The Map of Moments

The Map of Moments is the ninth episode of the second season of The Originals and the thirty-first episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
A HOLIDAY REUNION — When Rebekah notices an unusual change in Elijah's behavior, she asks Klaus and Hayley to meet her at their safe house, reuniting them with baby Hope. After reliving memories of being the odd man out, Kol opens up to Davina about his resentment towards his siblings and sheds some light on a spell he created in 1914. Meanwhile, when Cami discovers Esther's plan will put her life in danger, she demands answers from Finn, who remains steadfast in his convictions. Elsewhere, Esther makes an unlikely alliance that could prove dangerous for Klaus, and Hayley makes a decision that could change her relationship with Elijah forever. Lastly, while Elijah continues to struggle with the lingering effects of being captured, Rebekah and Klaus devise a plan to take their mother down once and for all. Marcel also appears. 
==Plot==
It's Christmas 1914 and Kol is looking for a paragon diamond inside the Dowager Fauline Cottage, and his witch friends help. When he finds it, he tells them to meet him at the cemetery. Marcel and Klaus stop him outside the gate, as they know what he's up to.
Davina and Kol perform a spell that will protect Camille's body from Esther's magic. She is worried it's not enough, and Kol flirts with her to distract her from her worries. Marcel warns he'll lock Kol up in a coffin like Finn, if he doesn't take things seriously. Marcel tells him to keep working.
Kol tells Davina they need a bigger diamond to do the dagger spell, the one he stole in 1914. He reckons Klaus kept it, and they sneak off to snoop around.
Esther meets Mikael in the woods, who is killing a werewolf. He says he'll kill every wolf until he gets to Ansel, but Esther tells him Ansel was killed by Klaus. But the mention of Klaus' name angers Mikael, and tries to attack her, but she's just an illusion; Esther is using magic to make her appear and able to talk to Mikael. She comes back a few seconds later, and says there are things to discuss about their children.
Rebekah is setting up wood for a bonfire. It's bonfire season, and she's reviving a family tradition. Klaus pulls up to the house, and Hayley runs out to meet her daughter. She gets to hold Hope and hug her, and when Klaus walks up behind her, Hayley hands Hope to him.
Rebekah finds out about the curse on the Mikaelson firstborn by Dahlia. But there's doubt from Elijah, because that "truth" comes from their mother. 
Rebekah is excited for the bonfire, because before they light it, the family tradition is to write down their wishes for each other and then burn it for luck.
Camille wants to talk to Finn, but Marcel doesn't want her to be in danger. Camille says Finn isn't in the condition to pick a fight, and he reluctantly lets Camille talk to Finn. But Finn is firm in his loyalty to Esther and wants every vampire erased. Camille tells Marcel to lock him back up.
Davina finds a picture of the Mikaelsons in 1914, and sees Kol in his original form for the first time.
In a flashback, Rebekah catches Kol looking for the diamond, and Kol tries to persuade her to let him create a dagger that will put Klaus to sleep just as he's done to them many times.
In the present, Rebekah finds an old-fashioned camera, and they take a selfie. But they have no choice but to burn the picture, as it has Hope in it. Rebekah has had enough, and decides to "join" Esther so that she can stop her and put an end to Esther's schemes.
As leverage, they get Kol to help, in exchange for giving Kol the paragon diamond that will help him make a dagger to put Klaus to sleep. Klaus allows it, because even though Kol has plotted against him in the past, it never goes anywhere.
Hayley puts Hope to sleep, and talks to Elijah that there's a way to unite the werewolf packs and let them control turning on a full moon—marriage to Jackson, in a mystical unification ritual involving the Alphas from each pack. Even though they haven't spoken to each other very much, she wants Elijah to know that she can't marry Jackson and still be involved with Elijah. Elijah kisses her and tells her to marry Jackson.
In order to help get access to Esther's hourglass, Kol will need the White Oak Stake because he's been suspiciously gone from Esther and will need to bring back the one object Esther ordered from Kol.
