Four months has gone by since the Other Side broke down and
Bonnie and Damon was lost. Mystic Falls is still a supernatural-free area.
Everyone is grieving in their own ways, and some worse than others.
In Mystic Falls a couple is free to make out in the woods,
and no supernatural thing can get them. They hear something, and the boy sends
the girl out to check it out. Way to be the big man. She flips on the lantern
and is surprised by Sheriff Forbes. Worse than a serial killer to them, she
busts them for underage drinking. They would have been better off staying in
their tent. As they walk to the car they cross the line out of Mystic Falls,
and something attacks the girl, Jesse, dropping her body onto her boyfriend before
attacking him from above.
Sophomore Elena has to pick a major, and she’s chosen a
medical one. Jo (Jodi O’ Keefe) is her teacher, but its an observatory role for Elena at the
moment. The major does give her access to blood bags, which are needed at the
moment. Elena gets ready for class. Alaric will be teaching on campus, but just
seeing him back is a great big shiny spot. He’s a college professor now, he can’t
go back to his teaching job at the high school with Mystic Falls still off
limits.
Matt has been using the time to get fit and bulk up. He can
bench press more than Jeremy now, and old Blue Eyes is looking good. Jeremy
seems to have gotten over Bonnie, with a new fling. Stephen is off looking for
a witch that can contact the dead. Elena has been out of contact with him,
assuming he’s been busy, and he has, starting a new life.
Caroline is not going back to college, she dropped out.
Elena tells her that its time to come home, but Caroline has made her home
outside of Mystic Falls. Even Tyler tries to hound Caroline to come back, and
Elena makes plans to come and get her no matter what she wants. Caroline
picnics with her mother, she’s been looking for an anti-magic spell removal
spell. Even her mother thinks its time to go back, and spend time with Elena,
she lost Bonnie too. Elena has been in denial, she hasn’t even grieved for
Damon. Her mother tells her to cut Elena some slack, she’s lost more than her
share of people. Sheriff Forbes gets a notice, 2 teens were admitted with mysterious
wounds on their necks. Vampire may not be able to get into Mystic Falls but
that doesn’t stop them from lurking around the border. Caroline tries to give
her mother the picnic basket before leaving, and she gets burned by the spell.
Caroline doesn’t want to let go, and Elena understands she
doesn’t either. She mixes up some herbs, and finishes telling about her day to
Damon. They’re in the graveyard. Those must be some powerful herbs. Just what
is Elena into?
Alaric teaches his class, while Elena barely keeps her
attention on his lecture on the occult and resurrection. Liv snickers over the
topic, and Tyler comes in late taking his seat next to her. The two are flirty
and combative in the same breathe. Elena slurps on her drink, and Alaric
admonishes her, having trouble teaching as it is when all of his students look
like blood sausages.
After class Elena catches up with Luke. She’s been super thirsty
lately, and was wondering if there was side effects to the herbs he’s been
giving her. They haven’t been tested exactly, but he thinks that maybe he
should stop giving them to her. It was his idea that she see Damon again,
because he felt guilty over Damon not coming back. But he did make Alaric a
daylight bracelet because Elena asked, and went against his covens rule to get
the herbs because she asked, but now its time to return to reality. Elena asks
him to come by anyways later.
Stephen gets shorted on his check. One of his clients
claimed that he put a ding on his hood. The customer’s wife put a ding on the
hood. Dean asks if he’s calling his best customer a liar. Stephen notes that he’s
being ripped off, but Dean isn’t backing down. He asks Stephen what he’s going
to do about it, run back to where ever he came from. Stephen lets it go, as
Alaric calls, asking if his contact panned out. Stephen tells him he’s still
working on it. With the pretty girl in front of him, its doubtful that the spell
has been taking up his time.
Caroline meets with Alaric. She’s already read through all
the books she has, and has found nothing. She needs help, and he pulls out the
books he has, only one she hasn’t read. Caroline asks about Stephen, a little
perturbed that he talks to him a couple of times a week. Stephen left without even
a goodbye when Damon died.
