Klaus, Elijah, and Marcel examine Papa Tunde’s body
This scene is funny as hell. Elijah is examining the body, and Klaus is getting all snarky, basically comparing him to Sherlock Holmes, asking if he wants a pipe or a magnifying glass. Marcel comments on how witches used to just kill a chicken and leave it on your doorstep when they wanted to send a message. And Elijah, king of snark, comes back with “it’s a rather large and ominous chicken, wouldn’t you say?” And then I died of laughter.
And then it segues right into another great scene
Elijah asking Rebekah to take Hayley to the plantation house
Elijah being so concerned for Hayley’s safety. The way he tells Rebekah that it’s because he trusts her that he’s asking her to do this. Because, yes, he is trusting Rebekah with the most precious thing in the world to him. “You know why.” Just… that line. We’ve gone beyond “it’s complicated” to him basically admitting to Rebekah that he’s in love with Hayley – added to when he comments on how he can’t control his feelings. And Rebekah telling him that maybe he should take Hayley himself. Now that the heat of the moment is over, and she’s no longer angry with him, she’s back to shipping Haylijah. I love it!
Well, this was certainly a short post. One other thing I want to comment on with this episode. Celeste comments on Elijah choosing to save Hayley over his own blood, and how “always isn’t forever, after all.” Just two problems with that assessment. One, Hayley is pregnant with Klaus’s child. Which means that she IS his own blood. By saving Hayley, he also saved HOPE. And two, he made exactly the choice that Rebekah and Klaus would have wanted him to make. That baby is the one thing that every last one of them would die for. Would Klaus have thanked Elijah for saving him, and leaving his child to die? Would Rebekah, whose one real wish is that she could have children, want to be saved instead of Hayley and the baby? Not to mention that whatever is happening to them, they can’t die. There is still time to save them. Hayley was the most vulnerable.
This was a decent episode, but nothing really stood out to me as being a particularly great scene after that bit near the beginning.
Tomorrow, though…. Next episode has the scene that inspired my first ever attempt at writing fanfiction. I will be doing a lot of flailing while watching that scene.
