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The lives, loves, dangers and disasters in the town, Mystic Falls, Virginia. Creatures of unspeakable horror lurk beneath this town as a teenage girl is suddenly torn between two vampire brothers.
The vampire brothers Damon and Stefan Salvatore, eternal adolescents, having been leading "normal" lives, hiding their bloodthirsty condition, for centuries, moving on before their non-aging is noticed. They are back in the Virginia town where they became vampires. Stefan is noble, denying himself blood to avoid killing, and tries to control his evil brother Damon, who promised to Stefan an eternity of misery. Stefan falls in love with schoolgirl Elena, who has an uncanny resemblance to the Salvatore brothers old love, Katherine; and whose best friend Bonnie is a witch.
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- Season 1 22 episodes
- Season 2 22 episodes
- Season 3 22 episodes
- Season 4 23 episodes
- Season 5 22 episodes
- Season 6 22 episodes
- Season 7 22 episodes
- Season 8 16 episodes
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Bonnie shows Elena the secret coffins and tells her about her dreams. She thinks the dreams mean whatever is inside will help them kill Klaus. She needs Elena to find the woman in her dreams. Her mom.
Bonnie and Elena go through descriptions of Abby Bennetts around the country, from the sheriff. Damon arrives with the answer: Abby Bennett Wilson is in North Carolina. A little compulsion speeds up the research process. He wants to go, but Elena doesn't want his snarky commentary along for the first time Bonnie sees her mom in 15 years.Bonnie asks what's going on between them."We kissed, now it's weird," Damon says matter-of-factly.
Caroline comes home to find Tyler in her living room. He wants to apologize. He thinks he has a solution for learning to resist Klaus' power over him. He called Caroline's dad, who's there now and willing to help teach him how to resist his sire bond since he know how to resist compulsion.
Ric finishes up lunch with Dr. Meredith Fell at the Grill and makes plans for dinner with her. Damon's sure she's damaged because of her hotness.
Ric mentions her ex is the medical examiner and Damon tells him about him being staked dead.
Stefan comes home to find Klaus on his couch. He wants his family. Stefan's not negotiating.
On the road to her mom, Bonnie wonders what it'll be like to see the woman who abandoned her. She'd rather talk about Elena and Damon kissing. Elena says it won't happen again.
Stefan calls Bonnie, she promised to call when she found her mom. Elena takes the call and tells him they're at the lake house for the night. He pretends to believe her, but he's standing in her kitchen holding the info on Bonnie's mom.
Klaus checks in with one of his hybrids to make sure he knows the plan. The hybrid goes and knocks on a house's door. Bonnie's mom answers.
Bonnie and Elena arrive at the house. They ring the doorbell, but a young man walks up and says Abby's not home. Bonnie explains Abby's her mom. He's Jamie. He invites them in. He explains that Abby's like his surrogate mother. She dated his dad a long time ago and took him in after his dad bailed. She put him through school.
Abby comes home. Bonnie meets her mom.
Caroline's dad hooks Tyler up to chains in dungeon and explains that the sire bond comes from feeling a debt. Tyler has to make himself turn then he won't feel like he owes Klaus anything for taking that away.Tyler isn't looking forward to breaking every bone in his body, but is willing to give it a try to have his freedom. He steps away from them and starts turning.
Back with Abby, she serves them snacks. Abby explains Elena's mom Miranda was her best friend, but she's the reason Abby left.
Fifteen years ago a vampire came to town looking for the doppelganger, Elena. No one could kill him, so she cast a spell to desiccate him in a crypt in Charlotte. It was Mikael.It took all of her power and nearly killed her. Her powers never came back.
Bonnie is upset and says it was a mistake to come, since she can't help without magic. Elena goes outside to give them room to talk.
She runs into Stefan.
Damon checks out Dr. Fell at the hospital. She signed her ex-boyfriend's death certificate. She suggests the bigger mystery is how Alaric came into the hospital on his deathbed and walked out without a scratch. Damon turns to leave, and she jabs a needle into his neck.
While he's out cold, she draws some of his blood.
Down in the cellar, Tyler continues writhing in pain and contorting as he changes. He wants to quit, but Bill won't let him. Bill tells him to keep going and Tyler agrees and tells Caroline to leave.
After she's gone, Bill picks up an ax and whacks at Tyler to make him angry. He tells Tyler that his bond to Klaus is endangering Caroline so he can either turn now or Bill will finish him.
Bonnie asks her mom to just be honest with her. Abby says she ran because she saw a chance for a new life. She thought Bonnie would be OK with her dad and Grams. She doesn't know Grams died.Bonnie tells her.Abby asks how she can help.
Jamie hears Stefan and Elena arguing and intervenes. Stefan grabs Jamie around the neck and compells him to leave, but after a second, Jamie comes back with a shotgun. He's already compelled. He blasts Stefan with wood chips.
Inside, Abby hears the noise and dumps herbs into her palm, then puts her hand over Bonnie's mouth.
Damon visits Alaric and tells him Meredith vervaned him and took his blood. He thinks he helped Alaric by proving she's psycho.
Jamie ties Elena up in the barn and she sees Abby dragging Bonnie into her car. Stefan is incapacitated from the unhealing gunshot.
Tyler struggles against his chains in the basement. He tells Bill they're not strong enough and he should run. Bill takes off, but Tyler breaks free.
Abby drives up to meet Klaus's hybrid. She tells him she couldn't get Bonnie to talk. Bonnie wakes up and Abby tells her if she doesn't tell them where the coffins are, Jamie is compelled to kill himself. Bonnie says she can't. With the car door as cover, Abby takes out her phone and types a message for Bonnie to see: "Warn your friends."
Elena works to break free from her rope, but Jamie tells her he'll have to shoot Stefan again if she does. He tells her about the man who came by and that he is supposed to kill himself if Bonnie doesn't lead them to the coffins. Elena clarifies what he said about her. Jamie isn't supposed to hurt her. She tells him her ropes are tight and he comes to check.
She breaks free, grabs his shotgun and knocks him out with it. She starts digging the wood chips out of Stefan.
Damon checks on the witch house and finds Klaus already there. He insults the witches and they punish him with crippling pain. When he says his hybrid is about to end the Bennett line, they release him and show him the coffins. But the fourth is gone.
Bonnie warned him. He had time to move it.
Alaric confronts Meredith at the hospital. As they're talking, Bill Forbes is wheeled in, bloodied on a stretcher.
Elena finishes digging the wood chips out of Stefan. He thinks she's stronger and tougher. She picks this moment to tell him she kissed Damon.Stefan says nothing and walks away.Bill Forbes is bit over half of his body. Meredith says he's not going to make it. Then she takes out a vial of vampire blood. She tells Alaric she cheats. She hates when people die, so when she can stop it, she does. She injects Bill with the blood.
Elena finds Stefan. He says he shouldn't have pulled the stunt with the bridge, but says she shouldn't have lied to him about her road trip with Bonnie.
Stefan tells her she's better than Damon, better than both of them.
Bonnie tells her mom that Jamie's safe. She still wants to help Bonnie."You can't. You have no magic and I don't trust you," Bonnie says.
Abby explains her magic got weaker when she was away from Bonnie; she thinks Bonnie can help her get it back.
Tyler checks on Bill in the hospital. He knows how he's better, and isn't angry at Tyler. Tyler says he feels a little bit more like himself. Bill tells him it's time for him to turn again, until it's painless. Until he's in control, he's not allowed near Caroline.
Alaric shows Meredith his bag of vampire hunting goodies. He tells her about his ring. She slips it off and he flinches. They're kissing when Elena comes home.Meredith leaves.Elena tells him he's allowed to move on after Jenna.
Stefan comes home. Damon asks about Elena. Stefan decks him. Damon moves on, showing Stefan the white ash dagger.
Cut to Klaus, not planning to open the coffins. Suddenly, his hybrid's heart is ripped out from behind. Elijah is awake. "What'd I miss?" he asks.
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She tells Elena (Nina Dobrev) she suspected Alaric after he mentioned his ring. She remembered something her grandmother had told her about Samantha Gilbert and her secret journal. She felt bad he couldn't control himself. She wants to help.
In the CAT scan, Alaric contemplates his possibly killer reflection and freaks out. He takes a deep breath and goes stone-faced.The results show everything is normal.
Alaric tells Elena he doesn't believe he killed anyone, but he also doesn't want the ring anymore.
Damon (Ian Somerhalder) stops by, nonchalant about the whole thing. Elena immediately brings up seeing Stefan feed on a woman. Damon says he made Stefan (Paul Wesley) do it because they're vampires, "predators, not puppies."
"Stefan has built himself a delusional wagon which he has repeatedly fallen off of, what he needs to learn is control," Damon says.
Elena suggests Damon's not the right person to be giving lessons in self-control.
Caroline (Candice Accola) comes to Abby's house with a cooler full of blood. Abby (Persia White) isn't handling the transition well, she's rattled by not being able to feel her witchy connection to nature anymore. Bonnie (Kat Graham) doesn't know how to help her.
Alaric, Meredith and Damon head to the Wickery Bridge, which is being rebuilt. Half the town is there. They notice Rebekah (Claire Holt) has been asking a lot of questions lately.
"Tell me again why we're here?" Alaric asks."Ric, the world can't stop just because you're an accidental psycho killer," Damon says.
Carol (Susan Walters) wants the sign for the bridge from Alaric. He forgot about it.
Damon notices his old vampire pal Sage (Cassidy Freeman), his "hottest teacher". Rebekah saunters over. She guesses Sage is in town looking for her brother, Sage's lost love, Finn. She tells Sage that Finn left town.
Back at the house, Stefan pours himself a glass of blood but is interrupted by Elena. She came by to get the book about Samantha. She asks how he's doing and offers to help, but he's not receptive.
Stefan recaps the book for her: Samantha Gilbert was committed to an insane asylum, tried to give herself a lobotomy with a knitting needle, and bleed to death in her cell. He says if it's the same thing that's happening to Alaric, there's nothing they can do.She leaves him to his blood.
Sage and Damon take a stroll. Finn turned Sage long ago so they could be together forever, but Klaus broke them up by daggering Finn and putting him in a coffin. Damon knows Rebekah is up to something. Sage suggests they get in her head and find out. She thinks they can get in when her defenses are down.
Back at the bridge, Damon flirts with Rebekah. He invites her over and uses all his best moves.
Caroline checks on Abby's surrogate son Jamie, who's outside avoiding her. Caroline realizes he's scared of Abby. She tells him Abby needs his support.
Elena calls Caroline because Bonnie is still dodging her calls. She tells her something terrible has happened. She needs Bonnie's help.
Back at Elena's, Alaric looks through Meredith's files on him. He goes through the police reports, saying he was defending people in most of them. There's something not in the reports. He tells her he was the one who slayed her vampire cousin Logan Fell.