Elena asks Matt why Jeremy isn’t answering his phone, and he
tells her he’s doing homework, when what he really means is that he’s playing a
video game, but it isn’t like big sis can do anything about it so long as he
stays in Mystic Falls. Elena scolds him to do something productive, but with
Elena being little threat, Jeremy can act like a shit. It’s up to Matt to step
in, he tells him its time to start living his life again. The town is safe for
now, but Caroline is working to reverse the anti-magic thing. Jeremy isn’t a
hunter now, he’s not much of anything.
Elena pays Luke a visit. He didn’t show up when she had
asked him to. He’s tired of playing drug pusher and supporting her destructive
habit. She riffles through his drawers looking for more herbs. He’s worried
about her. She wants to see Damon and vamping out on him, she’s not asking.
Elena talks to Damon about setting Alaric up with Jo from the
hospital, wondering how long is the appropriate time to wait to start dating
after someone has come back to dead. Damon wonders if Luke could whip up a
Bonnie flavored variety, Elena laughs, if she had a conversation with everyone
she lost, she’d need a bigger vehicle, but he’s right. Elena wouldn’t want to
talk to Bonnie, Bonnie would tell her to move on, and kick her addiction by
letting them go.
Tyler has a hard time adjusting to being human, his
tolerance for one blows as he stumbles into Alaric. Alaric wonders if someone
with his anger issues should be drinking so close to a full moon. He gets to burn
off his anger on the field, but Alaric isn’t taking chances. He confiscates
Tyler’s drink. Tyler makes eyes at Liv, and she definitely notices. Alaric
tells him that she’s definitely not into him.
The girl saunters back to Stephen’s bed with only a sheet on
complaining about his fridge contents. She wants to make plans for later, but
he tells her he has to work. He tells Ivy that she’s the one that came after
him. She points out that they’ve been hanging out together for months, but she
knows nothing about him. He knows a lot about her, and she asks him to tell her
something that she doesn’t know about him. He tells her that he’s a vampire,
and she laughs it off, but he likes her and he’s Stephen, so she cuddles up.
Jo runs into Alaric, happy to find another chaperone, not
huddled around the burgers. She doesn’t eat red meat, seeing too much blood all
day. She asks for his drink, but he’s not sharing. Claiming germaphobe, he’s
the vegetarian of cool people. He excuses himself to make a phone call. He lost
his human nature and his game in one fail swoop.
Elena searches for blood bags, but doesn’t have one. She
finds stranded motorist and feeds off her. Damon warns her that she’s going to
kill girl. She just wants a little more, then she’ll let her go. She’s so
hungry. Caroline can’t believe what she sees, and the girl gets away. She runs
towards the field, and before Elena can catch her she crosses the border. The
girl is bleeding out as she goes into town. Caroline scolds Elena for feeding
off people. She’s the border lurker. Elena tells her that she compelled
everyone else to forget, but she can’t help it the herbs make her so thirsty.
She tells Caroline about seeing Damon. She tried to grieve for him, she knows
grief, but she couldn’t do it. Every time she let it sink in that she would
never see him again, she felt like she was dying. She could grieve like
Caroline having picnics with her mother on the border, or travel the world
looking for a way to bring Damon and Bonnie back, but she’s doing it her way.
Caroline points out that she isn’t moving forward but pausing. For now she
sends her away, so she can call her mom and clean up the mess. Elena realizes
the mess she’s making, as she looks at Damon.
The girl stumbles into town. Matt finds the girl bleeding.
She tells him that she saw a girl, she had fangs and she bit her. As she talks
the rest of the watch group arrive, and Matt tells them she said that she hit a
dog and it bit her. Tripp (Colin Ferguson) asks her if that’s the story as
Sheriff Forbes arrives. The girl is delirious and the Sheriff want to take her
to get treated. Tripp wants to investigate further, but the Sheriff isn’t going
to have the girl questioned until she’s seen a doctor.
