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While the pilot was more of a review of what we already know, the second episode of The Originals came crashing up, kicked in the doors, and announced itself as TWISTED AND AWESOME. Fucking A.
Marcel and Klaus are playing nice, with Marcel explaining to Klaus a bit about how he runs “his” kingdom. He occasionally invites a bunch of tourists into his lair and lets his vampire minions feast, for example. When Klaus asks about the body count Marcel tells him he doesn’t kill them, just lets his guys feed and then heals them, wipes their memories, and sends them on their way. Klaus is impressed, or at least pretends to be (I can’t imagine he hasn’t already thought of everything).
Marcel gets a call from someone - an unknown enemy slayed six of his vampires! HOW DARE THEY? He immediately stops the tutorial and gets to the business of finding out who.
Meanwhile, Rebekah is back in black and on a mission. She, of course, disposed of Marcel’s pesky vampires. She goes to the mansion where Elijah was staying and starts shouting his name, complaining that if not answering his phone was a ruse to get her to the Big Easy, it worked.
Hayley comes down the stairs and they meet. Rebekah doesn’t seem overly impressed, commenting that she was expecting a “mystical baby bump.” She asks about Elijah and Hayley guesses he just took off, despite his promise to protect her, because that’s what Klaus told her.
Rebekah immediately senses a rat - her brother - and starts screaming for Klaus to get his ass into the room and explain what he did with Elijah. Klaus appears, dropping hints about Elijah taking a long nap. Basically he admits that Elijah has been daggered and boxed but won’t tell her where.
After he leaves Rebekah tells Hayley they have to search the house from top to bottom. They do, and find the rest of the family coffins in a secret room downstairs. Hayley is understandably disturbed, and Rebekah explains that when things don’t go Klaus’s way, he tends to punish his siblings by putting them into a “deep slumber” for lengthy periods of time. Also, it sucks. Welcome to the family, Hayley.
We also get to see more of the Mikaelson’s past. In a flashback, Rebekah remembers being in love with the governor’s son (the same governor that once owned the mansion the family is staying in). The governor knew the Mikaelson’s, and let them do as they pleased. He threw lavish parties and they drank their fill of human blood. Rebekah, being a hopeless romantic, begs Klaus and Elijah to let her turn the governor’s only son so they can be together. Elijah, ever practical, suggests the governor might not to be so forgiving of their lifestyle if his only son ends up dead. Klaus takes a more direct approach and tosses her lover over the side of the staircase and to his abrupt death. Harsh.
We also discover that the governor had a second son, a slave. Klaus and the Mikaelson’s see the boy, not more than ten, being viciously whipped. Rather than cowering, the boy gets pissed and throws a rock at the guy. Before he can retaliate, Klaus throws a better rock and hits him in the center of his forehead, knocking him off his horse and killing him.
He introduces himself and asks the boy’s name. The boy says he doesn’t get a name until he turns ten. Klaus tells him he’s a survivor, and all survivors deserve names. He decides then and there to name him Marcellous, after a god of war. Elijah and Rebekah look on, impressed and hopeful. They adopt Marcel into their family.
In New Orleans, 2013, Hayley goes into the Quarter despite Klaus’s orders not to. She goes to a Voodoo shop and asks for wolfsbane. She plans to abort her hybrid baby. The shop keep gives her a bottle, then after she leaves promptly calls someone and tattles that a wolf is in the Quarter.
Marcel and Klaus are off having drinks, playing nice, when Klaus clues in to Marcel’s crush on a pretty blond girl named Cami. He invites her over and encourages her to go out with Marcel; she declines. Marcel gets a phone call that there’s a wolf in the French Quarter, and tells a few of his minions to take care of it. Klaus overhears, and takes the opportunity to try to clear Rebekah’s name as far as Marcel’s six dead vampires. Marcel isn’t buying, and tells Klaus to keep her in line. Klaus makes a quip about it being easier to drain the Mississippi with a straw.
Hayley sits in the open, contemplating making herself sick to kill the baby, when three angry vampires show up. She fends off one and two more appear, only to have their hearts ripped out by Rebekah.
They go back to the mansion to try and dispose of the bodies and Klaus shows up, good and pissed. He wants to know what they think they’re doing.
Rebekah, angry, asks him what he’s doing to honor his promise to Elijah. He tells her. He’s having trouble getting Marcel’s trust; Marcel’s guys are all drinking vervane so they can’t be compelled. He used the death of the six minions to put a guy of his own on the inside, a newly dead vampire he can control. He demands to know why Hayley was in the Quarter and when she says she went to get “poison” he immediately puts two and two together and arrives at strangulation.
Rebekah interrupts, asking him why the hell he claims he doesn’t want the baby if he’s going to act like an ass the second the mother tries to get rid of it. Then, clearly exasperated, she tells him it’s OK to want things.
By the way, Rebekah has never had trouble wanting things and making it known. As Marcel got older, and wiser, they fell for each other (sort of?). They may have even done something about it if Klaus hadn’t threatened both their lives and then spared Marcel only to dagger Rebekah to teach her a lesson…the lesson being, maybe, she can’t date anyone ever because he’s a controlling psychopath.
Hayley puts herself firmly on team Rebekah by giving her the “antique steak knives” Klaus could use to put her to sleep. Rebekah is very grateful, and immediately confronts Marcel after realizing, to her absolute horror, that Klaus used their brother as a bargaining chip. She asks him WTF he did with Elijah, and he respond by taking her to see the body - and, his secret weapon, Davina.
Rebekah tries to undagger Elijah and gets thrown around and knocked unconscious for her trouble. When she wakes up Marcel tells her it’s his city, and he isn’t giving Elijah back until he’s damn good and ready, and the Mikaelson’s need to learn their place.
Klaus goes to see Hayley. She complains she can’t sleep because of the heat and he asks why she didn’t kill the baby and leave. She says she realized when fighting for her life that she was also fighting for the baby. She asks Klaus why he doesn’t just leave - why is New Orleans so important to him? He tells her, with no small amount of emotion, that he took Marcel in and raised him like a son. When they fled the city they believed he was dead and mourned him. Instead of finding the Mikaelson’s, Marcel stayed in New Orleans and took everything they built and made it his own. He ends by saying that the stamp, M, Marcel puts on everything, stands for Mikaelson. Not Marcel. He says something about getting the AC fixed and takes off.
Rebekah storms into the house and tells Klaus she thinks they can use Cami against Marcel and she knows what the secret weapon is, a witch more powerful than any they’ve ever experienced. She’s panicked, telling Klaus he gave their brother away and now they’re fucked. She says she intends to get Elijah no matter what and demands to know what his loyalties are.
Klaus, perhaps looking ashamed, agrees to help her get Elijah.
Marcel, that bastard, asks Davina for a favor: he needs her to figure out how to kill an Original.
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