- Elena gets some hopeful news from Alaric and Stefan regarding the Gemini Coven; Tyler tries to help Liv and Luke after learning of disturbing plans the coven has for them; dinner takes a drastic turn for Jo; Kai makes a dangerous discovery.—mooremarissa40
- Kai shows Bonnie his childhood home and falsely promises to let her have his car and go after a dinner. Her magic, transported with Damon in the teddy-bear, makes the difference when he, skeptic Stefan and Alaric visit the Gemini coven home, amazed it was magically cloaked invisible. Jo now must disclose she's Kai's twin sister, who survived the massacre in their home, which is about the coven's tradition to be ruled by the survivor of twins who must fight each other to the death upon reaching the age of 22, as they did and Luke and Liv will soon. However, their powerful patriarch is ready to go to bloody extremes, turning on Damon's party, the best possible weapon being the knife Jo hid after Kai massacred most of his siblings. Jo cleaned the medical records to prevent Liam finding out about the vampires, but he overhears too much at dinner, so Elena compels him into oblivion, intending to dump him.—KGF Vissers
- May 9, 1994
During Kai's massacre of his family, a young Jo pulls the knife from her abdomen and tries to protect her two little siblings, a blond boy and girl. They hide under the bed as Kai stalks them.
Kai takes Bonnie out of his trunk and announces he flew her all the way to his hometown of Portland, Oregon.
At Whitmore, Caroline prepares for "Friendsgiving" and Elena tries to figure out the best way to tell Liam she's a vampire. Alaric calls to bail, explaining that he and Stefan and Damon are in Portland, tracking down the Gemini Coven in the hopes of finding the ascendant and Bonnie. Caroline and Elena are too excited about the news Bonnie could be alive to care. And Stefan wasn't invited anyway.
In Portland, Damon and Alaric try to convince Stefan to make up with Caroline by dating her. They reach the supposed location of the coven that Stefan visited four months ago. It's an empty field.
In 1994, there's a house on the site.
Back in the present, Damon taunts Stefan with Bonnie's bear until Stefan grabs it and drop-kicks it into the field. As the bear crosses an invisible plane, the bear's Bonnie magic kicks in, revealing a house.
Back at Whitmore, Jo does a double take when she meets Liv, but Liv says they haven't met before. Liv's in a sour mood as Luke prepares for their 22nd birthday.
Elena is surprised when Liam shows up and apologizes profusely. He double checked Lady Whitmore's medical records and found the injury was never there. Elena realizes Jo switched the files and thanks her later.
At the Gemini house, Alaric remembers what Jo said about putting her magic somewhere and they deduce Bonnie put hers in Ms. Cuddles the bear to keep Kai from using it to get out.
Stefan and Damon can't enter the house, so Alaric looks around.
In 1994, surrounded by the fresh blood stains of his family, Kai prepares Bonnie a Thanksgiving dinner. She explains that she's never going to like him or trust him and suggests they part ways peacefully. He agrees after one final dinner.
Back at Friendsgiving, Luke pulls up a video of him and Liv on his phone and Jo hears the sound of her own voice. She took the video 18 years ago of her little brother and sister Lucas and Olivia.
In the present, Alaric has found pictures of Jo and news articles about the attack. Damon notices a picture of Jo and Kai together and realizes they're siblings.
A man joins them out in front of the house and introduces himself as Joseph, Kai's father. After Damon explains he saw Kai die several times, Joseph renders him invisible and uses magic to bring Damon to his knees.
At Whitmore, Jo explains that they all came to Whitmore because they knew Sheila Bennett, Bonnie's Grams. She helped them put Kai away. Jo explains that Kai is her twin and he killed four of their siblings, but he was really targeting Luke and Liv because in their coven, twins are in line to be leaders. Kai wanted to lead, but never would with them alive. (Liam balks at the word coven and Caroline compels him an errand to run.)
Jo explains that during the attack, she protected Lucas and Olivia with magic, which just made him angrier. When their parents saw Kai acting out because he was born without his own magic, their parents kept having children until another set of twins was born. Eventually Kai figured it out and he snapped.
