Drehbuch

1x01 "Pilot"

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MAN: For over a century, I have lived in secret; hiding in the shadows, alone in the world. Until now. I am a vampire. And this is my story.


[A man and a girl in a car, on the road.]

MAN: An hour's drive to hear that crap. You know, it wasn't even a band. A guy with a guitar. An hour each way.
GIRL: He wasn't that bad.
MAN: He sounded like James Blunt.
GIRL: What's wrong with that?
MAN: We already have a James Blunt. One's all we need.
GIRL: So why did you come?
MAN: Because I love you.
GIRL: Nicely done. What's with all the fog?
MAN: It'll clear in a second.
GIRL: Watch out!

[They collide a man.]

MAN: Are you ok?!
GIRL: We just hit someone! Oh, my god!
MAN: Call for help.
GIRL: Come on, come on!
MAN: Please be alive! Oh, my god.

[The man wakes up and bites him into the neck.]

GIRL: There's no signal! Darren! Darren?

[New scene. Morning. A Man.]

STEFAN: I shouldn't have come home. I know the risk. But I had no choice. I have to know her.

[Other scene. A girl writes in her diarie.]

ELENA: Dear diary, today will be different. It has to be. I will smile, and it will be believable. My smile was saying "I'm fine, thank you." "Yes, I feel much better." I will no longer be the sad little girl who lost her parents. I will start fresh, be someone new. It's the only way I'll make it through.

[In the kitchen.]

JENNA: Toast. I can make toast.
ELENA: It's all about the coffee, aunt Jenna.
JEREMY: Is there coffee?
JENNA: Your first day of school and I'm totally unprepared. Lunch money?
ELENA: I'm good.
JENNA: Anything else? A number two pencil? What am I missing?
ELENA: Don't you have a big presentation today?
JENNA: I'm meeting with my thesis advisor at...now. Crap!
ELENA: Then go. We'll be fine. You ok?
JEREMY: Don't start.

[In Bonnie's car.]

BONNIE: So grams is telling me I'm psychic. Our ancestors were from salem, which isn't all that, I know, crazy, but she's going on and on about it, and I'm like, put this woman in a home already! But then I started thinking, I predicted Obama and I predicted Heath Ledger, and I still think Florida will break off and turn into little resort islands... Elena! Back in the car.
ELENA: I did it again, didn't I? I--I'm sorry, Bonnie. You were telling me that...
BONNIE: That I'm psychic now.
ELENA: Right. Ok, then predict something. About me.
BONNIE: I see...

[They collide a black bird.]

BONNIE: What was that?! Oh, my god! Elena, are you ok?
ELENA: It's ok. I'm fine.
BONNIE: It was like a bird or something. It came out of nowhere.
ELENA: Really, I can't be freaked out by cars for the rest of my life.
BONNIE: I predict this year is going to be kick ass. And I predict all the sad and dark times are over and you are going to be beyond happy.

[At the school.]

BONNIE: Major lack of male real estate. Look at the shower curtain on Kelly bitch. She looks a hot-- Can I still say "tranny mess"?
ELENA: No, that's over.
BONNIE: Ahh, find a man, coin a phrase. It's a busy year.

[They look at Matt.]

ELENA: He hates me.
BONNIE: That's not hate. That's "you dumped me,  but I'm too cool to show it, but secretly I'm listening to air supply's greatest hits."
CAROLINE: Elena. Oh, my god. How are you? Oh, it's so good to see you. How is she? Is she good?
ELENA : Caroline, I'm right here. And I'm fine. Thank you.
CAROLINE: Really?
ELENA: Yes. Much better.
CAROLINE: Oh, you poor thing.
ELENA: Ok, Caroline.
CAROLINE: Oh! Ok, see you guys later?
BONNIE: Ok! Bye.
ELENA: No comment.
BONNIE: I'm not going to say anything.

[Jeremy and Vicki.]

JEREMY: Don't take more than two in a six-Hour window.
TYLER: Hey, Vicki. I knew I'd find you here with the crackheads.
VICKI: Hey.
TYLER: Hey, Pete Wentz called. He wants his nail polish back.
JEREMY: Pete Wentz, huh? How old school T.R.L. of you. Carson Daly fan?
VICKI: Oh, Ty, be nice. Be nice. That's Elena's little brother.
TYLER: I know who he is. I'll still kick his ass.

[Bonnie and Elena behind the office.]

BONNIE: Hold up. Who's this?
ELENA: All I see is back.
BONNIE: It's a hot back.

[In the office.]

SECRETARY: your records are incomplete. You're missing immunization records, and we do insist on transcripts.
STEFAN: Please look again. I'm sure everything you need is there.
SECRETARY: Well, you're right. So it is.

BONNIE: I'm sensing seattle, and he plays the guitar.
ELENA: You're really going to run this whole psychic thing into the ground, huh?
BONNIE: Pretty much.
MAN: Jeremy, good batch, man.
ELENA: I'll be right back.
BONNIE: Please be hot.

[Elena in the boy's toilets.]

BOY: Whoa! Pants down, chick!
ELENA: Great. It's the first day of school and you're stoned.
JEREMY: No, I'm not.
ELENA: Where is it? Is it on you?
JEREMY: Stop, all right?! You need to chill yourself, all right?
ELENA: Chill myself? What is that, Stoner talk? Dude, you are so cool.
JEREMY: Look, stop! I don't have anything on me. Are you crazy?
ELENA: You haven't seen crazy, Jeremy! I gave you a summer pass, but I am done watching you destroy yourself. No, no, no, you know what? Go ahead. Keep it up. But just know that I am going to be there to ruin your buzz every time, you got it? Jeremy, I know who you are. And it's not this person. So don't be this person.
JEREMY: I don't need this.

[Bonnie looks Stefan.]

STEFAN: Thank you.
SECRETARY: You're welcome.


[Elena goes out and meets Stefan.]

STEFAN: Uh, pardon me. Um... Is this the men's room?
ELENA: Yes. Um, I was just, Um--I was just-- It's a long story. Just... Thank you.

[History's class.]

TEACHER: Once our home state of virginia joined confederacy in 1861, it created a tremendous amount of tension within the state. People in virginia's northwest region Had different ideals than those from the traditional deep south. Then Virginia divided in 1863 with the northwest region joining the union.

Texto to Bonnie from Elena : HAWT-E. STARING @ U.

[On a cemetery.]

ELENA: Dear diary, I made it through the day. I must have said, "I'm fine, thanks," at least 37 times. And I didn't mean it once. But no one noticed. When someone asks, "how are you?" They really don't want an answer.

[A bird is on the tomb.]

ELENA: Ok. Hi, bird. That's not creepy or anything. Shoo! That's what I thought.

[Bird is always here. The mist is all around her.]

ELENA: Ahh!

[She runs and falls ... She sees Stefan.]

STEFAN: You ok?
ELENA: Were you following me?
STEFAN: No, I, uh, I just-- I saw you fall.
ELENA: Uh-Huh, and you just happened to be hanging out in a cemetery.
STEFAN: I'm visiting. I have family here.
ELENA: Oh. Wow. Tactless. I'm sorry. It's the fog, It's making me foggy. And then back there, there was this bird, and it was all very hitchcock for a second. That is the bird movie, right, the hitchcock? I'm Elena.
STEFAN: I'm Stefan.
ELENA: I know. We have history together.
STEFAN: And english and french.
ELENA: Right.
STEFAN: Oh.
ELENA: Thanks. Nice ring.
STEFAN:  Oh. Um, It's a family ring, yeah. I'm kinda stuck with it. It's weird, huh?
ELENA: No, no. It's just, I mean, there are rings and then there's that.
STEFAN: Did you hurt yourself?
ELENA: Hmm?
STEFAN: Did you hurt yourself?
ELENA: Oh, uh, I don't know. Oh! Look at that. That is not pretty. You ok?
STEFAN: You should go. Take care of that.
ELENA: Really, it's nothing.

She turns around but Stefan disappeared.

[Stefan's home. He writes on a diarie.]

STEFAN: I lost control today. Everything I've kept buried inside came rushing to the surface. I'm simply not able to resist her.

[Mystic Grill. Vicki works as a waitress.]

JEREMY: Hey.
VICKI: Working.

[She arrives at Matt and Tyler's table.]

MATT: Thanks, vick.
VICKI: Do you need another refill?
TYLER: I'd love one.
MATT: Please tell me you're not hooking up with my sister.
TYLER: I'm not hooking up with your sister.
MATT: You're such a dick.

JEREMY: Hey, what's your deal? I mean, summer you act one way and then school starts and you can't be bothered.
VICKI: Look, Jeremy, I really appreciate all the pharmaceuticals, but you can't keep following me around like a lost puppy.
JEREMY: When's the last time you had sex with a puppy?
VICKI: Hey, keep it down. I don't want to tell the whole world I deflowered Elena's kid brother.
JEREMY: Yeah, and deflowered and deflowered.
VICKI: We hooked up a few times in a drug haze. It's over. You gotta back off between you ruin things between me and Tyler.
JEREMY: Oh, come on, the guy's a total douche. He only wants you for your ass.
VICKI: Yeah? What do you want me for?

[Caroline and Bonnie enter.]

CAROLINE: His name is Stefan Salvatore. He lives with uncle up at  the old Salvatore boarding house. He hasn't lived here since he was a kid. Military family, so they moved around a lot. He's a gemini, and his favorite color is blue.
BONNIE: You got all of that in one day?
CAROLINE: Oh, please, I got all that between third and fourth period. We're planning a june wedding.

[Elena's home.]

ELENA: I'm meeting Bonnie at the grill.
JENNA: Ok, have fun. Wait, I got this. Don't stay out late, it's a school night.
ELENA: Well done, aunt Jenna.

[She oppens the door.]

ELENA: Oh.
STEFAN: Sorry, I was about to knock. I wanted to apologize for my disappearing act earlier. I know it was... Strange.
ELENA: No worries. I get it, blood makes you squeamish.
STEFAN: Um, something like that. How's your leg?
ELENA: Oh, it's fine. Just a scratch, barely. How did you know where I lived?
STEFAN: It's a small town. I asked the first person I saw. Um, I thought you might want this back.
ELENA: Oh, I must have dropped it. I-- Thank you.
STEFAN: Don't worry, I didn't...read it.
ELENA: No?  Why not? Most people would have.
STEFAN: Well, I wouldn't want anyone to read mine.
ELENA: You keep a journal?
STEFAN: Yeah, if I don't write it down, I forget it. Memories are too important.
ELENA: Yeah. I'm just gonna, Um, you don't have to stay out there.
STEFAN: I'm fine. Sorry, were you going somewhere?
ELENA: Yeah, I'm meeting a friend. Do you want to come?

[Mystic Grill.]

MATTt:How's Elena doing?
BONNIE: Her mom and dad died. How do you think? She's putting on a good face, but it's only been four months.
MATT: Has she said anything about me?
BONNIE: Oh, no. So not getting in the middle. You pick up the phone and call her.
MATT: I feel weird calling her. She broke up with me.
BONNIE: Give it more time, Matt.

[Elena enters, with Stefan.]

MATT: More time, huh?

MATT: Hey, I'm Matt, nice to meet you.
STEFAN: Hi. Stefan.
ELENA: Hey.
MATT: Hey.

[Later.]

CAROLINE: So, you were born in mystic falls?
STEFAN: Mm-Hmm. And moved when I was still young.
BONNIE: Parents?
STEFAN: My parents passed away.
ELENA: I'm sorry. Any siblings?
STEFAN: None that I talk to. I live with my uncle.
CAROLINE: So, Stefan, if you're new, then you don't know about the party tomorrow.
BONNIE: It's a back to school thing at the falls.
STEFAN (to Elena): Are you going?
BONNIE: Of course she is.

[Stefan's home.]

ZACH: You promised.
STEFAN: This was an animal attack.
ZACH: Don't give me that. I know the game. You tear them up enough, they always suspect an animal attack. You said you had it under control.
STEFAN: And I do.
ZACH: Please, uncle Stefan. Mystic Falls is a different place now. It's been quiet for years, but there are people who still remember. And you being here, It's just going to stir things up.
STEFAN: It's not my intention.
ZACH: Then what is? Why did you come back? After all this time, why now?
STEFAN: I don't have to explain myself.
ZACH: I know that you can't change what you are. But you don't belong here anymore.
STEFAN: Where do I belong?
ZACH: I can't tell you what to do. But coming back here was a mistake.

[History's class.]

TEACHER: The battle of willow creek took place right at the end of the war in our very own Mystic Falls. How many casualties resulted in this battle? Ms. Bennett?
BONNIE: Um...a lot? I'm not sure. Like a whole lot.
TEACHER: Cute becomes dumb in an instant, Ms. Bennett. Mr. Donovan. Would you like to take this opportunity to overcome your embedded jock stereotype?
MATT: It's ok, Mr Tanner, I'm cool with it.
TANNER: Hmm. Elena? Surely you can enlighten us about one of the town's most significantly historical events?
ELENA: I'm sorry, I-- I don't know.
TANNER:I was willing to be lenient last year for obvious reasons, Elena. But the personal excuses ended with summer break.
STEFAN: There were 346 casualties, Unless you're counting local civilians.
TANNER: That's correct. Mister...
STEFAN: Salvatore.
TANNER: Salvatore. Any relation to the original settlers here at mystic falls?
STEFAN: Distant.
TANNER: Well, very good. Except, of course, there were no civilian casualties in this battle.
STEFAN: Actually, there were 27, sir. Confederate soldiers, they fired on the church, believing it to be housing weapons. They were wrong. It was a night of great loss. The founder's archives are, uh, stored in civil hall if you'd like to brush up on your facts. Mr. Tanner.
TANNER: hmm.

[Stefan arrives to the party.]

ELENA: People look up to me. I have to set an example.
BONNIE: Just admit it, Elena.
ELENA: Oh, ok, so he's a little pretty.
BONNIE: He has that romance novel stare.
ELENA: Stefan looked deep into her eyes, piercing her very soul.

CAROLINE: Hey! You made it!
STEFAN: I did.
CAROLINE: Well, let's get you a drink.
STEFAN: Well, I'm--
CAROLINE: Oh, come on.

BONNIE: So where is he?
ELENA: I don't know. You tell me, you're the psychic one.
BONNIE: Right, I forgot. Ok, so give me a sec. Grams says I have to concentrate.
ELENA: Wait, you need a crystal ball.

[She gives her a bottle. Bonnie takes it and touches Elena's hand.]

BONNIE: Ahh.
ELENA: What?
BONNIE: That was weird. When I touched you, I saw a crow.
ELENA: What?
BONNIE: A crow. There was fog, a man. I'm drunk. It's the drinking. There's nothing psychic about it. Yeah? Ok, I'm gonna get a refill.

[Bonnie leaves Elena alone.]

ELENA: Ok. Bonnie!
STEFAN: Hi.
ELENA: Hi.
STEFAN: I did it again, didn't it?
ELENA: Yeah.
STEFAN: I'm sorry. You're upset about something.
ELENA: Oh, uh, no, it's Bonnie. She's... You know what? Never mind. You're...here.
STEFAN: I'm here.

ELENA: You know, you're kind of the talk of the town.
STEFAN: Am I?
ELENA: Mm-Hmm. Mysterious new guy, oh, yeah.
STEFAN: Well, you have the mysterious thing going, too. Twinged in sadness.
ELENA: What makes you think that I'm sad?
STEFAN: Well, we did meet in a graveyard.
ELENA: Right. Well, no, technically we met in the men's room. You don't want to know, it's... It's not exactly party chit-Chat.
STEFAN: Well, I've never really been very good at, uh, Chit-chat.
ELENA: Last spring... My parents' car drove off of a bridge into the lake. And I was in the backseat and I survived, but... They didn't. So that's my story.
STEFAN: You won't be sad forever, Elena.

[Vicki and Tyler in the forest.]

VICKI: No, Ty. I'm not having sex against a tree.
TYLER: Oh, come on, it would be hot.
VICKI: For who? No, it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen, not here, not like this. No. I said no. I said no! Ow, that hurts!
JEREMY: Hey, leave her alone.
TYLER: You know, you're starting to get on my nerves, Gilbert.
VICKI: Just go, Tyler, get the hell away from me.
TYLER: Wow. Vicki donovan says no. That's a first.
VICKI: I didn't need your help.
JEREMY: It seems like you did.
VICKI: He was just drunk.
JEREMY: I'm drunk. Am I throwing myself at you?
VICKI: No, you're worse. You want to talk to me, get to know me, see into my soul and screw and screw and screw until you're done with me.
JEREMY: Is that what you think?
VICKI: That's what I know.

[Elena and Stefan, on a little bridge.]

STEFAN: I like Bonnie, she seems like a good friend.
ELENA: Best friend in the world.
STEFAN: And Matt, he can't seem to, uh, take his eyes off of us.
ELENA: Matt's that friend since childhood that you start dating because you owe it to yourselves to see if you can be more.
STEFAN: And?
ELENA: And then my parents died, and everything changes. Anyway, Matt and I, together we just, I don't know, It wasn't, um... It wasn't...
STEFAN: Passionate.
ELENA: No. No, it wasn't passionate... Hey, um, are you ok? Um, Your eye, it just, it's--
STEFAN: Oh, um... Yeah, no. It's, um, it's nothing. Um, are you thirsty? I'm gonna get us a drink.


[Vicki is alone in the forest. She hears a noise.]

VICKI: Jeremy? Is that you? Jeremy?

The fog is everywhere around her. Someone attack her.


[Elena waits Stefan.]

MATT: Looking for someone?
ELENA: Hey.
MATT: When you broke up with me, you said it was because you needed some time alone. You don't look so alone to me.
ELENA: Matt, you don't understand. It's--
MATT: That's ok, Elena. You do what you have to do. I just want to let you know that... I still believe in us. And I'm not giving up on that.
ELENA: Matt...

[Stefan comes back.]

CAROLINE: Hey! There you are. Have you been down to the falls yet? Because they are really cool at night. And I can show you. If you want.
STEFAN: I think you've had too much to drink.
CAROLINE: Well, of course I have. So--
STEFAN: Caroline. You and me, it's not gonna happen. Sorry.

ELENA: I was wondering who abducted you, but now I know.
STEFAN: Is she like that with, uh, all the guys?
ELENA: No. You're fresh meat. She'll back off eventually.  Hmm. God, you gotta be kidding me!
STEFAN: What is it?
ELENA: My brother.
STEFAN: The drunk one?
ELENA: That would be the one. Excuse me.
STEFAN: Need some help?
ELENA: Trust me, you're not going to want to witness this. Jeremy! Jeremy!

[She follows Jeremy in the forest.]

ELENA: Jeremy, where the hell are you going?
JEREMY: I don't want to hear it!
ELENA: Yeah, well, too bad!

[Jeremy falls on Vicki, who is hurt.]

JEREMY: Vicki? No! Oh, my god, it's Vicki!
ELENA: Oh, my god!
JEREMY: No!

[They return at the party, Vicki is in Jeremy's arms.]

ELENA: Somebody help!
MATT: Vicki? Vicki, what the hell?!
TYLER: What happened to her?
MATT: Somebody, call an ambulance!
TYLER: Everybody back up, give her some space!
ELENA: It's her neck. Something bit her. She's losing a lot of blood.
SOMEONE: Put this on her neck.
MATT: Vicki, Vicki, come on, open your eyes, look at me.


[Stefan's house.]

ZACH: What's going on?
STEFAN: Someone else was attacked tonight, Zach, and it wasn't me.

[Stefan goes in his bedroom.]

STEFAN: Damon.

[A boy appears behind the window.]

DAMON: Hello, brother.

STEFAN: Crow's a bit much, don't you think?
DAMON: Wait till you see what I can do with the fog.
STEFAN: When'd you get here?
DAMON: Well, I couldn't miss your first day at school. Your hair's different. I like it.
STEFAN: It's been 15 years, Damon.
DAMON: Thank god. I couldn't take another day of the nineties. That horrible grunge look? Did not suit you. Remember, Stefan, it's important to stay away from fads.
STEFAN: Why are you here?
DAMON: I miss my little brother.
STEFAN: You hate small towns. It's boring. There's nothing for you to do.
DAMON: I've managed to keep myself busy.
STEFAN: You know, you left that girl alive tonight. That's very clumsy of you.
DAMON: Ah. That can be a problem... for you.
STEFAN: Why are you here now?
DAMON: I could ask you the same question. However, I'm fairly certain your answer can be summed up all into one little word... Elena.


[Elena watches Matt going in the Emergency's car with his sister.]

BONNIE: Hey. We're gonna go mainline coffee, wait for news.
ELENA: I gotta take Jeremy home.
BONNIE: Elena, there's no way I'm psychic. I know that. But whatever I saw, or I think I saw, I have this feeling...
ELENA: Bonnie, what?
BONNIE: That it's just the beginning.


[Stefan's bedroom.]

DAMON: She took my breath away. Elena. She's a dead ringer for Katherine. Is it working, Stefan? Being around her, being in her world? Does it make you feel alive?
STEFAN: She's not Katherine.
DAMON: Well, let's hope not. We both know how that ended. Tell me something, when's the last time you had something stronger than a squirrel?
STEFAN: I know what you're doing, Damon. It's not gonna work.
DAMON: Yeah? Come on. Don't you crave a little?
STEFAN: Stop it.
DAMON: Let's do it. Together. I saw a couple girls out there. Or just, let's just cut to the chase, let's just go straight for Elena!
STEFAN: Stop it!
DAMON: Imagine what her blood tastes like!

[Stefan's transformation starts.]

DAMON: I can.
STEFAN: I said stop!

[They fall through the window.]

DAMON: I was impressed. I give it a six. Missing style, but I was pleasantly surprised. Very good with the whole face--- thing. It was good.
STEFAN: You know, it's all fun and games, Damon, huh? But wherever you go, people die.
DAMON: That's a given.
STEFAN: Not here. I won't allow it.
DAMON: I take that as an invitation.
STEFAN: Damon, please. After all these years, can't we just give it a rest?
DAMON: I promised you an eternity of misery, so I'm just keeping my word.
STEFAN: Just stay away from Elena.
DAMON: Where's your ring? Oh, yeah, sun's coming up in a couple of hours, and, poof, ashes to ashes. Relax. It's right here.

[Damon takes Stefan by his T-shirt and projected him against the wall.]

DAMON: You should know better than to think you're stronger than me. You lost that fight when you stopped feeding on people. I wouldn't try it again. I think we woke Zach up. Hmm. Sorry, Zach.


[Jeremy is drinking a beer. Elena arrives.]

ELENA: You ok? I called Jenna, she's on her way. Those people in uniforms, last time I checked, they're the police.

ELENA: People are going to stop giving you breaks, Jer. They just don't care anymore. They don't remember that our parents are dead, because they've got their own lives to deal with. The rest of the world has moved on. You should try, too.
JEREMY: I've seen you in the cemetery writing in your diary. Is that--Is that supposed to be you moving on?
ELENA: Mom and dad wouldn't have wanted this.


[Caroline and Bonnie at Mystic Grill.]

BONNIE: Are you sober yet?
CAROLINE: No.
BONNIE: Keep drinking. I gotta get you home. I gotta get me home.
CAROLINE: Why didn't he go for me? You know, how come the guys that I want never want me?
BONNIE: I'm not touching that.
CAROLINE: I'm inappropriate. I always say the wrong thing. And... Elena always says the right thing. She doesn't even try! And he just picks her. And she's always the one that everyone picks, for everything. And I try so hard, and... I'm never the one.
BONNIE: It's not a competition, Caroline.
CAROLINE: Yeah, it is.


[Matt is at the hospital. Vicky opens her eyes.]

MATT: Vicki... Hey. Hey, it's ok. You're gonna be ok.
VICKI: Matt--
MATT: Hey, don't try to talk, ok? You're fine.
VICKI: Vampire.


[Elena's house. / Stefan's house.]

ELENA: Dear diary, I couldn't have been more wrong. I thought that I could smile, nod my way through it; pretend like it would all be ok.
STEFAN: I had a plan. I wanted to change who I was; create a life as someone new, someone without the past.
ELENA: Without the pain.
ELENA & STEFAN: Someone alive.

[Jeremy watches his parent's photography.]

ELENA: But it's not that easy. The bad things stay with you.
STEFAN: They follow you.

[Caroline is lonely at the table. Damon looks at her.]

STEFAN: You can't escape them, as much as you want to.

[Damon smiles to Caroline.]

ELENA: All you can do is be ready for the good. So when it comes, you invite it in, because you need it. I need it.

[Elena sees Stefan across the window.]

STEFAN: I know it's late. But, uh... I needed to know that you were ok.
ELENA: You know, for months, that's all anyone's wondered about me. If I'll be ok.
STEFAN: What do you tell them?
ELENA: That I'll be fine.
STEFAN: Do you ever mean it?
ELENA: Ask me tomorrow. It's warmer in the house. We can talk. Would you like to come in?
STEFAN: Yes.

[Stefan enters in Elena's house.]

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 1x02 "Night of the Comet"

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[A boy and a girl, in a tent, in a forest.]

GIRL: Hey. Did you hear that?
BOY: Hear what?
GIRL: I heard thunder.
BOY: There's no thunder.
GIRL: Are you sure? Because if it rains, then we won't be able to see the comet.
BOY: It's not gonna rain. Listen, i... Got you a little something. It's back in the car. Don't you move.
GIRL: Stay dry.
BOY: It's not gonna rain.

She hears a noise.

GIRL: I knew it! I told you it was gonna rain!

The boy disappeared. She hears a noise and watches blood on the tent. She runs at the car.

GIRL: Open! No! Please!

Someone kill her.


[Elena's bedroom. / Stefan's bedroom.]

ELENA: Dear diary, this morning is... different. There is change. I can sense it, feel it.
STEFAN: I'm awake. For the first time in a long time, I feel completely and undeniably wide awake.
ELENA: For once, I don't regret the day before it begins.
STEFAN: I welcome the day...
STEFAN/ELENA: Because I know...
STEFAN: I will see her again.
ELENA: I will see him again. For the first time in a long time, I feel good.

Elena goes out of her bedroom.

JENNA: Do I look adult? As in respectfully parental?
ELENA: Depends where you're going.
JENNA: Jeremy's parent-teacher conference. Hair up or down?
ELENA: Sexy stewardess. Boozy housewife.
JENNA: Up it is. You're feisty today.
ELENA: I feel good, which is rare. So I've decided to go with it. Fly free, walk on sunshine, and all that stuff. Where is Jeremy?
JENNA: He left early. Something about getting to wood shop early to finish a birdhouse. There is no wood shop, is there?
ELENA: No.
JENNA: Yeah.


[At the hospital. Vicki's bedroom.]

NURSE: You can't be in here, hon. Visiting hours don't start till 9:00.
JEREMY: I just...  How is she?
NURSE: She's lost a lot of blood.
JEREMY: Yeah, but she's gonna be ok, right?
NURSE: She needs her rest. So you come back later. Come on.


[History's class.]

