- Elena decides to take matters into her own hands and offers a tempting incentive to Rose for her help. When things take an unexpected turn, however, Rose calls on Damon to deal with the plan Elena has set in motion. Jeremy's reckless attempt to help Bonnie retrieve the moonstone lands him in a life-threatening position and forces Stefan to put himself in danger. Bonnie and Luka form a closer connection. Tyler shows Caroline the Lockwood cellar, where she makes a discovery that leaves them both terrified.—CW Publicity
- Elena tricks Rose to arrange a meeting with Slater in order to contact Klaus. When Rose finds her real intention, she calls Damon to tell him of Elena's plan. Meanwhile, Stefan, Damon, Bonnie and Jeremy plot to retrieve the moonstone to save Elena from Klaus, but things go wrong when Jeremy decides to enter the tomb to get the moonstone alone. Tyler and Caroline find a video showing Mason's transformations and they are shocked by what they see.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Elena wakes up in the middle of the night (with perfect eye make-up, naturally) with the creepy feeling that someone is watching her. Because someone is: Jonas the witch.
She goes to investigate, running into a half-naked Alaric in the hallway. Awk-ward. Jenna comes out to investigate, explaining they were responsible for the noises Elena heard. As they try to get out of the conversation as fast as possible Jonas takes some things from Elena's room, like hair from her hairbrush.
She goes back to bed and Jonas grabs a picture on his way out, unseen.
Damon and Stefan pay a visit to Katherine in her tomb, next we see they're on Elena's doorstep.
Back to the tomb, where they ask Katherine for the moonstone. She's starving, dirty and bored. She promises to leave Mystic Falls if they give her the moonstone.
Back at Elena's, they tell her they think the curse can be destroyed by releasing it from the moonstone, which Bonnie has agreed to help with.
They want Bonnie to unseal the tomb long enough for them to get in and get the moonstone. But Elena doesn't want them to.
She thinks Klaus will still come for everyone.
Bonnie and Luka bond over their witchery. She tells him about her nose bleeds. He says she needs to draw power from nature, or draw power from another witch. Standing outside the school he volunteers to show her.
They trade jewelry. He tells her to concentrate. Nature rustles all around them, and a strong wind blows through. Bonnie loves it.
Jeremy wanders up, Luka wanders off. Bonnie is left with his dog tags. She gets a text from Damon.
Elena comes by the Salvatore house and finds a half-naked Rose. Elena wants to get more information from Slater. In return, Elena says she'll make it possible for Rose to walk in the daylight.
At school, Tyler shoots hoops. Matt joins him, saying he's feeling guilty for picking a fight with him. Matt runs into Caroline, but excuses himself.
Caroline asks Tyler what he's going to do with the full moon approaching. She offers to help.
The boys make their pitch to Bonnie. She thinks she can lower the spell long enough for them to get the moonstone if she has something of Katherine's. Jeremy offers to help, but she blows him off.
Rose takes Elena to Slater's. He doesn't answer (because, we know, he's dead inside). Rose breaks in and finds his body.
They look through his stuff, but his computer is password protected. There's a noise in the other room. Rose finds a girl she recognizes as Alice, his girlfriend.
Stefan gives Bonnie a picture of Katherine, which she burns for a spell. She says if she blows the ashes on Katherine, it should incapacitate her for a while. Her nose bleeds as she finishes.
Caroline and Tyler take a stroll in the woods. He says he understands why she pushed Matt away, that she can't be with someone she can't be honest with. He takes her to the cellar on the old Lockwood property, not knowing she's been there before.
He shows her the bolts in the cellar walls. She finds something wrapped in cloth and opens it. It's Mason's journal, in which he describes everything that happened to him. They find a flashdrive.
Bonnie finishes her spell at the Salvatores'. With them out of earshot, Jeremy points out to her that she's not strong enough. She says she'll be fine.
He takes some of the magic ashes when she's not looking.
Back at Slater's, Rose explains that Alice found Slater a few minutes before they did and she was only dating him to see if he'd turn her. She's all gothed out.