She asks why he never tried to kill Damon. He says he did. Damon killed him.
Damon comes home and finds Stefan gorging on blood. Stefan's angry at Damon for what he said to Elena.Damon warns Stefan to make himself scarce unless he wants to be part of a "Sage-Rebekah sex sandwich".
Jamie comes inside to build a fire and gives Abby a hug. Unfortunately, Abby gets a whiff of his blood and vamps out, biting him. He screams. Bonnie comes running, throwing Abby off him. Abby realizes what she's done and is horrified.
Damon and Sage wait for Rebekah to arrive at the Salvatore mansion. He tells her Finn isn't coming back.Rebekah arrives with wine. Sage and Damon start their own dance party. Rebekah chews on the piano player. Damon joins her. He starts to kiss her, telling her he wants her, not Sage. The plan is working perfectly.
Bonnie finds Abby outside, bringing her a bag of blood. Abby wants to leave. Bonnie convinces her they need her. Caroline reports Jamie is healed thanks to some vampire blood. Now, she needs a favor.
At the house, Alaric gives Elena a list of all his bank accounts and passwords, just in case. Caroline calls, saying Abby thinks they can reverse the damage with a spell. Bonnie's on her way, but doesn't feel chatty.
Bonnie needs something he wore before the spell. He suggests his wedding ring back at his loft. Elena goes to get it.
Naked Rebekah dozes in bed with Damon. Sage sneaks in and reads her thoughts. Damon sneaks out of bed and into the shower with Sage. She shows Damon Rebekah's thoughts about the white oak tree.
Downstairs, Damon starts looking for their old milling records. He asks Sage to go upstairs and keep Rebekah distracted.
He finds records from 1912. There's an entry about Wickery bridge.
Elena arrives at Alaric's and finds Stefan waiting. She thinks he doesn't want to be around her, but he tells her he just can't be around her because he's not in control.
He found newspaper articles about Samantha Gilbert. She killed a nurse and a guard when she was in the mental hospital, where she had no personal effects, not even the ring.So the behavior could happen even without the ring.
Cut to Alaric waking up on Meredith's couch. He gets up and drains her tranquilizer syringes.
Damon burns the 1912 book. Sage reports Rebekah is gone. He tells her the book showed the white oak was used to make the Wickery bridge. She points out this is a problem for her, because of Finn. She threatens him. He offers a deal, she helps him kill Rebekah and he'll leave Finn alone.
Going through Alaric's things looking for the ring, Stefan and Elena find pictures of Alaric's victims.
Damon comes down after getting dressed and finds Sage is gone.
Stefan finds a file on Jeremy Gilbert. There's a note telling him to continue on his work and cleanse the council. It reads like a hit list of council members.
Elena finds Alaric's wedding ring.
At Meredith's house, Alaric confronts her coolly and asks if she feels remorse, as a member of the council who didn't protect the town from vampires. He picks up a knife and approaches her. He lunges at her and slices her. She pours hot coffee on him and runs. He chases her up the stairs and tries to lock herself in the bathroom. She stabs him in the hand with scissors and locks the last door. Meredith's cut badly.
Damon tears into town and finds Rebekah standing at the Wickery bridge as it burns. She taunts him and saunters off.Sage is there. She points out he lied to her. Since all the originals are linked, Finn would die if Rebekah did. She read his thoughts, too. He threatens to kill her, but he's no match for her 900 years. Damon tells her about Finn volunteering to kill himself to end them all.
Angrily, Damon promises when he finds a way to kill them all, he'll start with Finn.
Stefan and Elena return to the house and notice something amiss. Alaric comes down the stairs with his hand bandaged. He says Meredith got called to the hospital. He hurt his hand on a coffee mug. Elena lies about meeting up with Stefan and finding his ring.
He says he's going to get it. She sees the bloody knife.Before he can do anything, Stefan chokes him from behind, knocking him out.
Stefan smells blood and goes upstairs, telling Elena he's going to need her help.
They find Meredith passed out and covered in blood. Stefan immediately vamps out. He then takes a moment and gets it under control. He feeds Meredith his blood.
Alaric wakes up in bed with Damon watching over him. Damon tells Alaric that Bonnie did a spell. Alaric notices his hand is hurt and asks if something happened. Damon tells him he has an alter-ego hell bent on killing council members. Alaric asks about Meredith. Damon says she'll be fine.
Bonnie finds Elena. Abby says all the dying and coming back might have chipped away at Alaric's psyche. She gives Elena herbs to bind the spell. Elena asks about Abby. Bonnie says she's going to go stay with her. Elena apologizes again. Bonnie hugs her forgives her.
Back at the house, Jamie and Caroline plant the garden. Caroline finds Abby inside writing a letter. Caroline realizes she's leaving. Abby says she doesn't know how to do this.
"Be a vampire or be a parent?" Caroline demands, saying she can teacher her how to be a vampire.She tells her Bonnie is not better off without her. She asks her to stay, but Abby picks up her things and leaves.
Elena contemplates her empty house. She calls Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen). She doesn't tell him about Alaric, but says she misses him.
At home, Stefan has a drink in the morning. He's toasting control.
Stefan notices Damon is feeling chipper. He unveils his package: Alaric's sign for the Wickery Bridge made from the white oak tree. They have a weapon."Game's back on, brother. Let's go kill some originals," Damon says.
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After she walks away, we see what he was hiding from her -- Alaric at a table saw, cutting down the white oak Wickery Bridge sign to make stakes.
Stefan suggests sharper points. "We finally have our own stakes to kill an original, I'm not going to miss because you can't whittle," Stefan tells Damon.
When it's all underway, Alaric announces he's going to call Sheriff Forbes and turn himself in. Stefan explains they have Originals to kill first. Damon gives Ric his ring back."You're going vampire hunting, Ric -- wear it," Damon says.
Out in the woods, Elena breaks the news to Caroline that Alaric killed her dad. Elena thinks Alaric is a victim of something supernatural, just like everyone else.
Matt joins them. The Salvatores arrive, having texted everyone. Bonnie can't make it, they assume she's mourning her mom bailing again.Damon tells them about the white oak.Elena realizes they have a weapon to kill Klaus -- a whole bag full of them.
Klaus finds his brother Finn walking down a street. Klaus is looking for their mother, who Finn says is off trying to find another way to kill them all. He's totally in support of that.
Klaus wants Finn to come back to Mystic Falls so a witch can unlink them. Klaus threatens to dagger Finn if he doesn't come with them, but Klaus points out it would affect Rebekah, too. Klaus isn't concerned. Finn walks around a corner and sees Rebekah is there, on Klaus's side. Klaus throws Finn around.
Back in the woods, Stefan explains that Rebekah is their target. They want Caroline to play Klaus bait again and distract him.Matt will distract Rebekah, Damon will pin her arms from behind and Stefan will stake her.They have 12 stakes.
They practice various scenarios.
Klaus drags Finn back home and shows him Sage is there waiting for him. They run into each other's arms. Rebekah excuses herself to go render payback on Damon.
At his house, Damon hides his stake with the firewood. "Did you learn nothing from the moonstone in the soapdish?" Alaric asks.
They hear a noise and Damon investigates. He's at the bottom of the stairs when Alaric comes flying down. He turns around and Rebekah drives a knife through his gut.
In the town square, Elena worries to Caroline that Bonnie isn't returning her calls. Matt notices Sage and Finn, visiting where they used to meet up. Sage tells him she doesn't want him to die.
Elena calls Stefan, who comes home to find Alaric waking up. Damon is gone.
Back at Rebekah's, she strings Damon up by animal traps on his wrists. She rips open his shirt, telling him she's going to bleed the vervane out of him so she can compel him to kill Elena or Stefan. She slices open his chest and neck. Klaus stops in to offer bleeding critiques.
Then he visits his witch: Bonnie. She's studying the unlinking spell, but he reminds her he'll kill anyone who comes to her rescue.She says she's not strong enough, so Klaus calls his brother Kol, who was on standby. He sends video of Jeremy playing fetch with his dog in Seattle.
Caroline visits Alaric, bringing him his witchy herb juice. She tells him she knows he killed her dad. He apologizes. She tells him about killing a stranger after she turned -- and she liked it.
She says she's no better than him. She's going to follow Elena's lead and choose to believe Alaric can be saved.
Stefan meets up with Elena downtown. He wants to proceed with trying to kill Finn while they have the chance, but she wants to save Damon. Seeing that she's not going to help him, Stefan walks off.
Damon slowly bleeds out in Klaus's house. In a dreamlike haze, he sees Elena approach and tells her to release the traps on his hands. She does. She carries him out, but he's weak. She says she's not going to leave him and offers him her wrist. He bites down, then he stops and kisses her.
And then he wakes up.Damon mocks Rebekah for thinking he actually had a thing for her."I get it, if Klaus bossed me around for 1,000 years I'd probably be pretty desperate for attention, too," he says.Rebekah stabs him and twists the knife.
Bonnie hears.She tells Klaus the way he uses people isn't right. He threatens to track down her mother and kill her, too.Klaus shows Bonnie vials of his sibling' blood and offers his own.
In the Grill, Sage and Finn do shots of tequila. A guy named Troy says hi to Sage and she tells Finn she turned him for back-up. She explains she's in enemy territory and they can't trust anybody.Matt and Stefan linger nearby.Sage orders more tequila and Matt takes out a vial with a dropper.
Bonnie starts the spell at Klaus' house.
Stefan texts Matt to get ready as Finns scolds Sage for turning people.
Sage and Finn knock back their shots and immediately spit them out. They notice the vervane and see Stefan leaving.
Bonnie chants and the mixed siblings' blood separates on the table.
Stefan waits for Sage and Finn outside and jumps them, but Sage quickly knocks the stake out of his hand and down some stairs.
Bonnie finishes chanting and the blood is in five pools.
Finn runs down the stairs and Elena and Matt pop out of a door at the bottom. Elena shoots Finn with a crossbow to pin him and Matt stakes him. Sage rushes to him and cries as he dies. He turns to shriveled ash and bursts into flames.Matt, Elena and Stefan all get away.
Back at Klaus's the blood is still separate and Klaus is alive.
Klaus escorts Bonnie out and she sees Damon hanging in the living room. Klaus taunts her to save the man who turned her mother into a vampire.
Elena and Stefan meet Caroline at the Salvatores. She sent Alaric home with herb juice.Bonnie calls Elena and tells her Klaus has Damon. She tells them about her unlinking spell. She's upset and hangs up, breaking down sobbing.
Stefan tries to storm out to deal with Klaus, and Elena fails to talk him into staying. But he's only out the door for a second when he comes flying back in.Sage is there for retribution, with her helper Troy.She tries to beat up Stefan, but starts bleeding from her nose and getting sick. She collapses on the floor and Troy starts convulsing, too. And then, like that, they're dead.
