TEXT: [PREVIOUSLY_ON] Maybe that was you. That was all me. I'm bad, Elena. I am bad for you, and I'm choosing to let you go. You think I'm gonna judge you after I find out that you've been tortured for 5 years? Stop defending me! Tyler: Do you know the reason we're together? Because Klaus granted us permission to be together. I can't live like that. You take one more step, we are done! Katherine, voice-over: I'm dying of old age. Good-bye. You're Katherine Pierce. Suck it up. I may have an idea that will keep you alive longer. [SCENE_BREAK] Bulgaria, 1490 (Katherine is alone and pregnant. Suddenly, she's hurting) Present Day [Mystic Falls Hospital] (Katherine is unconscious and the doctors try to revive her) Doctor: Clear! Give me 200 joules. Charged. Clear! (Stefan is in the hallway. Nadia rejoins him) Nadia: It doesn't make sense. I was just speaking with her. She sounded fine Stefan: Doctors think it was a, um, heart attack Nadia: Trust me. Katherine Pierce is not going to die from a heart attack. We both know my mother. She will fight this Stefan: She's dying. Every single organ in her body is failing. Vampire blood can't save her. I compelled the doctors to let me take her home so she's more comfortable, but she's dying. They don't think she'll survive the rest of the day [Whitmore College] (Elena wakes up in her dorm) [Mystic Grill] (Jeremy et Matt find Damon at the bar) [Whitmore College] (Caroline and Bonnie rejoin Elena) Caroline: Ok. Time to wake up, sleepyhead Elena: No! I'm not leaving this bed Bonnie: Which is why we brought breakfast to you Elena: What's all this? Caroline: This is your breakup breakfast! Elena: My what? [Mystic Grill] Jeremy: Damon dumped Elena Matt: Why? Jeremy: I have no idea Matt:
SUMMARY:
Nadia is trying to save her dying mother, Katherine, and comes up with a frightening plan. Elena and Stefan are forced to help Nadia to enact her plan after Nadia threw Matt in the safe which Stefan spent the summer locked in. Bonnie, Caroline and Jeremy search for Matt's location, but the returning Rebekah saves him. Katherine, who continues to fight for her life, remembers her time in Bulgaria back in 1492. Klaus also returns and confronts Caroline to admit her feelings for him; this later results in them sleeping together. After Nadia leads them, Elena and Stefan are trapped in a house full of travelers who are doing an unknown ritual. However, Elena and Stefan are able to escape, and later Elena goes to Katherine to forgive her for all the bad things that she did to her. Tyler returns as well and he catches up with the group. Upon her speech, Katherine attacks Elena and finish the ritual, officially becoming a traveler in Elena's body.