It’s another decade dance, which is always a low stakes, fun episode where our characters don’t experience any epic loss. Psych! This decade dance continues the grand tradition of being traumatic. Esther reveals her plan to rid the earth of all vampires: make a new vampire. Huh? She reveals she’s literally obsessed with Alaric, but he would rather die than go along with her plan. Let’s see if he gets a say … But that’s not all! There’s Klaroline tension! Cute Stelena moments! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry … just another day in Mystic Falls!

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We've been waiting for this one! While Stefan and Alaric try to hunt down the last white oak stake that Evilaric hid, Damon and Elena go on a trip to get Jeremy from Denver, and that won't be sexy at all. Jeremy of course found a way to cause problems in Denver, and the hunt for answers about the vampire bloodline that led to the Salvatores leads our heroes to a motel. Yes, motel and Delena! Meanwhile, Caroline starts planning the decade dance and Rebekah is ready to be involved, but of course she still misses her chance for a nice date and nice dance. But let's be honest, the rest of the ep doesn't matter with that kiss...

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Things are looking up for our heroes this week - if briefly. After the discovery that the Wickery Bridge sign is made of white oak, they’re able to fashion it into 12 stakes. And with the Originals linked, they only need to kill one original. That means they have 12 chances to kill one person - can they do it? The answer may surprise you! Meanwhile, Rebekah, annoyed that Damon isn’t irrevocably in love with her, kidnaps and tortures him while the rest of the gang preps for murder. Well, all the rest of the gang except Bonnie, who gets kidnapped but no one seems to notice. At the end of the episode, they’ve turned their twelve stakes into one - but mischievous evil Alaric does not want them to find it.

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It's finally time for the new Wickery Bridge to get built! As construction begins, everyone is constructing their own schemes for the week. Alaric's situation is only looking worse as Elena treats him supernaturally while Meredith treats him medically, neither of which seem to be super successful. Caroline and Bonnie are helping Abby with her transition, but turns out the transition to mother is much harder than the one to vampire! Damon is helping himself by working with Sage to entice Rebekah with a threesome to get information, but turns out Sage is much better at helping herself and her dummy boyfriend. Rebekah gets her win, but Damon still gets a sliver. Meanwhile, Stephanie is starting to suspect Meredith might be innocent of the recent murders in Mystic Falls.

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This episode finally sees our heroes asking “whodunnit?” Meredith, however, is the only one presenting a suspect and it’s not only one of our heroes, but one of the victims of the killer: Alaric! This prompts Damon to all of a sudden remember a similar string of murders from 1912 - conveniently a year Stefan was dealing with some of the same issues he’s dealing with right now! Crazy! Meanwhile, Rebekah is desperate for information on trees, which no one seems to tell her about despite not being suspicious at all. Also, romantic vibes are sort of in the air for Matt and Elena? What the hell is THAT about?

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With the news that Esther is just like Michael and wants to kill her children, people need to pick their sides! Elena feels bad that Elijah could be killed, but everyone else could care less. Elena goes to foil the plan she set in motion last week, but Elijah already has a plan and she plays her classic role: the hostage. The Salvatores are not pleased with Elijah's ultimatum, but Rebekah is pleased that she gets to be the one to kill Elena if the brothers fail, at least until Elena psychologically shits on her whole life. And everyone stops having fun with the results of the plan, a new transition, the lack of original vampire deaths, and a gunshot by a potential suspect for the founder's council murders.

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The Originals (now officially known as the Mikaelsons) are reunited and taking the opportunity to celebrate with the kind of theatricality we have come to expect from them - a huge ball! Everyone has ulterior motives - Klaus wants to smooch Caroline, Rebekah wants to smooch Matt, Stefan and Damon want to smooch Elena, Esther wants to kill all of her children - wait what? That’s right, Esther is no better than Mikael and also wants to see her children die. But she needs Elena’s help, which she sadly gives. The love triangle tensions rise and cause Damon to take a new kind of self-destructive tactic. Romance and bloodlust are in the air - but also horses and pretty dresses!

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The dead are certainly brought out this week! Elijah is back and letting potential allies come to him, leading to a dinner party where tantrums just keep coming. The brothers negotiate, stall, and bond over the fact that they all have fought over Petrovas at one point or another, until Elijah picks his alliance and brings more friends to the party. Meanwhile, the killer strikes again, leading to a dangerous day for the father figures of Mystic Falls. Finally, the mysterious coffin gets unsealed and Stephanie was so close to being right about what was inside...

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Bonnie finally starts paying real attention to her witchy dreams and is led to a surprising source - her estranged mother Abby! Elena accompanies her on the emotional mission where she learns why Abby left and stayed away - and it isn’t exactly comforting. Meanwhile, Tyler enlists the help of Bill Forbes to break the sire bond, and it requires more effort than he anticipated. Meredith reveals she uses vampire blood to heal her patients, but Stephanie still doesn’t trust her. Finally, after a lot of stalling and shuffling, Klaus gets three of his four coffins - but one comes with a recently undaggered Elijah.

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It's Caroline's birthday, and even though she isn't super into it everyone else decides they are going to make this day eventful! Her party moves to a new venue while Damon and Alaric go to yet another council meeting disguised as a party, and Stefan decides to just be super fucked up. We discuss Stephanie's deep distrust of Dr. Fell, the first hint of Klaroline, the profile of a plain ol' murderer in town, and the game of chicken Klaus and Stefan are playing that really just hurts everyone else. Plus, Tyler figured out he can beat the sire bond but just saying he'd rather not do a favor for Klaus! Wait, that can't be right...

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