TANNER: Originally discovered nearly 5 centuries ago, it hasn't been over Mystic Falls in over 145 years. Now, the comet will be its brightest right after dusk during tomorrow's celebration. Are we bothering you, Mr. Salvatore? Ms. Gilbert?

[In the corridor.]

STEFAN: I brought it. Told you.
ELENA: "Wuthering Heights" by Ellis Bell. You know, I can't believe she didn't use her real name.
STEFAN: All the Bronte sisters used pseudonyms. It was the time. Female writers weren't very accepted then.
ELENA: Where did you get it?
STEFAN: Uh, it was passed down. Through the family.
ELENA: Ah.
STEFAN: I have lots of books. Go ahead. Keep it.
ELENA: Oh, no. I...  But I would like to read it again. I promise I'll give it back.
STEFAN: Ok.


CAROLINE: I'm confused. Are you psychic or clairvoyant?
BONNIE: Technically, grams says I'm a witch. My ancestors were these really cool Salem witch chicks or something.Grams tried to explain it all, but she was looped on the liquor so I kinda tuned out. Crazy family, yes. Witches? I don't think so.
CAROLINE: Yeah, well, feel free to conjure up the name and number of that guy from last night.
BONNIE: I didn't see him, you did. Why didn't you just talk to him?
CAROLINE: I don't know. I was drunk.

[Jeremy is going to see Tyler and his friends.]

JEREMY: Hey, Tyler. Hey, I'm sorry to interrupt. I was just wondering how Vicki's doing, since you guys are so close. Is she ok?
TYLER: She's fine. Now get out of here.
JEREMY: How bad is she? Do they know what attacked her? Is she going to make a full recovery? Was she happy to see you? What room number was she in?
TYLER: I'm going to kick your ass.
JEREMY: Yeah, you keep saying that, but when are you actually going to do it? Huh? 'Cause I vote for right here and right now.
TYLER: Walk away, Gilbert. It's your final warning.
JEREMY: No, this is your final warning, dick. I'm sick of watching you play Vicki. You hurt herne more time, I swear to God, I will kill you.
TYLER: Damn, that was like a death threat. Did you hear that?


[Matt and Elena talk about Vicki. Stefan sits on a table and listens to the conversation.  ]

MATT: They're keeping her overnight to make sure there's no infection, but she should be able to come home tomorrow.
ELENA: That's good news.
MATT: Yeah.
ELENA: Did you get in touch with your mom?
MATT: Called and left a message. She's in Virginia Beach with her boyfriend, so... we'll see how long it takes her to come rushing home.
ELENA: Vicki's lucky that she's ok.
MATT: I know, and now there's talk of some missing campers.
ELENA: Did she say what kind of animal it was that attacked her?
MATT: She said it was a vampire.
ELENA: What?
MATT: Yeah, she wakes up last night and mutters "vampire" and then passes out.
ELENA: Ok, that is weird.
MATT: I think she was drunk. So what's up with you and the new guy?
ELENA: Matt, the last thing that I want to do is hurt you.
MATT: You know, I'm...  I'm actually gonna go back to the hospital. I want to be there when Vickie wakes up, get the real story about last night.
ELENA: Ok.

Stefan disappeared.


[Jenna with Mr Tanner.]

TANNER: As Jeremy's teacher, I'm concerned. All right? It's the third day of school and he's skipped six of his classes.
JENNA: Mr. Tanner, are you aware that Jeremy and Elena's parents died?
TANNER: Four months ago, a great loss. Car accident. Wickery bridge, if I remember correctly. And you're related to the family how? The, uh, mother's kid sister?
JENNA: Younger sister.
TANNER: Right.
JENNA: Yes. Six classes? Are you sure? I mean, that's kind of hard to do.
TANNER: Not when you're on drugs. It's his attempt at coping, Ms. Summers. And the signs are there. He's moody, withdrawn, argumentative, hungover. Are there any other relatives in the picture?
JENNA: I'm their sole guardian.
TANNER: Uh-huh. Could there be?
JENNA: What are you suggesting, exactly?
TANNER: It's an impossible job, isn't it, raising two teens?
JENNA: It's been tough, but, no, it's not.
TANNER: Wrong answer. It is an extremely impossible job, and anything less and you're not doing it properly.


[Matt at the hospital.]

MATT: Whoa! Vick. Vicki, hey. Vick, it's Matt. Hey, what's wrong?
VICKI: No! No! Get off! No! No! No!

Matt is going to search doctors. Stefan enters.

STEFAN: It was an animal that attacked you. It came out of the night and jumped you. You blacked out. It's all you remember.
VICKI: It's all I remember.
STEFAN: An animal attacked you. You blacked out. It's all you remember. It's all I remember.

MATT: Nurse! I need help! It's my sister.
NURSE: She seems fine.

Vicki is sleeping. Matt believes to see Stefan, he follows him but doesn't find him.

[The girls sit outside.]

BONNIE: Well, I was talking to grams, and she said the comet is a sign of impending doom. The last time it passed over Mystic Falls, there was lots of death. So much blood and carnage, it created a bed of paranormal activity.
CAROLINE: Yeah, and then you poured grams another shot and she told you about the aliens. So then what?
ELENA: So then nothing.
CAROLINE: You and Stefan talked all night? There was no sloppy first kiss or touchy feely of any kind?
ELENA: Nope. We didn't go there.
CAROLINE: Not even a handshake? I mean, Elena, we are your friends. Ok? You are supposed to share the smut.
ELENA: We just talked for hours.
CAROLINE: Ok, what is with the blockage? Just jump his bones already! Ok, it's easy. Boy likes girl, girl likes boy, sex.
ELENA: Profound.
BONNIE: Where are you going?
ELENA: Caroline's right. It is easy. If I sit here long enough, I'll end up talking myself out of it instead of doing what I started the day saying I was going to do.


[Elena's house.]

JENNA: I picked up dinner. Tacos. I had an urge for guacamole.
JEREMY: No, I'm good, thanks.
JENNA: Eat anyway. It's a ruse. I want to talk. Hey, you! Come. Sit. Back in school, freshman year, I could eat my weight in nachos, with extra cheese. It was my munchie food whenever I got stoned.
JEREMY: You get high?
JENNA: Did. Past tense. But, yeah. Loved it. Anything to get a little distraction from life... reality. And it worked. For a while. Never lasts, though. Hey, I'm not saying I wouldn't love to rail back and kick it, but with a thesis looming and a waistline expanding...

Jeremy is going.


[Matt is sleeping on a chair. Vicki is woken. She throws an apple on Matt.]

MATT: What the...
VICKI: Finally you're awake.
MATT: Hey. How are you feeling? You look better. I was worried before. You really had me freaked out with all that screaming.
VICKI: Wait, what are you talking about?
MATT: You don't remember?
VICKI: I feel fine.
MATT: Good, good. Doctor said you could come home tomorrow. Vick, what attacked you in the woods?
VICKI: An animal. What else could it have been?

Jeremy arrives.

JEREMY: Hey. How do you feel?
VICKI: I'm ok.
MATT: I... I'm gonna... I'm gonna go grab a coffee. Hey, Jer.
VICKI: Why are you here?
JEREMY: I just wanted to see how you were doing.
VICKI: Did you see that look on Matt's face? That was suspicion. I don't want people to find out about us, Jeremy.
JEREMY: Well, you gotta get over that.
VICKI: Tyler is finally showing some interest.
JEREMY: You have to get over that, too. Do you see Mr. Concerned? Tyler? Are you under there? No.
VICKI: It's not cool for people to know. Ok? I'm older than you, and Matt and Elena would freak.
JEREMY: No one's going to suspect anything. Why wouldn't I check on you? I mean, I'm the one who found you.
VICKI: You are?
JEREMY: Yeah, I carried you out of the woods.
VICKI: Thank you.
JEREMY: Yeah, you're welcome.


[Elena arrives to Stefan's house. The door is open, she enters.]

ELENA: Stefan? Stefan?

Damon suddenly appears in front of her.

ELENA: I... I'm sorry for barging in. The door was... Open.
DAMON: You must be Elena. I'm Damon, Stefan's brother.
ELENA: He didn't tell me he had a brother.
DAMON: Well, Stefan's not one to brag. Please, come. I'm sure Stefan will be along any second.
ELENA: Wow. This is your living room?
DAMON: Living room, parlor, Sotheby's auction. It's a little kitschy for my taste. I see why my brother's so smitten. It's about time. For a while there, I never thought he'd get over the last one. Nearly destroyed him.
ELENA: The last one?
DAMON: Yeah. Katherine, his girlfriend? Oh, you two haven't had the awkward exes conversation yet.
ELENA: Nope.
DAMON: Oops. Well, I'm sure it'll come up now. Or maybe he didn't want to tell you because he didn't want you to think he was on the rebound. We all know how those relationships end.
ELENA: You say it like every relationship is doomed to end.
DAMON: I'm a fatalist. Hello, Stefan.
STEFAN: Elena. I didn't know you were coming over.
ELENA: I know. I should have called, I just...
DAMON: Oh, don't be silly. You're welcome any time. Isn't she, Stefan? You know, I should break out the family photo albums or some home movies. But... I have to warn you. He wasn't always such a looker.
STEFAN: Thank you for stopping by, Elena. Nice to see you.
ELENA: Yeah, I should probably go. It was nice to meet you, Damon.
DAMON: Great meeting you, too, Elena.
ELENA: Stefan? Stefan?

Elena leaves the house.

DAMON: Great gal. Whoo. She's got spunk. You, on the other hand, look pooped. Did you over-exert yourself today? Let me guess... hospital.
STEFAN: Someone had to clean up your mess.
DAMON: Well, were you successful? Did the powers of persuasion work? Remember, if you don't feed properly, none of those little tricks work right.
STEFAN: How long was Elena here?
DAMON: Were you worried, Stefan? Scared we may be doomed to repeat the past? Isn't that why you play your little game, "I'm a high school human"?
STEFAN: I'm not playing any game.
DAMON: Of course you are. We both know the closest you'll ever get to humanity is when you rip it open and feed on it.
STEFAN: What kind of game are you playing... Damon?
DAMON: Guess you'll just have to wait and see, won't you?


[Elena's house.]

ELENA: He's on the rebound and has raging family issues.
JENNA: Well, at least it's an ex-girlfriend. Wait till you date a guy with mommy issues or cheating issues. Or amphetamine issues. Jeremy? Jeremy, where were you?
JEREMY: More stoner stories? Look, Jenna, I get it, you were cool. And so that's... that's cool.
JENNA: Oh, no, no, no!

Jenna throws an apple on Jeremy.

JEREMY: Ow! Why? Why... why did you do that?
JENNA: Listen up! Quit ditching class or you're grounded. No discussion.
JEREMY: Parental authority, I like it. Sleep tight.


[Vicki at the hopsital. Matt is sleeping. She's going to the bathroom. She believes to see Damon. ]

VICKI: Matt. Mattie?

It's not Matt but Damon. In fact, it's just a nightmare.


[In the street of Mystic Fall. Bonnie and Elena distribute The night of the comet's progam.]

BONNIE: Tonight, night of the comet.
ELENA: Would you like a program?
BONNIE: He didn't call, huh?
ELENA: Or text. But I realized we never even exchanged that stuff. We've never gotten to the texting part.
BONNIE: That's an important milestone in any relationship.
ELENA: Isn't it? The timing is wrong, anyway.
BONNIE: When is it ever right?
ELENA: I'm not ready, Bonnie.
BONNIE: Who is?
ELENA: At least I put myself out there.
BONNIE: Is that what you're calling it?
ELENA: What do you mean?
BONNIE: All I'm hearing is reasons why you can't.

Caroline believes to see Damon but when she approaches there is anybody.


[Stefan's house.]

ZACH: What is Damon doing here? Why did he come home?
STEFAN: 'Cause I came home. He wants to make my life miserable. That's how he enjoys his.
ZACH: Well, he's putting us all at risk. This girl in the hospital could talk.
STEFAN: She won't. I took care of her.
ZACH: You're sure?
STEFAN: I'm not sure, Zach. I don't know how well it worked. I'm not as strong as Damon.
ZACH: So what happens if it doesn't work?
STEFAN: I don't know. I'll deal with it.
ZACH: Is she worth it? Uncle Stefan, this girl you came back for.


[At the Grill.]

JEREMY: Vicki, what are you doing here?
VICKI: Fighting with Robert about my schedule. You'd think getting ripped up by a rabid animal would merit an extra sick day.
JEREMY: Are you feeling ok?
VICKI: I hurt.
JEREMY: Well, the doctor gave you something, right?
VICKI: The kid stuff. Nothing with an "o" in it. I think they were onto me.
JEREMY: Here. Knock yourself out, literally.
VICKI: Thanks, Jer.
JEREMY: So you gonna, uh, watch the comet later?
VICKI: I hadn't really thought about it. But I could be talked into it. I'll meet you out there in a few.
TYLER: Hey, Vick. How you feeling?
VICKI: Like you care.
TYLER: What are you lookin' at, Gilbert?


[Behind the Grill.]

CAROLINE: Hey, I got some candles.
ELENA: Hi. Hey.
MATT: Hey.
ELENA: Thank you.
MATT: You're welcome.
STEFAN: Thank you.
STEFAN: Hi.
ELENA: Hi.
STEFAN: You know, that comet... it's been traveling across space for thousands of years. All alone.
ELENA: Yeah, Bonnie says it's a harbinger of evil.
STEFAN: I think it's just a ball of... snow and ice, trapped on a path that it can't escape. And once every 145 years, it gets to come home. I'm sorry about yesterday. I wasn't myself.
ELENA: You seem to spend a lot of time apologizing.
STEFAN: Well, I have a lot to apologize for. Yesterday, that wasn't about you, ok?
ELENA: You didn't tell me that you had a brother.
STEFAN: We're not close. It's, uh... it's complicated.
ELENA: Always. He told me about your ex, Katherine.
STEFAN: What did he say?
ELENA: That she broke your heart.
STEFAN: That was a long time ago.
ELENA: When you lose someone, it stays with you, always reminding you of how easy it is to get hurt.
STEFAN: Elena...
ELENA: It's ok, Stefan. I get it. You have no idea how much I get it. Complicated brother? Check. Complicated ex? Check. Too complicated to even contemplate dating, double check. It's ok. We met, and we talked, and it was epic, but... then the sun came up and reality set in so...

She's going.

[At the Grill. Vicki sees Damon.]

VICKI: I know you.
DAMON: Well, that's unfortunate.
VICKI: Um... I don't... I don't know how, but... your face. Excuse me. Sorry.
She's going at the toilets. In the mirror, she sees Damon. She shout.

JEREMY: Hey, has anyone seen Vickie?
TYLER: You're her stalker. You tell us.
JEREMY: I can't find her.
TYLER: She probably found somebody else to party with. Sorry, pill pusher, I guess you've been replaced.
ELENA: What's with the pill pusher?
TYLER: Ask him.
JEREMY: You wanna do this right now?
ELENA: Are you dealing?
TYLER: She's never gonna go for you.
JEREMY: She already did. Over and over and over again.
TYLER: Yeah, right.
CAROLINE: You slept with Vickie Donovan? I mean, Vickie Donovan slept with you?
TYLER: There's no way.
JEREMY: And I didn't even have to force her into it.
MATT: What the hell is he talking about, Todd?
TYLER: Nothing, man, just ignore him, he's a punk.
MATT: You know what, how about all of you shut up and help me find my sister?
BONNIE: We'll check the back.
MATT: I'll check the square.
JEREMY: I'll come with you.
ELENA: Oh, no, no, no. You are coming with me. So that's your game now, dealing?
JEREMY: I'm not dealing.
ELENA: Look, I'm sick of the tough love speech, Jer. It's really having no impact.
JEREMY: You and Jenna, between the two of you...
ELENA: We can stop if you want. Send you to a therapist where you'll be forced to deal with it or to rehab where you'll sit in group and tell some stranger how you let your life fall apart. Or you could talk to me.
JEREMY: I vote for none of the above.

In the street.

MATT: Hey.
STEFAN: Hey.
MATT: Have you seen my sister?
STEFAN: No, sorry.
MATT: I can't find her. She's missing.
STEFAN: I'll keep an eye out for her.
MATT: Hey. I saw you at the hospital yesterday.
STEFAN: Did you?
MATT: What were you doing there?
STEFAN: Visiting.
MATT: Visiting? You know, Elena and I, we've known each other for a long time. We might not be together right now, but I look out for her. And I'll always look out for her.

Stefan hears voices coming from the roof.

DAMON: You really have to stop screaming.
VICKI: No, please, stop. Don't... Shh. I got you.

STEFAN: Excuse me.

Stefan sees Damon and Vicki. He jumps on the roof.

VICKI: No! No!
DAMON: I gotta do it. I'm not gonna drop you. Not bad. Have you been eating bunnies?
STEFAN: Let her go.
DAMON: Shh. really? Ok.
VICKI: No! No, no, no!
DAMON: Uhh! Relax.
VICKI: What's happening?
DAMON: I don't need her to be dead, but... you might. What attacked you the other night?
VICKI: I don't know. An animal.
DAMON: Are you sure about that? Think. Think about it. Think really hard. What attacked you?
VICKI: A vampire.
DAMON: Who did this to you?
VICKI: You did!
DAMON: Wrong!
STEFAN: Don't.
DAMON: It was Stefan.
STEFAN: Don't.
DAMON: Come here. Stefan Salvatore did this to you.
VICKI: Stefan Salvatore did this to me.
DAMON: He's a vampire. A vicious, murderous monster.
STEFAN: Please, Damon. Please don't do this.
DAMON: If you couldn't fix it before, I don't know what you can do now.
VICKI: Aah!
DAMON: Uhh! Your choice of lifestyle has made you weak. A couple of vampire parlor tricks is nothing compared to the power that you cod have, that you now need. But you can change that. Human blood gives you that.
VICKI: No!
DAMON: You have two choices. You can feed and make her forget. Or you can let her run, screaming "vampire" through the town square.
STEFAN: That's what this is about? You want to expose me?
DAMON: No! I want you to remember who you are!
STEFAN: Why? So what, so I'll feed? So I'll kill? So I'll remember what it's like to be brothers again? You know what, let her go. Let her tell everyone that vampires have returned to Mystic Falls. Let them chain me up, and let them drive a stake through my heart, because at least I'll be free of you.
DAMON: Huh. Huh. Wow. Come here, sweetheart.
VICKI: No!
DAMON: It's ok.
VICKI: What happened? Where am I? Oh, I ripped my stitches open. Ah...
STEFAN: You ok?
VICKI: I took some pills, man. I'm good.
DAMON: It's good to be home. Think I might stay a while. This town could use a bit of a wake-up call, don't you think?
STEFAN: What are you up to, Damon?
DAMON: That's for me to know and for you to... dot dot dot. Give Elena my best.


[At the Grill.]

MATT: She said you found her wandering around.
STEFAN: Yeah.
MATT: So, um, thanks.

CAROLINE: Uhh, it's just so much drama. Ever notice how the druggies are the biggest attention whores?
BONNIE: Yeah.
STEFAN: Excuse me. hi.
BONNIE: Hi.
STEFAN: Um, have you guys seen Elena?
BONNIE: I think she went home. I'm gonna give you Elena's cell number and her email. She is big on texting, and you can tell her... "I said so".
STEFAN: Thank you.

The hands contact and Bonnie has a vision.

STEFAN: You ok?
BONNIE: What happened to you? That's so rude. I'm sorry. Excuse me.
CAROLINE: Yeah, she kind of wigs out. It's like her thing.


[Elena's house. Jeremy's bedroom.]

ELENA: Jer?
JENNA: No, it's me, the hypocrite patrol.
ELENA: What are you doing?
JENNA: I've become my worst nightmare. The authority figure who has to violate a 15-year-old's privacy. Jackpot. I see the hiding places ven't gotten any more creative.
ELENA: What brought this on?
JENNA: Your ass-hat of a history teacher shamed me good yesterday.
ELENA: You got tannered. Been there.
JENNA: "Discover the impossible, Ms. Summers." Got it. Thanks. Like I didn't know I was screwing up.
ELENA: You're not screwing up, aunt Jenna.
JENNA: Yes, I am. You know why? Because I'm not her. She made everything look so easy. You know, high school, marriage, having you. I can't do it. I'm gonna say or do the wrong thing, and he's gonna get worse, and it's gonna be my fault. It's impossible.
ELENA: This is just the fear talking. You're a little scared, that's all. We all are. I have to go do something. But are you going to be ok?


[At the Grill. Vicki and Tyler are kissing, Jeremy watches the scene.]

[Caroline on the car park. She hears noises.]

CAROLINE: Oh... whoo.
DAMON: Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you.
CAROLINE: No, it's fine. Um... I was hoping I'd see you again.
DAMON: I know.
CAROLINE: Cocky much?
DAMON: Very much.


[Stefan's house.]

STEFAN: Hi.
ELENA: Hey.
STEFAN: Would you like to come in?
ELENA: The comet's actually this way. Sorry for barging in. Especially after earlier.
STEFAN: No, no. I'm glad you're here. The way we left things... I didn't like it.
ELENA: See, the thing is, I got home tonight planning on doing what I always do, write in my diary, like I have been since my mom gave me one when I was 10. It's where I get everything out, everything I'm feeling. It all goes in this little book that I hide on the second shelf behind this really hideous ceramic mermaid. But then I realized that I'd just be writing things that I should probably be telling you.
STEFAN: What would you write?
ELENA: I would write... "Dear diary, today I convinced myself it was ok to give up. Don't take risks. Stick with the status quo. No drama, now is just not the time. But my reasons aren't reasons, they're excuses. All I'm doing is hiding from the truth, and the truth is that..." I'm scared, Stefan. I'm scared that if I let myself be happy for even one moment that... the world's just going to come crashing down, and I... I don't know if I can survive that.
STEFAN: Do you want to know what I would write? "I met a girl. We talked. It was epic. But then the sun came up and reality set in. Well, this is reality.Right here."

They kiss each other.

[Damon and Caroline are having sex. Damon bites her.]

CAROLINE: Aah!

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1x03 "Friday night bites"

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[Caroline wakes up. Her blow is covered with blood. Damon sleeps in her bed. She gets up and tries to leave the room, but Damon wakes up too.]

DAMON: Good morning.
CAROLINE: Please... Don't.
DAMON: Don't do that. Ah, ah, ah.
CAROLINE: No! No! No! Get away from me! No!
DAMON: This could have gone a completely different way.


[Front of the school.]

BONNIE: I'm not saying don't date the guy. I'm just saying take it slow.
ELENA: You were the one who said to go for it.
BONNIE: Now I'm saying take it slow.
ELENA: Why the about-face?
BONNIE: It's not an about-face. You're single for the first time in your entire high school career. It's the perfect time to play the field.
ELENA: Oh, because I'm so that girl. Seriously, what are you not saying?
BONNIE: It's stupid.
ELENA: Bonnie...
BONNIE: What?
ELENA: Spit it out.
BONNIE: I accidentally touched Stefan. And got a really bad feeling.
ELENA: Is that it? Bonnie.
BONNIE: It was bad bad!
ELENA: Is the whole witch mojo thing again?
BONNIE: You know what? I'm just concerned. This is me expressing concern about my best friend's new boyfriend.
ELENA: And I love you for it, I do. But I feel good. It's been a hard year, and I'm starting to kind of feel like things are getting back to normal again. And you know what? Stefan is a big part of that.


VICKI: I rock. I scored 2 tickets to the Posers Saturday night. They're playing at the Rat.
JEREMY: You and Tyler have fun.
VICKI: Don't be like that. Come on. I want you to go.
JEREMY: You're not worried everyone's going to know you're screwing the stoner geek? Oh, wait... everyone already knows.
VICKI: Yeah. But it's not like that anymore, so now we can be friends and just hang.
JEREMY: Tell me something, was it the drugs? Were you sleeping with me because of the drugs?
VICKI: Screw you.
JEREMY: No, if there's another reason, please, I'm all ears.

STEFAN: Good morning, Elena. Good morning, Bonnie.
BONNIE: Hey, um, I gotta find Caroline. She's not answering her phone. So I'll see you guys later.
ELENA: Bonnie, wait...
STEFAN: She doesn't like me very much.
ELENA: She doesn't know you. She's my best friend. She's just looking out for me. But when she does, she will love you.

TYLER: Look...  there's Elena and her new boyfriend. Now, what are they doing? Oh, they're walking, walking, walking. Yep. Right into the sunset.
MATT: You're a dick.
TYLER: While you just stand there looking like one of those little yard trolls.
MATT: Gnomes.

ELENA: Here's what we're going to do. Are you free tonight?
STEFAN: Yes.
ELENA: Perfect. Dinner, my house. 8:00. You, me, and Bonnie. You two will spend some quality time and she'll get to see what a great guy you are. Mission accomplished.

MATT: Hey, what am I supposed to do, Ty? She made her choice.
TYLER: Let her know she made the wrong one.
MATT: What are you doing? Ty, don't. Ty, don't! Ty! Don't!

Tyler throws the ball on Stefan, but Stefan catches it with an impresionnante speed. He throws the ball to Tyler who moves back under the shock.

ELENA: That throw was insane. I didn't know you played football.
STEFAN: I used to. It was a long time ago.
ELENA: So why don't you try out for the team?
STEFAN: Yeah, I don't think so.
ELENA: So you don't like football?
STEFAN: No, I love football. I think it's a great sport. But in this case, I don't think football likes me. You saw Tyler over there, and we both know how Matt feels.
ELENA: They don't know you. To them, you're mysterious loner guy. Wouldn't hurt to be part of. Make some friends.
STEFAN: Says the girl who spends her alone time writing in a cemetery.
ELENA: Hey, come on. There's more to me than just gloomy graveyard girl. There's a whole other Elena that you have yet to meet. She was into everything, very busy.
STEFAN: Well, I look forward to meeting her. And when will that be?
ELENA: Soon. She's working on it.


[In History's class. Bonnie is writing numbers on her book. "8", "14", "22".]

TANNER: World war II ended in... Anyone got anything? Miss Juan? 1945.
ELENA: Psst. Fyi...  Our team sucks. They could use you.
STEFAN: Can't.
TANNER: Pearl Harbor.
STEFAN: I'm a loner.
TANNER: Miss Gilbert?
ELENA: Hmm? Pearl Harbor?
TANNER: Um...
STEFAN: December 7, 1941.
TANNER: Thank you, Miss Gilbert.
STEFAN: Anytime.
TANNER: Very well. The fall of the Berlin wall.
STEFAN: 1989. I'm good with dates, sir.
TANNER: Are you? How good? Keep it to the year. Civil Rights Act.
STEFAN: 1964.
TANNER: John F. Kennedy assassination.
STEFAN: 1963.
TANNER: Martin luther King.
STEFAN: '68.
TANNER: Lincoln.
STEFAN: 1865.
TANNER: Roe vs. Wade.
STEFAN: 1973.
TANNER: Brown vs. Board.
STEFAN: 1954.
TANNER: The battle of Gettysburg.
STEFAN: 1863.
TANNER: Korean war.
STEFAN: 1950 to 1953.
TANNER: Ha! It ended in '52.
STEFAN: Uh, actually, sir, it was '53.
TANNER: Look it up, somebody. Quickly.
STUDENT: It was 19... 53.

