S02.E18: Night Has a Thousand Eyes

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Desperate to find a way to vanquish Dahlia, Klaus soon finds himself face-to-face with another deadly threat – Mikael. Meanwhile, as Hayley and Rebekah work with Freya to track Dahlia’s whereabouts, Elijah and Marcel prepare a safe house in Algiers with the help of Josephine. Elsewhere, determined to protect Hayley and baby Hope, Jackson approaches Hayley with a risky idea that leaves her conflicted. Finally, Aiden finds himself torn between his loyalty to Jackson and his secret alliance with Klaus.

 

Promo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFji7ZQ6erY

Edited April 7, 2015 by ElectricBoogaloo

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Clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH6dTd0ViA4

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Clip #2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmJtiSCMp1M

[Crucial]

Aww I didn't want Mikael to die, darn.  Would have liked to see more of him and Klaus fight on the same side.  But it was nice that he kept to his true self of hating Klaus when Klaus asked him why and he said he didn't know why he hated him even as a young child.  I kinda like Dahlia and her wicked ways.  I did like Freya but I think somehow she betrayed the family so when the big bad goes (Dahlia) I hope she takes Freya too.   I like Freya but I hope she is a sacrifice and please take Jackson and Haley too with you.  I don't care for either and they add nothing to the storyline.

[lion10]

Not Mikael!  He died as he lived, relentlessly giving Klaus shit.  Seriously, I was hoping for more Mikaelson family bickering and perhaps even some grudging respect between Klaus and Mikael.  Freya's going to be pissed off.  Mikael and Klaus were really stupid to blindly rush in to confront Dahlia even though they knew it was a trap.  I always thought it was odd how Dahlia said the word "Viking" with so much venom but now it makes sense.  

[steelyis]

Claudia Black is my queen!

[Lady Calypso]

I don't know why Klaus and Mikael didn't have a back up plan, especially when they knew it would be a trap. Why hold out the knife in front of Claudia, as if she'd give you the chance to use it? They just managed to defeat her army, but she even said it was merely just to give a more even playing field. Unless Klaus had it in his mind all along to kill their father as the back up plan, then I don't buy that they would be that stupid to go in with guns blazing.

 

Claudia is boss. But they really dig themselves into a whole whenever they make people immortal. It just becomes convenient when they suddenly have weapons to kill them. But whatever, I guess that's the fun in these villains. 

 

Josh and Aiden are cute, and at least Josh made Aiden talk to him. Yay for actual vampire continuity! And sexy times at their house! That makes me happy to see.

 

Jackson's so dead. I've know he would be dead once the wedding thing came up, but I'm going to be so sad once he does. 

 

Maybe I can have hope that Mikael could be resurrected? I mean, if Davina can resurrect Kol, maybe Freya will do the same with Daddy? Maybe? Please? He's the most entertaining villain on this show: the family member that just doesn't die and keeps coming back. Don't we all have that pesky family member who we wish would go away? But seriously though, I don't mind Esther staying dead, but I want Mikael to come back. 

 

I like Freya; she's entertaining. Let her stay. Also, Claudia Black and the actress playing Freya look so much alike; I kept staring at Dahlia in the church scene, seeing the strong similarities between the two. Excellent casting choice, once again!

[TrininisaScorp]

Enjoyed the dynamic between Mikael and Klaus this episode.  Their conversation in the café was nicely done.  I knew Michael was toast when they talked about needed Viking ashes.  When you're the only Viking we know...bye, Mikael.  Too bad, but in TVD and TO world, I always hold out hope to see our dead characters again.  TPTB would be idiotic to let Sebastian Roche get away forever.

 

Oh, Aidan!  You are just totally and completely screwing yourself by dealing with Klaus.  Listen to Josh!

 

Enjoyed the scene between Klaus and Davina about Kol.  It was a small touch that made me feel as though these two people, who have never agreed on anything, are suddenly grieving for the same person and can relate to each other's pain.  Growth!

 

I know you can't stay at Chez Mikelson all day, but dang, Haley/Jax...just wandering on down the street in broad daylight when you KNOW someone is after the baby.  I mean, seriously?

