- Bonnie tries to open the coffin and overhears something, but Damon and Stephan arrive in the house and Damon kills the hybrid. Elena and Bonnie are preparing a birthday party for Caroline at school and Jeremy says goodbye for them. Tyler meets Caroline to tell that he would never hurt her since he loves her, but Klaus controls him. Stefan threatens Klaus and asks him to send his hybrids out of Mystic Falls and beheads one hybrid in front of Klaus to prove that he is not kidding. Klaus summons Tyler and compels him to bite Caroline, but Tyler reacts telling that he will not hurt Caroline. When Caroline arrives home, Elena, Bonnie and Matt are waiting for her; however they go to a tomb to celebrate her funeral instead. Out of the blue, Tyler appears and bites Caroline on the neck. Damon and Alaric go to a counsel meeting to raise fund to rebuild a bridge and Damon meets Klaus that tells that Stefan must stop beheading his hybrids. Meanwhile Alaric flirts with Dr. Meredith Fell and protects her against her ex-boyfriend and coroner Dr. Brian Walters. Damon unsuccessfully tries to stop Stephan from killing hybrids. Stefan abducts Elena, calls Klaus, gives her blood to her and promises to kill her, driving his car in high-speed. Klaus agrees to send the hybrids away. Klaus goes to Caroline's home and gives his blood to Caroline and saves her. Damon brings Elena home and on the next morning Jeremy travels to Denver. Alaric meets Dr. Fell while Sheriff Forbes finds Brian murdered.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Compelled by Damon at Elena's request, Jeremy packs to be put on the plane to Denver relatives by Alaric, who meets and acts as protective champion of Dr. Meredith Fell against her ex, medical examiner Brian Walters, tragically ignoring his warning against her. At a Founders meeting, Klaus gets the mayor, who he promises to keep Mystic Falls hybrids-safe, to order Damon to 'control Stefano'. Caroline refuses a birthday party but gets a celebration of her new life chapter. Tyler turns up, takes her separate and gets back on kissing terms, alas leading to unwittingly biting her. Klaus successfully offers to cure her with his blood, which turns her into a vampire too.—KGF Vissers
- Although Caroline is in no mood to celebrate her 18th birthday, Elena, Bonnie and Matt surprise her with a small party in an unusual location. Damon and Stefan disagree on the best way to handle Klaus, and a reckless Stefan decides to test his theory by taking things to dangerous extremes. Bonnie is concerned when Elena tells her about Jeremy's new plans. At a Founder's meeting, Alaric once again runs into Dr. Fell, who is in the middle of an argument with her ex-boyfriend, the medical examiner. Tyler refuses to go along with Klaus' latest demand, and is surprised when Klaus seems to accept his decision.—CW Publicity
- Damon and Elena work out their issues. Damon showers alone, Elena kicks a heavy bag.
Stefan comes for Damon to meet Bonnie at the old witch house. Stefan is eager to get Klaus to self-destruct. Stefan asks Damon why he's so chipper.
Alaric asks kicking Elena why she's so wound up. Channeling frustration.
Bonnie recites a spell on the Klaus family coffin, but it doesn't work. She yells at it. She thinks someone is there.
Damon and Stefan walk up to the house, but Damon thinks something is amiss. He goes inside to check on Bonnie. Outside, Stefan runs into a hybrid. He bares his fangs at Stefan, but Damon quickly rips his heart out from behind. The hybrids are really bringing down the neighborhood.
At school, Bonnie lies to Elena about what she was up to. Elena tells her about asking Damon to compel Jeremy to leave.
In the witch house basement, Damon bangs on the coffin with a shovel, but it won't budge. He does some dead vampire math. Klaus has six siblings. One dead kid in the old world, one dead kid in the new world. Klaus has Rebekah, so that leaves Elijah and two others. Three sleeping originals in four coffins, the fourth is the locked one.
Their plan is bust if the hybrids find their hiding spot.
Stefan thinks Klaus is bluffing about his threats to kill if Stefan harms his family. Stefan wants to call his bluff. Damon points out the only way to bluff is if you're prepared to lose everything.
Bonnie says good-bye to Jeremy. He thinks he can have a better life in Denver. Bonnie says Elena said exactly the same thing, hinting at the compulsion.
Tyler meets Caroline when she gets to school. She's angry about him nearly getting Jeremy killed. He apologizes for the fact he can't put her above Klaus. He gives her a present and wishes her happy birthday. It's a charm bracelet.
Klaus says good night to Rebekah in her coffin. Stefan shows up. He tells Klaus he wants him to get rid of his hybrids. Stefan tells Klaus to get rid of the hybrids or he'll do it himself. Klaus threatens to start killing people. Instead, Stefan suggests he might drop a coffin in the ocean. "Maybe I'd be willing to lose one brother if it meant killing yours," Klaus says. "Try me, let's find out," says Stefan. Bluff called.
Klaus's lady hybrid Mindy checks on them. Klaus says Stefan was just leaving after failing to make his point. In response, Stefan takes out a blade and lops off Mindy's head. "One down. You may want to send the rest of them away before it gets messy," Stefan tells Klaus.
