Plot
Het is volle maan en Elena probeert zich voor te bereiden op wat Klaus allemaal met haar wil doen. Tyler transformeert voor de twee keer. De gevaarlijke gebeurtenissen nemen snel een andere wending en lopen niet zoals geplant, ondanks een onverwachte daad voor moed. Damon onthult de waarheid over wat de broers staat te wachten.

Gastrollen
Daniel Gillies als Elijah
Joseph Morgan als Klaus
Michaela McManus als Jules
David Anders als Jonathan Gilbert

Weetjes
– Officiëlle uitzenddatum (USA): 5 mei 2011
– Officiëlle uitzenddatum (NL): ?
– Officiëlle uitzenddatum (BE): 10 november 2012

Muziek
Skinny Love (Bon Iver Cover)” door Birdy

Quotes
John: (voiceover, in his letter to Elena) Elena, it’s no easy task being an ordinary parent to an extraordinary child. I failed in that task. And because of my prejudices, I failed you. I’m haunted by how things might have played out differently if I’d been more willing to hear your side of things. For me, it’s the end. For you, a chance to grow old and someday do better with your own child than I did with mine. It’s for that child that I give you my ring. I don’t ask for your forgiveness or for you to forget. I ask only that you believe this. Whether you are now reading this as a human or as a vampire, I love you all the same. As I’ve always loved you, and always will. John.

Tyler: You were right. I shouldn’t have come home.
Caroline: No, you just…should have never left. And you shouldn’t leave again.
Tyler: You’re kidding, right? This is the second time I’ve tried to kill you.
Caroline: Well, no friendship is perfect.

Damon: Somehow you’re the only one that wins. How’d that happen?
Katherine: I didn’t let love get in the way.
Damon: Enjoy an eternity alone, Katherine.

Damon: (carrying Elena, who is unconscious) You come back as a vampire, I’ll stake you myself. So don’t. Cause I can’t stand the idea of you hating me forever.

Klaus: (To Elena, Jenna and Jules) Hello, my lovelies. Are we ready?

Elena: (To Jenna) Do you remember me tell you how someone becomes a vampire?

Katherine: (To Damon) So that’s what a werewolf bite looks like. It’s not so bad.

Klaus: Thank you, Elena…
Elena: Go to hell.

Elijah: You’re very honorable.
Stefan: Are you? Because this whole plan is contingent upon your honor, Elijah.
Elijah: I won’t fail you.
Stefan: Klaus is your brother. I know that I’ve wanted to kill my brother a thousand times but I’ve never been able to.
Elijah: You know, Klaus was not my only brother. I had siblings, parents; I had a family. Over the centuries, Klaus hunted them down one by one and he took them from me. He scattered them across the seas where their bodies could never be found.
Stefan: You want revenge.
Elijah: Sometimes there’s honor in revenge, Stefan. I won’t fail you.
Stefan: Please end this.

Caroline: You shouldn’t leave again.
Tyler: You’re kidding, right? This is the second time I’ve tried to kill you.
Caroline: Well, no friendship is perfect.

Damon: Her soul. Really? You’re going to put your faith in some act of God mumbo jumbo?
John: I refuse to let Elena become the thing I spent my life protecting her against. And you can call that God, or mystical energy, or whatever you want. But yes, I’m putting my faith in it.

Matt: (To Caroline) I get it. This is your life now. But you know what my life is, Car? My life is an absentee mom and a bunch of bills to pay. And school. And a job. And it sucks sometimes. But it’s my life and I think that I just want to live it without all this.

Katherine: One hundred and forty-five years and no last goodbye?
Damon: You don’t get a goodbye.
Katherine: Don’t. Don’t leave mad.
Damon: Us ending up on good terms is not exactly on my bucket list, Katherine.
Katherine: Klaus made me call Jenna to lure her out. There was nothing I could do. I didn’t have a choice.
Damon: That’s why I gave you the vervain. So you had a choice.
Katherine: It was her or me. I chose her.
Damon: I helped you. You owed me. Now when Klaus dies you’re going to walk out of here without a scratch and Elena’s aunt dies. Somehow you’re the only one that wins. How’d that happen?
Katherine: I didn’t let love get in the way.
Damon: Enjoy eternity alone Katherine.

John: You ruined her life. You know that, right?
Damon: I know John. I took her choices, destroyed her future. I get it.

Damon: We have a witch. She kills Klaus. No one has to die.
Alaric: Except Bonnie.

Damon: (to Stefan about the werewolf bite) You want to do something for me? Keep this from Elena. The last
thing she needs is another grave to mourn.

Jenna: (To Elena) It’s alright Elena. I know what I have to do.

Elena: (To Jenna) Just turn it off, Jenna. Turn it off. You won’t be scared anymore.

Bonnie: (About letting Klaus go) Do it and I’ll take you both out.
Elijah: You’ll die.
Bonnie: I don’t care.

Caroline: (To Tyler) Instead of just bailing on me again, you could just say, “Thank you Caroline for taking care of me. And I’m sorry I tried to chow on you again.”

Damon: (To Stefan) How does one go about killing an all-powerful wolf-vamp and his two-faced older brother?

(After Stefan offers to exchange himself for Jenna)
Klaus: I don’t know. I kind of like the symmetry of three women, three goddesses.