Elena and Caroline try to figure out what happened. Stefan suggests it's the bloodline. Finn turned Sage, Sage turned Troy and they're all dead. They realize if you kill an Original, their entire bloodline dies, too. So all vampires could be wiped out.
Back in the torture chamber, Damon sees Stefan and his bag of stakes walk in. He's really there. Stefan calls for Klaus, who joins them with Rebekah. He explains he has eight stakes from Wickery bridge and Finn is already dead. He offers to trade them for Damon.
Klaus asks how he knows there aren't more , then goes to Damon and compels him to leave. Damon can't resist. He tries to rip his wrists out of the traps.
Caroline returns to the Salvatore mansion after disposing of Sage and Troy. They still have three stakes, if they can figure out which Originals to kill.
Caroline was turned by Damon and Damon and Stefan were turned by Katherine and she was turned by Rose. They don't know who turned Rose, but hope it isn't Klaus.
Caroline realizes Klaus turned one of them -- Tyler.
Klaus compels Damon to stop ripping his wrists out then asks how many more stakes there are.Damon says there are 11 left.
Klaus rails against Stefan, telling him he's given him purpose as someone to rail against. Stefan has enough of it and charges Klaus with a stake. But Klaus points out it could kill them both.
Rebekah releases Damon, telling the boys to bring them the stakes and they'll let them live. If not, it's the whole wipe out everyone you love scenario.
Rebekah mourns for Finn, but Klaus is glad he's gone, calling him an embarrassment. Rebekah is appalled and tells Klaus that at least the Salvatores value family. Klaus plans to leave with the stakes and take Elena to create a new family of hybrids.
Klaus tells Rebekah she's as pathetic as Finn if she chooses to stay.
Back home, Stefan waits for Damon to retrieve Alaric's stake.
Stefan tells Elena he's wasted too much time hating Klaus, they lost. Elena says Stefan beat him by being better than him.Hating Klaus allowed him to ignore everything that was happing around him, he says.Elena tells him she never stopped loving him. Stefan says it's all his fault.
She asks what and he says the fact she loves Damon.
He asks her to admit it, but she says she doesn't know what she feels.
Damon visits Alaric, asking for the stake. Alaric looks for it. He freaks out, realizing it's not where he put it.Then he realizes he's the only one who knew where it was.
"No. Are you telling me that your vampire-hating alter ego has a stake that could kill an entire line of vampires, possibly mine?"
"That's exactly what I'm telling you," Alaric says.
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Stefan is going to watch over Alaric. Elena and Damon are going to go to Denver to pick up Jeremy. It was Stefan's idea. He thinks she has some unresolved feelings for Damon.
Elena tries to talk to Stefan before they leave, but he just tells her to be safe.
Caroline comes to school to find Rebekah has overtaken her decade dance. The theme was the 1970s and Rebekah changed it to the 20s. Matt defends the 20s idea and Caroline storms out and Matt follows her.
Their show worked. Caroline has the free day she needs. Matt tells her to tell "him" he says hi.
Stefan brings Alaric booze to him help sleep and bring on the killer. Stefan joins him. Alaric knows they might have to torture the information out of him. Stefan needs to know if Elena has feelings for Damon.
Damon and Elena find Jeremy at the batting cages. They want him to talk to Rose to find out who sired her. Jeremy says he has plans with a friend first. Elena sees the "friend" too late, it's Klaus' brother Kol and he immediately cracks Damon across the head with a baseball bat.
Kol goes for a metal one but Damon picks up the bat splinter and skewers him first. He's not dead, but it will give them a head start.
Damon, Jeremy and Elena head for a crap motel to talk to Rose. Damon tries to taunt her into coming out. He tells them she spent her last day in paradise, soaking in the sun and she didn't fear death. Elena knows that's not how it went down. It was the dream Damon gave her.
Rose is there.
Caroline heads out into the woods, looking for someone. Tyler meets her."You have no idea how much I've missed you," he tells her. Then they start making out and head down for some cave sex.
Matt gives Rebekah a ride home. She's suspicious of his ulterior motives. He says there aren't any. She seems to believe him, and maybe is a little sweet on him.
Inside the house, Rebekah is not pleased to see her mother Esther has returned.Rebekah asks for one good reason she shouldn't kill her."Because I'm dying," Esther says.
Rose talks through Jeremy. She says she's enjoying the other side, including not having to run.Rose tells Jeremy to tell Damon he's still dripping with sex and she misses him. She says she's rooting for him and Elena.Jeremy isn't sure what to make of it.
She says Mary Porter sired her. Damon knows her as "Scary Mary" but she doesn't know where she is. Rose is going to do some recon.
Stefan and Alaric hang out. He figures his alter ego must hate him, since he's a drinking buddy with vampires. He thinks they're the same.Stefan says it's just the darkest parts of him.Klaus joins them.
Stefan explains that killing one Original kills the whole bloodline. Klaus breaks Alaric's neck out to speed things along.
Later, Stefan and Damon catch up on the phone. Alaric was wearing his ring. Damon mentions they're holed up in a motel, but doesn't mention Jeremy is with them.
Jeremy asks Elena what's going on with Damon but he comes back before Elena has to think of an answer.
Back at Original HQ, Esther explains that she's drawing her power from the Bennett line and her connection was severed when Abby died. Her body is dying. Rebekah isn't feeling sympathetic because her mother tried to kill her and her siblings.
Esther tells Rebekah she's been watching over her all this time, but she never should have lived a thousand years. Rebekah says she hasn't lived at all.Esther collapses.
Klaus comes home and sees his dead mother on the floor.
Tyler and Caroline bask in their after glow. Tyler says he feels freer but he's not sure he broke the sire bond. He turned about 100 times in the Appalachian mountains.Caroline explains about the bloodlines and that if Damon finds out they're not sired from Klaus, they plan to kill him. They don't care that it would kill Tyler, too.
In the motel, Elena pretends to sleep and watches Damon, with his shirt open, pour himself a drink. He notices her staring and she shuts her eyes. But only for a moment. He walks over to the bed and lies down next to her. She looks at him.
She's impressed by what he did for Rose."Why don't you let people see the good in you?" she asks.
"Because when people see good, they expect good, and I don't want to have to live up to anyone's expectations," he says.
Elena rolls away, but he holds her hand. She thinks about it but gets up and goes outside for air. He follows her outside (shirt sill unbuttoned)."Don't," she says."Why not?" he asks.
Then she goes to him and kisses him -- a lot. They make out ferociously on the motel balcony, but are interrupted by Jeremy.
Rose found Mary, she's in Kansas.Elena tries to pull herself together under Jeremy's withering judgmental stare.
Back in the cellar, Alaric returns from the dead, still himself. They can both see it's not working. Alaric takes off his ring and says Stefan has to try and kill him and they'll hope his alter ego has a sense of self-preservation.Stefan thinks about it, then decks him.
In Kansas, Elena and Damon go check out Mary's address. They go inside and poke around in the dark. Damon says Mary's creepy, but they still got together.They find her staked to a wall, dead. Kol beat them there.
Stefan wallops on Ric, who challenges Stefan to put more effort into it. Blood starts pouring from Alaric's face and he challenges Stefan to keep going. Stefan worries he won't be able to stop himself. Alaric says to bring out his dark side, Stefan will have to tap into his.Stefan charges him and throws him against the wall.
Alaric collects himself and seems to come up bad, taunting Stefan for being weak.
Kol taunts Elena and Damon, saying Mary used to be a bit of an Original groupie. Kol knows what they were trying to figure out.He picks up a bat and wallops on Damon, trying to even the score.
Back in the cellar, Badlaric isn't talking about the stake and Stefan gets impatient and puts him in a chokehold.Badlaric says it's in the cave -- where no vampire can get it.
Stefan walks out and locks Alaric in. He leaves to make a call but finds Klaus and Rebekah in the living room.
Damon puts himself back together and checks that Elena's OK. Then he asks what she's doing. She tells him what Stefan thinks. She doesn't know if he's right.
He thinks she came on the trip hoping he'd sabotage things and make her choice easier. He tells her he's not going to do that this time, she'll have to figure it out on her own.
Rebekah grabs Badlaric, announcing she's going to take him to the caves to get the stake. Klaus tells Stefan he knows about Damon's trip to Denver.
Stefan asks if Klaus is going to kill him. He thinks if he were going to, he would have by now. Klaus tries to get Stefan's ripper side to come back out. Stefan says he's accepted that part, so it can't control him.
"And neither can you. So unless you're going to stake me, why don't you get the hell out of my house?" Stefan says.
On the long car ride home, Rose pops up in the backseat, narrating for Jeremy. She tells Jeremy that Elena and Damon had a fight. She knows Jeremy doesn't approve, but she urges him to have an open mind. Elena makes him a better person, but he makes her a better person, too.
"Damon surprises her, challenges her, makes her question her beliefs. Stefan is different. His loveis pure and he'll always be good for her. Damon is either the best thing for her, or the worst," Rose says.
Caroline takes Tyler home to stay with her. She doesn't know what they'll do if it turns out Klaus didn't sire Damon, but she tells Tyler she doesn't want to lose him again.
Tyler finds the picture Klaus drew of her and gets crazy jealous. She insists it means nothing, but Tyler says he's going to find somewhere else to spend the night.
Down in the cave, Badlaric retrieves the stake but won't bring it to Rebekah. He tells her one stake means only one Original has to die. He offers to make sure it isn't her.
She takes a step toward him and crosses into the cave -- which she isn't supposed to be able to do.
"I want them all to die," she says. "It was easy to fool Nicklaus, but I thought you of all people would understand. After all, my son did use your body at one point."
"You're not Rebekah," he says."No, my name is Esther, and we have a great deal in common," she says.
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Damon calls Alaric. He doesn't know if he turned over the stake, he woke up alone. He's going to leave town for a few days because he keeps blacking out so he's still a threat to everyone. He says he's taking Bonnie's herbs. Alaric gets off the phone and Rebekah joins him. It's bad Alaric, lying to Damon.
She tells him Klaus burned the fake stake without a second thought. She has Esther's body in a coffin and plans to return to it with a little magic and some help from a vampire hunter.
Alaric takes the dipped dagger from her and stabs her. She crumples to the floor, dead. Moments later Esther gasps awake in her coffin.
Prepping for the dance, Caroline teases Elena about making out with Damon but suggests she invite Stefan to the dance. Bonnie is going with Jamie, her mom's surrogate son.Caroline nags her to give Stefan a chance.
Back home, Elena calls him. She works up to asking him to the dance. He'd love that. Damon overhears.
At the hospital, Damon finds Meredith. He shows her the full jar of herbs Bonnie made for Alaric; he's not taking them.
Esther takes Alaric to the place where Klaus tore her heart out of her chest, the cemetery. The violence of her death marked the ground forever. She wants his ring, to bind it to the stake to keep the stake from burning up in its first victim.
