To help us through this terrible hiatus TV Line and E Online kindly bring us some more spoilers for the second half of the season:

Prepare for an epic showdown between Klaus and…Shane! You really didn’t think those two would never come face to face, did you? Especially after Klaus learns that Shane was the mastermind behind the plan to kill 12 hybrids? Yeah, he’s pretty mad. Watch out, Shane!

And it seems we may be going all floral – Though exec producer Julie Plec hastens to note that nothing is set in stone, she does admit, “We’re just now writing a script which, in a perfect world, will take us back to the ’70s in New York City. Everything could change, but it’s an era we haven’t explored yet. It could be a lot of fun.” Especially since she adds that “it’ll definitely involve our brothers in some form or another.”

From Zap2it, who recently had a chat with Joseph Morgan, we learn that he thinks that there is a chance for Rebekah and Klaus:

“I’d like to think so,” Joseph Morgan tells us. “Obviously there was a major betrayal there, but I think that if anyone could forgive Klaus, Rebekah has been there with him for a thousand years, they’ve been very close, and I think she could forgive him. I don’t like when she’s daggered! Claire [Holt] just goes back to Los Angeles when Rebekah is daggered, and that’s no fun.”