Stefan: "Mystic falls. I was born here. This is my home."
Damon: "And mine."
Elena: "And mine."
Stefan: "For centuries supernatural creatures have lived among us."
Caroline: "There are vampires, werewolves, doppelgangers."
Bonnie: "Witches."
Klaus: "And even hybrids."
Bonnie: "There are those who protect them."
Jeremy: "And those who want them dead."
Elena: "They're our friends."
Klaus: "Our enemies."
Elena: "The ones we love."
Klaus: "And the ones we've lost."
Elena: "And then there is me. I'm human. At least I was."
Elena (Nina Dobrov) is pulled out from the accident and wakes to ask if Matt is alive. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) suggests she should ask Stefan (Paul Wesley) "the hero." Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) finds out at the hospital that Meredith (Torrey DeVitto) used vampire blood to heal Elena. Stefan thinks Bonnie (Kat Graham) could still help. Damon however thinks Elena should feed and complete the transition, "feed or die." Elena strongly rejects this, she can't "be a vampire."
Damon: "your choice Elena, as always." Meaning she'll always choose Stefan over him and she'll always get her her own way. Stefan regrets the choice he made to save Matt (Zach Roerig) and now he regrets it and needs to fix it.
Jeremy needs his sister and not another vampire. Bonnie feels the witches may be able to help like they helped him. Elena experiences heightened emotions of going through the motions of becoming a vampire. The same emotions she asked Stefan about in season 3?? when they spoke of her becoming a vampire, she decided she wanted to grow up an live and get past her birthday. In the same way Caroline (Candace Accola) didn't have a choice when she became a vampire too. Now she'll always be 18 and Elena won't grow older either. Klaus (Joseph Morgan) is still in Tyler's (Michael Trevino) body and Bonnie can't put him back into his own dessicated body.
Pastor Young (Michael Reilly Burke) arrives at the hospital to find blood is missing. Alaric told him everything. Matt feels guilty about Elena and Caroline is a fugitive and reminds him of this. Carol Lockwood (Susan Walters) is arrested and the sheriff (Marguerite MacIntyre) no longer has a badge, even when she pleads that Young doesn't know what he's getting into. Young has all the vervain. Elena can't eat food and is sick at the sight of it, she craves blood. Stefan made the right decision cos if he saved her then Matt would be dead. Adding they will "cross that bridge when they come to it." Inadvertently using that phrase of course. Well she's already been over that bridge. She laughs uncontrollably and then cries.
Elena recalls Damon giving her back her necklace and she recalls everything. He tells her something once: that he loves her, he's not selfish with her but she can't do this. Damon doesn't deserve her but Stefan does. He compels her to forget.
Damon sneaks up on Rebekah (Claire Holt) and tells him he knows "better than to sneak up on a lady."
Damon: "...can you see one?" Damon tries to stake her. Klaus rescues Caroline from the van and Caroline thinks Tyler really is alive, which he is, but it ain't him. He leaves Rebekah behind. Damon asks why Matt got to live. Young tells Elena about her parents coming up with this plan of holding them here and Caroline finally realizes it's not Tyler after kissing him and contemplating much more in her undies!
Bonnie tells Jeremy Elena's spirit still exits on both sides, if she can stop her heart then she can find Elena and bring her back. Bonnie has new sources of power. Matt thinks they could be at the cattle ranch.
Bonnie dies after the spell is complete and joins Elena in her cell. Grams (Jasmine Guy) breaks the connection. Bonnie must keep away from "the sword of darkness." The magic she is using is too dark and the spirits will make her suffer. Stefan is shot in his cell.
Klaus begins to rip out Tyler's heart form his body unless Bonnie helps him. Stefan regrets Elena not feeding in the morning and she tells him it's cos he still had hope. She was returning for Stefan and that's why she was on the bridge: she chose him. Damon bites Matt when they arrive at the ranch as they need bait. He wants to exchange him for Stefan and Elena.
Bonnie can't stop the magic and she can't let her go, she made her choice and Grams is being punished. Elena feeds on the guard after Stefan knocks him out. Damon tries to kill Matt and Elena stops him as a vampire. Stefan saved Matt at the bridge but he wasn't his first choice, so he must "get to live with that." Elena put her life before him.
Elena recalled Damon's compulsion, that Damon met Elena first. He should have saved Elena on the bridge, not Matt. Damon wanted her to have a life, to grow up and yes he was being selfish (but that's just Damon so there's nothing new in that.)
Klaus wants to move on and Rebekah takes his blood bags, squeezing the blood out. She loves him through everything and Klaus says he doesn't care, she means nothing.
Stefan and Elena atop of a roof, the counsel knows who they are and so everything's changed. Stefan comments Damon will have a revenge plan for that. She will crave blood and feel pain. She will get to live and be with Stefan forever. Bonnie made a daylight ring for her. As Stefan says they'll take it "one day at a time." Young tells everyone of the vampires escaping and turns on the gas, blowing everyone up. They will reunite in eternity. Is this Damon's revenge plan, compelling him to do that, the witches, Bonnie's black magic, or just Pastor Young.
Perhaps this episode should have been entitled Elena's Choice(s). Her choosing Stefan was nothing new, knew that was bound to happen since last season, which is good, cos Damon and Elena as a couple just wouldn't have worked. They are just completely different. Damon will always be Damon and won't get past who he is, it's always about his need for revenge and the need to always bring out the worst in people, and to hurt them cos he gets hurt. Retribution, retaliation and the need to cause misery. Then again he wasn't being selfish when he compelled her to choose Stefan. Thinking she wouldn't recall this, cos he had no idea she would turn into a vampire. On the other hand Damon was being selfish when he said what he did at the ranch.
Didn't know if this was a good path to go down, specially since that talk Stefan and Elena had about her choices and Elena wanting to live in 3.20 The Last Day when Damon tried to turn her into a vampire to save her life. Which is exactly what happened now anyway. Yet becoming one will bring her more closer to Stefan, they'll never be apart for one thing, not in the immediate future anyway. Also she will always retain her humanity.
Klaus as Tyler pulled in some laughs, especially the call from his mother, "that incessant woman" and having to sound like Tyler when talking with her. Then trying to get one over on Caroline in the woods. Elena feeling for fangs practically every minute.
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