

Flashback – Main Street, Opera House, 1919

Mikael: The final act of Le Grand Guignol is upon us! Where are my players? Enough running, children! Step out of the shadows so we can finish this tale of sorrows.

[He screams as he walks down the street with his white oak stake in hand. Just ahead, Klaus carries Rebekah in his arms. She is still unconscious as Elijah hurries beside him down the desolate dark street]

Elijah: He's coming.

[Elijah steps up onto the sidewalk and grabs a metal stake from someone's fence as Klaus sets Rebekah down on the street]

Klaus: All right. [he bites into his wrist and feeds Rebekah his blood to awaken her] Come on, sister.

Rebekah: Marcel.

Elijah: He's gone, sister. [She looks behind them to see the Opera House in flames, screams are heard from those dying, trapped inside]

Rebekah: No. No. [she cries]

Elijah: Both of you must flee the city. I'll hold him off, Niklaus.

[Klaus pulls up Rebekah to her feet]

Klaus: No. We fight him together.

Elijah: We cannot fight him. All we can do is do what we've done. We deceive him. We lead him astray. Now, I can do that as well as anyone. You take her far away from here. I'll follow you.

Rebekah: No, Elijah. You can't. You can't, Elijah. [she cries] This is just- this is my fault.

Klaus: No. This is my fault, Rebekah. I am so sorry. I'm sorry.

Marcel--[the building explodes, all three turn to look; a siren blares] I thought we'd found a home here.

Elijah: Niklaus, please. Sister, come. [he hugs Rebekah and kisses her cheek softly] You must leave. Go. [Klaus stares at him, a single tear falls from his face] Leave! [Elijah orders and at vampire speed Klaus disappears with Rebekah into the night]

End of Flashback

Present Day – Cemetery, Night

[Elijah walks past the crypts and stops in front of one. Rebekah comes out beside him.]

Rebekah: Elijah?

Elijah: What are you doing here? Rebekah, you should be on the other side of the world by now. Rebekah: You and I both know that wouldn't have been far enough.

Klaus: GET AWAY FROM HER! She's mine.

[is eyes turn yellow as the veins protrude on his face. Elijah holds Papa Tunde's blade in his hand, it shakes as he bars his teeth at Klaus as does Rebekah. Both are ready to att*ck]

END CREDITS

-Wiki
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