- Damon realizes Elena is in danger and enlists Stefan's help to find her. The brothers pay a visit to Aaron, and Damon shocks Stefan by revealing his first-hand knowledge of Aaron's family. In an attempt to stop Damon, Dr. Wes unleashes his secret weapon, forcing Damon to deal with a part of his past he thought was gone forever, as well as the consequences of his decades-long plan for revenge. Meanwhile, Elena is horrified by Dr. Wes' confessions about the dark history of Whitmore College and his own ultimate goal. Finally, a frantic Katherine turns to Matt for help, until she realizes that Nadia may be the one who can solve her problem.—Anonymous
- Down in the Whitmore cellar, Damon uses the last of his remaining strength to punch at the stone wall until a chunk falls out. He reaches through the grate for the bullet Aaron dropped when he came down. Damon puts the bullet in the lock and bashes at it with the rock, then kicks the door until it opens.
Katherine wakes up in bed with Stefan, very pleased with herself. Then she notices a lock of her hair has fallen out. She grabs the blanket and tries to get away without Stefan seeing her.
Katherine runs into Damon as shes leaving the house. She wastes no time in telling him she spent the night with Stefan.
Elena wakes up on the surgical table in a familiar lab. Dr. Maxfield knocks her out to begin blood dialysis.
At the house, Damon skips over being grossed out Stefan was with Katherine and tells him they have to go get Elena, but he doesnt know where she is, so they need leverage.
Damon and Stefan find Aaron Whitmore.
Elena struggles to get free as Maxfield asks her how she justifies Damon systematically killing off members of Aarons family tree. He justifies his torture in the name of science. He reads to her from a journal about electrocuting a vampire to see how much he could take. Shes horrified, then he tells her its her fathers journal. Everything Maxfield is doing, he learned from her dad.
Damon and Stefan casually interrogate Aaron, who says he doesnt know where Elena is. Damon says Stefan is in the midst of a psychotic break because he got with Katherine. Damon tells Aaron to call his uncle to get Elena back, or next Wes gets to try to reattach Aarons arms.
Elena realizes shes in her dads old clinic, which is now burned out from when the town tried to kill a bunch of vampires. Theyre back in Mystic Falls.
Wes steps outside to take the call from Aaron. Wes agrees to meet them at his classroom.
Wes goes back to the basement of the clinic and injects Enzo with something he calls his insurance policy. Hes giving Enzo a bag of blood so that he can have the day off to catch up with Damon.
Out in the woods, Matt puts Katherine through a workout, which she hopes will help her get in shape to stave off death. She cant turn back into a vampire because her body rejects the blood. Nadia arrives (Matt called her), with the suicide note Katherine left. She slaps her mother for trying to kill herself without saying good-bye.
Back on the Whitmore campus, Damon tells Stefan about his time getting sliced apart by the Augustines.
Back at the house, Katherine says someone changed her mind about wanting to die. She asks Nadia if she believes she can be forgiven. Nadia does, and she has an idea that might keep Katherine alive longer.
Down in the clinic, Elena remembers following a soccer ball down the stairs when she was a child and seeing her dads files and hearing the sounds of electricity.
Elena asks Wes if her dad ever brought a vampire to his clinic. Wes tells her Enzo is on a daytrip.
Back at Whitmore, the Salvatores arrive with Aaron at Wess classroom and find Enzo waiting for them.
Damon tries to skip over introductions, but Enzo is eager to tell him how he survived the fire Damon left him to die in.
Back with Wes, Elena figures out that Enzo is the Augustine vampire who killed her roommate Megan. Megan had a picture of Elenas parents because her parents funded Grayson Gilberts research.
Wes is ready to start phase 2 on Elena. Wes says Megan got suspicious of the research so she enrolled in Whitmore and snooped around the Whitmore house, where Wes guesses she got too close to Enzo.
Stefan calls Wes and they exchange threats. Stefan reports that Wes isnt going to do anything to save Aaron.
Enzo is more concerned with telling the story of how Damon betrayed him, leaving him to die in the fire. One of the scientists spared him.
