- Lives hang in the balance as the consequences of the sacrifice ritual play out.
- Damon asks Elena to forgive him for forcing her to drink his blood but she does not accept his apologies. Soon Damon is raving and he has daydreams with his life with Katherine in the past and Elena in the present. Stefan tells Elena Damon's condition and she decides to seek him out. Stefan meets Bonnie and discovers that Klaus might save his brother and he looks for Klaus. Meanwhile Jeremy finds Damon and brings him to the Grill; however Sheriff Forbes shoots Damon but hits Jeremy instead and he dies. Alaric brings Jeremy's body and Bonnie tries to resurrect him using her witch powers, but there is a side effect. Stefan meets Katherine in the apartment and out of the blue, Klaus arrive with Elijah. Stefan learns that Klaus's blood can save his brother and he accepts the horrible condition imposed by Klaus to save his brother.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- While Mystic Falls presents a screening of "Gone with The Wind" in the town square, Damon's memories of Katherine in 1864 mix with the reality of Elena in the present day. Stefan pays a terrible personal price for his attempt to prevent a tragedy, and Sheriff Forbes makes a deadly mistake while trying to keep everyone safe. More than one life hangs in the balance as the consequences of the sacrifice ritual play out to a horrifying conclusion.—CW Publicity
- The day after Jenna's funeral, Elena (Nina Dobrev) grieves for Jenna as she sees her empty room. She turns around and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) is there. He apologizes for feeding her his blood, which he says he knows was wrong. He knows he doesn't deserve her forgiveness, but he needs it, he says. She says she needs time. "Take all the time you need," Damon says, knowing he doesn't have it.
Damon goes home and grabs an old bottle of booze. His werewolf bite on his arm is getting worse. He stands in the sunlight. He takes off his ring and lets the rays burn him. Stefan (Paul Wesley) swoops in and tosses him in the cellar, telling him he's not dying today. Nearby, Bonnie (Kat Graham) is looking into something. Damon tells Stefan to just say good bye and get it over with. He coughs and blood comes out.
Meanwhile, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) wakes up naked in the woods in blinding sunlight. Elijah (Daniel Gillies) is there. Klaus has been busy, killing as a werewolf. He can change at will. Elijah reminds him about their deal. He wants to be reunited with his dead family. Klaus knows he's essentially invincible now.
Alaric (Matthew Davis) drowns his sorrows and grief over Jenna in the Grill. Stefan calls, saying he needs his help. "You must have confused with somebody else. See, I'm not allowed to help, just idly sit by while his girlfriend is sacrificed on an altar of blood," Ric says. Stefan tells him Damon is dying. "What do you need?" Ric says.
Elena and Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) go see "Gone With the Wind" in the public square. Caroline (Candice King) arrives perky with picnic baskets -- an attempt at normalcy.
At the witch house, Stefan is with Bonnie as she preps for a séance to bring forth the spirit of Emily Bennett. She hopes one of the witches will want to help Damon. She recites an incantation, shuts her eyes and opens them as Emily. She says there's no spell to cure Damon, but Stefan doesn't believe her. She says she won't give him what he wants. Bonnie screams as the witches shut her down. They don't want her there. But she heard them say a name: Klaus.
Carol (Susan Walters) comes to visit her mother Sheriff Taylor (Marguerite MacIntyre). She wants to know where they are with the vampire situation. The sheriff says she's handling it. Carol doesn't think she is.
Stefan pulls Elena aside at the picnic. He tells her about Damon. There might be a cure and he wants to find Klaus. Stefan feels responsible Damon is a vampire at all. He wants Elena to talk to Damon to give him hope.
Damon hallucinates down in the cellar, remembering seeing Katherine (Nina Dobrev) as he leaves to fight in the Civil War. She toys with him, saying she wants both brothers. He imagines seeing Elena, who points out Katherine was using him. His bite is getting worse.
Stefan goes to Katherine at the apartment, asking where Klaus is. Suddenly Klaus and Elijah walk through the door. Stefan asks for help to cure Damon, but Klaus says he'll have to wait. "My brother gave me his word that he would reunite me with my family," says Elijah. "And so I shall," Klaus says. Then he stabs Elijah through the heart with the white ash dagger. Stefan and Katherine can only watch as Elijah dies in front of them... again. Klaus turns to Stefan. "Now, what are we going to do with you?" Klaus says. Klaus stabs Stefan through the gut, putting the dagger near his heart. Begging for his life, Stefan asks for the cure, promising to do whatever Klaus wants. Klaus says he's "just shy of useless."
Ric visits Damon, bringing booze and his ring. Damon is weak and in pain. He taunts Ric, saying he must blame him for Jenna's death. And if not that, the fact he turned his wife into a vampire. Damon grabs Ric around the throat through the bars and asks him to kill him. "Screw you," Ric says.
Elena arrives outside the house but is intercepted by Sheriff Taylor. She and her deputies lock Ric outside the cellar and ignore his warnings to avoid Damon. They see him on the cellar floor and open the door, but he grabs the sheriff and flings her to the ground.
