TEXT: [Directors Cut of the Pilot] [Salvatore's House] (Elena is lying in the cell and starting to desiccate. Damon and Stefan are upstairs) Damon: That's the calmest desiccating vampire I've ever seen. I remember when you starved me down there for 3 days. I would've wept at your feet for an orange peel Stefan: Look, she's not gonna beg for blood. Begging means desperation. Emotion. She's still in no-humanity zone Damon: How hungry does she have to be before we can torture some feelings back into her? Stefan: A lot hungrier than she is now, apparently Damon: So, what are we supposed to do in the meantime? (Katherine enters) Katherine: Maybe I can provide a little excitement Stefan: Katherine Katherine: The one and only. Sort of. So, when's the welcome home party? Damon: Wow. Look who went and got bold. Last time I checked, Klaus was plotting your eternal demise Katherine: Well, it doesn't matter anymore, because Klaus is gone Stefan: Wait. What do you mean he's gone? Katherine: Let's just say that werewolf girl Hayley turned out to be just the thing we needed to get Klaus out of our lives for good [New Orleans] (Haley is at a bar. She looks at the bartender) Bartender: Third time in here this week Haley: I'm obsessed with The Gumbo, Jane-Anne Jane-Anne: The old ladies in the ninth ward say my sister Sophie bleeds a piece of her soul into every dish Haley: I asked around the quarter about my family Jane-Anne: And? Haley: Nothing. Zero. Can't find a single person who remembers them Jane-Anne: Because, Hayley, people like you were run out of here years ago Haley: What do you mean, people like me? Jane-Anne: In the Bayou, they call the werewolves Roux-Ga-Roux. You head out there; you'll find what you're looking for. Be careful. It's the last place you'd ever want to
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This episode's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. (November 2016) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The pilot is told from the perspective of Elijah. 300 years ago Elijah , Rebekah and Klaus arrive in the French quarter near the Mississippi River in a voyage along with Finn and Kol daggered in their coffins. Back In Present: Klaus comes back to New Orleans as he got a letter threatening him. Elijah leaves to find his brother coming to New Orleans. As he arrives there first, he finds the witch who called Klaus back, Jane Anne Deveraux. Sabine, also a witch, tells him that she tried to do magic, which has been banned in New Orleans by Marcel Gerard, whom he was shocked to see alive as he thought Marcel was dead. He meets Jane Anne's sister, Sophie Deveraux and other witches of the coven in the cemetery where the witches are buried and they tell him that her sister called Klaus to get rid of Marcel as he was killing the witches who were practicing magic and that there is a werewolf, Hayley, who is pregnant with Klaus's child and he tells him the story of his family and how Klaus is a hybrid and first of his kind. Klaus goes to his old home, the quarter, where he and Marcel argue and then he bites one of his vampires, Thierry, who is Marcel's right hand and Thierry gets sick as a werewolf bite is fatal to a vampire. Elijah calls Rebekah to fill her in about what is going on in New Orleans. Klaus arrives at the Cemetery and is not willing to accept that Hayley is pregnant with his child. Meanwhile, Sophie tells that her sister linked her to Hayley and that what happens to her would happen to Hayley and that's why she would not get hurt as Elijah thinks that this child could bring their family together. They arrive at a house which used to belong to the Mayor. He makes a deal with Marcel to give Jane Anne's body to the witches and to allow them to cremate her instead. Klaus would give his blood to cure Thierry and Marcel agrees. Klaus goes to the quarter and heals Thierry. At the Mayor's house where Hayley is going to stay, Elijah makes Hayley a promise that he will protect her and no one is going to hurt her. The episode ends with Klaus Daggering Elijah which takes us to a flashback when Klaus heals Thierry. Marcel asks Klaus to give him Elijah as he cannot let all the Originals just walking around in the city and Klaus agrees in order to gain Marcel's trust so he can take back his city which he and his siblings built. Rebekah is concerned about Elijah as he is not answering her calls and she gets ready to go back to New Orleans.