 

What in the heck did Mikael, Klaus and then Elijah think they were going to do to Dahlia in that church?  They got owned.  Hard. I always like the powerful kick ass villains.  I do not trust Freya.  I don't know if between this show and The Walking Dead, I've lost my ability to trust characters, but I spent a bunch of time side eyeing her.

 

Way to go, CW.  Two guys in bed together behaving like how people behave at 8pm on network tv.  Take a note Game of Thrones (Sundays' Loras scene was so poorly done).

[ElectricBoogaloo]

I'm so torn. On the one hand, Dahlia is one of the people who gives no fucks about Klaus's temper tantrums and she is also one of the few people who is any match for him in a fight, and those two things make me like her. On the other hand, she killed the Grunwald! Nooooooo! Plus she was such a bitch about it. First she cured the Grunwald's arthritis and then appeared to concede to her request to play one last song (the first time she had been able to play in decades) and then she only let her play for all of ten seconds. Come on, if you're going to kill her, the least you could do is let her play a whole song!

 

Elijah calling his siblings children at the beginning of the episode was hilarious. His tone was just perfect. He must get tired of playing referee whenever there are more than two Mikaelsons in the room though. Even though I know there are always disagreements when multiple Mikaelsons are involved, I love seeing them together. Their family dynamic is so screwed up, as demonstrated by Rebekah kicking Freya out and Elijah chastising Rebekah for it, but when Freya came back he said nothing kind to Freya, he didn't apologize, he didn't say he knew she was a valuable asset in their fight against Dahlia, etc. In other words, he didn't say any of the nice things to Freya that he said to Rebekah about Freya.

 

I love that Davina still has no time for Klaus's antics and she is only willing to work with him to get what she wants. It seems ridiculous that he used Kol as a bargaining chip though. Then again, as much as he loves to talk about his devotion to his family, he still doesn't trust Kol so I guess he's not as motivated to get him back as he is to get Rebekah out of Eva's body. I couldn't believe that Klaus had the nerve to tell Davina he's a man of his word. Uhhh, no. Klaus is a liar who breaks his word all the time.

 

Ha, can you imagine if Davina, Freya, and Dahlia joined forces just to give Klaus a good smackdown? I wouldn't mind that.

 

I was relieved when Klaus killed Mikael to get some Viking ashes. I was afraid he was going to go back on his promise to Davina and use Kol's ashes. But why are the Vikings Dahlia's oppressors? Where is her family (and Esther's family) from? If they weren't Vikings, then how did Mikael and Esther meet/marry?

[Gwen-Stacys]

Happy to have my Monday night SOAP back!!!

 

My only qualms? What exactly did Jackson/Hayley think they were going to accomplish hiding out in the damn bayou? I mean, really? You think this all powerful witch that you are admittedly worried could take out 3 of the oldest, notioriously hard to kill vampires isn't going to find you in a swamp?! Like...what kind of logic? And is Jackson out of the loop? Does he not know that Dahlia's whole reason for coming to NO is Hope? If that's not the case, then I hope he's still somehow being used as a Dahlia proxy because his logic is seriously flawed on this one. (Not to mention, he already has a clock ticking over his head with Klaus anyway)

[Kaboom 2.0]

Boo. No Vincent this week. Pout.

 

I am SO over Klaus' daddy issues. I knew my beloved Mikael was toast the second I heard "ashes from her Viking oppressors." I am hoping beyond hope that Mikael returns, possibly brought back by his Freya somehow; how much would it piss Klaus off to have his hated father brought back by the sibling that Mikael seems to love the most. SR is a treasure.

 

Elijah calling his bickering siblings "children" was made of so much awesome. As was Josh telling Aiden that you don't have to be a crescent wolf to love your friends (paraphrase) and Davina calling Klaus out on his joining most of the rest of the world by having someone in his life that he loves and will fight for and die for...he has a weakness too.

 

Claudia Black as Dahlia. Swoon! She OWNED every scene she was in. Love, love, love how Dahlia does not give two shits about anyone but herself although...a moment of silence to commemorate the passing of my beloved Grunwald. I was SO hoping that Grunwald would eventually team up with Dahlia and hell, Freya too.