ELENA: How did you know all of that?
STEFAN: Years and years of crossword puzzles. It's a loner thing.


[The Soccer field. Stefn looks the team. Elena is with the cheerleaders.]

MATT: Nice job! Nice job!
TANNER: Mr. Lockwood, is there anything you're good at? 'Cause it isn't history, and it sure as hell isn't defending the ball!
TYLER: Yes, coach.
TANNER: Now do it again!

BONNIE: Oh, my God! You're here!
ELENA: Yep. I can't be sad girl forever. The only way to get things back to the way they were are to do things that were. Oh, and you're coming to dinner tonight.
BONNIE: I am?
ELENA: Mm-hmm. You, me and Stefan. You have to give him a chance.
BONNIE: Tonight's no good. Have you seen Caroline? I texted her like a hundred times.
ELENA: Don't change the subject, Bonnie Bennett. You're going to be there.
BONNIE: Fine. I'll go.
ELENA: Good.

TANNER: Varsity trials were last spring, Mr. Salvatore.
STEFAN: I wasn't here then, sir.
TANNER: And you're not here now, as far as I'm concerned.
STEFAN: Mr. Tanner, I realize that you and I didn't get off to the best start, And I want to apologize for that. I've played football before. Wide receiver, mostly, and I'm pretty good.
TANNER: Well, I won't be asking you who won the super bowl in '71.
STEFAN: '71 was the... Sorry. I... I understand that, sir.
TANNER: Just to see you get knocked on your ass. Borrow some gear. Go! Before I change my mind. Let's run it again!
MATT: First my girlfriend, now the team?
TYLER: Dude, this is an opportunity. Football's a contact sport. Sometimes people get hurt. Whoo! Ha ha!

BONNIE: Seriously, where is Caroline?
ELENA: I don't know. It's not like her. Try her again.

Caroline arrives in Damon's car.

ELENA: Uh...
BONNIE: Oh, my God. That must be the mystery guy from the grill.
ELENA: That's not a mystery guy. That's Damon Salvatore.
BONNIE: Salvatore, as in Stefan?
CAROLINE: I got the other brother. Hope you don't mind. Sorry I'm late, girls. I, uh, was busy. All right, let's start with the double pike herkey hurdler, what do you say? And 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Elena, sweetie, why don't you just observe today? Ok? Keep going! Ok. Do it again from the top. And 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

MATT: Blue lady! Blue lady! Set, hut! Go! Come on, Tyler, cover it! Let's do it.
TANNER: Get it.
MATT: Line up!

MATT: I hate to say it, but he's got skills.
TYLER: I think he needs a buddy pass.
MATT: Really? You don't get to walk on the field and act like you own the place after 5 minutes.
TYLER: Just hang one up there and I'll take care of the rest.
TANNER: Do it again.
MATT: All right, let's huddle up. Set, hut!
TYLER: Oh! Whoo! Welcome to the team, buddy.
TANNER: You gonna live, Salvatore?
STEFAN: Yeah.
TANNER: Walk it off, son.
MATT: Hey. That was my bad.
STEFAN: It's all right.
MATT: Hey.
TANNER: All right.


[Stefan's bedroom.]

DAMON: How were tryouts? Did you make the team? Very Emerson, the way you reveal your soul with so many...  Adjectives.
STEFAN: What are you doing here?
DAMON: I've come to apologize. I've been doing some thinking, some soul searching, and... I want us to start over. We need to put the past behind us. You're my little brother, and if you want to live a normal, happy human life, then I want that for you. Maybe I can do it, too. That I can learn to be a non-living living person. Maybe there's hope for both of us.
STEFAN: You know, it doesn't have to be this way, Damon.
DAMON: Of course it doesn't. I saw Elena today, btw. That means "by the way." She was at cheerleading practice. She looked so perky in her little short shorts. Just... simmer down, I didn't even go near her. I've got my own cheerleader now. Ooh, that reminds me...  I gotta run. I have a date. Sweaty palms. Wish me luck.


[Elena's kitchen.]

BONNIE: You explain it. Last night, I'm watching Nine-o, a commercial breaks come on and I'm like, I bet it's that phone commercial. And sure enough, it's that guy and the girl with the bench, he flies to Paris and he flies back. They take a picture.
ELENA: Oh, come on. That commercial's on a constant loop.
BONNIE: Fine. Well, how about this? Today I'm obsessed with numbers. 3 numbers. I keep seeing 8, 14, and 22. How weird is that?
ELENA: Maybe we should play the lottery. Have you talked to your grams?
BONNIE: She's just gonna say it's because I'm a witch. I don't want to be a witch. Do you want to be a witch?
ELENA: I don't want to be a witch.
BONNIE: And putting it in a nice bowl isn't fooling anybody.
ELENA: Ok, serving spoons. Where are the serving spoons?
BONNIE: Little drawer on your left.
ELENA: Ok, so you've been in this kitchen like a thousand times.
BONNIE: Yeah, that's it.

They hear the doorbell.

ELENA: Ok, he's here. Don't be nervous. Just be your normal loving self.

Bonnie stays alone in the kitchen.

BONNIE: Birthday candles.

She opens a drawer and find the candles


[Elena's living room.]

ELENA: Did Tanner give you a hard time today?
STEFAN: Well, he let me on the team, so I must have done something right.
ELENA: Bonnie, you should have seen Stefan today. Tyler threw a ball right at him, and...
BONNIE: Yeah, I heard.
ELENA: Why don't you tell Stefan about your family?
BONNIE: Um, divorced. No mom. Live with my dad. Hmm.
ELENA: No, about the witches. Bonnie's family has a lineage of witches. It's really cool.
BONNIE: Cool isn't the word I'd use.
STEFAN: Well, it's certainly interesting. I'm not too versed, but I do know that there's a history of celtic druids that migrated here in the 1800s.
BONNIE: My family came by way of Salem.
STEFAN: Really? Salem witches?
BONNIE: Yeah.
STEFAN: I would say that's pretty cool.
BONNIE: Really? Why?
STEFAN: Salem witches are heroic examples of individualism and nonconformity.
BONNIE: Yeah, they are.

They hear the doorbelln, again.

ELENA: I wonder who that could be.
CAROLINE: Surprise! Bonnie said you were doing dinner, so we brought dessert.
ELENA: Oh.
DAMON: Hope you don't mind.
STEFAN: What are you doing here?
DAMON: Waiting for Elena to invite me in.
ELENA: Oh, yeah, you can...
STEFAN: No, no, no. He can't, uh... he can't stay. Can you, Damon?
CAROLINE: Get in here.
STEFAN: We're just... finishing up.
ELENA: It's fine. Just come on in.
DAMON: You have a beautiful home, Elena.
ELENA: Thank you.
CAROLINE: I cannot believe that Mr. Tanner let you on the team. Tyler must be ceiling. But good for you. Go for it.
DAMON: That's what I always tell him. You have to engage. You can't just sit there and wait for life to come to you. You have to go get it.
CAROLINE: Yeah, Elena wasn't so lucky today. It's only because you missed summer camp. God, I don't know how you're ever going to learn the routines.
BONNIE: I'll work with her. She'll get it.
CAROLINE: I guess we can put her in the back.
DAMON: You know, you don't seem like the cheerleader type, Elena.
CAROLINE: Oh, it's just 'cause her parents died. Yeah, I mean, she's just totally going through a blah phase. She used to be way more fun. And I say that with complete sensitivity.
DAMON: I'm sorry, Elena. I know what it's like to lose both your parents. In fact, Stefan and I have watched almost every single person we've ever cared about die.
STEFAN: We don't need to get into that right now, Damon.
DAMON: Oh, you know what, you're right, Stef. I'm sorry. The last thing I wanted to do was bring her up. Mmm.


[At the grill.]

VICKI: Don't do that. Not while I'm working. I'll see you later.
TYLER: I'll be right back.

MATT: She's my sister and I love her, but sometimes she can really make you work for it.
JEREMY: I find it pretty easy.

JERMEY: All right, I get it. Hitting me to impress her. That's...  That's real nice.
TYLER: I don't need to impress her. I already won. Now you're dead.
JEREMY: Am I? 'Cause it seems like I'm standing here waiting for you to man up.
MATT: Ty, don't!
TYLER: The next time I see you, Gilbert...
JEREMY: No, next time I see you.
MATT: What are you doin', Vick?


[Elena's kitchen.]

DAMON: One more.
ELENA: Oh, thank you. Nice save.
DAMON: I like you. You know how to laugh. And you make Stefan smile, which is something I haven't seen in a very long time.
ELENA: Earlier, did you mean... Katherine?
DAMON: Mm-hmm.
ELENA: How did she die?
DAMON: In a fire. Tragic fire.
ELENA: Recently?
DAMON: Well, it seems like it was yesterday.
ELENA: What was she like?
DAMON: She was beautiful. A lot like you in that department. She was just very complicated and selfish and at times not very kind, but very sexy and seductive.
ELENA: So which one of you dated her first?
DAMON: Nicely deduced. Ask Stefan. I'm sure his answer differs from mine. I'd quit cheerleading if I were you.
ELENA: Why do you say that?
DAMON: Oh, I saw you at practice. You looked miserable.
ELENA: You saw that?
DAMON: Uh-huh.
ELENA: I used to love it. It was fun. Things are different this year. Everything that used to matter doesn't anymore.
DAMON: So don't let it. Quit, move on. Problem solved. Ta-da.
ELENA: Some things could matter again.
DAMON: Maybe. But... seems a little unrealistic to me.
ELENA: I'm sorry. About Katherine. You lost her, too.
BONNIE: Hey. Need some help?
DAMON: Sure, why not?


[Elena's living room.]

CAROLINE: Matt tries, but he's just having a really hard time. You have to understand that they were each other's first. You know, like, from the sandbox.
STEFAN: That's a really nice scarf.
CAROLINE: Mm. Thank you, it's new.
STEFAN: Can I see it? I mean, would you mind taking it off?
CAROLINE: Oh, I can't.
STEFAN: Why not? You ok?
CAROLINE: Um... All I know is that I can't take it off.
DAMON: What are you two kids talking about?
STEFAN: I was just commenting on her scarf.
DAMON: Hmm. Hey, you know, um, Elena and Bonnie are finishing up the dishes. Why don't you go see if you can help?
CAROLINE: Does it look like I do dishes?
DAMON: For me?
CAROLINE: Hmm... I don't think so.
DAMON: Go see if Elena needs help in the kitchen.
CAROLINE: You know what? I'm gonna go see if Elena needs some help in the kitchen.
DAMON: Great.

STEFAN: They are people, Damon. She's not a puppet. She doesn't exist for your amusement, for you to feed on whenever you want to.
DAMON: Sure she does. They all do. They're whatever I want them to be. They're mine for the taking.
STEFAN: All right, you've had your fun. You used Caroline, you got to me and Elena, good for you. Now it's time for you to go.
DAMON: That's not a problem. Because... I've been invited in, and I'll come back tomorrow night and the following night and I'll do with your little cheerleader whatever I want to do. Because that is what is normal to me.


[Elena's bedroom.]

ELENA: Tonight wasn't so bad. I had fun.
STEFAN: Hmm. That makes one of us.
ELENA: Come on. Your brother isn't as bad as you make him out to be...

Stefan kisses her. When he removes his shirt, he turns into Damon.  Elena screams. She wakes up, it was a  nightmare. There was a crow at the window


[Stefan's bedroom. He is writing on his diarie.]

STEFAN: There must be a shred of humanity left inside my brother. Somewhere. I keep hoping. But how do I make him see it? And how do I protect her?


[Later. The Soccer game.]

ELENA: Ooh. Look at you. You look hot in your jersey.
STEFAN: What happened? No more cheerleader?
ELENA: I quit. I'm a quitter.
STEFAN: No, hey, you're not a quitter. You suffered a great loss. You're not the same person. You should be looking ahead. You should be starting over.  Ok? I hope you don't think this is too soon or too weird, but... I, uh, I wanted you to have this.
ELENA: Oh, my God, it's beautiful.
STEFAN: It's something that I've had forever, and, uh, I've never wanted to give it to anyone until now. I'd very  much like it if you'd wear it for me, for... good luck.
ELENA: Is that rose that I smell?
STEFAN: No, it's, uh... it's an herb. It's nice, huh?
ELENA: I love it.
STEFAN: And, uh, I wanted to thank you for pushing me to try out for the team. It feels really good.
ELENA: We're a pair. I quit, you start.
STEFAN: Right.  We're a work in progress. We'll figure it out.

Elena kisses him.

CAROLINE: And you're not in uniform because...


[Later.]

TANNER:  Wait, wait, wait, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait. Let's be honest here. In the past, we used to let other teams come into our town and roll right over us! But that is about to change. We've got some great new talent tonight starting on the offensive line, and I'm gonna tell you right now, it has been a long time since I have seen a kid like this with hands like these.
TYLER: This blows. He can't start the guy. He just got here.
TANNER: That have been waiting for us to put a check in the win column, I have only one thing to say to you...  Your Timberwolves are hungry.

VICKI: Hey, you. What's wrong?
TYLER: Nothing.

TANNER: And the central high lions are what's for dinner!

TYLER: Is that Jeremy?
VICKI: Wait, no! Ty! No.
TYLER: Oh, what do you care? Don't look so down. You can have her when I'm done.

Jeremy strikes him. The two boys begin to fight.

VICKI: Tyler, stop it! Tyler! Tyler, stop! Stop it! Stop, you're hurting him! Tyler! Tyler, stop! Tyler! Stop it! Tyler, stop!
STEFAN: Hey, he's down! Enough!
ELENA: Jeremy, no!
MATT: Get off me! Stop!
ELENA: What the hell, Jeremy? Put your head up, you're bleeding.
JEREMY: I'm fine!
ELENA: Yeah, you smell fine.
JEREMY: Just stop, ok?
MATT: Come on, man. Come on.

ELENA: Oh, my God, your hand.
STEFAN: No, no, no, it's fine.
ELENA: Is it deep? How bad is it? Come on!

Stefan's hand hasn't scar.

ELENA: But... I saw it, it was...
STEFAN: He missed. It's not my blood. See? I'm fine.
ELENA: No, no, no. I... I saw it. The glass cut your hand. It was...
STEFAN: It's ok. I'm ok. It's almost kick-off time, all right? So, um, I'll, uh, I'll see you after the game.


CAROLINE: Hey, Tiki, it's all wobbly. Can you stand straight, please? Could someone please help Tiki?
BONNIE: Hey! Where you been?
ELENA: Can I ask you a question and you give me a really serious no-joke response?
BONNIE: Of course. What is it?
ELENA: The bad mojo. When you touched Stefan and you had that reaction...
BONNIE: You know what, forget I said that. Your little dinner party plot totally won me over.
ELENA: No, Bonnie, seriously. What was it? Did you see something, Or...
BONNIE: It wasn't clear like a picture. Like today, I keep seeing those same numbers I told you about...  8, 14, 22.
ELENA: Yeah?
BONNIE: When I touched Stefan, it was a feeling. And it vibrated through me, and it was cold, and it...
ELENA: And what?
BONNIE: It was death. It's what I imagine death to be like.

Elena goes to her car.

ELENA: You scared me. What are you doing here?
DAMON: I'm hiding from Caroline.
ELENA: And why is that?
DAMON: I needed a break. She talks more than I can listen.
ELENA: That could be a sign.
DAMON: Well, she's awfully young.
ELENA: Not much younger than you are.
DAMON: I don't see it going anywhere in the bigger picture. I think she'd drive me crazy.
ELENA: Caroline does have some really annoying traits, but we've been friends since the first grade and that means something to me.
DAMON: Duly noted. I'm sorry if I make you uncomfortable. That's not my intention.
ELENA: Yes, it is. Otherwise you wouldn't put an alternate meaning behind everything you say.
DAMON: You're right. I do have other intentions, but so do you.
ELENA: Really?
DAMON: Mm-hmm. I see 'em. You want me.
ELENA: Excuse me?
DAMON: I get to you. You find yourself drawn to me. You think about me even when you don't want to think about me. I bet you even dreamed about me. And right now... You want to kiss me.

She strikes him.

ELENA: What the hell? I don't know what game you're trying to play with Stefan here, but I don't want to be part of it. And I don't know what happened in the past, but let's get one thing straight...  I am not Katherine.


[Later.]
MATT: You gonna be able to play?
STEFAN: Oh, yeah, I'm good.
MATT: Uh, what you did back there... you had Jeremy's back.
STEFAN: Ah, he's a messed-up kid. Somebody's gotta look out for him.
MATT: I know. This week at practice I was a dick.
STEFAN: Had your reasons.
MATT: No excuse. Good luck tonight. We're lucky to have you.

DAMON: Isn't that nice? Stefan joins a team, makes a friend. It's all so, "rah, rah, go team, yeah!"
STEFAN: Not tonight. I'm done with you.
DAMON: Nice trick with Elena. Let me guess... vervain in the necklace? I admit, I was a bit surprised. It's been a while since anyone could resist my compulsion. Where'd you get it?
STEFAN: Does it matter?
DAMON: Guess I could just seduce her the old-fashioned way. Or I could just... eat her.
STEFAN: No. You're not gonna hurt her, Damon.
DAMON: No?
STEFAN: Because deep down inside, there is a part of you that feels for her. I was worried that you had no humanity left inside of you, that you may have actually become the monster that you pretend to be.
DAMON: Who's pretending?
STEFAN: Then kill me.
DAMON: Well, I'm... I'm tempted.
STEFAN: No, you're not. You've had lifetimes to do it, and yet, here I am. I'm still alive. And there you are. You're still haunting me. After 145 years. Katherine is dead. And you hate me because you loved her, and you torture me because you still do. And that, my brother, is your humanity.
TANNER: Salvatore! What the hell? We've got a game to play!
DAMON: If that's my humanity... then what's this?

Damon bites Tanner.

TANNER: Aah!

STEFAN: No!
DAMON: Anyone, anytime, any place.

[In the locker room.]

TYLER: Tanner's M.I.A. I think he had a little bit too much beer.
MATT: Don't talk to me right now, all right? I'm pissed at you.
TYLER: What's your problem?
MATT: What's my...  You're my problem, all right? You're a bully. A freakin' 12-year-old bully, man. And I'm sick of it. I mean, what was that about tonight? What's beating up the new guy going to prove? Or screwing with my sister or pummeling my girlfriend's kid brother.
TYLER: Girlfriend? Look, I don't know how to tell you this, but she dumped your ass. Are you for real?! You want to hit me? I'm on your team.
MATT: This was over the line. Even for you.

Matt discovers Tanner's body.

MATT: Somebody help!

The police arrived. Bonnie looks at the scene. She sees a pennons "BLDG 8", the immatricualtion's car is "FHT 14" and on the ground, the number 22. Bonnie is afraid.

[The Soccer field. Jeremy is sitting on the floor.]

VICKI: It wasn't just for the drugs.


[The cars park.]

ELENA: What kind of animal could be doing all this? Why would it come out of the woods and attack someone in the middle of town?
STEFAN: I don't know. I don't know.
ELENA: I was so sure that you cut your hand. I saw it.
STEFAN: I'm gonna be fine. I'm gonna be fine, ok? We're fine. That's what matters.

[Stefan's bedroom. He's writing in his diarie.]

STEFAN: I thought there was hope that somewhere deep inside, something in Damon was still human, normal. But I was wrong. There's nothing human left in Damon. No good, no kindness. No love. Only a monster Who must be stopped.

[Damon is in Elena's bedroom. He looks at her.]

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 1x04 "Family Ties"

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[Elena's house.]

Elena wakes up. She hears a noise.

ELENA: Hello? Jeremy? Hello?
MAN ON TV: This is Logan Fell coming to you live from the streets of Mystic Falls with breaking news of another deadly animal attack. The wild animal terrorizing the citizens of Mystic Falls has claimed another victim, local high school student Elena Gilbert. Police are certain that forensic eviden will confirm that this is the same animal responsible for recent attacks.
DAMON: You know it's coming next.

She runs. Damon beats her.


[Stefan's bedroom.]

Stefan wakes up.

STEFAN: Ah!
DAMON: Bad dream?
STEFAN: Ah.
DAMON: Do you know how easy it was to get into your head just now? You really need some human blood. It might even the playing field. Football reference. Too soon.

Stefan launches a knife on Damon.

DAMON: All right, I deserved that. But I just wanted to let you know, they caught the culprit. The animal responsible for killing coach tanner and all those people.
STEFAN: What are you talking about?
DAMON: It was a mountain lion. Really big one. It attacked a hunter this morning. It's all over the news. "Deadly beast captured. All's well in Mystic Falls."
STEFAN: Why would you cover your tracks?
DAMON: I've decided to stay a while. I'm just having way too much fun here with you and Elena.
STEFAN: Can't touch her now.
DAMON: Well, the vervain keeps me out of her head. Maybe that's not my target. Believe it or not, Stefan, some girls don't need my persuasion. Some girls just can't resist my good looks, my style and my charm and my unflinching ability to listen to Taylor Swift.

Damon plant the knife in Stefan's belly.

DAMON: This is John Varvatos, dude. Dick move.


[Stefan's house.]

Stefan is writing is diary.

SHERIF ON TV: I can confirm that a 12-Foot puma mountain lion attacked a hunter and was subsequently shot and killed. The hunter is in stable condition.
STEFAN: The real animal is still out there, waiting for me, challenging me to fight back, to stop him. But how do I stop a monster without becoming one myself?


[Elena's house.]

MAN ON TV: To repeat, the animal terrorizing Mystic Falls has been caught.
JENNA: Scum ball. Scum bucket.
ELENA: Who are you talking to?
JENNA: Him. The news guy, also known as Logan "Scum" Fell. Did your mom ever tell you why I moved away from Mystic Falls?
ELENA: Oh, no way. You and him? He's cute.
JENNA: He is not cute. There's nothing cute about him. What are you doing with that?
ELENA: I went yesterday and got it from the safe deposit box. Mom had told Mrs. Lockwood she would loan it to the founder's council for their heritage display. Is that grandma beth's wedding ring?
ELENA: Originally it was great-Great-Grandma mary's wedding ring.
JEREMY: How much do you think this stuff is worth? You know, like on ebay?
ELENA: You're not gonna find out.
JEREMY: That stuff is mom and dad's. You can't just give it away.
ELENA: I'm not giving it away. It's called a loan, Jeremy.

Doorbell rings.

STEFAN: Hi.

She kisses him.

ELENA: Hi.

[Elena's bedroom.]

Stefan is kissing Elena. But he sees in the mirror he begins to transform. He stops kiss her.

ELENA: Are you ok?
STEFAN: I'm good. Sorry.
ELENA: Maybe we should press pause.
STEFAN: Yeah, you're probably right. That was getting a bit...
ELENA: Yeah.
STEFAN: Yeah.
ELENA: How do you look in a suit?
STEFAN: I can pull one off.
ELENA: How about tomorrow night? Will you be my date to the founder's party?
STEFAN: They still do that?
ELENA: Have you been before?
STEFAN: No, the Salvatores don't get invited anymore.
ELENA: Well, this year, there's this heritage project that meant a lot to my mom. She was really involved in the founder's council, and it was her favorite party. I know it sounds really boring, but--
STEFAN: I would be honored to accompany you, Miss Gilbert.
ELENA: The pleasure is all mine, Mr. Salvatore.


[Caroline's bedroom.]

DAMON: No yellow. Jaundice. Go for the blue.
CAROLINE: I don't like the blue.
DAMON: Well, I do. And if I'm gonna be your date--
CAROLINE: You cannot be my date. My mother is going to be there, and she is a very proud gun owner.
DAMON: I went through a lot of trouble to make sure this party wasn't cancelled. It's very important I be there. Please take me.
CAROLINE: You should come to the founder's party with me.
DAMON: Not if you're wearing that dress. At's so special about this Bella girl? Edward's so whipped.
CAROLINE: You gotta read the first book first. It won't make sense if you don't.
DAMON: Ah, I miss Anne Rice. She was so on it.
CAROLINE: How come you don't sparkle?
DAMON: Because I live in the real world, where vampires burn in the sun.
CAROLINE: Yeah, but you go in the sun.
DAMON: I have a ring. It protects me. Long story.
CAROLINE: These bites turn me into a vampire?
DAMON: It's more complicated than that. You'd have to feed on my blood, then die, then feed on a human's, whole ordeal. This book, by thwawa has it all wrong.
CAROLINE: You can be very sweet when you want to be.
DAMON: Yes, I can be sweet.
CAROLINE: Are you going to kill me?
DAMON: Mm-Hmm. But not yet.
CAROLINE: Why not?
DAMON: Because there's something I need you to do for me.
CAROLINE: Anything.
DAMON: How good are you at getting this little nose Where it doesn't belong?
CAROLINE: Oh, I'm excellent.
DAMON: Mmm.


[Mystic Grill.]

Tyler is eating with his parents.

MR LOCKWOOD: So what happens with the season? One big forfeit? Are they looking for a new coach?
TYLER: I don't know, dad. I doubt anybody's thinking about that right now.
MRS LOCKWOOD: Charles, founder's party, focus.
VICKI: How are y'all doing over here?
MR LOCKWOOD: Ah, we're doing great, sweetheart.
VICKI: Is there anything else I can get you?
TYLER: We're fine, thanks.
MR LOCKWOOD: Just the check, honey.
VICKI: Here you go, Mayor Lockwood.
MR LOCKWOOD: Thanks.


Caroline arrives with Bonnie.

BONNIE: You're taking Damon to the founder's party? What about me?
CAROLINE: Go with Elena.
BONNIE: She's asking Stefan.
CAROLINE: Ok, go by yourself.
BONNIE: Gee, thanks. What about your mom? Is she ok with you bringing Damon?
CAROLINE: And I'm supposed to care why?
BONNIE: He's older sexy danger guy.
CAROLINE: Older sexy danger guy? Is that an official witch twitter tweet?
BONNIE: No more witch jokes, ok? At whole Mr. Tanner prediction thing has me freaked.
CAROLINE: Ok. And Damon's not dangerous. You know, he just has a lot of issues with his brother. You know, like major, deep-Rooted drama.
BONNIE: Like...?
CAROLINE: I'm not really supposed to say anything.
BONNIE: Caroline Forbes, when have you ever kept a secret in your life?
CAROLINE: Ok. But you can't tell Elena.
BONNIE: No.


TYLER: So what you gonna buy me?
VICKI: Ugh, some class. Oh, your parents are gone. I guess can bebclose now.
TYLER: What the hell does that mean?
VICKI: You treat me like trash. I'm sick of it.
TYLER: I don't think you're trash.
VICKI: Really? Then who are you taking to the founder's party?
TYLER: Vicki Donovan. Do you want me to ask you to the founder's party?
VICKI: No. It'll be stupid and lame.
TYLER: True. But it'll be less stupid and lame if you were there.

