As Stefan (Paul Wesley) continues on his blood drinking spree, or spillage, Damon (Ian Somherhalder) still has flashes to Elena and his humanity. Only Sybil (Nathalie Kelley) is still inside his head. Which has gotten worse cos of the necklace. Sybil calls him and Stefan tells him not to pick up. He's losing his brother from the task at hand and killing people for Cade. Sybil tells him to return to Mystic Falls and give her the ball he retrieved from the garage. To which he agrees. Stefan tells him not to go, but Damon can't help it. He was meant to refuse but it ended up being a resounded yes. She's still inside his head somehow.
Bonnie (Kat Graham) returns from Paris with gifts galore for Caroline (Candice King) and one of them is a wedding gift. She shows Caroline the necklace Enzo (Michael Malarkey) gave her containing his blood as a token of his love. They prepare for the Miss Mystic Falls pageant, the same one where Damon took Elena to the dance. As Stefan later tells him it was only cos of his desire for blood and Damon blabbed to everyone that he needed a blood bag. All to get Elena away from him and that necklace was something he gave Elena, not Damon. Stefan needed him but he wasn't there for him, instead taking his girl from him. Sybil finds this out by going in his head and we get flashes to the dance with Damon and Elena together. She also sees him hitting her and he really doesn't know where that came from.
When Stefan arrives and sees Caroline, there's no moments between them even if there was for Caroline, one of shock to begin with since she doesn't know why he's here and she's not expecting to see him a year later. He has his own agenda, along with Sybil and Damon. Sybil wants to see this turn into a bloodbath and gets inside the competitor's heads. If she doesn't get the bell striker from Damon. And he manages to tell her no, he won't give it to her. Caroline tells him about the necklace which is meant to be magical and remind him of his love for Elena. Which Sybil will manipulate against him at the end. Stefan also realizes he's got the necklace still and takes it throwing it away at the hall. Where it stayed, begging the question of why he retrieved it last ep? Damon still getting flashes of his dance with Elena. The moment where he did steal her from Stefan and everything went downhill.
Caroline tells Damon she wants it cos the striker as it's a weapon for destroying the sirens and it forms part of the bell. Which she sends Matt Zach Roerig) to search for as they distract Seline (Kristen Gutoskie) using Dorian (Demetrius Bridges) who she thinks is here for revenge for Georgie, which he is, as he brings the tuning fork with him. She knows Matt is searching for the bell and also that there's something she needs to tell him: only a member of the Maxwell family can use it. However Sybil's one step ahead as she's tasked the police to kill Matt when he mentions the "bell" as a trigger, but just as well he gets to get the better of her and manages to take the bell with him.
As Caroline and Damon dance she talks of how he can get through this and then Sybil takes over from her a little more subtly than the dance scene in Grease! Ha. Again telling him about Elena and how he's going to give her the striker. He decides his will but has another plan. Oh no Damon another plan that backfires. Enzo tells Bonnie the necklace has his blood cos he wants her to spend an eternity with him and turn her. She thought about how Caroline and Elena handled it and thought it was too hard. She gives him back the necklace (boy what is it with all these necklaces?) She can't become a vampire cos of Elena, they're linked and she has to be here for her. He loves her and can't think about spending an eternity with anyone else cos he waited an eternity to find her. She asks him if he'd be willing to spend 60/70 years with her and take the cure.
Caroline finds out that Stefan is going to savagely massacre the contestants, as Sybil tells him about turning angels into demons under Cade's orders. Only he compelled them to become vampires instead as he plans to turn everyone. It's much easier and will get more Vics for Cade. Which is what Damon told him when he said he's lost his brother and they're no longer in this together, he's going to go it alone. (In another Winchester moment when Sam and Dean parted company quite a few times in Supernatural.) Seems Damon's fine with that as he gives Sybil the striker and really gives it to her, he knocks her with it. However that's shorlived as Stefan stakes him with a hanger and takes it. He'll give to Caroline and tells her he's in it for the long haul, as he kills one of the contestants, Violet (Sammi Hanratty). Cade was right being a Ripper is fun. She tells him it's not fun but they need to find their happiness and even if they are in this together and she's a part of the killing; she accepts when she wakes up and she's told she's a vampire but she can survive like Caroline did.
Damon chains up Sybil but she still gets one over him when he tells her how he'll torture her. She tells him he'll remember his humanity and no one will forgive him. She's not the one he has to fear inside his head, but it's Damon himself. With flashes to killing Tyler and how he warned him not to do this. Cos Elena will never forgive him and flashbacks to more killings. As once again we have Damon regressing inside of himself. Oh why does this always happen to him. He always turns out to be the weaker brother at such times and he's always so easily taken in by chicks! (To use Dean's word!) Caroline recalling how she won the pageant as Miss Mystic Falls but Stefan was too busy chasing Amber Bradley in the woods. As if that would mean something to him.
Obviously the title is a reference to the dance performed at the Mystic Falls pageant. Only it's not so simple having underlying repercussions and rifts between families and brothers. Once again events repeat themselves as Damon and Stefan fall apart and their roadtrip was shortlived. A harkback to season 1.19 Miss Mystic Falls and in the scene between Enzo and Bonnie, which was a rehash of the one between Jeremy and Anna telling him he was using her to turn him into a vampire, but so he could be with another. The title is a line Caroline says to the pageant's entrants at a dance rehearsal.
Damon tells Caroline " he's ripping again Caroline and this time it's guilt free." She did know that cos that's how he operates as the Ripper. Best moment was Damon making Sybil cry, but then she gets her own back - again!
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