Elena (Nina Dobrev) wakes to thoughts of Stefan (Paul Wesley) and guess what? He thinks of her too, since these two have an everlasting bond which neither one of them wants to admit anymore and neither do the writers, spoil sports! She calls Stefan and then Damon (Ian Somerhalder) whom she called at least ten times last night, to talk. If he's mad at her, he needs to get over it. Sorry love, he's been there and so done that with Rebekah (Claire Holt). Damon: "Oh I'm over it" he replies, with Rebekah still beside him in his bed. he tells Rebekah their night together wasn't a big deal and Elena arrives to catch Damon naked, as usual and Rebekah leave. Rebekah didn't have to compel Damon.
Elena just calls it his way of lashing out, which is what we've all been saying but Damon's adamant, "For once something I did has nothing to do with you." But it did, it was all cos of Elena. Elena tells him about Ester (Alice Evans) having to kill all of them and Elijah (Daniel Gillies) doesn't deserve this. Stefan agrees with Damon in that Klaus (Joseph Morgan) must die as do they all. Kol (Nathanial Buzolic) confronts Rebekah about staying out all night. Klaus tells him if he wants to go out he should and accompanies him for fun. Elijah's worried about their mother's strange behaviour. She burnt sage used for privacy spells. Finn (Casper Zafar) and Rebekah were taken in by her false love.
Elena blabs to Bonnie (Kat Graham) about Damon sleeping with Rebekah and Caroline (Candice Accola) can still hear them speak as Bonnie tries the sage spell. She tells Elena about Ester coming to see her and Abby (Persia White) to introduce herself. Ester's channelling the ancestral bloodline for power. Elena is wracked with guilt over Elijah and how he helped find a way to save Elena during the blood moon ritual and now she's signed his death warrant. Bonnie tells her about Elijah being dead by the end of the month since the full moon is needed to channel celestial energy for the spell to work.
Damon and Stefan argue over Damon's one night stand and Stefan still believes Elena would be better off without them both. Damon is in agreement since neither one of them will get her. Elijah takes Elena for a drive into the woods cos he's got something up his sleeve and recalls their school being built over an Indian village. He saw his first werewolf here and a field where wild horses grazed. Why the tour from Elijah? There are tunnels beneath their feet for shelter. Ester wanted balance. Elijah values Elena's qualities but she lied to him and he knows. He can hear her heartbeat and it jumps when she lies. Elijah guesses Ester wants to kill them all. Elijah: "be careful what you wish for." He pounds the ground and Elena falls in.
Elena's told Alaric (Matt Davis) about Damon's "original sex." He's not going to judge Elena for having a conscience. Damon asks if he's busy with "sexy psycho doctor." Damon and Stefan keep staring at the glass of blood. Meredith (Torrey DeVitto) can't tell who stabbed Alaric. Maybe he was compelled to forget. So it could only have been a vampire, not necessarily maybe she just wants Alaric to believe that to throw suspicion off her. Klaus listens in and replies they can't blame the new family in town just cos they've got a killer on the loose.
Abby wonders what Grams would think of Ester. She draws from Ayanna's bloodline which gives her power and she needs them both, "the bloodline made manifest." Rebekah finds Elena in the tunnels and she's being held hostage by her. Elijah tells Stefan and Damon of this and he needs their help to stop Ester. They need to break the bloodline which Stefan knows means killing Abby or Bonnie. And after everything they did for them. Well Bonnie has.
Elijah says the moon will be full later (Bonnie said within the month) and Ester will have power, if they don't stop her, Elena dies and there was Elena feeling guilty about watching Elijah die. Rebekah takes a photo of Elena for the Salvatore's. Elena only wanted Klaus gone not all of them. Everyone wants to save Elena so she's the perfect hostage. Stefan holds a blood pouch in his hand and he calls Bonnie to stop Ester from channelling the power. Damon ponders several scenarios of why Bonnie won't help, so the only option available is to kill them. Damon's plan is to divide and conquer, kill one of the originals with a dagger. Alaric can do it for them and they can use Caroline for distraction. Tried that before with Elijah and things didn't work out.
Klaus follows Caroline out of the bar and asks, "How can I acquit myself." She should take a chance and get to know him, he dares her. Ester prepares for the ritual and draws a pentagram which she calls a connection to magic and salt is the symbol of the earth. Five torches symbolize each one of her children. If she reverses the spell they will become human. Finn is her sacrifice as he thinks it's a gift. Kol tries to pick up Meredith. Oh their Brit accents are so irritating, aside from Klaus (as Joseph is English). Alaric daggers Kol and they all fall. Klaus removes the dagger from Kol, but where were was Elijah.