She thinks Elena looks familiar.
She isn't helpful until Elena says she'll convince Rose to turn her, although she later tells Rose she was lying.
Alice finds Slater's hard drive wiped, but accesses his back-up files (password: Kristen Stewart). He exchanged dozens of emails with Cody Webber about Elijah.
Elena tells Alice to call him with the message that the doppelganger is alive and ready to surrender. Rose realizes Elena is trying to sacrifice herself to save her family.
In the tomb, Jeremy goes alone to get the moonstone from Katherine. He stakes her in the gut and tosses the ashes on her, knocking her out. He searches her but doesn't find it on her. He goes looking in the tomb and finds it in the back. He runs for the exit, but Katherine wakes up and chomps down on his neck. He throws the moonstone out beyond the tomb's entrance.
Bonnie and the brothers arrive outside. Rose calls Damon, telling him to come to Richmond immediately.
Down in the tomb, Stefan finds the moonstone and a freshly perky Katherine drags out Jeremy. He's wearing the ring so she can drain him all she likes and he won't die. She says she'll be in back playing with him and to holler when they lift the spell.
Elijah sits with Jonas as he prepares a spell to look for Elena.
In Slater's apartment, Elena suddenly sees Elijah's reflection in the glass. Elijah knows where she is.
Bonnie prepares to lift the tomb spell and Stefan hopes he can make it in and out with the ash. Bonnie tells him it's going to take her awhile to lift the spell.
She starts chanting and back at his house, Luka gets a chill.
Tyler and Caroline watch the flashdrive -- which is a recording of Mason's first transformation. He locked himself in a garage and bolted himself to the floor. He weakened himself with diluted wolfbane. They watch as he goes totally nuts and writhes in pain. Caroline reads in his journal as he says he felt all of it. It goes on for hours. Tyler gets seriously freaked out.
Damon joins Elena in Richmond. She refuses to go with him, saying she doesn't want to be saved. She tries to hit him and he stops her.
In the tomb, Bonnie's spell is in full effect. Luka feels the effects. They both get nosebleeds. Luka falls to the floor. Trapped, Jeremy yells at Stefan to stop her. She collapses.
She wakes up and realizes she's not strong enough, even with help.
Katherine prepares to take another chomp out of Jeremy so Stefan races in and throws Jeremy out. But now he's trapped.
Back with Tyler, Caroline suggests they stop researching. She finds a line in which Mason calls it "unimaginable pain."
Tyler asks why she's helping him. She tells him she was alone when she turned and had no control and killed somebody. She doesn't want that to happen to him.
The doorbell breaks up the tender moment.
It's Matt on her doorstep. He says he misses her. She's grinning when Tyler opens the door behind her, interrupting.
Back in Richmond, vampires come for Elena. Damon tries to protect her, but Elijah arrives shortly after them. They say they are bringing her to Klaus. He checks that no one else knows they're there then he rips their hearts out of their chests and leaves.
Later, Elijah meets again with Jonas. He knows the Salvatores will keep Elena safe, which is what he and Jonas apparently want.
Bonnie takes Jeremy home, saying what he did was stupid. He says he didn't have a choice because he didn't want her to get hurt. "You can't feel that way about me," she tells him.
He tells her she can't pretend he's just her friend's little brother with a crush on her. He goes to kiss her, but she says she can't and leaves.
Damon brings Elena home. Apparently, Rose ran.
He tells her what she did was stupid.
Jeremy opens the door and they see his neck.
Cut to Elena racing to the tomb to see Stefan. Damon stops her. Stefan and Katherine hear them arguing as he stops her from going in. After she leaves, Stefan, who is unharmed but stuck, tells Damon that Bonnie has the moonstone and to work with her.
"You martyr yourself into a tomb and I get partnered with a semi-competent witch -- wonderful," Damon says.
Stefan makes Damon promise to keep Elena safe.
After Damon leaves, Katherine tells him he just made the biggest mistake of his life.
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