The Originals: Sinners and Saints (S1: E5)

Elijah wakes up looking famished, Davina offers him a drop of her blood, and soon they’re chatting like two people who are mutually suspicious of each other.

Davina tells him that she was part of a ritual known as the The Harvest. Basically, four teenage witches were chosen for a very special calling - to help restore their ancestral magic to the earth so all the witches in their coven could benefit from it. They wore pretty white dresses and chanted a few things, and prepared for The Reaping. They were told The Reaping involved cutting their hands and giving a small amount of their blood, and that they would “go to sleep” and be reborn later on. (I must pause here to ask, how gullible WERE these girls?)

They all noticed Sophie Devereax bitching at Jane-Anne, her sister, about allowing Monique (Sophie’s niece, Jane-Anne’s daughter) to participate in the ritual. Sophie kept showing up telling them they were all psychos, but that didn’t seem to worry the girls. (Very, very gullible.)

At The Reaping, the first girl went to have her hand cut. Instead, the Witch in Charge cut her throat WIDE open. The other girls screamed and panicked, but they were being restrained and dragged to the altar by their loved ones. YIKES. Davina tells Elijah she begged her mother to save her, to make it stop, but her mother wouldn’t even look at her.

Sophie showed up in the cemetery, screaming her head off, just in time to watch Monique get slaughtered. She’s busy sobbing and crying and watching Davina, the last sacrifice, being dragged to the altar when Marcel (interesting fact: Sophie and Marcel were lovers, back when the witches and vampires got along, and she told her priest about the sacrifice which was how Marcel found out, seeing as Father Kieran was a buddy of his) jumped the wall and saved her life. His vampires started attacking the other witches, and the whole ceremony ended in a blood bath. Marcel took Davina away and hid her in the attack of Father Kieran’s church, where she would be safe. When he asked her what he could get for her, Davina said she wanted them to pay.

Davina explains to Elijah that the ritual was working to restore their magic - when a girl died, all her power was passed to the next. As a result, Davina has far more power than she can control. But unless she dies, all of the witches magic will fade because The Reaping hasn’t been finished. She has no intention of dying, because she doesn’t trust the witches to resurrect her - and who can blame her?

Elijah proposes a deal: she lets him go, and in exchange he gives her access to Esther’s spell books. They will help her understand and control her magical abilities.

Marcel barges in, telling Davina they have to move her - too many people know where she is - and she pretends to faint, after claiming something bad is outside. He grudgingly puts her back in bed, pissed because he spent all day distracting Klaus and Rebekah so he could move her without any Original interference.

Outside, Klaus is waiting to taunt him about poorly laid plans.

Marcel states that it doesn’t matter, because Klaus will never take Davina from him. Klaus jumps down from the balcony he’s teetering on and punches Marcel hard enough to knock him over. He says he can take Davina anytime he wants to. They fight a little, but Elijah interrupts, knocking Marcel down again. (Poor Marcel, you’re not match for an Original.) He tells Marcel he will handle his brother, and they take off.

While Marcel was busy trying to distract him, Klaus he learned that the witches put a hex on Sean, Cami’s brother, so that Kieran would think he was going crazy and be too distracted to bother the witches or foil their plans to sacrifice their daughters. Except he did go crazy, and murder everybody. Klaus’s face when he heard the news makes me worry for all the witches in Louisiana.

Back at the manor, Rebekah is overjoyed to see Elijah - but he’s too busy making sex eyes at Hayley to care. He trails her outside, to the porch. Hayley states the obvious: “You’re back.” He agrees. They both stare at each other some more, and I’m wondering about the wisdom of shacking up with the werewolf who’s pregnant with your brother’s baby, when Hayley smacks him, hard. “Don’t make promises you can’t keep,” she tells him, before leaving him there. He doesn’t look less turned on.

Inside, Elijah tells everyone they’ve been wrong from the start. The war was a lie, meant to draw Klaus in and get him to find Davina. Ultimately, the whole thing is about family - Jane-Anne killed herself to hatch the plan that would expose Davina, so Sophie and the other witches can kill her, and thus resurrect Monique.

Yeah. Wow. These witches are crazy and INTERESTING, am I right?