Damon tells him if he's killed it won't stop Ester from killing them all. Elijah saves Damon as they need him. It's 9.30 and he lied about 9.06pm. Elena runs and Rebekah can't get into the cave. Alaric thinks Meredith is a slob and for a doctor her place was pretty awful. That's not all she is. Stefan and Damon drive to the house and Damon thinks they should just let Ester go through with the spell. She'll hate them all if they do it. Damon posits only one has to do the deed so Elena will hate only one of them. They toss a coin.
Rebekah throws gasoline on Elena so she can burn her. Rebekah's spontaneous that's why Damon likes her. Rebekah still wears Ester's necklace. Elena didn't have any other choice. Rebekah may be alive tomorrow so she'd get her revenge now and wouldn't be able to see Elena slowly squirm. She's only tormenting Elena cos she hurt Rebekah's feelings. Klaus et al can't enter the pentagram. Ester only regrets not letting them die back then. Klaus wants her to end it or he'll send her to hell. She was forced to watch Klaus and suffer and Elijah isn't any better. Ester and Finn vanish and the pentagram goes up in smoke.
Stefan tells Bonnie if she can't stop Ester they have to find another way. Damon kills Abby and turns her into a vampire. Rebekah releases Elena as she prefers to watch her suffer. Caroline tells Elena Bonnie doesn't want to see her. Abby is transitioning and everything was to save Elena. She loves Elena but Bonnie always gets hurt. Not true what about all the family Elena's lost. Stefan tells Damon he lost the toss and he was meant to turn Abby. Damon isn't blind. He knows Stefan wants to go back to the old days and asks how long it's been since Stefan had human blood. Not since the night he threatened Elena at the bridge. Damon says Stefan has enough to feel guilty for so why add two to the list. Stefan still loves Elena who doesn't want Damon. "I'm better at being the bad guy anyway."
Elijah had to protect his family so did horrible things. "Compassion is a gift" he writes in the note he leaves on Elena's bed. Elijah tells Rebekah they don't have a mother, only Ester. He kills when it suits him and he used Rebekah as a sword. His virtue was his downfall and they all made themselves into the monsters they are. Klaus burns his sketches. Rebekah hated Klaus when he killed Ester but he's the only one who stayed with her. Elijah is leaving, Kol's fled. She shows Klaus images on the wall behind Elena in the cave of a great white oak tree, markings are from a native calender - 300 years after they fled to the old world. Rebekah knows the tree could kill them. Yet none of them worked that out. What happened to those drawing Alaric was deciphering from the cave anyway? Seems to have been forgotten about.
Alaric is attacked after he looks at the patient's records and papers on Meredith's desk. The dagger was used in the killings. She shoots Alaric.
Since Ester revealed her plans of wanting to slaughter her abomination of children; she sets her plan into motion quickly. But Bonnie tells Elena the full moon is needed for the spell; which also requires energy to be channelled and thus the Bennett bloodline comes to the fore once again. She also tells her the full moon won't be for at least a month. That full moon is a prerequisite for most anything these days, or nights. Bonnie is just willing to trust Ester after everything they know about the originals. She had no doubts about her intentions or ulterior motives just as long as Klaus was dispatched. They hardly know Ester aside from being a witch - that's all they have in common.
For all his morality Elijah didn't turn out to be like that here since he held Elena against her will to save himself, as well as the rest of his family. But desperate times called for desperate action. At least he felt some form of remorse at the end and having blamed themselves for what they have truly become over the years which was of their own doing.
Damon back to form this episode too when he plays the bad vampire, who he's destined to forever be. Knowing that Elena would hate him for turning Abby and he couldn't let Stefan take the fall since he still has feelings for Elena. Damon feels his bide his time with Elena who 'caught' him with Rebekah. But through all the recriminations, Elena seemed a tad jealous that Damon did the dirty on her with Barbie Klaus. But she didn't know how she felt about him so she can't complain now. From last episode her heart still lies with Stefan. She was also disgusted at seeing Rebekah with Damon.
Stefan is no longer drinking human blood which Damon realized he is trying to get back to his former self even if he doesn't admit it to Elena or anyone else - especially since last episode when he said he feels pain if he gets too close. Loved the coin toss to determine who'd turn Abby and Damon goes ahead and does it anyway, What are big brothers for? He was in need of further acting out, lashing out, after he knows he's blown any chance with Elena.
Bonnie understandably feels for Abby but not wanting to talk to Elena seemed to show her sentiments going a little OTT. Her mother abandoned her and she hardly knows her when Elena has been there for her more than Abby. Caroline calling Damon "the vampire gigolo." Er, what would that make Rebekah? Let's not go there.
So Meredith's true character has been finally revealed and came as no big shock to most of us, but poor Alaric getting shot again. Did he have his ring? So why did she shoot him when she knows he will recover and knows of his ring? Just enough time to make a quick exit. Then there was Klaus mooning (bad word) over Caroline again like a love struck child., knowing she's a lost cause. How many times has Damon been in that bathroom washing the blood from his hands?
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