It is daytime now, and Lucien is leading Freya, whose wrists are still bound but who is no longer gagged, through the woods of Mystic Falls. Freya is clearly not impressed with this situation and simply glares at him while they walk, and Vincent follows from a couple paces behind them.

"After all that flirtation... this is your idea of a first date?" Freya muttered while Lucien laughed in amusement.

"Think of it as a date with destiny, love. Though, I admit, four is a crowd. Vincent is a necessary evil, I'm afraid...here to keep you in check should you misbehave. " Lucien laughed in amusement.

"Yeah, you're leaving out the part where I ain't exactly here of my own volition, man. The Ancestors must have lost their damn minds!" Vincent replied angrily.

"Quite the opposite! I've never dealt with a saner bunch. See, when I arrived in New Orleans, I made them a deal. Upon my request, they would grant me access to the Regent...And, in exchange, I'd provide for them a world without the Originals." Lucien smiled as he gestures to Vincent for emphasis as Freya rolls her eyes.

The ancient vampire sighs dramatically, and Vincent's eyes widen in alarm when he realizes the gravity of their current situation "Didn't take much convincing. They do despise your family."

They walked a few more yards until Lucien and Alabaster finally just feet away from a familiar-looking basin sitting upon a rock.

" Ah... We're here." Lucien said.

Vincent's tone is irritable as he looks around the clearing where they've stopped as they asked " Yeah, but where the hell is 'here' man?"

"What? How disappointing! Two powerful witch"s who cannot sense when you're treading on hallowed ground?"Lucien gasped in shock and laughed at the witches.

Vincent and Freya make eye contact and both sigh defeatedly when they realize what Lucien's talking about. Continuing his dramatic explanation, Lucien gestures around them with a satisfied smile "Welcome... to Mystic Falls. The place where it all began."

"Where Esther Mikaelson created the vampire species. Under the shade of the infamous white oak tree, she crafted the spell that turned each of her children... And I mean to replicate that spell. I have everything I need to become what I deserve to be." Lucien added as he walked towards Vincent, staring him down.

Vincent laughs in defeat as he considers the implications of this plan "You want to become an Original."

"Do I look like the sort who'd settle for some shoddy Original model? I intend to be an upgrade." Lucien scoffed and turns to face the woman.

Freya seems appalled as she said "You're insane to think I'd ever help you craft any spell. And whatever you may turn into, you'll never be as strong as demigods. "

Lucien said to her "Oh, no, no, no. You misunderstand. Vincent will handle the spell. From you..."

He grabs Freya by the arm and yanks her toward the basin. Lucien looks at her with feigned sympathy and brushes a lock of hair away from her face as he spoke "I need something a bit more intimate."

Lucien vamps out and bites into Freya's wrist as hard as he can, causing Freya to shriek in pain.

Meanwhile, Lizzie and Klaus were at a diner in the Appalachians, where Klaus is quietly talking on the phone, presumably with Elijah.

"If you don't find him, don't hesitate." Klaus spoke as he hangs up the phone, Lizzie approaches him from outside.

"Hope and Theo are down for the count. Hope fell asleep as soon as Faye started the car, and well, Theo will manage I'm sure. I doubt they'll miss either of us over the next few days. Will be too happy to spent time with their auntie Faye." Lizzie slightly smiles at the thought of the children.

The heretic shakes her head then looks down at a piece of paper ripped out of a small notebook, which has a list of addresses written on it.

"So... which of these Kingmaker offices should we hit up first? There's ten of them? " Lizzie said as she scanned the paper, feeling eyes on her. She looks up at Klaus who stares at her worriedly, and her eyebrows scrunch in confusion.

"What?" Lizzie asked.

"Lucien has revealed his true nature. He's taken Freya. And now, it seems her rescue depends on Elijah working with my ever-reliable brother Finn." Klaus anxiously admitted.

"Oh... And you want to go back to New Orleans to head up the hunt?" Lizzie softly asked and Klaus looks torn between their two different missions.

One mission involves his sister while the other means revealing why the Kingmaker offices are hunting wolves. Lizzie nodded in agreement although she doesn't necessarily want to split with Klaus.

"Fine. You should go. I'm sticking with Kingmaker, though. Lucien's working very hard to cover up these wolf kidnappings, and I want to know why." Lizzie told him as she reaches for the list and the keys and turns to leave, and Klaus, after seeing that Lizzie was hoping they could stick together, grabs her by the wrist and stops her.

"No. The wolves, Freya's abduction... it can't all be coincidence. We'll let my brothers pursue the obvious path." Klaus sighed.

Klaus smiles weakly at her, and Lizzie looks surprised by this reaction "You and I... will pursue this one. No doubt all roads..."

Klaus taps his finger on the third address on the list, 122283 Forest Road, though the city and state are covered up by his hand as he added ".Lead to to the same treacherous bastard."

Still in the Mystic Falls woods, Lucien is squeezing Freya's bitten wrists so that the blood from his bite wounds drip into the stone basin. Freya whimpers in pain, and its clear she's getting weaker by the moment, a fact that doesn't escape the anxious Vincent's notice.

