- Joseph Morgan ( Ben Hur (2006) ) as Klaus Mikaelson
- Daniel Gillies ( Captivity ) as Elijah Mikaelson
- Claire Holt as Rebekah Mikaelson
- Phoebe Tonkin as Hayley
- Charles Michael Davis as Marcel
- Daniella Pineda as Sophie Deveraux
- Leah Pipes as Cami
- Danielle Campbell as Davina
Season 1
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 1]
Always and Forever
Shown 03/Oct/13
This is basically a warmed-over version of the backdoor pilot from Season 4 of Vampire Diaries . Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) follows his sociopathic brother Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) to New Orleans, where they get involved in a witchy plot against the self-crowned King (a former protégé of Klaus).
The Salvatore Brothers' scenes have been cut from the ep, and a few flashback scenes (featuring the Originals' father) inserted.
The Mikaelson siblings lived in New Orleans for two centuries, and yet never developed a Louisiana accent. Instead, despite being Norse Vikings who lived in France and Italy for centuries during the Middle Ages, they speak in an upper-class English tone.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 2]
House of the Rising Son
Shown 08/Oct/13
Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) arrives in New Orleans.
Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) tries to play along with Marsellus, but this is not easy because his sister Rebekah and his baby-momma Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) cannot sit still long enough to lie low.
Rebekah does not give a damn about Klaus' goals, she just wants to rescue Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ).
We get more flashbacks - this time on how Klaus met Marsellus and took him as a protege.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 3]
Tangled Up in Blue
Shown 15/Oct/13
Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) has a plan to get Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) back. As always, it means manipulating everyone and sacrificing innocent people.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 4]
Girl in New Orleans
Shown 22/Oct/13
One of the Witches takes Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) the werewolf baby-momma out into the Bayou for a pre-natal checkup. Unfortunately, nobody's plans run according to schedule.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 5]
Sinners and Saints
Shown 29/Oct/13
Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) confronts Davina the uber-powerful teenage witch ( Danielle Campbell ).
Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) hangs out with his old pal Marcel.
Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) looks after the baby-momma Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ).
Through their combined efforts, the Originals discover the truth behind the witches' plan.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 6]
Fruit of the Poisoned Tree
Shown 05/Nov/13
The ep starts with a new voiceover by Rebekah ( Claire Holt ), while Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) recites A Poison Tree by William Blake.
Some ninja-looking dudes kidnap Sophie the Hot Witch ( Daniella Pineda ). Their aim is to kill the unborn hybrid baby by exploiting her link with its mother Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ).
Klaus and Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) go after the witches, each in his own way.
The loose ends get tied up, and Rebekah gets the chance to leave town and make a clean break of it. But unfortunately Marcel has a plan of his own. Also, the woman who Klaus helps is an ungrateful bitch.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 7]
Bloodletting
Shown 12/Nov/13
Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) the werewolf baby-momma is in the hands of an old friend - but this person is out to get even with Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ), whatever the cost.
Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) comes back to help Hayley. But Klaus has left such a legacy of mistrust that everyone assumes the worst of him ... and they are willing to side against him.
Marcel has his tame teen super-witch Davina ( Danielle Campbell ) de-compel Klaus' mole. It seems like he is gearing up for a war, even though Rebekah and Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) were willing to leave town.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 8]
The River in Reverse
Shown 26/Nov/13
Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) confesses her sins to the Priest, thus narrating the events of the previous 24 hours.
Marcel's alliance-building in the previous ep has worked out for him. He knows about Klaus' plans for a hybid army. He has a double agent who can lead Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) into a trap, and the silver dagger as bait. He even has an army of vamps willing to die for him. The last one is particularly useful, since Klaus is a hybrid - physically invulnerable, but with werewolf strength to match his vampire speed.
Back in the Bayou, Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) nurses Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) as he has fevered flashbacks.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 9]
Reigning Pain in New Orleans
Shown 03/Dec/13
Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) moves into his new kingdom. Marcel plays along, as a loyal subject. To earn the loyalty of the other vamps, Klaus sends them out to kill the local werewolves, so Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) sends Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) and Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) to save them. As well as learning more about her family, they also discover more about their own.
Klaus has to meet the local Human authorities. But he will not bow to the Police when they demand protection money. This will not end well ...
