The Originals season 4, episode 9 recap: Queen Death

Who was the big sacrifice for The Hollow’s return? Find out in this week’s episode of The Originals, titled “Queen Death.”

This week on The Originals, The Hollow finds the person she will sacrifice to get her body back, Elijah Mikaelson. But, would The Originals actually go through with killing off Elijah? Or, would some else be used as a sacrifice?

Warning, major spoilers ahead.

Picking up right where last week’s episode of The Originals left off, things are not looking good for Elijah’s future. The Hollow, through Sofya, has taken Elijah to the woods. He is slowly dying from Marcel’s venom in the rose thorns.

While he is dying in the magical circle, The Hollow starts explaining her plan to him. His family will come looking for him, and The Hollow will offer them a deal. The final bone for Elijah’s life. Only, Elijah will never be able to survive the poison in his system. So, when he dies The Hollow can still use it as a sacrifice.

It does not take long for the rest of the family to notice that Elijah is nowhere to be found. Soon after, Vincent arrives at the Mikaelson compound to inform everyone of what is really going on with Elijah. See, while Vincent was cleaning up the church from an attack by The Hollow’s supports, Sofya arrived with a message she wanted passed to the Mikaelsons. Bring her the bone, or Elijah dies.

Vincent realizes that Elijah is as good as dead anyway. And the sacrifice of an Original is required by the ancestors to lock The Hollow back up, so why not use Elijah seeing ad he is already knocking on death’s door.

Needless to say no one is on board with this plan and they insist on trying to find another way to save Elijah. Vincent and Freya look in Esther’s grimoires to find any sort of solution. When that appears to be a dead end, Vincent lashes out at Freya saying that Elijah has lived long enough. Him dying now to save the world from a much greater evil.

This rant reminds Freya of the pendant Freya used to hold Finn’s spirit years ago. The theory is that Elijah’s spirit can live on in the pendant, and eventually, Fraya will bring him back. His death can still be used to trap The Hollow, but he could come back.

The only problem is that Elijah maybe too weak to survive a transfer to the necklace. Instead, Klaus offers himself up as a sacrifice. Vincent will sacrifice Klaus, while Marcel uses Hayley’s blood to weaken The Hollow.

But, the plan soon hits a sang. While Vincent is preparing to sacrifice Klaus, a few of The Hollow’s witch supporters arrive and ruin everything by burning the poison rose thorns. With no way to kill Klaus anymore, that part of the plan is useless.

On the bright side, Marcel manages to stab The Hollow. But without Klaus, The Hollow’s spirit comes back with a vengeance, vowing to destroy New Orleans. On the bright side, The Hollow leaves Sofya’s nobody,

Freya uses magic to locate Elijah, and when the find him, he is in rough shape, but Freya has the cure for the poison. Or she did before The Hollow arrives and smashes it. The she begins to sacrifice Elijah.

Freya tries desperately to get Elijah into the pendant, but it appears to not work as the pendant breaks and Elijah dies. Back at home, Freya tries to see if Elijah’s spirit is in the pendant as Klaus screams at her in grief over loosing his brother. Freya can’t hear anything until Hope walks into the room. The she touches her aunt’s shoulder, they see a flash of Elijah. So, there is cause to believe in his return.

Elijah’s death, even if it ends up being temporary, means that The Hollow will get her body back. Vincent is so terrified, he is sending the witches out of harms way. He also asks for his The Hollow notebook (the one he asked Marcel to kill him over if he ever asked for it back). Vincent needs more power to face The Hollow and this is the only way Vincent knows how to get it.

As the episode comes to a close, The Hollow emerges from a tree, in her original body.