It seems that The Originals wasn’t done upping its body count this season. Find out who we said goodbye to in “Where Nothing Stays Buried.”
Last week’s episode was rough, what with the entire thing being an ode to Cami, basically spelling out her character’s ultimate demise. If that’s not bad enough, we get no reprieve from awful losses in this week’s episode. Check out what The Originals season 3, episode 20 did that is going to take us a long time to move past.
Klaus is at war
Cami’s death has put Klaus on the warpath, but it’s also made him compassionate. When Kol comes to the compound looking for help to save Davina, he embraces his brother with kindness. A kindness we’ve never truly seen before from Klaus. It’s a testament to this show that Klaus does continue to grow. If this storyline had taken place in season 1, Klaus would have sacrificed Davina in a second as long as it secured his immortality or that of another with the last name Mikaelson.
Klaus is finally seeing reason and is learning that he has to care and protect more than just himself and his family from danger. He may not love Davina, but he knows that allowing Freya to use her as a conduit for the magic she needs to rid the world of Lucien will condemn Davina to a fate worse than death. He knows that if Davina is sacrificed, Marcel and Kol will lose their minds and will never forget or forgive those responsible. It’s too bad that Klaus isn’t around when Freya does the spell.
Marcel loses everything…again
The only person more determined to bring Davina back to the land of the living than Kol is Marcel. He and Davina have been bonded since long before we met them. Their connection has been tested time and time again, but they’ve both come through for each other when the going truly gets tough. His fury at Kol is only trumped by the true rage that boils in his veins as Freya breaks the spell protecting Davina.
Freya channels the power she needs, but it costs Davina her protection from the ancestors. Marcel, Vincent, and Kol have Van Nguyen at knifepoint using all his power as Regent to resurrect her, hoping beyond hope that they can get to her spirit in time, but they are too late to save her. Van Nguyen tells them that there simply was no spirit to call anymore. She was just, gone.
Despite Kol’s love for her, it’s painfully obvious that Marcel is the hardest hit by this loss. His pain is only exacerbated by the fact that he hasn’t had a chance to grieve Cami yet, a woman he once cared deeply for, and all that grief turns into uncontrollable rage.
A chance to put Lucien down
Freya’s desperate action does come to use as she and Elijah show up just in time to save Hayley from Lucien’s wrath. He literally had her heart in his hand and was ready to rip it out of her back. Freya successfully reverses the spell that made him a beast, and Klaus finishes him once and for all.
Lucien goes from the cockiest foe Klaus has ever faced to a stable boy begging for his life in a matter of seconds. Klaus shows him the exact amount of mercy that Lucien would have shown him: none. He takes a shard of glass and slashes Lucien across the mouth just as Tristan did when he was punishing him for romancing Aurora, a crime Lucien wished he were guilty of. He then rips Lucien’s heart out of his body and burns it. Lucien is no more. The original turned vampire is dead.
Freya is no hero
While she may have brought Lucien to his knees, she is popular with exactly no one right now. Marcel is shunning the entire Mikaelson family, calling them out on their loyalty to only each other. Elijah tries to remind Marcel that he, too, is a part of their family, but his assurances fall on deaf ears. Marcel has zero interest in anything regarding the Mikaelsons at this point, unless it involves bringing them down.
She goes to both Vincent and Klaus as well, looking for absolution, but neither will offer her any. Vincent is furious that she was willing to sacrifice an innocent girl whose life was still just beginning for vampires who have walked this earth far longer than they deserve. And Klaus is not willing to celebrate the win, even if Cami’s death was avenged in the process. She has created an even bigger monster by alienating Marcel.
The beast lives on
The werewolf-venom spewing Original vampire that Lucien had become is not yet in our rear view. Vincent performed a spell that drew all the serum that Aurora imbibed to her heart. He then used a needle to remove it, and is now ready to take down the Mikaelsons. He is ready to channel Marcel’s rage toward his new cause, and he delivers the vial of serum to New Orleans former king.
Freya has definitely created a whole new monster, and this one is more bloodthirsty than any that have come before.