The Vampire Diaries

Previously on "The Vampire Diaries"...

- I'm Elena. - I'm Stefan.

Love brought me to Mystic Falls,

love drove me away.

I love you, Damon.

Silas.

Hello, my shadow self.

But as new enemies reveal themselves...

Jaryakat a zem.

Things are spinning out of control.

I know exactly what you're thinking.

Silas is using his mind control to find Katherine.

You all know Elena Gilbert.

Well, the girl that I'm looking for

looks exactly like her.

What do you want with Katherine?

I could tell you, but wouldn't it be

it be so much more fun if it were a surprise?

Why can't I get inside your head?

With so many unanswered questions...

Somebody's already in there.

Stefan's been suffering for months.

Now the truth is about to be revealed.

You're right. He was hungry.

I bet he still is.

Hey, man. Last call was 4 hours ago.

If you want some coffee,

I could put some on.

Aah!

Aah! Aah!

Run. Run!

Unnn. You must have restless sleep syndrome or something.

It's like sleeping with a tornado.

Hey. We were up all night.

You're exhausted. Come back to sleep.

I had a dream about Stefan.

Oh.

It was more than just a pit in my stomach

this time, though.

It was real. It was like I was there with him.

I know I said it didn't bother me

that you have some psychic connection

to your ex-boyfriend,

but I don't need a play-by-play, Elena.

You're right. It's weird. Sorry.

Fine.

Tell me. I'm sure whatever's in my imagination

is 10 times worse than what's going on in your subconscious.

It was just so vivid. I saw walking at this bar.

It had a red awning and this broken neon sign,

and he was screaming in pain.

Well, should I go check in the attic,

see if there's a crystal ball?

Maybe you can conjure up an address.

Route 29. Joe's bar.

I think I had the exact same dream.

So I've found 9 bars along route 29,

and none of them are called Joe's.

I had a feeling there was something wrong all summer,

and I ignored it, but I was right.

Stefan was in a safe.

Probably killed whoever it was that found him.

I know it sounds crazy that I'm following some psychic dream,

but it's the only lead that we have.

It doesn't sound crazy.

It is crazy,

but I'm open-minded.

Shotgun!

What? I get carsick in the back seat.

Another charming human side effect you stuck me with.

Please tell me that she's not coming.

Trust me, I have no interest in Katherine's well-being,

but for some reason, Silas wants her real bad,

and if Silas wants her, I want her more.

Can't we just stash her in the cellar

or maybe a deep, dark well with a pair of water wings?

Do you really think that I want to take a road trip

with you, America's most boring,

self-righteous vampire?

Just remember, Damon wouldn't have to play bodyguard

if you hadn't shoved that cure down my throat.

You were trying to kill me.

I will admit, though, I take great pleasure

knowing that you wasted your one shot

at a human life on me.

All right. Play nice,

or I'm gonna revisit the deep, dark well idea.

I want to find Stefan just as much as you do

and not just because I don't want to be a pawn

that you can trade off for his life.

I care about him.

I always have,

and since we've been having the same dream,

makes me think that you care about him just as much.

Ok. Train's leaving the station. Choo-choo.

You ever play the "what if" game?

When you're calcified for 2,000 years,

you learn to entertain yourself with these little brain teasers.

Look, Silas. This phone is prepaid,

and I don't have a lot of minutes.

Oh, no, no, no. It's really easy. I'll go first.

You know how much I hate Travelers,

so to prove your allegiance to me,

you killed your Traveler friend Gregor,

but what if it as all an act?

What if he's still alive?

You saw him bleed out.

You buried his body yourself.

But what if Matt's tacky ring brought him back to life?

If this is the game, it's boring.

If we're gonna work together,

I need to know that you're on my side,

so find out if Matt Donovan's still alive

and kill him.

Fine. Say Matt is still alive,

what if he could help us to find Katherine Pierce?

She's still your priority, is she not?

Yes, she is.

So get the information that you need,

rip that ring off Matt's little finger,

and make sure he doesn't cheat death again.

I'll take care of it.

I don't want to hurt you, so get away from me,

before I rip your throat out.

Hello to you, too.

I brought dinner.

A vampire doppelganger who's

burdened by a conscience.

Now I've seen everything.

You saved me from burning to death outside that bar this morning, didn't you?

And I pulled you from the quarry before that.

That is, I figured out where you were

and told the former owner of this cabin

to pull your lock box from the water.

You thanked him by biting off his head.

How do you know I'm a doppelganger.

Because I've seen your face before

on someone who wasn't you.

Who are you?

How much do you know about Silas?

Heh.

I know that he's a bloodthirsty immortal

who's killed more people than I can count,

and that was before he stole my identity,

locked me up in a safe, and dropped me

in the bottom of a quarry.

You made it through.

Barely. I came very close to flipping off my humanity switch,

but I didn't

because I knew if I ever got out

I wanted to be myself when I killed him.

Strong words.

He's a monster,

and I'm going after him.

Except you'll burn to death in the sun

without your daylight ring.

Silas wasn't always a monster.

He used to be a simple man

in love with a simple girl,

his soul mate.

She was his one true love.

Heh. You know how that goes.

They thought their love would last forever.

How do you know all this?

Because I was there in his arms.

You're telling me that you were Silas's one true love.

I would have done anything for him.

That's impossible. How are you here right now?

Love bends the rules of possible.

Silas and I were the two most powerful members

of a gifted people called travelers.

When we were engaged to be married,

we decided to reach even further.

I don't ever want to be parted from you, even by death.

We wanted to find a way for our love to last forever.

Yeah, look. I know the story.

Everything was great for Silas

until some witch named Qetsiyah or whatever

came by and screwed him over, right?

Wrong. You don't know the story.

Silas convinced Qetsiyah that he loved her

so she would make the immortality spell,

but when she found out that he was just using her,

she dumped in a tomb with a cure,

hoping he would take it and die

because she had created

a supernatural limbo to trap his soul.

Like any other sane, rational, well-adjusted woman would do.

Which catches us up to today.

Now Silas wants to destroy that supernatural limbo.

Once the other side is gone,

he can take the cure,

become mortal, and die,

and finally pass on and find peace.

Look. If you really are Silas's one true love

and you're not dead, then why don't you

just do us all a favor

and run off into the sunset together?

Silas was my true love.

I never said that I was his.