TEXT: [Gilbert's House] (Elena is sleeping. Her alarm clock sets off and she wakes up. She raises the volume smiles and gets off bed. She smiles once more and starts to dance, looking at herself in the mirror and binding her hair into a ponytail. She takes her pompons and throws them on her bench next to her cheerleader outfit) (She's dressed in her cheerleader outfit and enters the kitchen. Jenna's here) Elena: Hey. Jeremy locked himself in the bathroom again. Does he think we don't know what he's doing in there? Jenna: He's 14. They don't think (She takes the coffee pot to pours herself some but Jenna stops her) Jenna: Hey. You'll get me in trouble with your... (Miranda, Elena's mom, enters the kitchen) Miranda Good morning Elena: Good morning mom (Miranda smiles, takes Elena's face in her hands and kisses her. Elena smiles) Present [Mystic Falls' Hospital] (Elena wakes up in her hospital bed and looks around her) [Mystic Falls' Hospital] (Meredith is with Jeremy in front of Elena's room) Meredith: She's going to be fine. She got a little banged up today, hit her head. But it was just a slight concussion. Nothing to worry about Jeremy: But she collapsed, there was blood Meredith: Honestly, Jeremy, she's OK. She's just... She's been through a lot. Is there anyone you want to call? [A car] (Stefan is driving and Damon is on the passenger seat. They're on the phone with Jeremy) Damon: Did what?! Jeremy: I took her to the hospital. When you find your sister unconscious you call 911 Damon: Not when you have a parade of vampires at your disposal. Stefan: Every remaining original is going to want Elena dead to stop Alaric. She's a sitting duck in there Jeremy: Well, Meredith wants to keep her here for observation Damon: Jeremy, get Elena home. We'
SUMMARY:
Jeremy takes Elena to the hospital where Meredith takes care of her. Elena dreams of simpler times when her parents, Grayson and Miranda, and Aunt Jenna were still alive and her biggest concern was her relationship with Matt. Stefan and Damon leave Mystic Falls together on a mission, but soon split up when Elena needs one of them. Elijah returns and asks for Klaus' body in return for luring Alaric away. Alaric convinces Jeremy and Matt to help him kill Klaus so Elena can live a happy life, but Jeremy tricks Alaric. Caroline and Tyler are forced to make a life-changing decision and flee from Mystic Falls at the urging of their parents. Stefan kisses Elena before going to deal with Alaric. Alaric surprises Damon at the storage locker where Klaus' body is stored. Alaric kills Klaus (who was revealed to have made Damon's, Stefan's, Caroline's, Abby's and Tyler's bloodline). Matt was taking Elena out of town and she decides to go back to say good-bye to Stefan, saying that he came into her life at the right moment, but maybe if she had met Damon first, it would have been different. Caroline says good-bye to Tyler as Rebekah and Elijah mourn Klaus. Bonnie made a secret deal to reincarnate Klaus in the body of Tyler so that her friends would not die, however no one else knows this, as they all believe that Klaus was lying about being the head of their bloodline. Elena and Matt get into a car crash (while this is happening Elena is having flashbacks to when she and her parents were dying in the car). It is then shown in a flash back that Damon and Elena met the night of the car crash involving Elena and her parents, where he tells her that she wants "a love that consumes you, you want passion, an adventure, and even a little danger." But after meeting her, Damon compelled her saying that "No one can know I'm in town yet." When Stefan comes to save her and Matt, she signals him to save Matt instead of her. Elena then drowns, which made Alaric go down with her. He then says goodbye to Jeremy in ghost form. At the end of the episode Dr. Fell reveals to Damon that Elena was not suffering from a concussion, but a bleeding in the brain and that she did what she had to do to save her, by giving her vampire blood. The episode ends with Elena waking up as a vampire.