The Rippah Diaries

With Rose’s werewolf bite getting worse every minute, Damon asks Elena to play nurse while he tries to get a cure from Jules. Despite Elena's do-gooder efforts Rose hallucinates, attacks her, and escapes to cause chaos at one of the town’s many events. Just to lighten things up for a minute, both Matt and Tyler kiss Caroline, setting up a classic love triangle and Stefan is completely MIA on his own mission to find Isobel. Damon eventually finds Rose at the school and takes her home to give her a final moment of peace before staking her. This of course causes Damon to spiral even though he pretends that he’s fine in an epic laying in the road existential crisis. And if that wasn’t bad enough, Jules tells Tyler that Caroline is lying about how many vampires there are and Stefan returns with Uncle John.

This week: Season 2 Episode 12 | The Descent

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It’s finally the first full moon since Tyler became a werewolf, and he is desperate to find Mason to help him through the transition. Thankfully, Caroline steps in and comforts Tyler through the whole experience. Unfortunately, the voicemail Tyler left for Mason is overheard by our least favorite side character, Jules. When Jules gets to town and starts asking questions about Mason, Damon and Alaric scheme to find out whether she’s a werewolf. Meanwhile, Bonnie traps Elena in the Gilbert house and gets Luca to help her despell the moonstone—or so she thinks. While Elena is stuck inside, Jenna helps “an author” research Mystic Falls, who turns out to be Elijah. Elijah and Elena then decide to strike up a deal: Elijah will get Stefan out of the tomb and away from Katherine’s mind games in exchange for Elena letting Elijah use her to draw out Klaus. Things are almost looking up when Jules decides to go after Damon while she's in her werewolf form and ends up biting Rose.

This week: Season 2 Episode 11 | By the Light of the Moon

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Desperate to save Elena, the Salvatore brothers plan to get the moonstone from Katherine with the help of Bonnie and Jeremy—not really a dream team. Elena wants nothing to do with their terrible plan, so she convinces Rose to take her to Slater’s apartment to find out more about Klaus. At the apartment, they find a very dead Slater and Slater’s vampire-groupie girlfriend who Elena manipulates into helping them. Elena then reveals in a very Katherine Pierce way that she also used Rose and wants to surrender herself to Klaus. Rose immediately calls Damon to come stop her, and shortly after Damon arrives, Elijah returns and saves the day. While all of this is going down, Caroline and Tyler check out the Lockwood cellar in preparation for the full moon and find Mason’s journal and a video of his transformation. Back at the tomb, Jeremy tries to go rogue and get the moonstone himself and ends up being held hostage by Katherine. Stefan goes into the tomb to save Jeremy and ends up trapped with Katherine, maybe that's what she really wanted all along?

This week: Season 2 Episode 10 | The Sacrifice

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After Rose tells Elena that Klaus is coming for her, Elena goes to the tomb to give Katherine blood in exchange for the truth about the sun and moon curse. Through flashbacks to 1490, Katherine tells Elena about the child who was taken away from her, how she ruined Trevor and Rose’s lives, and how she turned into a vampire. Damon and Rose also try to get to the bottom of things by visiting Rose’s friend Slater, who is an encyclopedia of all things supernatural. While Damon asks Slater if there’s any way to destroy the moonstone, Elijah makes an iconic return that nearly kills Rose and Slater. While all of this is going down, Bonnie meets the new kid in school, Luka, whose Dad is very unsubtle about the fact that he and Luka are “warlocks.” Back at the tomb, Detective Elena realizes that breaking the curse requires more than just the doppelgänger and that Katherine came back to town to give her, Tyler, Caroline, and Bonnie to Klaus for the sacrifice.

This week: Season 2 Episode 9 | Katerina

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After being kidnapped for the second time, Elena is brought to an old, abandoned mansion where she meets her kidnappers, Trevor and Rose. Trevor immediately tries to feed on Elena, and Rose slaps Elena so hard she does a 360 spin, so things don't look good for her. Luckily, Jeremy and Stefan figure out Elena is missing and Bonnie does a locator spell so Stefan and Damon can rescue their girlfriend. Before the Salvatores can get there, Elena eavesdrops on Trevor and Rose discussing their deal with the person us Rippah Girls have been waiting for: Elijah. After Rose tells Elena how she and Trevor know Katherine, Elijah finally makes his grand entrance and is prepared to leave with Elena, but Stefan and Damon arrive just in time to "kill" him. Later on at the Gilbert house, Damon shows up to give Elena her necklace back and confess his feelings for her. But that tender moment doesn’t last, and we see Elijah may still be a problem after all.