 

I can't be the only person that was hoping that a passing car would slam right into Hayley as she, Jackson and Hope were standing out in the street? Her last act before dying would have been throwing Hope to Jackson to save the child. I can dream...
 

[mac123x]

Josh and Aiden were adorable in every scene.  I abosultely loved Josh's faux-apology, "oh, wait, that was your side of the conversation."  He confronted Aiden about lying, but didn't end the relationship.  It showed a lot of maturity that he could understand why Aiden lied, and try to help him out of the situation.  Aiden realizing that he really could trust Josh was icing on the cake.  It's one of the most functional relationships on the show, so one or both of them will be dead by the end of the season.

 

I still can't stand the actress playing Freya.  She's awful, and what was with the accent?  At times it was fake British, at other times it was fake American.  Pick one and stick with it.

 

I'm pretty convinced that Klaus was planning on killing Daddy Dearest as a backup the whole time.  If he managed to kill Dahlia with the knife, good.  He failed, but now as far as Dahlia knows, they don't have a useful weapon against her, so Klaus and company have the element of surprise. 

 

Hopefully they'll bind the ingredients to a case of ammo and take her out with a sniper rifle.  Unfortunately I'm having a TVD flashback where they had a HUGE sign made out of the Son of White Oak tree and only managed to make a dozen stakes, so they'll probably use up the several pounds of Mikael!Ash on 5 knifes.

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When Mikael handed over that bag of ashes, I found myself wondering exactly how much ash and blood and dirt do you need to create this weakness to bind to a weapon? Like what if you just used a little bit less? Is the weakness/weapon less effective? If you use more is it stronger? Were the ashes Mikael stole from the museum one whole Viking? How much can they split up Mikael's ashes and still have the weapons be effective?

 

Of course, none of that matters if Freya is so pissed at Klaus that she disappears and is unavailable to provide more blood for the binding. While I agree with Klaus that Norwegian soil isn't a total rarity, it is still kind of far away. Are they going to send one of their minions to Norway to fetch some dirt for them? Imagine how weird it would be to go through customs ("Nope, no luggage, no souvenirs, nothing to declare except this big bag of dirt!").

 

Ha and didn't Davina say the last binding ritual she did was her last favor? Of course she'll do another one because Klaus will hold Kol's ashes for ransom until he gets what he wants.

 

The Norwegian dirt means Dahlia (and Esther) are from Norway and I'm assuming that all the Icelandic folk music that Davina bought for Mikael when he was her prisoner means he is from Iceland. So Dahlia only hates Vikings from Iceland because Mikael is Icelandic?

 

Hopefully they'll bind the ingredients to a case of ammo and take her out with a sniper rifle.

Heh, I was thinking along the lines of the rocket launcher Buffy used to take out the Judge.

Edited April 14, 2015 by ElectricBoogaloo

[raytch]

I honestly thought it was underwhelming. The editing and overall pace were weird, reminded me of the not so good times in season 1.

 

Klaus and Mikeal's interactions only grew on me by the end of the episode. I'm not sure why but I was very bothered by Mikeal's attitude. He just sounded like a glitching robot. Klaus actually seemed the mature one with his 'yes  hate you too. Let's get to work"

 

Davina was awesome.

 

Still no Cami, hoorey!

 

I was put off by Hayley for most of the episode, but when she told Marcel "well about time!", that was a nice save.

 

I love Aiden and Josh so much, they make me warm and fuzzy on the inside.

 

I know everyone here hates Klaus, but I really admire how far along he's come since the show started (and TVD before that). He knows exactly where he stands now. He's not the good guy and the fact that he wants to save his daughter from growing up to be a monster, is him finally doing what he can to break the cycle of torture of the Mikealsons. Which is also the best thing he can do.

 

Dahlia was fun but The Grunwald was too awesome to go so soon.

Edited April 14, 2015 by raytch

[Artsda]

When Jackson was sacrificing himself and Freya was getting closer to him, when Hayley yelled at her to stay away from her husband I actually loved Hayley for that. I wish they were able to run away, it was a good plan while Dahlia was busy. Instead they are all still in Dahlia's sights.

