- The Salvatore brothers ask for backup from a surprising source when Elena calls their bluff. Katherine is suspicious when Bonnie makes her an offer.
- The Salvatores find torturing Elena to rekindle her emotions pointless, as she trusts they won't let her come to real harm, and even enlisting Katherine as eager torturer fails as well as Caroline's soft alternative. Damon however finds a way around it, starring Matt, to whom Rebekah also promises grateful help with his ailing study. Silas, in numerous shapes, keeps rendering everyone paranoid. Bonnie can't elude him much longer, commandeered to help him be reunited with the original sorceress in death by lifting the veil between dimensions, but first she offers Katehrine a deal.—KGF Vissers
- Elena comes to school, where Caroline is excited about graduating. Elena realizes something is off, they're in her head. They kept her weak to bring her to high school fantasy land. Elena says it won't work.
Back in the cellar, Damon lets Elena out of the safe just long enough for her to tell him off. He shoves her back in. Damon and Stefan aren't stopping until she turns her humanity switch on. "I'm going to come back for you in a couple hours, or a couple years, because all we have is time," Damon says.
Caroline comes to the house. Stefan explains they're just trying to provoke any emotion at all in her.
Caroline tries talking to her. When Stefan leaves her alone, Caroline give Elena a little blood. She doesn't agree with the boys' approach.
"This annoying clingy thing you're doing, did it ever occur to you that's why both your boyfriends skipped town?" Elena says, referring to Tyler and Klaus.
Elena plies on, mocking her enthusiasm for graduation and calling her vicious names. Elena goes after her again and Caroline snaps her neck. Caroline tells Stefan to do whatever he needs to fix her.
Matt talks to Rebekah at the bar. She's drowning her sorrows for losing the cure and breaking ties with Klaus and Elijah. She likes Elena the way she is. Matt suggests she leave town if she's so miserable, he's failing his classes and doesn't have much choice.
Caroline tries to get Bonnie to come to the Salvatore house, but Bonnie isn't ready to forgive and forget after Elena tried to kill her.
Bonnie meets secretly with Katherine, saying she has an offer she can't refuse.
Back at the Salvatore house, the boys put Elena in front of a curtain and take off her daylight ring. Damon is armed with a fire extinguisher.
"Even if I do manage to get my emotions back, I'll remember all this and I'll hate both of you for it," she says. Damon thinks it's worth the risk. They open the curtains and let the sun burn her.
Elena is unmoved, so they go for round two.
Caroline and Matt hang out outside. Rebekah drops by with food for Matt. She mentions that Matt is failing some classes. It's news to Caroline.
She goes home to get her flashcard, but runs into Klaus outside.
Bonnie asks Katherine for Silas' tombstone to drop the veil in two days on the full moon. "I said I'd help him and I've been hiding from him ever since, buying time," Bonnie says.
She won't explain since Silas can read minds. Bonnie's the only one who can see his true face.
Back at the house, Elena heals from her burns. Elena turns on Damon, saying being sired to him was awful and her love for him was fake.
Her ropes burn off and Elena runs to the curtain and tears it down. She bursts into flames and they douse her with the extinguisher.
"I'm the girl that you love, you wouldn't do anything to actually hurt me, you just proved that. So what do I have to be afraid of?" she asks.
Outside, Damon and Stefan are frustrated they're not getting anywhere. Stefan suggests they get someone who really will hurt Elena: Katherine.
She was just abandoned by Elijah and they think she'll enjoy the chance to torture Elena.
Caroline talks to Klaus just long enough to realize he's Silas. He grabs her by the neck and demands to know where Bonnie is. He stakes her, as a message to Bonnie.
Inside, Rebekah offers to compel Matt good grades and a scholarship. She's grateful he convinced her to save April's life at prom. Katherine interrupts their moment. Matt leaves to call Caroline to let her know.
Caroline wakes up in the woods -- the stake is gone. She races back to the house and runs into Matt, but it's just Matt again. He threatens to kill her mother unless she finds Bonnie. Caroline runs for the house, but Klaus as Silas stops her and throws her down the stairs. Caroline gets in her car and calls her mom, telling her to get inside and lock all the doors.
Downstairs, Katherine starts things off with Elena by digging her hand in her chest and squeezing her heart. Elena calls her a horrible person mocks her for Elijah leaving her. Katherine throws her back in the safe, but doesn't lock it.
Back upstairs, they discover Elena is missing. Damon takes Matt and goes to look for her.
Caroline goes home to her mom, calling her cell phone as she stands in front of her to verify it's her.
Elena wanders weakly through the woods. She flags down an SUV, Matt gets out. She vamps and is about to attack. He tries talking to her, saying she's his oldest friend and he's the girl he's loved longer than he can remember. "Deep down, that probably does mean something, but I am really hungry," she says as she bites down on his neck.
Caroline waits for Bonnie's call. Bonnie shows up on her doorstep, but Caroline won't let her in. When Sheriff Forbes walks up behind Caroline, Bonnie sees that it's not really her. Bonnie breaks down the door and Caroline runs to check on her mom in the other room. She's lying on the floor. Caroline feeds her mom her blood.
Bonnie promises Silas she'll help him as long as he doesn't hurt any of her friends. He warns her her promise is binding.
In the woods, as Elena goes for seconds on Matt, Stefan pulls her off. Damon holds up a weak Matt and tells her he's done playing games, either she turns her emotions back on he'll kill Matt right in front of her. Stefan cautinons Damon to stop. Elena thinks he's bluffing. Damon snaps Matt's neck.
"How about now? You feel anything now?" Damon taunts her, asking if she feels sad or anything at all. Guess it's a good thing he was wearing Jeremy's protection ring. Matt's not dead. Damon asks her if she can feel the weight lifting, it's relief, her emotions coming back.
Elena's emotions come flooding back all at once and she's overwhelmed with guilt for killing the waitress. Stefan guides her to find the one thing inside that gives her hope and hold onto it. "I'm not OK, but I'll get better," she says.
Back home with her mom, Caroline draws her blood and injects it into her mom's heart, trying to bring her back. She cries over her mom's body. Finally, Sheriff Forbes takes a breath.
Matt comes back to life with a sore neck. Rebekah tells him it worked. He wanted to pay her back from saving him at the bottom of the river. Rebekah apologizes for the part she played in that and Elena becoming a vampire. She promises to spend every day until graduation trying to pay him back.
Katherine meets with Bonnie again, guessing that with Quetsia's blood in the tombstone, maybe she doesn't need the full moon to drop the veil. Once she does, Bonnie says she can use Quetsia's spell to make Katherine truly immortal. Katherine agrees to give her the tombstone.
Back at the house, Elena recovers from her emotional rollercoaster. Then she gets angry. The one thing she focused on was hating Katherine, the cause of all their problems and the one who killed Jeremy. Elena wants to kill her.
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