The Battle of New Orleans

The Battle of New Orleans is the twenty-first episode of the first season of The Originals and the series overall.
==Summary==
BLOOD IS IN THE AIR - Klaus and Elijah enact a plan to collect the sacred stones that make werewolves not phase on full moons, needed by Genevieve in order to forever change the fates of Hayley and the werewolf community. Realizing that Klaus' plan will lead to the extermination of all French Quarter vampire's, Marcel rallies an army determined to take down the Mikaelsons and regain control of the city. Davina warns Josh to leave town as she is forced to make a fateful decision that will turn the tide of war. Meanwhile, Francesca threatens Camille, who attempts to decipher a code that results in a surprising revelation among the city's factions, and Hayley goes into labor.
==Plot==
Oliver and Jackson are driving to the French Quarter to get the black kyanite stones to Klaus, so that the witch Genevieve can perform a spell to make them into moonlight rings. The road ahead of them is crowded with police cars, and the officers demand that they get out. When they don't, the officers lift their guns. Marcel appears, telling Jackson they should obey or things will get nasty.
Later in the day, Davina and Josh are sitting on a bench. Josh is having a good day enjoying the sun, as he now has a daylight ring. Davina isn't so happy, because she sees Mikael's ghost and is worried Josh will get hurt if a war between the vampires and witches happen. She says he needs to leave town. Marcel had come to her the day before, wanting a cloaking spell before he makes his big move against Klaus.
Genevieve looks over Esther's spell, marveling at its complexity and elegance. Klaus asks about the improvements to the spell that will protect the werewolves from turning on a full moon, and Genevieve tells him there will be enhancement to speed, strength, and agility.
Camille is deciphering the code on a notebook, when Francesca Correa comes in revealing that she now owns the restaurant. She wants Kieran's key, and gives Camille until tomorrow to give her what she wants, and afterward, she won't be nice about it.
Marcel and Diego beat Oliver and Jackson. He wants to know what Klaus was up to, because he knows Klaus is meeting secretly with the werewolves. The stones in their duffel bags are black kyanite, which are rare, and Marcel knows enough about witchcraft to recognize the ingredients for a spell.
Marcel reveals he wiped out a whole bloodline of Guerrera werewolves a whole lot tougher than the Crescent wolves. Diego threatens Oliver's life with a blowtorch, and Jackson relents if Marcel let's Oliver go free.
Hayley tells Elijah they should've been back hours ago, so Elijah calls Klaus. Klaus reveals he found their abandoned cars in the middle of nowhere, and that Marcel procured a cloaking spell, realizing Davina was helping him.
Just as Josh loads his car to get out of the city, Klaus bites him with his werewolf venom, so, as leverage, Davina will tell him where Marcel was located. Klaus says he will come back to heal Josh later, and when he asks a question, Davina should answer him more quickly.
Camille is at an apartment. She tells the owner that she didn't know her uncle had it until she read his will. The owner tells her the building has been in his family for decades, and that Kieran helped raise the funds to restore it after Hurricane Katrina.
Camille wants to go inside alone, and the owner leaves. The apartment is basically empty, but she finds a hidden room inside a closet. She finds a box with "FOR CAMI" written on it.
Hayley is worried, but Genevieve tells her she needs to calm down.
Back at Marcel's location, Klaus and Elijah find Jackson tied up. The place is surrounded by explosive devices. Elijah recognizes them as the same devices in the bayou attack, and asks Klaus why he believed Marcel to be innocent of the attack. Hayley calls, but it is cut short when the explosives go off. They save him before the building blows up, and Hayley hears the explosion.
They return safe and sound, but the black kyanite stones are gone. Klaus uses a backup plan, and Francesca Correa comes into the compound with a small pouch of black kyanite stones. It is the only amount she can come with on such short notice.
After bandaging Jackson's wounds, he leaves to go back to the bayou. Hayley tells Elijah about the betrothal, and tries to explain, but Elijah tells her there's no need for an explanation. Hayley is disappointed, as she wanted Elijah to tell her that betrothals are stupid and that she has a choice. Elijah stops her with a kiss, and after a moment, tells her she always has a choice.
Genevieve needs the blood of a werewolf who doesn't turn on a full moon, and Klaus let's her use his blood. She performs the spell.
Marcel is rounding up the vampires to attack Klaus, to stop the werewolves from becoming lethal at all times to a vampire. Francesca gets news that Marcel is on the move and bringing his friends; Klaus goes to wait on them, ready to attack. Elijah wants Hayley out, but she wants to stay. She tells Elijah to not hold back. Francesca says she'll stay with Hayley. Elijah leaves to join Klaus.
The vampires surround the compound. Klaus follows Marcel to kill him, while Elijah singlehandedly attacks the vampires.
