- Damon tries to get back together with Elena, however, Katherine has a plan and attempts to take Elena's body permanently. Tyler is upset with Caroline and Matt is used by Katherine. Enzo finds Damon and they decide to become a team again.
- Tyler is back, living in his ancestral mansion with Matt, who throws a welcome party for the lonely hybrid, who is too angry over Caroline's affair with Klaus to consider a reconciliation. Katherine, having possessed Elena's body, conspires further with daughter Nadia and hired Traveler witch Mia to subdue her host permanently and forces Matt to teach her about Elena, but Damon hid Katherine's corpse. Enzo demands that Damon put down Aaron like every Whitmore before him, which Damon does after 'Elena' dumps him. Stefan's mediation efforts are ignored.—KGF Vissers
- Katherine-as-Elena joins Matt on a bench at college. She checks his current vervane status and, after he reminds her he doesn't take it in case anyone needs his blood, she plucks off his vervane bracelet. She fills him in on the fact she's now Traveler Katherine, hitching a ride in Elena's body. She wants a crash course in all things Elena. When he objects, Nadia joins them and they compel him for the Elena 411, including fashion choices.
"My final question, because I'm going to need it later, is: how did Elena Gilbert break up with you?" she asks.
Earlier That Day Nadia tells her mother that Mia the Traveler says they need her corpse. Until then, Katherine agrees to be chained to the hotel bed in case Elena's consciousness pops through. Damon keeps leaving Elena messages. Nadia goes to find Katherine's body.
Back at the Salvatore's, Damon comes in with a dirt-covered shovel. He says he's been "out." He buried Katherine's body. Nadia is there to get it, ostensibly to take it back to Bulgaria, but Damon is only too happy to deny her dying request.
At his house, Tyler is starting his day off by drinking. Matt sees he in a funk and, after Tyler won't talk about New Orleans except to say the drama is over, announces he's throwing Tyler a welcome back party.
In her dorm room, Caroline works out her issues with obsessive cleaning. Aaron comes by the room to talk to Elena. He tells Caroline Wes won't be a problem anymore -- is family's trust money came through and he cut off all Augustine experiments.
When he returns to his room, one of those experiments is waiting -- Enzo is there.
Stefan calls Caroline because he thinks Elena is ignoring Damon's calls. Caroline doesn't want any part of getting them back together. "How would you like to be judged solely based on who you're attracted to?" Stefan asks. Caroline thinks of her roll in the woods with Klaus. "Why? Do you know something?"
Stefan thinks Elena is good for Damon because she makes him happy. They realize Elena told both of them she was at the other place.
Locked to the bed in the hotel room, Elena's phone ringing annoys Katherine. Katherine starts to get the vapors and her eyes go black -- Elena comes to and finds herself chained to the bed. She immediately knows Katherine is behind it.
With her vampire strength, Elena is able to break her chains. She rushes for her phone, but before she gets anywhere, Nadia comes back. She calls Katherine back, but they know it's a matter of time until Elena breaks through again.
At the bar, Stefan tells Damon he's being a dick pouting over Elena. Caroline arrives, reporting that no one knows where Elena is, but she's there to help Damon get her back
"This is what it's come to? You brought me love advice from prudy Trudy?" Damon asks Stefan. "I can be unpredictable, and incredibly reckless," Caroline insists.
Damon wanders off, saying he doesn't need their help.
In the hotel room, Katherine suggests she go to Tyler's party to assuage everyone's suspicions about Elena and maybe find out where her body is buried. Nadia doesn't like the idea, pointing out that Katherine doesn't know anything about Elena. But Katherine knows just who to go to.
Tyler and Matt get ready for the party at the Lockwood mansion. Tyler asks is Caroline is coming but won't admit to wanting her back.
Damon comes home to find Enzo waiting for him on his couch with a body bag at his feet and blood on his lips.
Enzo knows about Damon systematically killing off the Whitmores and is willing to reconsider his opinion of Damon. He brought Damon a present- Aaron Whitmore.
"So do you want to kill him? Or shall I?" Enzo asks.
At Tyler's party, Elena compels Matt to leave her alone and she finds Stefan. She tells Stefan she was "thinking, processing, trying to figure out this whole Damon thing." Katherine lays on the Elena sweetness thickly.
She asks how he's handling Katherine's death then gets annoyed that he's fine. She is pushy suggesting they should have a funeral. She asks where Katherine is buried. Damon said she's where she was always meant to be.
Back at the house, Enzo is getting itchy to kill Aaron. Damon struggles not to.