This week: Season 2 Episode 8 | Rose

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Katherine sends a message to the Salvatore brothers: hand over the moonstone tonight at the masquerade ball, or she will rip apart the town until it rains blood. But Katherine predicts that Stefan and Damon won’t hand the moonstone over without a fight, so she brings her very own Bennett witch for backup and keeps a few tricks up her sleeve. Katherine knows her boy toys well because the Salvatore brothers enlist Bonnie, Caroline, Alaric, and even Jeremy to put their plan into motion. Their plan? Kill Katherine Pierce. Stefan and Damon are almost successful, but one of the tricks up Katherine’s sleeve is linking herself to Elena. Anything Katherine feels Elena does too, so no one can kill her but fortunately, Bennett witches stick together. Though her plan to get the moonstone doesn't work out, triggering Tyler's werewolf curse does. After the party, Elena, who has barely recovered from the night, gets kidnapped for the second time.

This week: Season 2 Episode 7 | Masquerade

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You know Masquerade is that episode when there’s a whole episode about the set up for the masquerade party. Everyone in the show is involved in party prep, including Stefan and Mason. Mason is shocked to see that Stefan survived the last episode, but Stefan is even more shocked when Bonnie bumps into Mason and has a vision of him kissing “Elena.” Stefan regroups with Damon to tell him what Bonnie saw, and Damon updates Stefan on his and Jeremy’s scheme to get the moonstone. They all combine their efforts and plot to kidnap Mason so Damon can interrogate him—we all know how that’s going to end. The plot is successful, and they even figure out where the moonstone is. Bonnie, Caroline, Stefan, and Elena retrieve the moonstone from the vervain-filled, snake-infested well, which Damon rubs in Katherie's face at the first chance he gets. Katherine is rattled that Damon and Stefan got the upper hand for once, but she's Katherine Pierce, she has a plan B that she sets in motion.

This week: Season 2 Episode 6 | Plan B

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A new day in Mystic Falls means a new event, and today’s event is the Historical Society Volunteer Picnic, which is the perfect opportunity for everyone to be in the same place to cause drama. This means Elena and Stefan can put on their best performances in their fake fight and Mason can prove to Sheriff Forbes that Stefan and Damon are vampires. Unfortunately for everyone, the classic vervain in a public drink supply trick works, proving Mason right. Liz and her deputies waste no time and go straight for shooting down the Salvatore brothers and dragging them away for questioning. Luckily, Caroline and Elena intervene with Elena doing pretty much nothing and Caroline doing everything, including taking out the deputies. Liz, thankfully, is spared because she’s Damon’s bestie. While all of this goes down, Jeremy uses his wolf drawings to get Tyler to tell him everything he knows about the werewolves.

This week: Season 2 Episode 5 | Kill or Be Killed

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For a minute, this episode makes you think it's opening with a Steferine 1864 memory, but we quickly find out it's Stefan's Delena nightmare created by Katherine getting in Stefan's head. Despite the rude awakening, Stefan lets Katherine hang around the Salvatore House long enough for Stefan to vervain her and lock her in the basement. Across town, Damon plots to get to know Mason by convincing Alaric to convince Jenna to host a barbecue, where Caroline tells Elena all of the reasons she shouldn’t be with Stefan. She's not wrong, but Caroline is definitely not subtle about it and is clearly up to something. While Stefan tries to get to the bottom of why Katherine is in Mystic Falls, she reveals her history with George Lockwood in 1864 and that she’s been drinking vervain for 140 years and is only pretending to be held captive so she can spend time with Stefan. After Damon taunts Mason with every wolf pun he knows, he goes straight for stabbing Mason with the Gilbert family silver, making yet another enemy—one of Damon’s many talents.

This week: Season 2 Episode 4 | Memory Lane

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It’s time for another Delena roadtrip episode! This time, Damon, Elena, and their third wheel, Alaric go to Duke to look through Isobel’s research and see if Isobel has any information about werewolves. Poor Alaric, the vibes on the trip are so horrid since Elena obviously hasn’t forgiven Damon for killing Jeremy like a day ago. Thankfully, the trip isn’t a total bust, and the trio learns about the curse of the sun and the moon and that a werewolf bite is fatal to vampires. And wouldn’t you know it, it’s a full moon and Stefan and Caroline stopped by a party at the swimming hole on the Lockwood property. Mason, of course, turns with the moon, confirming he’s a werewolf, and Stefan and Caroline have to avoid getting bit when they have a run in with him.

This week: Season 2 Episode 3 | Bad Moon Rising

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