Caroline (Candace Accola) mentions Elena (Nina Dobrev) being sired to Damon (Ian Somerhalder) again and that she has to make him happy. Stefan (Paul Wesley) thinks the bond may not affect her the same way, naive thinking on his part but Caroline thinks it is affecting her and Stefan doesn't want her to tell anyone else. Caroline will talk to Tyler (Michael Trevino). All the while Elena and Damon engage in yet more bedroom antics together. Elena wants to tell Stefan and Damon thinks she should leave it for a day. Stefan tells Damon about the sire bond who calls it "pathetic nonsense." He got her to a good place about being a vampire. Stefan wants him to tell her to drink from a bloodbag and if it doesn't work he'll apologize. Damon: "apology better be epic." Caroline's word from last episode when she said Elena and Stefan are "epic" together.
Tyler says Adrian (Mica Parker) needs to endure more torture to break Klaus's bond but Kim (Alyssa Dias) won't let him continue. Shane (David Alpay) has taught Bonnie (Kat Graham) small spells. Damon brings Elena a bloodbag and she drinks it, finally tasting of blood to her, begging the observation of why if she had never drunk blood before then of course the blood will taste like "garbage" to her, as she put it. But she has a real sense of what blood tastes like now.
Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) says they will break Adrian and then Shane will have his 12 hybrids he needs. He has the info she wants on her biological parents but he wants the 12th hybrid first or else he'll take Tyler. Caroline finds there's no vampire equivalent of breaking the vampire sire bond. Damon recalls New Orleans 1942 and they were there.
New Orleans 1942. Charlotte (Madeline Zima) was sired to Damon and she kills a sailor cos Damon told her to "show no mercy. and she didn't. Valerie, a witch helped him break the sire bond. Elena, Caroline and Bonnie have a girls' night in. Stefan was at war and Damon didn't go. Stefan feels it's important for Elena to know how wrong Damon is for her and then apologizes. Stefan also apologizes back in 1942 for being the ripper and hope they can be friends gain. Lexi (Arielle Kebbel) tells him not to pick a fight or judge.
Stefan is going to Egypt as an ambulance driver. Damon can handle war and wants to spend time with his brother. Lexi tells Damon he's not going. Stefan needs balance and to see human blood and suffering. Charlotte brings in another Vic and Stefan loses it when he sees the blood on his hands. Damon left Charlotte at Bourbon and Du Main, telling her to count every break and then he left.
Hayley thinks Kim is challenging Tyler's position as the Alpha of the pack. Stefan doesn't believe Damon will do the right thing, only what's right for Damon. Damon replies he wants to "restore her factory settings." Damon calling him a dick, now he's at it. As if it wasn't enough to hear that in Supernatural! Ha.
Caroline says they don't hang out in the bathtub cos of cooties. Damon brings his skanks in there which Elena takes offence to, what Damon's skanks or that Caroline has labelled Elena one too. They both fight over Damon and Elena lets slip she's slept with him (and not once either.)
Damon is looking for a witch in Nandi's (Adina Porter) store. Valerie (Takara Clark) had a Grimoire with a spell. He sacrificed 12 human souls. She says the stuff was lost during Katrina. Caroline and Bonnie are only watching out for Elena and Caroline blabs Elena is sired to Damon.
Damon says he killed them all back in 1942, his justification, how does Lexi know they didn't deserve it. He'd do it again. Tyler told her "the bond affects how you act, not how you feel." Damon returns to the store and knows she's Valerie's daughter, a practising witch. She uses her magic on Damon. Stefan needs her help. Valerie called on darkness, she wanted power and Damon provided it for her with the 12 souls. A vampire only bonds to a sire if they have feelings for him. He must set her free and let her go, then leave her.
Kim tortures Caroline and Elena takes her place as Klaus is fixated on her. Tyler won't hurt her since he's not Klaus. Kim submits as do the others. Damon wants to get on with his life and so should Charlotte, she needs to forget him and find someone else. Stefan tells Damon it's hard to do the right thing as he's far from selfless, it's not one of his character traits. Damon responds one day Stefan will realize he doesn't know him as well as he thinks. Damon wears a uniform in 1942 and is ready to ship out with Stefan but Lexi stops him. Serving in war is penance for Stefan and Damon has no conscience, Stefan will wonder why. Damon needs Stefan, but he will destroy him. She made him not go and Stefan says he didn't know.
He's upset at Damon loving Elena. Stefan knows it will be Elena's choice if she doesn't feel the same way for Stefan. Caroline apologizes to Elena and wants to tell Stefan about Damon herself. Bonnie mentions the little spell she did is called "expression" at least the magic is and Shane is helping her with magic. Well that puts Shane firmly in place of the dark side, since that's the 12 souls he needs to sacrifice, just as Valerie did back then and Damon provided them for her, as Hayley is doing here. Of course we knew he was involved in dark magic.
Shane tells Hayley her parents are dead but it doesn't mean she can't see them again. "We are the beginning."
Stefan feels sorry for Damon since he loves Elena. Damon isn't as bad as he used ot be. Caroline wonders how he can trust Damon. He loves Elena as much as Stefan and he can't be selfish with her anymore. Damon tells her everything's changed; she wants him to know the time she's been in love with Damon is for real and she's happy. Damon has to do this, he's not a good guy and doesn't do the right thing but he must do the right thing for her. Elena makes him touch her heart and she touches his face asking if this feels real? So will Damon do the right thing and tell her to move on, cos Elena just keeps stopping him. She was quite selfish here too, was she afraid if he told her to leave that she'd actually do it and walk away from him.
Lots of real emotions from Damon in this episode, even if it was mostly for Elena. He did however want to be with Stefan back in 1942 and Lexi made him see he wasn't any good for him, in the same way Damon must show Elena, but that didn't happen this time round, wonder if it will next ep. Damon sacrificed those 12 souls for nothing and would do it again in a heartbeat, this time for Elena and Stefan can't believe he did, but why so shocked when he knows what Damon was like. Only the 12 souls had nothing to do with the sire bond and now Shane wants to do the same. Pastor Young sacrificed himself and 11 other council members earlier on, presumably they were all innocent and now he wants 12 hybrids.
Elena bringing up Caroline's attraction towards Damon when under compulsion and it appears we must suffer the Damon/Elena relationship for the foreseeable future, even if many of us don't want it. Well he didn't come out and say he wants to get on with his life and Elena should leave him so she can return to him of her own free will. It's all about free will in this show which is demonstrated by Tyler breaking the hybrid bond Klaus has over them and yet Hayley is doing it for the wrong reasons, but we knew she couldn't be trusted ages ago.
The other part is how this Tyler/Hayley/Klaus sire bond is being dragged out and I don't find that interesting at all. Caroline and Tyler don't spend time together and she's the sounding board for Stefan these days and his woes with Elena, but even their love triangle is boring, jarring, whatever you want to call it. It has been dragging on since a few seasons now and the characters just get pushed in one direction or another. Do the Salvatore's have to fall for every girl each brother desires? That makes sense? Why not decide once and for all who will get Elena, it was the same thing with Katherine.
Let's focus more on the dark side of the show and less on the ever-lasting love triangle. Also obviously Damon and Stefan missed how Charlotte was still sired when he left her counting bricks on the walls. Thus the spell didn't work, or was used for other purposes. Wasn't Damon obsessed with Katherine due to her having a sire bond over him and when she rejected him she set him free.
The title perhaps a reference to Casablanca and the "we'll always have Paris" line between Elsa and Rick. The film was also filmed in 1942 and was set during the Second World War. One of my faves. Damon's fave drink being bourbon.
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