The long-awaited return of the Mikaelsons has finally come. Check out our recap to learn about everything that happened in The Originals season 3, episode 1.
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You get a flashback, and you get a flashback, and you get a flashback!
In a rare moment, all five Original siblings start season 3 off together, granted it’s in the distant past, but it’s truly rare to see all the Mikaelsons (minus Freya) together. We see them bickering and slaughtering humans, as was all the rage for vampires back in the day.
The flashbacks don’t stop there. We get a handful more as the episode progresses, including a first look at how the Mikaelsons met Lucian. He was a servant to a family they slaughtered. Lucian offered to help them masquerade as the family they killed so that they can live lives of finery rather than sleeping in the woods. We don’t see the verdict, but since that flashback was followed up with Lucian in the present day, we can only imagine that at some point they turned him. Klaus turned him.
The next we see Lucian, he’s escorting the Mikaelsons into the gala and introducing them to the lord in charge. He has no worries about what the Mikaelsons might do to his lords, because he hates them.
Vampire fight club? Yes please!
Remember that church with the attic where Davina used to be kept prisoner? Where Cami’s Uncle Kevin was a minister? Yeah, Marcel turned that church, St. Anne’s, into a fight club. A little weird, sure, but awesome. We see him and Vincent spar a little, but we are just anxious to see what more can be done in a fighting ring later this season.
Regency ain’t easy
Go Davina! We learn early that her days as Regent have not started off easy. While she has cut off any and all help to the vampire contigent in New Orleans, there is still considerable dissent in the witches’ ranks. One witch, named Kara, actively fights back, trapping Davina in a circle of fire and harming her hand. After that attack, she goes incognito to visit Marcel and get his advice. He suggests she needs to demonstrate her power and soon to earn the witches respect of her leadership.
At the very end of the episode, we see that Davina drew Hayley out of the woods and into her crypt via a spell. She needs help, and has trapped Hayley as a captive audience to hear her out, and, undoubtedly, she will need her blood or something along the way.
The many adventures of Klaus Mikaelson
In the wake of last season, Klaus is kind of scattered. He’s having regular appointments with Cami, painting and hosting art shows, and basically putting up a front that he is not affected by his siblings’ distrust and dislike of him. While he attempts to lure Cami into something more than the professional relationship of shrink and patient, Cami is putting up boundaries and keeping Klaus in his place.
Cami O’Connell: Bartender, amateur shrink, and crime scene whisperer
Cami gets called to a crime scene by Vincent, where she meets Detective Will Kinney. She evaluates the scene and helps Kinney to get into the mind of the killer via the evidence left behind. She and Vincent quickly evaluate that the victims must have been compelled because, despite being bound, there are no signs of struggle or distress on the victims. They don’t tell Detective Kinney this, of course, but they are now on the case, and trying to figure out which vampire is killing people, and leaving gruesome tableaus.
From servant to penthouse
Lucian shows up to warn Klaus about how the sire lines are warring. He clues Niklaus in that there might be more White Oak in the world than he previously thought, and that if one of either Elijah or Rebekah’s sire lines wanted to be rid of the vampires created by Klaus, it would be all too easy to wipe out an entire line. All they would have to do is kill the Original that sired the line.
Lucian takes Klaus back to his penthouse where the revelry is lively to meet an expert cypher. She invites Klaus to feed on her, which will allow him to see into her mind. As he feeds, she starts reciting a prophecy in which she warns Klaus that before long the remaining three Mikaelson vampires will be gone. When Klaus decides he’s going to get murder-y, the seer tells him that the longer she’s in his presence, the clearer her vision of what horrors await will be. He needs her alive, unfortunately for Klaus.
Elijah Mikaelson, Wolf-hunter hunter
Elijah sets up a picnic for the wolves on the day before the full moon, but is accosted by a security team with high powered automatic weapons. They show up and talk about how he’s trespassing and that those lands have been purchased by Kingmaker, yadda yadda yadda. When the security guy talks about killing natural predators, namely wolves, Elijah loses his cool and kills the lot of them. Later that night, he leaves Hope in Freya’s care and runs off into the woods to kill all the wolf hunters still lingering.
Elijah is just about to slaughter the last of the hunters when a woman with dark hair jumps in and does it for him. He thinks she’s Hayley, but when she turns around, it clearly isn’t. She suggests that if Hayley isn’t with Hope, then she’s probably dead. Elijah finds a truck full of wolf bodies, but it doesn’t appear to have Hayley’s among them.
The last five minutes…
Lucian picks up a razor blade from his dresser and draws the blade across his lips like the murder victims that have been found in the Quarter. Clearly, Lucian has more plans for New Orleans than just having a chat or two with Klaus. We also see his stationary with the word “Kingmaker” at the top, who we learned earlier was the company that purchased the werewolf land and sent the hunters into the forest to kill the wolves that Elijah slaughtered. The last moments show Aurora, a girl we saw briefly in the flashbacks, get a message from a Buddhist priest which causes her to scream and kill the man before her.
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