Caroline comes home after a long day. Bonnie, Elena and Matt jump out and yell surprise and announce plans to go to the Falls for s'mores and tequila. But Caroline isn't really feeling her birthday this year, it's just a reminder that she's dead instead of 18.
Klaus summons Tyler to get back at Stefan. Tyler asks him to leave him out of it. Klaus tells him to bite Caroline, which would kill her. Tyler refuses. Klaus says he'll try something else.
Damon briefs Alaric on Stefan's bluff. Ric wonders if Stefan's humanity is on or off. "It could have a dimmer switch, which is a huge problem," Damon says. He can't predict how far Stefan is willing to go until after somebody dies.
Elena leads Bonnie, Caroline and Matt to a tomb. Elena suggests a funeral for Caroline to say good bye to her old life so she can start a new one. They start eulogizing her as Elena prepares the cake.
Alaric and Damon go to a council meeting. Alaric asks him why Elena is acting weird, but Damon denies all knowledge.
Alaric runs into Dr. Fell, who comes from a long line of founders and knows about the vampires. It's a fundraiser for the town bridge. Klaus is there, chatting up Carol Lockwood. "Carol, don't take this the wrong way, but do you realize you've been kissing the a--of an immortal hybrid who ruined your son's life?" Damon asks her.
Carol says Klaus has promised to protect Tyler. Carol asks Damon to control Stefan so the council won't have to take action.
Elena busts Caroline for texting Tyler. Bonnie tells Caroline she can't control everyone and that she thinks it's wrong that she compelled Jeremy.
At the fundraiser, Sheriff Forbes also asks Damon to rein in Stefan before innocent people get hurt.
Dr. Fell talks to a guy named Brian, who tells her she's going to ruin her career. Alaric interrupts their argument after Brian grabs her. "You might want to get to know her before you become her write knight, she's kind of a psycho case," Brian tells Ric. Alaric stares him down. Brian's the medical examiner on the Council. Meredith is summoned away.
Stefan arrives and picks up a butcher knife as he walks through the house. He stabs a hybrid upstairs and is about to behead him when Damon stops him. Damon tells him to beat the villain you have to be smarter. "To beat the villain you have to be the better villain," Stefan says.
Tyler finds the group at the tomb and asks to talk to Caroline.
Outside, he tells her he takes back everything he said that morning. He says Klaus can't control him when it comes to her. He tells her he loves her and kisses her. He starts nuzzling her neck and then suddenly nips her. He's as shocked as she is. She slumps to the ground and screams at him to leave.
Elena and Matt look for her outside. Someone knocks Matt out and grabs Elena, putting a hand over her mouth. It's Stefan.
He puts her in a car and drives off. Damon calls her phone and Stefan answers. He asks what Klaus will do if he can't make anymore hybrids.
Damon pulls Klaus aside in the party, telling him what Stefan's up to. Klaus thinks he's bluffing, but Damon says not even he knows what Stefan is up to.
In the car, Stefan tells Elena he might turn her into a vampire. Stefan calls Klaus and puts him on speaker as he speeds down the road. He bites his wrist and makes Elena drink then tells Klaus he's about to drive Elena off the bridge. Klaus hears the panic in Elena's voice and the resolve in Stefan's and relents, agreeing to send the hybrids away.
Stefan stops the car. Elena gets out, screaming at Stefan. It's the same bridge her parents died on, and that she nearly died on, which Stefan knows because he saved her.
Stefan says her fear sold it to Klaus and all that matters now is that Klaus has a weakness and Stefan can exploit it. Stefan lost Elena when he left town with Klaus, he just thinks she hasn't let herself admit it yet. He drives off, leaving her there.
Matt greets Klaus at Caroline's door. Tyler told him what happened and Klaus is there offering his blood to heal her. He wants Anne's support in return. She invites him in.
Klaus tells Caroline she's collateral damage and he could let her die if she really thinks her existence has no meaning. But he tells her there's a whole world of great cities and art and music out there. She doesn't want to die. He props her up gently and lets her drink from his veins as he wishes her happy birthday.
Damon brings Elena home. He points out that Stefan got them a win today. He asks if she's going to be OK. He looks deep into her eyes and she says he can't kiss her again. She doesn't mean it. He says it's right, just not right now. He leaves.
The next day, Elena says good bye to Jeremy. Bonnie comes. She only came to say good bye.
Caroline wakes up healed in bed. There's a present at her bedside from Klaus. It's a diamond bracelet.
Back on the bridge, Elena meets with Matt. She feels stuck, holding on to her normal life. He says it's OK to let go. He says a little eulogy for that Elena.
Dr. Fell finds Alaric drinking at the Grill in the middle of the day. She joins him, saying she just lost a patient.
Sheriff Forbes escorts Damon to a crime scene in the middle of the woods. It's Brian the medical examiner. He was staked, but wasn't a vampire. It's a murder.
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