JEREMY: You realize you had to ask him to ask you, right? You figure if you dress up like a respectable young lady, he'll finally treat you like one?
VICKI: Screw you, jeremy.
JEREMY: You know you're making the wrong choice, yet you make it anyway. It's sad.


[Salvatore's House.]

ZACH: I didn't know you were here.
DAMON: Just going through Stefan's homework. Boy, this country sure has dumbed down in the last hundred years. Why he wants to go to high school is beyond me. I mean, in the seventies, he went Ivy League. Harvard, I understood. Actually, no. I didn't get that either. Go ahead, purge. Get it out. What's on your mind?
ZACH: Why are you here, Damon?
DAMON: To spend time with you, Zach. Family's important.
ZACH: I know you. You always have a motive. So tell me, what is it this time?
DAMON: You are in no position to question me.
ZACH: I didn't mean to upset you.
DAMON: This is not upset, Zach.
STEFAN: What's going on?
DAMON: Having a family moment, Stefan. Spending some quality time.
STEFAN: Hey, are you ok?
ZACH: No, I'm not. And neither are you. How many more people have to die before you see that?
STEFAN: I see it. All right, Zach, I see it.
ZACH: Then why aren't you doing anything about it?
STEFAN: I can't, Zach. I can't. It would take human blood. It's the only way that I could stop him, and I can't do that.
ZACH: The vervain could weaken him if he ingested it. It would help get you the upper hand.
STEFAN: Vervain hasn't grown here since 1865. Damon saw to that. The little I had, I gave to Elena. What?

Stefan and Zach down in the cellar.

STEFAN: You've been growing it.
ZACH: It's just something that's been passed down through the generations. Blood only runs so deep when you're related to vampires. Damon would kill me if he knew that I had it.
STEFAN: But you're telling me. Why?
ZACH: Because I trust you. And you're gonna need it if you want to get rid of him.


[Elena's house.]

TYLER: I'm here for my mom. I was supposed to pick up a box of stuff.
ELENA: Right here. Please be careful.
JEREMY: Yeah,  careful with it, dick.
ELENA: Hey! Not now, ok, guys? Please?
TYLER: I'm fine. He's just being a punk.
JEREMY: I got your punk.
ELENA: Look, Tyler, maybe you should go. Tell your mom that I'll see her tonight.
TYLER: Hey. Would it make a difference if I told you I actually like Vicki?
JEREMY: Not even if you meant it.


BONNIE: Delicate flower vs. Naughty vixen.
ELENA: Tough call. Can we mix them?
BONNIE: Look at you, getting all pretty for your date. You seem happy-Ish.
ELENA: I am...ish. Tonight's going to be a good night. But don't let that stop you from telling me whatever it is you wanted to tell me as soon as  you walked in the door.
BONNIE: What if I tell you in the morning? I don't want to ruin the night.
ELENA: Bonnie, out with it.
BONNIE: Ok, but it has to go in the vault, because Caroline will kill me if it gets back to Damon that she squealed. Apparently Stefan has a very interesting back story.
ELENA: Uh-Huh.
BONNIE: Do you know what happened with his ex-girlfriend Katherine?
ELENA: I know that they both dated her and that's why they have issues.
BONNIE: Yeah, they both dated her, only she chose Damon. And that drove Stefan mad, he did horrible things to try and break them up. He manipulated Katherine. He filled her head with all these lies until finally it worked, and she turned against Damon.
ELENA: That sounds like one person's side of the story, meaning Damon's.
BONNIE: I just wanted you to know.
ELENA: Anyway, his past relationships are none of my business.
BONNIE: Unless he's a calculating, manipulative liar. That is your business.
ELENA: Stefan is none of those things.
BONNIE: Yeah? How do you know?


[Stefan's House.]

DAMON: Do they still wear ties at this thing?
STEFAN: Why are you even going?
DAMON: It's only fitting. We were at the very first one, remember?
STEFAN: I think it's better if we don't draw attention to ourselves.
DAMON: So you should stay here. I'll see to it Elena has a good time.
STEFAN: My goodness, I've driven you to drink. Can't seem to rid myself of you. What else am I supposed to do, besides go about living my life?
DAMON: Go about living my life. See, therein lies your eternal struggle. You're dead, dude. Get over it.
STEFAN: What do you think?


[Elena's house.]

ELENA: Hello? Hi, Mrs Lockwood. What do you mean? It is? Are you sure? 'Cause I saw it. Let me check. Mm-Hmm. I will find it and bring it. Ok. Bye.
BONNIE: What's wrong?
JEREMY: Ahh! God, what now?
ELENA: The pocket watch. Where is it?
JEREMY: What watch?
ELENA: The one you stole from mom's box. Look, Mrs Lockwood just called me, freaking out. It was on the list, Jeremy. And she can't find it, and she thinks she's the one who lost it.
JEREMY: Maybe she did. Maybe Tyler took it.
ELENA: Don't even play that card. Jeremy, you took it. If I go online, am I going to find it on ebay? Is that how you pay for your pot?
JEREMY: Screw you. I would never sell this, ok?
ELENA: Then why did you take it?
JEREMY: Because it's supposed to be mine. Dad said it goes to the firstborn son. His father gave it to him, and now what?
ELENA: And he was going to give it to you.
JEREMY: Yeah.
ELENA: Look, Jeremy, it's still yours, ok? Mom promised Mrs Lockwood. What do you want me to do?
JEREMY: Just take it and get out.


[Salvatore's house.]

DAMON: It's cool not growing old. I like being the eternal stud.
STEFAN: Yes, being a 150-Year-Old teenager Has been the height of my happiness.
DAMON: You cracked a funny, Stefan. I should have a drink to celebrate. 1864. You and Katherine were the perfect couple. It was hell watching you dance with her.
STEFAN: My happiness was short-Lived, as you well know.
DAMON: I remember. I left the party early, I was waiting for her. The night you dropped her off, I was waiting just inside. You were such a gentleman, gave her a kiss on the cheek. And what she really wanted was... Oh, well. Here's to history repeating itself, huh?

He drops the glass.

DAMON: I admire your effort, Stefan. Pouring yourself a drink then spiking the bottle with vervain.
STEFAN: I'm not some drunk sorority chick. You can't roofie me. But I can't help but feel a little used. I thought we were having a moment. I have to go to the party angry. Who knows what I'll do?


[At the founder's party.]

VICKI: Hi. How are you?
TYLER: Uh, let's go this way.
VICKI: Why?
TYLER: Line's too long. We can go around back. Come on, party's in the back.


[Salvatore's House.]

ZACH: That was his favorite scotch. I'm sorry, I thought it would work.
STEFAN: I wasn't counting on it.
ZACH: You knew it would fail?
STEFAN: Did what I wanted. It lowered his guard. You won't expect me to try again so soon.
ZACH: I doubled what I put in the scotch.

Elena makes the watch to Jeremy.


[At the founder's party.]

MRS LOCKWOOD: Caroline! You look smashing.
CAROLINE: Thank you, Mrs Lockwood. This is my boyfriend Damon.
MRS LOCKWOOD: Oh, well, come on in.
DAMON: Lovely to meet you. I've been looking forward to this party for quite a while.
MRS LOCKWOOD: Well, enjoy.
CAROLINE: Wait here.

CAROLINE: Really, you couldn't even change out of the badge for this?
SHERIF FORBES: I'm working, honey. Who's the date you just tried to sneak past me?
CAROLINE: Just some guy.
SHERIF FORBES: He's a little old for you, don't you think?
CAROLINE: Oh, 'cause otherwise you'd approve. Yeah, I doubt that.

ELENA: Hi, mayor Lockwood.
MR LOCKWOOD: Hey. Hey, guys, on in.
STEFAN: Thank you.

SHERIF FORBES: Where's your dad?
CAROLINE: Memphis.
SHERIF FORBES: Good.
CAROLINE: With Stephen.


Elena is watchin her parents' wedding Ring.

STEFAN: Your parents?
ELENA: There's a lot of history here.


Jenna is drinking.

LOGAN: Jenna.
JENNA: Hello Logan.
LOGAN: It's good to see you.
JENNA: I thought I might see you here.
LOGAN: You knew it.
JENNA: I dreaded.
LOGAN: But were secretely hoping.
JENNA: And now that I have...
LOGAN: Whoa, hey, not so fast. I know you. You have a lot more insults in you, I can tell.
JENNA: Your hairline's receding.
LOGAN: No, it's not. You want to have lunch?
JENNA: Nope.
LOGAN: You haven't changed a bit.
JENNA: Oh, yes, I have. I'm meaner now.

Elena is reading the first registry.

ELENA: "The founding families in Mystic Falls welcomes you to the inaugural founder's council celebration." Wow, look, it's the original guest registry. Look at all these familiar names-- Sheriff William Forbes, Mayor Benjamin lockwood. Is that Damon Salvatore? And, look, Stefan Salvatore.
DAMON: The original Salvatore brothers. Our ancestors. Tragic story, actually.
STEFAN: We don't need to bore them with stories of the past.
ELENA: It's not boring, Stefan. I'd love to hear more about your family.
CAROLINE: Well, I'm bored. I want to dance. And Damon won't dance with me.
DAMON: Mm-Mmm.
CAROLINE: Could I just borrow your date?
ELENA: Oh, uh...
STEFAN: I don't really dance.
DAMON: Oh, sure he does. You should see him. Waltz, the jitterbug, the moonwalk. He does it all.
CAROLINE: You wouldn't mind, would you, Elena?
ELENA: It's up to Stefan.

They are going to dance.

DAMON: I want to apologize to you for being such a world-Class jerk the other night when I tried to kiss you. There's no excuse. My therapist says I'm... Acting out, trying to punish Stefan.
ELENA: For what?
DAMON: It's all in the past. I don't even want to bring it up. Let's just say that the men in the Salvatore family have been cursed with sibling rivalry. And it all started with the original Salvatore brothers.

STEFAN: Damon told you to ask me to dance. Didn't he?
CAROLINE: Now why would he do that?
STEFAN: Would you like one?
CAROLINE: Ok, just tell me if you see my mom.

DAMON: The Salvatore name was practically royalty in this town. Until the war. There was a battle here--
ELENA: The battle of willow creek.
DAMON: Right.
ELENA: I know, we talked about it in class. Confederate soldiers fired on a church with civilians inside.
DAMON: What the history books left out was the people that were killed. They weren't there by accident. They were believed to be union sympathizers. So some of the founders on the confederacy side back then wanted them rounded up and burned alive. Stefan and Damon had someone they loved very much in that church. And when they went to rescue them, they were shot. Murdered in cold blood.
ELENA: Who was in the church that they wanted to save?
DAMON: A woman, I guess. Doesn't it always come down to the love of a woman?
ELENA: Look, I'm sorry that you and Stefan have this thing between you, but I can't get in the middle of it, Damon. I just... I hope you two can work it out.
DAMON: I hope so, too.


Vicki and Tyler on a bench, away from the party.

VICKI: So you want to dance?
TYLER: Me dancing? Not pretty.
VICKI: Maybe you could show me around. I mean, this place is amazing.
TYLER: Yeah, if you like living in a museum.
VICKI: Maybe I should just strip naked and give pastor bill
a lap dance. I mean, that's why we're hiding in a corner all night, isn't it? You're scared of how I'm going to act? You afraid of what your parents are going to think about your date from the wrong side of the tracks?
TYLER: I don't care about what they think.
VICKI: Great. Let's go say hi.
TYLER: Knock it off, vick.
VICKI: Or we could just, you know, sneak up to your bedroom. As long as nobody sees us, right?
TYLER: Vicki, I swear...
VICKI: What's a matter, Ty? You scared to stand up to your mommy? It's pretty pathetic.
TYLER: Let go!
MRS LOCKWOOD: Tyler... We didn't get a chance to say hello earlier. It's Vicki, right? Matt's sister.
VICKI: Yes, madame.
MRS LOCKWOOD: You'll have to forgive my son's rudeness. He gets it from his father.
VICKI: Well, that's ok, Mrs Lockwood. Tyler and I were just saying good night.
MRS LOCKWOOD: That's what you get when you bring the trash into the party.


A candle shuts. Bonnie lights it just by looking.

Damon and Elena return with Stefan and Caroline.

DAMON: What'd we miss?
CAROLINE: We were just chatting.
STEFAN: Drink, Damon?
DAMON: No, thanks, I'll pass.
ELENA: Stefan, do you have another dance in you?
STEFAN: Absolutely.
CAROLINE: They look so cute together.
DAMON: Don't talk, please.


LOGAN: Don't shoot! I'm going to need a refill.
JENNA: Shooting implies caring.
LOGAN: Feigned indifference. I like it.
JENNA: I'm over the banter, Logan. I'd really rather you just left me alone.
LOGAN: I'm sorry, Jenna. About your sister.
JENNA: Thank you.
LOGAN: Came to the funeral.
JENNA: I know. I saw you.
LOGAN: Yeah, I didn't want to push my way in, but I wanted to be there for you. And when I heard you were staying in Mystic Falls, I thought maybe... Well, maybe I could have a second chance to make things right.
JENNA: Her name was Monica, wasn't it?


STEFAN: I hope Damon didn't drive you too crazy.
ELENA: No, actually, he was on good behavior. He even apologized and explained why he is the way he is. And it all goes back to Katherine.
STEFAN: Hmm.
ELENA: So tell me about her. What happened?
STEFAN: It's not something I like to talk about.
ELENA: I get that. I do. I just want you to know that you can. I mean, I burden you with all of my drama, and I want you to do the same.
STEFAN: I know. Thank you.
ELENA: The truth is, Stefan... I don't really know that much about you, and I'd really love it if you would open up to me.
STEFAN: Damon said something, didn't he? He likes to play games and cause trouble, Elena.
ELENA: This isn't about Damon, it's about me trying to get to know you. Look, you're the mystery guy, and I like that. But with mystery comes secrets, and this thing with Katherine.
STEFAN: Let it go. I don't want to talk about it.
ELENA: Well, then, say something about yourself. Anything. Otherwise, I'm left with nothing but what other people tell me.
STEFAN: Don't you see what Damon has done here? He's trying to get you to turn against me.
ELENA: Well, then I guess it's working.

BONNIE: This is my fault. I planted doubt. I'm a doubt planter.
ELENA: It's not your fault. I just-- I feel terrible because I said that I wouldn't get in the middle of it, and that's exactly what I did. I got all snotty.
MRS LOCKWOOD: Elena, honey, there you are. I notice the watch still isn't in the collection.
ELENA: Oh, um, I'm sorry, Mrs. Lockwood. I, um, I couldn't find it. I guess it's still packed up in my parents' stuff somewhere.
MRS LOCKWOOD: I see. Well, please let me know if you do find it.
ELENA: Ok.


CAROLINE: Where have you been?
DAMON: Ah. Looking for you.
CAROLINE: Your brother barely danced with me for five minutes--
DAMON: Ok, just a minute. Stand right...there.
CAROLINE: Um, you're not supposed to touch. What is that?
DAMON: It's a very important crystal.
CAROLINE: Well, how did you know that it was there?
DAMON: Because I put it there.
CAROLINE: When?
DAMON: A long time ago. Tonight, I'm taking it back, thanks to you.
CAROLINE: Well, what's it for?
DAMON: Never you mind.
CAROLINE: You can't just steal it.
DAMON: It's not stealing if it's mine. Come on.  Well...


At the bar.

LOGAN: Vodka tonic. Ok, I know that this is probably going to be strike 3, but I hope you can see it for what it is.
JENNA: And what is it?
LOGAN: Persistence. Groveling, commitment. Take your pick.
JENNA: I fled town because of you. Fled.
LOGAN: I was young and stupid, and then things changed. Life got...real. You'd know that better than anyone.
JENNA: Hypothetically speaking, if allowed, how would you make things right?
LOGAN: Well, more groveling, of course. A recap of the past few years spent soul searching. Cheese fries.
JENNA: Obvious.
LOGAN: I know my audience.
JENNA: Yes to lunch. Call me.


In the living room.

MRS LOCKWOOD: Look around. What's missing? The flames, the candles. Why aren't they lit? There's matches in the kitchen.
BONNIE: Bitch.


ELENA: Hey.
CAROLINE: Hey. So how are things with Stefan?
ELENA: Great. Just great.
CAROLINE: Really? Well, my radar must be off, 'cause I was getting all sorts of other vibes...
ELENA: What is that?
CAROLINE: Hmm? Don't!
ELENA: Oh god, Caroline, what happened?
CAROLINE: Nothing, ok?! That is nothing.
ELENA: Did somebody hurt you?
CAROLINE: No, ok, nothing. It just... My mom would kill me.
ELENA: Did Damon hurt you?
CAROLINE: No! Of course not! Just leave me alone, ok, Elena?!


She goes out, and sees Damon.

ELENA: God! There is something seriously wrong with you. You stay away from Caroline or I will go straight to her mother, the sheriff. You got it? Stay away from her.


ELENA: I'm sorry. I take it all back. You're completely right about Damon.
STEFAN: What did he do?
ELENA: There are bruises all over Caroline's body. Bite marks, and he has her all confused and messed up in the head. You don't look surprised.
STEFAN: Um... I'm handling it.
ELENA: Handling it? Stefan, you should be having him arrested.
STEFAN: Elena, please. I... I don't expect you to understand.
ELENA: I don't understand anything, Stefan. So why don't you just clear it up for me?
STEFAN: Look, there are things that you don't know, ok? Things that I want to tell you, but I can't. And I may never be able to. And I just need you to trust me.
ELENA: Trust is earned. I can't justagically hand it over.
STEFAN: I'm so sorry. I have to go.


[Elena's House.]

Dorbell rings. It's Vicki.

JEREMY: You look amazing. What are you doing here?
VICKI: I was thinking maybe I could make one more wrong choice today. I still have 17 minutes.

Vicki kisses him.


[At the founder's party.]

CAROLINE: Don't! She took it off and I got flustered, ok?! I didn't know what to say. But I swear, ok, I did not tell her. I just told her that you didn't mean to hurt me.
DAMON: You make me crazy, you know that?
CAROLINE: It's ok. I forgive you. I swear I didn't say--
DAMON: Shh, shh, shh. Unfortunately... I am so over you now.

He beats her. But he falls on the floor.

DAMON: What the hell?
STEFAN: You know, I couldn't spike your drink... So I spiked hers.


[Later. Caroline wakes up. She founds Damon's crystal. Elena arrives.]

ELENA: Caroline? There you are. I've been looking everywhere for you. Are you ok?
CAROLINE: Yeah. I'm fine.
ELENA: Caroline, what happened?
CAROLINE: I'm fine.
ELENA: No. You're shaking. Caroline--What--
CAROLINE: I'm fine!
ELENA: Caroline, come here, come here.


[Stefan's house.]

STEFAN: I did what I had to do... To protect Elena, to protect everyone. Yes, Damon, the headline reads "Deadly beast captured. All is well in Mystic Falls."


[At the founder's party. Counsil room]

MR LOCKWOOD: Thank you for staying so late.
SHERIF FORBES: Did you get the Gilbert watch?
MRS LOCKWOOD: She claims it's packed away in her parents' things.
LOGAN: I can get it.
SHERIF FORBES: Good. We're going to need it.
MR LOCKWOOD: Are you sure?
SHERIF FORBES: 5 bodies all drained of blood? I'm certain.
LOGAN: They've come back.

---

 1x05 "You're undead to me"

---

[Salvatore's cellar.]

DAMON: Where is my ring?
STEFAN: Won't be needing it anymore.
DAMON: How long have I been here?
STEFAN: Three days.
DAMON: What are you doing?
STEFAN: During the dark ages when a vampire's actions threatened to expose or bring harm upon the entire race, they would face judgment. They sought to reeducate them rather than to punish them.
DAMON: You know what will happen if i don't... Feed on blood.
STEFAN: You'll grow weaker and weaker. Eventually you won't be able to move or speak. In a week your skin will desiccate, and you'll mummify. A living corpse. Unable to hurt anyone. Ever.
DAMON: So what, you're just going to leave me in the basement, forever?
STEFAN: I've injected you with enough vervain to keep you weak. Once your circulation stops, I'll move you to the family crypt, and then in 50 years, we can reevaluate.
DAMON: I'm stronger than you think.
STEFAN: You always have been. But you're not stronger than the vervain. And we both know it. I'm sorry. Didn't have to be this way.

[Elena's house.]

Elena is waking up and going to the bathroom. She meets Vicki.

VICKI: I--i'm sorry, i'm almost done.
ELENA: It's--it's ok. Take your time.

VICKI: I think you might be in trouble.
JEREMY: What did you do?
VICKI: Oh, she saw me.
JEREMY: I'm a drug-using delinquent. A girl in bed doesn't really rank.

ELENA: Jenna! Are you aware of what's going on upstairs?
JENNA: Uh-huh.
ELENA: And you have no objection?
JENNA: He could be craftier about it, at least make an effort to sneak her in and out. Oh, and just so you know, I won't be home for dinner.
ELENA: Oh, so you're actually going to do it. You're gonna go out with Logan.
JENNA: I'm going to show up and torture him, yes. And have you heard from Stefan?
ELENA: Not since that very vague message three days ago. "Hi, um, Elena, I, um, have something I have to do. I'll, uh, explain in a few days."
JENNA: Haven't you called him?
ELENA: Nope. Not going to, either.
JENNA: And you're ok with everything?
ELENA: No, I'm not ok with any of it. But I'm not gonna cry about it, either. You know, I was going to write in my diary this morning and then I thought, what am I going to write? Honestly, i'm not gonna be onee of those pathetic girls whose world stops spinning because of some guy.
JENNA: Ok, then.
ELENA: I'll be fine.


[Salvatore's house.]

STEFAN: He's awake. He's aweak, but it's probably best to stay out of the basement. He's Damon. I'm not sure how dangerous he still might be.
ZACH: You're going to school?
STEFAN: Came here to live a life. It's about time i get back to that. And Elena, if she's still speaking to me.
ZACH: Why haven't you called her?
STEFAN: Am suppose to do, feed her another lie? I hate lying to her, Zach. I'm not good at it. She already thinks I'm hiding something.
ZACH: What choice do you have? You came here because you wanted to live as normal a life as you could. You knew this was going to be a part of it.


[Caroline's bedroom. ]

CAROLINE: I remember the party. Damon came up behind me, and he was kissing my neck, or biting my neck. I passed out. It's like there's holes in my memory lately. It's just weird. Maybe I let him bite me.
BONNIE: Why would you do that?
CAROLINE: Can we just not talk about it, ok? Don't want to talk about Damon. I don't want to talk about any of it. Just want to go back to normal. What are you doing with that candle?
BONNIE: Um... Nothing. What's this?
CAROLINE: Damon gave it to me. Or he was going to give it to me. All i know is, it's mine now.
BONNIE: It's ugly.
CAROLINE: Well, get your hands off it.

[At school.]

CAROLINE: The sexy suds car wash is tomorrow. The football team and the band have committed. Well, not all the band. Just the ones who could pull off the bikini. I want, in your face, sexy. I mean, it's a fund raiser, for god's sake.
ELENA: Unbelievable. It's like nothing happened.
BONNIE: Lies and denial.
STEFAN: Hey.
BONNIE: Hey. You know, I gotta go. Be somewhere right now.
STEFAN: I'm so sorry I haven't called.
ELENA: No worries. I'll live.
STEFAN: I was dealing with Damon.
ELENA: And did you... deal with Damon?
STEFAN: Yes. Yeah.
ELENA: For four days?
STEFAN: You have every right to be upset with me. But can I explain it all to you? Please.
ELENA: Sure. When?
STEFAN: I gotta be home after school, but The Grill, on four o'clock?
ELENA: Ok.
STEFAN: Thanks.
CAROLINE: Stefan, where is Damon? He has some serious apologizing to do.
STEFAN: He's gone, Caroline.
CAROLINE: When is he coming back?
STEFAN: He's not coming back. I'm sorry.
ELENA: This is a good thing, Caroline.
CAROLINE: I know that.


[At Mystic Grill.]

ELENA: Hey, Matt, um, have you seen Stefan?
MATT: Nope. If you want to kill some time, um, you can rack. Come on. We haven't played in forever. I'll let you brick.


[Salvatore's house. Zach is going to the cellar.]

ZACH: I'm full of vervain. I've been putting it in my coffee for 16 years. My blood will only make you worse. Damon?
DAMON: So it was your vervain. Good for you. Good for you. Family only runs so deep.
ZACH: We're not family, Damon. Only in the most dysfunctional sense. In fact, I avoided having a living, breathing, loving family because of you.
DAMON: I don't guess I could talk you into bringing me a rabbit or something? I'd settle for Stefan's diet at this point.
ZACH: You know i can't do that.
DAMON: You succeeded, Zach. I'm shutting down. You're like your grandfather. He didn't like it when I came to visit, either.
ZACH: But you don't visit, Damon. You appear, unannounced, reminding me that this isn't my house; that you're just permitting me to live here. Hell, that you're permitting me to live.
DAMON: Someone had to mow the lawn.
ZACH: I came to say good-bye, Damon.
DAMON: Unlock it. Unlock the door, Zach.
STEFAN: Keep it up, Damon. The more energy you expend, the faster you'll go.


[At Mystic Grill.]

ELENA: And there's Vicki, all nonchalant in the bathroom like it's no big deal that they're hooking up.
MATT: Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. Your brother and my sister, that's weird.
ELENA: Yeah.
MATT: How late is he?
ELENA: Hitting the hour mark. Hope there's nothing wrong. Which means I'm not talking boy problems with you.
MATT: Good. I mean, it's not like we were ever best friends or anything.
ELENA: Ok. Here goes-- What do you think of Stefan? Is he a good guy?
MATT: Why? what's he done?
ELENA: Not any one thing. He's just so secretive all the time. I think there's something that he doesn't want me to know, which makes me want to know all the more.
MATT: Like what? like that he's a serial killer and he keeps a clown suit in his trunk?
ELENA: No, of course not. But what do we know about him, really?
MATT: He's great at football. A little bit of a loner. And as much as I hate saying it, he might be a nice guy.
ELENA: So you think I'm just being paranoid?
MATT: I think you should talk to him.
STEFAN: talk to who? I'm so sorry that I'm late.
ELENA: What happened?
STEFAN: I got held up.
ELENA: Is everything ok?
STEFAN: There was this thing with my uncle.
ELENA: And you couldn't call and tell me that you were going to be an hour late?
MATT: Ok. You two have fun.
STEFAN: I'm really sorry. It was unavoidable.
ELENA: What was unavoidable? Ok.
STEFAN: Oh, uh, Elena, please...
ELENA: No, Stefan, don't you get it? Every question gets a vague non-answer. What is so awful that you're afraid to tell me?
OLD MAN: I know you. My god.
STEFAN: I'm sorry?
OLD MAN: I know you. How can it be?
STEFAN: I think you have the wrong person, sir.
OLD MAN: You haven't aged a day.
STEFAN: I'm sorry. excuse me. Hey, can we-- can i take you home and we can talk about it? Is that ok?
ELENA: Wait, what was that?
STEFAN: I--i don't know. uh, nothing.
ELENA: Right, nothing. Ok, um... I gotta go, Stefan. Excuse me.