Caroline calls Damon to tell him Elena is at Tyler's.
Aaron wakes up and Enzo is ready to pounce, but Damon snaps Enzo's neck instead. He takes off Aaron's vervane watch and compels him to leave town.
At Tyler's, Katherine tells Nadia that for 145 years, Damon thought she was buried in the tomb under the old church, so that must be where he buried her. Katherine prepares to leave, but back inside she runs into Caroline.
Caroline tells Elena "I did a bad thing." Katherine is ready to blow her off, but Caroline insists. Caroline confesses to her Klaus tryst.
Katherine is surprised, then when she sees Tyler within earshot, she asks for details. She makes a point of repeating "now that you've slept with Klaus" for Tyler's benefit. Tyler shoots Caroline the death stare of a thousand daggers.
Katherine and Nadia join Mia and Katherine's body in the tomb. Mia needs some of Elena's blood, then she digs a knife into Katherine's dead body and recites a spell. Katherine's spirit temporarily leaves Elena's body and Elena plays it calm, realizing very quickly what's going on, and pretends to be Katherine. (So, if you're scoring at home, it's Elena in Elena's body pretending to be Katherine in Elena's body as she stands over Katherine's body.)
Back at the Lockwood mansion, Caroline tries to talk to Tyler, but he's focused on the thousands of people that Klaus killed, including his mother.
Tyler yells at her to leave, and when she tries to stay to talk to him, he hybrids out at her. Stefan comes to intervene and Tyler throws the Klaus news at him.
After taking a moment to process it, Stefan decks Tyler, saying Caroline doesn't deserve to be treated that way.
In the tomb, Nadia asks Elena where she wants to start their world tour. Mia the Traveler says she only needs a few more seconds to finish, so Elena shoves her into some rocks, knocking her out. Then she skewers Nadia with a torch.
Damon arrives at Matt's but can't get in because he's not invited.
Down in the tomb, Nadia wakes up and removes the skewer from her body. Mia is back on her feet, too, and resumes the spell.
Out in the woods, Elena triest o call for help but finds there's a pin lock on her phone. She tries to run but Katherine works her way into her head as she runs.
Mai continues chanting over Katherine's burning body as Elena loses more and more of herself.
Elena reaches the edge of the party and runs into Damon's arms. She gets as far as "Damon, thank god," then Mia announces it's done.
Elena's eyes gloss over black again and she seems to be Katherine again. Damon wants to talk and tells her she's the best person he's ever met and for him to assume that he could change her gives him way too much credit and her not nearly enough. "You're the best influence on me, I need you. You're the good and I need a little good in my life. Without it that's an awful lot of darkness," he says.
Elena/Katherine tells him that's a lot of responsibility and she can't change who he is. She mentions him torturing Katherine as she lay dying and he's completely confused. She tells him they're over.
She turns and walks away, smirking.
Stefan hears it and Damon thinks he's enjoying it.
Matt finds Tyler sulking and drinking on the couch, trying to figure out how to deal with the fact the girl he love just slept with his nemesis.
Tyler tells Matt that Klaus "crushed" him in New Orleans and this comes just when he thought he couldn't do anything worse.
In the tomb, Mia covers Katherine's burned body and tells her that Katherien has permanent control of Elena's body. Mia asks about her payment. Katherine rips out her heart from behind, saying she hates loose ends.
"She gave me the creeps anyway," Nadia says. "Cold, manipulative, good hair -- you really are my daughter," Katherine says.
Nadia's ready to hit the road, but Katherine announces she's staying. "For the first time in the last 500 years, I'm in the clear. There's no one coming after me," Katherine says.
She tells Nadia she should stay, too. Katherine tells Nadia she wants it all: her daughter, immortality and Stefan, her one true love.
Stefan comes home to find Caroline sitting in front of his fire. She asks him if she's a horrible person.
He asks her what she thought when she found out about him and Katherine. "Honestly, I thought 'ew,'" she says.
He points out that if he held it against her, she wouldn't be there. Then he tells her she's horrible and thoughtless and shallow and goes on and on, smiling until she starts laughing.
On the way out of town, Aaron stops when he sees a body in the road. It's Enzo. And Damon is there, too.
He tells Aaron his family deserved to be killed, and so does he.
"Elena thinks I'm a monster, and you know what -- she's right," Damon says, as he vamps out and chomps into Aaron's neck, leaving him bleeding out on the pavement.
"Now that's the Damon Salvatore I remember," Enzo says.
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