TEXT: [Alaric's Apartment] (Elena arrives with coffee and something to eat. She knocks on the door. Damon opens) Damon: Morning, sunshine. Elena: Hey. How's Alaric? Damon: Indecent, but fine Elena: So then does that mean there were no issues last night? Damon: Nope. Slept like a baby. Woke up Alaric. No headlines about dead council members Elena: Then why do I feel like you're hiding something from me? Damon: Well, maybe because you're being all paranoid and control freak-y. What'd you bring me? (He takes the bag and looks into it) Damon: Chocolate muffins. You know what they say... the way to a psycho killer's heart is through his stomach (She takes it back) Elena: They're not for you Damon: Fine. Keep convincing yourself you're still mad at me. But sadly, Ric's going to have to pass on Elena time today. You know, lockdown and all Elena: Just take it, give it to him and tell him that I miss him, ok? Damon: With pleasure Elena: Please Damon: Have a great day (He starts closing the door) Elena: Dam... Damon: thanks for coming by (He closes the door. She leaves) Damon: Walking down the stairs. Opening front door and... She's gone (Alaric is sawing the wickery bridge sign. Stefan's here too) (Damon is whittling a stake from the wickery sign. Stefan gives him one back) Stefan: Needs to have a sharper point Damon: Got it Stefan: Finally have our own stakes to kill an original. I'm not going to miss because you can't whittle Damon: I said I got it. Stop micro managing Alaric: Looks like you guys got this under control. I'm going to call the sheriff. I want to turn myself in Damon: No, you don't Alaric: I have a homicidal alter ego. Unlike some people in this room, I would like to take responsibility for the people I've killed Damon
SUMMARY:
Damon and Stefan make plans to destroy Klaus with their new weapon. Klaus and Rebekah convince Finn to cooperate with their plans to break the link when they reunite him with Sage. Rebekah gets carried away with her own plans out of revenge against Damon for using her to steal her memories of the remaining white oak wood. She stakes Damon with a dagger, then takes him to Klaus' mansion, chains him to the ceiling and cuts him to bleed out his protective vervain. Klaus coerces Bonnie into breaking Esther's linking spell. Bonnie is unsure if she can perform the unlinking spell, but Klaus threatens her mother and shows her that he has Kol watching Jeremy. Stefan lures Finn out of the bar where he was having tequila with Sage, and fails to stake him, but Elena and Matt manage to use Matt's stake to kill Finn. As Finn expires, Bonnie successfully breaks the linking spell making Finn the only Original to die. At the mansion, Rebekah manipulates Damon's hallucinations so he believes he and Elena are about to kiss after she saves Damon and urges him to drink her blood to recover. But then Damon realizes how desperate Rebekah is for attention and love, and that she is actually torturing him for violating these feelings rather than for tricking her to access her memories. Stefan is attacked by Sage, who is upset over Finn's demise. Sage is about to end Stefan when she coughs up blood and dies. Stefan, Elena, and Caroline realize that if an Original is killed, their entire vampire bloodline dies. Stefan goes to negotiate with Klaus and finds Damon bloody and half-conscious. To Damon's disappointment he brings eight of the stakes with him in exchange for his brother. Klaus compels Damon to admit there are actually eleven stakes in total. After failing to use his own stake to kill Klaus Stefan hands it over and promises to bring the other two. Tired of revenge, Rebekah releases Damon as a sign of good faith and leaves with the eight stakes. Caroline and Elena puzzle over the vampire bloodlines and realize that Tyler is a part of Klaus', and he would die if Klaus were killed. Stefan and Elena share a conversation about their feelings and Elena admits she does not know how to feel about her love for both Stefan and Damon. Damon goes to retrieve the last white oak stake but finds that Alaric's vampire hating alter ego has hidden it and Alaric can not even guess where.