THE ORIGINALS SERIES PREMIER

Elijah Mikaelson travels to New Orleans to figure out who or what is conspiring against his brother, Klaus the werewolf-vampire hybrid. When he arrives, he finds the city much different than when he and his siblings left it a century earlier. The witches cower in fear of an upstart vampire named Marcel. The vampires feed on unwitting humans, openly and without consequence. Beignets are rarely made with lard anymore. And so on. He soon discovers that it was a witch named Jane-Anne Deveraux who lured Klaus to town, but Marcel killed her for practicing magic in the Quarter, then took her body so her spirit couldn't rest in peace.
It's up to Jane-Anne's sister Sophie to fill in the blanks for Elijah. The magic that got sis killed? She was doing some kind of witchy pregnancy test on a werewolf named Hayley to determine that she is, indeed, carrying Klaus's child. The witches keep her under guard at a local cemetery, hoping to use her and/or the baby as a bargaining chip. They need Klaus to help them defeat Marcel, since, as Marcel's maker, he knows all his progeny's strengths and weaknesses. Unfortunately for them, baby rabies isn't one of Klaus's weaknesses and he shuns any responsibility that his wayward werewolf sperm may have heaped upon him. Sophie threatens to kill Hayley, so Elijah gets to work trying to convince his brother that family rules, above all else.
Klaus pouts and storms and pouts some more. He lashes out against Marcel and bites one of his vampire lackeys, then refuses to cure him with his blood. Rebekah, via phone chats with Elijah, thinks they should just leave him to his tantrums. Eventually, Elijah manages to talk some sense into him, and Klaus fakes an apology to Marcel in order to win back his trust. In truth, what Klaus really wants is to be King of New Orleans again and he'll oust Marcel to do it. Elijah brings Jane-Anne's body back to the witches as a gesture of good faith and an uneasy alliance is struck.
We don't find out just how Marcel gained control over the witches or why Klaus can't be allowed to simply kill him outright, but it probably has something to do with a girl named Davina. We only meet her at the end, and she has some kind of magic, but maybe isn't a witch like the others. Elijah is feeling pretty good about how things are going, right up until the moment Klaus stakes him in the heart with one of those white oak daggers from The Vampire Diaries. You'd think he'd learn not to trust Klaus at some point, but he seems genuinely shocked as he slips into another temporary death. Elijah its Klaus man, he always has a dagger handy