"Okay. Okay, man, that's enough!"Vincent raises his voice, worried about a fellow witch.

"Huh. Right you are. That should just about do it." Lucien shrugged as he looks inside the bowl.

Freya is swaying on her feet as Lucien yanks her away from the basin, dropping her unceremoniously on the ground in front of where the white oak tree used to stand. Vincent rushes toward her to help her with her wounds as he said "Here, let me see it."

Freya shows him her injured wrists, which are still bound together with zip-ties. As he is distracted, Alabaster drips the vial of his blood into the bowl and tosses it to the side. Before the regent can help Freya, Lucien shouts at him "Enough!"

Lucien gestures to the basin as Vincent stands to his feet and glares at him as he spoke " There's a spell that needs doing, lest the Ancestors melt that precocious little brain of yours."

Once he's done mixing the basin, he reaches into his inner jacket pocket and pulls out a small moleskin notebook as he said "This part's all you."

Vincent takes the notebook and opens it, flipping through the pages to find a spell written in magical language throughout the pages. Lucien sighs dramatically in anticipation as he watches Vincent skim the notes, and after a moment, Vincent's eyes widen in shock as he taps the page.

"This is it. This is the spell that created the Originals." Vincent revealed.

"Took an entire coven ages to reverse-engineer it. And then, I had to get my hands on this." Lucien says smugly.

Lucien pulls out the sole remaining white oak bullet and puts it in the basin with the blood and reddish-orange fluid. Vincent, completely dumbfounded by Lucien's plan, laughs in exasperation and shakes his head "No. No way, man. I'm not doing this for you. Wh..."

Vincent is cut off by the Ancestors, who immediately begin to cast a pain infliction spell on him that causes him to double over in agony.

"Well, seems the Ancestors beg to differ..." Lucien smirked.

Vincent starts pounding his head with his hands as he shrieks in pain. Finally, the Ancestors stop, and Vincent gasps in relief as he tries to catch his breath. Freya looks horrified by this entire situation as Lucien smugly glances at both of them.

"Now, get to work like a good chap." Lucien ordered.

Vincent sighs defeatedly and starts to look through the notebook for the incantation before plunging his hands into the bowl of blood and fluid before beginning the spell, though their chanting is so quiet that it is unintelligible.

Elsewhere, once they park their car in the parking lot of another Kingmarker Office, Klaus and Lizzie get out and begin walking toward the office.

"Does he just build these from a kit or something? It's the exact same for the last five offices. Same windows, same plants..."Lizzie asked incredulously.

"And inside, same generic abstract art, same compellable receptionist..." Klaus added.

"Look, are you sure you wouldn't be better off with your brothers? I can do the leg-work." Lizzie sighed.

"And split up the team now? Just when I'm discovering your carpool karaoke skills? I think not!" Klaus smiled.

Lizzie laughed along with Klaus.

"No, Lucien is playing a game, here. Each unassuming little office building we search, the more sure I am of it. We keep going. Together. ven if we have to scour one hundred of these poxy places."Klaus summises.

Klaus and Lizzie rush toward the door to investigate this office.

In the woods of Mystic Falls, Vincent waving his hands over the basin in the woods while they casts the spell. Freya is still on her knees behind him while Lucien paces anxiously and observes the spell. However, due to how fast Vincent is speaking and how loud the music is, the incantation is still unintelligible. The white oak bullet was wedged between his fingers as he chants, but he lets it drop into the bowl just as the contents are set ablaze, causing a burst of flames so tall and powerful that Vincent is forced to arch their back away from it as it turns into what resembles a tornado made of fire. Freya's eyes widen in horror when she realizes the spell is successful, and Lucien smiles and lets the satisfaction of his triumph flow through him. Finally, the flames vanish with such force that Vincent is thrown backward and lands unconscious on his back on the forest floor as Lucien rushes toward the basin, laughing maniacally. There is a spigot of sorts at the bottom of the basin, and he pulls the empty bottle from his pocket and fills it with the blood mixture before shutting off the spigot and holding the bottle up for Freya to see. Freya looks devastated and on the verge of passing out as Lucien triumphantly smirks.

Meanwhile, Klaus and Lizzie have just walked into the reception area of the office, where Klaus closes the door behind them before they approach the reception desk. The receptionist finishes her call and hangs up as she looks at them expectantly.

"Ah, hello, love! We're here for a spot of 'search and potentially destroy.' "Klaus greeted.

Klaus makes eye contact with the woman and compels her "Do tell, where are the areas off-limits to general staff?"

The receptionist smiles evilly at them and sits back in her chair "You just wait right here... and I'll have someone out here to help you with your inquiry."

She presses a button under her desk, which causes an alarm to blare loudly throughout the building. The alarm causes the reception area to go dark and red lights to flash as the room floods with armed guards.

The guards surrounded Lola and Klaus, who don't look as concerned as they do inconvenienced as the guards' assault rifles are aimed at them. Lizzie and Klaus share a significant look as the guns' laser sights point right at their hearts.