[Elena's bedroom.]

ELENA: I tried. I want so much to make things right, but every instinct in my body is telling me to be careful. What you don't know can hurt you.


[At Mystic Grill.]

LOGAN: Evening, Sheriff. Anything?
SHERIFF FORBES: We went over the entire west side of the lake. All the caverns by the falls were clean, no signs of habitat.
LOGAN: Well, they're staying in town.
SHERIFF FORBES: We canvassed all abandoned buildings and warehouses.
LOGAN: There has to be a private residence.
SHERIFF FORBES: And that much harder to locate, if not impossible. These creatures are smart. they know how to go undetected.
LOGAN: Well, someone who only comes out at night should eventually become obvious.
SHERIFF FORBES: What about the watch?
LOGAN: I'm working on it.
SHERIFF FORBES: I knew the Gilberts. That watch is passed down to the men in the family. I'd start with Jeremy.

JENNA: Hey, Logan.
LOGAN: I can't believe you really came.
JENNA: You have an hour.
LOGAN: Make it count.


[Elena's house.]

JEREMY: You ok?
ELENA: Is Vicki in there?
JEREMY: Don't answer a question with another question. Maybe. What's wrong with you?
ELENA: I'm miserable.
JEREMY: Well, you should go get something to eat.

ELENA: Jenna? Jenna? Stefan? What are you doing here?
STEFAN: Dinner. Jeremy told me that chicken parmesan is one of your favorites, and I happen to be a good cook. The italian roots demand it. I can even make my own homemade mozzarella. Only tonight, it is unfortunately storboht. Sorry.
ELENA: I don't know what you're trying to accomplish.
STEFAN: You want to know me, right? Well, I figure if you're going to dump me, you should at least, um, know who you're dumping. So let's start with Katherine.
ELENA: Stefan...
STEFAN: She was... the most beautiful girl that I had ever met. She had this perfect olive skin. And she had this laugh. It was ridiculous. I mean, her laugh made you laugh. And she was fun. She knew how to have a good time. But Katherine was also very impatient and entitled and selfish, and, um, and impulsive. Enter Damon. He claims that he was with her first. I don't know. I do know that I did some things that...i'm not proud of. And my biggest regret... Is not being able to make it right before she died. I miss her, but... I'm no longer crippled by her loss.

VICKI: It was very nice what you did for Stefan. Very romantic.
JEREMY: Well, I was feeling romantic.
VICKI: Look what i found. "Elena Gilbert, take one tablet every 4 to 6 hours, as needed for pain."
JEREMY: Those are left over from the car accident.
VICKI: So she won't miss them.
JEREMY: No not with that, that's an antique. I feel like we're always getting high.
VICKI: That's the beauty of choice.
JEREMY: Well, then let's choose not to. I mean, we don't have to be high all the time, right?
VICKI: I really hope you're not one of those guys who, now that we're together, tries to change everything about me.
JEREMY: No.
VICKI: Good.

STEFAN: I'm an avid reader, a huge fitzgerald fan, "The great gatsby", his masterpiece.But I'm no snob. I love some good Grisham. I think Seinfeld  is the best american television show for the past 50 years, but i love Lucy is all-time. "The loving cup" episode was the best, I think. Huge Scorsese fan. I can watch Taxi Driver over and over again.
ELENA: Here, let me.
STEFAN: As far as music, it's pretty much across the board. Um, Dylan, Hendrix, Patsy, Willie. Oh, Kanye. You know what, i even like that one miley song. Easy.
ELENA: I didn't say anything. Hey, this is for the garlic bread, right? Because I'm not eating garlic unless you agree to, too.
STEFAN: Are you kidding? I love garlic.

Elena is cut with the knife.

ELENA: Ow! ahh.
STEFAN: You ok? um...
ELENA: Yeah. Think so. Your face...
STEFAN: I--i, uh, I think i got something in my eye.
ELENA: Stefan. Hey. Stefan! Um, I think that my paranoia has turned into full-blown hallucinations.
STEFAN: Part of your charm.


[Caroline's bedroom. Caroline is calling someone.]

DAMON: Caroline. Caroline.
CAROLINE: No, Tiki, do not do the one-piece, ok? I've seen it on you. trust me. Yeah, but you're going for stripper pole vibe this year.
DAMON: Caroline.
CAROLINE: Yeah, maybe we should wash the cars in slow motion. No.
DAMON: Caroline.
CAROLINE: What? oh, um, no, sorry. Um, so i'll just see you tomorrow. Two-piece. Ok, bye.

A crow is at her window.

CAROLINE: Shoo, shoo! Shoo! God!


[Salvatore's cellar.]

DAMON: I bet you're feeling pretty good about yourself, aren't you?
STEFAN: Not particularly.
DAMON: You won. You got the bad guy. Now nothing could come between you and Elena. Except the truth. The lies will catch up to you, Stefan. As long as you keep lying to yourself about what you are.
STEFAN: The beauty of you in there and me out here... Is that i can walk away.


[At the sexy suds carwash.]

CAROLINE: No friend discounts. No freebies. No pay ya laters. We are not running a charity here. No, we are not.
STEFAN: Hi.
ELENA: Hey!
CAROLINE: The event is called sexy suds, you know.
STEFAN: Did we just get scolded?
ELENA: And judged, yeah.
STEFAN: Wow.
ELENA: I'm sorry, but i guess you're going to have to take that off.
STEFAN: I think you have to go first.
ELENA: Ok. Ok, um--sorry, So not sexy. Ugh.
STEFAN: I disagree.

BONNIE:  uh-uh, no. None of that tortured pining stuff.
MATT: I'm just observing.
BONNIE: Mm-hmm. Oh. Tiki. this one's yours.
TIKI: Why do i always get the homely os? Just to be clear, your car's a p.o.s. I mean, we can wash it, but it's still a p.o.s.
BONNIE: You don't have to be rude.
TIKI: Rude is uglying up the road with that junk.

Bonnie uses her powers to water Ticki.

TIKI: Whoa! What the hell ?
MATT: Wet and wild, Tik.

LOGAN: All proceeds are going to the school's athletic department still healing from the tragic death of their football coach William Tanner. The citizens of Mystic Falls coming together in support of one of their own. Cut it.
JENNA: Classy.
LOGAN: Thank you.
JENNA: But you're still going to video the girls in bikinis, right?
LOGAN: We, 53% of americans watch the news with the sound off.
JENNA: Thank you for dinner. I had a nice time.
LOGAN: Do you remember the last time we were in the school parking lot?
JENNA: Nope. Doesn't ring a bell.
LOGAN: Really?
JENNA: Nada. Especially not having sex in the minivan.
LOGAN: That was a good day. What?

ELENA: You're getting soap in that.
STEFAN: Oh, it's fine.
ELENA: I noticed at Damon has one, too. Is there a story behind it?
STEFAN: Yeah, it's the family crest from the italian renaissance.
ELENA: Hmm. What's the stone?
STEFAN: It's called lapus lazuli.
ELENA: Oh. You should really take it off. I could put it in my bag.
STEFAN: No, it's-- it's fine, really. Thanks, though.
ELENA: Ok. I'm gonna get some towels.
STEFAN: Ok.

ELENA: Hey, we're out of towels and those shimmy things.
CAROLINE: I'll go get some more. Mind the money.

DAMON: Caroline. Caroline, help me. Caroline. Help me. Help me.

ELENA: That'll be $20. I saw you last night. You were talking to a friend of mine, At the grill?
OLD MAN: Well, i--i thought it was somebody i knew.
ELENA: Stefan Salvatore.
OLD MAN: Nah, it can't be. It's just my mind
ELENA: Playing tricks on me. Where do you think you'd seen him before?
OLD MAN: When i first moved here, I stayed at the Salvatore boarding house.
ELENA: Oh.
OLD MAN: Stefan was just passing through to visit his uncle. I mean, none of us knew he was even here until the attack.
ELENA: The attack?
OLD MAN: His uncle got killed. Mauled by an animal in the woods.
ELENA: His uncle, Zach?
OLD MAN: Mm-mmm. Joseph.
ELENA: I'm sorry, sir. I don't think I'm familiar with the story.
OLD MAN: Oh, how could you? I mean, this happened years ago.
TIKI: Grandpa, you gotta go. mom wants you home. Ok?
OLD MAN: Ah.
TIKI: He wasn't bugging you, was he? He's a little alzy-heimer.
ELENA: No, he was sweet. Hey, sir, I'm sorry. Um, are you sure that the man that you saw, that you knew, his name was Stefan Salvatore?
MAN: Yes. I remember his ring and his brother--
ELENA: Damon?
MAN: Yeah. Stefan and Damon Salvatore.
ELENA: When was this?
MAN: It was early June, 1953. Yeah. June, 1953.

STEFAN: Caroline finally freed you, huh?
ELENA: Uh, i don't know where she went. She abandoned me. Hey, I realized earlier, I had no idea that your family was from italy.
STEFAN: No? Last name Salvatore didn't do it for you?
ELENA: Right. Duh. Are there any other Salvatores in Mystic Falls?
STEFAN: My uncle Zach.
ELENA: Where did everyone else go?
STEFAN: Kinda just spread out.
ELENA: Hmm.
STEFAN: Why?
ELENA: I'm just trying to learn more about you.
STEFAN: Hmm.


[In the wood.]

JEREMY: Where are you taking me?
VICKI: We can't hide out in your room all the time. Welcome to my other favorite party place.
JEREMY: What, a cemetery?
VICKI: Yeah. It's cool, huh?
BOY: Yo, Vick!
VICKI: What's up, Jared?
BOY: You baby-sitting, Donovan?
VICKI: This is Jeremy. he's cool.
BOY: Smoke up.


[At the sexy suds carwash.]

JENNA: Your car was done an hour ago. You're saying that out loud why?
LOGAN: Hi. Elena, right? I think i met you once when you were 9.
ELENA: Oh.
JENNA: Your emotional maturity level when we were together.
LOGAN: Ouch. Here i thought we were making progress.
ELENA: Is he enough in your good graces that i can ask him for a favor?
LOGAN: If i do her a favor, will i get back in your good graces?
JENNA: Uh, a very reluctant maybe to both.
LOGAN: Done. Wait. One condition. Dinner, tonight, your house.
JENNA: Fine. But you're eating leftovers.
LOGAN: Ooh. What do you need?
ELENA: Do you have access to old news stories, say, fifties?
LOGAN: Yeah, at the station. Between the ariveses and the internet, we pretty much have everything.
ELENA: I have this report way past due. It'd be a life saver.
LOGAN: Heading there now. Let's go.
ELENA: If anyone asks, you don't know where I went. I don't want Caroline to know that i left.


[Salvatore's house. Caroline enters and goes in the cellar.]

DAMON: Caroline, help me. Caroline. Help me.
CAROLINE: Damon? Damon? Damon? Oh, my god! What is this? How did i know that you were here?
DAMON: Because I wanted you to. Very, very badly. Let me out of here. Please.
CAROLINE: You bit me.
DAMON: You liked it. Remember?
CAROLINE: Why do I keep remembering the same things, but in different ways?
DAMON: You remember what I want you to remember. And now that the vervain has passed out of your system, you won't remember what you're about to do.
CAROLINE: What am I about to do?
DAMON: You're gonna open the door. You're gonna open the door.
ZACH: No! No! Get out of here. Run! Run!

Caroline runs. Damon kills Zach. Damon tries to catch Caroline, but the sun burns him.


[At the sexy suds carwash.]

TIKI: Sweeper duty.
BONNIE: What?
TIKI: We have to clean the pavement.
BONNIE: It's a car wash. By definition, the pavement's clean.
TIKI: But not dry.
BONNIE: And I'm doing this why?
TIKI: Caroline bailed, so that leaves me in charge. Fabulous.

With her powers, Bonnie causes fire and Tiki's car burns.

STEFAN: Bonnie! Bonnie! Bonnie! Hey.
BONNIE: What just happened?
STEFAN: You were in some kind of a trance.
BONNIE: Did I do this?
STEFAN: I think so, yes.
BONNIE: Nobody else saw, did they? Don't tell anybody. Please.


[At the station.]

LOGAN: We digitized all our archives last year. You can pull all the remote footage right up on screen. What is it exactly you're looking for?
ELENA: An incident from 1953, If it even happened-- At the old Salvatore boarding house.

Logan's cell phone rings.

LOGAN: Sorry, one second. Yeah? All right, be right there. I gotta go. You believe there's actual news to cover in this town? All right, use keywords to search the database. It's pretty easy to navigate. And Brady down in tech will help you out with anything you need.
ELENA: Ok.
LOGAN: All right? Oh, hey. Could you put in a good word for me with Jenna?
ELENA: You got it.
LOGAN: All right. Good luck.


[At the cemetery.]

VICKI: What?
JEREMY; I'm stoned in a cemetery.
VICKI: They don't mind, they're dead. Let me take this up a notch. Hey, Tony.
TONY: Oh! Nice. Vickies from vicki. Ha!
GIRL: Well, thank you, Elena Gilbert, whoever you are.
JEREMY: You took those from the house?
VICKI: She wasn't hung it.
JEREMY: She's gonna notice if they're gone. That's not cool.
VICKI: It's no big deal, Jer.
JEREMY: Yeah, it kinda is, Vick.
BOY: Damn, dude.
TONY: Vicki brought the party police.
VICKI: Shut up, Tony. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make you mad.
JEREMY: Well, what are we doing, partying in a cemetery with a bunch of losers?
VICKI: Those are my friends.
JEREMY: They're waste of space small-town lifers.
VICKI: Yeah? What am i?
JEREMY: You're different, Vick.
VICKI: No, you are. You're the kid with the big house who's acting out because his parents died. Guess what-- You'll get over it. You will pull yourself together, move on, and one day tell your kids stories about your dark period growing up. And i'll still be here, waiting tables at the grill, partying at the cemetery with a bunch of waste of space small-town lifers.
JEREMY: Look--
VICKI: Go home, Jeremy. If i want to feel like crap about myself, I'll just go back to Tyler.


[At the sexy suds carwash.]

STEFAN: Hey, have you seen Elena?
MATT: No, not for a while.
STEFAN: You think she went home?
MATT: Not sure.
STEFAN: Thanks.
MATT: Hey. I'm not saying this for you. I'm saying it for her. But she's big on trust. So whatever you're holding back from her, the more you try to hide it, the more she won't stop till she figures it out.

[At the station. Elena looks a documentary.]

VOICE: This is Michael Fell reporting to you from the salvatore boarding house, where a brutal animal attack has ended in tragedy.  Ok, they're bringing out the bodies.  See if you can get closer. Is that the nephew?

At the background, she sees Stefan.


[Caroline's bedroom.]

MRS FORBES: I didn't see you at the car wash.
CAROLINE: Left early.
MRS FORBES: Honey, are you ok? Anything you want to talk about? Is it a boy thing?
CAROLINE: Mom, if i want to talk boys, i'll call dad. At least he's successfully dating one.


[Salvatore's house.]

STEFAN: Zach! Oh, no, Zach...


[Caroline's bedroom.]

ELENA: Dear diary, I'm not a believer. People are born, they grow old, and then they die. That's the world we live in. There's no magic, no mysticism, no immortality. There's nothing that defies rational thought.

[Bonnie goes to her grandmother.]

BONNIE: I don't know what's happening to me.
GRAMS: I know, dear.


[Elena's house. Logan steals Jeremy's watch.]

JENNA: Logan? Logan?

ELENA: People are supposed to be who they say they are. And not lie or hide their true selves.

JEREMY: What are you doing here?
LOGAN: Oh, hey, man. Just looking for the bathroom.

ELENA: It's not possible. I'm not a believer, i can't be. But how can i deny what's right in front of me? Someone who never grows old...

FLASHBACK
OLD MAN: June, 1953.

ELENA: Never gets hurt...

FLASHBACK
ELENA: Oh, my god, your hand! Is it deep? How bad is it?

ELENA: Someone who changes in ways that can't be explained...

FLASHBACK
ELENA: Hey, um, are you ok? Your eye. Your face.

ELENA: Girls bitten...

FLASHBACK:
ELENA: What is that? Oh, my god, what happened to you?
CAROLINE: It's nothing!

ELENA: Bodies drained of blood...

FLASHBACK
ELENA: Did she say what kind of animal it was?
MATT: She said it was a vampire.


[At the cemetery. Music stops.]

BOY: Donovan?
VICKI: No, i'm good.
GUYS: Not it. Not it. Not it. Ah, Vicki.

Vicki goes to the car. Damon is here, coughing, groaning.

VICKI: Hey, man, you ok?
DAMON: Come here. Come here.
VICKI: You don't look good.
DAMON: Come closer. I have something--  That I have to tell you.
VICKI: Whoa, whoa, whoa. I got you, i got you. It's ok. it's ok.

Damon bits her.

[Salvatore's house.]

Elena arrives and meet Stefan.

ELENA: What are you?

---

 1x06 "Lost Girls"

---

FLASHBACK
Mystic Falls, Virginia, 1864. Stefan waiting on the doorstep. A carriage arrives. Katherine goes down.

STEFAN: You must be Miss Pierce.
KATHERINE: Please, call me Katherine.


[Salvatore's House. Stefan and Elena.]

ELENA: What are you? What are you?
STEFAN: You know.
ELENA: No, I don't.
STEFAN: Yes, you do, or you wouldn't be here.
ELENA: It's not possible. It can't be.
STEFAN: Everything you know... And every believe that you have is about to change. Are you ready for that?
ELENA: What are you?
STEFAN: I'm a vampire.
ELENA: I shouldn't have come.
STEFAN: No. Please.
ELENA: No. No. How did you do that?
STEFAN: Please don't be afraid of me.
ELENA: Let me go.
STEFAN: No. Elena, there's things that you have to know and understand.
ELENA: Let me go!
STEFAN: Elena, please.


[Elena's house.]

STEFAN: Elena. I would never hurt you. You're safe with me.
ELENA: All those animal attacks, those people who died--
STEFAN: No. That was damon.
ELENA: Damon?
STEFAN: Yes. I don't drink human blood. That's not how I choose to survive, but Damon does. I'll explain everything to you, but I beg you, Elena, do not tell anybody.
ELENA: How can you ask me that?
STEFAN: Because you knowing this is dangerous for so many reasons. You can hate me, but I need you to trust me.
ELENA: Just go. Just go, please. Go. If you mean me no harm, then just go.
STEFAN: I never wanted this.
ELENA: Mmm.


[At the cemetery, Damon burns the boodies.]

Cell phone rings.

STEFAN: Hello.
DAMON: I want my ring.
STEFAN: Where are you?
DAMON: I'm at the sizzler. I had the buffet. Where's my ring?
STEFAN: I don't have it. Where are you? What have you done?
DAMON: No, what have you done? You're the one that locked me in the basement and starved me, so whatever I've done, whoever i've sucked dry is on you, buddy.
STEFAN: You're being careless. How many more animal attacks is this town gonna believe, huh?
DAMON: I know how to cover my tracks, stefan. Where's my ring?
STEFAN: I gave it to Zach to hide. Probably shouldn't have killed him.
DAMON: Ah, you almost got me. Where is it?
STEFAN: I'll get it back, but I need time.
DAMON: What, did you fedex it to Rome? Where is it? I want my ring, Stefan, or my next stop's Elena's.
STEFAN: I already want you dead. Don't give me another reason to make it happen.
DAMON: Don't give me another reason to rip you apart.
STEFAN: Yeah? Is that gonna be before or after you get your ring back?
DAMON: Just get it.


[Coffee place. Elena joined Stefan.]

ELENA: You just don't wanna die, do you? You said you would explain everything. That's why I asked you to meet me here. When you google "vampire," you get a world of fiction. What's the reality?
STEFAN: I can tell you whatever you wanna know.
ELENA: I know you eat garlic.
STEFAN: Yes.
ELENA: And somehow, sunlight's not an issue.
WOMEN: Here's your drinks.
ELENA: Thank you.
STEFAN: We have rings that protect us.
ELENA: Crucifixes?
STEFAN: Decorative.
ELENA: Holy water?
STEFAN: Drinkable.
ELENA: Mirrors?
STEFAN: Myth.
ELENA: You said you don't kill to survive.
STEFAN: Animal blood keeps me alive, but not as strong as Damon. It can be very powerful.
ELENA: And yet you let him get involved with Caroline?
STEFAN: Forcing Damon not to do something is much more dangerous, believe me.
ELENA: He was hurting her.
STEFAN: He was feeding on her. He was able to take away her memories of being bitten using a form of mind compulsion. She never knew what was happening to her. If he wanted to kill her, he would have.
ELENA: Is that supposed to make it ok?
STEFAN: No. no, none of this is ok, Elena. I know that.
ELENA: Are there any others, aside from you and Damon?
STEFAN: Not in Mystic falls, not anymore.
ELENA: Not anymore?
STEFAN: There was a time when this town was... Very much aware of vampires, and it didn't end well for anybody. That's why it's important that you don'tell anyone.
ELENA:  I can't promise that.
STEFAN: Elena... Give me today. I will answer any questions that you have, and when it's over, you can decide for yourself what you wanna do with what you know. It'll be your choice.


[At the cemetery.]

LOGAN: Never smelled one this bad before.
SHERIFF: It tried to cover its tracks.
LOGAN: Are you sure?
SHERIFF: I'm positive. You only burn a corpse to try to hide cause of death, and there are no shell casings.
LOGAN: We know who they are?
SHERIFF: Doc'll have to check their dental records.
LOGAN: What story should i run?
SHEIFF: Drug deal gone bad. It's not too big a stretch.
LOGAN: I got the Gilbert watch.
SGERIFF: Good.
POLICEMAN: Found this in the brush about 10 yards away.
SHERIFF: Vicki Donovan.
LOGAN: You know her?
SHERIFF: I went to high school with her mother.
LOGAN: Think she's one of these?
SHERIFF: I hope not.


[At the Salvatore's House. Vicki is on a sofa.]

DAMON: Where are you, Stefan? I'm trapped at the house, and I'm getting really bored and really impatient, and I don't do bored and impatient. Bring me my ring. Damn it. Aw, don't get blood on the couch. Please.
VICKI: I got you good, didn't i?
DAMON: Well, you're not gonna be any fun today. I'm so gonna regret this. Drink up. Drink it up. Don't drip. There you go. Good girl. That's it.


[Elena's car.]

STEFAN: Stop here.
ELENA: What are we doing here?
STEFAN: I want to show you something.
ELENA: In the middle of nowhere?
STEFAN: This... Didn't used to be nowhere. Used to be my home.
ELENA: It looks so...
STEFAN: Old? It's because they are.
ELENA: Wait. How long have you...
STEFAN: I've been 17 years old since 1864.
ELENA: Oh, my god.
STEFAN: You said you wanted to know. I'm not gonna hold anything back. Half century beforethe boardinghouse was even built, this was my family's home. Damon and I... We were both born here. The Salvatore brothers, best of friends.

FLASHBACK
Mystic Falls, Virginie, 1864.

STEFAN: Wait. Where did you learn this game?
DAMON: Camp outside Atlanta. One of the officers picked it up at Harvard. Catch.
STEFAN: Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What are the rules? What are the rules?
KATHERINE: Who needs rules? Mind if I join you?
STEFAN: Uh, well, you could, uh-- you could get hurt. My brother likes to play rough.
KATHERINE: Somehow, I think that you play rougher.
DAMON: Why are you just standing there? That is a girl who clearly wants to be chased. If you don't do it, I will.


[The old Salvatore's field.]

ELENA: You knew Katherine in 1864? Damon made it seem like...
STEFAN: Damon was trying to make you think that... I was still heartbroken. He saw that I was happy with you, and he wanted to ruin it.
ELENA: All because you loved the same girl 145 years ago?
STEFAN: She wasn't just any girl.

FLASHBACK
Mystic Falls, Virginie, 1864.

KATHERINE: Ha! I win. What's my prize?
DAMON: What would you like it to be?
STEFAN: They extended your leave?
DAMON: I was simply having too much fun to return to battle.
STEFAN: Your commitment to the confederacy is inspiring.
KATHERINE: Well, this works out wonderfully for me.
DAMON: How's that, miss Katherine?
KATHERINE: Now i'll have both of you here to keep me entertained. First and foremost, I'll need someone to escort me to the founder's ball.
DAMON/STEFAN: With pleasure. I would be honored.
KATHERINE: The smart and kind Salvatore brothers both coming to my rescue. How will I ever choose?


[The old Salvatore's field.]

STEFAN: She chose me. I escorted her to the ball at the original Lockwood mansion.
ELENA: The first founder's party... Where you signed the registry.
STEFAN: I didn't care that I had gotten something that my brother wanted. I didn't even care if it hurt him. I only knew that I wanted her.
DAMON: So he was upset.
STEFAN: That's the thing about Damon. He doesn't get mad. He just gets even.


[At the Salvatore's house.]

VICKI: Oh, man. That shower was so great.

Music playing.

VICKI: What did you give me?
DAMON: Some blood. You loved it.
VICKI: I did? Wait. I'm confused. How did we get here?
DAMON: We was in the woods. You were drunk. I attacked you. Then i killed all of your friends and brought you here, gave you same blood. you loved it. And now we're gonna party till the sun goes down.
VICKI: Ok. Um, but first, can i have another hit? That blood was so good.
DAMON: Only if I can.


[The old Salvatore's field.]

STEFAN: What Damon wants, Damon usually gets. I didn't know it at the time, but... Turns out that night... Katherine was with him, too.
ELENA: So he stole her from you, not the other way around?
STEFAN: Turns out she wasn't ours to steal.


FLASHBACK
Mystic Falls, Virginie, 1864. Stefan in Katherine's bedroom.

STEFAN: I will love you forever.
KATHERINE: Forever is a very long time, you know.
STEFAN: Not long enough.

She bits him.

KATHERINE: Good morning. Clear the room, please. You're upset.
STEFAN: Your face, it was like a demon.
KATHERINE: But you're not afraid.
STEFAN: Get away from me. Get away.
KATHERINE: It doesn't change the way you feel about me. You will not tell anyone.
STEFAN: I--
KATHERINE: shh. We will go on exactly as we have.
STEFAN: Yes. We will go on.
KATHERINE: You have no idea of the future I have planned for us, Stefan-- You, me, and Damon. No rules.


[The old Salvatore's field.]

STEFAN: She could controlmy mind and Damon's. She compelled each of us to keep the secret from the other. She wanted all of us to be together forever. Didn't work out that way, but... Damon and i, looks like we're stuck with each other... Like it or not.
ELENA: Is that Damon's ring?
STEFAN: I took it from him, but i have to give it back.
ELENA: No. don't, Stefan. keep it hidden.
STEFAN: Elena, if i don't give it to him, he'll retaliate in the only way that he knows he can hurt me.
ELENA: And how is that?
STEFAN: By hurting you.


[Lockwood's house.]

