The Originals Episode 3x19 - No More Heartbreaks

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The CW has released an official description for the nineteenth episode of The Originals’ third season, airing on April 29th.

The title of the episode is “No More Heartbreaks” Here’s how they describe it:

THE RACE TO SAVE CAMI — Following a violent encounter that has left Cami’s (Leah Pipes) life hanging in the balance, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) is forced to rely on his family and allies to find a cure as he keeps a watchful eye over Cami at the compound. With time running out, Freya (Riley Voelkel) turns to her arsenal of spells, while Vincent (Yusuf Gatewood) and Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) head to Cami’s apartment to gather a crucial ingredient. Elsewhere, Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) and Elijah (Daniel Gillies) travel to the bayou in hopes of bringing back a potential antidote that could save Cami’s life. Finally, Davina (Danielle Campbell) confronts Lucien (guest star Andrew Lees) and learns some heartbreaking information that will change her future with Kol (guest star Nathaniel Buzolic) forever.

Millicent Shelton directed the episode written by Celeste Vasquez & Michael Narducci

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The Originals: Lucien Goes After Klaus with Nothing to Lose



Hell hath no fury like a lover scorned and unfortunately for The Originals, that scorned person is now the most powerful vampire in the world.

Lucien (Andrew Lees) has gone fully nuclear after seeing the video footage of Aurora (Rebecca Breeds) admitting that she'll never really love him. In fact, she's just using him as a means to an end to exact her revenge on Klaus (Joseph Morgan). That wasn't the smartest thing to say about a vampire who just drank a serum that not only giveshim the powers of an Original vampire, but has the added bonus of a lethal werewolf venom.

While Lucien's next meeting with Aurora will undoubtedly be brutal, he's going after Klaus - the man he holds responsible for taking Aurora away from him - first, and he's going to hit where it hurts. The closing moments ofFriday's episode had Lucien infecting Cami (Leah Pipes) with his deadly bite. Now the clock is ticking for Klaus and the rest of the Mikaelsons to save her - but can they find a way to defeat Lucien in time?

Executive producer Michael Narducci talked to TVGuide.com about what Lucien plans now that Aurora has forsaken him and how the Mikaelsons will fight the two-front war being waged on their family.

What are Lucien's plans now that he knows how Aurora truly feels about him?

Michael Narducci: It does change his motives a bit. He went from being a lovestruck guy that loves the girl and wants to beat up the bully who kept the girl from him for a thousand years. Now, he's a heartbroken, shattered, romantic. We all know that hell hath no fury like a person that is scorned. He's going to blame Klaus that Aurora's love has strayed away from him. He's going to take out his anger by hurting someone close to Klaus and draw Klaus out into a fight that Lucien knows he can win.

Does that mean Cami's fate isn't sealed and Klaus still has a chance to save her?

Narducci: We know that Finn had a little bit of time before that poison took effect, so Cami is not dead at the end of the episode. In fact, I would say that Lucien is hoping that the dying Cami is exactly what he needs to get Klaus to come to him.

What is that fight between Lucien and Klaus going to look like considering Lucien's abilities?

Narducci:Lucien has created himself into something else and that thing can even kill Klaus. He's stronger, faster, more durable and a bite that could even kill Klaus. So if Klaus goes head-to-head with Lucien, Klaus is going to lose. We're building towards a final confrontation between them where if Klaus wants to win he's going to have to rely on others. This is not something that Klaus is particularly good at. Last year, to defeat Dahlia he went it alone. This year, if he were to go that route, he'll die. It's really a testament to the Mikaelson family that are they going to be able to face this threat as a family, [but] what will that cost them?

The Ancestors are also trying to take out the Mikaelsons at the same time. Are we building up to a witch and vampire war in the season finale?

Narducci:. It's not a witch and vampire war, it's a war against the Mikaelsons that is taking place on two different fronts. On one front, there's Klaus versus Lucien and he's going to need some help to survive. On another front, there's Davina realizing that the ancestors are hellbent on using Kol to destroy her and anybody else that would side with the Mikaelsons. Kol, Davina, Vincent and some other characters are going to have to figure out what they can do to stand up against this unstoppable force. How do you stop a collection of dead spirits that are all powerful because their power is rooted in the power of New Orleans? They can be anywhere and do anything. They have an incredible amount of power and our protagonists are the underdog in this scenario.

Kol is still stuck in New Orleans at the end of the episode. Will he come back to Davina to figure it out or will he still try to keep his distance even if he can't leave the city?

Narducci: Kol knows he's in a difficult place. He has these urges and he could be a threat to Davina, so he is not going to go back to her. He's going to try desperately to find a way to keep himself from giving in to all of this blood lust. Whether or not Davina finds him because she's worried that this guy who she deeply cares for, is another question.

www.tvguide.com/news/the-originals-lucien-klaus-with-nothing-to-lose/

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Originals EP Previews Klaus and Cami's 'Powerful' Next Step, Lucien's New Fury



How is it that I’m more worried about Cami after Friday’s episode of The Originals than I was when she was literally dead in Klaus’ bed?