While attacking Marcel, Klaus brings up the bayou bombing. Marcel says that the bombing at the docks was all him, but had nothing to do with the bayou bombing. He got the detonators from Francesca, so he suggests Klaus talk to her about the bayou bombing.
Camille is going through the hidden things at her uncle's secret room, and finds a family tree. It belongs to the Guerrera werewolves, with Francesca's name at the end of the bloodline. She remembers Francesca telling her that her family has been in New Orleans for far longer than Camille's family. She tries to call Hayley, but Hayley ends the call, because Genevieve needs to concentrate on the spell.
Elijah is still singlehandedly attacking the vampires. Genevieve finishes the spell, and Francesca takes over, making her first kill and becoming a werewolf. Genevieve stops Hayley with her magic, and Hayley faints.
Francesca is pleased that most of the vampires are killed, because it saves her the trouble. Her brothers also become werewolves, and they attack Elijah. 
Klaus is weakened, bleeding out. Marcel runs away while he can. Klaus isn't healing, and Genevieve tells him she bound the stones, linking their powers to Klaus' blood. Werewolves will now be able to keep from turning, drawing from Klaus' strength and causing him pain.
Davina tries to ease Josh's pain. Mikael appears and convinces her Klaus wouldn't have healed him. If Davina brings him back to life, he will kill Klaus, so that Davina and her friends will never have to suffer again. Josh wonders who she's talking to, but Davina promises Josh that she will fix him.
Oliver and Francesca meet. It is revealed they are in league; the detonators came from Francesca. Oliver is upset that people in his pack got killed, but Francesca assures him that everything will be alright now that they have the moonlight rings and the guaranteed loyalty from the werewolves.
Hayley is dragged to the church and is about to give birth. Monique tells her that the baby will be sacrificed so that the witches can have power, and Hayley continues to try to fight them off, and goes into labor.
==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
===Guest Starring===
*Eka Darville as Diego
*Steven Krueger as Josh Rosza
*Sebastian Roché as Mikael
*Elyse Levesque as Genevieve
*Peta Sergeant as Francesca Correa
*Nathan Parsons as Jackson Kenner
*Chase Coleman as Oliver
===Co-Starring===
*Yasmine Al-Bustami as Monique
*E. Roger Mitchell as Kevin
*Brian Stapf as Patrolman
*Juan-Pablo Veza as Brother #3
*Allen Warchol as Brother #4
*Rico Ball as Francesca Bodyguard
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Marcel Gerard, Francesca Correa, and the French Quarter Coven.
*Narrator: Niklaus Mikaelson.
*Title meaning: the arrival of the long awaited battle for control of the French Quarter.
*This is the third episode of The Originals to refer to New Orleans in the title; Girl in New Orleans being the first, Reigning Pain in New Orleans being the second.
*We learn that black kyanite is the stone needed for moonlight rings.
*Klaus offers Esther's grimoire to Genevieve as a reward for creating the rings for him in order to improve upon Elijah's original deal, which was merely a peek at the spells inside the grimoire.
*We learn that Kieran and the O'Connell family were apparently stockpiling an impressive amount of Dark Objects, as well as historical and genealogical documents regarding the supernatural communities of New Orleans in his secret apartment, which is located in Kenner, LA. This location is shown on Hayley's phone as Camille calls Hayley from the apartment after learning the truth about Francesca.
*Genevieve modifies the moonlight ring spell by combining elements from three different spells from Esther's grimoire at Klaus' request, the first of which being the original moonlight spell to keep a werewolf from turning; a second, which included speed, agility and fangs that could be drawn upon at any time, which came from the spell that turned the Originals into vampires; and a third that added their werewolf venom to their bites at all times. She then modifies it further to link the stones to Klaus' blood, so that whenever a werewolf uses the moonlight stones' power during a full moon to control their transformation, it draws from Klaus' own strength, which not only weakens him, but causes him pain and reduces his body's ability to heal.
*Three major characters of this season—Marcel, Josh, and Diego—suffer from a werewolf bite, as well as every other vampire who stormed the Mikaelson compound with Marcel, leaving them all on the verge of death. However, Elijah, who was also bitten twice by two Correa/Guerrera werewolves, can't die from werewolf bites, as he is an Original vampire. He was later healed from these bites with Klaus' blood in From a Cradle to a Grave so he wouldn't be further slowed down in the fight by succumbing to the effects of the werewolf venom.
**Marcel and Josh were both bitten by Klaus. Marcel was bitten as punishment for his constant attempts to take down Klaus, while Josh was bitten to punish Davina for providing Marcel with a cloaking spell.
