The Vampire Diaries

Stefan: Previously on "the vampire diaries"...

Love brought me to mystic falls,

I love you, damon.

Love drove me away.

Silas.

Hello, my shadow self.

Stefan: And just when we thought we were safe...

Our enemies took everything from us.

I'm not ready to be dead yet, jeremy.

I can tell everybody that you're with family.

I might not be able to touch you, but I'm here for you.

Stefan: Our lives...

What are you doing to my brother?

Frying silas' brain.

Elena: Stefan, we missed you.

I have no idea who you people are.

Stefan, voice-over: And even our memories.

"March 12, 1922. I blacked out for days.

"I wake up in a stranger's blood

"in places I don't recognize

With women I don't remember."

"I feel alive again."

All right. I think I've read enough.

Nada?

I know "nada" means nothing.

I know what day it is, I know what year it is,

I know this car has a v-8 engine,

And yet I am two journals deep,

And I have absolutely no memory

Of who the hell I am.

Well...

And is this supposed to fill me up?

Well, yes, and no.

Technically yes because you're a vampire.

Weird.

Realistically no because you're, you know, you.

Ahh, yes. The insatiable

And blood-lusting vampire ripper of monterrey.

And we're only in the 1920s, baby.

Well, sorry, but this is a lot to process.

You're a vampire, not a cave man.

So let me get this straight.

I helped you steal this car,

I found out I was a vampire who killed his own father,

And yet I don't litter?

You're a man of principle, stefan,

Who had his memories erased by a 2,000-year-old witch.

Yeah. Well, I bet that 2,000-year-old witch

Probably drives a little faster than you.

Wait. Let me guess. Fun brother,

Safe brother.

Heh heh.

What are you doing?

Do you trust me?

Do I really have a choice?

Nope.

Oh. Oh, ho. Ohh.

I got it. You're the fun brother.

Whew.

Please tell me I wasn't out of my mind

Leaving damon in charge of vampire amnesia 101.

What did he say exactly?

One text-- "so far, so good,"

Which in damon speak...

Means that they probably devoured

A troop of girl scouts by now.

Caroline.

I'm kidding... Kind of.

Although it's not uncommon

For patients with retrograde amnesia

Or other traumatic brain injuries to turn volatile.

Ok, dr. Forbes.

Since when do you know so much about amnesia?

It's possible I studied up on my chem, biochem, applied microbio,

Molecular bio, and "gray's anatomy,"

The real one and the television show.

You did all of that for stefan?

Of course I did.

I'm also trying to impress dr. Maxfield.

I figured if I could get closer to him,

I.E. Into his biology class,

Maybe I could figure out why he covered up

Our roommate's murder by vampire,

And it's also possible that I have

A study buddy.

Hi, dr. Maxfield.

Are you ready to go study, jesse?

Jesse? Dr. Maxfield's incredibly hot, funny,

And miraculously single lab assistant?

I'm dragging him to our hometown

Graveyard bell-ringing ceremony.

As in creepy first date?

As in a study date.

While I'm there, I might as well ring a bell

For tyler and me considering our relationship is

On its death bed.

See you Monday, doc.

Stay out of trouble.

Will I see you there?

You could bring stefan.

I mean, it is ironically called remembrance day.

I hope so, I really do.

It just depends on how stefan's handling

The whole download of his dark and stormy past.

All right. Well, I'll talk to you later.

To uncle steve!

All: Uncle steve!

Yeah! Wow!

Ahh. This town always so upbeat about dead people?

Well, in the theme of morbid town tradition,

You go back to the 1820s when everyone was so paranoid

About the cholera thing that they would

Occasionally bury a body a wee bit before its time.

So we have a holiday dedicated to burying people alive?

Well, they were so paranoid that they would actually request

To be buried with a string attached to a bell above ground,

And then the whole family would hang around the grave

For 24 hours in hopes of hearing the bell

And that their loved one would come back,

But now it's just really-- it's a really kick-ass excuse

To get hammered.

Hello.

Hey.

Uh, hey, darling. We'd love another round, please.

You got it.

What the hell was that?

That, my brother,

Was you jonesing for something

A little stronger than a blood bag.

So what's the problem? You spent the whole day

Trying to convince me I was a vampire.

I'm convinced. Let me act like one.

Well, unfortunately, stefan, there are

Two types of vampires in the world, ok?

There are those that can handle moderation,

And then there's you.

Well, I'm no shrink.

Right? Right.

But maybe killing our father

And turning into a vampire

And all the trauma associated with that

Is what made me become a vampire who feeds on people

And then rips their heads off,

But now that I don't have all those memories

And all that guilt, maybe the ripper thing won't be such a problem.

Let's not try it out, ok?

Elena: And here I thought catching up

On nearly two centuries would be a drag.

Remind me of your name again.

Elena.

Elena. Right.

You haven't told him about me?

200 years is a long time.

Right. Well...

Don't stop on my account.

Sorry. I, uh...

I just went for a run. What are you doing here?

It's not like there's netflix where I am.

You working out is my main source of entertainment.

I was just working off the extra adrenaline.

And every girl on the other side thanks you for it.

So is this our new thing,

You make dead jokes while I avoid all of our friends

On your behalf?

There's nothing I can do to get stefan's

Memory back, jeremy.

But they don't know that

Because they don't know you're dead.

They're waiting for you to help them

Because that's what you do.

You help.

What happened to you being there for me

In my decisions?

I want to, bon,

But not like this.

Hey.

Matt: Hey, jer.

Um, I'm kind of freaking out here.

Yeah. Yeah. What's going on?

So I woke up last night covered in mud

With this.

Ok. Weird.

Yeah, I know.

I have no idea where it came from.

I blacked out,

And I'm pretty sure that it's not the first time.

How many times have you died wearing the gilbert ring?

No. I don't think it's the gilbert ring that's messing with me.

No. Like, it's got to have something to do

With why silas couldn't mind control me.

He saw something or someone

Or whatever that czech freak put in my head,

But I think it's still there.

What's with the camera?

I set them up all over the house

To help me figure out how I'm losing time.

Have you talked to bonnie?

I think that she's the only that might know what's going on here.

Yeah, yeah. She's in d.C. With her mom or something.

So she can't pick up?