“ | Let us begin with a toast to our shared gift: immortality. After a thousand years, one might expect life to be less keenly felt, for its beauties and its sorrows do diminish with time. But, as vampires, we feel more deeply than humans could possibly imagine. Insatiable need, exquisite pain...Our victories, and our defeats. | ” |
— Klaus
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Reigning Pain in New Orleans is the ninth episode of the first season of The Originals and the ninth episode of the series overall.
Summary
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Promo
NEW ALLIANCES ARE FORMED — Marcel, deeply conflicted by recent events, is surprised when Klaus opens up to him about some of his past indiscretions. Camille tries to make sense of cryptic messages she's come across and is disturbed when she gains some insight into Klaus ' past. Meanwhile, in a surprising turn of events, the Human Faction takes matters into their own hands, resulting in a violent confrontation. Elsewhere, when Hayley learns of a plan to harm the werewolves in The Bayou, she turns to Elijah and Rebekah for help. After heading to the bayou, they run into a werewolf named Eve, who has information that leads them to a shocking discovery.
Plot
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Cast
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Recurring CastCo-Starring
Uncredited
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Trivia
- Antagonists: The Human Faction.
- Narrator: Niklaus Mikaelson.
- This is the first mid-season finale of The Originals.
- The mid-season finale is not the middle of the season by episode, but rather the last episode before the mid-season hiatus, which typically occurs between the months December and January.
- This is the second episode to have New Orleans in the title. The first episode was Girl in New Orleans.
- Joseph Morgan makes his 50th appearance as Klaus in this episode.
- Klaus orders the vampires of New Orleans to hunt and kill the werewolves in the Bayou against Hayley's wishes, in an effort to win the favor of the members of his newly-gained vampire army who were afraid that he planned to use his daughter's blood to create more Hybrids. However, the would-be slaughter was thwarted by Elijah and Rebekah, at Hayley's request.
- Upon finding out about the werewolves' heritage from his siblings, Klaus changes his mind about killing them and asks Father Kieran to discreetly help protect them.
- Marcel discovers that Cami is recording Klaus' memoirs and that she knows about vampires.
- Sophie doesn't appear in this episode.
- Klaus assures Marcel that any feelings that Cami had for Marcel were real.
- Klaus and Marcel slaughter the Human Faction, leaving only Father Kieran alive.
- Kieran is instructed by Klaus to rebuild his faction before they restarted negotiations.
- Davina discovers that Marcel lied to her about the fact that the witches are no longer a threat to her now that Elijah has killed the last remaining Elder of the coven, Agnes.
- Elders are the only witches who have the power to complete the Harvest ritual, and with her death, there is no one left to do the spell.
- Klaus learns that there are still werewolf relatives from his father's side of the family who are currently residing in the bayou.
- Klaus is given a ring by Elijah, which was previously in Cary's possession and is exactly the same as the ring which was given to Klaus' father by Esther.
- In Moon Over Bourbon Street, it is revealed that this ring was once a moonlight ring enchanted by Esther to prevent Klaus' father from having to turn on the Full Moon. It is this ring that ultimately gives Klaus (and, by extension, Elijah, Hayley, and the Crescent wolves) the idea to create more rings to make a werewolf army.
- Klaus is given a ring by Elijah, which was previously in Cary's possession and is exactly the same as the ring which was given to Klaus' father by Esther.
- Klaus forgives Elijah and invites him and Rebekah to move in with him into the compound.
- Hayley tells Davina about the curse on the Crescent werewolves in The Bayou, and indicates that she wants Davina's help in removing it.
- Klaus compelled Cami to leave New Orleans in order to keep her safe.
- Davina runs to Cami for help after learning about Marcel's lies, and when she realizes Cami has been compelled by Klaus to forget everything, she uses her magic to remove the compulsion from her mind.
- Klaus offers Marcel an opportunity to rule New Orleans with him as equals, so Marcel, who still has his friends to protect, breaks up with Rebekah in order to take Klaus' offer.
- This is the first episode of the second chapter of Season One, The Harvest Chapter.
Continuity
- Davina was last seen in Bloodletting.
- Davina and Camille previously saw each other in Girl in New Orleans.
- Marcel learns from Klaus that Davina has been working with Elijah. Davina's alliance with Elijah began in Sinners and Saints.
- Flashback scenes from Always and Forever are seen in this episode.
- Klaus tells Marcel of the original deal he had with the witches to take him down. This deal was made in Always and Forever.
- This is the second time Davina uses magic to strip away the compulsion used against a person by a vampire (in this case, Camille, who had been compelled by Klaus). The first time Davina used this ability was in Bloodletting to strip away Klaus' compulsion on Josh.
- Niklaus' father is mentioned in this episode, and it's revealed that his bloodline is still thriving even to this day when Elijah and Rebekah meet Klaus' distant relative Cary.
- Esther and Mikael were mentioned by Elijah and Klaus in this episode.
- They were last seen in the flashbacks in Always and Forever.
Locations
Behind the Scenes
- Filming for this episode began on October 22, 2013 and ended on November 7, 2013. [1]
- This episode had about 2.33 million viewers in the USA, which was 0.05 million less than the previous episode.
Cultural References
- Reign In Pain is a song by Sum 41. The song is one of the bonus tracks in the studio album Does This Look Infected?
Quotes
(Marcel enters the room and is surprised to see Cami)
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Multimedia
Soundtrack
"Like No One" – Caught A Ghost
"Promises" – The Boxer Rebellion
Videos
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References
See also
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