Bonnie (Kat Graham) finds a Christmas tree back in 1994 cos she hates being on her own, as we have various flashbacks interspersed in this ep. At the Mystic Falls tree decorating ceremony of way back when, Elena (Nina Dobrev) tells Bonnie she'll ask her parents if she can stay at her house and then they can be together with Caroline (Candace Accola). Caroline's mother brings Christmas to her dorm, or attempts to, as she can't get to Mystic Falls and gets Stefan (Paul Wesley) to help. Which Caroline doesn't like. The sheriff (Marguerite MacIntyre) later returns and passes out. Caroline is unaware that her mother has a brain tumour, but Stefan knew and she didn't tell Caroline yet. Elena compels the doctor to find out how serious it is, but it appears they can't operate. Caroline doesn't want Stefan around cos he's been a crappy friend, but he wants to be the one to break the news to her. Caroline thinks she can give her vampire blood, but Stefan tells her if they could cure cancer, then they would've heard about it by now.
Damon (Ian Somerhalder) tells Alaric (Matt Davis) and Elena that they need to kill Kai (Chris wood) to ensure he can't merge with Jo (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) and Tyler (Michael Trevino) tells Liv (penelope Mitchell) and Luke (Chris Brochu) the opposite. That if Kai can merge with Jo, then they won't have to and thus the coven will continue, but so will their lives. But Luke tells him this'll make Kai even stronger and there'll be no stopping him coming after them and other innocent people. Damon says that he has the knife but when he opens up the painting where he hid it, it's not there. But back in 1994, didn't Kai find the knife when he took Bonnie to his house. Kai has himself and a girl brought in as Vics of a car accident and uses this as a way to kidnap Jo. Also using Liv and Luke to help him out. He needs them to locate the knife that Jo hid her magic in.
Jo refuses to help him and get her magic back, cos she says it's her choice to have it removed and her choice to bring it back, but she forgot that he'd use the twins against her by threatening them. Luke leaves cos he can't watch it anymore, as Kai stabs Jo, but Liv is persistent. She tells Jo that she's been through so much and she became a doctor, so what makes her think she's weak and won't be able to defeat Kai. Jo takes her magic back and breaks her chains. Alaric tells the others that Jo is missing and Damon gets Luke to tell him where she is. Damon apologizes to Alaric for what he did and that's all he's got to say. Jo tells them not to kill Kai cos she can defeat him, but she needs to regain her strength. So wouldn't it have been easier if they somehow managed to keep him knocked out, instead of leaving him just in chains.
Kai's drawn a line in the ground where the border starts and ends and Damon had to tell him about the Travellers and how if he ends up in hell he can ask them how they used a spell to remove magic from Mystic Falls. Giving him an idea of how he can take that magic and reverse the spell, which was just convenient, since it was more like an unexpected Christmas present for the town by allowing them to return home.
Not so good news for Matt (Zach Roerig) and Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) as they try to lure Enzo (Michael Mularkey) so they can kill him. But when Matt gets him there, he tells him he doesn't want to kill him, but wants to know what his secret is and why he's after Stefan. They manage to subdue him but Matt wants him alive so he can do to him what he did to Trip. Telling Jeremy they've overlooked the fact that vampires are killers, even if they have friends who are vampires. Jeremy telling him that his hatred will catch up to him and not so long ago, he wanted to kill Elena too, cos he was supernaturally drawn to being a hunter. As Matt drives to the Mystic Falls border, nothing happens to Enzo since Kai broke the spell. Thus the tables are turned and Matt is now his captive. He tells Matt that he hates Stefan cos he has everything that he wants, family, a friend he doesn't deserve.
Bonnie lights the tree and the others have the flashback of the tree ceremony and Caroline's mother making a speech about how everyone here has a friend they can turn to. Caroline got a snow globe from Stefan and a Mystic Falls one at that. As she gives Bonnie a bracelet. Jeremy goes to the Mystic Falls tree, as Bonnie burns her tree. Jeremy misses her. Thought something would've happened there, you know, it being Christmas, but that was wishful thinking.
As Damon returns home, Stefan brings his car back all shiny and new. He fixed it for him whilst he was gone four months. Damon invites Elena over since she has news for him about the sheriff. When she rings the bell and Damon answers the door, but he can't see her there, even though she can. Kai shows up telling Elena he's cast a cloaking spell. This is getting boring now. Okay the show need a villain, but a psychopathic witch is too much. As once again their plans go up in smoke, like Bonnie's tree. Co sit seems no one's powerful enough to defeat him and so the story just goes on and on...
This is the ep we should've left it on last year at Christmas, but do we ever get anything on time, here, that'd be asking too much. So Luke leaves cos he doesn't want to be in the firing line again. But that was a waste having him on the show to begin with, if they're just going to let him leave like that. Not to mention how Liv seems out of place without him around after they've been through so much together. Elena getting clobbered by Kai, ha, what she didn't see that coming either!! Living in her dream world more than usual.
This has been likened to the Joyce storyline from Buffy, as far as Caroline's mother is concerned. But even if they can't use their vampire blood to cure her, they can turn her into a vampire, no? Then that'll be like the Stefan/Elena/Damon dilemma all over again. Stefan wanting her to stay human, Damon wanting to turn her, since it's meant to be her choice.
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