Stephen continues to ignore Elena’s calls. She calls a third
time, and he finally answers. She’s a mess. She needs to hear that he’s found
something, she needs hope that he will find Damon and bring him back. He’s got
nothing. She asks what he’s doing to get through this, because she isn’t. There’s
no right or wrong way. Stephen admits that he gave up, he’s not looking
anymore. He said goodbye, he moved on. Damon is gone. He tells her it’s time to
say goodbye too and hangs up. Good for him.
Tyler is tailgating, and Caroline fills him in on the Elena
issue. She’s been taking witchy drugs, hallucinating Damon and eating people.
Tyler tells her that he’ll take care of the problem.
Matt talks to bleeding girl,Sarah. He’s taking her some place, but she
doesn’t trust him and tries to make a run for it. He catches up to her. He’s had more than his fair share of back supernatural
happenings, and he’s not about to lose anyone else. Sarah doesn’t trust him or
anyone else, and Caroline thinks that’s a good thing.
Matt confronts Luke, telling him that Elena isn’t in her
right mind. Tyler isn’t really happy with what he’s been doing all summer. He
warns him to stay away from Elena or he’ll have a problem his magic wand can’t
fix. Alaric breaks them up. Tyler isn’t in as good of control as he thought he
was, and Alaric wants answers from Luke.
Elena tells Damon he can’t be there. Seeing him like this
makes her reckless. Just one call from his brother and she’s ready to throw in
the towel. She has to, but first she has to say thank you. Thank you for bringing
back Stephen and Alaric, for showing her love and passion. She wanted it to
last forever, but it couldn’t she says goodbye to him with a kiss. It’s the
last time she’ll see him. But as she lets go, he’s still there. She’s still
holding on. He mocks her, it’s only a matter of time before she goes back to
Luke for more drugs to see him. Otherwise she’ll feel his loss forever that
hole will never close. She begs him not to get into her head, smashing
everything around her as she falls to the ground alone in tears. But she’s not
alone, he’s still there.
Tyler does pull ups. Liv confronts him about his douchbagery actions.
Her brother has been emotionally blackmailed by Elena the whole summer. He reminds
her that they lost people while her brother got to live. But they also got
people back thanks to her. He lost a part of himself that night too. He was
stronger than most people, faster. And now all that’s left inside is rage. He
wants her to know that he’s trying to deal with that too. Liv doesn’t give him
the reaction he was expecting, but she’s not giving him more.
Caroline leaves Stephen yet another message. Everyone is
drifting further apart, thinking they can get through this all alone. Elena is
gone, she’s changed into an almost different person. Tyler is hiding out in
Whitmore, hiding from his werewolf gene. Matt and Jeremy never leave Mystic
Falls, and they probably don’t want the wall down. Caroline is in a diner near
the border looking for a way in. They just lost two friends, and they all need
to band together before they’re little more than strangers. She’s not going to
stop calling until she hears from him, because she’s not giving up. Stephen
crushes his phone without even hearing his message. He either really doesn’t
want to hear her go on and on, or maybe he wants the newest iphone. Bigger is
better.
Elena asks Alaric how he’s liking being a vampire, but he doesn’t
want to talk to her while she’s on drugs, and thinks she should get some sleep.
She goes on. He admits that moving to Mystic Falls helped, and that his ex
moved away which helped. She meant the blood lust. Alaric admits that he hates
everything about being a vampire. She did too once she discovered the good
part, that love could actually be eternal, which now sucks because she’ll have
a hole in her heart forever. If she’s ever going to fall in love again, to make
eternity bearable she wants him to compel to forget that she ever loved Damon.
Damon makes pancakes, and coffee. He gives Bonnie a pancake
with a smiley face made out of blue berries, with whip cream fangs. Every day
she tells him that she hates it, and every day he does it anyways. Poor Bonnie
she must be in hell, Plaid Damon hell.