 

Aiden betraying Jackson for Klaus is not good. Love Aiden and Josh, but doing Klaus's dirty work betraying his own isn't making him appear like he's got long more.

 

Great to see Davina and Klaus team up and Klaus's the keeper of Kol's ashes! Bring back Kol.

Edited April 14, 2015 by Artsda

[Impish Dragon]

I'm so torn. On the one hand, Dahlia is one of the people who gives no fucks about Klaus's temper tantrums and she is also one of the few people who is any match for him in a fight, and those two things make me like her. On the other hand, she killed the Grunwald! Nooooooo! Plus she was such a bitch about it. First she cured the Grunwald's arthritis and then appeared to concede to her request to play one last song (the first time she had been able to play in decades) and then she only let her play for all of ten seconds. Come on, if you're going to kill her, the least you could do is let her play a whole song!

 

I was thinking how cruel it was to only let her play for a few seconds.  But I do have to say the whole scene was well done.  I liked that there wasn't any over the top evil cackling or yelling for one's life.  The whole scene was quiet and calm which I think made it more effective.

[bluebonnet]

I agree that the editing was all over the place.  I wonder if they found a serious continuity error after filming the rest of the episodes and had to quickly change stuff up in this episode but didn't have time to refilm anything.  It was just super choppy and barely made sense.  Thankfully, the relationships between these characters saved it from being a total complete mess.  Plus some great dialogue. 

[rue721]

But why are the Vikings Dahlia's oppressors? Where is her family (and Esther's family) from? If they weren't Vikings, then how did Mikael and Esther meet/marry?

 

Dahlia and Esther are from Norway, the same as Mikael is (afik), but they aren't Vikings. I assume that the witches are another "ethnic group" or tribe that lived in Norway at the same time as the Vikings.

 

The Vikings (including the Mikaelsons) came to the New World/Mystic Falls and Mikael ended up trying to slaughter the people native to the area, the werewolves. Maybe a similar thing happened in Norway -- the Dahlia and Esther's family and the other witches they're related to were native to the area, but the Vikings invaded and conquered them. Or maybe Dahlia and Esther's family/the witches fled some other place *to* Norway (maybe long before Dahlia or Esther were born), but didn't assimilate into the Vikings' population and were part of some oppressed minority there.

 

In the episode when Esther goes to Dahlia to get help with her fertility, Dahlia is very clearly unhappy about Esther marrying a Viking. It seemed like she thought it was traitorous.

 

This show actually spends a lot of time on ethnic/race relations in a sort of metaphorical way -- which I *love* and is a huge part of what I enjoy about the show. So it's wasn't surprising to me when they produced this other "cross-cultural" issue in Esther/Mikeal's relationship. It was interesting imo that Dahlia's specific brand of hatred for the Vikings is different from Mikael's hatred for the werewolves and especially for the hybrids. Dahlia seemed more like she wanted nothing to do with the Vikings, whereas Mikael seemed to want to rule over the werewolves, imo. It's also interesting to me that Esther didn't have an issue with Mikael being a Viking and apparently also didn't have an issue with Ansel being a werewolf. For all her faults, I guess she was just not bigoted, lol. 

 

Likewise, I thought it was interesting how Marcel side-eyed Jackson when he picked up Haley, Jackson, and Hope to take them to the club. I assume that's because Jackson is a vampire? And I thought it was interesting how Jackson kept trying to convince Haley that this whole fight with Dahlia is a *Mikaelson* issue and that Hayley and Hope shouldn't have to be involved in it. That is *insane* to me, because Hope is a Mikaelson, so she was born a part of this fight whether she personally has done anything to "deserve" being hunted down or not.

 

Also, I thought Klaus asking Mikael why he despised him even when he thought he was his son, and Mikael saying that he just did, was interesting in light of all that. I think that goes to show that it really wasn't anything about who Klaus is as a person, since even Mikael couldn't come up with anything he said or did to cause that antipathy. It's like he could sniff out Klaus's "bad blood" even when he didn't know and didn't consciously realize it. But if Mikael is so bigoted, how/why did he marry a witch instead of another Viking?

