Brotherhood of the Damned

The Originals

Season 2, Episode 11 (33)

Air date

January 26, 2015

Written by

Diane Ademu-John &
Kyle Arrington

Directed by

Sylvain White

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“	And make no mistake, we are one unit, one army! We are family. Family is not determined by blood, but by who you fight for, and who will fight for you! Tonight, we will feed on the blood of our enemies, and if we die, we will be reborn, and we will feed again! We are the Brotherhood of the Damned, and we cannot be defeated!	”
	— Marcel to his brotherhood

Brotherhood of the Damned is the eleventh episode of the second season of The Originals and the thirty-third episode of the series overall.

Summary[]

FAMILY IS WHO YOU FIGHT FOR — Armed with more power than ever, Finn creates an elaborate spell that allows him to take the upper hand and trap his brothers Klaus and Elijah. Realizing that Kol is also in trouble, Davina has no choice but to team up with the Originals to help. After the deadly events in the previous episode, Marcel must try to calm his volatile pack of suffering vampires, while remembering his days as a soldier during World War I when his leadership skills were equally brought to the test. Finally, Hayley finds herself conflicted when she learns that she and Jackson must participate in extreme and unconventional rituals prior to their wedding, which will put them both in a dangerous position. Cami also appears.

Plot[]

Klaus has searched everywhere, but Finn is nowhere to be found. His Plan B is for Davina to locate him. Marcel tells Klaus he got bitten, and Klaus promises he'll get Marcel out of the compound.

In a flashback to 1916, Klaus is yelling at Marcel who has enlisted in the war. Klaus doesn't want him to leave, because for him, it's the same as abandoning family. Marcel leaves, anyway.

Meanwhile, the city is preparing festivities for Carillon Eve—the locals shroud the eyes of statues of angels, so that the dead can walk among them for a night without judgement. The bells ringing in the background wake the dead and guide them to eternal rest.

Marcel sees Joe, someone who fought with him during the war, but Gia snaps him out of it, and Joe is gone.

In flashback, Joe figures either Marcel has guardian angels healing him after every bullet, or he's something else entirely.

Davina sees where Finn is, and that he's channeling both of Klaus' parents. But before they can leave to find him, Klaus falls unconscious.

Elijah and Camille talk. He reveals what the red door is, a memory but also a metaphor. It's where his unspeakable deeds dwell in darkness. It's a red door, because it's the place where the first woman Elijah ever loved said she loved him in return, but also the place where he laid her body after he took her life. No one, not even Klaus, knows that Elijah killed Tatia, whom he loved just as deeply. Klaus still believes Esther killed her. Elijah collapses from Finn's spell.

Kol collapses too, while Josh and Gia want to feed and satisfy their hunger. They also find out Marcel has been bitten by a wolf.

Klaus, Elijah and Kol meet in a chambre de chasse, a place where witches bring their prey for mental target practice. Finn appears to them, but he is untouchable.

The animal heads represent each of them—Klaus is a wolf, Elijah a stag, Kol a fox, and Finn is a boar. Finn reveals that his spell on the compound will disappear at sundown, and all the hungry vampires will feed on the local people.

In flashback, Marcel is now Corporal, and had told Joe of his vampirism. Joe wants him to feed, but Marcel wants only the enemy's blood...the Germans they're fighting. Just then, he gets called away, and meets Klaus, who tries to persuade him to come home.

Finn takes Kol out of the astral hunt room, and Kol reveals what Finn has planned.

Hayley meets Jackson's grandmother. One of the rituals they have to undergo is the rite of divulgement. The two alphas have to smoke the root of a blue calamus flower, linking their minds and hearts. The unification ceremony won't work unless they're completely honest and have no lies.

Hayley can't go through with it because she needs to keep Hope a secret, and leaves. Jackson goes after her.

Finn figures Klaus is hiding something, because he killed Ansel despite his desire to know his real father, and also because Klaus "left him [Elijah] to fend for himself, God knows where." He figures Ansel found out what the secret was, so Klaus killed him.

Jackson assures Hayley, and tells her her secrets are his secrets, and her demons are his demons.

In flashback, Marcel turns his comrades into vampires, and they fight off the Germans.

It's sundown, and the vampires leave the compound to go to Marcel's place for his blood bags, and to get Marcel a vial of Klaus' blood to heal him.

Elijah says representational magic must be precise, otherwise the enchantment collapses. He looks up at the stag's head, and lets it sink in that it's all an illusion. He's not noble, but a coward for having lied about Tatia's death. But Klaus forgives him, and tells Finn he misrepresented Klaus too. He is capable of forgiveness, which Finn didn't believe.

Finn brings them back into their own bodies before they can attack him.

Klaus learns from Aiden about the rituals Hayley and Jackson are going through, specifically the rite of divulgement, and goes to stop it.

Cast[]

Starring[]

Guest Starring[]

Yusuf Gatewood as Vincent Griffith/Finn Mikaelson
Steven Krueger as Josh Rosza
Daniel Sharman as Kaleb Westphall/Kol Mikaelson
Colin Woodell as Aiden
Nishi Munshi as Gia
Nathan Parsons as Jackson Kenner
Debra Mooney as Mary Dumas

Co-Starring[]

Yohance Myles as Joe (hallucination/flashback)
Dexter Tillis as Major (flashback)
Adam Poole as Trench Runner (flashback)

Trivia[]

Antagonist: Finn Mikaelson

Body Count[]

Major (flashback) - Shot; killed by an unknown German soldier

Continuity[]

Locations[]

Behind the Scenes[]

This is the first episode (of The Originals) to be written by Kyle Arrington.
- This is also the second episode to be directed by Sylvain White, the first one being A Closer Walk With Thee.
This episode had about 1.74 million viewers in the USA.

Cultural References[]

Elijah mentions Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, whom he apparently knew personally and with whom he discussed psychology in Vienna in the 18th century.