This week’s hectic hour found Team Mikaelson attempting to defeat Lucien 2.0 and Aurora 1.5 — she hasn’t made the full transformation yet, but she’s already there mentally — with somewhat mixed results. TVLine spoke with executive producer Michael Narducci about three of this week’s biggest twists, but first, a quick recap:

Hayley and Cami teamed up to saved Klaus from Aurora’s clutches, while Freya and Elijah gathered the Strix for an assault against Lucien; via the magic of security footage, Lucien discovered that Aurora has no romantic feelings for him; Marcel convinced an out-of-control Kol that the best thing he can do for Davina is leave town, which he did; and in the episode’s final moments, an understandably pissed-off Lucien bit Cami in her home.

TVLINE | Let’s start with Cami. Can you give me any hope heading into the next episode?
Well, you saw what I saw. She’s in absolutely life-threatening peril. She has now been bitten by a bite we know is lethal enough to kill even Finn. I can promise you that in the next episode, you’ll see Cami alive and awake. You’ll see how she reacts to that bite; the first thing she has to do is survive being in the immediate clutches of Lucien. Cami will see Klaus again, and whens he gets to him, he’s going to recruit his entire family to find a way to slow — if not stop or cure — the bite she’s now dying from. That’s really the heart of next week’s episode, these two people who are in desperate straits. It’s going to be a powerful story about the connection between them.

TVLINE | And how will Lucien’s discovery about Aurora’s feelings change his game plan?
He went from being a romantic who wanted to defeat the bully and impress the girl to a guy who just hates the bully and has no hope of getting the girl. In some ways, he’s more dangerous, because he has nothing to lose. Sensing that Klaus is responsible for stealing Aurora from him 1,000 years ago led to his decision to do what he does at the end of the episode with Cami.

TVLINE | I loved Hayley’s line about how staying away from Cami won’t change the way she feels about Klaus. Any chance she’ll take her own advice with Elijah?
We’ve been telling this story of these two very different couples finding their way back to each other after a lot of distance and many obstacles, and both of them will see some advancements and some more obstacles. In some aspects, there will be closure, and in others, there will be the prospect of more to come.

tvline.com/2016/04/15/the-originals-recap-season-3-episode-18-lucien-bites-cami-spoilers/

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The Originals boss on Cami's heartbreaking death, hope for Davina



Spoiler alert: This post contains plot points from the April 29 episode of The Originals.

It wasn’t long ago that The Originals left for its winter hiatus with Cami’s fate up in the air. But this time around, there are no questions: Cami is dead. We spoke with Originals showrunner Michael Narducci about the decision, not to mention what just happened with Davina.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When did you all decide that Cami was going to die?
MICHAEL NARDUCCI: We decided pretty early on in the breaking of season 3 that Cami was going to be thrust into the middle of the goings-on and we knew that if a human were put into the middle of a sire line vampire war, it was going to be a very dangerous situation for her. We love Leah [Pipes]; we know she’s an amazing actress, so we really wanted to explore this brave person with this optimistic outlook put into the center of all this peril. We wanted to challenge her in every conceivable way — by putting her in jeopardy, by tempting her with power, by making her a vampire. But we ultimately knew that the good aspect of Cami would win over, and unlike every other vampire I’ve ever seen, Cami got control of her vampire side. She never killed anyone [as a vampire]. She never gave in completely to the darkest aspect of herself, and in episode 19 she talks a little bit about how she did not want Aurora to win by making her into this vengeance-fueled monster.

That was very important to us that Cami suffers a major defeat in terms of dying, but she also throughout the episode has a lot of victories as a vampire who has retained connection to her humanity. We knew this was going to be a tragic season — we were pretty certain that we were going to get more episodes in the next season — so we wanted to take it to a really sad, terrible, dangerous, dark place so that we could try to redeem ourselves and heal the family in our next line of stories, which is what we’re planning on doing.

My first question when she died was why you all felt the need to turn her into a vampire before her death, but I love the idea that it was to push her to her darkest place yet, but ultimately have that light still win.
That’s absolutely it. In terms of unpredictability and expectation, if we turn her into a vampire then you’re going to think she’s going to be a vampire now so [you’re] not expecting this. And we don’t want you to know what’s happening on the show. But also, Klaus is a terrible, violent, savage beast of an entity and often I think he justifies his actions by saying, “My dad was a jerk and my mom made me into a monster, it’s really not my fault. I am what I was made by others.” And here comes Cami, who’s always been the person who has said, “I believe people want to be good.” And then something horrible happened to her and she did explore that dark side of herself, but ultimately evolved even as a vampire into something else. So now Klaus has to look at her and say, “There’s someone who was victimized but her courage and heroism allowed her to retain her best self.” I don’t think Klaus is going to become his best, most moral self, but he can never again go through life saying, “Well I was made this way so it’s not my fault.” He knows that people have endured hardship and still retained their best aspect and I think that’s an important lesson for him to learn. And I think Cami’s influence will be with him. He’ll never be able to forget that.

