Episode Report Card Tippi Blevins: A- | 34 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Revenge is a Dish Best Served in a Flashback
By Tippi Blevins | Season 1 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.25.2014
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.As you may recall from the last episode, Rebekah and Klaus have been captured by Celeste's witch friends as part of her revenge plot. We pick up this week with the immediate aftermath. It seems that Sophie Deveraux is truly dead and gone. When Elijah barges in on her consecration looking for his sibs, Monique gives him a magical clue. This involves tattooing his entire torso with a bunch of women's names, which necessitates his running right home and whipping off his shirt for a better look. Thank you, Monique. Elijah, Marcel and a stunned Hayley soon realize that these are the names of woman that Celeste has possessed over the last 200 years. The witches are fond of riddles, Elijah says, and solving this one will lead them to Klaus and Rebekah.
As the amateur sleuths will soon discover, they're imprisoned inside the dilapidated remains of an old sanatorium. Rebekah, suffering from multiple doses of werewolf venom, is having major flashbacks. The witch Genevieve is able to guide her into reliving specific memories, so that Rebekah ends up effectively running back and forth between the past and the present. Rebekah and Genevieve were both nurses there during the devastating influenza outbreak of 1918-19. Rebekah befriended Genevieve in order to get her to bring Mikael to town. Rebekah regretted this pretty soon after Genevieve worked the necessary spell, realizing that she would be destroying her own family in order to find her freedom with Marcel. Genevieve threatened to blab to Klaus, so Rebekah infected Genevieve and another witchy nurse with the flu.
Now, during all of this, Genevieve has fed some of Rebekah's blood to Klaus so that he can see into her memories. She removes Papa Tunde's knife from Klaus's heart and so that he can stab his sister with it. Feeling betrayed and vengeful, Klaus stalks Rebekah all through the creepy old sanatorium. At first, she runs from him, then realizes there's no point. Luckily, Marcel and Elijah have figured out that one of the tattooed names was that of the other witch Rebekah killed, and find their way to the sanatorium. Elijah stabs Klaus with the magical knife, then exhorts his sister and Marcel to get away from New Orleans as fast as possible. Klaus is going to be super pissed when he regains mobility, but Elijah should just be like, "Hey, you stab me all the time!"
Celeste's plan was to pit Rebekah and Klaus against each other, which would force Elijah to choose a side, which would destroy their family. It seems like a very long and complicated way to bust up a family that's already pretty busted. While Celeste is gloating over her success, Hayley knocks her out cold because the witch can maybe reverse her family's curse. Stay tuned for the full weecap.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Rebekah wakes up covered in incredibly nasty werewolf bites. When she opens her eyes, she finds herself lying on one of a dozen or so hospital beds in a dilapidated building. Her vision is hazy, and her perception jerks back and forth from the present to the past. She remembers blood-soaked floors, sick men coughing up red sputum. She runs outside, past a sign that helpfully identifies the place as the Fleur-de-Lis Sanatorium. "How the hell did I get here?" she wonders. Genevieve stakes her from behind. "Tell me you're not leaving already," Genevieve says. "I thought we might reminisce!"
Celeste watches from them for a moment from inside, then turns to Klaus. He's also confined to a hospital bed, but is bound at the wrists and ankles. His bare torso shows a veiny red wound where Papa Tunde's knife made its way inside his flesh. The restraints are probably not really necessary; he can barely twitch.
Lafayette Cemetery. The witches are consecrating Sophie's body when Elijah stylishly interrupts them. He just sort of flings a few witches aside with the barest nudges of his elbows, then straightens up his French cuffs like it's no big. He demands the witches tell him where they're holding his siblings. No threats are necessary, because Celeste actually wants him to look for them. Monique waves her hand at him, and a tattoo suddenly appears above his collar bone. Others appear on his forearm. They all appear to be women's names. "To find what you're looking for, follow the path she left behind," Monique tells him. Also, it's kind of funny that the witches walked away from Sophie's body in the last episode, because then they were probably like, "Oops, wait, we need to go back for that!"
Sanatorium. Genevieve mixes up a potion, the final ingredient of which is a bit of Rebekah's blood. "If I weren't so sick, I'd rip your bloody head off," Rebekah moans. "But you are sick," Genevieve says, adding, "and comforting the sick always was a talent of mine!" Genevieve reminds her that they used to be friends, which leads Rebekah into flashbacks of...
...the sanatorium in 1919. Rebekah is working there as the most adorable nurse ever, being quite gentle with an influenza patient who's doing his best to cough up his lungs. She calls another nurse over to bring some water for the man. It's Genevieve, and the water she provides miraculously calms her patient's hacking. "Just like magic," Rebekah notes. "But then again, what would you expect from a practicing witch?" Nobody ever seems to overhear these chats about the supernatural. "It's a simple herbal remedy," Genevieve insists. She says it won't cure the man, but it will ease his soothe his coughing for a while. They introduce themselves to each other, although Genevieve already knows of the famous Rebekah. Rebekah says something about wanting to help the people of her city, which Gen seems to buy. She also buys that Rebekah wants to be friends, and seems quite giddy about the prospect. Rebekah invites her to a jazz club, but another nurse casts a disapproving look Gen's way. "You should come, too," Rebekah says to the other nurse, ensuring that Gen can have no reason to decline.