He hands it over and she recites a spell, then dips the stake in it. She pronounces it the ultimate weapon, for the ultimate hunter.
Elena gets ready in her best flapper gear. Stefan shows up in a suit, with a single rose corsage.
At the dance, Caroline checks that Matt knows Elena is taken. Tyler shows up, jealous of Klaus and prepared to act sired if he has to.
Elena asks Stefan to show her some moves, but he protests he was blacked out for most of the 20s. They end up dancing to a slow song.
Elena starts to tell Stefan about Damon and the Denver trip, but he tells her he doesn't need to know. They're having a moment when Damon shows up.
Jeremy sees the three of them walk out follows. Bonnie stops him, asking why he's still wearing his ring given what happened to Alaric. He doesn't plan to take it off til his sister stops hanging out with vampires.
Damon briefs Stefan and Elena on the situation with Alaric and suggests they mercy kill him. Jeremy hears and storms out. Elena follows and promises nothing will happen to him. Esther shows up, telling Elena to come with her. Jeremy gets the boys, but she's gone when they come outside. They can't leave. There's a salt ring around the school, a boundary spell.
Bonnie and Jamie sneak off to a classroom. She kisses him, but Damon interrupts.
Esther takes Elena to see Badlaric. Esther says she's going to remake him using dark magic -- the vampire to end all vampires.
She says she spoke to Alaric on the other side each time he died, cultivating his darkness. "Vampires took everything from him, now he's getting his vengeance," she says.
Klaus shows up at the dance and asks to cut in. Caroline says no, Tyler says yes. Klaus dances with her and tells her he's leaving town tomorrow, he invites her to join him in a year or century, when she's ready. He doesn't think the small town life will be enough for her.
Klaus leaves the dance, leaving Rebekah a voice mail. He sees the salt. Stefan tells him his mother's back.
Bonnie recites a spell, trying to break the boundary spell. Alaric chokes Jamie to make her work faster, but Stefan bluffs that she's only trying to help Caroline and Tyler, she doesn't care about anyone else.
Elena tries to talk Alaric out of going full vamp, but he's determined. Esther uses magic to slice open Elena's hand to complete her spell. Alaric drinks her blood. Then Esther stakes him.
Bonnie uses Jeremy's blood on a map to locate Elena. She's still mad at Damon for turning her mom into a vampire. Bonnie announces Esther's fighting her and has more magic than usual. She's channeling a hot spot. Klaus knows where she is.
Matt and Jeremy, the only humans, are the only ones who can leave.
Tyler suggests maybe they should let Esther kill Klaus, even though that would mean his death, too.
Elena removes the stake from Alaric. Esther warns her he'll be himself for a moment when he wakes up. Esther makes her case for getting rid of all vampires, invoking Elena's aunt Jenna's name. She tells her that even though Jenna turned, she's at peace.
Esther leaves the crypt and finds herself in the sights of Matt's rifle and Jeremy's crossbow. She easily turns them on each other. They have no control and things are about to go very badly when Alaric stakes her from behind."Where's my ring? Tell me what happened," he asks.
Back at the dance, Klaus and Stefan realize they're on the same side for a moment. Damon joins them and Klaus brings up Elena.Bonnie breaks the boundary spell.Stefan thanks her.
Jeremy tells Alaric and Elena that Klaus took Esther's body. Alaric breaks the news that he's not going to complete the transition, he thinks he'd be too dangerous as a vampire. Jeremy hugs him but leaves angry.Elena blames herself.
Everyone waits outside the crypt, including Meredith. Alaric comes out to say good-bye, then shuts himself inside.
Back at the house, Klaus unstakes Rebekah and taunts his dead mother, saying he'll build an army to protect himself.
Bonnie and Jamie head home. He thanks her for protecting him. Her dad's out of town. He asks if she'll be OK by herself. She won't.
At the Grille, Matt pours Jeremy a shot and they toast Alaric.
Elena packs up all Alaric's vampire slayer stuff from his apartment, not wanting to deal with the loss of Alaric. Stefan asks her to come with him.
He takes her back to the gym. He tells her biting her after Klaus compelled him was rock bottom. He reminds her she told him then that emotions are what make us human.
"I don't have anyone anymore," she cries."You have me," he says, holding on to her.
At the crypt, Meredith gives Alaric a sedative and assures Damon he'll go quickly. Damon offered to snap his neck, but Alaric passed. Damon thinks he wants to be alone, but Meredith points out that's nuts.
Damon joins him, apologizing for killing him -- twice. Damon offers him a drink, Alaric jokes he's been thinking of cutting back.
Bonnie wakes up (fully clothed) in bed with Jamie. Esther appears before her. "Your sisters need you to finish what I started, Bonnie," she says.Jamie shakes her awake, saying she was dreaming.
Alaric falls asleep in the crypt. Damon finishes his whiskey and heads outside. He sees Bonnie there, but she ignores him and walks by him, then she cripples him with blinding head pain and walks into the crypt.
She stabs her hand, then puts her blood in Alaric's mouth.
Suddenly, he's awake and feeding on her. He picks up the stake, in all his vampire, vampire-hunting glory.
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Tyler calls Caroline to tell her he has to go help Klaus move. He's planning to fake the sire bond until Klaus leaves town.
Someone -- Alaric -- streaks vamp fast through school, by Caroline. Rebekah is the only one there for the clean up committee and, as she reminds Caroline, she didn't even get to go to the dance.
Caroline offers her sympathy about her mom and Rebekah says the same about Alaric.
Rebekah heads to the gym and runs into Alaric. "You're supposed to be dead," she says."I am," he says.
He tries to stake her but Caroline comes to her aid and together they drive the stake into his stomach. He removes it, not dead. Caroline runs for her car but is fumbling with her keys when Alaric comes up behind her and snaps her neck. He drags her body through the parking lot, not minding that his skin is getting burned by the sun. Rebekah watches.
Stefan drops by Elena's and finds her painting Alaric's room with Jeremy, trying to move on from Alaric's death. Jeremy is rude to Stefan, asking if he's back with Elena and suggesting he give them one day without vampires.The doorbell rings. Stefan answers and finds Damon with bitten Bonnie. They have a problem.
Rebekah goes home and tells Klaus about Alaric trying to kill her. He's strong and stuck at the school for now. Klaus agrees to leave town, but wants to get Elena first to make more hybrids for protection against Esther.Rebekah wants to leave now and when Klaus won't, she prepares to leave without him.
Stefan tries to soak up the situation. Damon fed Bonnie his blood to save her, she had no idea what she was doing feeding Alaric. The witches clearly wanted him to turn. They try to figure out how they'll kill him. Bonnie says a witch can't truly make an immortal, there's always a work around. But she doesn't know what it is.
Elena gets a call from Alaric, who's holding Caroline hostage at the school. He summons her in secrecy.
Klaus drops by Elena's, but Damon and Stefan won't let him in. They shut Klaus out and realize Elena's gone.Klaus hurls a rolled up newspaper through the wall.
Elena arrives at the high school. Caroline is pinned to a desk with pencils through her hands. Alaric says Elena can help her, then stops her."How many times do I have to tell you? Stop trusting vampires!" he says.
Klaus finds things to hurl into the house, getting into a picket fence throwing war with Damon. He's about to torch the place when Stefan gets a call.
Alaric is demanding Klaus in exchange for Elena.The boys brainstorm.
Bonnie suggest a desiccation spell like the one her mom used to immobilize Michael for 50 years. Even with it, they'll need a lot of vampire muscle. Klaus gives them til nightfall.
Back in the school, Alaric tortures Caroline, putting a vervane-soaked rag in Caroline's mouth. He tells Elena it's time she become a real vampire hunter and stake Caroline.
Bonnie anxiously waits at the Salvatores' for Abby to arrive. Bonnie's not happy to see her, but they need her help.
Stefan and Klaus arrive at the school. Klaus tells Stefan he's still leaving town with Elena if their plan works. Stefan says he'll go with him to protect Elena. Klaus tries to needle him about Damon and Elena, but Stefan says all Klaus' efforts to drive them apart have had the opposite effect.
Bonnie tells her mom what she's after, but Abby says it's too dangerous because it uses dark magic. To stop a vampire's heart you have to find a balance among the living.
"What's that mean? I don't speak witch," Damon says."I have to stop a human heart," Bonnie says.
At the school, Damon tries to get Jeremy's ring just in case Bonnie can't restart his heart. They don't want the ring turning him into another Alaric psycho. Jeremy's not cooperating.
Bonnie gives Stefan, Klaus and Damon some of her blood to drink to bind them together so when she stops Jeremy's heart they'll have the power to take Alaric. They have to get a clear shot at Alaric's vein. Before he drinks, Klaus announces that he created their bloodline. They're not sure whether to believe him.
Inside, Alaric tells Elena that her parents wouldn't be proud of her being friends with vampires. Alaric tells Elena to kill Bonnie or he'll do it and make it hurt. He puts the stake in her hand.
Elena pauses for a moment then tries to stake him instead.He stops her. He thought he taught her better than that. He did.
She smashes the nearby glass of vervane in his face. As he screams in pain she frees Bonnie. Bonnie runs into the hall and into Klaus. He tells her to run straight home and stay there, they'll save Elena.
Alaric terrorizes Elena, telling her she doesn't deserve to live. She taunts him to kill her then, but he won't.
Stefan and Damon run in and grab his arms. They don't have him for long when he flings them both off, snapping their necks. Klaus comes in and tries to go "Temple of Doom"-style through his chest. In the woods, Bonnie prepares to stop Jeremy's heart. But Alaric flings Klaus off and she can feel the connection is broken.
Alaric gets the upper hand is about to stake Klaus when Elena shouts at him to stop.
She's holding a scalpel on her neck. She threatens to kill himself. She deduced that Esther must have tied his life to hers and if she dies, he dies. He calls her bluff and she starts to cut her own throat. He shouts at her to stop.
Klaus and Elena get away.
Elena wakes up at Klaus' house getting drained of all her blood. Tyler comes in to the room and sees Elena needs help. Klaus orders him to go get blood bags instead. Tyler struggles over what to do, then goes.
Damon comes back to life on the school floor next to his ringing phone. Stefan is there, too. Alaric wakes them up, announcing Klaus is going to kill Elena. He tells them he's bound to Elena so they better go save her because he's stuck till sundown.
Klaus tells Elena he's doing her the favor of keeping her from having to pick a Salvatore and tearing them apart. Elena fights to stay conscious as her blood flows out into blood bags.
Klaus leaves her alone and Tyler comes in. He frees her. But Klaus comes back."I'm not your little bitch anymore," Tyler says.
Klaus doesn't believe he could have broken the sire bond. Tyler goes to help Elena and Klaus charges him. He knocks Tyler down and Elena falls and hits her head on the desk.
Stefan and Damon arrive and grab Klaus. Stefan drives his hand into Klaus' chest. Tyler helps hold him.In the woods, Bonnie chants over Jeremy.
