Bonnie (Kat Graham) surprises Caroline (Candace King) with champagne in bed for breakfast and to congratulate her on the engagement to Stefan (Paul Wesley). Caroline being all shy in her top as if Bonnie hasn't seen her dressed like that before. It's what she mostly always wears. She snuck into her house and got her wedding scrapbook so they can plan together with Caroline saying she wants the same for Bonnie and Enzo (Michael Malarkey) and she'll help her get that for them. Sybil (Nathalie Kelley) watches the car crash with Elena and her parents holding Damon's (Ian Somerhalder) hand and she sees the sheriff (Marguerite McIntyre) call it in the Vics, the Grayson's and Elena. Damon saying he doesn't know them. Of course he wouldn't, since she's turned his brain to mush literally and metaphorically. And boy is she irritating for a siren. Think they could've come up with someone better to play a seductive siren cos Sybil has no charm whatsoever and is as exciting to watch as a wet sponge and that's saying something. However the plus side: Damon sitting calmly reading a book! But what was he reading? Ha.
Of course she's got Damon right where shew ants him, so easily and completely at her side and wants the same loyalty from Enzo. Begging the question if she's already got one lapdog why does she need another one. Or maybe all the fun is in getting him to submit to her will and mind games. As Caroline and Bonnie go wedding dress shopping, Damon turns up as Sybil wants him to kill Bonnie, testing Enzo and seeing if he will submit to her. He refuses to switch off his humanity (vampires must be easier to manipulate than other creatures it appears.) Thus sending Damon after Bonnie. Bonnie wants to be Caroline's maid of honour, she'd be "honoured" and jumps at the chance since her competition won't be awake until she dies. Yeah about that dying business, so if Damon was able to kill Bonnie, that would've meant Elena would've woken up and then where would Damon find himself. But of course that's neither here nor there since he can't remember a damn thing.
Damon fails miserably in killing Bonnie as would be apparent and Sybil's disappointed since he got beaten by a girl, two girls he tells her. But she wonders if his heart was really in it. So once again we get more mind melding manipulation and she finds out that Bonnie and Damon have been through a lot together. Then turning up at the house when Caroline is in search of weapons. She looks through Caroline's wedding scrapbook too, and Caroline jokes how she liked a design she wanted when she was in the eleventh grade. She wants a heart to heart with them or it occult be very painful for them both and wonders why Bonnie and Damon never went there together, you know, did the dirty cos he's hot and his name can spell 'Damn'. Oh come on, to paraphrase Caroline, what was she five? She wants Bonnie to choose between Enzo and Damon cos they're going to fight to the death and one of them will end up in that place below. Not heaven but in real pain. Bonnie doesn't choose so she takes them in the car to where they'll be fighting.
Strangely Damon calls Stefan, he doesn't know what she wants him to do saying his mind won't focus on that, calling it "apple sauce and penguins." He wants Stefan to help him and obviously he's not given up on him though it's hopeless. As said, Damon's given up on Damon so it was rather all pointless. He shows him Enzo in the boot and wants his help in killing him. To be his second. Of course he knew Enzo wouldn't have anyone else there and that's it. Everyone knows Stefan will do anything for Damon including taking sides. Stefan wants to know why he can't fight her like Enzo has and why he's given up. Again knew the answer would be that it's pointless. With Damon the entire question and answer vocabulary just revolves around giving up for him. Last time he gave up cos he didn't want his loved ones to fight for him anymore and get hurt, seems he's doing the same thing now. Though he's the one behind the killing! Guess I should day nothing's changed there then.
Anyway little Ms Siren doesn't wear her seatbelt and still insists on getting the last word in and as Bonnie hasn't chosen the clock strikes 3 and they begin the fight, with Stefan trying to stop them. Bonnie slams the breaks and Sybil goes flying through the windscreen! Pity there wasn't any lasting damage. As they arrive, they find Stefan's out of action, and Sybil also arrives, knew she'd get a ride so much for Bonnie's walking theory, telling Bonnie to choose again as Damon has his hand in Enzo's chest. She chooses Enzo as she would and Damon wants to be saved. Sybil tells Bonnie no one's going to help her so Damon still needs to kill her, going back on her pinky swear to Enzo. LIke he cared. Only Enzo can stop it by coming over to the dark side and he gives up and switches off his humanity. Of course Sybil would still want Bonnie dead and Enzo tells her he doesn't care. Bonnie standing there and not running until she told her to, what's up with that.
Beforehand Stefan had told Alaric (Matt Davis) about their engagement and he says he's fine with it and can give him a deal on two flowergirl dresses. He gets Georgie (Allison Scagliotti) to carry out more research and she finds that the pitchfork is a pitchfork, which is what I said, last ep and in medieval times, that's the only fork they could use so it didn't have three prongs to it. As the twins squabble over the fork it falls to the ground and makes a sound, he says it's a tuning fork and obviously would be used on Sybil. Funny how Alaric knew where to find everyone and as Damon tries to kill Bonnie, he turns up and puts Sybil out of action with the fork. Not for long though. As they have her at the Armoury, didn't they even think of how she'll use her 'singing' to control Damon still. Come on she's a siren, clearly all that myth stuff went out the window here!
Bonnie has words with Stefan about how he was on Damon's side and always will be, well that's apparent, they're brothers and blood is stronger and all that. Alaric tells Stefan that he can get Damon back again cos he did before and not to give up to him. Alaric considered Damon a brother, or as close to and again Damon doesn't know what she wants him to do. So we get her humming and he needs to remove all the attachments to him and this one just happens to be Tyler (Michael Trevino) So that's how they aim to weed out the characters and that's their endings. Not even Tyler was strong enough and he tells Damon to kill him cos either it'll help him overcome this hold on him, or his face will be the last one he remembers forever when he recalls what he did. He turns away but her moany humming is too much of an allure and he kills Tyler! Fans won't be happy. Well one down and a few others to go. Stefan didn't even finish writing in Elena's diary.
Caroline knows Stefan took Damon's side but she has to take Bonnie's. We're not going to get that coming in between them are we. Especially after they've found each other. Will they get their happy ending. Didn't think this was the show it used to be. The storyline isn't very gripping and I still say this siren nonsense is a little out of place for this show.
Once again the title can allude to any one of the characters here, either Bonnie, Enzo or Damon. Or all of them. Each one of them needs saving in their own way, not just from Sybil, but also in the form of their own personal redemption. Perhaps one reason why they're taking sides. They've all been there for one another and saved lives and yet it seems they're going to have a showdown here and it looks very ugly! Time and again Bonnie has saved Damon even if she doesn't like him, but thought all that changed last season when she was angry at him for leaving her and going to rest for eternity, leaving everyone to fend for themselves. Seems there's still fallout from all this cos Damon did the same to Stefan, again leaving him and not caring about family. Little wonder he's so easily manipulated and can just switch off his humanity so easily. So if he really cared for Elena how come Sybil got to him so easily. He knew he would see her again and that he would be around for eternity.
Caroline had to take sides cos she's Bonnie's best friend and she can't see her go through all this over and over again. She's always the one making the sacrifices for her friends, getting hurt and getting nothing in return. Guess the funny scene was at then end when Sybil now takes Bonnie's place and eats the pancakes. But that look on Damon's face kinda said 'I know who you really are and I'm bored of it.' Get outta my head!! Yeah can't wait for that!
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