TEXT: [Old Lockwood Cellar] (Elena and Alaric are in the hidden tunnels of the old Lockwood Cellar. She has a flashlight in her hand) Elena: So the Lockwood's really have no idea that these tunnels are underneath their property? Alaric: Yeah. Careful where you shine that thing. Bats hate the light Elena: Wait. What? Alaric: Elena (She turns herself and Damon is behind her) Damon: Boo! Elena: God, Damon (She hits him) Damon: Scaredy-cat Alaric: Just ignore him. That's what I do Elena: So you really can't get in? Damon: No. Seems even the ancient Lockwood's were anti-vampire Elena: What do you mean ancient? Damon: See for yourself. This is as far as I get to go) (He stops. Elena and Alaric keep walking and stops in front of the wall. She looks at it with her flashlight) Elena: What is all this? Alaric: Well, as far as I can tell, it's a story. In simple archaeological terms, it's a really, really old story (He shows her various drawings) Alaric: That right there is a moon cycle. A man. A wolf. A werewolf Damon: Yeah. It's the Lockwood diaries, Pictionary style Elena: I don't understand. I thought the Lockwood's came here with the original founders in the 1860s Alaric: Ah, maybe the Lockwood's did, but according to this wall, these werewolves have been here a lot longer than that Elena: How long? Damon: Long. Gets better. Show her, Ric (Alaric shows her other drawing) Alaric: Names, and they're not native. They're written in runic, a Viking script Elena: Viking? Alaric: This name here, when translated, it reads... Niklaus Elena: Klaus Alaric: And Elijah... And Rebekah Flashback (Rebekah is writing something on the wall with a knife Klaus is here) Klaus: Rebekah let me have at it Re
SUMMARY:
With help from Elena and Bonnie, Alaric tries to decipher the meaning behind his recent discovery. From the writings on the cave wall, he deciphers that Mikael is 'Papa Original', as Damon puts it, the father of Elijah, Rebekah and their other siblings. Elena and Rebekah engage in a mean-girl power struggle, until Rebekah reveals some of her family's ancient secrets and the violent past she shares with Klaus and Elijah. She reveals how the family became vampires. They were once neighbors to a village of werewolves and one night, Klaus and their brother, Henrik, snuck out to see the men change into wolves when it went wrong, and Henrik was killed. The family was distraught and the loss made Mikael obsessed with making the family invulnerable. His wife, a witch, the Original witch, aided them in becoming vampires but nature found ways of ensuring that they had weaknesses. Rebekah also tells Elena that it was Mikael who killed their mother when he found out about her infidelity to him but it is later on deciphered from the writings on the cave wall that it was actually the hybrid, Klaus, who killed his mother, in a fit of temper and rage. This new revelation causes Rebekah to lose faith in her brother. Damon tries a reckless new approach to make a breakthrough with Stefan by releasing him from his imprisonment and they're both surprised by an unlikely ally, Mikael, who has been freed by Katherine.