A shocking moment capped the end of tonight’s episode of The Originals — Sophie Devereaux (Daniella Pineda) was apparently killed by her resurrected relative Monique.
Is Sophie gone for good?
“It seems so, yes,” Julie Plec told us yesterday in a press Q&A session. “In this particular case, the witches have taken their vengeance against a non-believer. I don’t think there’s much hope for her to recover, given that,more often than not you need witch intervention to have a second chance at life. So this may be the end of Miss Sophie,” she said.
“We knew there would have to be a pretty horrible, hideous consequence from a lot of Sophie’s efforts to lead the witch revolution. She just – she kept coming against the wall, and failing, and didn’t, when all was said and done, have the right faith, even in herself, as a leader to carry it off. I think that when we realized the ultimate consequence of that would be death, we made the decision to go down that road,” Plec confirmed.
What’s next for the show, considering two Originals are taken out of the picture to parts unknown? “The next episode is crazy. It’s new for us; it’s something we’ve never done before, where we go outside of the Quarter and we put Rebekah and Klaus into a trap situation, in a creepy, horrible, messed-up sanitarium from back in the day, and Genevieve just basically, working between the two of them, enacts her revenge and we’ll learn why Genevieve’s revenge is so specifically targeted towards Rebekah, and what exactly she is going to do to make Rebekah suffer as much as possible,” Plec teased.
“The [the family] are definitely under attack, and this whole witch chapter has definitely shown us that the resurrected witches have a mission and it’s personal. They get as close to succeeding in tearing apart this family as possibly we’ve ever seen, and the outcome of what it is that the witches do to our Original family will have eternal repercussions for their dynamic,” Plec said.
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