TEXT: [Mystic Falls High School] (Elena, Bonnie, Caroline and Matt arrive at school) Caroline: Elena, you're here. Hey, I got valedictorian. You can help me write my speech Elena: Pass Caroline: Oh, come on. We're graduating this year. This is it. We're gonna have to soak up every second before... Elena: Wait. Something is not right. I don't want to be here Damon: What is wrong with you? Don't you want to be with your friends, graduation parties, caps, gowns? You know the drill Elena: What is this? We're not really here, are we? We're in my head Damon: Relax. I just want to show you all the things you've been missing out on since you took the giant leap over the cuckoo's nest Elena: Last thing I remember... Damon: Let me guess. Prom... Beautiful dress, gorgeous hair, you trying to murder Bonnie. It's a good thing I was there to take care of you Elena: You starved me, you and Stefan Damon: Yeah. Well, we had to keep you weak so I could bring you here. See, the way I figure it is, if I can make you nostalgic, then you're already halfway to getting your humanity back Elena: It's not gonna work, Damon Damon: Well, there are other ways to provoke an emotional response [Salvatore's House] Stefan: You still have her locked in the safe? You've been in her head for an hour. What, still nothing? Damon: How you doing in there? Come on. Is the old you ready to come out and play? Elena: Go to hell Damon: Ok. Back you go. We can do this the nice way, or we can do it the other way, but either way, we're not stopping until you turn your humanity switch back on. So I'm gonna let you think about that, and I'm gonna come back for you in a couple hours or a couple years because all we have is time (Caroline enters. Stefan's with her) Caroline: Where is she? I want to see her Stefan: We're not letting anyone see
SUMMARY:
Damon and Stefan try a brutal new approach to provoke Elena into turning her humanity back on, and Caroline is frustrated when her attempt to intervene backfires and Elena attempts to kill her. When Elena figures out a way to call the Salvatore brothers' bluff, they call on Katherine to create real fear. Katherine has a go, pushing her hand into Elena and grabbing her heart. Then she deliberately leaves the door unlocked so that Elena can escape. Matt gives Rebekah some unsolicited advice on her life choices, and she tries to help him in return. Caroline has a confusing and dangerous encounter with Klaus, who turns out to be Silas looking for Bonnie. Silas is persistent, and mortally injures Caroline's mother to take her place. Bonnie reaffirms her promise to help Silas open the veil to purgatory, and Caroline has to inject some of her blood into her mother to bring her back to life. Katherine is suspicious when Bonnie makes her the offer of Silas's immortality and invulnerability in exchange for the tombstone that Katherine took from the island, which Bonnie needs to lift the veil between our world and purgatory. Katherine appears to accept the deal. Meanwhile, the Salvatore brothers use Matt to switch on Elena's humanity, with Damon snapping Matt's neck in front of Elena. He is, of course, wearing the ring that protects him from being killed by supernatural beings, and recovers in the presence of Rebekah. Elena decides that she is going to kill Katherine.