Will Hayley and Klaus' reunion with Hope be a tearful one?
Michael Narducci: It's the moment we've been waiting for since the end of last season when Auntie Bex (Claire Holt) had to take the baby into hiding and the world had to believe that the child is dead. But now that Esther has been able to take them down and they're on the run, the whole family has reunited in a safe location, and they need to have a big family discussion about what is the best thing to do to protect the baby and take down Esther. So it's a happy reunion, everyone is safe and healthy, but it's also the eve of a great and challenging battle. What do they do to prevent their mother from finding about this baby? If that advantage were taken away from them and if Esther knew the baby was alive they'd be in a lot of trouble so they'll have to work hard to figure out what to do.
But at least Klaus looks happy!
Narducci: I think it's wonderful to see him smile [but] the moment you actually have something to lose is the scariest. Now that he has found some sense of joy and happiness, he has to make some tough decisions about what he'll do to protect that.
Could seeing Hope bring Hayley and Klaus together in a way we haven't seen?
Narducci: There's a really interesting connection that they have, and Klaus will [learn] what Hayley is going to do in order to help and free her people. Klaus is a strategic, visionary master manipulator, and I think he knows that Hayley marrying Jackson and these werewolves gaining power and forming an alliance and Hayley having control of those werewolves is a much better situation than Finn having control of the werewolves. So, it's to the benefit not only to the Mikaelson family, but his child, if Hayley goes through with this wedding. At the same time, Klaus and his devious way knows Hayley might be a little reluctant to engage in that wedding because of her lingering feelings for Elijah. So I think Klaus' perspective... is wanting the mother of his child to not have another husband because that husband might be a threat to his role as sole father to Baby Hope. But he knows that strategically there are alliances to be made.
How long will Hayley struggle with her duty to the pack vs. her heart?
Narducci: I think this is the episode where we're going to see her struggle with that and the first thing she has to do is decide whether or not she wants to be honest with Elijah. Then we have to see the scene, if there is one, where Elijah and Hayley come face-to-face and talk out the pros and cons of what she's thinking of doing. Then it becomes a situation where Hayley says, "What's more important, my heart and my instincts and my love for one of these men? Or is it a clear opportunity to provide a defensive asset we can use to protect that baby [which] is the most important thing to me? So for honor, for duty to protect my people and save them from enslavement and to have a werewolf army I can use to protect my child, maybe I have to really consider going forward with this."
With Elijah, we're seeing the lasting effects of being tortured by his mom. Will he unravel?
Narducci: There's a big storyline going forward for Elijah where he's having a hard time keeping control of what Esther has unleashed within in him. True to form, Elijah realizes this red door, this capacity to violence, is something he's been able to control for 1,000 years and he might not be able to control it anymore. So he has to figure out how to control it, if there's a way to control it, and if there's a way to his benefit to let that door swing open and use his ferocity as an advantage against those who have threatened his family. What cost might that have if he were to do so? Elijah will always behave in the most noble way, but he is a vampire and there's a cost to that existence which Elijah will have to explore.
Michael Narducci: It's the moment we've been waiting for since the end of last season when Auntie Bex (Claire Holt) had to take the baby into hiding and the world had to believe that the child is dead. But now that Esther has been able to take them down and they're on the run, the whole family has reunited in a safe location, and they need to have a big family discussion about what is the best thing to do to protect the baby and take down Esther. So it's a happy reunion, everyone is safe and healthy, but it's also the eve of a great and challenging battle. What do they do to prevent their mother from finding about this baby? If that advantage were taken away from them and if Esther knew the baby was alive they'd be in a lot of trouble so they'll have to work hard to figure out what to do.
But at least Klaus looks happy!
Narducci: I think it's wonderful to see him smile [but] the moment you actually have something to lose is the scariest. Now that he has found some sense of joy and happiness, he has to make some tough decisions about what he'll do to protect that.
Could seeing Hope bring Hayley and Klaus together in a way we haven't seen?
Narducci: There's a really interesting connection that they have, and Klaus will [learn] what Hayley is going to do in order to help and free her people. Klaus is a strategic, visionary master manipulator, and I think he knows that Hayley marrying Jackson and these werewolves gaining power and forming an alliance and Hayley having control of those werewolves is a much better situation than Finn having control of the werewolves. So, it's to the benefit not only to the Mikaelson family, but his child, if Hayley goes through with this wedding. At the same time, Klaus and his devious way knows Hayley might be a little reluctant to engage in that wedding because of her lingering feelings for Elijah. So I think Klaus' perspective... is wanting the mother of his child to not have another husband because that husband might be a threat to his role as sole father to Baby Hope. But he knows that strategically there are alliances to be made.
How long will Hayley struggle with her duty to the pack vs. her heart?
Narducci: I think this is the episode where we're going to see her struggle with that and the first thing she has to do is decide whether or not she wants to be honest with Elijah. Then we have to see the scene, if there is one, where Elijah and Hayley come face-to-face and talk out the pros and cons of what she's thinking of doing. Then it becomes a situation where Hayley says, "What's more important, my heart and my instincts and my love for one of these men? Or is it a clear opportunity to provide a defensive asset we can use to protect that baby [which] is the most important thing to me? So for honor, for duty to protect my people and save them from enslavement and to have a werewolf army I can use to protect my child, maybe I have to really consider going forward with this."
With Elijah, we're seeing the lasting effects of being tortured by his mom. Will he unravel?
Narducci: There's a big storyline going forward for Elijah where he's having a hard time keeping control of what Esther has unleashed within in him. True to form, Elijah realizes this red door, this capacity to violence, is something he's been able to control for 1,000 years and he might not be able to control it anymore. So he has to figure out how to control it, if there's a way to control it, and if there's a way to his benefit to let that door swing open and use his ferocity as an advantage against those who have threatened his family. What cost might that have if he were to do so? Elijah will always behave in the most noble way, but he is a vampire and there's a cost to that existence which Elijah will have to explore.
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