Once you all knew she was going to die, how did you come to the decision to have Klaus enter her mind for the farewell?
There’s only one slow death on our show and that’s the slow death of a vampire being bitten by a werewolf. This is a slow death, and I think a lot of us in the real world have experienced loved ones who’ve gotten sick and we were trying to tell a story about that: You know you might not make it and what is the state of mind in that difficult time? How do you draw comfort from your connection with the one you love? And how do you comfort someone you love who is dying? It was a very intimate, very emotional story between Klaus and Cami. This is really the only circumstance we could find that made sense for that to happen this way. We really liked the way it turned out.

I want to hear about the decision to have them say “I love you.”
We have always known there’s an incredible connection between these two people. I know there’s a lot of different fandoms who want Klaus to be with Cami or Hayley or someone who’s on another television show, Caroline. There’s people that like Klaus with Aurora. There’s people that want Klaus to be on his own. I think the truth of the matter is, when you’ve lived 1,000 years, you’re probably going to have a lot of loves. For Klaus on this show, the relationship that changed him, the relationship that gave him pause, the relationship that made him sense a kindred when he really needed a kindred [was with Cami]. Cami was someone who could look at Klaus and say, “I understand what you are and I think secretly it’s built on anger and frustration and deep, deep despair and I think you can be better.” That really changed Klaus. Of course she was beautiful and of course he couldn’t help but fall in love with her for that reason, but there was also a kinship. She knew that her power as a psychologist was she might be able to have influence on the most dangerous vampire in history and get him to stop being a savage monster, and she felt an obligation to try and lead him out of his own darkness. Whether or not she did that remains to be seen, but she certainly tried all the way through to the end of her life.

I loved how Cami’s death really brought everyone together. Will it continue to do that moving forward?
Cami’s long-term effects are yet to be seen. In the short term, I actually think everybody is so hurt by her death and struck by how one of them — first Finn and now Cami — was taken down by Lucien. Lucien only came to New Orleans for the purpose of having his twisted, sick revenge fantasy against Klaus. So whose fault is that? I think that’s going to make people a little bit sharp and harsh and bitter and angry towards one another in the short term. And in the long term, there’s going to have to be some healing and understanding that we brought this on ourselves but we can fix things ourselves. I think Cami’s influence will definitely bear fruit in that long view of the story.

Before I let you go, what about Davina?!
Davina is a New Orleans witch. We have seen the tenuous relationship that New Orleans witches have with the concept of mortality. Their dance upon this mortal coil is a little bit less tenuous than a mere mortal. Witches in New Orleans are incredibly powerful, and even though we saw Davina attacked and bitten by Kol and he drank her blood to the point where she died on screen — she is dead, physically dead — we know that there’s a whole mythology when it comes to the ancestors of witches and the spirits of witches and we’ve seen those witches come back before. You can imagine that Davina’s story is not yet over.

www.ew.com/article/2016/04/27/originals-boss-spoilers-heartbreaking-death-hope-davina

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The Originals victim talks that tragic death: 'I cried the entire table read'



Spoiler alert: This post contains plot points from the April 29 episode of The Originals.

After an hour of trying to find a way to save her life, The Originals lost its beloved Cami. For three seasons, Cami has been the human, psychologist, bartender, friend, love interest, new vampire, and more. And now, Klaus has lost the woman he loved.

It was an emotional hour for everyone involved, and EW spoke with Leah Pipes about Cami’s farewell, the last scene she filmed, and what’s next for her.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: When did you know that season 3 would be your last?
LEAH PIPES: I luckily have a really great open dialogue with both of the executive producers, but especially Michael Narducci, so at the very beginning of the season, he was very open with me about Cami’s storyline potentially ending in death, but he promised it would be a good death. Often times, it’s oddly better to die than stick around and do nothing on a television show, so to avoid me being stuck on a show and doing nothing, he gave me a really great storyline, a really great arc, and a really great death.

When I spoke with Narducci, we both agreed that it really feels like Cami leaves a legacy on this show.
Well, I hope so. I haven’t brought myself to read any of the scripts after Cami’s death, so I’m just going to watch them with the viewers.

Were you pleased with how she went out? It’s not often a character gets such a lengthy goodbye on this show.
Yeah it was definitely lengthy. I cried the entire table read kind of uncontrollably. [Laughs] I was trying to keep it under wraps but I really couldn’t. It was cathartic for me because I was also saying goodbye to Cami, who has been such a huge part of my life for three years, and I’ll never play her again. I’m getting emotional just thinking about it, but if I had a choice between leaving a legacy versus sticking around and being this forgotten character, I would choose obviously the former and I feel grateful that I got to have that.

