On the first day of their senior year, Elena, Caroline, Bonnie and Matt are still reeling from recent events, while Tyler seems to be enjoying everything a little too much. Damon is annoyed by a new houseguest, and everyone is surprised by the arrival of a new student in Alaric’s history class. Matt asks Bonnie for help when he realizes he made a serious mistake. Meanwhile, Stefan continues to carry out his latest assignment from Klaus.
Elena and Jeremy try to return to normal activities by attending Mystic Falls' screening of "Gone with the Wind". Damon attempts to win Elena's forgiveness even though he admits that he doesn't deserve it. Elena refuses him. Damon then attempts to commit suicide as he knows what will happen due to the werewolf bite but he is stopped and locked up by Stefan. Stefan seeks Bonnie's help to find a cure for a werewolf bite. He asks Bonnie to help him contact Emily so they can find a cure for Damon. Emily refuses to cooperate, but Bonnie hears the witches say a name: Klaus. During this time, Klaus has completed the transformation into a wolf and awakens to find Elijah waiting for him. He makes Klaus remember his deal: he must reunite Elijah with their family which Klaus says he will. Stefan goes to see Klaus and asks him for the cure. Klaus says he must first keep his promise to Elijah, that he would reunite him with the family he killed. He then betrays Elijah, stabbing and killing him with the dagger for the second time. Klaus reveals that his blood is the cure for a werewolf bite by biting Katerina and then giving her his blood. In exchange for a vial, Klaus wants Stefan to become a ripper again and leave Mystic Falls with him, claiming that he has big plans for him. Stefan agrees and drinks human blood to prove himself. Sheriff Forbes attempts to ambush Damon at the Salvatore house, but Damon escapes. Jeremy is the next to intercept Damon and brings him to the Grill. Sheriff Forbes finds them and shoots at Damon, but hits Jeremy instead. Bonnie takes him and begs the witches to bring him back to life, which they do, meanwhile warning Bonnie of "consequences". The news of Jeremy's revival reaches Caroline and her mother, who make amends. Elena finds a delirious Damon and brings him back home, where Elena kisses him after Damon confesses his love for her. Katherine interrupts with Klaus' cure. Later, Klaus tests Stefan once more, asking him to chase and kill a human girl. Once Stefan does this, Klaus says they can now leave Mystic Falls. At the Gilbert house, Jeremy is awakened by noises. He goes downstairs, where he finds his deceased vampire ex-girlfriends Anna and Vicki.
Matt and Caroline are in the Lockwood cellar while Tyler - in wolf form - attacks them. Matt panics and shoots Tyler. Meanwhile, Greta feeds Jenna her blood, completing her transformation into a vampire. It is revealed that Elijah is seeking revenge on Klaus for killing all of his family and burying their bodies at sea. Stefan receives a call from Damon revealing that Klaus plans to use Jenna as the vampire sacrifice; Stefan however wants to offer himself as the sacrifice in place of Jenna. Meanwhile, Klaus has begun the ritual and has already killed Jules. Stefan arrives and asks Klaus to switch places with Jenna; however, Klaus does not accept his offer and kills Jenna. Back at the boarding house Jeremy, John, Bonnie, Damon, and Alaric find a spell that can bring someone back to life after they have died by connecting the life of the parent and the child. John has Bonnie complete the spell on him, connecting him and Elena together. At the ritual grounds, Stefan watches in horror as Klaus drains Elena's blood. Back at the old mansion, Bonnie leaves with Damon and Elijah, she casts a spell on the house trapping the humans inside, unwilling to let anyone else get hurt. With the doppelganger dead, Klaus has completed the ritual and begins to transform. However, Bonnie arrives and uses her powers to weaken him, while Damon kills Greta. With Klaus on the brink of death, Elijah steps in. Before Elijah can rip out his heart, Klaus says he didn't bury the bodies at sea and if he is killed, Elijah will never find them. He promises to take Elijah to them, and gives him his word. Elijah rethinks the situation, but Stefan and Bonnie urge him to not trust Klaus. However, he changes his mind and leaves with Klaus. Damon takes Elena's body to the old mansion on the site of the witch massacre, and waits for her to come back to life, hoping she won't come back as a vampire as he doesn't want her to hate him forever. Back in the basement, Jeremy reads the whole spell and realizes that once the child is revived the parent will die. He asks John if he read the whole passage and John replies that he did. John gives Jeremy a letter and his ring to give to Elena. While Damon, Jeremy, and Alaric watch as Elena comes back to life, John silently walks away. Elena comes back to life and John looks at her one last time and falls to the ground dead. Jeremy and Elena are devastated at losing both their parents. Before the funeral, Elena apologizes to Jeremy saying that because of her he has lost everyone. Jeremy replies that at least he has her. At the funeral, Damon reveals to Stefan that he was bitten by Tyler and asks him to do Elena a favor and not tell her as the last thing she needs is another grave to mourn. Stefan promises to find a cure, but Damon says there is no cure and walks away.