"Shall we?" Lizzie suggested.

"Ladies first." Klaus smirked.

Lizzie roars at the guards as she storms toward them, and though they all start to shoot at her, she's barely affected by the bullets as she starts taking out the guards one by one, with Klaus following her lead and roaring as well. The heretic and the hybrid break some of the guards' bones, snap the necks of some others, and impale them with their guns until finally, Lizzie throws the last one standing through the glass door of the reception area. Once they're done, Klaus gives the guard one last passing look before he and Lizzie make their way through the building in search for clues.

Klaus is making his way through another wing when he sees a frantic scientist in a white lab coat rush out of a locked door and almost run right into him. Klaus grabs him from behind and snaps his neck before reaching into his lab coat pocket and pulling out the credentials needed to get into the super-secret areas of the laboratory. He drops the scientist's body onto the floor without another word and holds up the key card for Lizzie to see as he laughs in amusement. Checking to make sure the coast is clear, the two make it through the locked door and into a laboratory.

Inside the lab, Klaus and Lizzie at least a dozen men and women chained up and attached to IV drips, while the corpse of a transformed werewolf lays in a cage. Lizzie looks horrified when she takes in the scene.

"They're all wolves." Lizzie stated as she walks over to where a young man is chained up and sees what looks like a breathing mask over his face, only it has two vials on other side full of the same reddish-orange fluid that Lucien put in the new version of the Original vampire creation spell, revealing that he's been harvesting werewolf venom from them. When she reaches out to touch the man, his eyes open, revealing yellow-gold werewolf eyes, and he moans in pain

"Nik, they're still alive!" Lizzie exclaimed.

Klaus looks equally disgusted by what Lucien has been doing, but when he sees a clear plastic curtain behind him, he turns and opens it to find a dead woman bound to an exam table with lesions all over her face, neck, and chest. Klaus breathes deeply through his nose for a moment.

"This one's a vampire. What the hell is Lucien up to here?"Klaus said as he looks appalled as he turns back to face Lizzie.

Still in the woods, Lucien smiles in satisfaction and puts the bottle of blood mixture into his pocket before kneeling and filling up a second from the spigot. Vincent continues to crawl weakly toward Freya, looking extremely guilty and said "Freya, I'm so sorry."

Vincent turns just in time to see Lucien attempt to drink the bottle of blood mixture and said "Can't let you do that!"

Vincent thrusts his arm forward and flicks his wrist, casting a pain infliction spell that brings Lucien to his knees, though he takes great care not to spill the contents of the bottle. Vincent makes several more intricate hand gestures that continue the spell, and Lucien reluctantly puts the cap on the bottle to ensure it won't spill just as he drops it on top of a pile of leaves. Before Vincent can do anything else to him, he cries out in agony, and his back arches as the Ancestors cast their own pain infliction spell on him, causing his bones to crack as his body contorts painfully. Vincent pleads with the Ancestors as Lucien takes advantage of being freed from his spell.

"You're making a mistake..." Vincent gasped.

The Ancestors stop, and Vincent flops on the ground in relief as Lucien picks up the bottle and growls as he storms toward them. Freya throws herself on top of Vincent to protect him.

"No one has to die today!" Freya told him.

"Oh. Oh, sweet Freya." Lucien said as he kneels on the ground in front of them with a pitying look on his face before he added "Today is the beginning of an awful lot of death... starting with yours and your unborn child, I'm afraid."

Lucien grabs Freya by the wrists and pulls her to her feet as she looks at him with a pained expression as he said "Truly, you and I could've been quite the thing."

Lucien grabs Freya in a choke-hold, and she gasps for breath just as Elijah, Finn, Faye, Sage, Luke, and Matt appear in the clearing.

"Lucien!" Luke growled.

At the sound of his voice, Lucien spins at vampire speed and holds Freya in a headlock.

"Oh... Just in time for the party!" Lucien smirked.

Lucien holds up the bottle of blood/venom mixture and pops the top off of it with his thumb. Lucien drinks the concoction and sighs in triumph before addressing them again "Cheers! Let the fun begin! Can either of you get to me faster than I can rip your darling sister's head off?"

Elijah and Finn share a worried look while Luke glared at him, which answers Lucien's question for him and causes him to chuckle smugly "Didn't think so!"

Before Lucien can do anything, Finn vamp-speeds toward Matt and puts his hand over Matt's own, using Matt's hands to pull the trigger on the gun and shoot at Lucien three times. Freya gasps in pain, revealing the gunshots went through her shoulder so they would end up right in Lucien's heart. Since he is a regular vampire, the bullets are fatal, and Lucien looks at them in surprise as his skin starts to desiccate.

"Oh, you clever bastard!" Lucien muttered and falls onto the ground along with Freya.

Finn, Elijah and Luke rush toward Freya. Elijah pulls her to a seated position and hands her off to Finn, who looks concerned.

"Hold her. Hold her head." Elijah says.

Finn does as he's told, and Elijah bites his wrist to feed Freya his blood while Finn brushes Freya's hair off of her face.