- In the aftermath of Jo and Alaric's wedding, an unexpected, and definitely uninvited guest shows up, putting Elena's life in jeopardy. Despite Matt's attempt to leave town to save himself, Bonnie takes matters into her own hands after finding herself on the receiving end of a twisted plan.
- Elena finds Damon lying in the road where they first met. She knows something bad has happened.
Jump to the chaos following Kai's violent interruption of Jo and Alaric's wedding. Damon feeds wounded Elena his blood and Alaric cradles Jo's body in his arms. Elena won't wake up.
Before Caroline and Stefan can help, Kai uses his magic to snap their necks before he goes after Jo. Kai family converges on him, chanting a Gemini spell to send him back to a prison world. Before they can finish, Kai picks up a shard of glass and gleefully stabs himself in his own neck to take out his whole family.
As Elena lies in a hospital bed, she dreams of Alaric and tells him to keep fighting.
Damon calls Bonnie to tell her Jo is dead and Elena won't wake up. Kai drained her blood but left her alive.
Stefan watches as his mother frantically searches for her six friends that Kai told her he brought back.
Outside the wedding, Liv and Tyler are badly hurt and lying on the ground. Tyler has a giant piece of glass in his stomach and Liv, along with the rest of her coven, is dying after Kai killed himself. Tyler tells her he loves her. She notices it's a full moon and doesn't want him to die. She suggests he trigger his werewolf gene by killing her so he'll get a second chance at life. She tells him she loves him and tells him not to waste it, then places his hand over her mouth. Tyler sobs as he kills the dying woman he loves.
As the curse starts to kick in, Tyler calls Matt to warn all the vampires to stay away from him. He's not sure he can control himself and his bite will kill them.
Stefan gets fed up with Lily searching for her friends, whom she insists on calling her family. He says if she doesn't come with him, she's out of his life. She isn't going. Then she confesses the really bad news: she gave Kai her blood.
Back at the wedding, Kai comes back to life and yanks the glass out of his neck. He licks his father's blood to complete his transition.
Alaric puts Jo in the back of his car and takes a gun out of his glove compartment. He sees Kai and empties it into him, without effect. He converted himself into one of Lily's heretics, he can siphon the magic of vampirism and turn it into more magic. Alaric doesn't care. He holds the gun to his own head and pulls the trigger -- it's empty.
Then Tyle the werewolf comes out of nowhere and tackles Kai. He stares down Alaric, then runs off.
Elena dreams about standing on Wickery Bridge and saying good-bye to her human self with Matt.
Matt comes back to the Salvatore house, where Bonnie has found a recorded message from Kai in which he explains the new "inspired" ways he's going to make her suffer.
At the hospital, Damon gets a text: Ty werewolf, Kai vampire. Then Kai shows up with the werewolf bite in his neck. Damon offers to go get the cure in New Orleans (from Klaus) if Kai tells him what he did.
On the video, Kai explains: he linked Bonnie's life to Elena's and as long as Bonnie lives, Elena will stay asleep. Matt immediately urges Bonnie to get out of town, knowing Damon might come after her.
Elena dreams about the time she and Stefan went on their post-vampire hike, but this time she says good-bye.
Caroline and Stefan visit Elena. Caroline is OK with waiting for Bonnie to live a long and happy life before Elena wakes up, un-aged. She asks how Stefan feels about his "soul mate." Stefan notes that Elena was the only person who ever thought his brother was worth loving, and brought him closer to Damon. "I think in the end I needed him more than I needed her," Stefan says.
Stefan tries to talk to Caroline about them, but she can't.
Bonnie finds Kai back at the wedding and uses her magic to torture him into undoing the spell. He only laughs and says he can't. Then he siphons the magic from his werewolf venom and flings Bonnie into a wall.
Back in the road, Elena asks Damon again how bad it is. He tells her what Kai did.
Damon finds Bonnie bleeding internally with a collapsed lung. Kai tries to encourage Damon to walk away and go live the life he always dreamed with Elena. Damon apologizes to Bonnie, then kisses her on the forehead and walks away.
Kai is disappointed Damon gave up on her so easily. Kai doesn't stay upset long -- Damon sneaks up behind him and takes off his head, then Damon rushes to feed his blood to Bonnie.
The next day, everyone regroups at the Salvatore house. Elena is asleep in a coffin. They take turns saying good-bye. Caroline holds Elena and Bonnie's hands and helps Bonnie talk to Elena in her memories.
The three of them imagine a sleepover. Elena asks them to write down everything that happens to them so that when she wakes up she can read all about their lives. Bonnie apologizes, but Elena says they both get everything they want -- they just can't have it at the same time.
Elena asks Bonnie to levitate feathers from a pillow, just like the first time Bonnie showed her her powers. Elena sees herself back on the bridge with Matt, who she hopes becomes a cop, spending his life fighting for people who are good, like he is. He knows there's a chance he'll never see her again. Elena tries to help Alaric deal with his grief, telling him to let himself drown in his grief at first, and then he'll start to swim and get stronger.
Jeremy arrives. Elena is happy to see him. He tells her he'll be happy doing what he was born to do. In her vision with Tyler, she urges him to leave Mystic Falls and embrace his wolf side.
Finally, it's Stefan's turn. He cries as she sees her back at the quarry. She tells him she loves him and can't wait to see what life he's chosen for himself in 60 or 70 years when she sees him again. All he knows is it won't be high school.
Enzo arrives to meet Lily at the shipping containers where she expected to find her friends. She tries to explain what they mean to her. Then Enzo notices a building that wasn't there last night.Kai had it cloaked, then he died. Lily goes into and finds her family.
Damon and Stefan close Elena's coffin in the crypt. If word gets out that her body has the cure in it, every vampire will come after her. Bonnie is going to spell it shut.
It's Damon's turn to say good-bye. She tells him to live his life and enjoy himself. They slow dance in the middle of the road.
Stefan sits down with Caroline, and tells her he made a list about all the ways loving her has changed his life. He understands if he has to wait for her, and says he will. "When you're ready for me, I will be ready for you," he says.
Damon and Elena finish their dance and Damon prepares to spend the next 60 years of his life without her in it. He kisses her.
Times passes.
Jump to still-young deputy Matt patrolling Mystic Falls, which looks like a war zone. Damon stands above it all on the clock tower.
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