A werewolf bite, a plotting Mikaelson, and a whole lot of talk about secrets and truths make up the bulk of The Originals season 2, episode 11. Check out our recap of the episode.
Recap of ‘The Originals’ season 2, episode 11, ‘Brotherhood of the Damned’
Marcel, his vampires, and Kol are still trapped in the compound, and Klaus is eager to find a way to get them out. Marcel breaks the bad news that he was bitten by a werewolf during the earlier struggle.
So, many years before, in response to Klaus’ forbidding his romance with Rebekah, Marcel enlisted and went to fight Nazi’s with the Harlem Hellrazers. While in the trenches, a fellow soldier suspects him to be something more than human. When their commanding officer falls in the middle of a less than inspirational speech, that man proposes that Marcel be their new leader.
Davina has little luck working her locator spell against Finn/Vincent, so she tries another route. She uses a spell to see what Finn is doing, and were he is. She is able to pinpoint his location, and she also knows that he is channeling the power of both parents and using totems. She and Klaus turn to go after him, and Klaus passes out.
Elijah is working with Cami to find a way to put his demons behind him, particularly those that involve the red door, and most specifically those involving Tatia. While they work, Elijah too grows faint and passes out just like Klaus. Kol is similarly brought down.
Finn uses those totems to put all three of his siblings down for the count. Once they are all unconscious (Klaus, Elijah, and Kol), they ‘awake’ in a nightmare of a cabin. Their bodies remain behind, but their minds are trapped with Finn’s.
Davina tries to rouse Klaus to no avail. While doing so, she discovers Klaus’ phone and answers it. When she learns from Cami that Elijah collapsed too, Davina instantly knows what she saw was Finn working a spell against all three of his brothers.
Back in dreamland, Finn tells the boys that he intends to keep them until sundown in the real world, when the barrier spell will drop and the vampires will be released upon the unsuspecting locals. Finn/Vincent, then releases Kol back to the present, just in time for Kol to tell Marcel everything.
Hayley and Jackson meet with a Crescent wolf elder to complete the wedding rituals that must be performed before they can be bound in mystical matrimony. Hayley becomes unsettled when she learns that one of the rituals involves smoking a special herb that will force her and Jackson to spill all their secrets. She immediately refuses and hustles away.
Finn continues to hold Klaus and Elijah hostage as he is most eager to know what Klaus truly values the most. Finn has been systematically pulling on strings to figure it out to no avail. Elijah was broken, Rebekah taken, the city is about to be lost, and Klaus still hasn’t reacted. We all know what Klaus protects. It’s the same secret Hayley doesn’t want to divulge. There’s a little baby whose very life hangs in the balance if anyone finds out she’s alive.
Jackson hurries to catch Hayley. While we know she has a good reason for keeping her secrets, Jackson does a heck of a good job of convincing her that he will not only protect her, but that her secrets and burdens will become his and she will never have to fight them alone again. It’s moments like these that have us truly questioning if Jackson is a better match for Hayley than Elijah appears to be.
Marcel’s visions show that back in the war, when all the soldiers were down on their luck, one man, Joe, asks to be turned so the fight would be even. Marcel agrees and turns them.
In present day, Marcel proposes a solution to his vampire brethren. When the barrier drops, rather than eating the locals alive, he wants them to follow him to his place across the river where they will have all the blood they need, and he has a vial of Klaus’ blood to cure himself. Gia is the most critical of Marcel, but even she sees the logic and wisdom in his plan. The barrier drops and the vampires leave the compound.
Finn thinks he has the remaining two brothers at his mercy, but when Elijah points out the flaw in the magic of their prison, the walls come tumbling down. Representational magic must be very precise, and Finn chose animals to represent the boys, but Elijah’s harboring of the secret regarding Tatia’s true murderer and Klaus’ willingness to forgive him show that the stag and the wolf are poor representations of their true spirits. Both awake where they fell.
Marcel leads the vampires in the present, and in the past addresses the vampire soldiers he commanded once in war to harness their hunger and use it to make them stronger. The past needed the men to feel upon enemy soldiers, and the present needs these vamps to fight it with everything they have until they reach a safe place and a safe blood supply. Marcel collapses in the street.
Marcel awakens in his loft, in Gia’s care after she administered Klaus’ blood to him, and set the vampires loose on Marcel’s blood bag stores downstairs. She apologizes for being so much trouble, and Marcel tells her that only the weak refuse to question authority. Finn shows up to congratulate Marcel and his vampire brethren on their strength of character. He then tells Marcel that his brothers have gone to some lengths to keep a secret from him. He knows he has no chance of getting it out of them, but he believes he can rip it from Marcel and kidnaps him.
Klaus arrives to Marcel’s loft, but he finds the vampires and Marcel gone. Aiden arrives per Klaus’ request to help, and the two get to talking. Aiden unwittingly lets Klaus in on Hayley’s plan to free her people. Klaus is unnerved when Aiden talks of them smoking the Blue Carumus plant, as he knows exactly what that herb is used for. He plans to go to the bayou and put a stop to this before Hayley can divulge the secret they all must keep: Hope.