SHERIFF: We're working on the burn bodies.
MR LOCKWOOD: Doc i.d. the bodies?
SHERIFF: A few townies. Notorious druggies.
MR LOCKWOOD: I suppose that'll make it easy for people to buy the story. And Vicki Donovan?
SHERIFF: She's not one of the deceased.
MR LOCKWOOD: Where the hell is she?
SHERIFF: I wish I knew.
LOGAN: Sorry i'm late.
MR LOCKWOOD: You have the watch? It's ready.
LOGAN: That's it?
MR LOCKWOOD: Yes. That's it.

He gives him a compass.


[The Salvatore's house.]

Vicki is dancing.

VICKI: I am so over Tyler, so over him. I knew from the beginning that i was only a piece of ass to him, but i thought maybe if he got to know me better, he might see something more. But no. Now, Jeremy, on the other hand, that's all he's ever seen in me is something more, and i like that.
DAMON: Jeremy, huh? Elena's brother?
VICKI: Yeah. yeah. So, Elena used to date my brother, and they were always together, so jeremy would always be hanging around and crushing on me and-- Hey, why don't you have a girlfriend? You're, like, totally cool and so hot.
DAMON: I know.
VICKI: Don't you wanna be in love?
DAMON: I've been in love. It's painful and pointless and overrated. Except when it isn't. No more talking. Let's dance.
VICKI: My mom spends most of her time in Virginia beach with Pete. He drives trucks. I don't remember my dad, bufrom what i gather, he's not worth remembering.
DAMON: Your life is so pathetic.
VICKI: Yeah. I mean, I'm the screwed-up one. Matt's got it so easy. he's the golden boy. I mean, he's gonna get a football scholarship and marry Elena and have a lawn mower and some babies, and when i think of my future, i just come up blank.
DAMON: You are so damaged.
VICKI: Yep.
DAMON: I mean, you don't have one hint of self-esteem.
VICKI: Nope, none.
DAMON: I think I know what can help you.
VICKI: So what's that?
DAMON: Death.

He kill her. After few minutes, Vicki wakes up.

VICKI: What happened?
DAMON: We were dancing, and then-- then I killed you.
VICKI: What?
DAMON: You're dead.
VICKI: I'm dead?
DAMON: Yeah, well, let's not make a big deal out of it. Drank my blood, i killed you, and now you have to feed in order to complete the process. You're wasted. You don't wanna be out there all alone. You're about to get really freaky.
VICKI: Ok, I had a really good time. I just wanna go home.
DAMON: You're gonna start craving blood, and until you get it, you're gonna feel very out of it. You have to be careful.
VICKI: Come on, move.
DAMON: See? you're already starting to fall apart.
VICKI: And i'm going home now.
DAMON: Ok, fine. I'm just warning you. Actually, you know what? You should go. In fact, if i were you, I would stop by your boyfriend Jeremy's house.
VICKI: Yeah, whatever.
DAMON: Bye. Tell Elena I said hi. and if you see Stefan, tell him to call me.


[In the wood.]

SHERIFF: I got Stanley on the Moore street entrance. The rest of us'll cover other access points. Call him or call me if that thing goes off. Don't use the radio. Cellphones only.
LOGAN: Got it.
SHERIFF: You've got 8 rounds. Remember, wood bullets won't kill him, but it'll wound him enough for you to get close and stake him. You sure you can handle this?
LOGAN: Of course I can.
SHERIFF: You ever staked a vampire before?
LOGAN: Have you?


[Elena's House.]

Doorbell ringing.

JEREMY: Coming!
VICKI: Hey. The sun is killing me. my eyes are on fire.
JEREMY: Where have you been?
VICKI: It's good. everything's good.
JEREMY: Did something happen?
VICKI: I'm hungry. What do you got to eat?
JEREMY: You're high? Vicki, it's the middle of the day.
VICKI: Could you just not talk so loud? My head, it hurts. I need quiet.


[Old Salvatore's field.]

ELENA: The mind control... You said Katherine used. Do you ever do that to me?
STEFAN: No. That necklace, it contains an herb called vervain. It protects you from being compelled. I wanted to protect you from Damon's influence. But i also wanted to... Protect you from me. All right, n n you should never take that necklace off... Because no matter what happens after today, no matter how you feel about me... You'll know that you were free to make your own choice.


[Elena's house.]

MATT: Where is she?
JEREMY: Come this way.
MATT: What's she on?
JEREMY: ---I don't know.
MATT: Hey, Vic. How you doin'?
VICKI: Not good, Mattie. I hurt.
MATT: Ok, where's it hurt?
VICKI: My gums. My jaw hurts. My gum--there's something in my gums, and it hurts.
MATT: Ok, well--
VICKI: No. Just leave me alone.
MATT: Come on, Vic. Don't be like that. Let's get you home.
VICKI: Just turn it off!
JEREMY: Turn what off?
VICKI: The talking, the chatter, just turn it off.

TV sound is inaudible.

VOICE: ...horribly. 3 bodies were found dead in what is believed to be a drug deal gone awry. The bodies have yet to be identified. They were discovered earlier today over at the old Mystic Falls cemetery.
JEREMY: That's where we were last night.
MATT: What happened, Vic?
VOICE: ..homicide, and are fast under way looking for suspects. They're asking anyone with information...
MATT: I'm calling the cops.
VICKI: No. Don't.
JEREMY: What happened after I left last night, Vick?
MATT: Dude, are you ok ?
JEREMY: I'm fine. i'm fine.
MATT: Damn, Vick.
ELENA: What's going on?
MATT: She's really messed up.
STEFAN: Elena, back up. Vicki, look at me. Focus. You're gonna be fine. Everything's gonna be fine. Guys, take her up to bed. Shut the blinds. She's gonna be ok. Come on. Come on.
ELENA: You know what's wrong with her?
STEFAN: Yeah.
ELENA: What is it?
STEFAN: She's transitioning.
ELENA: Transitioning to what?
STEFAN: A vampire.
ELENA: What?
STEFAN: Damon must have gotten to her. She's new. She hasn't completed her transformation yet.
ELENA: H-how does she do that?
STEFAN: She has to feed on human blood.
ELENA: And what if she doesn't?
STEFAN: She'll die. She may only have a few hours.
ELENA: She's upstairs with him right now.
STEFAN: It's ok. She doesn't know what's happening to her yet.
ELENA: So when is she gonna know?
STEFAN: Right now, she doesn't remember anything. A part of her is still human, but slowly, the deeper she gets into the transition, the memories will start to come back, and then she'll know she has to make the choice.
ELENA: The same choice you made?


[In the bedroom.]

VICKI: I'm sorry I'm so much trouble.
JEREMY: Aw, you just--you need to sleep it off, ok?
VICKI: No.
MATT: Vick. Vick!
JEREMY: She was fine, and then she just-- she just freaked out.
MATT: I'm gonna go look for her. Call me if you hear anything.
STEFAN: I can track her.
ELENA: Go.


[In the wood.]

Cellphone rings.

SHERIFF: Yeah.
LOGAN: I think I got something. It's pointing towards the old cemetery.
SHERIFF: Headed your way.


[Elena's house.]

JEREMY: Maybe we should check in with Matt.
ELENA: He'll call when he finds her.
JEREMY: Well, what are we supposed to do?
ELENA: We wait. We're supposed to wait.
JEREMY: I don't know what's wrong with her.
ELENA: She'll be fine. It'll all be fine.

Doorbell rings. It's Damon.

ELENA: Jeremy, go upstairs.
DAMON: You're afraid of me. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess. Stefan finally fessed up.
ELENA: Stay away from me.
DAMON: Hey, there's no need to be rude. I'm just looking for Stefan. May I come in? Oh, wait. Of course I can. I've been invited. We can cut to the chase if you want. I'm not gonna kill you right now. That wouldn't serve my greater agenda. So... Where's stefan?
ELENA: He's out looking for Vicki.
DAMON: Don't look at me with those judgey little eyes. Girl's gonna thank me for what I did to her.
ELENA: Did you thank Katherine?
DAMON: Mmm. Got the whole life story, huh?
ELENA: I got enough.
DAMON: Oh, I doubt that. Tell my brother i'm looking for him. Oh, tip for later, be careful who you invite in the house.


[At the cemetery.]

STEFAN: Vicki.
VICKI: I'm starting to remember things, what he is, what he said. I remember you. The hospital, the--the rooftop, it's all coming back.
STEFAN: I'm so sorry. Damon had no right to do this to you.
VICKI: He said that I need to feed. What will happen if i don't?
STEFAN: You'll fade quickly... And then it'll all just be over.
VICKI: I'll be dead.
STEFAN: Hey.
VICKI: I don't want this.
STEFAN: I know. It'll be ok. You're gonna be ok. I can help you.
VICKI: Is it better? Is it better? Will I be better? I wanna go home. Will you take me home?
STEFAN: Ok.

Gunshots. Stefan is hurts.

STEFAN: Ahh!
VICKI: No!

Damon bits Logan.

DAMON: It's wood.  They know. If anyone's gonna kill you, it's gonna be me. My ring.

Vicki is drinking Logan's blood.

STEFAN: No! No! Vicki!
VICKI: I'm sorry.
DAMON: Oops.

Sheriff Forbes finds Logan.

SHERIFF: My god... The watch. Find the watch.


[Front of Elena's house.]

ELENA: You're bleeding.
STEFAN: No, it's ok. It's ok. I'm ok.
STEFAN: I couldn't stop her. I tried.
ELENA: What does that mean?
STEFAN: She fed, and then I lost her.
ELENA: Oh, my god.
STEFAN: I'll take care of it. I'll find her, and i will show her that she can live like I do. I will make sure that she does not hurt anybody, Elena. I promise you.
ELENA: What do i tell my brother and-- and Matt?
STEFAN: We'll come up with a story.
ELENA: You mean we'll come up with a lie.
STEFAN: I'm so sorry.
ELENA: I gave you today just like you asked. And I understand that you would never do anything to hurt me, and I promise I will keep your secret, but... I can't be with you, Stefan. I'm sorry. I- I just can't...

She enters in her house. She cries.

---

 1x10 "The Turning Point"

---

[Jenna’s house]
Jenna: Why are you here Logan?
Logan: I missed you. I was out of town.
Jenna: yeah, I got the email!
Logan: you got an email?
Jenna: You didn’t send an email?
Logan: I can explain. Just invite me in and I tell you everything.
Jenna: I’m not gonna invite you in. Forget it!
Logan: come on Jenna. It’s me!
Jenna: the answer is no!
Logan: I know you. You’re always one step from “maybe”, tidy nasty “yes”
Jenna: you’ve just pointed it out that I’ve no self-control. Clever strategy!
 [Jenna closes the door and Logan is on the street]

A neighbor: Good evening!
[Logan looks at him then a woman passes]
The woman: hey, you’re the guy from the news, Logan Fell. I watch you every night. Oh, I used to, I mean. You’ve been missing from my TV.
Logan: I took some time off.
The woman: I noticed. I’m Daphne.
Logan: hey you know something, Daphne?
The woman: No, what?
[Logan bites her]

[House- Jeremy is reading the book of his father]
“I live in fear. It consumes me. In the early evening that I see the sun begins the fade; the fear comes because I know that the night brings death.”

[Elena and Jenna are in the hall of their houses and talk]
Elena: Jeremy is gonna sketch pad note.
Jenna: You’re kidding?
Elena: Nope but don’t say word. The minute we encourage him, he’ll put it away.
Jenna: psychology major. Check that!
Jenna:  You and Stefan? Update?
Elena: He knows how I feel and works and I know where he stands and it doesn’t matter. He’s leaving, moving away.
Jenna: Where is he going?
Elena: I stopped asking questions. The answers get scary.
[Out of the house]
Jenna: your leaves, mine returns.
Elena: Logan?
Jenna: He’s back. I didn’t let him pass my door.
Elena: Hope you slam down his face
Jenna: yes, medium
Elena: three cycles, Jenna.  Not even watch the news!
Jenna: exactly! No more Logan slam Fell

[Salvatore’s house: living room]
Stefan: so any ideas where you go?
Damon: I don’t know. London, maybe! See some friends.
Stefan: You don’t have any friends, Damon.
Damon: you’re right Stefan. I only have you. So, where we’re going?
Stefan: WE are not going anywhere. I’m gonna live my life as far away from you as possible.
Damon: but we’re team! We could travel the world together. We can try “The Amazing race”
Stefan: That’s fine! Seriously, where you’re going because we are not staying in this town.
[Someone rings at the door]
Sheriff: I’m here to see Damon
Stefan: Sure, OK.
Damon: sheriff, what surprise!
Sheriff: sorry to bother you but we need to talk
Damon: come in.
[Damon and the sheriff go in the garden]
Damon: I hope you understand the secrecy. Stef doesn’t know about this yet and I’d like to keep it that way.
Sheriff: of course, kids are too young to be brought into this.
Damon: so, what you need?
Sheriff: there’s been another attack. A female victim, throat tore out, completely drained of blood. If it’s repeater…
Damon: I’m sorry I don’t understand. I thought we solved that problem when…. I staked the blond one
Sheriff: I think that she must have turned someone, a multiple someone. I don’t know. The story for the town is another animal attack but I’m not sure how long we can keep lying to them. The council is on up board. We thought we were passed this.
Damon: and so, what we do?
Sheriff: you’re the only one who has never taken on a vampire. We were hoping you could tell us.

[School]
Matt: and the bally dance and the Krumper of salsa
Caroline: I was awake for that way
Matt: oh I don’t know when you feel asleep. Hum, did you see the Celine Dion waltz about cancer?
Caroline: those always make me cry!
Matt:  and then the judge can screaming and I can take it so I turned it off
Caroline: I saw ‘the family guy’, so you hold me

[School: Elena & Bonnie]
Elena: did I miss something?
Bonnie: they’ve been hanging out
Elena: kind of weird, don’t you think?
Bonnie: she needs someone nice like him as opposed to a vampire like Damon.
Elena: yeah, how are you doing with all that?
Bonnie: I’m freak out. Damon attacked me and I could be death right now but I’m also grateful.
Elena: hum?
Bonnie: to Stefan. He saved my life, and… Have you seen him?
Elena: No since he’s used he’s leaving. For all I know, he’s probably gone.
Bonnie: He wouldn’t leave without saying goodbye.
Elena: yes, he will. He thinks he’s protecting me: a clean break and all that.
Bonnie: so what’re gonna do?
Elena: what am I supposed to do? I’ve already beg to don’t go. If I ask him, I’m being self-fish. It is what it is.
Bonnie: maybe, it’s for the best!
Elena: what? Why?
Bonnie: I mean what kind of future could you have with him even if he stayed?
Elena: did you…
Bonnie: no, I swear.

[Salvatore’s house]
Damon: Thank you for stepping by.
Sheriff:  let me know if you come on this
Damon: Absolutely
[Sheriff leaves]
Stefan: what’s wrong with you? You killed somebody?
Damon: get off of me!
A)     Don’t touch me
B)      If I had, I would not be so obvious about it
C)      There is another vampire in town.
Stefan: that’s impossible.
Damon: obviously not!
Stefan: who could it be?
Damon: what do we care? We’re leaving anyway, right?
Stefan: no, I can’t leave now and you know that. How are we supposed to find this person?
Damon: don’t handle with this stuffs

[Front of school]
A girl: see you later, ok. Bye.
Elena: bye.
Stefan: Hi. We need to talk.

[School-Basketball terrain]
Tyler: So what’s up with you and Forbes?
Matt: nothing about
Tyler: I saw you in the hall today. Don’t even try denied, bro. You type her.
Matt: no, it’s not like that!
Tyler: never is until it comes “we”
Matt: “we” people?
Tyler:  yeah, “we can make to the party”; “we never miss a game”; “we don’t like the color red”
Matt:  we are not like twice
Tyler: like I said “we”

[Front of school]
Elena: so you have no idea who it could be?
Stefan: none, but it must somebody now because leaving a body like that….rather sloppy or he tries to send a message.
Elena: are you sure it’s not Damon?
Stefan: I’m never sure about Damon, but he’s been trying to keep low profile so it’s just doesn’t make any sense to me.
Elena: so what are you gonna do?
Stefan: Damon is tracking now, right now. Look I promise you the truth so I wanna to tell you. I want you to be careful.
Elena: when I saw you, I thought you were coming to say goodbye.
Stefan: not yet!

[At Jeremy’s: living room]
Jeremy: hey what do you think?
Jenna: creepy
Jeremy: I found this old journal in dad’s stuffs, Jonathan Gilbert from the 1800. It’s kind of a freak show. He wrote about demons and all of these people getting slaughter and…
Jenna: yeah, he was a writer… short stories, horror stuffs.
Jeremy: he wrote fictions? Think he was just a limited or a drunk.
Jenna: he was a Gilbert, probably a little bite of both.

[Front of a warehouse]
Caroline: So what we do now?
Damon: Just wait. I’ll be there in a…
Caroline: can you hurry? I’ve things to do.
Damon: can you give me then?
Caroline: so what did you need me to do this?
Damon: Because I interfere the signal
Caroline: Can I go now? This is burned out the half of my day.
Damon: you do that! Take your car and go home. And forget me to ask you to do this!
Caroline: ok, bye now
Damon: bye

[In the warehouse]
Logan: I’ve tons of these wood boots so nothing funky
Damon: you don’t wanna do this, trust me.
Logan: that’s what you get
Damon: for what?
Logan: you make me like this!
Damon: I killed you. I didn’t turn you.
Logan: See I know you and your brother are. I’ve watching the 2 of you. I knew you appear and I glad that you did because I’ve some questions.
Damon: me first. Who turns you?
Logan: how should I know? Last thing I remember, it’s about to stake your brother and then you crapped me. That’s it! Until I wake up in the ground behind a used car dealership on highway 4. Somebody buried me.
Damon: It happens.
Logan: you bite me. It had to be you!
Damon: Lift a vampire blood system when you died. I didn’t do that! Some other vampires find you, give you them blood.
Logan: who?
Damon: that’s what I wanna know
Logan: dude, it’s like the welcome wagon was waiting with a pancake and a handbook. It’s been a learning huge go process. One minute, I’m a small town on the rise news guy and next thing I know, I can’t get into my house because my full bulk don’t go through the door.
Damon: you have to be invited in.
Logan: I know. I leave alone.
Damon: Oh, That sucks!
Logan: so now, I am at the Ramada, watching papers view all day, eating everything inside including house-keeping
Damon: it could be worst!
Logan: all I can think about its blood and killing people. I can’t stop killing people, I can keep killing and I like it. I’m conflicted.
Damon: welcome to the club. Wait! Cobs found one body.
Logan: I left one. I was tired but I’ve hidden the rest of bodies. There were back there.
Damon: you’re kidding?
Logan:  they pile up.


[School]
Maier: so what do we know?
Sheriff: nothing in the report again. My highly reliable deputies are on their work but if you feel the need to be more proactive by all means perhaps a stake and have them.
Maier: What cautions college is it gonna take?
Sheriff: for right now, there is no more safe in the crowded public place and for once, actually, we know where our kids are.

[School: Tyler & Jeremy]
Tyler: what do you want?
Jeremy: hey, I’m just surprise to see you here.  Art usually implies culture and culture implies, eh, not you.
Tyler: go the hell!

[School]
Elena: Still wanna be an astronaut?
Matt: I can’t believe you remember that.
Elena: I can remember the tinfoil you wore on your head.
Matt: I was eight
Elena: how are you doing?
Matt: it has been easier. You? I heard some times. So it’s true than you and Stefan…
Elena: yes, it is. What about you, Matt Donovan? I heard about Caroline.
Matt: oh men, not you too. We’re friends. It’s not a big deal.
Elena: No?
Matt: No.

[Warehouse]
Logan: why am I so overly emotional? I can think about my ex-girlfriend. I wanna be with her and bite her and stuff.
Damon: you may probably love her. Anything you felt before will be magnified now.  You’ve to learn how to control that!
Logan: what about walking on the sun? I’m a morning person. You can walk on the sun which is by the way, is pretty cool. The council will never suspect you. That’s not in the journals.
Damon: the journals?
Logan: yeah, the founding fathers said pass out journals to the kids. Come on men, you get to tell me. How can you walk around in the sun?
Damon: who turned you?
Logan: how do you walk in the sun?
Damon: who turned you?
Logan: you know, I’ve been really nice so far but I will kill you!
Damon: and you never know. You don’t answer my question!
Logan: you first!
Damon: it seems we have been in an impasse then, doesn’t it?
Logan: I’ve things to do, people to kill. Guess I have been a longer length start.

[At school]
Elena: I’m guessing you’re not here to plan future. You’re looking out for me
Stefan: hope that’s ok. You know I wanted to be a doctor before it happened, but I couldn’t
Elena: the blood
Stefan: yeah, I’ve dubbed thing, fun of different things so.
Elena: you didn’t love anything enough to sleep to it.
Stefan: no I loved that all. It’s just…I had to move on before anybody can notice that I wasn’t getting any older.
Elena: how long before that would happen?
Stefan: few years, usually.  Sometimes shorter
Elena: and you always left
Stefan: I haven’t the choice.  So, what about, what about you? Any plan for the future?
Elena: I don’t wanna talk about my future Stefan because everything you’re saying is making a perfect life where you’re not gonna be in.
Stefan: Elena, it’s not that I don’t wanna be in
Elena: you can’t, I get it! I’ve heard you the first time and the second time and I appreciate you’re looking out for me but please, if you’re gone leave, then just go.
Jenna: hide me.
Elena: what’s going on?
Jenna: this scum Fell has landed.
Elena: Logan’s here?
Stefan: wait, Logan Fell?
[Stefan goes in the hall of the school]
Elena: Stefan, what’s going on?
Logan:  Jenna, you’re dodging me!
Jenna: it’s a form of self-preservation.
Stefan: Elena, why you and Jenna don’t go somewhere else?
Elena: let’s go.
[Elena & Jenna leave]
Stefan: what are you doing here?
Logan: you know, your brother asked me the same thing.  In fact, why don’t we just keep pass the all leg who turned me stuff to get the answer that I want? How can I turn into a day walker?
Stefan: Damon and I are the only keepers that know it.
Logan: But you both are cagey on the how which tells me that there is a way. You know. In case that you haven’t noticed, I’m quite a celebrity in this town. It would be very, very easy for me to expose you.
Stefan: you wanna know how you can walk around in the sun?
Logan: I do
Stefan: You can’t. Don’t ever threat me again!
 [Jenna & Elena]
Elena: when Logan came to the house, what did he say?
Jenna: fake flattery and stupid deepen grin, puppy dog eyes.
Elena: I’m serious Jenna. How did he act? What did he say?
Jenna: he’s usual Logan, charming, a little more maniac than usual. He kept try to convince me to let him in. What?
Elena: Ok, listen to me very carefully.  Do not, in any circumstances, talk to him again. I’m serious, Jenna, look ever!
Alaric: hey Elena. Jenna
Elena: Hey Mister Saltzman.
Alaric: I hoped to see you again.
Jenna: carrier’s night is the new bowling.
Elena: ok, excuse me.
[Elena leaves]

[Out of the school – Damon & Stefan – conversation on the phone]
Damon: Logan Fell is a vampire and when I found him again, I’m gonna destroy him limb by limb.
Stefan: What happened? Do you ok?
Damon:  no, I’m not ok! I was embellished; I was shot. Now, I’m vengable. Just got to find them.
Stefan: there is no need. He’s here in school.
Damon: you’re kidding me? Why the hell is he there?
Stefan: he’s working crowd.
Damon: well, I’ll be right there.

[Out of school]
Elena (to Stefan): so, anything you’d like to share?

[School]
Sheriff:  what are you doing?
Caroline: I’m founding my future. There it is.
Sheriff: broadcast journalism?
Caroline: yes! Broadcast journalism. Why are you looking at me like that?
Sheriff: you don’t even read paper.
[Caroline leaves]
Logan: Liz
Sheriff: Logan
Logan: what you’re gonna do:  Stake me; bury me in another shallow grave? What the email say this time?
Sheriff: I’ve not the choice.
Logan: you…Bitch! I died for you, for this town. You’ve known me since I was 6 and you swept me under the rock like dirt.
Sheriff: You know where you’re getting it.
Logan: I was one of you
Sheriff: now, you’re one of them.
Logan: watch your back, sheriff!
[Logan leaves – Sheriff is on the phone]
Sheriff: Get a backup team at the school immediately. Keep it within the circle. It’s a V5.

[School hall]
Jeremy: I didn’t know you drew
Tyler: it’s an elective.
Jeremy: because it’s good stuffs. You like graphics? Because…it’s kind of my thing.
Tyler: oh, what you doing?
Jeremy: that’s just something else we have in common.
Tyler: what’s the other thing? Vicki? Let’s hang up because we dated the same chip. Go be friends with one of the many other guys that she screwed, there is no short gentleman.
[Fight between both]
Alaric: ok working out guys.
Maier: you two, follow me!
Alaric: excuse me, Maier. Where’re you taking them?
Maier: I’m gonna talk to them. All fights should end with an handshake, don’t you think?

[Out of school]
Caroline: Bonnie, where are you? I’m ready to go. I’ll be in the outside.
Logan: hey, lady on distress, need a ride?
Caroline: oh my god. Logan Fell, channel 9, that’s you?
Logan: I used to be seen Caroline Forbes. Don’t mock me!
Caroline: oh, I was supposed to go home with Bonnie but I can’t find her.
Logan: that’s not a problem, really. It’s on the way.
Caroline: this is fate.
Logan: and why Is that?
Caroline: because I’m interested in broadcast journalism. So can I ask you a couple questions?
Logan: anything you want. First, buckle up.
Caroline: ok
[School]
Elena: have you seen Logan Fell, the news guy?
Matt: yeah, he’s just taken Caroline by home.
Stefan: stay here!

[Out of school]
Maier: ok, let’s get keep its old used system. Go ahead, Fight!
Jeremy: you wanna us to what?
Tyler: I’m not gonna fight dad.
Jeremy: I don’t think so, Sir.
Maier: you fight here like pansies. You take it outside, fight your battles like men and move on! That’s les my dad talking. So let’s seld! Fight!
Tyler: come on, dad.
Jeremy: that is not gonna happen.
Maier: I said fight!
Alaric: what’s going on here?
Maier: let’s these two kids working out. We’re good here. Go back inside!
Alaric: I don’t wanna go back inside. I wanna want is an answer to my question. What’s going on here?
Maier: what do you think you’re talking to? Do I look a student?
Alaric: no! You look like a fall ground half-man duce back.
Maier: don’t talk to me like that! I get every job like this!
Alaric, ah you do that. It will be you and me on this parking lot, working things on. You cool with that?
Maier: just watch yourself.
Alaric: ok
[Maier and Tyler leave]
Alaric (to Jeremy): you’re alright?

