Rebekah returns back to the Original's manor, being teased by her brothers, mostly Kol, about her one night stand. Irritated she sharply comes back. Kol persuades Klaus to have some quality time together in the good will of making up his act for sticking a dagger through his heart, Klaus reluctantly obliges. After they left, Elijah whom is suspicious of his mother as he finds her used privacy spell ingredients asks Rebekah whether Esther has been acting strange. Rebekah rebuffs Elijah reasoning Esther didn't have bad intentions as all she has been doing ever since she came back to life was rebuilding their family. Still unconvinced, Elijah decides to take matters into his own hands.

Bonnie, Caroline and Elena are trying to replicate Esther's privacy spell to no avail. Bonnie reveals that Esther has approached both her and Abby for help in performing the sacrificial ritual of the Originals. Unnerved to decline and that the fact she nor her mother had inadequate powers to go against an original witch as well as feeling guilty for having been a part of upsetting the balance of nature, Bonnie and Abby agrees. Elena who is still unwilling feels at odds with this revelation.

Elijah visits Elena and asks her to accompany him. He brings her to the forest area correlating with the Lockwood's land, explaining his world prior to the modern change. Elena tries to compose herself however Elijah points out he knew that she was lying the whole time. Unable to lie anymore, she confesses the truth and her guilt expressing that she'd do anything to help. Elijah who has planned everything, grabs her and shatters the ground, trapping her in the underground cellars. Rebekah is the one last card as she is there, able to kill Elena at any moment necessary.

Damon, Stefan and Alaric notices her disappearance and informs Caroline. She allies with them and agrees to distract Klaus for time being who is hanging with Kol at the grill. The distraction proves successful and the ritual began. Alaric stabs Kol for forcefully hitting on Meredith, and all the Original offspring feel the pain simultaneously. Klaus gets to his senses, abandons Caroline and helps Kol, albeit injuring Alaric. This buys time for Elena to escape from Rebekah's clutches and she stumbles upon Esther's coffin cave where all vampires could not enter. Getting creative, Rebekah returns with a tank of gasoline and a box of matches more than willing to end Elena. Elena however stalls her under the guise that Rebekah has always wanted to see her suffer so what would it be for her if she were to end it right in the present.

Damon and Stefan reaches the old ancestral witches manor where Esther, Finn, Bonnie and Abby are at. Understanding the equation, they have to remove one of the witches. The brother's flip coins to decide who gets to take the shot. Stefan approaches Bonnie and tells her to stop, she explains she can't as she has no control over Esther channeling the Bennett bloodline. This puts the ultimatum into action, Damon feeds Abby his blood and kills her, turning her into a vampire.The originals unite coming together to Esther and Finn who are performing the ritual, unable to stop them until the Salvatore's intervention. Esther and Finn unknowingly disappears leaving the family in shambles despite that all the children survived. Rebekah lets Elena go, claiming that she does prefer to watch her suffer slowly as it is much more satisfying.

Elena hears the news and the price of saving her leading her to seek Bonnie who is watching over Abby who is in transition. Caroline asks her to better leave, because even though Bonnie is alright since the goal was to save her friend it seems that Bonnie is the one who always gets hurt. Elena decides to leave but asks Caroline to tell Bonnie her gratitude and love.

Elijah leaves Elena a letter of apology saying that his actions were to preserve the one thing that matters most to him, family. He tells Elena that her compassion is a gift and that he truly regrets what he has done. Rebekah returns home to find no one there and asks Elijah. Elijah explains that everyone fled, he expresses that Esther wasn't all wrong because she only created vampires and they were the ones who turned themselves into monsters. Even him, the most moral of them had committed actions so cruel, using an innocent as bargain. He presumes to leave as well.Stefan and Damon chat, with Stefan asking why did Damon chose to be the one to kill Abby. He insists that it should be his role and that Stefan is the one who belongs with Elena. Stefan shrugs and remarks Damon is still in love with her. Likewise, Damon points out that Stefan is well on his way back to the "old Stefan", challenging him to spill when he last had human blood. Stefan confesses that the last time was when he threatened Elena over the Wickery bridge, proving his brother's point.

Rebekah approaches Klaus, and she tells him that he's the only one who hasn't left her side despite the fact that she despised him after knowing the truth about their mother's death. Klaus is seen burning his drawings of Caroline. Rebekah alerts him of the video she shot of Elena's supposedly last minutes, the walls of the Lockwood caves, the symbol, chronological legends of the originals has something she just recognized. The white oak tree, the one that could bring peril to them still exists. Rebekah tells Klaus that the battle isn't over.

Back at Dr. Meredith Fells house, we see Alaric waking up and walking around. He finds one of the blades that belongs to Elena's family along with files and information pertaining to the death of the medical examiner (her ex). While Alaric is seeing everything, Meredith walks in on him. She tells him that "he wasn't supposed to see that," and she aims a gun at him, fires and the episode ends.