Stefan (Paul Wesley) calls Klaus (Joseph Morgan) to inform him Mikael's (Sebastian Roche) dead, well he's been "daggered." One hour earlier: They need to get their stories straight so Klaus will believe Stefan. Mikael followed Elena (Nina Dobrev) into the house and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) vervained him. Elena says Klaus will want proof. Mikael adds Klaus will be dead by then, he'll be lured here and killed. Mikael has the stake from the oak tree, a vampire can't dagger an original without dying, so it's up to Elena to kill Mikael. Klaus wants to see Mikael's DB, just as Mikael said he would.
Klaus tells Stefan he can't lie cos of his compulsion and Stefan tells him he saw Mikael die with his own eyes. Rebekah (Claire Holt) is also there and tells Klaus she saw it too. Klaus's coming home for homecoming! Damon thinks that was easy. Elena pulls the dagger out of Mikael. Rebekah tells Mikael nothing he says matters to her. Mikael isn't after her. Klaus killed their mother and she tells him they weren't killers and he turned them, he destroyed their family, not Klaus.
Caroline (Candice Accola) wants Elena and Bonnie (Kat Graham) at their homecoming and Bonnie thinks that's fine for her cos she has a date. Elena wants Bonnie to talk about Jeremy, but Bonnie adds Elena shouldn't be angry at Jeremy. Damon gets ready the wolfsbane grenades and has a secret plan. "Well if I told you, it wouldn't be a secret." Stefan needs a tie for the dance , he has to protect her or Elena will probably get herself killed by the homecoming queen. Stefan is cynical about their plan cos his freedom rests on them, adding their plans fail cos their humanity gets in the way.
Tyler (Michael Trevino) wants a "real bite" and there's plenty of people about to feed on. Caroline doesn't want him hanging with Rebekah. Matt (Zach Roerig) is Rebekah's date and he's drinking vervain so she can't feed on him. Tyler still harping on about Rebekah being hot. Rebekah tells Elena this is her first dance since they were always running. Rebekah warns Mikael can't be trusted, "no one in my family can." Well she just gives herself away there, she can't be trusted to stand by and watch Klaus being killed either. She's spent her whole life loving and hating Klaus and didn't think she'd be the one to help kill him. Oh yeah, probably she'd do a backflip like Elijah to save him cos he'd talk her into it. Elena gives Rebekah her mother's necklace to wear and then stabs her in the back, literally and metaphorically. Lots of that going around this episode.
Damon refers to that as "very Katherine of you." Elena cares too much and Damon says she's not really dead. Damon doesn't trust Mikael or Stefan, so with so many trust issues it's a wonder their plan will work, or will it, judging on past experience. He doesn't want Elena to be a part of any of it and of she trusts Damon then she has nothing to worry about. Tyler brings the party to his place after the school gym is flooded, no surprises for guessing who was behind that. Tyler is doing what Klaus wants: throwing a wake. He's been planning Mikael's funeral for a thousand years and wants to reunite his family now. Stefan doesn't know where Rebekah is . Stefan wants his freedom but he'll only get that when Mikael is dead and the weapon is destroyed.
Damon asks why Mikael feeds on vampires. Reply: bloodlust wasn't Mikael's intention, he feeds on the predators not the innocent, oh so that's why he slaughtered innocents from his village. Damon has a plan which doesn't involve Stefan and Mikael bites him. Damon: "You couldn't just break his neck." Klaus has invited his own friends to the party, a bloodline of werewolves intent on serving their master. Tyler warns Caroline that Klaus knows what they're up to. Caroline denies nothing and even if she did, she wouldn't tell him. Tyler injects her.
Klaus thanks Elena for killing Mikael but this isn't the first time she killed an original, there was Elijah. Klaus says she's always one step ahead of them and just a minute ago, Tyler said he's always two steps ahead. Damon arrives and Tyler used vervain on Caroline. Tyler can't fight his compulsion, he has to protect Klaus. Damon and Tyler fight and Bonnie stops them. Bonnie wasn't supposed to 'witchy' him. Damon was the only one who could get in the house with the stake.
Mikael tells Klaus the hybrids can't kill him. Klaus hasn't changed, he' still a coward hiding behind his 'playthings.' He can still compel them. Mikael threatens to kill Elena, there'll be no more hybrids if she dies. Klaus has no one other than those he forced into loyalty. Mikael stabs Elena yet again, only surprise, surprise, or not, it's actually Katherine. Damon attacks Klaus and Stefan stops Damon, thus allowing Klaus to kill Mikael with the stake and he burns. Klaus gives Stefan his freedom.
Caroline wouldn't have left the party if she knew her friends were there for Klaus. Tyler says he can't be fixed but he's fine with that and he won't turn unless he wants to. The full moon controlled him, yes, but now Klaus controls him, so which is the worst of two evils? Caroline won't turn her back on him now, no, she might get stabbed in the back if she does. Damon was prepared for all of it and Katherine's run away. They had Klaus and it would have been over, they're not getting Stefan back now. Elena suggests they'll just have to let him go then. Katherine calls Damon to say goodbye. She is really willing to give up on Stefan so easily now, well putting aside she's got Damon now.