[Sheriff in her car – phone calling]
Sheriff: where are you?
Logan: your daughter has expressed interest in journalism. I think it’s important to force young minds.
Sheriff: what do you want?
Logan: the satisfaction turning your daughter into a vampire.
[In the street]
Damon:  payback is a bitch, is it? Get her out of here.
Sheriff (on the phone): Logan, what happened?
Damon (phone): Sheriff, yeah, it’s Damon.
Sheriff (phone): Where is Caroline?
Damon (phone): she’s ok. I’m on Elm Street.  
[Damon & Logan]
Damon: I try this one more time. Who turned you?
Logan: I told you I don’t know.
Demon: this tire iron here take your head cleans off. So, it’s your final answer?
Logan: how can you be in the same side of them?
Damon: I’m on the side of anyone. You pissed me off. I wanna you death. Who turned you?
Logan: I don’t know!
Damon: oh well, you screwed!
Logan: wait. I do know!
Damon: you’re lying.
Logan: you think you’re the only one of us to get in that tomb in the navy old church?
Damon: If you lie me, I’ll end you.
Logan: I’m not lying. There is another way to break the spell. We can help you. Meet me at the old church.
Damon: take me off. Makes look crap. Makes it look real!
[Sheriff arrives – Logan leaves]
Sheriff: where is she?
Damon: she’s ok.  My brother takes her home. I’m sorry, sheriff.  I wasn’t stronger.

[At school]
Elena: Caroline?
Stefan: she‘s ok. I took her home, she was shaked. All she knows It’s Logan attacked her.
Elena: Where is Logan?
Stefan: Damon … is dealing with him.
Elena: as in…
Stefan: you saw what happened tonight. You may understand why we can be together. You see?
Elena: yes, I’m seeing a lot of things, Stefan.  Come on. I’ll give you a ride
Stefan: I can get home
Elena: I know
Stefan: Right, it would be nice

[Out of school]
Jeremy: yeah.
Tyler:  what do you want?
Jeremy: I don’t know. I thought that it was weird with your dad, what he did. Is he like that all the time? Is that…Is that what you go through? Men I get it. I get it. What’s your problem?
Tyler: I don’t need your pie.
Jeremy: seriously you don’t have to be like that.
Tyler: just go!
Jeremy: What is your problem, men?
Tyler: I don’t know. Ok. I don’t know.

[In front of Salvatore’s house]
Elena: what I said before your leaving, it was harch.
Stefan: no, you’ve every right.
Elena: you asked me what I want it my future to be. I wanted to be a writer. My mum, a sort of push me in that direction from the time I was able to read.  She’s supported me, encouraged me, bought my first journal, and then she died.  And I can’t see myself being a writer anymore.  That was something that we shared.  I know you think you put all of these bad stuffs in my life but my life already had it. I was barred in it.
Stefan: this is different.
Elena: it doesn’t make any less painful.
Stefan: I know that it’s hard to understand but I’m doing this for you.
Elena: No, you don’t get to make the decision for me. If you walk away, it’s for you because I know what I want. Stefan, I love you.
[They kissed each other then go inside the house]
Elena: don’t
Stefan: Elena, I can’t
Elena: yes, you can. Don’t hide from me.

[In front of the warehouse]
Logan: who are you?
Alaric: a friend of Jenna
Logan: Jenna sends you?
Alaric: No, I came on my own.
Logan: ah, I get it. Well, body, I know you think it makes you brave. But actually it makes you pretty stupid.
Alaric: By the way, here I am
Logan: what do you want?
Alaric: Jenna is a good person. She deserves the best. I make sure she gets it
Logan: is that supposed to be a threat? Could you throat punch? Maybe provoke me a little?
Alaric: I’m a violent guy by design.
Logan: you’re not a very smart one neither
Alaric: How’s that?
Logan: because you’ve no idea who you’re talking to

[School- parking lot]
Tyler: I need a ride
Matt: sure. Look, I like Caroline. She’s got this thing….this way butter….and I like her ok? I’m not gonna defending or apologize about.
Tyler: ok
Matt: so stop your little romance bitch act.
Tyler: ok

[Sheriff is in Caroline’s room and got a call]
Sheriff: yeah, I’ll be right there.

[Stefan’s room]
Elena: I’ve never been in your room before.
Stefan: it hasn’t changed much over years.
Elena: do you leave everything here when you come and go?
Stefan: it’s the only place that…that remains constant. This room holds all the memories that I left was important enough to hold on to. 
Elena: lot of memories
Stefan: yeah. Are you dirty or anything?
Elena: a little. You?
Stefan: I’ m fine. I’m getting you some drink ok?
Elena: ok

[Demon & The sheriff on the phone]
Damon: hallo
Sheriff: I just wanna to say thank you. I don’t know how you did it.
Damon: hum, not following.
Sheriff: we found Logan’s body up by the old fair warehouse. It has been disposed of.  It was crowding victims, innocents’ victims.
Damon: what?
Sheriff: town holds you so much. So do I.

[Stefan’s room]
Stefan: Elena?

[Elena’s driving. She’s accident and she hurts someone]

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 1x11 "Bloodlines"

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[Elena's car.]

STEFAN (PHONE): Elena. It's Stefan. I know that picture must have confused you. But I can explain. I need to explain. Please, when you get this, call me.

Elena has an accident. She collided a man. Her car is back to front but Elena has nothing. She sees  the man getting up.

ELENA: Aah! Aah! Aah!

The man disappears.

DAMON: How ya doing in there?
ELENA: Damon?
DAMON: You look stuck.
ELENA: My seat lt.
DAMON: Let me get you out of there. I want you to put your hands on the roof. Just like that. You ready? ...2, 3. I got you. Are you ok? Can you stand? Anything broken?
ELENA: Uh-uh.
DAMON: Whoa, you're fading fast, Elena. Elena, look at me. Focus. Look at me. Ok.
ELENA: I look like her.
DAMON: What? Upsy-daisy.

Damon leaves with Elena in his arms.


[Alaric's House.]

ALARIC: I found one. After years of reseah and study, there it was right in front of me. I was terrified. As I stared it in the eyes, I drove a stake through its heart. I was right about Mystic Falls. There is evil here. I can sense it. Feel it. It's everywhere.

He is watching a photography of a youg woman, probably his girlfirend.

[Flashback.]

ALARIC'S GIRLFRIEND: Mmm. It's not even 7:00 yet.
ALARIC: Which means you shouldn't be awake for at least 6 hours.
ALARIC'S GIRLFRIEND: I hate morning people.
ALARIC: I'm going to be home te tonight.
ALARIC'S GIRLFRIEND: Mm love you.
ALARIC: And I love you too.


[Damon's car. Elena wakes up]

DAMON: Morning.
ELENA: Where are we?
DAMON: Georgia.
ELENA: Georgia? No, no. No, we're not. Seriously, Damon. Where are we?
DAMON: Seriously, we're-- we're in Georgia. How ya feeling?
ELENA: I--I--
DAMON: There's broken bones. I checked.
ELENA: But my car. There was a man. I hit a man. But then he got up and--who was that?
DAMON: That's what I would like to know.
ELENA: Where is my phone? Ok. We really need to go back. Nobody knows where I am. Pull over. I mean it, damon. Pull over! Stop the car!
DAMON: Oh you were so much more fun when you were asleep.

He stops the car.

DAMON: Hey.
ELENA: I'm fine. We have to go back.
DAMON: Oh come on. Look. We've already come this far.
ELENA: Why are you doing this? I can't be in Georgia. I wrecked my car. I have to go home. This is kidnapping.
DAMON: That's a little melodramatic, don'you think?
ELENA: You're not funny. You can't do this. I'm not going to Georgia.
DAMON: You're in georgia. Without your magical necklace I might add. I can very easily make you...Agreeable.
ELENA: What are you trying to prove?

[Elena's cell phone rings.]

ELENA: That's my phone.
DAMON: Mmm. It's your boyfriend. I'll take it. Elena's phone.
STEFAN: Where is she? Why do you have her phone? Is she ok?
DAMON: Elena? She's right here. And, yes, she's fine.
STEFAN: Where are you? Let me speak to her.
DAMON: He wants to talk to you.
ELENA: Uh-uh.
DAMON: Yeah. I don't-- I don't think she wants to talk to you right now.
STEFAN: Damon, I swear to god, if you touch her--
DAMON: You have a good day. Mm-hmm. Bye-now.
STEFAN: Argh!

ELENA: Look. No one knows where I am. Can we please just go back?
DAMON: We're almost there.
ELENA: Where is there?!
DAMON: A little place right outside of Atlanta. Oh, come on, Elena. You don't wanna go back right now. Do you? What's the rush? Time-out. Trust me. Your problems are still going to be there when you get home. Look. Step away from your life for 5 minutes.
ELENA: 5 minutes. Am I going to be safe with you?
DAMON: Yes.
ELENA: Will you promise not to do that mind control thing with me?
DAMON: Yes.
ELENA: Can I trust you?
DAMON: Get in the car. Come on.


[Jeremy and Alaric.]

JEREMY: Hey, Mr. Saltzman.
ALARIC: Hey, Jeremy. I, uh--can't find my ring. I took it off for the gym and thought I put it-- there it is.
JEREMY: Losing family heirlooms-- bad.
ALARIC: How's your extra credit coming? You pick a topic yet?
JEREMY: Mystic Falls, the cil war era.
ALARIC: What's the angle?
JEREMY: My family-- I found a journal of an anstor who lived in the 1800s. And the Gilberts were one of the original founding families of Mystic Falls. So...
ALARIC: That sounds good.


[Stefan and Bonnie.]

STEFAN: Bonnie.
BONNIE: Stefan
STEFAN: Hey.
BONNIE: Hi.
STEFAN: I haven't seen you lately. How are you doing with everything?
BONNIE: I'm fine. It's all fine.
STEFAN: Good. Yeah
BONNIE: Are you back in school?
STEFAN: No. Actually I came here to find you. I s hoping you could help me with something. A spell.
BONNIE: Stefan, look, I know Elena's ok with all of this, and I appreciate what you did to help me. But I'm not really ready to dive into it with you just yet.
STEFAN: I understand. But I need your help. It's Elena. She's with Damon. I have Elena's necklace. I was just hoping you could use this to make some sort of a connection. I just need to know that she's ok.
BONNIE: How do you know I can do this?
STEFAN: Because I've known a few witches over the years. I've seen what they can do.
BONNIE: I'm still new at it.
STEFAN: It's ok. Give it a shot.
BONNIE: Ok. All right.

She tries to feel something with the necklace.

BONNIE: There's nothing. Nothing's happening. Usually there's an image or... Tell me if anyone's looking.
STEFAN: Ok.
BONNIE: All right.

She takes a leaf and tries to fly it.

STEFAN: What is it?
BONNIE: Something's wrong.
STEFAN: With Elena?
BONNIE: With me. There's something wrong with me. I have to go. I'm sorry, Stefan. I can't help you.


[Damon's car.]

ELENA: So, where's my car?
DAMON: I pulled it off on the side of the road. I don't think anyone will bother it.
ELENA: At about that man in the road? Was he a...?
DAMON: From what I could tell. Yeah.
ELENA: You don't know him?
DAMON: If I've never met him, I wouldn't know him. I mean, it's not like we all hang out together at the vamp bar and grill.

He stops the car in front of a bar.

ELENA: You brought me to a bar? Damon, I'm not old enough. They're not going to let me in.
DAMON: Sure they will.
WOMAN: No. No, it can't be. Damon. My honey pie.

She kisses Damon.

WOMAN: Listen up everybody! Here's to the man that broke my heart, crushed my soul, destroyed my life, and ruined any and all chances of happiness! Drink up! Ahh. Whoo!
WOMAN: So, how'd he rope you in?
ELENA: I'm not roped in. Actually, I'm dating his--
WOMAN: Honey, if you're not roped, you're whipped. Either way, just enjoy the ride.
ELENA: Ok. So, how did you two meet?
WOMAN: College.
ELENA: You went to college?
DAMON: I've been on a college campus, yes.
WOMAN: About 20 years ago, when I was just a sweet, young freshman I met this butiful man, and fell in love. And then he told me about his littleecret, made me love him more. Because, you see, I had a little secret of my own that I was dying to share with somebody.
DAMON: She's a witch.
WOMAN: Changed my world.
DAMON: I rocked your world.
WOMAN: He is good in the sack, isn't he? But mostly he's just a walkawayoe. So, what is it that you want?


[Jeremy in a library.]

He looks at books when some books fall him above. A girl arrives.

GIRL: Oh my god. I am so sorry. There was this one book wedged between the other. And I pulled and then kaplunk, kaboom. Are you ok?
JEREMY: Yeah, I'm fine.
GIRL: Ohh! I'm Anna.
JEREMY: I'm Jeremy.


[Grams' house.]

BONNIE: Thank god you're back.
GRAMS: And hello to you, too. What's the matter?
BONNIE: Powers are gone, Grams. I can't do anything, even when I concentrate. And there's nothing in in any of these books that can tell me how to get them back.
GRAMS: Hang on, now. Just calm down. Tell me what happened.
BONNIE: I can't.
GRAMS: We keeping secrets now?
BONNIE: I have to. I'm sorry. I promised. Please help me.
GRAMS: Well, first of all, there's nothing in any of these that's gonna help you. If you're blocked, it's in here. You gotta clear it out, then you're back in business.
BONNIE: Clear what out?
GRAMS: Whatever's got you so scared.


[Elena phones.]

ELENA: Hi, Jenna. I'm so sorry.
JENNA: Where are you? Why didn't you call?
ELENA: I was so tired last night. I fell asleep at Bonnie's. And then this morning, I just wanted to get to school.
JENNA: Are you ok?
ELENA: You know, Stefan and stuff.

DAMON: Come on, there's gotta be another way.
WOMAN: After all these years, it's still only Katherine. How do you even know she's still alive?
DAMON: Well, you help me get into that tomb and we'll find out.
WOMAN: I already did. 20 years ago. Remember? 3 easy steps-- Comet. Crystal. Spell.
DAMON: There's a little problem with number 2. I don't have the crystal.
WOMAN: That's it, damon. There is no other way. It's Emily's spell.
DAMON: What about a new spell with a new crystal that overrides Emily's spell?
WOMAN: It doesn't work that way, baby. Emily's spell is absolute. You can't get into that tomb.


[Bonnie in the wood.]

BONNIE: Hello?  Anybody here?! Aah!

Bonnie falls.


[Front of the bar. Elena's cellphone ringing.]

STEFAN: Elena, is th you?
ELENA: I'm here.
STEFAN: Where are you?
ELENA: You lied.
STEFAN: Not until I explain, please.
ELENA: So, you didn't lie?
STEFAN: Just tell me where you are. So that I can comeet you.
ELENA: How am I connected to Katherine, stefan?
STEFAN: I honestly don't know.
ELENA: And I'm supposed to believe that?
STEFAN: It's the truth. I-- Listen--

She hangs up. Damon is behind her.

DAMON: You ok?
ELENA: Don't pretend to care. I know you're gloating inside.

Damon's friend phones.

WOMAN: Hey, it's Bree. You'll never gonna guess who walked into my bar.


[Bonnie, in the tomb.]

BONNIE: Oww. Hello?! Anybody?! Ahh!



[Grams' house. Stefan is knocking.]

STEFAN: Hi.
GRAMS: Can I help you?
STEFAN: I'm Stefan. I'm a friend of Bonnie's. Her dad told me that she might be here.
GRAMS: She was. Not anymore.
STEFAN: Do you know where she went?
GRAMS: No. But you do.
STEFAN: I'm sorry?
GRAMS: I told her to face down her fear. And I'm sensing now that you know exactly why she was scared. You know what I am. And yet you offered me your hand, which means you wanted me to see that I can trust you.
STEFAN: Can you?
GRAMS: I just you'll keep her safe. You'd better be on your way, then. I'm not going to invite you in. I'm sure you understand why.


[At the library.]

ANNA: This aisle is local and state history. And civil war is one over. What do you need?
JEREMY: Local. 1860s. Do you work here?
ANNA: Nope. You want reference. This way. Uh, home-schooled. I study here for a moc school environment. Ah, here we go. Original settlers, town archives, founders stuff. It's all here. So, what's your topic ?
JEREMY: The town's fear and hysteria surrounding the war and how it influenced certain writers of the time.
ANNA: You might want to focus that.
JEREMY: The origin of local folklore and myths.
ANNA: You mean the vampires?


[At the bar.]

ELENA: Let's just say that I'm descended from Katherine-- Does that make me part vampire?
DAMON: Vampires can't procreate. But we love to try. No. If you are related, it would mean Katherine had a child before she was turned.
ELENA: Did Stefan think that he could use me to replace her?
DAMON: Kinda creepy if you ask me. Come on, what? You don't like pickl? What's wrong with you?
ELENA: How can you even eat? If technically you're supposed to be...
DAMON: Dead. It's not such a bad word. As long as I keep a healthy diet of blood in my system, our body functions pretty normally.
ELENA: This nice act. Is any of it real?
BREE: Here you go, honey.
DAMON: Thank you.
ELENA: I'll have one too.
DAMON: Hmm?
ELENA: Time out, remember? For 5 minutes? Yeah, well that 5 minutes is going to need a beer.
BREE: There you go.


[In the library.]

JEREMY: You're kidding me, right? There's no such thing as vampires.
ANNA: Well, there's not a lot of documentation but the stories have been told since the civil war. My granddad used to tell me all these creepy stories when I was little. And he said that his granddad told them to him.
JEREMY: Yeah. That would be folklore. Vampires are a metaphor for the demons of the day.
ANNA: Which are?
JEREMY: The union soldiers. I've read the stories myself. They talk about the enemy, the demons that attack night.
ANNA: That sounds like vampires to me.
JEREMY: Allegorical vampires. Which is what it is. Creative expression during a very volatile time. I mean, a couny at war doesn't want realism. They want fantasy. Thus, vampire fiction.
ANNA: Man, you're smart. I gotta give it to you. When I first saw you, I missed it.
JEREMY: Yeah. I've had a rough go of it lately. But I'm just now getting back to my old self.
ANNA: Well, good luck on the paper. I gotta get home. You know, my great grandfather actually showed me a journal once of an ancestor and he had written all of this creepy stuff about vampires. It was actually really believable.
JEREMY: Wait. A journal?
ANNA: Yeah? Why?
JEREMY: Are you sure you have to go?


[In the Tomb.]

Bonnie tries to phone.

BONNIE: Come on, phone! Great! Great.

Someone arrives behind her.

STEFAN: Bonnie!
BONNIE: Get away from me!
STEFAN: It's me. It's stefan.
BONNIE: Stefan. The ground gave way and I fell.
STEFAN: It's ok. It's ok. Calm down. Come on, let's get you out of here.
BONNIE: How?
STEFAN: Just close your eyes. Trust .

He jumps.

STEFAN: You can open your eyes now.
BONNIE: Whoa.
STEFAN: I didn't want to scare you.
BONNIE: How did you know where I was?
STEFAN: Well, your grandmother told me what you were doing. I guessed the where.
BONNIE: I heard them. Down there. Behind the door. Are they in pain?
STEFAN: In the beginning--yes. But not anymore. They've been starved to the point of dessication.
BONNIE: But if they have blood--
STEFAN: That's not going to happen, Bonnie. They can't get out. Emily saw to that when she had you destroy the crystal. You're safe.


[In the bar.]

DAMON: Ready...
BREE: Go!

They drink.

ELENA: That's 3. Do you need a bib?
DAMON: Sorry I can't unhinge my jaw like a snake to consume alcohol.
ELENA: Whatever. All right. Who's next? Another round, Bree.
GIRL: Honey, you should be on the floor.
ELENA: I am not even drunk. My tolerance is, like, way up here.
BREE: All right. Here you go.


[At Mystic Grill.]

JEREMY: So, you have no idea where the journal is?
ANNA: Nope. Gramps died. And all the kids split his stuff. I can ask.
JEREMY: I just find it weird that our ancestors kept the same kind of journal. It's crazy.
ANNA: Maybe it's based in some partial reality.
JEREMY: No. It's gotta be a metaphorical. My ancestor wrote short stories.
ANNA: So, that's why you're hung up on the fiction of it all.
JEREMY: No, I'm hung up on fiction of it all because I've seen "the lost boys" and "near dark," like,  50 times.
ANNA: Are those movies? Hey. I've never seen them. Maybe we can have a fright night and rent a whole bunch of vampire movies.
JEREMY: Uh, yeah, sure.
ANNA: Why does that sound like a no way in hell? Sorry, I'm blunt.
JEREMY: No, it's--I don't want you to get the wrong idea. I just recently got out of something. It's a little too soon, you know?
ANNA: Oh please, sure. No worries. I meant as friends. Yeah. Look, I really gotta go. Nice meeting you, Jeremy.


[In the bar.]

[Elena's cell phone ringing]

ELENA: Hello?
JENNA: Elena ?
ELENA: Jenna? Hold on, it's loud in here.
JENNA: Elena, where are you ? Are you ok ?
ELENA: Huh? Yeah. No, I'm good.  Eveything's fine. Hold on.  I can't hear you.

Elena falls.

ELENA: Hello ?

Someone arrives behind her and kidnaps her.

BREE: Hey, where's your girl?
DAMON: Hmm.
BREE: She was right back there.

Damon goes out of the bar. He finds Elena's cellphone on the ground. He goes behind sheds.

ELENA: Damon, no.

A man attack him.

DAMON: What the hell?!
ELENA: No!

He beats Damon.

DAMON: Who are you?
MAN: That's perfect. You have no idea.
ELENA: What are you talking about? What did he do?
MAN: He killed my girlfriend. What did she do to you, huh? What did she do to you?! Nothing.
ELENA: I don't understand.
MAN: My girlfriend went to visit Stefan, and Damon killed her. Got it?

He beats Damon.

DAMON: Ugh!

ELENA: Lexi? Lexi was your girlfriend? She told me about you. She said you were human.
MAN: I was.
ELENA: Lexi turned you?
MAN: If you want to be with someone forever, you have to live forever.
ELENA: She loved you. She said, "when it's real, you can't walk away."
MAN: Well, that's a choice you're not going to have to make.
ELENA: Don't. Don't, please, don't hurt him--
MAN: I'm doing you a favor.
ELENA: Lexi loved you. And she was good. That means you're good too. Be better than him. Don't do this. I'm begging you! Please.

Lexi's boyfriend stop to beat Damon.

ELENA: Thank you.
MAN: It wasn't for you.


[Gram's house.]

GRAMS: Well, now, look who's returned from battle. Can I talk to your friend for minute?  BONNIE: Thank you.
GRAMS: I appreciate your help, Stefan.
STEFAN: You're welcome, Sheila.
GRAMS: I wasn't sure you remembered.
STEFAN: October 1969.
GRAMS: I was barely a teenager.
STEFAN: And you were leading what was probably the only anti-war sit-in within miles of Mystic Falls.
GRAMS: Hmm.
STEFAN: You know when you spoke, people were mesmerized. I know I was.
GRAMS: Until the cops showed up. You took a big risk coming to see me earlier. Letting me read you, realize who you  were. It could have gone a completely different way.
STEFAN:  Your family has a very long history  of keeping my secret. I knew that I could trust you if you believed I waworthy of your trust.
GRAMS: Bonnie knows, doesn't she?
STEFAN: Yes.
GRAMS: Please understand, our loyalty can only extend so far. This town won't be easy on any of us if they figure it out. And I'll protect my own before anybody else.
STEFAN: I know that.
GRAMS: As long as we're clear, goodnight, then.
STEFAN: Goodnight, Sheila.


[In the bar.]

DAMON: We were just leaving, and I wanted to sagood bye.
BREE: Good to see you again, Damon.
DAMON: No kiss?
BREE: I'm full of vervain. I put it in everything I drink.
DAMON: And you're telling me this why?
BREE: Lexi was my friend. How could you? The tomb can be opened.
DAMON: You're lying!
BREE: Emily's grimoire, her spellbook. If you know how she closed the tomb the reversal process will be in her book. You can open that tomb.
DAMON: Where is this book?
BREE: I--I--
DAMON: You have no idea.
BREE: No. I'm telling you the truth.
DAMON: And I believe you. My dear, sweet Bree. That's why I'm almost sorry.
BREE: Ugh!

He kills her.


[In Damon's car.]

ELENA: So, why did you bring me with you?
DAMON: Well you're not the worst company in the world, Elena. You could give yourself more credit.
ELENA: Seriously?
DAMON: You were there in the road. All damsel in distress-like. And I knew it would piss off Stefan. And... U're not the worst company in the world, Elena.
ELENA: I used to be more fun.
DAMON: You did ok.
ELENA: I saved your life.
DAMON: I know.
ELENA: And don't you forget it.


[Salvatore's House.]

ELENA: Hi.
STEFAN: Hi.
ELENA: You could have told me.
STEFAN: I wanted to tell you.
ELENA: You said no more lies. Only the truth. I can handle the truth, Stefan. As crazy as it is, I can handle the fact that you are a vampire. And you have a vampire brother. And that my best friend is a witch. I can accept the fact that the world is much more mysterious place than I ever thought possible. But this--this lie, I can't take. What am I to you? Who am I to you?
STEFAN: You are not Katherine. You are the opposite everything that she was.
ELENA: And when did you figure that out? Before you kissed me? Before we slept together?
STEFAN: Before I met you.
ELENA: What?
STEFAN: The first day of school. We when met. It wasn't for the first time, Elena.
ELENA: Then when was it?
STEFAN: May 23, 2009.
ELENA: But that was--
STEFAN: That was the day your parents' car went off the bridge.
ELENA: You were the?
STEFAN: Every couple of years that I come back here to see Zach and see my home. Last spring, I was out in the woods, by old wickery bridge. And I heard the accident. All of it. I was fast getting there, but not fast enough. The car was already submerged. Your dad was still- he was still conscious. I was able to get to him, but he wouldn't let me help him, until I helped you.
ELENA: Oh my god. When I woke up in the hospital, nobody could figure out how I got out of the car. They said it was a miracle.
STEFAN: I went back for them. But it was too late. I couldn't-- I couldn't  save them. When I pulled you out, I looked at your face. You looked like Katherine. I  couldn't believe the resemblance. After that, I spent months making sure th you weren't  her. I watched you. I learned everythi that I could about you. And I saw that you were nothing like Katherine. And I wanted to leave town, but, Elena, I couldn't. I couldn't leave without knowing you. I'm so sorry that I didn't tell you. I wanted to. But you were so sad.
ELENA: Why do I look like her?
STEFAN: Elena, you've been through so much.
ELENA: Why do I look like her, Stefan? What are you not telling me?
STEFAN: It didn't make any sense to me. You were a Gilbert. She was a Pierce. But the resemblance was too similar. And then I learned the truth. You were adopted, Elena.


[In the library.]

ANNA: There you are.
JEREMY: Hey.
ANNA: Hi. Ok, look. I know I don't know you, so don't ask me why I  did this. I just, sometimes-- mostly all the time- I have this need to be right. So I googled  and...
JEREMY: What is it?
ANNA: Proof. Sort of.
JEREMY: What does this mean?
ANNA: Well, I only went as far back as 1942, and found that there's been a string of animal attacks periodically in and around this town for the past 75 years. It's consistent. In '62, 5 boes found. In '53, 4 people killed. In '74, 3 people dead. And there's been  5 this year. All attacked. All suffered major blood loss, as in drained of blood.



[Stefan's bedroom.]