Damon is ready to get on with killing Aaron, but Aaron mentions some files Wes gave him that are in his dorm room. Enzo tells Damon to stay with him as Stefan goes with Wes.
Nadia suggests spirit transference to Katherine. Because Katherines father and grandfather were Travelers, she should be able to transfer her essence into someone else and keep living. Katherine mentions that Stefan likes the body shes in now, and Nadia realizes when Katherine was asking about forgiveness, she didnt mean her, Katherine meant Stefan. Nadia gets angry and storms out.
Back in the classroom, Damon continues refusing to react to Enzos guilt trips. Enzo mentions that Wes poisoned him and he has to return for the antidote. Damon suggests they work together to save both Enzo and Elena. Instead, Enzo tells him that Wes said he couldnt return until Damon was dead. Then Enzo throws him out the window.
Enzo keeps trying to come after Damon, but Damon refuses to fight him. Enzo is too weak from the poison to really attack. Damon tries to get him to tell him where Elena is, but Enzo desiccates before he can talk.
In Aarons dorm room, he pretends to be getting files but really reaches for a gun. Stefan easily avoids him. Stefan is happy to kill him if thats what Aaron is going for. Aaron tells him the part of the Augustine story that Damon left out, about Damon killing off generations of Whitmores.
Aaron tells him to kill him so Damon wont have the satisfaction. Stefan walks away, saying not all vampires are like Damon.
Aaron turns over his family files.
Elena remembers going down her dads clinic and hearing thrashing and screaming behind a door. Her dad found her and tells her everythings fine and todays a good day because hes going to save a little girls life.
In the burned out clinic, Wes is pleased to see her sample cells mutated with his compound. He plans to condition her to crave vampire blood, like he did with Jesse.
She begs him not to turn her into a ripper. He jabs the needle into her chest and she hears Stefans voice. She bashes Wes in the head and knocks him out and the needle falls from her chest. Stefan comes down and frees her. She grabs her dads journal on the way out.
Nadia stops by Matt at the Grille. She wants to leave the Travelers knife with him, in case Katherine changes her mind about the spirit transfer. Nadia is upset to lose Katherine after spending 500 years searching for her.
Matt knows what its like to have a crappy parent. He agrees to hold onto the knife.
Enzo wakes up in a lab. Damon tells him he injected him with everything labeled antidote. Damon reaches inside Enzos chest and tells him he had to flip off his humanity to leave him. Enzo tells Damon hes just a monster and always will be.
Back at the house, Damon finds Elena reading through her dads journal. She found a reference to Megan in her dads journal. He cured her from a congenital heart defect, which is why Megan had a picture of Grayson Gilbert in her phone. Damon isnt surprised Elena is able to find the one positive thing out of all the torture in the journal.
He doesnt understand how Elena can keep looking past all the terrible things hes done himself. She says she loves him and accepts him, but he tells her hes freeing her of that.
Im choosing to relieve you of every awful thing Ive ever done, Damon says. He shouts at her to stop defending him. I wont change who I am. I cant. But I refuse to change you, he says.
Stefan comes up to his room to find Katherine examining her wrinkles. She walks to talk about last night. He says they got swept up in a moment.
Katherine tells him shes dying, but he thinks shell find a way out of it. She asks what she has to do to get redemption. He tells her 147 years is a lot to forgive in one night. She doesnt think hell ever look at her the way he looks at Elena. He takes her hand and tells her hes sorry shes dying.
Aaron goes down to the clinic and finds Wes passed out on the floor. He yells at his uncle for selling him out. He picks up the syringe Wes was going to inject Elena with, then tells his uncle he never wants to see him again.
Back at the house, Elena reels from her break-up with Damon. She tosses her dads journal in the fire.
Katherine calls her daughter, asking if shell help her find a Traveler to do the spell. Katherine thinks Stefan believes a part of her can still be redeemed. But suddenly she stops talking. Katherine grabs her arm, then her heart, and collapses down the stairs.
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