Rebekah visits Esther and agrees to body jump into a mortal. But things go wrong when Esther brings the White Oak Stake, planning on destroying their vampire bodies and killing all the vampires they've sired. Klaus comes into the scene, and Kol swears he didn't know.
Esther now knows Kol is disloyal to her. The spell can't be stopped, and the hourglass at the cemetery and at the compound explode. Klaus bites Esther and kills her, but Rebekah remains unconscious. Esther is in transition, and she now has a choice to turn into a vampire or die.
Telling Davina the rest of what happened in the past of 1914, Rebekah had turned Kol in, and he got daggered. He reveals he put Rebekah into the body of a witch in the Dowager Fauline Cottage as payback. She's alright, not hurt; just trapped. 
Rebekah wakes up in a different body. Running to and banging on the front door, she pleads to whomever to let her out.
==Cast==
===Starring===
*Joseph Morgan as Niklaus Mikaelson
*Daniel Gillies as Elijah Mikaelson
*Phoebe Tonkin as Hayley Marshall
*Charles Michael Davis as Marcel Gerard
*Leah Pipes as Camille O'Connell
*Danielle Campbell as Davina Claire
====Special Guest Star====
*Claire Holt as Rebekah Mikaelson
===Guest Starring===
*Nathaniel Buzolic as Kol Mikaelson (flashback)
*Sebastian Roché as Mikael
*Yusuf Gatewood as Vincent Griffith/Finn Mikaelson
*Sonja Sohn as Lenore/Esther Mikaelson
*Daniel Sharman as Kaleb Westphall/Kol Mikaelson
*Riley Voelkel as Freya Mikaelson (flashback)
*Maisie Richardson-Sellers as Eva Sinclair/Rebekah Mikaelson
===Co-Starring===
*Keri Lynn Pratt as Mary-Alice Claire (flashback)
*Aleeah Rogers as Astrid (flashback)
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Esther and Kol.
*This is the Season Two mid-season finale.
**This is the second mid-season finale in a row to end on the ninth episode.
*This episode marks the 20th appearance of Claire Holt as Rebekah Mikaelson on the show.
**This is the first time this season that Claire Holt has narrated the opening voice-over of the episode, even though she's now a guest star.
**This is also the first time another actress (Maisie Richardson-Sellers) has played Rebekah Mikaelson in the present day.
*This is the first holiday episode of the series, with the characters celebrating Christmas. This places the current TO timeline around the same time as the TVD Christmas episode/mid-season finale Christmas Through Your Eyes; approximately December 2012.
*This is the last episode of The Originals to air in the year 2014.
*The house that Rebekah and Klaus fled to in 1919 after Mikael forced them to flee New Orleans is located in Arkansas, and is currently being used as a safe house for Hope and her caretakers.
*Elijah, Rebekah and Hayley learn about Dahlia's curse on firstborns of Esther's bloodline.
*Klaus and Hayley are reunited with their daughter for the first time since From a Cradle to a Grave.
*Hope's first Christmas Bonfire is celebrated in this episode.
*Mikael somehow knows Esther had resurrected Ansel, and is angry she brought Ansel back to life instead of him. He had intended on killing all werewolves he came upon until he found Ansel, but Esther reveals Klaus has already killed him.
*Elijah tells Hayley to marry Jackson.
*Elijah and Hayley have sex for the first time in this episode.
*Davina and Kol kiss for the first time.
*This episode marks the first time Rebekah is seen on screen turning someone into a vampire with her blood; in this case, it was her mother Esther, who was stuck in the body of the witch Lenore. Klaus and Rebekah find a way to defeat Esther: while Davina magically returns the body-jumping spell on her as she tries to cast it on Rebekah.
**Klaus kills her while she has Rebekah's vampire blood in her system. Therefore, Esther awakens not only trapped in Lenore's body but also in transition, meaning she no longer has the magic that would allow her to escape. Klaus then gives her a choice: feed and become what she hates the most (a vampire), or die and stay dead. He claims that this is more choice than she ever gave them.