You got to do so much in this episode. Did you have a favorite part of her death in terms of what you got to play?
My favorite part of that episode, interestingly enough, was closing my eyes and listening to everyone’s goodbye because they were my friends and it’s so rare that you just close your eyes and get to hear your fellow actors acting. My favorite goodbye was Phoebe’s [Tonkin]. I just remember closing my eyes and listening to her and just thinking, ‘Wow, what an amazing performance,’ and how lucky I’ve been to have such a dear friend and such a wonderful actress to work with for the last three years. It was hard for me to not start crying while being dead. [Laughs]

Cami’s last major arc on the show was her becoming a vampire, so obviously the writers felt it was important for her to go through that before she died. What do you think being a vampire taught her?
I think it taught her how to maybe not judge a book by its cover, for a lack of a better word. I don’t know if that’s the right terminology, but she expected so much from Klaus and she thought it was as easy for him as it was for her, but then after becoming a vampire, I think she saw the world from his eyes and realized how hard it is to rein in your darkness, especially when you turn into a creature of the night. When she became that, she could understand him in a way that she couldn’t before and hopefully, through her understanding him, he was allowed to understand himself, because that’s what the show is about, really, is Klaus understanding himself and maybe someday redeeming himself and maybe someday turning into a hero instead of a villain.

Do you have a favorite Cami story from all three seasons?
I loved so many of her stories. If I had to choose one, it would be her story with her uncle. I really liked working with Todd Stashwick and I miss Cami just being the ingenue human sometimes with her long hair and her flowy dresses and just really getting to play that wide-eyed, innocent girl. And then over the years, she became a little more tough and a little less ignorantly optimistic. I do miss her optimism in season 1.

What was the last scene you filmed?
The last scene I filmed was the scene where Lucien bites me, so it was with Andy Lees in her bedroom, which I thought was really fitting that I got to say goodbye to Cami’s bedroom, a place where I got to have my favorite scene in the whole series, the Marcel-Cami love scene. [Laughs] I only got it once! I kept pitching it again, but they only let me do it once.

That’s the one where you got in trouble for thrusting, is it not?
It is. It’s hard to not thrust upon Charles Michael Davis. I challenge any woman to resist. [Laughs]

What’s next for you?
Well, when God closes a door, hopefully he opens a window. And hopefully that window is like a Shonda Rhimes television show. [Laughs] Shonda, I’m unemployed and I’m waiting for you!

www.ew.com/article/2016/04/27/the-originals-leah-pipes-cami-death

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The Originals boss on the difficulties of killing a beloved character



The Mikaelson family is extremely complicated, and who better to untangle that drama than Julie Plec? The Originals showrunner will blog each week’s installment throughout the season exclusively for EW. From answering burning questions to giving behind-the-scenes stories and more, this is a place for fans to hear directly from Plec about the episode they just watched.

Well, hell. That was sad.

Thank you for watching “No More Heartbreaks,” written by showrunner Michael Narducci & writers’ assistant Celeste Vasquez, and directed by Millicent Shelton.

Death terrifies me. I find it scary and cold and lonely, and I have kept myself up many a night worrying about it. I don’t jump from planes, or race my car, or shoot up heroin, or any of those things that might invite death sooner than it is meant to come. As a result, I love writing about it. Death is my favorite kind of story to tell. In writing, I am able to find beauty in death. The peace, the kindness, the love, and the elegance of an eternal goodbye. Is that real life? Not really. But it’s nice to think about. It makes the night a little less scary.

In this episode, we were faced with the highly emotional task of saying goodbye to Leah Pipes and her character Cami. Leah is a champion among champions. One of the most dedicated, professional, enthusiastic, fun, prepared, intelligent, and talented actors I have ever worked with. Also an excellent wine buddy. I never like killing off actors I like, and yet more often than not that’s the task I’m faced with (Exhibit A: TVD’s Matt Davis and Kayla Ewell, to name a few). The hardest thing for a showrunner — well, a showrunner like me — to do is to separate a connection with the actor from a connection with the character. The responsibility of the storyteller is to recognize when a character has run its course. And when that time comes, your love for the actor can make you continue to try and try and try some more, sometimes for years, to keep the character relevant. Or you can end their journey, respect the integrity of what the story is telling you you need to do, and hope your former co-worker and friend will still want to drink wine with you every now and then. RIP Camille, and Godspeed, Leah Pipes.

What about Davina, you ask? There’s still a little more story to tell for our young witch. Stay tuned…

www.ew.com/article/2016/04/29/originals-julie-plec-blog-no-more-heartbreaks