The Originals (TV Series)

When the Levee Breaks (2015)

Daniel Gillies: Elijah Mikaelson

Quotes 

• Hayley Marshall : Of course I tried to call you, Elijah, but since Dahlia was able to take down Klaus and Mikael, I'm guessing that a cellphone tower was a piece of cake.

  Elijah Mikaelson : And where were the wolves who stood guard?

  Hayley Marshall : Getting their asses handed to them by Dahlia just like Klaus did.

  Klaus Mikaelson : [enters]  That's it! You're coming with me to the compound.

  Hayley Marshall : Where Dahlia send Josephine this morning. No way! We'd be sitting ducks just like we will be here as soon as that spell breaks. Which is why we have to go. Jackson is out getting supplies. And then we're taking the wolves and we're headed to the bayou.

  Klaus Mikaelson : The swamp. So my child can be protected by the very wolves Dahlia so easily defeated. Absolutely not!

  Hayley Marshall : You know, I am so over taking advice from you, Klaus. All it has done so far is put Hope in danger. From now on, I am gonna do all I wanna do. We're leaving!

  Klaus Mikaelson : [grabs her]  You're not going anywhere unless I tell you to.

  Hayley Marshall : I am not your prisoner, Klaus!

  Elijah Mikaelson : Both of you, please... We're playing into Dahlia's hands.

  Klaus Mikaelson : Not doing as I say... plays into her hands! While you two have been kowtowing to Freya and devising ways to flee with your tail between your legs, I've been forging a new path. I know what Freya was planning. And I know how to kill Dahlia.

• Hayley Marshall : Nice job today. First Klaus kills Aiden, and then you defend him?

  Elijah Mikaelson : I was protecting Hope.

  Hayley Marshall : Yeah, well, if that's true, then what happens now? I don't think that Klaus is gonna be able to save us.

  Elijah Mikaelson : He loves her. I love her.

  Hayley Marshall : Well, if you do, then let us leave.

  Elijah Mikaelson : If you enter the bayou, I cannot protect you from Dahlia. Or Niklaus.

  Hayley Marshall : We have a way of keeping Hope from doing magic. Dahlia won't be able to track us down. Jackson knows every inch of the bayou. He can protect us and I know Marcel will help get us out of the city. The only thing standing in our way is you.

  Elijah Mikaelson : What are you asking me to do?

  Hayley Marshall : We can't run from Dahlia and hide from Klaus at the same time. You wanna protect us... buy us some time.

• Elijah Mikaelson : [acknowledges early morning visitor]  Josephine.

  Josephine LaRue : [wears jewel-decorated scarf, obviously to hide lethal neck injury]  Forgive me for calling so early, Elijah... But I've come bearing a message from your Aunt Dahlia. She is owed a debt and she means to be paid.

  Klaus Mikaelson : She can writhe in hell first.

  Josephine LaRue : For merely taking what your mother promised her? If you must harbor hatred, isn't it better spent on the one who traded your child away a thousand years ago? Blame Esther, if you must... but I... seek only to fulfill a bargain. A bargain that consequently resulted in your very existence. Perhaps you should be thanking me.

  Elijah Mikaelson : [sees this apparition for who she really is, steps forward]  Dahlia.

  Josephine LaRue : My child... I prefer... "Aunt... Dahlia."

  Klaus Mikaelson : [steps forward]  You dare... enter my home.

  Josephine LaRue : I only came for what is mine. The time has come... to add the child's power to my own. Though I do not detect her here... I see you used a spell... to cloak her. No matter.

  [croaking voice:] 

  Josephine LaRue : Such spells will yield, as will you. Say your farewells. You have till nightfall tomorrow. And then... the child... shall... be mine. Be a dear, and inform the mother. No reason we can't be civilized about this.

• Freya Mikaelson : I had a feeling I would be seeing you.

  Elijah Mikaelson : I understand you built a marker for Father. I wish to contribute this.

  Freya Mikaelson : [it's a holstered knife, Mikael's, which she remembers from all those centuries ago]  How did you...?

  Elijah Mikaelson : Niklaus stole from Mikael long ago. He would use it... to carve these tiny little wooden figurines for Rebekah and myself. Like your own, his was not a happy childhood. Art was something of a sanctuary for Niklaus. It remains so to this day.

  Freya Mikaelson : Do you tell me this so I might sympathize with him? As you do incessantly. I assume Rebekah gave you my ultimatum.

  Elijah Mikaelson : I don't accept ultimatums. Nor will I make a choice between yourself... and Niklaus.

  Freya Mikaelson : I will not trust my freedom to an alliance with Klaus. It means you will fight Dahlia alone, and you will lose.

  Elijah Mikaelson : You came to us, tired of running, and desperate to be free, and searching for the kind of strength that can only come from family. Now, with or without you, Klaus and I will defeat Dahlia, and I would prefer you to be by our side.

  Freya Mikaelson : You would ask me to stay and watch as we all become Dahlia's chattel?

  Elijah Mikaelson : Stay... and we defeat Dahlia together. Or you may leave... and consign yourself to a life of solitude. My sister, is there really any choice?

  Freya Mikaelson : [considers this, and then:]  Swear to me that you will not allow Klaus to be our undoing.