She stops his heart. She gets a dark rush of power up her veins as they turn black.
Stefan and Tyler hold Klaus as Stefan squeezes Klaus's heart to a stop. Damon checks on Elena, she's OK.Klaus' heart slowly stops beating.
Bonnie finishes her dark magic rush and starts on trying to revive Jeremy. It doesn't work.She pounds on his chest and he regains consciousness.
Klaus drops to the floor, desiccated.
Damon and Stefan walk Elena all the way to her front door. She says she's fine, just has a little head ache. She's not worried about Alaric hurting her, she's worried about them. Stefan promises to call when they get back.
She knows it seems like she's stringing them both along. "If I choose one of you, then I lose the other. And I've lost so many people I can't bear the thought of losing one of you," she says.
They're off to dump Klaus' body in the Atlantic."Be careful. Both of you," she says.
She goes inside and finds Caroline, Bonnie, Tyler, Jeremy and Matt having a victory party with shots.They toast a "Klaus-free" life.
Liz shows up at Carol Lockwood's house. Someone called a council meeting. It's Alaric. He outs them for their children, calling them hypocrites. He won't let them leave.
On the road, Damon's giddy."Klaus is dead, my brother's half-way sane again, give or take an immortal hunter that wants to kill us -- we won," he says.
Stefan says they make a pretty good team. Only took a century and a half.
Stefan asks what happens when Elena makes a decision. Stefan says he'll leave town if she picks Damon and in 60 years they'll go back to being brothers and none of this will have mattered.
Jeremy does some late night painting. Elena makes a case for the vampires she loves. Jeremy worries Alaric might kill his human connection, her, once he completes his task. Jeremy leaves for bed.
Elena starts painting but suddenly get a sharp pain in her neck. She drops to the floor unconscious with a bloody nose.
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Meredith tells Jeremy that Elena is fine, she just has a slight concussion.
Jeremy calls the Salvatores on the road. They can't believe Jeremy took her to the hospital when all the originals are looking to kill her to stop Alaric.
One of them has to go back; the other has to deal with Klaus's desiccated body.
Meredith returns to her office to find Alaric waiting for her. He takes her vials of vampire blood and dumps them out. He's reporting her to the medical board and Sheriff Forbes and Mayor Lockwood have been relieved of their duties. He wants Elena released into his custody.
He goes to her room but finds she's gone.
Caroline, Matt and Tyler bring Elena home.
Elena remembers sophomore year when she was with Matt. Bonnie has a bad feeling about the bonfire tonight. Jenna's in town and Elena's parents want to do family night.Matt tells her he loves her and Bonnie notices she doesn't say it back. She tells Elena not to string him along.
Elena wakes up to Matt sitting watch. Tyler and Caroline got calls from their moms. Elena apologizes to him for stringing him along and says she can't do the same thing to Damon and Stefan.Stefan comes in.
Jeremy goes to pick up food at the Grille. Alaric finds him.
Matt questions the wisdom of not getting Elena out of town, but Stefan is letting her decide what she wants to do. Elena goes to the door -- Elijah is there.
At the Grille, Alaric asks Jeremy where Klaus' body is. Alaric wants Jeremy's help to find him and kill him to get rid of vampires. Once he's done, Alaric suggests they can put a spell on him so that Elena will be able to live out the rest of her life. The stake he has is the only thing that can kill them.
Elijah proposes he get the stake and his family will scatter for the rest of her life, prompting Alaric to follow them. He also wants Klaus' body and gives her his word he won't revive him within her or her children's lifetimes.They debate whether to trust him.
Damon weighs in via speakerphone, firmly against the deal. Stefan defers to Elena.Elijah just wants his brother back. Elena agrees.
Matt and Caroline go to the Lockwoods where their moms tell them Alaric outed them to the council. They want them to run.
Jeremy tells Matt about Alaric's proposal. Jeremy doesn't know where Klaus' body is, but Matt does. Jeremy calls Alaric and tells him Damon's taking him to bury him in the woods.
Jeremy gets off the phone and we see everyone is in the room with him. He reports that Alaric bought it.
Tyler thinks they should go and Caroline is willing to run with him, but she wants to help their friends first. They make plans to meet in two hours.
Damon meets up with Bonnie, irked that Elena sold their souls to the originals. "You know what else was her call? Everything bad, ever," he says.
Damon has him in a coffin in a storage facility. Bonnie's there to put a spell on him so Alaric can't find him with a witch. Bonnie asks for a moment alone with him. Klaus is conscious, but can't talk. She hates him for turning almost everyone she knows.
Elena worries about Jeremy and Stefan assures her he'll be fine. Elena starts to say something else, but tells him they can talk later. He thinks about it then goes back and kisses her. "That's just in case there is no 'later,'" he says.
Damon hangs out with the body, waiting for Rebekah to come get him. Caroline and Elijah are in place; Jeremy's going to lead Alaric to them.Damon can't believe Stefan let Elena decide.
Damon hears someone coming and thinks it's Rebekah. But instead Alaric grabs him around the throat. "You'd be surprised how competent law enforcement is when it isn't corrupted by vampires," he says.
He asks where Klaus is. Damon wishes him luck finding him in the thousands of storage lockers. Alaric snaps Damon's neck.
Matt brings Elena tea. It tastes funny, he blames it on honey."So, Stefan?" Matt says.
Elena tells Matt, for the first time, that Stefan saved her life when her parents' car went over the bridge. Being with Stefan helped her sort through everything after they died.
She says you should love the person who makes you glad to be alive, but when she's with Damon, he consumes her.
She doesn't want to chose one and lose the other. She wishes her mom was there to give her advice.
Back to sophomore year, Elena calls home for a ride home from the bonfire. She tells her mom about getting in a fight with Matt because he brought up marriage and college. She doesn't want to lose Matt by being honest about her feelings, but her mom says she'd be setting him free.
Elena wakes up in a moving car. Matt drugged her and is taking her out of town.
Alaric goes searching through storage lockers. Rebekah arrives.
She goes walking among the storage lockers calling for Damon. Suddenly a hand clamps around her mouth. Damon shushes her.
Alaric comes to the 1020 locker the coffin was in. He opens it. The coffin isn't there.
Rebekah and Damon wheel the coffin out but don't get far before they fun into Alaric. He grabs Rebekah and slams her face off a car. She goes down. Damon attacks but he kicks him to the ground. With Rebekah and Damon both down for the count, Alaric opens Klaus' coffin.
He stakes Klaus. Damon holds Rebekah back as she screams.
Klaus bursts into flames.
Damon tells her to run. He tries to take on Alaric, but Alaric swats him away.
Later, Damon calls Stefan. They both feel OK. They figure they have about an hour if Klaus was telling the truth. Stefan says an hour isn't long enough for Damon to make it back to Mystic Falls -- to see Elena. He thinks she made her choice.
Jeremy confesses that Elena isn't in Mystic Falls. Elijah and Caroline show up.
Matt gets a call about the news. Elena wants to go back, but Matt tells her Damon isn't with them. She has to pick which way to go.
Elena calls Damon, who still feels fine. She tells him Matt's taking her home -- to Stefan, Tyler and Caroline.
Damon asks her who she'd pick between him and Stefan. She loves Stefan and whatever she feels for Damon, she can't change how she feels about Stefan. She says maybe if she'd met Damon first.... She has to let Damon go, but he'll be fine and see him soon.
Damon turns around and sees Alaric standing there. He calmly says good-bye to her.Alaric punches him.
Caroline races to the cellar and meets Tyler. She's sobbing and crying and breaks the news to him about Klaus. He tells she'll be fine and to tell his mother that he left town like he was supposed to.
He's holding on to her as he starts coughing and is gripped with pain. Caroline feels fine. He wants her to leave so she doesn't see him die, he starts to turn into a werewolf and runs her off.
Elena gets the call about Tyler. Matt takes it hard.Rebekah meets Elijah in the woods.
Rebekah is sure that Klaus turned that bloodline, so they don't understand how everyone else is still alive.
Bonnie goes down to the cellar looking for someone. Tyler walks out, fine.
"I must say you really did that spell brilliantly, I didn't think you had it in you," he says."I did it to save my friends and my mother, Klaus," she says. (Klaus!)
Rebekah calls Stefan, since Klaus is dead, their deal is off. She doesn't want to keep running. The only way to stop Alaric is for Elena to die.
Cut to Elena and Matt driving back into town over the Wickery Bridge. Rebekah stands in their path. Matt serves to avoid her and they go off the bridge into the river.
Elena wakes up in sophomore year, with her dad in the front seat. He tells her they're going to be fine, right as she sinks underwater.
Alaric beats up on Damon, who refuses to fight back. Alaric thinks his friendship with Damon made him weak.
Damon remembers that same bonfire night, seeing Elena on the phone. He goes over and talks to her, thinking she's Katherine.She tells him she got into a fight with her boyfriend over the future. He says she knows what she wants, a love that consumes her, passion, adventure and even a little danger.She asks what he wants, but her parents drive up.
He compels her to forget they ever met, saying he can't have people know he's in town yet.
Alaric continues beating on Damon and then kneels down with his stake. He starts to drive it in, but Damon fights back.
Elena wakes up in the car underwater. She remembers the last time she was there with her parents as she struggles to wake Matt up and break the window.
She mouthed "I love you" to her dad underwater and passed out. Stefan swam down and her dad pointed at her for Stefan to save her first.
In the present, Stefan swims down again and Elena points at Matt for Stefan to save him first. He resists but she's insistent. Stefan swims away with Matt leaving Elena underwater.
Damon is fighting Alaric when suddenly Alaric grabs at his chest, weak. He starts to turn grey. Damon realizes what's happened and holds on to him.
Jeremy leaves a message for Matt and comes downstairs to see Alaric standing there. It's good Ric. He wanted to say good-bye and there he was. He tells Jeremy he'll never be alone.Jeremy realizes Alaric is a ghost. But then that means Elena....
Cut to Elena, dead. Stefan cries over her.
Damon races in to the hospital. Meredith stops him. She tells him when Jeremy brought her in earlier her injuries were much worse than she let on. Elena had a cerebral hemorrhage."I helped her, she needed my help," Meredith says pointedly."You what?!" Damon says.
Damon realizes what Meredith is saying. Elena had vampire blood in her system. And then she died.Cut to Elena dead on a slab -- then opening her eyes and gasping for breath.
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They tell her Meredith (Torrey DeVitto) healed her with vampire blood earlier. She had it in her system when she and Matt (Zach Roerig) crashed.She realizes what this means."Am I dead?" she asks.
Stefan tells her Bonnie (Kat Graham) is looking for a loophole before she has to feed or die in 24 hours. She doesn't want to be a vampire."Your choice Elena, as always," Damon says sarcastically.
Down in the kitchen, Damon questions Stefan's choice to save Matt first.
