Damon (Ian Somerhalder) returns home and in a pang of desperation tries to kill himself by burning in direct sunlight and is saved by Stefan (Paul Wesley) who then locks him in the cellar to prevent anymore foolishness on his part. Gone With the Wind (1939) is being screened, only fitting really seeing as the show is filmed on location in Georgia and it provides a backdrop to Damon's flashes. Stefan asks Bonnie (Katerina Graham) to contact Emily (Bianca Lawson) again as the witch may be able to help with a cure. Emily possesses Bonnie and Stefan needs a spell to heal a werewolf bite. Emily refuses to help Damon, saying it's his time to die. Ah, no, can't kill off a lead like that. Bonnie is abusing her power as she tells Stefan, but she gave a name, Klaus (Joseph Morgan)
Carol Lockwood (Susan Walters) demands an update on the vampire situation from Sheriff Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) who replies she's handling it. Can't be that easy to handle, nor can it be easy handling vampires or living in a town where everyone knows about the bloodsuckers but where none of the other species of warlocks, werewolves etc. seem to pose as much trouble. Stefan tells Elena (Nina Dobrev) how Damon was bitten trying to help Tyler (Michael Trevino) and she feels sad since she turned Damon away when he tried to apologize to her. Probably another reason why he wanted to end it all.
Stefan tells her about Klaus but she fears he will kill Stefan. Stefan feels he owes his brother since he was the one who turned him into a vampire to begin with. That was Damon's own choice though wasn't it, for the love of a girl, Katherine, who didn't really want him. Well she didn't cos she couldn't have wanted both Damon and Stefan, like she was playing one brother off against the other. Some women are like that. He wants Elena to go to Damon and convince him there's still hope.
Damon has a flash to the past as he spies on Katherine who berates him for spying on a Southern belle (ahem) whilst she invites him in anyway cos her corset is knotted, a bit like her. Sorry but I don't like Katherine, a selfish vamp if ever there was one. She's no Scarlett O'Hara. Damon rues how he made the wrong choice and went for her when Stefan warned him, Katherine was wrong to want them both. Elena tells him Katherine was playing them and all he had to do was walk away but he didn't. As he told Katherine he could "chase her forever."
Katherine tells Stefan that Klaus was meant to be dead by now and she's been waiting two days to be free of his compulsions. Klaus returns saying he has an obligation to his brother, Elijah (Daniel Gillies) who wants to be reunited with his family, which is exactly what he does by stabbing him and then stabs Stefan too. Katherine blabs he's trying to help Damon but not in the same way as Klaus helped his brother. Stefan needs a cure and will do anything. Wonder if he thought anything would mean pandering to Klaus and his demand for Stefan to become bad. Well seeing as he was meant to be the good one. Klaus thinks Stefan is "useless now."
Damon tells Alaric (Matt Davis) his subconscious haunts him, shouldn't it be more than just his subconscious, since it just seems to defer to Katherine all the time. Alaric doesn't blame him for Jenna (Sara Canning) who was killed cos of Damon; or blame him for his wife's death. He gives Damon a drink and his ring. Damon is "trying to right the wrongs of the past." He pleads for his death and to be killed. Damon needs blood and the Sheriff comes for Damon who gets the chance to escape. Alaric calls Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) to find Elena and Caroline (Candice Accola) hears this with her enhanced hearing.
Klaus had heard of a vampire who was on and off the wagon and when he was off, he was a "true ripper." Stefan hasn't been that way in ages. But Klaus only has use for him like he was back then. He bites Katherine on her wrist, then makes her swallow his blood, showing that Klaus's blood is the cure. Damon sees Katherine yet again. So much for wanting to right the wrongs of the past. Katherine appears to be the instigator of all these wrongs since that's where his subconscious is leading and somehow I don't think it's out of love for her.
Elena attempts to convince the Sheriff she's wrong about them and that Damon's not well. A call comes in of Damon's whereabouts and when the Sheriff arrives she's all gung ho and trigger happy and fires at him, who vanishes, leaving Jeremy as the brunt of her bullets. Jeremy has his ring, but Bonnie says he's human and it won't work on him. Caroline tries to get him to drink her blood. Meanwhile Klaus is having a blood fest of his own by getting Stefan to drink bags and bags of blood in return for the cure. Someone's raided the blood banks. He finally gives Katherine the cure to take to Damon but Stefan is adamant she won't do that. Klaus hypnotizes her to take it, which Stefan doesn't know, but then she told him she was still under Klaus's compulsion.
