TEXT: [PREVIOUSLY_ON] Reverend: Welcome to the wedding of Alaric Saltzman and Josette Laughlin. Unh! Kai: Miss me? (Guests screaming) Damon: Stefan! She won't wake up. Kai: So, Bonster, I linked Elena's life to yours. As long as you're alive, Elena will remain asleep. Pastor: We are here today to pay our respect to sheriff Elizabeth Forbes. Caroline: You and I, I can't do this right now. I'm sorry. Stefan: I understand if you need time to heal, and if I have to wait for you, I will. Caroline: Who's that? That's my mother. Jo: Before the 1900s, Lily fell in with a group of witches that were cast out of the Gemini coven. Heretics are ruthless... Vampires with witch power. Lily: Lorenzo, it's our family. Damon: It's time for me to say good-bye. [SCENE_BREAK] [Panting] [Coughs] Stefan: Damon... wake up. I need you. Wake up. Stefan: Damon... Wake the hell up! [Gasps] [SCENE_BREAK] Caroline (V.O.): "Dear Elena... A few weeks ago, you said good-bye and told us to write everything down so you'd feel like you didn't miss anything when you woke up. Bad news first. Damon said the best way to keep his mind off you was to help Alaric grieve, so in Damon fashion, he kidnapped Ric and flew him to Europe for a guy get-away. I'm sure you can imagine how that's going." [Chanting, "Drinken!"] Yeah! Ha ha ha! Whoo! Caroline (V.O.): "Obviously, we didn't send them there without a chaperone." Bonnie: Drinken now. Caroline (V.O.): "So Damon's watching out for Alaric, Bonnie's watching out for Damon, and I don't know exactly who's watching out
SUMMARY:
Damon, Bonnie and Alaric have been spending the summer in Europe to get over their grief while Stefan, Caroline and Matt make a deal with Lily and her Heretics when they failed to defeat them. Caroline and Bonnie miss Elena deeply and each day are writing in a diary of everything that occurs so that when Elena wakes up it'll be like she never missed anything. Stefan and Caroline evacuate the whole town to protect them from the Heretics but agree that anyone who passes the border will be Heretics' blood meal. Alaric consults psychics about his dead wife. Damon rescues Bonnie from a car accident but only at the last minute. When the trio get back in town, they discover about the deal with the Heretics. Damon and Bonnie make their own plan and kill a Heretic. When Lily learns about the death, she attains revenge by kidnapping Caroline with the help of Enzo. Flashforward: Three years into the future, Stefan is seen in a storage unit opening a casket containing a desiccated Damon. After reviving Damon against his wishes, Stefan proceeds to tell him that his scar opened up which means that "she's back" when they are attacked by an old (yet unknown) foe.