Upstairs, Elena's gums start to ache. Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) checks on her, remembering how bad the transformation was for Vicki. Elena is tense and distracted. "I need my sister, not another one of them," Jeremy says.The light bulb from a lamp sizzles in Elena's brain. She grabs it and breaks it with her bare hands.
Bonnie stands over the dead-for-now body of Klaus (Joseph Morgan) in his coffin. His current vessel, Tyler (Michael Trevino), appears. He wants her to put him back in his body. She points out he needs Elena human to have an endless blood supply to make his hybrids. That's her priority. He reminds her to tell no one what's going on.
At the hospital, Pastor Young (Michael Reilly Burke) swoops in on orders from the Council. He tells Meredith that Alaric outed her. They're locking down the blood supply.
Caroline (Candice Accola) hides out from the Council in the hospital. Matt blames himself for Elena. Caroline hides as one of the Council goons checks Matt's room.
Pastor Young and his squad intercept Sheriff Forbes, telling her she's no longer on the job. They've confiscated the town's supply of vervane, including from the Salvatores.
Liz (Marguerite MacIntyre) calls Caroline as she's walking out of her house. Before she makes it off the step, one of the Council goons grabs her and sticks a needle in her throat.
At home, Elena tries a sandwich. It tastes disgusting. She can't stop thinking about blood. She assures Stefan he did the right thing. She starts laughing and can't stop. Her emotions are out of control.
Elena goes up to her bedroom and sees a scene with her and Damon play out in front of her, the one where he returns her necklace and tells her he loves her and doesn't deserve her, but Stefan does. He compels her to forget. She has the memory back, along with the necklace.
At Klaus' mansion, Damon visits Rebekah (Claire Holt). He rushes at her with a stake. She fights him off. Wooden bullets come in from the window, hitting Rebekah. She's skewered by an arrow.
At home, Elena comes downstairs to see Pastor Young and his guys holding Stefan at gun point.
Carol (Susan Walters) calls her son, Tyler (currently Klaus). She wants to make sure he wasn't with Caroline. She tells him the Council got her.
Rebekah comes to in the back of a van, strapped down with vervane ropes next to Caroline, who starts to explain the Council grabbed them. Suddenly, the van they're traveling in is hit and flips over.
Tyler (Klaus) rips the back door off the van and frees Caroline, who is thrilled to see he's alive. He leaves Rebekah, calling her "little sister."
Liz regroups with Damon and Meredith. She's locked out of her office by the Council. Liz knows Caroline is free. She doesn't know where. Matt visits. Damon grabs him, angry he's alive instead of Elena.
Pastor Young keeps Elena at a safe house. She struggles to keep it together. He's planning to hold her until Damon comes looking for her, and hold Rebekah until her siblings come. He thinks she'll turn over the white oak stake. They'll exterminate the entire vampire race for good. He serves Elena a thick juicy steak. She's transfixed by his jugular vein.
The screaming tea kettle sends her running from the house. The sun stops her long enough for a Council member to knock her out.
Out in the woods, Caroline is glad to see Tyler. She helps him take his clothes off. He calls her "love" as they make-out. She pauses, putting it together. He's Klaus. She's grossed out and wants Tyler back.
Bonnie makes a plea to the witches to save Elena. They aren't listening. Bonnie tells Jeremy about her back-up plan: to go to the other side and bring Elena back herself. She can stop her heart like she did his and Klaus', using her "new source of power," dark magic. Jeremy is not a fan of the plan.
Damon tries to figure out where Pastor Young is holding Stefan and Elena. Matt mentions the pastor has a cattle ranch with steel pens.
Elena wakes up in a pen. Stefan and Rebekah are locked up nearby. Elena has about three hours to feed or she dies.
Bonnie tries another spell. Jeremy watches with horror. She gets a nose bleed but keeps going as her veins turn black. She keels over.
Bonnie appears in the pen with Elena, who is growing weaker. Bonnie takes Elena's hand, guiding her to her feet. Elena can't see her but can feel something happening. Bonnie tells her she's going home, but her grandmother (Jasmine Guy) appears and tells her stay away from dark magic.
"This magic is dark, Bonnie. It is not nature's plan. Touch it again and the spirits will unleash their anger in ways that will make you suffer. Stay away! Go!" her grandmother runs her off.
Bonnie wakes up back with Jeremy, having failed.
In the cattle pen, Elena can feel she's dying. Stefan calls for someone to come in. He tells the Council member who comes that she's innocent. He shoots Stefan twice.
Klaus/Tyler and Caroline join Bonnie and Jeremy. Bonnie tells Klausler she angered the spirits using dark magic and can't do it again. That's not enough for Klausler, who starts ripping Tyler's heart out of his own chest, threatening to jump into someone else.Bonnie relents.
In his pen, Stefan digs the wooden bullets out of his body. He thinks Damon was right. She should have fed this morning. She appreciates he had hope.He tells her he loves her.She tells him she was on the bridge because she had to choose and picked him, she was going to him. "No matter what happened, it's the best choice I ever made," she tells him.
Rebekah watches the two crying lovers from her pen across the way and is moved.
Damon and Matt pull up to Pastor Young's house at night.
"So what, we just storm the place with zero weapons?" Matt says."Nah, we don't need weapons. Just bait," Damon says. Then he chomps down on Matt's neck.
Damon taunts Pastor Young to come out. He does, and sees Matt bleeding and holding his neck. He refuses to come out. Someone shoots Damon in the shoulder. He falls to the ground.
Bonnie recites the black magic spell to transfer Klaus. Tyler returns to his body long enough to see Caroline, and crumple to the floor.
Bonnie's grandmother appears again before her, telling her she was warned. Something makes her grasp onto Bonnie's hands and not let go. The black veins of black magic run through Bonnie and into her grandmother's spirit. "You've made your choice, now the spirits are taking it out on me," Gram says.
Bonnie is powerless to stop it. She watches as her grandmother is taken away by dark spirits. She breaks free from the spell and freaks out, wondering what she's just done.
Back in the holding pen, two members of the Council come in. Rebekah signals Stefan. They prepare to bring Damon in.
Rebekah calls for one of them, offering bribes. He approaches Rebekah's pen. She bares her teeth and rushes the bars. He backs up to Stefan's pen. Stefan grabs him and bashes his head against the bars until he falls dead, his blood pooling on the floor. He flings the body in front of Elena. She reaches through the bars toward the pooling blood. She's able to reach just enough for a taste.
Outside, Council members approach a fallen Damon to put him in captivity. He pops up, and quickly dispatches them. He kicks Matt as he lays on the ground.
"Go ahead, you can't possibly hate me more than I hate myself," Matt says."Oh yes, I can. It should have been you," Damon says. He steps on Matt and seems prepared to finish him when someone runs at him and throws him off -- it's Elena, in full vampire mode.
Matt stumbles into the pen. Stefan starts to help him. Matt thinks it's his fault Elena's a vampire. Stefan says he wasn't his first choice to save, but now he's alive he needs to earn it.
Elena confronts Damon, who admits he was ready to kill Matt."It was my choice to save him, why aren't you seeing that?" Elena says."It's a little hard to keep track of all of your choices lately, Elena," he tells her.
She's remembering everything he ever compelled her to forget, including they met first. She tells him to be angry with her if he doesn't like her choice.He tells her he would have saved her if he'd been on the bridge, no question, because he wanted her to have the normal life she wanted.
Rebekah comes home to find Klaus packing up bags of Elena blood. She's furious he saved Caroline in the van over her and seems to care more about his hybrids than her, his real family.
She grabs his bags of blood, reminding him she's the one who always stood by him. She squeezes his bags onto the floor.He attacks her, telling her they're not family from here on. He snaps her neck.
Elena and Stefan wait for the sun to rise. Now the Council knows who they are, everything's about to change."Yea, I'm sure Damon has a revenge plan cooked up," Stefan says.
He wants to reassure her. She won't feel pain or crave blood, but she will."It'll be the worst thing that you've ever lived through," he says."But I'll get to live. I'll be a sister and a friend, and I'll be with you, forever. If I want," she says.She kisses him.
"I'm going to get through this, just like we get through everything. One day at a time," she says.As the sun starts to come up, she says they should get inside. He gives her the daylight ring Bonnie made for her yesterday, just in case.
Pastor Young tears the gas line on his oven and addresses the Council. He locks the door as he addresses the group."Fear not, because I have been chosen to lead us in a movement. Here me loved ones, soon you'll be free to pass through the gates and we'll all reunite in eternity," he says.
He takes a lighter out of his pocket. They start to get nervous."We are the beginning," he says, as he flicks the lighter. The house explodes.
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"She can't learn to control the blood lust if she never experiences the blood lust," Damon says.
Stefan takes her to the woods and traps a deer for her. She feeds and lets it go.
Damon makes his case to Elena. "Vampires eat people. You're going to be miserable," he says.
Stefan takes Elena out into the woods to try to teach her how to be a vampire. She's distracted by how good it feels when he touches her. They start making out ferociously. She stops suddenly and runs away. She throws up the deer blood.
A man explores the crime scene where Pastor Young blew himself and other members of the Council up. He finds a note left protected inside the oven.
At the Grille, Liz (Marguerite MacIntyre) accuses Damon of the crime. He assures her he always takes credit for his kills. The man who inspected the scene introduces himself to Liz. He's Connor Jordan, a "private contractor."
Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) and Matt (Zach Roerig) unload candles for the memorial at school. Matt points out fire is an odd choice to remember people who exploded.
They're interrupted by April, who Elena used to babysit for. Pastor Young was her dad. She's been away at boarding school.
Elena calls Caroline (Candice Accola) and leaves a message. She's been having "adjustment issues."
At the cabin with Stefan, he brings her a bottle of champagne to celebrate her first feed, even though it was gross. She tells him it made her sick. He replies it took him a month to be able to stomach it.
Damon calls. Elena meets him at the Grille and asks if he blew up the Council. Assured he didn't, she asks for his help feeding. He takes her to the bathroom and bites his hand open, telling her not to mention it to Stefan because "blood sharing" is kind of personal.She chomps down. He loves it.
Tyler and Caroline are about to engage in "grief sex" when the doorbell rings. Connor invites himself in to talk with Carol (Susan Walters), asking why she wasn't at the Council meeting. Tyler comes down and shakes Connor's gloved hand when he offers it. He recoils in pain. Connor promptly takes out his gun and shoots Tyler several times in the chest.Caroline races downstairs as Connor reloads. Carol screams at Tyler to run. He leaps out a window.
At the Salvatore house, Stefan pulls wooden bullets out of Tyler. The bullets are specially shaped. If Tyler were a normal vampire, he'd be dead. The bullets have etching on them. They burn when Stefan touches them.
