- Camille O'Connell: Am I supposed to fear you too?
- Klaus Mikaelson: It will be better for you if you did. For you to believe I am the monster that they would paint me as. And then one day, when all of this was past... I might find you and profess my innocence. And because you're you, you would believe me. And we would pass the perfect afternoon... In a corner café together.
- [his hand on her cheek]
- Klaus Mikaelson: And I would wish for nothing more.
- [their eyes meet]
- Klaus Mikaelson: A better man would protect you with that lie. But I am not that man. And so I leave you with the burden of a truth that no one will believe.
- 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.
- Eva Sinclair: [finds her sister constructing a marker for Mikael] Freya... I am so sorry.
- Freya Mikaelson: About what? Certainly not our father. I alone mourn him... as I alone loved him. And now... because of Klaus... my father was taken from me once more.
- Eva Sinclair: I never knew the man you are mourning. He showed more tenderness to you yesterday than we have ever seen. All I can recall is his terrible temper... his awful cruelty... Especially to Klaus.
- Freya Mikaelson: That is not an excuse.
- Eva Sinclair: Isn't it? I know that Klaus can be infuriating... treacherous even, but there is no one better to have by your side against someone like Dahlia. Klaus wants Hope to be save just as much as you want your freedom. We need to work together.
- Freya Mikaelson: How can you defend him? *I* was abducted by Dahlia, spent years under her control, and yet he acts as if I am the enemy. I have given... you all every reason to trust me... and still Klaus rejects me. In all honesty... I cannot understand why you continue to trust him.
- [walks away, turns back:]
- Freya Mikaelson: You and Elijah have a choice. From now on, it's either Klaus... or me.
- [goes off]
- 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.
- Hayley Marshall: It's okay, baby girl.
- [hears footsteps approaching, gasps]
- Dahlia: What a beauty. Hello, my child. I...
- [witch halted by the magic spell barring any malign force to enter]
- Dahlia: I was hoping for a more intimate chat, though I sense by entering... you would have me at a considerable disadvantage.
- Hayley Marshall: [all Southern charm... not!] Why don't you come on in?
- [shakes her head]
- Hayley Marshall: I'd *love* to show you some hybrid hospitality.
- Dahlia: I only wanted to see the little one who's been promised to me. Won't be long now. Surely you've noticed that the spell protecting you is growing weaker.
- Hayley Marshall: If you lay a finger on her, I swear I'll make you suffer in ways even your evil mind can't imagine.
- Dahlia: [chuckles] Hayley, is it? I have no quarrel with you. Esther made this bargain long ago. It's most unfortunate that you've been dragged into it.
- Hayley Marshall: You talk like you don't have a choice. But this is your doing.
- Dahlia: When I give my word, I keep it. And I expect others... to do the same. Esther and I made a bargain a long time ago, and so you see, that child is rightfully mine. The only question that you need ask is would you deny me, knowing that it would mean your death.
- Hayley Marshall: You're not taking her.
- Dahlia: You're frightened for... your child.
- [chuckles]
- Dahlia: I can assure you, anything that Freya may have told you about our life together, well, she always had a flair for the dramatic.
- Hayley Marshall: Yeah, well, it seems to run in the family.
- Dahlia: Of course, most of my 'troubles' with Freya stemmed from the fact that I came for her so late in life. You see, she had such a strong memory of the family that I took her from then. But Hope is still young. She won't cling to the memory of you or... cry for you in her sleep. You can take comfort in the fact that for her it will be as if you never existed.
- Hayley Marshall: Come closer.
- [eyes turn yellow]
- Hayley Marshall: Let's see how a witch with no magic does against me.
- Dahlia: [as Hope starts crying] Oh... you've upset... the child. Pity, you ought not to waste your last hours with her this way. You should spend your time saying your farewells. Nightfall tomorrow... will come all too soon.
- [Hayley stands defiantly, rocking the baby]
- Dahlia: Goodbye, for now... little one.