As Elijah, Stefan, and Elena discover a way to save Elena, Damon does not trust Elijah. Elijah tells Elena that the way to break the curse is by channeling the power of the full moon into the moonstone, sacrificing a vampire, a werewolf and by drinking the blood of the doppelganger. He can save Elena by giving her an Elixir. Maddox uses a mind-control spell and makes Carol Lockwood call Tyler and tell him that she had an accident and is in the hospital. Maddox injures Carol by pushing her down the stairs in her home, which forces Tyler and Jules to return to town, after which Maddox and Greta kidnap Caroline and Tyler. Damon tells Elena that he cannot lose her, to which Elena responds he won't, that she trusts Elijah, and the Elixir will work. Damon tells her there is another way and feeds her his blood. Stefan attacks Damon and Damon puts a wooden stake in him. Alaric returns as himself, gives everyone the message from Klaus that the ritual will happen tonight and Jenna forgives him. Damon realizes that if Klaus doesn't have a werewolf he cannot complete the ritual, buying Elena another month. He uses Katherine's help and rescues Caroline and Tyler from the tomb and kills Maddox. Tyler starts transforming and attacks Damon. Damon saves himself, but tells Caroline and Matt to go to the Old Lockwood estate. Stefan and Elena spend a romantic day together and Elena tells Stefan that she doesn't want to become a vampire. Klaus comes and takes Elena. Damon visits Klaus and tells him that he has to postpone the ritual because his werewolf and vampire are gone. Klaus laughs and tells Damon that after trying to break the curse for a 1000 years he has learned to have a backup werewolf (Jules), a backup witch (Greta) and backup vampire. He then attacks Damon. Elena is being led through the woods by Greta and tells her that Dr. Martin and Luka said that she was being held captive by Klaus and they died trying to rescue her. Greta informs Elena that they were mistaken, in an unapologetic tone. Greta takes Elena to the site of the ritual. There Elena sees Jenna dead on the ground. She asks Greta why Klaus killed her. Greta replies that Jenna isn't dead, she is in transition, and she wakes up as a vampire. Back at Alaric's house, Katherine say that she is sorry for doing Klaus' bidding (turning Jenna into a vampire) and Damon asks Katherine why Klaus didn't use him and Katherine replies that Klaus said that he was as good as dead. She asks him about his arm, Damon checks his arm and recognizes a werewolf bite from Tyler's premature transformation into a werewolf.
After Elena removes the dagger, Elijah wakes and must immediately leave the house as he has not been invited in. Elena asks him to trust her and gives him the dagger to prove she's being honest. In a flashback to 1492 England, Katherine meets Elijah and Klaus for the first time. Stefan and Damon argue over Elena's disappearance and whether or not they should go after her and Elijah. Elena tells Elijah everything that has happened since his death. In return, Elijah tells Elena about Klaus. Elijah and Klaus were raised as brothers, but Klaus was in fact the result of their mother being unfaithful with another man, who was from a werewolf bloodline. Elijah's father hunted down the man and had him and his family killed, beginning the schism between werewolves and vampires. Klaus is a vampire/werewolf hybrid and can only be killed by a witch. The sun and the moon curse was a fake created by Elijah and Klaus -- the real curse is that Klaus' werewolf side had been forced into dormancy by witches. He wants to bring it to the surface and eventually create his own race. Jenna finally finds out about the vampires from Stefan and Klaus/Alaric. Elsewhere, Katherine is being held captive by Klaus. Damon finds her and gives her a vial of vervain to protect her from further compulsion. At the end of the episode, Maddox and Greta (Luka's sister) perform a ritual releasing Klaus' spirit from Alaric's body, and putting it back into his own.
Klaus (in Alaric's body) compels Katherine to tell him everything she knows, about how the others plan to kill Klaus. He meets Bonnie, Elena, Stefan and Damon in the Salvatore house, that is now officially Elena's. Elena tells them about a girl who was compelled at school to tell her, that "some hot guy, wanted to have her last dance at the 1960´s dance that evening." Because the others don't recognize Klaus he finds out that Bonnie gained power, that could threaten his life, and that this was their plan to kill him. Matt talks to the sheriff and tells her that he is going to have a hard time making Caroline believe he really forgot everything. The sheriff asks him to try anyway since she needs some time to work things out. At the school dance Jeremy confronts Bonnie again on why she wants to kill herself for Elena and they are overheard by Damon. Jeremy goes to Stefan for help and Stefan tells Elena. After his conversation with Stefan, Jeremy is attacked by people Klaus compelled. Elena and Bonnie follow who they think is Alaric to help him. When Klaus leads them to an empty hallway Elena finally guesses who Alaric really is. When Bonnie notices that Klaus's plan is to kill her, by provoking her into using too much energy she and Elena flee and bump into Damon. Damon tells Elena to find Stefan and then asks Bonnie if she is willing to do what has to be done to kill Klaus. When Stefan and Elena return they find Damon alone and Bonnie fighting with Klaus. After a few striking blows at Klaus Bonnie sinks to the ground and Stefen and Elena can't find a pulse. Damon cuts in and tells them to leave and that he would take care of the body, since the sheriff shouldn't find out about it. He takes Bonnie to the house, where she had received her power and she wakes up there and Jeremy promises to stay there with her. At the Salvatore house Elena grieves the loss of Bonnie, when Damon tells her, that if they want a chance to win Klaus must believe Bonnie is dead. So he had planned everything with Bonnie. That evening Elena shows up at Damon's bedroom and she tells him she understands why he didn't tell her the plan. Damon states that he will always choose Elena, if it should ever come down to Bonnie and Elena again. After this conversation Elena goes down in the basement and pulls the dagger out of Elijah's heart.
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