Elena helps lay out programs at the memorial service. She's having a hard time holding back tears. She goes to talk to April. She's worried what the town thinks of her dad. Elena takes April's hand, but the throbbing in April's veins makes Elena sick. Elena runs to the bathroom and throws up blood all over the place and herself.
Stefan goes to Bonnie's house. She's still feeling guilty about her Grams. She hasn't been able to do any spells without reliving what happened.He shows her the bullets. The writing isn't magical. He tells her about the new vampire hunter in town.
Elena calls Stefan for help. Connor knocks on the bathroom door and tries to get in as Elena furiously wipes up blood.Damon brings Elena a change of clothes as Connor waits outside. Connor tries to shake Damon's hand, but he proclaims himself a germaphobe. Connor says he's in "environmental clean-up." Elena finishes changing. She and Damon go upstairs.
Connor finds April preparing her remarks for the funeral in the church balcony. He walks up to her and stakes her in the stomach.
Damon gives Elena a bag of blood but she can't keep it down either. They don't know what's wrong with her. He wonders if it's her doppelganger blood. He says she'll be fine if she just drinks from the vein. She doesn't want to risk it.
Stefan sees Damon putting the blood bag away. Damon tells him Elena hasn't been able to keep blood down for days, even his. Stefan is immediately angry and jealous.
Elena goes in for the service, looking pasty and weak. Tyler is there, determined not to be afraid of the hunter.
Up in the balcony, Connor loads his rifle with April tied up on the ground next to him, bleeding.
Carol asks April to come up and speak, and When she doesn't, Elena wobbles up instead. As she starts to speak, all the vampires in the audience begin to smell April's blood dripping down from the balcony. "It's a trap, nobody move," Damon says as Connor peers through his rifle scope and waits to see who turns around.
Up on the stage, Elena smells the blood and struggles to keep it together. Damon goes to get her and walks her back to the pews. The service continues. Elena has a hard time keeping it together. Damon wants to go rip Connor's head off, but Stefan quietly pleads that he'll expose them all. Elena warns she's about to lose it. Damon's about to go, when Matt tells Elena to feed from him.
She turns and sinks her head into Matt's shoulder, biting down. Connor watches through his scope but can't tell what's happening. Elena pulls back, thanking Matt.
As the entire church sings, Tyler sees what's happening and interrupts on stage to talk about Pastor Young. He mentions he was his coach when he was young.
"He was the one who taught me how important it is to be part of a team, part of a community, of giving yourself up for the sake of -- " Connor shoots him.Everyone runs.
Up on the stage, Caroline pulls the stake Connor fired out of Tyler, who is fine. Stefan goes to help Damon with Connor. Carol Lockwood realizes she has to call an ambulance even if Tyler is fine, the whole town just watched him get shot.
Outside, Connor's in his truck when Damon rips the door off. Damon pulls him out and Connor shoots him multiple times, Damon keeps attacking, Connor get the better of him and tries to stake him, but hears Stefan coming and gets in his truck and speeds off.
Stefan punches Damon for helping Elena.
Back in the church, Elena finds bleeding April in the balcony. At the sight of all her blood, Elena starts to vamp out and prepares to feed. But Caroline swoops in and stops her, explaining that she'll kill her if she does.
Instead, Caroline feeds April her blood to heal her. Then she turns to Elena and tells her to help April forget. Elena has to learn how. She tells April that everything will be OK and she'll help. She tells April she watched the service in the balcony to grieve alone.
At the Grille, Connor asks Matt about the bandage on his neck. He says his girlfriend went a little overboard. Jeremy compliments Connor on his sleeve tattoo -- that only Jeremy can see.
Connor returns to his RV and reads the note Pastor Young left for April, saying his sacrifice was necessary and his death was the first in a war ahead.
Back at the Salvatore's house, Stefan gives Elena Scotch to help with the cravings. Stefan is mad at Elena for not telling him she's struggling and for turning to Damon. She gets upset and rants about how her life is a parade of funerals and she's overwhelmed by all the grief.
Stefan assembles a make-up funeral with Damon, Bonnie, Jeremy, Matt, Elena and Caroline, saying they need to make time to grieve.
Stefan lights his lantern for his uncle Zach, Alexi and Alaric. Matt lights his for Vicky. Caroline's is for her dad and Tyler's. Jeremy's is for Vicky, Anna, Jenna, Alaric and their parents. Damon bails.
Bonnie lights hers for her grandmother.Elena's is for her mom, dad, Jenna and everyone that the town has lost, "and for me, I guess."They release their lanterns into the sky.
Damon drinks in the graveyard alone and mocks the idea of the lanterns and pretending that Elena isn't going to end up "like the rest of us murderous vampires." He's talking to Alaric's grave.
He knows Alaric would say it makes them feel better and that's Ok.Damon says it's pointless because all that's left when someone dies is a hole in your life.
Alaric sits there and listens. Damon tells him he owes him big for sticking around."I miss you too, buddy," Alaric says as Damon walks off.
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Back in his trailer, Connor conducts a home science experiment. He has files on Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen).
At the Salvatores, Stefan (Paul Wesley) plans to take Elena out to distract her from the difficulties of her transformation. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) plans to find Connor, take Tyler's werewolf venom, and kill the hunter. Then he'll leave town, per his agreement with Stefan. Whoever Elena didn't chose would do just that. Stefan thinks he's pouting. Elena being turned changes things. Damon's mind is made up.
Elena meets up with Matt (Zach Roerig) at their old make-out spot to feed off him. It's the only thing she can keep down. She pulls away early, because she's afraid she couldn't stop if she kept going.
Walking into high school they see a note enforcing a 10p.m. town curfew.
Tyler and Carol (Susan Walters) come home, where she's arranged for a pair of Klaus's hybrids to watch over Tyler. Klaus (Joseph Morgan) is back, not wanting to risk losing one of his hybrids since Elena has turned. He can't make more.
In school, Elena and Stefan get ready for what used to be Alaric's class. Rebekah (Claire Holt) saunters in, announcing her anti-curfew party. She invites Elena, then taunts her, mentioning how she killed Alaric. Elena throws a pencil at her. Rebekah catches it easily and whips it back at Elena, where it spikes her in the shoulder.
In the hallway, Elena is enraged over Rebekah, but quickly distracted when she sees the hunter in the hallway. She goes to the bathroom and cleans up. A girl named Heather comes in holding her neck. Elena realizes she's compelled. Rebekah follows, offering Heather to Elena. She tries to resist. Rebekah smears Heather's blood on Elena's face. She fights back against her vampire urges. They leave.
Connor pulls Jeremy out of class and gives him the file on him. He wants to know how Jeremy could see his tattoo, which is invisible to everyone but hunters or people who could be. He tells Jeremy to find him a vampire and meet him at his trailer.
Meanwhile, Damon inspects Connor's trailer and quickly sets off booby traps. An arrow goes through his chest.He realizes he can't pull it out because it's tied to something which looks like it might explode.
Outside school, Elena is angry enough to want to kill Rebekah. Stefan suggests they skip the rest of the day, then go to Rebekah's party and show her they can't be intimidated. Elena has to go home and change.Stefan explains what Elena is going through to Caroline (Candice Accola). Elena is turning all her feelings into rage because it makes her feel like she has purpose. She has to confront it and channel it before she can let go.
Tyler hangs out at home when a werewolf named Haley (Phoebe tonkin) strolls in. She helped him break the sire bond down in Florida and found him when someone from her old pack mentioned he was guarding a guy named Tyler. They're clearly close.
Meredith (Paul Wesley's wife) comes to help Damon out of his skewered-on-a-booby-trapped-arrow predicament. He didn't call Stefan because he's proud and stubborn. He wants her to cut the arrow out. While she works, he looks at Pastor Young's note to April, including the part about a "greater evil" coming.
Meredith thinks Damon is doing a good job pretending like his heart isn't broken.
At school, Rebekah invites Matt to her party, even though she killed Alaric and nearly got Matt killed. He ignores her.
Connor confronts Matt in the hall and rips off his bandage, to reveal Elena's bite marks. He holds a knife to Matt's throat and demands he tell him which one of his friends is a vampire. Matt tells him Rebekah. Connor knocks him out.
Damon comes home to find Elena rooting through his things. She says she's looking for bourbon to get through Rebekah's party. He busts her for wanting the last white oak stake.Damon heard Connor was at school from Jeremy. Elena doesn't want Jeremy involved, but Damon thinks he could be useful.
Meanwhile, Jeremy goes to meet Connor at his trailer. He didn't bring a vampire, but he tells him Meredith has a deal to get vampire blood. Connor says he has Rebekah's party covered. As long as they're drinking, they'll be dead by sundown.
Rebekah's party is packed with kids drinking. Stefan suggests Elena drink to take the edge off her rage. Elena goes to talk to April.
Caroline surprises Tyler at home. She can't believe Klaus has him kept at home. In the study, Klaus introduces himself to Haley, who has only heard horrible things about him. Klaus hears Tyler get rid of Caroline at the door and realizes why he's never heard about hot, young Hailey.
Elena offers April some of her beer. She says her dad would have smelled a gas leak and wonders if maybe it wasn't an accident. April leaves when Rebekah shows up.She takes Elena's beer and drinks from it. Elena's skin starts to burn. She realizes Rebekah has lifted her ring. Elena runs for cover in the corner as Rebekah tosses her ring into the disposal and turns it on and leaves.
Elena runs to the disposal and fishes it out, letting her skin singe until she's able to get it back on. She runs to her bag and takes out the white oak stake. Stefan finds her and says he won't stop her, but after she kills Rebekah, tens of thousands of vampires from her bloodline all over the world will start to die."Rage is a really powerful feelings, but guilt, take it from me, it'll destroy you," he says.Instead, he invites her to get on his motorcycle and leave.
Rebekah gets in one last jab at Elena on her way out. Elena executes a perfect gymnast's keg stand before she and Stefan leave.
Rebekah watches them leave but her vision starts to go blurry. She wobbles inside as her skin flushes.
Back at Tyler's, Hailey is gone. Klaus guesses their history: Tyler went to the Appalachians to break his sire bond and met a pack of werewolves, including Haley. Sexual tension ran high and inhibitions ran low. Tyler shuts him up. Klaus seems to be on to something.
Damon calls for Tyler. Klaus answers. Klaus won't let Tyler help Damon kill Connor, but Klaus is up for it.
Stefan and Elena go for a ride in the country. She gets bold and stands up on the back of his bike, enjoying the freedom.
At the hospital, Jeremy points Meredith out to Connor as she goes into the supply room. Connor follows. He finds Damon there instead. Connor walks toward Damon and is hit in the arm by an arrow, then another. The arrows are attached to Connor's own booby trap bomb. He can't reach his gun. Klaus steps out and says hello.
Elena and Stefan enjoy rolling around in bed with vampire urges. All of a sudden she pictures Damon and throws Stefan off her. Elena starts to feel sick. Stefan realizes Damon said Connor has werewolf venom.
