Long Way Back From Hell

The Originals

Season 1, Episode 14 (14)

Air date

February 25, 2014

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Long Way Back From Hell is the fourteenth episode of the first season of The Originals and the fourteenth episode of the series.

Summary

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Promo

REBEKAH’S PAST CATCHES UP WITH HER — When Rebekah finds herself locked up in the sanatorium where she worked in 1919, she realizes a witch named Genevieve is back to seek revenge and to reveal dark secrets that would destroy Rebekah if she is exposed to them. A distraught Elijah turns to Marcel and Hayley for help when one of his decisions puts Klaus and Rebekah’s lives in danger. With time working against them, Marcel realizes he may hold valuable information that could lead them to Klaus and Rebekah, but revealing it will almost certainly result in deadly consequences.

Plot

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Cast

Main Cast

Joseph Morgan as Niklaus Mikaelson
Daniel Gillies as Elijah Mikaelson
Claire Holt as Rebekah Mikaelson
Phoebe Tonkin as Hayley Marshall
Charles Michael Davis as Marcel Gerard
Leah Pipes as Camille O'Connell (credit only)
Danielle Campbell as Davina Claire (credit only)

Recurring Cast

Shannon Kane as Sabine Laurent/Celeste Dubois
Elyse Levesque as Genevieve
Yasmine Al Bustami as Monique Deveraux
Teri Wyble as Clara Summerlin/Celeste Dubois (flashback)

Trivia

Antagonists: Rebekah (1919), Genevieve and Celeste (present).
Narrator: Rebekah Mikaelson.
Title meaning: a reference to Elijah's attempts to get his family back after the witches' attack on them, and the fact that Klaus's discovery of Rebekah's treachery will destroy all those efforts.
Now that Sophie is dead, there are only seven main characters left.
Sophie's death has been confirmed to be permanent^[1] and therefore Daniella Pineda is no longer credited as part of the main cast.
This will be the first time that less than six main characters will appear in an episode. Niklaus Mikaelson, Elijah Mikaelson, Rebekah Mikaelson, Hayley Marshall and Marcel Gerard are actually the only five main characters who have appeared in every episode to date so far, which breaks the record from The Vampire Diaries up to this point.
This episode take place two days after events of Crescent City.
This is second flashback to 1919 New Orleans in the series.
It's revealed that Rebekah was friends with Genevieve in 1919 and takes advantage of Genevieve. Rebekah used Genevieve to magically summon Mikael in hopes of causing Klaus to flee New Orleans, but Rebekah ended up killing Genevieve after Rebekah had second thoughts about betraying her brother and feared Genevieve would rat her out to him.
It's revealed Celeste had possessed Clara Summerlin, a friend of Genevieve who Rebekah also killed, in 1919. While Clara ultimately died of influenza along with Genevieve after Rebekah purposely infected them, Celeste managed to live on in the body of a different French Quarter witch.
Klaus finds out about Rebekah and Marcel's secret, and in retaliation, he planned to stab Rebekah with Papa Tunde's blade and kill Marcel. However, Elijah stopped him by stealing the blade from him and using it to stab him instead, giving Rebekah and Marcel enough time to flee.
It's revealed Genevieve had a crush on Klaus that continued on to this day.
It's also revealed Celeste possessed Brynne Deveraux, the witch who cursed the Crescent Wolf Clan. Upon learning that it was actually Celeste who cursed the the clan, Hayley proceeds to kidnap her in order to force her to reverse it.
Celeste is the second character to possess more than one person in either series. The first is Klaus, who has possessed both Alaric Saltzman and Tyler Lockwood.
The witches buried Sophie in Lafayette Cemetery and consecrated her remains in order for her to join the Ancestors and to allow the coven to draw upon her magic.
Elijah learns that Sophie is dead from Monique, but not that Monique herself killed her aunt. It is possible that only Monique, Celeste, Bastianna, and Genevieve know the truth about the manner of her death.
Celeste has Monique deliver a message to Elijah, which is given in the form of a Devinette spell, or a riddle, on his skin. The riddle is a list of the names of every witch Celeste has possessed since 1821, that'll disappear once he figures out the message. Marcel offers to do some recon work on the name Annie LeFleur, a witch who was shunned from her coven just over a year ago.
It's revealed the Human Faction, now led by the Mayor of New Orleans, has a record of every supernatural death in the city, be it vampire, werewolf or witch, along with other details such as addresses and family histories. These records were moved to St Anne's Church after the previous Mayor's death.
We see the Fleur-de-Lis Sanitarium for the first time.
Hayley captures Celeste after she discovers that she was the one who placed the curse on the Labonair family.
Hayley knocks out Sabine (possessed by Celeste) with a rear assault.
Elijah stabs Klaus with Papa Tunde's blade to save Rebekah from a similar fate.
This episode marks the fourth time Klaus is incapacitated.