*Esther makes a deal with Mikael to help her with her plans: in exchange, Mikael will get the right to kill Klaus. While Rebekah and Klaus confront Esther in the City of the Dead, Mikael releases Finn from his imprisonment at the compound.
*In the flashback to 1914 at the beginning of the episode, Klaus has a witch to trap some of Kol's witch friends (Mary-Alice Claire and Astrid) in the Dowager Fauline Mansion. At the end of the episode, it is shown Rebekah is trapped inside a witch who is locked in that house.
**It was revealed in Gonna Set Your Flag On Fire, that the boundary-spelled Fauline home was converted into an asylum for witches who lost their minds due to magic, such as Cassie.
==Continuity==
*This is the second mid-season finale to feature Klaus, Elijah, Rebekah, Hayley, Marcel, Cami, Davina, and Mikael, and the first one to feature Finn, Esther, Kol and Freya.
**However, in the first mid-season finale, Mikael appeared only in archive footage, which can be considered as a flashback.
*Mary-Alice Claire and Astrid Malchance first appeared in the Kol webseries The Originals: The Awakening.
*Mary-Alice Claire was first introduced in The Originals: The Awakening Part One. She was mentioned by Kol in Chasing the Devil's Tail.
*Astrid was first introduced in The Originals: The Awakening Part Two. She was indirectly mentioned by Kol in Chasing the Devil's Tail.
*The photo Davina sees of Kol, Rebekah, Elijah and Klaus from 1914 is similar of all of the Mikaelson Family together including Finn and Esther in the The Vampire Diaries Season Three episode Dangerous Liaisons where they're all lined up along the staircase in Klaus' home.
*This marks Rebekah's and Hope's third appearance this season.
*Mikael and Esther met for the first time in 1,000 years, only with Mikael in his own body while Esther is in possession of Lenore's body.
*Kol was last seen in his own body this season in Alive and Kicking.
*This marks the first time since From a Cradle to a Grave that Klaus and Hayley have seen and held Hope.
*Esther revealed that there were two motivations in her season-long goal to place the spirits of her children in mortal bodies; she not only wanted to give them a chance at a true life where they could have families of their own, but she wanted to use the white oak stake to destroy their Original vampire bodies to wipe out the entire vampire species.
**This plan of Esther's was first revealed in Every Mother's Son.
*It was shown that Kol was daggered in December 1914 by Klaus with the help of Elijah for working against him.
**Kol was kept neutralized until his awakening almost a full century later in The Vampire Diaries.
**It should be noted that Klaus found out about Kol's treachery because Rebekah told him after Kol enlisted her help in trying to get rid of Klaus.
*Freya Mikaelson appeared in this episode as a guest to the Mikaelsons' party in a 1914 flashback, but was presumed to be Kol's date by Rebekah, although this was unknown until Sanctuary.
==Locations==
*Arkansas
**Mikaelson Safe House
*New Orleans, Louisiana
**The Bayou
**Lafayette Cemetery
**Dowager Fauline Cottage
==Behind the Scenes==
*This episode had 1.41 million viewers in the USA, 0.15 million more than the previous episode.
*The Map of Moments marked Yusuf Gatewood's 10th appearance on the show.
==Cultural References==
==Quotes==
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|-|Short Promo=
Klaus: "I've done what every good son does; followed the example of my parents."
Esther to Mikael:  "We have things to discuss."
Mikael to Esther:  "Leave Niklaus to me."
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Klaus: "I've done what every good son does; followed the example of my parents."
Esther to Mikael: "We have things to discuss about our children."
Elijah: "We both know what mother is capable of."
Klaus: "We are doing this for the good of our family."
Mikael to Esther:  "Do what you want with the others. But leave Niklaus to me."
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==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The_Originals_2x09_Extended_Promo_-_The_Map_of_Moments_HD_Mid-Season_Finale
The Originals - Map of Moments Clip 1
The Originals - Map of Moments Clip 2
The Originals - Inside The Map of Moments
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Originals (series)
Category:The Originals Season Two
Category:The Originals Episode Guide
Category:Episodes featuring all main characters
Category:Flashback episodes
Category:Holiday episodes