The search is on for Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Enzo (Michael Malarkey) as Stefan )Paul Wesley) writes in the diary for Elena about finding missing bodies. Bonnie (Kat Graham) has flashbacks to Enzo and him teaching her how to play the guitar, whilst they read The Odyssey, specifically the parts relating to sirens and how they sing to lure men to their deaths. All this was foreshadowing of the new big bad in their lives, but obviously the sirens aren't the ones they'll really need to worry about. Stefan tells Bonnie not to give up hope and that they will find them. The remarked difference here between Stefan's positiveness and what he will become later on in the season. (Okay I know I'm posting this now cos whenever we get the first ep of the show here somehow I always seem to miss the first ep!!)
Damon and Enzo take Vics to be devoured by this new monster which lurks in the bloodied water at the slaughterhouse and try to ascertain which one of them has done the worst thing. Enzo disposes of the girl whilst Damon feeds the guy to the unknown entity in the water. Caroline (Candice King) chances upon the dead body on the road and sends Stefan and Bonnie to investigate whereupon they find the girl tied to the front of the car and Bonnie says it's guitar string. She also finds there was candlewax in her ears. As Caroline finds out about the slaughterhouse at the TV station. As well as looking after the twins. Stefan heads out there on his own and finds Damon there cleaning up like a good, controlled boy. He doesn't want him here and Stefan knows he's flipped his switch to cope with what he has to do. Stefan tells him he knows deep down there's some spot in his mind which is free and isn't being being controlled.
Pity Stefan didn't arrive sooner to see Damon reading Fifty Shades of Grey, really, it should've been Fifty Shades of Red by the looks of things in the slaughterhouse. Stefan stakes him but he gets up and takes Bonnie hostage. Enzo tells them to leave since he's not completely taken over yet. This time Stefan is despondent as Bonnie now tells him he has to have hope since they will get them back. As she plays guitar she recalls Enzo reading to her and realizes he's leaving her clues and wanted them to find them both. She finds the book where it states the sirens sing and leaving behind the bones of men they devoured. As she calls Alaric (Matt Davis) to tell him.
Alaric's interns Darius (Demetrius Bridge) and Georgie (Allison Scagliotti) have found an invisible cave and here they find treasures which haven't been eroded by the air, as well as a skeleton. As Georgie makes a move on Alaric. He tells her he's got his children to think of and is off the market. Well things didn't exactly work out with Caroline either. Caroline watches the tapes of Enzo with Virginia as she tells the twins how she's a princess in a magical place and now she's escaped. As Seline (Kristen Gutoskie) the young nanny Caroline doesn't like, makes them crustless star-shaped sandwiches, wasting food with people going hungry in the world. As she speaks with her, the door opens and the knife disappears. It's Virginia (Aisha Duran) who attacks Seline and Caroline saves her by giving her blood. When she questions Virginia she finds her tongue gets cut.
Finally getting hold of Alaric who says he shouldve been here for his children and wants to move back in, with Caroline leaving to be with Stefan cos they know that's where she should be. Damon and Enzo head out for another Vic, a painter who uses blood to paint and Damon talks of redemption. As they feed him to his prey, Damon goes to his 'happy' place with Elena where he meets her for the first time. That's his little corner of sanity he's got for himself, however that won't last, as we know in this show nothing ever does.
Thought this was a little bit of a slow first episode to begin with as they tried to squeeze everything into it and also revealing it's sirens we're dealing with, as Enzo and Damon hear singing and the siren (Natahlie Kelley) is revealed to us, in all her bloody nakk-edness! With Damon also telling Stefan about real hell with fire and brimstone and the devil. There's no getting away from it and hating Stefan for turning him into what he became. His life being over for over a 150 years. It's the resentment that Stefan can't get over and he must be feeling the guilt which is why Bonnie tries to talk him round; to the point of where he makes the diary entry so she finds out from him about Damon and losing his humanity again. But at least season 8 got better overtime!
Ironically Damon saying: "this is the beginning of the end." Yes for the show! As well as, "I've seen how this ends. Humanity can't save me from it. Once the devil comes a-calling, you're done." Giving up so easily which really isn't like Damon, even though he did desiccate himself last season giving up on everyone. The title is a reference to the first line uttered by Damon in the Pilot, which he says here again. Also Stefan said it to Damon in 3.1 The Birthday.
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