- As the full moon nears, Caroline helps Tyler prepare for his transformation. Meanwhile, Damon and Alaric are suspicious when a stranger shows up looking for Mason.
- During the full moon, Damon asks Bonnie to cast a spell to keep Elena incapable of leaving her home. Caroline stays with Tyler, who has imprisoned himself in the Lockwood cellar, to help him during his first transformation to a werewolf. Meanwhile, Jules arrives in Mystic Falls seeking out Mason. Alaric and Damon suspect that she might also be a werewolf. Bonnie meets with Luka expecting to break the moonstone curse using a spell. Elijah visits Elena and proposes a deal to her: she negotiates Stefan's release from the tomb. Damon and Rose grow close to each other and they have an unexpected visitor.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- As the full moon approaches, Caroline helps Tyler prepare for the transformation he is powerless to stop. While Stefan and Katherine play mind games on one another, Damon and Alaric are suspicious when a stranger named Jules shows up in Mystic Falls, searching for her missing friend, Mason. Elena is frustrated at the lengths Jeremy and her friends have gone to in order to keep her safe. Bonnie and Luka work together on a spell, while still keeping secrets from one another. Finally, Elijah makes an unexpected appearance with an offer that could change everything.—CW Publicity
- Tyler watches the video of Mason's werewolf transformation again and prepares for his own. He calls Mason and gets no answer. He leaves a message on an answering machine and a woman in the room hears him mention the full moon.
At Elena's, Bonnie says she wants to come up with a way to remove the curse from the moonstone. Elena wants her to focus on getting Stefan out of the tomb, but she says no, breaking the curse is her priority.
Jeremy comes in and Bonnie says an awkward goodbye to get coffee downstairs.
Elena takes the moonstone from Bonnie's purse, but runs into her on the stairs. Bonnie knows she's up to something and casts a spell to keep Elena in the house.
Damon brings Stefan a care package. Stefan tells Damon to focus on the moonstone.
Tyler is leaving for school in the morning when the girl from Mason's apartment shows up on his doorstep. She's Jules and she tells Tyler and Carol that Mason's not in Florida.
At the Grill, Tyler tells Caroline that Mason never made it back to Florida. Ric observes.
Damon visits Elena. He says "vampire Barbie" is taking care of Tyler on the full moon. Ric calls Damon to say that Mason has been declared a missing person.
Jules says goodbye to Carol Lockwood then makes a call, telling the person on the other end of the line that they were right, Mason lied. There's another werewolf.
Jules goes to the Grill looking for Tyler. Damon wants to test her with wolf's bane.
Down in the cave, Tyler prepares his chains. Caroline mixes his wolf's bane with water. Tyler debates what to wear. "I don't think it's like the Hulk where I get to keep my pants," he says.
Bonnie visits Luka to give him his dogtags back. He's angry but she apologizes and he forgives her quickly.
She's impressed with his dad's collection of spell books.
She asks him if he knows how to break the bond between a talisman and a spell.
Ric sidles up next to Jules at the Grill and offers to buy her a drink with a drunk routine. Damon "rescues" her while Ric mixes wolf's bane in her drink.
But she doesn't drink.
In the tomb, Katherine taunts Stefan about not eating. She strips, saying they should make the best of being trapped. She tells him Damon isn't in a rush to get him out. She says no one will ever know and kisses him.
He resists, but only for a second -- then he wakes up. He tells her to stay out of his head.
Elena finds Jenna going through her mom's stuff to help Carol Lockwood with something on town history. Suddenly, Elijah is standing in her house.
Jenna is unfazed, she thinks he's there doing research on Mystic Falls. "Thank you so much for inviting me into your home, Jenna," he says.
He leaves and Elena runs upstairs to get Jeremy -- but then Elijah's there. Elena sends him downstairs, not mentioning Elijah.
He says they should talk.
In the bar, Jules fiddles with her drink and talks to Damon. She still won't drink.
At nearly 8 p.m., Tyler is chained and waiting as Caroline watches. He chugs the wolf's bane, but spits it up. She tries to comfort him.
In Elena's house, Elijah tells her he means her no harm. He tells her he's not trying to break the curse. He says Klaus is a paranoid recluse. Elena figures out that he doesn't know where Klaus is and he's using her to draw him out.
He promises to protect her friends until Klaus comes and then he'll kill him.
Elijah says his witch friends can protect her. She has one condition.
Bonnie and Luka light candles on the roof. She shows him the moonstone, but won't tell him what it does.
They start their incantation and the candles flare. The moonstone levitates then explodes in a shower of sparks.
Down in the cave, Tyler is in serious pain. He tells Caroline to leave, but she won't.
Damon talks up Mason to Jules and says he stuck by Tyler the whole time he was there. Finally, he goads her into taking just one drink. She does and immediately notices the wolf's bane. They drop the pretense. He tells her she won't find Mason and should leave town. She questions him threatening her on a full moon. She tells him she knew he was a vampire the second she walked in. She tells him he's been marked.
In the cave, Caroline tells Tyler she wants to help, but he says she can't. His body starts changing in front of her and he tells her again to go, but she doesn't.
Outside the Grill, Ric urges Damon to go home and wait until tomorrow.
In the cave, Caroline wraps around Tyler, urging him to breathe through the pain. His teeth grow and he starts writhing. She goes out of his reach. He starts to turn and springs on all fours, breaking a chain. Caroline chains him in and leaves. She breaks down sobbing outside as he continues screaming and growling inside.
Then it stops for a moment. Suddenly, he starts banging in the door, nearly free. She runs.
Damon comes home and locks his door but he can smell something amiss. Rose is there. She apologizes and says she has nowhere else to go. He says there's nothing there for her. There's a crash through the window.
Suddenly, there's a wolf in the room going after Damon. Rose pushes him out of the way and the wolf chomps on her shoulder. Damon stabs it and it runs off.
Rose is in pain but they're both stunned when her shoulder starts healing.
Luka comes back home and reports to his dad that he was successful and Bonnie "fell for the whole show and didn't suspect a thing."
He gives his dad the moonstone, but he's not happy about it. Jonah says Elijah has one more task for them during the full moon.
In the tomb, Katherine refuses to apologize for looking out for herself. She says she does love him and he tells her to prove it.
She says she could help him find Klaus. She tells him to start with Elena's mother Isabelle.
They hear something. Elijah is standing there. He says Elena requested Stefan's release and he's had the spell lifted. Stefan tests it and walks free. But Katherine is stuck. He compels her, telling her she'll stay put until Klaus comes.
Stefan leaves her there.
In the woods, Caroline walks in the moonlight, alert to every noise. She comes back to the cave and finds Tyler crumpled and shaking inside.
She puts a blanket over him and tells him he's OK.
Stefan visits Elena and they have a gropey reunion.
Back at Damon's, they know Jules is the one who attacked Rose. She seems to be healed. She tells him she's going to stay and help with all things Elena.
She tells him she can't love men who love other women, but she can be his special friend. But as he's kissing her, her shoulder hurts. They look and find sores where Jules bit her.
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