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Season 4 of The Originals is bringing big changes for the Mikaelson family, as the show is jumping five years into the future after last season’s epic finale. Even though the cast was careful not to tease too much in the EW lounge at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, they did give fans some ideas about what to expect.

The time may have been good for Hayley Marshall. “I think it’s kind of been Hayley and her daughter for the last five years,” said Phoebe Tonkin. “Grandma Mary’s coming back, and she’s kind of a babysitter here and there, looking after her while Hayley has to go do adult things like looking for weird plants and herbs and things. But yeah, it’s kind of just been Hope and Hayley. And obviously Hope and Hayley have grown a bond, and now she has a daughter who is a little girl and not a baby.”

* A short video confirmed Season 4’s extended time jump, and ended with Hope asking — yes, asking, as in talking — Hayley if they’re going to go save her dad. Narducci later confirmed the five-year time jump.

* “She was two years old when we left her … and she’s now a little person,” Narducci said of Hope. “She’s got dialogue and hopes and dreams, and she misses her dad and understands her family has suffered a great loss. … Hayley’s a great mom.”

* “When we met Hayley, all she ever wanted was family,” Tonkin acknowledged. “Through the events that happened, she created a family on her own with her daughter. I don’t think she feels alone — one, because she has five bodies in the back of her car — and because she has a purpose, a family-driven purpose.”

* Hayley’s journey to save everyone will require her to “locate the seven werewolf packs … so she has a very difficult journey ahead of her,” Narducci said. “She has to explore the werewolf side that’s going to connect her to those packs.”

* “With Hayley and Elijah, we felt they’d gotten to dance around each other early on, then become terribly separated, emotionally and physically,” Plec said. “Knowing this family was going to be split apart for the next five years, giving them the opportunity to [get together one more time] felt right. … Time will tell how much happiness they’re able to have — or not have.”

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