Damon wakes up inside the Gemini house and Joseph explains he just wants answers. Damon is happy to provide them in exchange for the ascendant, but Joseph isn't inclined to give him the key to his sociopathic son's prison.
At Whitmore, Jo explains that the coven's tradition is that after their 22nd birthday, the twins' power merges, leaving the stronger one. The weaker one dies, which explains why Liv is in such a lousy mood.
Tyler finds Liv at the bar, drinking by herself. He suggests she just not go along with the merge, but she says the coven needs a leader. She's trying to get rid of him because he just reminds her of all the things she can't have.
Joseph explains to Damon that if Kai gets out, he'll go straight to Jo and kill her for her power. Damon suggests he could just kill Kai, but Joseph says if Kai manages to kill Jo he becomes everyone's problem.
Alaric calls Jo and starts by explaining he just met her dad. He fills her in while Elena talks to Stefan. As Liam returns, Elena wants to know how Stefan knew he could trust her with the fact he was a vampire. He says it was simple: he was in love with her. Meanwhile, as Joseph recites a spell over a locket with Jo's picture in it, Jo tells Alaric that if her dad thinks they're willing to free Kai, he'll retaliate. And besides, she has the ascendant.
Suddenly, Jo drops to her knees, incapacitated. "I think my dad's trying to kill me," she says.
As Jo coughs up blood, Elena relays the situation to Alaric and Stefan. Jo invites Stefan into her house and directs them to a tree stump in the front yard.
In 1994, with their dinner over, Bonnie is ready to leave Kai.
Damon tries to stop Joseph from hurting Jo but he brings Damon to his knees. Stefan and Alaric find a knife in the tree stump and figure it might be her version of Ms. Cuddles. Stefan flings it and it makes the house reappear. Stefan rushes in and grabs Joseph but he disappears before the brothers can do anything else.
Back at Whitmore, Jo is in bad shape. Liam chooses that moment to demand Elena tell him what's going on. They see that Jo's eyes are filled with blood and Liam tells Elena to call 911. Elena realizes there isn't enough time and feeds Jo his blood instead. Jo recovers and Elena confesses that she's a vampire. Then she compels Liam to forget everything, including her.
The night of the attack, Jo races outside and hides the knife with her magic in the tree trunk. Then she tells Kai she'll merge with him. (Kai explains the same thing to Bonnie in 1994, including that Jo assembled the whole coven to watch the ceremony the next day during the eclipse.) But after they recited the magic words, nothing happened.
Then their father came out with the ascendant and sent Kai away using the power of the eclipse.
In 1994, Kai strolls over to the tree trunk and explains that Bonnie's magic disappearing trick with Ms. Cuddles made him realize what Jo had done with hers. He takes out the knife. It's still full of magic, but Kai takes it all.
Bonnie reminds him that even with magic and the ascendant, he still needs a Bennett witch. He tells her that he's seen her do the spell twice and thinks all he needs is Bennett blood. He stabs Bonnie in the stomach.
Damon, Stefan and Alaric prepare to leave Portland, but Alaric refuses to get the ascendant from Jo and risk her life by possibly freeing Kai. So Damon compels him.
The next morning at Whitmore, Tyler suggests Liv can hide from her coven in Mystic Falls, where magic doesn't work. He promises to protect her from them.
Caroline runs into Stefan. He explains that he had to push her away because he knew she was the person who would help him grieve and he didn't want to. He tries to say more, but she cuts him off and leaves.
Elena joins Damon at the bar. He tells her about talking and bickering with Bonnie the four months he was gone. Damon still can't really believe she sacrificed herself so he could come back, but knows it was because of how much he talked about Elena.
Elena tells Damon about a tiny part of her feeling like there's a part of her life she's missing out on. She asks Damon to help her bring Bonnie back so Bonnie can help her decide what to do.
Bonnie wakes up outside the Gemini house to see a page from Kai that reads: "I lied." Bonnie sees that Kai took the car, she's in the middle of nowhere.
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