The Vampire Diaries

Previously on "The Vampire Diaries"...

Elena: What about Bonnie? Damon: She sacrificed herself

so I could come back. She's all alone

I'm sorry I compelled away the memories.

We'll make new ones.

I hate you for ruining our friendship,

and I think that I deserve better than that.

Matt: Enzo, let her go, or I swear--

No!

Matt: How do you feel about being a hunter again?

Why?

Because I want you to help me kill Enzo.

Get the Ascendant from Jo.

I understand.

Damon is a vampire.

Are you saying Damon compelled me?

He wouldn't do that. He's my friend.

Jo drove me across the border.

Look, Ric.

Luke: My coven put Kai in a prison world.

Elena: Kai? Jo: As in our brother,

my twin.

In our coven's tradition,

the twins merge their strength.

The stronger one wins, absorbing

their twin's power.

The weaker one dies.

I'm not gonna let you die.

Tyler: Kai is here.

I guess this is that, uh, antimagic border,

which means now there's a psycho loose in Mystic Falls

and no vampires around to stop him.

What the hell do you want?

Feel like making a deal with the devil?

How much are you gonna want to kill me

if I need to rain check tonight?

Alaric: What happened?

I have a possible 480 hit-and-run on campus,

one DOA, 4 reds en route.

Have your previous boyfriends understood

this language you speak?

I'm gonna miss dinner

so you're my boyfriend now?

There's no hospital code for awkward silence.

Give me two hours. Save me dinner.

Woman: Doctor, we have a young female

with abdominal wounds.

Put her in T3. I need 10 milligrams of morphine.

Mine's conscious.

Man: See a lot of blood, no broken bones.

Making any sense to you?

Jo: No, it's not. What happened to you?

Were you hit by a car?

Can't breathe.

It's ok. You can tell me what really happened.

Sweetheart?

Look at me.

[Heart monitor beeping rapidly]

What happened to you?

Aah!

I stabbed her.

Patient: Aah! Aah!

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Unh!

Sorry. Had to.

You know you just declared war, right?

Come on. Caroline's over there.

Aah!

Come on.

Heh. Nope. I'm not noticing you.

Today's not May 10, 1994.

Today's the tree decorating ceremony,

and you are not telling me otherwise.

Caroline: I just figured that we were skipping Christmas this year,

you know, considering the part where I die

if I cross the border into my hometown.

What happened to Christmas being your favorite time of the year?

Was my favorite time of year

when I could actually live in my own house

and help decorate the town tree

and drink hot cocoa with my friends.

What are you doing?

You're supposed to be at the Mystic Falls tree decorating ceremony.

I'm playing hooky this year.

I figure just because you can't come home for the holidays

doesn't mean the holidays can't come to you.

You even brought our favorite ornaments.

Mom!

Hey. I, uh, didn't know which ones to get,

so I got both.

What are you doing here?

Your mom needed Christmas lights.

You have a huge dorm,

and I thought we could use an extra set of hands.

The little ones obviously.

Are you watching me sleep?

No. I'm watching you drool all over Ric's textbooks,

and considering you're already on his bad side...

I don't drool.

Hmm.

Ohh. What time is it?

Time for Ric to get a new reference library.

We've been looking all night.

I swear I haven't found anything that even remotely resembles

an Ascendant.

Well, we haven't looked hard enough.

Let's get to it.

Find anything yet?

Nope.

Still staring.

It's just...

Everything you've been doing for Bonnie.

Thank you.

She'd do it for us.

Hello, Ric.

Alaric: Have you seen Jo?

No, not since yesterday.

Why?

So I asked around the hospital.

No one's seen Jo since last night at the ER.

A bunch of stab victims came in,

and one of them's missing, as well.

It was Kai.

Jo knew he'd come after her, and he did.

Damon: Not to give you boyfriend lessons or anything,

but if you knew Jo's whackjob brother was out on the loose

and after her, don't you think that keeping an eye on her

would have been a smart move?

And what would you have had me do, Damon,

ask you to compel Jo to stay put?

Guys, if Kai has Jo, we need a plan.

Plan's easy. Find Kai, fftt, kill Kai. Mm-hmm.

Bottom line, we need to keep Kai alive.

You think I'm gonna protect the guy

who chased us around the house

with a baseball bat when we were 4?

Luke's right, Tyler.

You're on some serious crack.

Right now, you two are stuck doing

the twin-merge for your coven, ok?

That means one lives, one dies,

but if we help Kai and he finds a way to merge with Jo,

it's not your problem anymore.

Until Kai becomes the most powerful witch

in our coven and goes on a killing spree.

Something tells me that's gonna become our problem.

What does he want us to do exactly?

Just think sociopathic Ryan Reynolds.

Haven't seen him.

Grunge vibe, annoying as hell.

Still no idea.

Well, if he has half a brain,

he will be hiding where vampires can't find him.

So in between levels of Mario kart,

can you and little baby Gilbert maybe keep an eye out?

Yeah, got it. If we see him, we'll let you know.

Who was that?

It was Damon. Apparently, there's

a psychopath roaming Mystic Falls.

You tell him we're busy hunting down a psychopath

roaming outside Mystic Falls?

Must have forgot to mention it.

Look. You better get out of here.

Enzo's gonna be here soon.

Let's kill a vampire.

Well, Bevis and Butthead are on the lookout.

Anyone else brimming with confidence?

I mean, this just doesn't make sense.

What could possibly not make sense

about magical twins absorbing into one another.

Listen. Jo needs her magic for the merge to work, ok,

and she got rid of that back in 1994.

Kai said Jo hid her magic in a knife somewhere.

It's probably back in Portland,

where she got rid of it in 1994.

He checked. The knife's not there.

He thinks someone took it.

Jo doesn't have magic because it's stuffed in a knife

that was stolen and hidden by yours truly.

Kai won't find it.

Yeah, unless Kai does a locator spell.

- It's impossible. - Why?

Kai was born without the ability to do magic.

Let me guess. Kai wants us to do

a locator spell on the knife.

If we find it,

Jo can get her magic back,

Kai can merge with her,

and you and Luke live.

This is ridiculous.

This is our job.

Merging is our duty to the coven.

It's why we were born.

No. We were born because our coven decided

that Jo wasn't strong enough to beat Kai.

Why should we have to die because our sister's

too weak to defeat our psychopath of a brother?

You know, a month ago, the thought of bowing out

never even occurred to you.

That's because Kai wasn't here a month ago,