Stefan tells Katherine that Damon doesn't need to know where it went wrong. Katherine was at the house when Stefan woke up and gave him blood. Klaus told Katherine that if he dies then Damon dies too. Katherine was hoping Stefan would stop Damon. Katherine tells Stefan to "care enough to save Damon's life." So Stefan foiled their plan to save Damon's life, yet again. Katherine wanted to save Stefan and Damon's life and more talk about each other's humanity. She wanted Stefan to get his humanity back cos she liked the old Stefan better. She loves Damon and Stefan. Sometimes she lets her humanity come back, but Stefan doesn't want to. Katherine wants Stefan to get angry. Stefan calls Klaus to thank him for his freedom, Klaus took everything from Stefan and he tells Klaus "revenge never gets old." Klaus will never see his family again. Stefan: Klaus was always ahead of everyone for a thousand tears, "Was he prepared for this?"
Another episode with lots of twists which weren't that difficult to follow, after three seasons, that's come to be expected and we'd want nothing else from this show. Though Katherine turns up out of nowhere to play Elena again, but no mention of where she's been hiding, especially since Klaus hadn't even returned to town yet and neither had Mikael. The only thing on Caroline's mind was Tyler being able to throw a better party than her planned homecoming - oh and before I forget, Rebekah not being able to attend her first homecoming was funny, no it was.
Don't have any sympathy for Rebekah. Kind of poetic justice for her with everything she and Klaus have done over the centuries, she doesn't really deserve to go. If push comes to shove; or backstabbing; don't think she'd have gone through Klaus being killed and especially not by Mikael. He may be their father, but he's her brother and they've been there for each other through it all. Besides it was obvious when she told Mikael she blames him for what they are: killers and vampires. Although she doesn't hold the same feelings for dear mama, whose necklace she was willing to wear. Mother bears some responsibility for them being who they are as well and for Klaus being part werewolf.
So where was I - ah the party. Tyler only made it a better do than Caroline cos of Klaus and Tyler's under his compulsion so Caroline really didn't have anything to worry about, aside from not being kept in the loop about what her friends had planned. Tyler was grateful for being sired by Klaus as he no longer has to change during a full moon, into a werewolf that is, and it's his choice whether he turns or not. Caroline referring to Rebekah as an "evil blood slut" was also hilarious.
It seemed like an interesting and foolproof plan; Get Mikael to kill Klaus, get Stefan back, but nothing's that simple on this show, as Damon said, that was too easy when they lured Klaus back. Being left to Stefan to spell it out again: their plans never work and this was no exception. Pity no one can get that into their heads. Yet Stefan went along since he wanted his freedom from Klaus and as he told Damon last time - it was so he can leave Mystic Falls. Funny it was Katherine who talked about Stefan's humanity at the end; and her own, how she uses it sometimes. But more so ironically, it was Katherine who instilled the thought of revenge into Stefan. Probably having an ulterior motive in Stefan being the one to torment Klaus and exacting revenge on him for her. Well she was after Klaus to be killed for five hundred years, she wasn't just going to let him get away.
Also mentioned again that it was Elena who killed Elijah, an original vampire, as she had to kill Mikael this episode in order for him to appear dead to Klaus. A bit far fetched since he was brought back anyway, only for Klaus to kill him too, just as he killed their mother. Mikael wasn't much of a vampire hunter when it came down to his own family. He also didn't want Rebekah dead after all she's done with Klaus, why let her off, as I said last episode, he wasn't too overly concerned about her. Think the writers were saving Katherine as a bit of a secret weapon and a surprise for us that only Damon knew about. Thus his line about having a secret plan and not telling Elena.
Yet no one really trusted anyone (aside from Damon and Elena to a point) since there was room for plenty of betrayal on everyone's part, especially Mikael, Stefan and Rebekah. Mikael stabbing Elena to lure Klaus out , wouldn't it have better served its purpose if Mikael had been invited in beforehand. Let's face it Katherine had to have been an Elena substitute as we couldn't have her being killed again, that'd be too same old, same old. So Klaus was telling Katherine that Damon wouldn't survive, causing her to come up with her own plan. Oddly enough Katherine's plan succeeded. So Stefan's "humanity" led him to saving Damon once more. But Damon is oblivious to this (at least for now) and Damon believes Stefan betrayed him to let Klaus live. But he should have known from last episode Stefan would do anything to save Damon.
For a painful second it looked like Elena and Damon would kiss, luckily they didn't but they did manage to get closer still, as Elena says if Stefan's gone they'll have to let him go. It's Stefan's turn now to hold Klaus to ransom. Mikael even brought Klaus to tears. Elena: "It had to be done. Rebekah was never going to be completely on our side."
Damon: "Hey I'm not judging you. It's very Katherine of you."
Elena: "Not the way to make me feel better about myself Damon."
Damon: "It was a compliment, sort of." Now if we'd have been thinking down this route (or were psychic) with Damon talking about Katherine, then we'd have realized she would be involved. No vampire fix over Christmas, at the time of writing, but the show will return later and a lot later than January for some of us.