In the square, Bonnie, Caroline and Jeremy continue to watch the movie. Ric calls frantic, warning him to find Elena before Damon does. Jeremy ignores Bonnie's suggestion he let her deal with it.
Meanwhile, Klaus reminds Stefan of his violent vampire past and says that's someone he can make a deal with. Without warning, Klaus chomps down on Katherine's wrist. She screams as she sees she's just been bitten by a werewolf. But then Klaus chomps on his own wrist and feeds his blood to her. She heals. His blood is the cure.
Damon stumbles through the square with "Gone with the Wind" as the back drop. He imagines he sees Katherine again, but runs into Jeremy.
Sheriff Taylor holds Elena at the police station as she goes to follow up a report of Damon at the Grill. Jeremy brings Damon into the Grill. He makes a call, but Damon turns around and sees Sheriff Taylor aiming at him. He dives out of the way. The sheriff's bullet hits Jeremy in the chest. He drops like lead. Bonnie and Caroline rush in. Caroline vamps out and tries to feed him her blood as her mother watches, horrified. He doesn't wake up. Ric joins them. Bonnie says they have to take him with them. Caroline tells her mom to let them go.
Elena tosses a chair out a window to escape from the police station.
Klaus fills a vial with his blood, in exchange for Stefan going on a "decade long bender." Stefan says no at first, until Klaus starts to pour out the blood. He gives Stefan a bag of blood and tells him to drink the whole thing. If he does everything Klaus says, he'll save Damon. Stefan chokes it down. Klaus hands him another. Katherine watches as he drinks.
Alaric takes Jeremy to the witch house. Bonnie says there's a spell for it if the witches will give her the power to use it. She begins chanting, but the witches' spirits don't want to help. They say there will be consequences. "Well he's just a kid, tell them to shut up," Alaric protests. Bonnie chants. Her nose starts bleeding. The house shakes. Bonnie cries to Emily for help, telling her she loves him. The candles go out and the house is dark. Bonnie sobs, cradling Jeremy. Slowly, he opens his eyes.
Meanwhile, Elena races through town looking for everyone. As Atlanta burns on the screen behind her, Damon finds her. He remembers racing through the woods after Katherine and asking her for her blood. She draws her blood for him to drink. He thinks Elena is Katherine and bites her neck. He tells Katherine he has to drink her blood so they can be together. Elena quietly tells him he's hurting her and finally he stops.
At the Grill, Caroline gets a call from Bonnie. Jeremy is OK. Caroline tells her mom she told her about everything once, but had to make her forget. But she doesn't want to be scared of her anymore. She tells her she's still her little girl. She hugs her mom and her mom hugs her back.
Jeremy and Bonnie say good-night. He feels different after coming back from the dead.
Elena stands over a feverish Damon. He tells her to leave because he might hurt her. He's in a ton of pain. She's sure he won't hurt him. He says all those years he blamed Stefan, but it was his choice to love Katherine. "I made the wrong choice," he says. He asks her to tell Stefan he's sorry. Elena holds onto him.
Back with Klaus, he feeds Stefan bag after bag of his blood. Klaus won't give him the cure until he agrees to leave Mystic Falls with him. He grabs the next bag of blood from him and chows down. Klaus gives the cure to Katherine and compels her to take it to Damon. She realizes it's the loophole she needed. She's on vervane so she can leave. Stefan watches helplessly as she runs out, and doesn't think she'll take it to Damon.
With Elena, Damon is weaker and weaker and says he deserves to die. He says it's OK, because if he had chosen differently, he wouldn't have met her. She forgives him. She snuggles around him and he tells her he loves her. She cries. His eyes flutter shut and she kisses him gently. He thanks her. Suddenly, Katherine is at the door with the cure. She pours it down Damon's throat. Damon realizes she got free and still came to him. "I owed you," she tells him. Katherine tells Elena that Stefan gave himself over to Klaus. "It's OK to love them both," Katherine tells Elena, shadowing what the long-deceased Rose told Elena. "I did." Katherine tosses the rest of Klaus's blood to Elena and leaves.
At a local storage locker facility, Klaus puts Elijah in a coffin and puts him in storage with the rest of his family. Elena texts Stefan, letting him know Damon is OK. Klaus reveals he knew Katherine was on vervane. Klaus tells Stefan that after they leave town, he will tell him what he really wants from him in time. Klaus says he has a gift for him first. He brings out a young girl and bites her neck then lets her run. He tells Stefan he didn't compel her, a real "ripper" enjoys the hunt. Stefan hunts. He catches up to the girl and quickly drains her dry. Stefan is once again in full vampire mode and loving it. Klaus announces it's time to leave.
Lying in bed, Jeremy sees shadows and hears weird noises. As he gets up and looks around, a unseen woman follows him through the house. He turns and she's gone. He turns around and sees the woman standing in front of him, he turns around again and sees a second woman standing behind him. It's Anna and Vicki....
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