Le Grand Guignol

Le Grand Guignol is the fifteenth episode of the First Season of The Originals (TV Series).

Summary
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA — In a series of flashbacks to 1919, opens up to  and reveals details of the devastating secret  and  were trying to keep from him. forms an unlikely alliance with Monique and asks for her help in locating Sabine. Elsewhere, Thierry is reluctant to get involved when Marcel and Rebekah approach him with a plan to take down the witches. Meanwhile, in the bayou, is at her wits’ end and holds Sabine hostage in an attempt to get information that will reverse the curse on her werewolf clan.

Main Cast

 * Joseph Morgan as Niklaus Mikaelson
 * Daniel Gillies as Elijah Mikaelson
 * Claire Holt as Rebekah Mikaelson
 * Phoebe Tonkin as Hayley Marshall
 * Charles Michael Davis as Marcel Gerard
 * Leah Pipes as Camille O'Connell
 * Danielle Campbell as Davina Claire (credit only)

Recurring Cast

 * Sebastian Roché as Mikael
 * Shannon Kane and Raney Branch as Sabine/Celeste
 * Callard Harris as Thierry Vanchure
 * Yasmine Al Bustami as Monique Deveraux
 * Shannon Eubanks as Bastianna Natale
 * Tasha Ames as Eve

Quotes

 * Short Promo


 * Marcel: There's only one way that we can hide from Klaus... get outta town. 
 * Rebekah: It's a suicide mission. 
 * Klaus: They will pay for this. 
 * Klaus: REBEKAH!
 * Marcel: I will NOT leave you behind!


 * Extended Promo


 * Marcel: There's only one way that we can truly hide from Klaus forever... get outta town. 
 * Rebekah: He'll chase us to the end of the earth. It's a suicide mission. 
 * Marcel: It's our only hope.
 * Klaus: They will pay for this. 
 * Rebekah: If we don't leave now, there will be no one to save him.
 * Klaus: REBEKAH!
 * Marcel: I will NOT leave you behind!


 * Webclip 1#


 * Klaus: Well this is a first, werewolves, vampires, witches and dirty cops, all happy as clams and all drunk as stoats.
 * Elijah: To a new era, collaboration in the face of prohibition.

Trivia

 * Is Thierry gone for good? Last viewers saw of him, he and a group of vampires left under Klaus' watch to form their own band of merry misfits. Plec revealed that he will return, though it won't be a few more episodes. "He's now living on the outskirts and he might come in handy to one of our characters some day soon," Plec said.
 * There's a lot more story to be told about what happened in 1919. Once the Olympics are over and we come back, we definitely get a little flavor for New Orleans at the end of the influenza epidemic in 1919. Then the episode after that we dig into what happens during that period when we'll see if Mikael (Sebastian Roche) "got the message" about somebody looking for him in the French Quarter. But in the script we see the scene where the siblings decide to flee.
 * According to imdb, Mikael will be in this episode and episode 16, as flashbacks
 * According to the promo, it's possible Bastianna gets killed. If so, there might be a chance that Davina will be resurrected in this episode as there are already rumours about it.
 * According to the promo, Marcel and Rebekah are running from Klaus much like Katerina Petrova, Rose and Trevor did back in the fifteenth century.
 * And when he recovers, his brother will have some major 'splaining to do. "For Elijah, it was very much a way of dealing with that immediate situation", Joseph Morgan says. "It was a way of getting Rebekah and Marcel out of that room alive and somewhere Klaus won't find them immediately. Elijah will then try to communicate with his brother why it had to happen".

Continuity

 * Mikael was last seen in Always and Forever. He was last mentioned in Long Way Back From Hell.
 * Thierry Vanchure was last seen in Dance Back from the Grave.
 * Cami was last seen in Crescent City.
 * Celeste, in her original body, was last seen during flashbacks in The River in Reverse.
 * Klaus now knows that Rebekah and Marcel brought Mikael to New Orleans in 1919.
 * According to imdb, Eve will appear in this episode.
 * This is the second episode of The Originals to have a French name. The first was Après Moi, Le Déluge.
 * This is the third episode to feature a flashback to New Orleans in 1919 and the second to feature back to back flashbacks this season since Always and Forever and House of the Rising Son.

Cultural References

 * Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, also known as the Grand Guignol – was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris (at 20 bis, rue Chaptal). From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962, it specialized in naturalistic horror shows.


 * Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre (for instance Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil), to today's splatter films.


 * Some say that Théâtre des Vampires in Anne Rice's "The Vampire Chronicles" was inspired by Le Grand Guignol, however Anne claims she did not know of this until after writing her novels.