**Elijah and Diego were bitten by the Correa-Guerrera werewolves on Francesca's orders. 
**The Correa-Guerrera werewolves also used their newly-obtained moonlight stones in order to bite every other vampire they could get their hands on, including all of the ones who invaded the Mikaelson compound under Marcel's orders, such as Diego.
*Mikael appears to Davina, telling her that he can help heal Josh's werewolf bite and he can help her get Klaus out of New Orleans for good—but only if she resurrects him.
*Marcel informs Jackson that in 1925, he took out what he assumed to be the entire bloodline of Guerrera werewolves, whom he claimed were a lot tougher than Jackson and Oliver.
**However, it was revealed that one of the Guerrera family's children, Gabriel, was found and adopted into a family with the last name Correa, all of whom kept their werewolf bloodline a secret from the rest of the New Orleans supernatural community.
*It is revealed that Francesca and her brothers are descendants of the Guerrera Family, which means she is a werewolf. Once she gained possession of the newly-created moonlight stones, she and her brothers triggered their werewolf curses by killing their bodyguards. They also revealed that they had waited to trigger their curses until they had the means to control their transformations without being forced to go through the painful experience of turning during every full moon.
*It's revealed that it was Francesca Correa with whom Oliver made the deal to bomb the werewolf encampments in the Bayou in An Unblinking Death. Francesca also confessed that she made a deal with the witches to give them Hayley so they could kill her and sacrifice her child, as she knew that the Crescents would prefer to be led by Hayley, who is werewolf royalty, as opposed by Francesca. To this end, Francesca had her taken out of the equation so she would have no competition for leadership.
*Hayley goes into labor after Genevieve kidnaps her and takes her to St. Anne's Church to give birth.
**Hayley was inadvertently sent into labor after her struggle against Genevieve and the witches' capture caused her to develop a placental abruption, in which the placenta is dislodged from the wall of the uterus during pregnancy. It is a very dangerous condition, and nearly always requires emergency medical attention involving induced labor.
*Elijah and Hayley kiss for the second time. This time, the kiss was initiated by Elijah. The first time they kissed was in A Closer Walk With Thee, which was initiated by Hayley.
*The audience gets their first look at the moonlight rings in action, which give the wolves all of the abilities gained from their wolf form (venomous fangs, strength, agility, speed) without the need to turn on the full moon.
==Body Count==
*Mohawk Vampire - Werewolf bite; killed by Francesca Correa
*Four Guerrera Bodyguards - Throat slit and Stabbed; killed by the Guerrera Family	
*Unnamed Man - Drained of blood; killed by Klaus
==Continuity==
*Sophie Deveraux is mentioned in this episode by Francesca. She was last seen in Crescent City, when she was killed by her own niece, Monique, on the orders of the Ancestors.
*Hayley went into labor in this episode. The fact that she was pregnant with Klaus' child was revealed in The Originals (TVD) and Always and Forever (TO).
==Locations==
*New Orleans, Louisiana
**French Quarter
***Park
***The Abattoir
***Rousseau's
***The Lycée
**The Bayou
**St. Anne's Church
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**Kieran's Secret Apartment
==Behind the Scenes==
*This episode had about 1.44 million viewers in the USA, which was 0.33 million less than the previous episode.
==Cultural References==
*The Battle of New Orleans is a song written by Jimmy Driftwood. 
*The Battle of New Orleans was a battle in the War of 1812 (1812-1815) that took place on January 8, 1815. Then-future-President Jackson soundly defeated a British troop reserve and this paved his way to run for political office. He was not elected until the 1830s
*Marcel quotes by saying that "If you know your enemies and know yourself you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."
*Marcel referenced the band Nirvana (1987-1994).
==Quotes==
:Klaus: "New Orleans has always been at war."
:Francesca : "Marcel is being especially vindictive."
:Marcel: "Tell us what Klaus is up to."
:Davina: "Klaus isn't the only thing we need to be afraid of."
:Marcel: "If we don't stand against him now, our lives aren't worth a damn anyway!"
:Marcel's Army: "Yeah!"
:Marcel: "No surrender this time."
:Klaus: "So be it. I think I'll start with you."
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:Davina: "There's a war coming."
:Marcel: "No surrender this time. You'll have to kill us all."
:Klaus: "I think I'll start with you."
:Marcel: "Come get me."
:Elijah: "Shall we?"
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:Klaus: (to Genevieve) "Sweetheart, I'm not the enemy. Nor are the wolves. Your abusive coven expects you to sacrifice yourself for the last of the Harvest girls. Do this one favor for me, and you need never fear anyone ever again."
==Multimedia==
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Originals (series)
Category:The Originals Episode Guide
Category:The Originals Season One
Category:Episodes featuring all main characters