 

Not that I think any of this stuff needs to have answers or be made explicit on the show or anything -- I just like how the show handles all of these groups trying to co-exist (and frequently failing), and find the metaphor really interesting. Well anyway!

 

I'm pretty convinced that Klaus was planning on killing Daddy Dearest as a backup the whole time.  If he managed to kill Dahlia with the knife, good.  He failed, but now as far as Dahlia knows, they don't have a useful weapon against her, so Klaus and company have the element of surprise.

 

I wonder about Klaus's decision to involve (and then kill) Mikael. Once it turned out that they needed Viking ash, it was obvious that he was going to kill him. And once Klaus saw Mikael and Freya together, it was obvious that he was going to kill Mikael *in front* of Freya, specifically.

 

I think at first, Klaus was genuinely trying to bond with Mikael over their love for their daughters (because I believe that Klaus's love for Hope is genuine). It was also interesting to me that he thought that Mikael might care that Freya doesn't see him as a monster, since Mikael seems to relish scaring people and *enjoy* playing the monster. I think that Klaus really does feel that he and Mikael are very similar, and that he's "his father's son." As soon as it turned out that they needed more Viking ash, Klaus was resolved to kill him, but I think that was a logistical/practical rather than an emotional decision. I don't think he particularly *wanted* to kill him, he just thought that it made sense.

 

But things changed and it became emotional (as well as practical) when he actually saw Mikael's love for Freya in action, imo. I would guess that that got to him *especially* because he had been trying to bond with Mikael earlier over their love for their children, and because, now that that he has his own child, he understands how deep the love that Mikael was feeling/showing toward Freya really was. That was salt in the wound for him, imo, because Mikael and Klaus's relationship in this episode was better than it's *ever* been afaik, but in comparison with Mikael's reaction to Freya (and hers to him), their relationship looked shitty/pathetic/nonexistent again anyway.

 

(And actually, that scene just made me feel bad for Esther. That both Klaus and Freya were getting all worked up over Mikael, and meanwhile, Klaus had shunned her and Freya killed her, with barely a second thought).

 

Anyway, the point is:  I don't think that Klaus was actually planning to kill Mikael that when he first brought him in. I'm not sure what he hoped would happen, tbh? Klaus's emotional arc over the course of this episode was a mystery to me.

 

So sorry to see Esther and Mikael both go, especially back-to-back like this! I hope that Dahlia brings Esther back, and Freya brings Mikael back. And that they bring Ansel back, too :P. Even thought interesting characters are thick on the ground on this show!

 

As a side-note:  Freya is great as a character, but I'm just not feeling the actress for some reason. Her accent was wondering all over the place in this episode, but overall, I don't have any real complaints about her and think she does a fairly good job. I just can't warm up to her, or manage to care about Freya.

[immortalfrieza]

Once again, everybody has to be an idiot for the plot to work. Aiden listening to Klaus, even for a second, Klaus and Mikael creating only ONE weapon to take Dahlia out, Klaus and Mikael walking into an obvious trap they already KNOW is a trap without any backup, Haley and Jackson cooking up some hairbrained scheme to run away from Dahlia as though there was any chance that would work, etc.

 

Come on writers, I deeply hate but come to expect that there will be no plot of significance that will be able to function without a great majority in the cast being completely brain dead from Vampire Diaries, I don't need to see it on Originals all the time too.

 

I have to say it, Dahlia is WAY too powerful. What is she going to do next, vaporize all of New Orleans with a wave of her hand? Manhandling 2 Original vampires and one Original Hybrid like it was nothing is a bit much. I think the villains on these shows are progressing in power far too rapidly to the point that it's getting absurd and it's becoming a problem. I mean, however long this Dahlia arc drags out, after which they're going to have to bring in someone that could beat Dahlia, and someone that could beat them, and them, and so on. How are they going to top themselves after this?

[Impish Dragon]

I've been trying to figure out why Dahlia is so big on them giving Hope to her.  If she's as powerful as she says, why does she simply not take her?  I know, because writing/plot. 

[ElectricBoogaloo]

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