Body Count

Genevieve (past) - influenza, killed by Rebekah (indirectly).
Clara Summerlin (past) - influenza, killed by Rebekah (indirectly).

Continuity

Camille doesn't appear in this episode.
Kol is referenced in this episode by Rebekah. He was last seen in a flashback in Always and Forever.

Locations

New Orleans

Behind the Scenes

This episode had about 1.83 million viewers in USA, which was 0.27 million less than the previous episode.

Cultural References

"Long Way Back From Hell" is a song by Danzig released in 1990 on the album Danzig II: Lucifuge.
The story of New Orleans’ battle with influenza is a particularly interesting one. A port city, it saw influenza arrive by sea via merchants and sailors. New Orleans influenza epidemic was a devastating one, between October 1918 and April 1919, the city experienced a staggering 54,089 cases of influenza. Of these, 3,489 died – a case fatality rate of 6.5%, and an excess death rate of 734 per 100,000. Only Pittsburgh (806) and Philadelphia (748) - the two cities with the worst epidemics in the nation – had higher death rates.
Tremé is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. "Tremé" is often rendered as Treme, historically the neighborhood is sometimes called by its more formal French names of Faubourg Tremé; it is listed in the New Orleans City Planning Districts as Tremé / Lafitte when including the Lafitte Projects. Originally known as "Back of Town," urban planners renamed the neighborhood "Faubourg Tremé" in an effort to revitalize the historic area. A subdistrict of the Mid-City District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are Esplanade Avenue to the east, North Rampart Street to the south, St. Louis Street to the west and North Broad Street to the north. It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, and early in the city's history was the main neighborhood of free people of color. Historically a racially mixed neighborhood, it remains an important center of the city's African-American and Créole culture, especially the modern brass band tradition.
The fleur-de-lis or fleur-de-lys (plural: fleurs-de-lis) is a stylized lily (in French, fleur means flower, and lis means lily) or iris that is used as a decorative design or symbol. The fleur-de-lis has appeared on countless European coats of arms and flags over the centuries, but it is particularly associated with the French Monarchy in a historical context, and continues to appear in the arms of the King of Spain and the Grand Duke of Luxembourg and members of the House of Bourbon. It remains an enduring symbol of France that appears on French postage stamps, although it has never been adopted officially by any of the French republics. According to French historian Georges Duby, the three petals represent the medieval social classes: those who worked, those who fought, and those who prayed.

Quotes

Elijah: "My siblings have been taken, where are they?"

Niklaus: (screaming)

Genevieve: "Rebekah's awake and the hallucinations have begun."

Rebekah: "Who's there?"

Elijah: "Niklaus and Rebekah are somewhere suffering horribly."

Elijah: "The longer the game, the more they suffer."

Rebekah: (screaming)

Genevieve: "Just because we can't kill them, doesn't mean they can't be destroyed."

Marcel: "They're putting eyes and ears out everywhere. Daywalkers are working every contact we got. Cops, dockworkers, guys in the Tremé, the word is out-- anyone trying to earn favor with me gets a lifetime of it if they find them."

Elijah: "Good. I need a pen and paper."

Marcel: "Hey, am I taking orders from you now, or are we in this together?"

Elijah: "Pen and paper, Marcel. Now."

Marcel: "Look, I want her back just as much as you do you know, both of them."

Elijah: "Hayley!"

Hayley: "Elijah, you're back. Did you find anything?"