At her party, Rebekah is still feeling week. Since whatever it is isn't the white oak stake, it can't kill her. Matt joins her and is in a sharing mood. "The truth is Rebekah, I think you're amazing. You've had a thousand years to learn, to grow, and to start fresh. And somehow, you've managed to throw it all away. Now you're alone, you're compelling your friends, your brother hates you. You whine about not finding love, the reason you don't find love is because you don't deserve it," he says.
Rebekah gets angry and quickly rips Matt's heart out. She holds his quivering heart a moment. When she drops it, Matt's gone.
Back with Connor, Damon and Klaus want info. Damon mentions the disappearing tattoo. Klaus is interested. "There's more to you than meets the eye, isn't there?" Klaus asks.Connor tries to stake Klaus. Klaus catches his arm, telling him he's faster than your average vampire. Klaus examines the carving on Connor's stake and realizes he's "one of the five."
Connor starts to pull on the trip wire attached to the arrow in his arm, saying he's faster than your average hunter. Damon realizes what's about to happen and dives into the hall. The supply room explodes.
With Elena sick in bed, Stefan calls Klaus but can't reach him. Elena sees Damon instead of Stefan and asks why he's seeing him. "Because you're a vampire now and part of you knows you're a lot more like me than you are like him," hallucination Damon says.
Klaus arrives. He's the only one who can heal Elena, and with what he's just learned, he still wants to. He feeds Elena his blood.
Rebekah wakes up in her bedroom to see April picking up Solo cups. "Picking up trash is a hell of a lot better than sitting home alone thinking about the family you no longer have," she explains.Rebekah offers to help her look into the fire at the farmhouse. April doesn't see how she couldn't help.
Damon and Carol survey the blown-up supply room, which Damon says has bits of Connor inside. Carol plans to cancel the curfew.Jeremy points out to Damon how helpful he was. Meredith is annoyed they blew something up near medically fragile patients. Damon suggests she buy him a going-out-of-town drink. She doesn't believe for a minute he'll leave. "I'm not your new partner in vampire crime. Fix things with Stefan and Elena, don't let your pride leave you all alone," she says.
Stefan waits for Caroline at his house. He wants Elena to be able to enjoy becoming a vampire, but he's worried if he joins in, he risks becoming the Ripper. "I love her and I don't want to hold her back," he says.
"But you don't know how to be around her and still resist that urge," Caroline says. Stefan can't ask Damon right now. He thinks Caroline can help since she's good at being a vampire. She promises to help him avoid getting too close to the edge.
Matt finds Elena at home. He wouldn't have told Connor about Rebekah if he'd known Elena was going to her party.
He rolls up his sleeve for her as she tells him about the rage's feeling driven by hunger.
She chomps down on his wrist but doesn't stop. He tells her it hurts. She doesn't listen. She's showing no signs of stopping when Damon comes in and pulls her off. He compels Matt to forget and tells Elena there's nothing for her to be ashamed of. She just has to learn how to be a vampire. He's going to each her.
Connor wakes up in his trailer with Klaus standing over him. "Congratulations, you just became worth more to me alive than dead," Klaus says.Connor doesn't know what "one of the five" means. Klaus tells him it makes him the most well-protected vampire hunter in town.
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PresentDamon brings Connor's things back to the house to go over them for answers, starting with: What are the Five?Damon gets a call from Sheriff Forbes, they didn't find Connor's remains at the explosion site.After Stefan assures Damon they're not fighting, Damon tells him he's taking Elena to college to learn "snatch, eat, erase."
Later, in the woods for "hunter defense class," Elena explains her reasons for going to Stefan. She can't feed on animals or blood bags because they make her sick, Caroline is too good at self control to understand what Elena is going through and Stefan gets weird around that much blood. So it has to be Damon.
They're crashing Bonnie's trip to look at colleges. The professor who took over her Gram's classes invited her.Elena assures Stefan that he's the one getting her through this. He warns her it's easy to get caught up in feeding.
Rebekah brings Matt keys to a new truck to try to make up for things. "If that's your idea of an apology, you should probably give it to Elena. She's the one you killed," Matt says.
Klaus sees the interchange and tells her she's trying too hard. Rebekah is annoyed to see he's still in town. He tells her the Brotherhood of the Five still exists and wants her help. But she's not inclined.
Damon, Elena and Bonnie arrive on campus and join a class on witches. The professor knows about ghosts, vampires and dopplegangers.
Elena worries she's a ripper. Damon helps her pick someone, the blond pretty girl who's self-absorbed and will be easy to separate from the pack.
Back at his house, Klaus has Connor chained up on a rack. Stefan joins them, wanting to know about the Five.Klaus explains: the Brotherhood of the Five was a group of highly skilled vampire hunters from the 12th Century BC.
Flash back to Italy, 1114Klaus and Elijah see one of the five in a town square lecturing about vampires and opening a box to reveal one who promptly bursts into flames from the sunlight. Klaus is unconcerned, Rebekah flirts with one.
Connor is the first he's seen since then. Rebekah fell in love with one of them and get lots of information on him. Klaus agrees to give Stefan answers if he gets Rebekah not to be mad at him anymore."Trust me when I say that hunter in there is the answer to all your prayers," Klaus says.
At the Grill, Matt finds April in a booth waiting for Rebekah. He tells Rebekah he's keeping the truck. April oogles Matt, but Rebekah calls dibs.
Stefan joins the women and compels April to forget the conversation he's about to have."Klaus wants me to fake peace with you so you'll talk about the Five," Stefan says.She says he'll just betray Stefan, so Stefan offers to smooth things over with Matt and give her a clean slate.
On campus, Elena approaches the blond Damon picked out. Elena compels her not to scream and is about to bite down when she sees a picture of the girl's little sister on her cell phone and loses her nerve.Damon is annoyed until Bonnie gives them a flyer for a Halloween frat party tonight.
Rebekah joins Klaus and Stefan for dinner.She wants an apology from him for breaking her neck, which he did after she wrecked his Elena blood. He apologizes.
Flash back to 1114Alexander the hunter dines with Rebeka, Elijah and Klaus, not suspecting anything because it was daylight and they were protected by their rings."We are but five men bound by fire and the last breath of a dying witch to a single cause: the destruction of all vampires," Alexander says.Alexander says they have a weapon that no vampire can survive.
PresentKlaus explains the unseen tattoo is a map to the weapon. He has Jeremy brought in. Stefan tries to leap to his aid, but Klaus removes Jeremy's ring.
On campus, Damon shows up as Jack the Ripper with Elena and Bonnie as his victims. Professor Shane is there and Bonnie goes to talk to him.
Elena watches a frat guy roofies a girl and she has her target. She takes him into the other room and compels him, then chomps down. Damon has to remind her to pull back, but she feels good."I want more," she whispers in his ear.
Jeremy sketches Connor's tattoo. Connor explains meeting a guy years ago who was a hunter and had the tattoo. He lost track of him and then one day the tattoo showed up on him, first in pieces and then more with each vampire he killed.
1114 ADRebekah breaks off making out with Alexander the hunter to ask about his tattoo. He says the sword is the key to reading it.She agrees to leave town and follow the map with him when he goes. He tells her about a special dagger he has for "a special kind of vampire." He goes back to kissing her, then stabs her with it.
In the present, Klaus explains at the Brotherhood came after all of them in their sleep that night.
1114 ADRebekah comes back to life to see Klaus covered in blood and Alexander skewered on the wall.
PresentRebekah explains what Alexander told her the weapon was to convince her to leave town: He said there was a cure. Stefan doesn't believe them.Klaus explains that when he killed the Brotherhood that night, the tattoos disappeared so they couldn't look for the cure.
Rebekah wants nothing to do with it and concludes Klaus only wants the cure for Elena to make hybrids. He brought Stefan in because he knew he'd want to save her, too. Klaus needs Stefan to get information on the sword to decipher the map from Rebekah.
On campus, Professor Shane shows Bonnie some of the things he has of her grandmother's. He asks if she practices.She tells him she doesn't any more because she lost control and there were consequences.He tells her there are other ways to practice.
At the party, Damon and Elena dance with unsuspecting college kids, comp down and don't even wipe off the blood from their faces because it's Halloween.Bonnie comes back to the party and her look of judgment snaps Elena out of her blood bliss.
Klaus checks on Jeremy's drawing of the tattoo. He knows it's incomplete, so Jeremy mentions what Connor said about it spreading with every vampire he kills.
Klaus leaves one of his hybrids to guard Connor.Connor chomps on the kid's ear, biting out his ear barbell. Now he has something to pick his locks with.
Back on campus, Elena feels bad for going through everything with Damon instead of Stefan. Damon says that what makes him different from Stefan the ripper is that he can revel in feeding on people and make it fun, as it should be for vampires.
Rebekah comes over to Stefan's after he calls. She admits she wanted the cure back then. Stefan wants it for Elena to save her before she kills someone and turns off her humanity. He worries she'd never get it back.
Rebekah envies the love they have for each other. Alexander promised to marry her, they even picked out a church."I know you want my help Stefan, but I just can't do anything that lets my brother get what he wants," she says.
He answers her question, if he could have children with Elena and grow old with her, he'd take the cure.Rebekah says that even after everything, she buried Alexander in the place where they were to be married.
After she says it, she realizes what she's said. It's what Stefan wanted to know. She buried him with his sword.Klaus joins them, carrying a dagger that he dips in something. She tells him she'd rather live her life than his, the man who no one loves.
Stefan says he's sorry, but clearly isn't going to stop Klaus.Klaus stabs his sister.
Klaus hurries to catch a plane to get the sword. He tells Stefan to put Rebekah's body somewhere no one will ever find it and compel Jeremy to forget everything. He gives Stefan Jeremy's ring back.Klaus reminds him no one, not even Elena and Damon, can know about the cure.
"If this gets out it could mean all our deaths," Klaus says."It's just you and me in this, Stefan. Some secrets are stronger than family."
Damon brings Elena home, chastened. She tells him she believes his version of what a vampire should be, but it scares her."You don't want to be like me," Damon says.
Stefan opens Elena's front door, explaining he had a few things to talk to Jeremy about. He says he has no news on Connor.
Elena tells him she learned out to feed but it was awful because she caught up in it. "I can't live like this. I'm feeling things that I don't want to feel. I'm becoming someone that I don't want to be. I don't think I'm going to survive this," she says."Yes you will, I promise. You just have to hold on," Stefan says.
Nate the hybrid calls for reinforcements for Connor. But as soon as he gets off the phone, Connor is free and he's choking him out with a barbed chain. He squeezes Nate's head clean off and his tattoo spreads into a pentagram.Cut back to campus, where the same symbol hangs on Shane's wall.
Connor walks in to his office."Shouldn't you be in Mystic Falls killing vampires?" Shane asks."Why the hell did you send me there?" Connor asks.
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