Everyone Klaus helps is plotting against him. Hayley is ungrateful for Klaus protecting her. The teen super-witch Davina ( Danielle Campbell ) hears that Mad Agnes is gone, and assumes the witches are no longer a threat to her. And the Priest's niece Cami ( Leah Pipes ) is still trying to out-maneuvre Klaus, to render his compulsion ineffective.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 10]
The Casket Girls
Shown 14/Jan/14
Back in the heyday of pre-Civil War New Orleans, women did not need to work for a living. They were given free food and a place to live, with the work done by slaves - until Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) killed all the men and left the women wandering lost on the street. And that sums up the girlie rebellion of the episode.
Rebekah is angry at Marcel for teaming up with Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) again. This is in spite of the fact that SHE is the one who advised him to do that. After all, his only other choice was certain death. So she throws another stroppy fit, and plots against him. After all, why bother letting the town recover from its recent civil wars?
The witchling Davina ( Danielle Campbell ) is angry at Marcel and Klaus for protecting her from the Witches. Even though the Elders are dead, the coven members are still out to complete the harvest ritual - which involves cutting the young girl's throat! Of course, the young witchlet is murderously angry and incredibly powerful.
Cami the waitress ( Leah Pipes ) is angry at Klaus and her uncle for protecting her from the terrible truths. She is a helpless pawn adrift in a world where witches and vampires constantly war. Her own brother was a victim, and her uncle helps save local humans from a similar fate. But she typically turns against those who helped her.
Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) the wolf-girl is bribed by the Witches to betray Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ). In exchange for the removal of her family's curse, she must help them obtain an item that will facilitate the Harvest ritual. Of course, this means betraying the Witchling as well.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 11]
Après Moi, Le Déluge
Shown 21/Jan/14
The mini-mega-witch Davina ( Danielle Campbell ) is still a bitch towards Marcel, even though he is the one who helped her. She does not understand the concept of Quid Pro Quo, and not merely because it is Latin. She is slowly exploding with the four elements, so the city will eventually be destroyed by natural disasters of earthquakes, wind-storms, water-floods and fire-storms. The witches must finish the Harvest ritual, but Celeste's bones do not work. They have to use the bones of the First Witch, Esther.
Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) plans an alliance with Sophie Deveraux ( Daniella Pineda ), the new Elder Witch. But who can be trusted?
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 12]
Dance Back From the Grave
Shown 28/Jan/14
The effects of the Harvest ritual begin to get felt. A powerful witch-doctor starts sacrificing vamps.
Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) releases Thierry from the garden, as he promised. Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) continues her alliance with him, but he is a spineless weasel who will not even ask Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) for help when the witch-doctor starts trouble.
Marcel is almost useless, grieving the witchlet Davina ( Danielle Campbell ). He tries to make up with Cammie the blonde bartender, and while she is a hypocritical bitch she still warms towards him.
Sophie the Witch ( Daniella Pineda ) is the only one who realises that the witch-doctor is linked to the failure of the Harvest ceremony. But nobody has a clue who is really behind this.
In a flashback to 1918, we discover that Marcel and Rebekah plotted against Klaus. And friendly witch Genevieve ( Elyse Levesque ) will play an important role in their plan.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 13]
Crescent City
Shown 04/Feb/14
The Originals have finally worked out what is going on. Someone secretly hijacked the Harvest ritual, and used it to revive some powerful witches - ones who have a grudge against the Originals.
Sophie Devereaux's niece is revived, after the Harvest magic is released from the Haitian witch-doctor. Marcel sees this as a chance of getting his witchlet Davina ( Danielle Campbell ) back, but Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) prefers to use his typical methods. Both Cammie the bartender and Sophie the Witch ( Daniella Pineda ) already hate and fear him. Since Klaus never bothers with hearts and minds (except when torturing them) this will end badly for him.
Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) joins Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) at her Full Moon party. Since Marcel had Hayley's clan bewitched and their wolf-shifting reversed, they can only become human at the full moon. The fact not mentioned is that to activate their werewolf status, each one of them must have been responsible for a human's death. Anyhow, Rebekah goes off with a naked Cajun dude. Unfortunately, Genevieve ( Elyse Levesque ) is still out for revenge on her.
Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) confronts the person he suspects to be behind the wicked witchery.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 14]
Long Way Back From Hell
Shown 25/Feb/14
Genevieve ( Elyse Levesque ) holds Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) and Rebekah ( Claire Holt ), weakened by magic and werewolf venom respectively. She links their minds and makes Rebekah relive the events of 1918, when Rebekah plotted to bring her father to hunt Klaus.
Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) discovers Sophie's fate, and gets a clue to the witches' grudge against the Originals. While Marcel and his daywalkers tear the city apart, Elijah and Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) try to solve the witches' puzzle.
The witches' plan is to destroy the Originals by turning them against each other. Can Elijah get to them before Klaus takes his terrible revenge?
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 15]
Le Grand Guignol
Shown 04/Mar/14
Cammie nurses Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ), and we get an extended flashback to 1919. Strangely, it appears that at one stage in the city's history, the Queen of the werewolves was Creole rather than Cajun. Klaus and the other Originals have settled nicely into New Orleans. Everyone was happy, for a change. Then, while at a night to the Opera, their father Mikael (Sebastian Roche - Odyssey 5 ) pays a visit.
Rebekah ( Claire Holt ) and Marcel should get clean away, but return for the mini-witch Davina ( Danielle Campbell ).
Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) hunts Celeste, to keep Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) safe. She is tougher than she looks ...
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 16]
Farewell to Storyville
Shown 11/Mar/14
Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) is after Rebekah ( Claire Holt ), holding her personally responsible for the events of the previous episode. He is intent on Final Death-ing her. Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) tries to stay between the two of them. There are some flashbacks to their childhood, when their father abused Klaus terribly. Coll, Finn and their mother Esther ( Alice Evans ) are noticeably absent.
Marcel gets Cammie to help with the mini-witch Davina ( Danielle Campbell ). The poor wee thing had a rough time of it while in the afterlife, and now she is back she has PTSD. Unfortunately, Marcel needs a powerful witch to rescue Rebekah and to cure the priest who got hexed. Genevieve ( Elyse Levesque ) is in charge of the Coven now.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 17]
Moon Over Bourbon Street
Shown 18/Mar/14
Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) calls a meeting of the Powers in the French Quarter, and tears up Marcel's old rules which oppressed the werewolves and witches. He did not bother inviting the werewolves, because they are in the bayou and have no presence in the French Quarter. To correct this oversight, he has to throw a party.
Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) secretly offers a separate deal to the werewolves. He has his mother's moonwalker pendant, presumably the equivalent of a vampire's daylight ring. What the wolf leader sees (and Klaus apparently fails to see) is that the moonwalker spell would give the wolves the same strengths as Hybrids, but with none of their weaknesses.
Klaus is also rubbing shoulders (and other bits) with the new head witch, Genevieve ( Elyse Levesque ). He is a very forgiving person these days, although he previously forgave Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) for getting his hybrid army to rebel against him.
Marcel may be an outcast, but he is still in town. He tries to get a couple of fellow outcasts on his side - Thierry, and the mini-witch's Gay Best friend. Can they get the mini-witch Davina ( Danielle Campbell ) on their side again?
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 18]
The Big Uneasy
Shown 15/Apr/14
Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) has signed the four powers to a Treaty. Head Witch Genevieve ( Elyse Levesque ) requests the right to hold a public ceremony, and Elijah ensures everyone attends to pay their respects. However, everyone seems to be planning a double-cross of some kind.
The Werewolves hold up their end of the deal with Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ). They want moonlight rings, and his wolf-clan may have the secret. He wants to keep Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) out of the loop, because she has a bond with Elijah.
The Witches have an extremist faction - the Harvest Girls. They want to sacrifice Genevieve to return their full power. After all, they did not care about the deaths of the Marceau sisters. Genevieve is keen to sleep with Klaus, but she would rather steal his mother's grimoire.
The Vamps are always grumbling about having to be nice to everyone. Marcel takes advantage of that, and plans to disrupt the Witches' ceremony. Of course, he never actually expects Elijah to punish him for the massacre.