ELENA: How do you know that?
STEFAN: Your birth certificate from the city records. It says Elena Gilbert. Mystic falls general. But there's no record of your mother ever being admitted.There's no record of her ever being pregnant.
ELENA: What else do you know?
STEFAN: For me to go any further, I would've had to look into the Pierce family, and I couldn't do that. It's too much of a risk. If someone found out I was asking about Katherine-- Listen to me, it doesn't matter. You are the woman that I love. I love you.

Elena kiss him.


[Elena's house.]

JENNA: I don't set a lot of rules, Elena. Not with you. I trust you to tell me the truth. Where were you? Why would you lie to me about it? I thought that we were closer than that.
ELENA: Now is not the time you want to talk to me about lies.
JENNA: Don't do that. Don't turn this back on me. I didn't do anything.
ELENA: Ok, question-- am I adopted? I trust you to tell me the truth too, Jenna. How could you not tell me? I thought we were closer than that.
JENNA: Elena, didn't-- they asked me not to.
ELENA: I don't want to hear it!


[At Mystic Grill. Alaric sees Damon.]

[Flashback.]

ALARIC'S GIRLFRIEND: I love you.
ALARIC: I'm going to be late tonight.

Later. Alaric returns at home. He sees Damon drink the blood of his girlfriend.

[Reality.]

Alaric understands Damon is the vampire which killed her girlfriend.

---

 

1x12 "Unpleasantville"

 

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[Stefan's bedroom.]

ELENA: Stefan, who was that man in the road?
STEFAN: I don't know. Do you remember anything else about him?
ELENA: I wish. I never really saw his face. He was wearing a hoodie. All I can remember is that there was these black boots coming towards me.
STEFAN: I brought some vervain for, um-- for you and jenna. And, um, I made this bracelet for Jeremy, few extra on for friends. You can put it in jewelry, or you can even put it in food or drink, but as long as it's in you or on you, a vampire cannot control you.
ELENA: Wow. So much to remember.
STEFAN: I know, but there's another vampire in town. So until we find out who it is and what he wants, we have to be careful.


[Elena's house.]

Dorbell rings.

MAN: Hey. It's gonna be $22.
JEREMY: Elena, I need the money! Uh, here. Come in. Just put it on the table.
ELENA: Hi. Um, keep the change.
MAN: Thanks. And you have yourself a good night.


[Salvatores's house]

Noises: books falling.

STEFAN: What are you lookin' for, Damon?
DAMON: Not your concern.
STEFAN: No, but putting Elena in harm's way, That is my concern. Heh heh.
DAMON: What are you talking about?
STEFAN: I'm talking about Atlanta.
DAMON: Oh, yeah. Elena and I had blast.
STEFAN: I get it. You're just bitter because one of us gets to be with the person that we love, and poor katherine is just out of reach. Unless there's another way for you to get into that tomb. Is that what Bree said?
DAMON: You're pathetic when you're fishing.
STEFAN: You're transparent when you're deflecting.
DAMON: Don't you have school?


[History class.]

Alaric gives to Jeremy his essay. He has an "A".

ALARIC: Surprised? It's a good essay. Your thoughts are clear, and your argument is well laid out. It's just, uh, you don't actually think there are vampires in mystic falls.
JEREMY: No. I mean, I think statistically there's been more animal attacks, mystious deaths, uh, people gone missing, more than any other place in the whole commonwealth of Virginia.
ALARIC: It's conjecture, but creative, which is why you got the "a." I just wouldn't get too, uh, caught up in the whole conspiracy theory of it all.
JEREMY: Ah, I won't.
ALARIC: All right. Oh, uh, Jeremy,the source that you cited for the 1860s info, uh, jonathan Gilbert...
JEREMY: Uh, my ancestor's journal?
ALARIC: I'd really like to see that sometime.
JEREMY: Really?
ALARIC: A first-person account of the civil war? That's like, uh, porn for a history teacher. JEREMY: You think my essay's creative, wait till you get a load of this thing.
ALARIC: Thank you.


[Front of the school.]

CAROLINE: It's so pretty.
ELENA: Thank you.
CAROLINE: God, it'll go with, like, everything. What's the occasion?
ELENA: No occasion. Just a little friend gift.
CAROLINE: Lesbian friend necklace? 'cause we're freaky like that?
ELENA: Your friendship is important to me.
CAROLINE: Why are you being so mushy?
ELENA: Because you've been avoiding me, and I wanted you to know that whatever is going on with you and Matt, it's ok.
CAROLINE: I was gonna talk to you about that. I was, but there's just not much to say. We've hung out a couple times. That's it, but... I just feel like we've peed as friends. This is weird. I shouldn't be talking to you about this. It's weird. It's weird, right?
ELENA: It's a little weird, but--heh. If it's what you and Matt want, then it's not about me.
CAROLINE: But it's all about you. Matt's not over you, and we all know it.
ELENA: I'm with Stefan now. Matt understands that. He knows he has to move on.


[Mystic Grill.]

BOYS: Matt Donovan. What do you know?
MATT: Ben McKittrick. What's up, man?
BEN: Rough season, bud.
MATT: Yeah. It's kind of hard to recover when you have to forfeit half your games.
BEN: You gonna be workin' here?
MATT: Yep, followin' in your footsteps, minus the late championship.
BEN: Well, can't all be football gods.
MATT: Yeah.
BEN: So what's the plan? Cook line?
MATT: Busboy.

BONNIE: I can't believe you're adopted.
ELENA: I never saw that coming. And it gets weirder. I looked at my birth certificate. It lists Miranda and Grayson Gilbert as my birthparents. None oit makes any sense.
BONNIE: Which is why you should ask Jenna. First of all, the Elena I know would always want the real truth, good or bad.
ELENA: And second of all?
BONNIE: You just found out your boyfriend is a vampire, so unless your birthparents are aliens... How bad could it be?
ELENA: Ah, ok, look, I have to go to the store. My outfit for the dance is severely lacking accessories.
BONNIE: Ok, I'll pay the bill.
ELENA: Ok. Bye.
BONNIE: Bye.

Damon arrives.

BONNIE: What do you want from me?
DAMON: I think we need a fresh start.
BONNIE: You tried to kill me.
DAMON: But I didn't, and if I wanted to, I would have. Does that not count for anything?
BONNIE: You know, I can start fires with my mind. Fires kill vampires, right? Just stay the hell away from me.
BEN: Everything ok over here?
DAMON: Yeah, we're fine.
BEN: I wasn't talkin' to you.

BONNIE: Thank you.
BEN: Anytime, Bonnie.
BONNIE: Wait. You remember me?
BEN: I didn't graduate that long ago. You're makin' me feel old.
BONNIE: Sorry. I didn't-- I didn't mean that. I just-- I didn't know you knew me.
BEN: I always know a pretty face.


[Front of the Mystic Grill. Elena's cell phone rings.]

ELENA: Hello.
MAN: Hello, Elena.
ELENA: Hey, who's this?
MAN: You hit me with your car. Is that a new one?
ELENA: You got away from me. You won't next time.

Elena sees the man in front of her. She rises in her car and leaves.


[Salvatore's House.]

ELENA: Why me? What does he want with me, a-and if he's trying to kill me, then why call first?
STEFAN: That's because we're predators, Elena. We hunt. We stalk. It's often as exciting as the kill. I want you to take this.
ELENA: This is Jeremy's pocket watch. How did you get it?
STEFAN: I took it from Damon, who took it from Logan, who must have taken it from you.
ELENA: What happened to it?
STEFAN: Well, it's n just a watch. It's a-- it's a sort of compass, But it points to vampires.
ELENA: Why did my father have it?
STEFAN: Gilberts were one of the founding families, and back in 1864, th were among those who sought to eradicate the vampires. The compass was used to find us.
ELENA: Did you know them?
STEFAN: Yes. I want you to keep this. That way, you'll know if you're ever in danger.


[Matt and Caroline are painting a banner.]

MATT: I've nevereen you such a mess.
CAROLINE: Don't talk smack.
MATT: I mean, I just thought that you told everyone else what to do.
CAROLINE: Well, I do that, too, but if you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself. You know, I just like that we're hanging out. Who knew--you and me?
MATT: Well, who knew you could be fun?
CAROLINE: So what are you wearing to this dumb dance, anyway? Should we color-coordinate?
MATT: Uh, I'm not goin'.
CAROLINE: Why not?
MATT: I gotta work, bussin' tables at the grill.
CAROLINE: Since when are you a busboy?
MATT: It's a job. You know, some of us have to work, Caroline. With our mom in and out, things are tight, so...
CAROLINE: I didn't mean it like that. I just meant that I didn't know you had a job.
MATT: Well, I do. I gotta go.


[Mystic Grill.]

ANNA: Hey. How'd it go?
JEREMY: What?
ANNA: The paper.
JEREMY: Oh. I got an "a." Thanks for the artles. They really helped.
ANNA: Cool. So what'd he say about the vampir? Did he believe it?
JEREMY: I don't even believe it. It's just a paper, Anna. Anyways, I, uh-- I gotta get goin'.
ANNA: Uh, hey, um... D-do you wanna do something later, maybe?
JEREMY: Uh, sorry. I'm stuck on punch duty at the school dance.
ANNA: Oh. How'd you get stuck with that?
JEREMY: Well, I'm failin' english, so I copped a plea.
ANNA: Maybe, you know, tomorrow or something. I'm being pushy again, aren't I? Heh.
JEREMY: Well, thanks for the help. I'll-- I'll see you around.


[Elena's house.]

JENNA: Spoke to the insurance company. Car's totaled. You can keep using mine for now.
ELENA: So you're coming to the dance?
JENNA: Alaric asked me to help chaperone.
ELENA: Why didn't you tell me, Jenna?
JENNA: Your mom was gonna do it eventually. I never thought I'd have to.
ELENA: If my mom were here right now and I asked, she'd tell me the truth.
JENNA: Your dad was about to leave the office one night when this girl showed up. She was 16, a runaway, and about to give birth. He delivered her baby, and he gave her a place to stay, but a few days later, she disappeared. And there you were. Your parents were trying so hard to have a baby. I-it just wasn't happening. All Miranda ever wanted was to be a mom.
ELENA: Well, why were my parents' names on the birth certicate?
JENNA: Your dad was a doctor, Elena. He took care of it. They didn't wanna lose you, so they kept it quiet, told as fepeople as possible, But if anyone ever wanted proof, they had documtation.
ELENA: What else do you know about her? The girl. Just her name. Isabelle.


[Salvatore's house.]

DAMON: You got the hair right. Why are you bringing me dad's journal ?
STEFAN 'cause you were looking for it.
DAMON: Why would I want it?
STEFAN: Gee, I don't know, Damon. Maybe you wanna do a little bit of posthumous bonding. Go ahead. Enjoy it. Read it. I have. Nowhere in it does it say anything about Katherine or the tomb or how to open it.
DAMON: I'm not surprised. Man could rely spell his own name.
STEFAN: I'm really sorry that it won't be of any help with your diabolical plan, the sequel. You know, I could help you.
DAMON: You, help me? Aw, I don't know. Seems a little unnatural.
STEFAN: I'll do anythingo get you out of this town, even release Katherine.
DAMON: What about the other 26 vampires?
STEFAN: No, no, no. They can't come. They have to stay put, but Katherine,
DAMON: I would consider that. What are you doin'? Hmm? What's your angle?
STEFAN: Think about it.
DAMON: Why would I trust you?
STEFAN: See that's your problem, Damon. You apply all of your shortcomings to everybody else. If history's any indication, there's only one liar among us.


[Elena's bedroom.]

Noises.

ELENA: Jenna? Jeremy?

Compass whirring


[Salvatore's house.]

DAMON: Stefan's phone. How may I help you?
ELENA: Where is he?
DAMON: He's on his way to you, Forgot is phone.
ELENA: Thank god. This compass was spinning. Stefan must be here. Thank you.
DAMON: You're welcome.

[Elana's lounge.]

A vampire attacks her but Stefan arrives.

STEFAN: Are you ok? Are you ok?

DAMON: How did he get in?
ELENA: He was invited in.
STEFAN: He posed as a pizza delivery guy last night.
DAMON: Well, he gets points fothat. Did he say what he wanted?
ELENA: No. He was too busy trying to kill me.
STEFAN: And you have no idea who this is?
DAMON: No. Don't look at me like that. I told you we had company.
ELENA: You think there's more than one?
DAMON: We don't know.
STEFAN: Damon, he was invited in.
DAMON: Then we go get him tonight.
STEFAN: You up for it?
ELENA: What do I have to do?
DAMON: Let your boyfriend take you to the dance. Well see who shows up.
STEFAN: That's a bad idea.
DAMON: Till we get him, this house isn't safe. For anyone who lives in it. It's worth a shot.
ELENA: I'll do it. I'll be with the two of you. I'll be safe.


[At the party.]

JENNA: Alaric.
ALARIC: Hey, look at you.
JENNA: I figured I'd stand out less if I dressed up.
ALARIC: Heh heh. Liar.
JENNA: Ok, I'm a sucker for the decade dance. I went to school here, you know. They do the sixts and seventies, too, fyi.
ALARIC: Oh. Can't wait. Can I get you a drink? I hear the punch is real boss.

ELENA: Having fun?
CAROLINE: No, but this took about 2 hours, so I'm at least staying half of that.
BONNIE: What's Damon doing here?
ELENA: He wanted to come. I promise. He'll behave.
CAROLINE: So what is this, like, a threesome now, you and the Salvatore brothers?
ELENA: No, but if I'm gonna be with Stefan, then I have to learn to tolerate Damon. It's not like I can kill him.
BONNIE: There's a thought.
CAROLINE: Mmm. I'll help.

JENNA: I'm really starting to see a change in Jeremy. Finally.
ALARIC: Uh, losing someone you love so suddenly, the, uh--the trauma and the grief ther are some of the tougher things 'll face in life.
JENNA: From someone who knows. You have no idea what happened?
ALARIC: That's the hard part, not knowing.
JENNA: Is it ok to talk about your wife?
ALARIC: Heh. There's not much to talk about.
JENNA: That must be impossible to deal with, not having any answers.
ALARIC: I'd be lying to you if I told you it didn't keep me up at night. Wondering why, by who.
JENNA: Maybe one day.
ALARIC: Hope so. Hope so.

DAMON: Hi, Bonnie. Wanna dance?
BONNIE: I'm out of here.
DAMON: Please give me another chance.
CAROLINE: Back off, Damon.

ELENA: Where did they go?
DAMON: I don't know.
STEFAN: What did you say to them?
DAMON: I was perfectly polite. Elena...  Would you like to dance?
ELENA: I would love to. (To Stefan) May I have is dance?

ELENA: Shouldn't you guys be able to sense each other or something?
STEFAN: No. Doesn't work that way. See him anywhere?
ELENA: Not unless he has a pompadour.
STEFAN: Heh. Wow. Was not one of the better fashion trends.
ELENA: Come on. I'm sure you looked great back then. Are there pictures?
STEFAN: No. Burned. Buried.
ELENA: Seriously, what was it like, the fifties? 'cause in my mind, I have this picture of somewhere between "American bandstand," "Grease." It's all varsity sweaters and milkshakes.
STEFAN: Well, that and, you know, mccarthyism and segregation and nuclear arms race.
ELENA: Ok, but there were poodle skirts.
STEFAN: There were poodle skirts.
ELENA: You're so teaching me how to do the hand jive.
STEFAN: No. That's not gonna happen.
ELENA: Ooh!

ANNA: You neglected to mention this was a theme party.
JEREMY: What are you doing here?
ANNA: Well, seeing you also neglected to invite me, I took matters into my own hands.
JEREMY: You're doin' that thing again.
ANNA: What thing would that be?
JEREMY: That thing where you pretend we're dating, Even though we're not.
ANNA: Oh, you mean stalking. Yeah. Heh. Get over yourself. Come on. I've never been to a school dance before. Humor me.


[Mystic Grill.]

BONNIE: Let's sit up there.
CAROLINE: Be a little more obvious, Bonnie.
BONNIE: Don't rain on my hot-guy parade.
CAROLINE: What? It's just a drizzle. Ben McKittrick? Really?
BONNIE: He's hot.
CAROLINE: He's a washed-up jock who pours drinks for a living. You could do way better. Hi.
MATT: What's up?


[At the party.]

ALARIC: Yeah, I don't recognize you. How'd you get roped into chaperoning? Alaric Saltzman. I'm the new history teacher.
DAMON: Ah, the, uh, cursed faculty position.
ALARIC: So I've been told.
DAMON: Damon. Salvatore.
ALARIC: Salvatore, as in, uh, Stefan?
DAMON: He's my little brother I'm his legal guardian, hence the chaperoning.
ALARIC: I hear he's very bright, not that I've had a chance to see for myself.
DAMON: Well, his attendance record's a little spotty. Family drama.
ALARIC: Parents?
DAMON: Mm, it's just the two of us now.
ALARIC: You, uh--you live here your whole life?
DAMON: On and off. Travel a bit.
ALARIC: Really? Where?
DAMON: Around the States? Heh. I'm sorry. I'm nosy. I--I don't mn to pry. Look, it was nice meeting you.
DAMON: You, too.
ALARIC: Enjoy the rest of the dance.


[Mystic Grill.]

CAROLINE: Tonight was so much better on paper.
BONNIE: Ah, you're just feeling sorry for yourself. Go and talk to him. Be bold and fearless.
CAROLINE: Yeah, this coming from the girl who's been eye stalking the bartender.
BONNIE: You're right.

BONNIE: Hi.
BEN: Twice in one day. Lucky me.
BONNIE: I'm proving something to my friend.
BEN: Oh, yeah? What's that?
BONNIE: That you don't have to sit around and wait for a guy to come up to you.
BEN: Does that mean that you're asking me out on a date?
BONNIE: Does that mean you want me to?
BEN: Well, what did you have in mind?
BONNIE: Do you like karaoke?
BEN: No. But I would really like to go on a date with you.

CAROLINE: Seriously?
MATT: Is that for me?
CAROLINE: Do you see anyone else in the vicinity?
MATT: Do you need something?
CAROLINE: Are you mad at me or something?
MATT: No, care. I'm not mad. I--
CAROLINE: Well, then why are you being so weird?
MATT: I'm not. I'm working.
CAROLINE: You're avoiding.
MATT: No. I have a table to clean. You know, that's the kind of thing that washed-up jocks do to make a living.


[At the party.]

JEREMY: You don't go to school here. You know, you don't have to help.
ANNA: Oh, I don't mind. It's fun. Oh, um, yeah. Before I forget, can I borrow your anctor's journal?
JEREMY: Why?
ANNA: You said I could read it.
JEREMY: Uh, I don't have it.
ANNA: Oh. Well, obviously you didn't bring it here, Uh, but I can walk you home.
JEREMY: No. I mean, I gave it to my history teacher.
ANNA: Wait. Why did you give it to him?
JEREMY: Because he wanted to read it.
ANNA: You know, you shouldn't be giving that to just anybody.
JEREMY: But I should give it to you?
ANNA: Loan. Loan it to me.
JEREMY: Well, I loaned it to Mr. Saltzman.
ANNA: Maybe he's in his classroom. We can get it back.
JEREMY: What's the big deal with the stupid journal? Your eye.
ANNA: Um, there's something in it. Forget it. I gotta go.

ELENA: Maybe he's not gonna show.
STEFAN: You mean we did all this dancing for nothing?
ELENA: Ahh. The horror.
STEFAN: I'm really sorry for all this.
ELENA: It's my choice. I decided to be here. I officially signed up for it, wo I don't wanna hear you apologizing anymore. Show me how it's done in the fifties.
STEFAN: Uh, no.
ELENA: Come on. One move?

Stefan makes Elena dance.

STEFAN: Now you remember that, because it's never gonna happen again.


[In the corridor.]

MAN: What a you doing here?
ANNA: Trying to get the journal, as in sticking to the plan, something you're not doing. Leave the girl alone.
MAN: I like her. She looks like Katherine.
ANNA: She's not Katherine. Ok, Katherine is in the tomb.
MAN: I know, but until we open that tomb, I got her to play with.
ANNA: Dot be stupid. That girl is with the Salvatore brothers.
MAN: They don't scare me. They never have.
ANNA: Please, no. Don't do this. You're gonna ruin everything.
MAN: You got noth' to worry about.I'm not gonna let anything happen to you. You will get what you came for. Just let me have my fun. She looks like Katherine.


[At the party.]

ELENA: You really can't take him anywhere, can you?
STEFAN: Uh, no.
ELENA: Stefan, the back corner.
STEFAN: Get Damon.

Stefan fights the boy.

BOY: What did I do?
STEFAN: Where is he?
BOY: I was getting a soda, and then this guy gave me his hoodie.

Elena is searching Damon. Her cell phone rings.

MAN: Hello, elena. Here's what you're going to do. There's an exit door behind you. You have 5 seconds.
ELENA: No.
MAN: Or your brother dies. I can snap his neck so fast I bet there's not even a witness. Start walking.
MAN: Don't you dare touch him. Keep walking. Through the door.

Elena is running, but the vampire attacks her. She tries to defend herself.

ELENA: Ahh!

Stefan and Damon arrives.

DAMON: Hey, dickhead. Nobody wants to kill you. Just wanna talk.
STEFAN: Now you feel like talkin'?
MAN: Screw you.
STEFAN: Wrong answer. Why are you doing this?
MAN: Cause it's fun.
STEFAN: What do you want with Elena?
MAN: She looks like Katherine.
DAMON: You knew Katherine?
MAN: Oh. You thought you were the only ones. You don't even remember me.
DAMON: Tell me how to get in the tomb. Hmm?
MAN: No.
MAN: The grimoire.
DAMON: Where is it?
MAN: Check the journal. The journal. Jonathan gilbert's.
STEFAN: Who else is working with you?
DAMON: Who else is the?
MAN: No. You're gonna have to kill me.

ELENA: What do we--how are you gonna find the others now?
DAMON: He had to die.
ELENA: But...
STEFAN: Elena, he's been inted in.

Alaric arrives.

STEFAN: Go. I got this.

ALARIC: Hey.
DAMON: What were you doing?
ALARIC: Looking for Ms. Hilden.
DAMON: Why are you in Mystic Falls?
AMARIC: I got a job as a teacher.
DAMON: Do you know what I am?
ALARIC: You're my student's brother.
DAMON: Is everything you're telling me the truth?
ALARIC: Yes.
DAMON: Then forget we had this conversation.

Alaric had vervain in his hand.


DAMON: There's no way that idiot was workin' alone.
STEFAN: You are. So the grimoire... That was Emily's, right? That's what you need to reverse the spell. When the founding families burned her, they took her things, and you were hoping that dad's journal would tell you where it is.
DAMON: Look at you puttin' the pieces together. Good for you. I was half-right. Well, it's out there now. Let the games begin.
STEFAN: My offer still stands.
DAMON: Yeah, with some hidden caveats, no doubt.
STEFAN: No. Nothing hidden about it. No lies. No deception. I'm there when you open up that tomb, you and Katherine go, And the other 26 vampires die.
DAMON: If I agree?
STEFAN: I'll help you.
DAMON: Why should I trust you?
STEFAN: Because I'm your brother.
DAMON: No, that's not gonna cut it.
STEFAN: Because I want you gone.
DAMON: Ok.


[Mystic Grill.]

CAROLINE: Look I said something stupid. I'm sorry, but I wasn't even taing about you.
MATT: Yes, you were, Caroline. Ben could easily be me. We're just alike.
CAROLINE: That's not true. Are you seriouy mad about this? Matt, you know me. Ok, I say stupid things without thinking, and then I have to apologize and take it back, and... I'm a terrible, awful person, but I'm rking on it.
MATT: Look, can we just not do this right now?
CAROLINE: Ok. When do you get off?
MATT: Look, this thing we've got, it's nice, and it feels really good, and I know you want take the next step.
CAROLINE: How do you know that? Have you even asked me?
MATT: I'm--I'm not over elena. I mean, I don't know if I am, but if we go there, then it could mess things up, and we might lose this, and this is the only good this I've got going for me right now. So if it doesn't work, I'll just disappoint you and hurt you, and I don't wanna do that.
CAROLINE: Well, big problem, Matt, because you took the next step all by yourself, and you played the whole thing out in your head, and you decided to bail before even giving it a shot. So this really great thing that we have, don't worry about losing it, 'cause it's already gone.


[Elena's house.]

JENNA: Thank you. I needed that.
ALARIC: Well, thank you for--for coming. I--I really appreciate it. You made the evening much more... Well, you made it, period.
JENNA: I'm glad I could help.
ALARIC: And thank you for puttinup with all that wife talk. I--I gotta stop doin' that. It doesn't bode well for dating.
JENNA: Is that what this was, a date?
ALARIC: No, definitely not a date.
JENNA: Oh.
ALARIC: But Friday... You, me, and dinner and a movie, that could be a date. How about it?
JENNA: Works for me. Heh. Uh, you can talk about your wife all you want. It's gonna take time to heal. We should just be ourselves.
ALARIC: Still, I think I'll keep the Isabelle talk to a minimum.
JENNA: Isabelle?
ALARIC: Yeah. That was her name.
JENNA: Where was Isabelle from?
ALARIC: From Virginia. I mean, not too- -not too far from here, actually.


[On the road.]

MATT: Caroline! Care, get in the truck.
CAROLINE: What?

Matt kiss her.

MATT: This'll never work.


[Elena's house.]

STEFAN: Doing ok?
ELENA: Is it weird if I say yes?
STEFAN: Is it true?
ELENA: I should feel more upset or scared or something, but I... Feel kind of exhilarated.
STEFAN: It's the adrenaline. You'll crash soon enough.
ELENA: Yeah, I guess. I fought back tonight. It felt good.
STEFAN: I wish you didn't have to fight at all.
ELENA: Still...
STEFAN: I need to tell you something, And I don't know how you're gonna feel about it.
ELENA: What?
STEFAN: I told Damon that I'd help him get into that tomb to get Katherine back. But it was a lie. I let him believe that he could trust me.
ELENA: Well, then why would you be worried about telling me?
STEFAN: Because he can be very persuasive, and you two have bonded lately.
ELENA: That doesn't mean I trust him. It's gonna take a lot more than just a road trip and a rescue for me to forget who Damon is and everytng he's done.
STEFAN: I don't wanna be his enemy, Rlena, but I can't let him do it.
ELENA: Then don't, and I'll help you, whatever it takes. Ok?
STEFAN: Ok. Come here.


[Front of the Mystic Grill.]

Anna and Ben are vampires.

BEN: Don't sneak up on me.
ANNA: You love it.
BEN: Where's Noah?
ANNA: His obsession got the best of him, and so did the salvatore brothers.
BEN: They killed him?
ANNA: Tortured and staked.
BEN: You're not very upset.
ANNA: I warned him, Ben, and he was just gonna screw everythingp anyway. Let's be honest. He wasn't exactlan asset. How do you do?
BEN: Oh, the witch is totally crushing on me. Did you get the journal?
ANNA: No, but I know where it is, and I'll get it.

She kisses him.