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Now that Marcel has pledged his loyalty to Klaus, he gets to stick around and witness just what a terrible king his sire makes. First among Klaus's problems is that none of Marcel's vampire minions respect him or trust him or want to follow him in any way. They're all convinced that Klaus is just going to use his baby to whip up a big batch of hybrids. To prove them wrong, he sends them out to kill every werewolf in the surrounding area. No werewolves means no hybrids. Naturally, Hayley is kind of upset about this, because those wolves are her mysterious family, so she asks Rebekah and Elijah to rescue them. Rebekah isn't super keen on this, but she goes along, and Elijah is all about being nice to Hayley.
Klaus's problem is the faction of human city leaders led by Father Kieran. Where Marcel was diplomatic with the humans, Klaus treats them like slaves who should grovel at his feet. The humans respond by bombing the vampires' hangout, killing many of Marcel's minions. Klaus and Marcel kill the perpetrators, but leave Kieran alive to clean up their mess and gather together a new faction.
Then there's the matter of Davina. Marcel moves her into the compound, where she quickly reunites with her friend Josh, and befriends Hayley. The three of them form a secret alliance to look out for each other, since all of them are being used by Klaus in one way or another. Davina finds out that elder witch Agnes has been dead for weeks now and Marcel never told her. With Agnes dead, Davina is theoretically safe from the witches, but remains little more than a prisoner.
Elijah and Rebekah succeed in protecting the wolves from harm, and learn that some of them may share an ancestry with Klaus. Klaus has to act like he doesn't care, but goes to Kieran in secret to ask the beleaguered priest to hide them from the other vampires. In return, Kieran asks that Klaus compel Cami into leaving New Orleans because her nosy ways are getting her closer and closer to danger. Just when it looks like we might finally be rid of Cami's storyline, Davina shows up on her doorstep, asking for her help. Cami doesn't remember her because of Klaus's compulsion, so Davina pushes the magic reset button on her brain, with excruciating results. Stay tuned for the full weecap.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Klaus has decided to throw a nice party for Marcel and the rest of his vanquished foes, complete with candles and champagne and wait staff that donates their blood. It's sad that Klaus has moved out of the plantation, because that was a better set. The compound is more obviously a creation on a sound stage somewhere. While Klaus raises a toast to immortality, a demoralized Marcel sits at his side, remembering something that Rebekah told him soon after his defeat. "You can't afford your wounded pride," she said. She asked him to promise that he would do whatever it took to stay alive. In the present, all of Marcel's cockiness is gone. He forces a smile and joins Klaus's toast. Diego stews in his hatred for Klaus, but raises his glass, as well.
"I understand that some of you may have questions regarding the recent change in leadership," Klaus says. He assures them that they're still a community, thanks to Marcel. Diego points to Hayley, sitting at the other end of the long table. "What about her?" he asks. Klaus bristles at being questioned, but coolly explains that Hayley is under his protection. The other wolves in New Orleans, though? Not so much. To show his new subjects that their king doesn't intend to make hybrids, he permits them all to go on a wolf hunt. "Go ahead! Have fun! Kill them all." Hayley's face goes, "Oh, shit."
Over at the plantation, movers are taking away Rebekah's prized possessions so they can't be brought to Klaus's new digs. She knows her brother is punishing them. "We believed the worst about him, the one time in a million when it wasn't actually true." Elijah puts on his snazziest pea coat and heads over to the compound to make sure Hayley isn't being punished, too.
Meanwhile, Klaus has resumed dictating his memoirs to Cami. "Everybody is mean to me, blah blah blah, so on and so forth." Marcel walks into his office, surprised to see this development. Cami reveals she knows that they're both vampires and that Klaus has been compelling her to forget it every time she leaves. "That way, I'm too busy agonizing whether or not I'm losing my damn mind to realize I'm playing spy for an immortal egomaniac!" That's when Marcel realizes that Klaus has been using Cami against him. Cami shows him the newspaper printout from 1919, saying the real her managed to find it, while away from Klaus's influence. "You never found this," he says to her. "You will remember nothing of our lives as vampires when you leave here. Do you understand?" She blankly nods and heads out in a daze.