The Humans do not ask for anything, except for the Witches to remove the hex on Father Kieran. Unfortunately, Genevieve decides to do the opposite of whatever she thinks Klaus wants.
Ironically, Klaus is the good guy of the episode. He makes sneaky back-room political deals, but this only strengthens the Treaty that Elijah can back only with good intentions. He attempts to make amends with Davina ( Danielle Campbell ) when the others shun her, and even forgives some (if not all) of those who wronged him. But in spite of this, others still treat him as a villain.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 19]
Death with Benefits AKA An Unblinking Death
Shown 22/Apr/14
Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) has gotten the factions to sign up for his deal, but they have done it in name only. He has yet to realise that Klaus' back-room side-deals are the only thing keeping the peace. Elijah visits Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) and the werewolves. Unfortunately, someone takes the opportunity to bomb the wolf encampment. Hayley goes after Marcel.
Father Kieran is dying. Cami ( Leah Pipes ) is distraught, going so far as to get the gay vamp to compel a doctor to perform 1950s-style Electro-Convulsive Therapy (electric shocks) on Kieran's brain. Marcel is exiled from the French Quarter, so he asks Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) to help talk sense into her.
Despite several characters all swearing bloody vengeance on each other at the end of the previous episode, by the end of this one they are all on speaking terms (or more) again!
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 20]
A Closer Walk with Thee
Shown 29/Apr/14
Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) has nightmares about his father, Mikael (Sebastian Roche - Odyssey 5 ). It turns out the Veil is weakening - he makes an off-screen call to Bonnie in Vampire Diaries to confirm this. Yes, in yet another cross-over to the original show (no pun intended) there is a vague reference to the Travellers weakening the walls of The Other Side.
The Harvest Girls are messing about with a séance so the mini-witch Davina ( Danielle Campbell ) can say goodbye to her BF (who was killed by Klaus). Unfortunately, they bring back Mikael's ghost. He says he will help them get revenge on Klaus, but he goes after Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) and her unborn child.
Hayley may be heavily pregnant, but she can still kick a full-grown bodyguard's ass. She confronts the human leader about the suicide-bomb attack. But the leader is fixated in getting Father Kieran's key back. Cammie looks for it - but she wants it for herself, because her family are the intended leaders of humanity in the French Quarter.
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 21]
The Battle of New Orleans
Shown 06/May/14
Marcel makes his move against the Originals. He starts by interfering with the Crescent werewolves' attempt to get stones for moonlight rings. Then he tries to take the compound back. Elijah (Daniel Gillies - Captivity ) fends off Marcel's entire Vamp army, while Klaus (Joseph Morgan - Ben Hur (2006) ) goes after Marcel himself.
While the boys are left to play, Hayley ( Phoebe Tonkin ) the werewolf princess guards Genevieve ( Elyse Levesque ) the witch. The human woman and her many brothers pop up to help.
Cammie researches in her uncle's secret archive, and discovers a double-cross in the offing. She leaves Hayley a lot of voice-mails, but does not bother to text her!
Several episodes ago this reviewer noted that the werewolf Queen was a Creole in 1919, while the new wolf-pack are all Cajuns. It turns out that there is actually a reason for that. The Cajuns are the Crescent Pack, but there used to be another pack - the Guerra pack. Presumably the Guerras included both Creoles and the Mafia types shown in prior episodes. Nobody has heard from them since Marcel wiped them out in the 1920s. But to coin a phrase, they haven't gone away, you know!
Originals, The [Season 1, Episode 22]
From a Cradle to a Grave
Shown 13/May/14
Despite the werewolves doing the majority of the damage last episode, it is the witches who make up most of the threat this time. Genevieve ( Elyse Levesque ) needs to sacrifice the baby, or she will be replaced with the fourth Harvest girl. Yes, the Power of Three (like in old-time TV show Charmed ) is not enough for them.
The third Harvest Girl, Davina ( Danielle Campbell ), has her own agenda. With the Veil to the Other Side failing, she can bring back Mikael (Sebastian Roche - Odyssey 5 ). Since the only thing he feeds on is other vampires, and Marcel's army is still lying around bleeding from werewolf bites, the result is quite predictable.
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