SN3 EP16 – Alone With Everybody
Written By: Ashley Lyle, Bart Nickerson, Carina Adly MacKenzie, Declan De Barra, Michael Russo & Julie Plec
Directed By: Hanelle Culpepper
This episode was all about sibling rivalry and a rousing game of “Bullet, Bullet, who’s got the Bullet?”. The Strix are guarding Elijah and by default the other Mikaelsons. Well, except Klaus who’s on the run with Hope and Hayley. The whole Klaus and Hayley scenario gives us our best line of the whole episode. Klaus asks, “On a scale from 1 to 10, how much am I going to despise this little plan of yours?” To which Hayley quips, “I’d say a solid … 85.” All Klaus can say to that is, “Oh good.”
There a new vamp on the scene named Sofya (played by Taylor Cole) who is after the last white oak bullet for an unseen employer, and she manages to take it from Vincent. Later we find out because Josh is so good at computer-techie-hacking type stuff, that there’s an online auction for the bullet. Through some impersonation shenanigans (and after Josh gets his young vamp butt kicked) Marcel gets the bullet.
Meanwhile, back at the Mikaelson’s home, Kol has a go at Finn. You see, Kol over hears Finn telling Elijah that he wants to shed his vamp body and take over a witch’s body. Once Davina learns this, she takes a page out of his mother’s spell book (literally) and locks him in his vamp body. To say he was pissed is an understatement. Kol walks in just in time to save Davina and take a few shots at his older brother. But then, the two of them had been walking around each other with hackles raised the whole episode. Elijah walks in while all Hell is breaking lose. The exasperation is plain on his face. I mean, he’s got 99 problems…
Once the white oak bullet finally ends up in Elijah’s hands, he has Freya start a fire and he throws the bullet in. However, Finn reaches in to pull it out. He wants them to use the bullet to end his “suffering”. After much deliberation and some “I can hide it and keep it safe” promises from Freya, Elijah decides to keep the bullet just in case one of them wants “release” some where in the future… you know, a million years from now or whatever.
Vincent gets a message from The Ancestors and realizes he’s supposed to help Sofya. So, instead of getting her employer’s name out of her, Vincent helps her escape and grabs Freya as she’s leaving the Mikaelson compound with the bullet.
And, when all the dust clears, we find out that Lucien is the mysterious employer that wants the bullet. What is he up to? According to the scenes for next week, he wants to become an Original!
We’ll have to wait until next week to find out if he succeeds.