Damon (Ian Somerhalder) realizes what he's done and feeds Matt *Zach Roerig) and Bonnie (Kat Graham) his blood before Caroline (Candace King) injects him. He wakes up chained and knew this would happen. Stefan (Paul Wesley) tells him no one blames him for what he did, he thought he was still in the stone. But he's been out of it for more than just a weekend and in that time the town has itself gone to hell, literally or however you want to put it. Damon wants to get out of his chains but Stefan won't let him out until he shows he can behave himself. Which of course was a big mistake. Especially when he begins to hallucinate and sees Henry (Evan Gamble). Who's here to remind him that he won't be free of Henry or what he's seeing until he finds his true self.
Stefan tells him they got him out first and he was also seeing Damon, so he didn't even notice when Julian (Todd Lasance) took over the town and made it his own. They head to the seedy bar, well the Grill, where Julian tells them it wasn't part of their deal but it was Lily's home and now he's making it his own. Damon wants at him, but of course he can't. He tells Stefan he got out cos he lied about how he really felt about Lily and that was his closure. But of course it wasn't. Stefan kept seeing Damon and kept trying to kill him.
He tells Caroline that Damon is his downfall, the 'hellstone' is trying to tell him that to be free he needs to let Damon go and get away from him. Also telling her about the quarry where Damon would drag him down whilst Stefan was trying to save him. So Stefan realized the only way to be out, was if let him go and let him drown. Always that quarry again. Seems that never goes away. As for Stefan telling Caroline about setting Damon alight just so he could be free of him and Caroline stopping him, that just seems like a reverse of what Julian was going to do to Stefan in Damon's hell reality. Kind of a comeuppance for Stefan burning, but it wasn't real. So Damon saying he smelt the smell on himself was the same smell he sniffed at the diner in last week's episode. Maybe it just lingered on, you know how smells are reminders. Had to use sniff otherwise too many smells would get in the way, ha!
Then again after he torches Elena's coffin, that was another reminder of that smell and how eager he was to set Henry alight so he'd vanish! Damon, wasn't thinking though, I mean why or rather how could he be so out of it still, especially what he did when he ripped the heart out of Julian's man. And why did Tyler (Michael Trevino) even bother taking him there. So what happened to Tyler? We know he's still around cos we've seen him Three Years From Now. Won't he know about Elena, will he not see the coffin or will he believe Damon just moved her. You see that's exactly the reason why Damon didn't want to know where she was, cos he can't help himself, or control himself. Even if Damon threatened to commit mass murder the baby shower, there would've been others there who could've stopped him. Bonnie was there and Caroline and Stefan eventually wound up there.
Has Elena finally gone then. The other thing is after they've been through the hell of the phoenix stone, they haven't learnt their 'lesson'. At least Damon hasn't, so what's new. He still lies to Stefan and keeps things to himself like not telling him about Elena. On the plus side is she really no more, for those of us fed up of hearing about her. Which means she'll be brought up even more now with Damon's conscience and guilt. Apparently Damon's dark and always will be which is why Elena needed to be destroyed so he could find his true self again and what he really is. As he told Stefan, the light isn't him and he just keeps going back into who he is, like a dark regression. It's like Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) all over again in a 'new' show, you know all this dark business, good, bad, evil and lying to each other, keeping secrets. So much bro-angst!
Guess the title refers to Elena then! ha
Caroline throws a baby shower and invites Tyler, again a mistake on her part and what made Tyler even come to a baby shower, it's not exactly his thing. Matt and Bonnie having previously taken care of Julian's vampires the night before when they were out drag racing, surprised he didn't realize they were gone seeing as he noticed one of them was dead after Damon hallucinated and tore his heart out. Plenty going on with Matt too and it's not just about revenge or wanting Julian and his clan out of his town. And Tyler didn't make it any better when he told him they grew up here but this isn't his home. Matt getting arrested by a policewoman who hauls him in and then finds his stash of weapons. Why were they even searching his vehicle, he was a fellow officer and was arrested for drink driving, not committing some other crime.
Caroline then found out Alaric (Matt Davis) is leaving after the twins are born cos he doesn't want to bring them up here. Guess that's why she also left for New York when we keep getting that three years from now everywhere. She's upset cos she's attached to them obviously, but it's also the right thing for him to do. Bonnie invites Bloody Nora (Scarlett Byrne) to the baby shower and she feels sorry for her but she tries to silence Matt cos he doesn't like her being here, or even her Heretics, so what's new then. Bonnie reminds him and us that she helped bring Stefan back even if she did put him there. Nora tells Bonnie about the huntress, she's part of the stone and once she has your scent, she doesn't leave you alone. After she thinks Bonnie sent her a postcard with an 'X' on it. Bonnie wants to help her, if it means saving her friends.
Three Years From Now
Matt gets Caroline out of the studio where apparently she's supposed to be hiding/kidnapped and tells her to go. He'a working with the huntress and she can't believe it. Well it was inevitable
It may alienate Elena fans that she was burnt, but it's a show where no one remains dead if that's how the story will go and whether Nina Dobrev returned to the show or not, or in a finale, really isn't the point. The point is it's not really for actors to dictate where their storyline will go or not go and that they're willing to return if necessary. She made her decision to leave, no one forced her and fans need to realize that. It's the Cote de Pablo fiasco all over again when she left NCIS. It was her decision to make and she made it. But fans went after the cast and also those behind the show, when it's not their fault and has nothing to do with the choice an actor makes!
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