The Vampire Diaries

Mystic Falls... I was born here.

This is my home.

- And mine. - And mine.

For centuries, supernatural creatures have lived among us.

They were vampires, werewolves, doppelgangers...

- Witches. - And even hybrids.

Some search for a cure... Aah!

No matter what the consequences.

Uh!

Others plot a revolution.

Do you want to be free? We have to work together.

And some try to walk away.

Elena's sired to Damon.

You don't think I'm going to be able to do what I need to

when I have to tell Elena to stay away from me.

I know what you're about to do.

Please, don't do this to me.

I'm not the good guy, remember?

I'm the selfish one.

But I have to do the right thing by you.

This would be so much more fun if we were naked.

That was your call, not mine.

I was being a gentleman.

You shouldn't have stayed.

I know.

I should have made you leave, sent you packing.

I promised Stefan.

I know.

You're sired to me, Elena,

which means everything that you think you feel

might not even be real.

I know, Damon, but... It feels real.

And I'm not ready to let go of that.

I could make you.

Invoke the sire bond.

So do it.

I told him I would set you free.

Right after I didn't tell him that we slept together.

So, what do you want to do?

I want to throw you back in my bed and never let you leave.

So do it.

Saved by the cell phone.

I have to meet Bonnie.

She's teaching Jeremy how not to kill me.

Want to come?

Looks like a giant snowflake.

I prefer to think of it

as an expression of post-modernism.

It's my donation to the winter wonderland

charity event.

You said it was urgent?

Yes. Take this to the mystic grill immediately.

You want me to be a delivery guy?

What I want is for you to do whatever I say,

without the attitude.

Be careful with that.

It's still wet.

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, you know.

What is the point of my hybrids being sired to me

if I can't maximize on the benefits of free labor?

What are you doing here?

Elena is sired to Damon.

I intuited as much.

Which means I need to find the cure now more than ever,

and here you are making post-modern snowflakes.

I've delivered.

I retrieved the hunter's sword from Italy,

which we'll use to decipher the map

hidden in the hunter's mark.

You're the one who's supposed to deliver the hunter

and his mark.

Well, Jeremy is the hunter,

and he has to keep killing vampires to complete his mark,

but we can't quite figure out how

to keep him from killing us.

Sounds like quite the chore,

which is why I feel perfectly justified

in doing a little charity work.

Or maybe you're lying about having found the sword.

Why would I lie to you, Stefan?

We're in this together.

The hilt acts as a cypher

which we'll use to decode the marks

on Jeremy's tattoo when he's killed enough vampires

to complete it.

I heard you moved out of your house.

Bit of a martyr move, hmm?

I'm not here to bond, Klaus.

Oh, on the contrary,

I think right now I'm the best friend you've got.

I'm sick of taking his crap.

I should rip his throat off,

see if he can boss us around without a larynx.

You won't have to take it much longer.

You keep saying that, but here we are, hiding,

plotting a revolution that's never gonna happen.

Never say never.

And never say I don't pull through.

I found the witch that's gonna save your lives.

Are you serious?

We promised you guys we'd free you from Klaus.

You did your part by breaking your sire bond.

Now Hayley and I are going to do ours.

You're going to do what?

Hayley found a witch strong enough to do

the body-jump spell...

You know, the Klaus specialty.

So you're going to put him in someone else's body,

and then what?

We'll encase the body in concrete, then bury it.

Why not just desiccate him like Bonnie did?

Because to do that spell,

you have to stop a human heart.

I was a little short of volunteers.

Well, who was dumb enough to volunteer their body

to be a Klaus sublet?

Ok, don't freak out.

Freak out?

Freak out?

I'm about to hemorrhage. You volunteered?

It's not forever, just long enough

for the hybrids to be able to completely disappear.

I can think of better ways for us to spend our senior year

than you buried in concrete, Tyler.

This started with me.

This has to end with me.

I need your support.

Jeremy?

They shouldn't be here.

They're here to help you.

Do you trust me?

Yeah.

Yeah, I trust you.

Let's go inside.

What the hell is Professor Shadypants doing here?

I invited him.

Hey, listen. We are ready to get started,

but before we can do that, we need her...

In here.

This is your house now, Jer.

You have to invite me in.

Go ahead, Jeremy. Invite her in.

You can come in.

Hey. Sorry. I know I'm late.

If I'm gonna be a friend in your time of need,

then you need to work on your punctuality.

I'm in a crisis. Where are you?

I'm at my house. Why? What's wrong?

My boyfriend is a dumb-ass martyr.

And why are you at your house?

Aren't you trying to keep your distance

from Elena?

Well, she's not here anymore.

Damon took Jeremy to the Gilbert lake house with Bonnie,

so I guess her house is safe for her again.

Hey, listen, I got Klaus to tell me

a little bit more about this hunter's sword.

You know that map in Jeremy's tattoo?

The sword decodes it.

It's literally the key to finding the cure.

Klaus told you this?

Yeah. Why?

And did he happen to hand over the sword for safekeeping?

Uh, what do you think?

What's wrong?

We need to get our hands on that sword, like, today.

Tyler and his hybrids

are taking out Klaus tonight.

Here to steal tiny Tim's crutches?

Dickens was a dark man.

You would have liked him.

Nice snowflake, by the way.

Is my work really that literal?

I'm serious.

There's something...

Lonely about it.

I'm gonna take that as a compliment.

Can I offer you some champagne?

Can't. Too many adult prying eyes.

Don't want to be a high-school cautionary tale

at the next town meeting.

Well, then, it's a good thing

the high-school part is nearly over.

If we're gonna be nice to each other,

then I will need that glass of champagne.

Is that our thing?

We don't have a "thing."

Allow me.

Well, he's not walking around with it.

Check the rest of the house.

I am. I haven't found anything.

Try the sock drawer.

People leave the sketchiest stuff in sock drawers.

I'm gonna need real ideas, Damon.

Kill Tyler before he goes to Klaus,

or, since Klaus has suddenly become MVP

in our relay race for the cure,

tell him about the hybrids.

Nobody's killing Tyler.

Hello?