Bonnie tries to conjure a spell for healing Jeremy and bringing him back form the dead. There will be consequences for helping Jeremy, is that why he's visited by the ghosts of Vicky and Ann at the end. She begs for help and confesses she loves Jeremy who returns from the dead. Lots of that going around lately. Damon has yet another flashback to Katherine in the woods and he wants her blood. She taunts him by saying she' won't give it, he'll have to take it. Knowing too well that's exactly what he'll do. He chooses Katherine and she must promise not to tell Stefan.
Elena finds Damon and he tries to feed off her. Where was everyone when the movie was still playing? The place seemed to be abandoned. Caroline explains she told her mother about her, but then made her forget as she was afraid of what she would do, but she's not scared now and is still her daughter. Jeremy searches 'back from the dead' on the Net and tells Bonnie he doesn't feel normal. He can thank her tomorrow and the day after she tells him. Alaric wants to stay the night and he also repeats what Bonnie told him about thanking him tomorrow.
Damon won't hurt Elena and he blamed Stefan for who he is but it was his own choice, "I made the wrong choice" and he's sorry. Just like Klaus is Stefan's choice now put of necessity. Stefan can live here or embrace what he is and leave with Klaus. Damon believes he deserves to die but if he had made a different choice he wouldn't have met Elena. Elena forgives him and he knows she loves Stefan, but Damon loves her and she kisses him. What was that for, out of pity, a kiss before dying or did she really want to kiss him. Many would have opted for the latter choice too, ha. He thanks her, stating she should have met him in 1864 ( a very good year, ha) as she would have liked him then. Elena likes him now and Katherine brings the cure. Katherine owed him. She tells Elena that Stefan "gave himself" to Klaus to help his brother and Elena has Damon for company. Finally telling her "it's okay to love them both. I did." Elena messages Stefan about Damon being okay.
Stefan tells him Katherine won't return and he knows about her 'vervain.' Klaus will tell Stefan what he wants eventually. He feeds off a woman and wants Stefan to honour their agreement. A "ripper enjoys the hunt." Which is what Stefan has turned into now. Suppose he's bad now cos you can't have two good vampires at the same time. Thought after the centuries of trouble they've been through, Stefan would have been much stronger than that but he just appears to give in without a fight and is turned once again. Even when he knows Damon is cured. Didn't think he'd let Klaus win over him like that. Jeremy at home, is haunted by the ghosts of Vicki and Ann.
I know I'm a bit of a recent convert to the show, cos of time and getting the seasons late over here, but I did always intend to watch this from the start. Got a lot to catch up on, having watched episodes now and then. Lots of character development here as Stefan reverts back to embracing his dark, evil side once more and all for the love of his brother and sacrifice of his love for Elena. Stefan was quite a calm character considering his past and that he is a vampire after all - now we'll get to see him change in season 3 and to wreak havoc, but will he actually leave Mystic Falls.
Does Damon's love for Elena have anything to do with her resemblance to Katherine, cos you have to wonder if he's not still infatuated by her looks more than her personality. How can he just accept she loves Stefan and leave it at that since he's got so much passion and love inside. Though quite frankly wouldn't want to see Damon with anyone really, ha. We would've liked Damon back in 1864 and now too. Damon in the cellar, er cell, was a hark back to season 1 when he locked Stefan there when he was going through the motions of suicide. Elena holding and comforting Damon (come on she was enjoying herself!) was the same as he did for Rose.
Don't want Damon becoming all good though since that's not really in his nature and may prove a little tedious to watch. He's had his suicidal tendencies and his brush with death, so hopefully it'll be back to 'normal' for him and his snide side too. Liked the Gone With the Wind backdrop about fiery tempers, lost love, unrequited love, redemption for Scarlett, all fitting themes for this finale. Plus it's one of my fave movies being a huge fan of Vivien Leigh. The title, As I Lay Dying, alludes to a William Faulkner novel. Which was based on the title of Book XI of Homer's The Odyssey, where Agamemnon utters to Odysseus: "As I lay dying the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades." Now could Elena be said woman with dog's eyes.
Hey this is one show which would make a great cross-over episode with Supernatural. That'd be great to watch, Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Damon, the possibilities of these hotties getting together in one show are endless!
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