"Previously on "The Vampire Diaries"..." "I want you compel to forget that I ever loved him." " Who is Damon Salvatore." " He was a monster." " Where the hell are we?" " 1994." "We're never getting out." "There's someone else here." "To get home we'll harness the power of the eclipse using a mystical relic." "It's called an ascendant." "Forgetting someone?" "I'm back." "I know what Alaric is." "I know what you are." "You're a witch." "Wait." "You're from Mystic Falls?" "Born and raised." "One of the founding families actually." "Stefan could have told me there was a hunter in town." " I want my memories back." " Wait." "What?" "I want Alaric to uncompel me." "Alaric!" "I'm not supposed to be alive." "Alaric's not a vampire anymore, Elena." "He's human." "There's a girl you need to go see." "Ok." "I'll start." "I know Alaric "eternal sunshined"" "our relationship out of your brain, but please, please tell me it's coming back or at least part of it because imagining this exact moment is what got me through the last few months." "I'm not sure what to say." "Easy, so easy." "Just say that you missed me as much as I missed you." "I remember... pain." "I remember all the terrible things that you did to the people that I care about." "I honestly don't remember anything good between us." "I thought if I saw you in person it might change everything, but..." "Maybe you just need a little more time." "Damon, I know that I loved you." "Yeah." "And I know that apparently I forgave you for all of the awful things that you did." "Yeah." "But I just don't remember it." "I'm sorry." "I..." "I just don't..." "Feel it anymore." "I'm sorry." "Yeah." "I'm, uh... ahem." "Yeah." "Damon, I..." "I really am sorry." "Hey." "I really don't think you should be playing with all that stuff." "Keep going." "We are on a roll." "All the terrible things I did to people that Elena cared about." "Let's see." "I turned Caroline into my own personal blood juice box," "I turned Matt's sister into a vampire and threatened to kill Bon-Bon a couple times." "More than a couple." "Subjective." "Sometimes, I was being funny." "And you killed Stefan's best friend at his birthday party." "Unfortunate coincidence." "And then you snapped Jeremy's neck when Elena said she'd never love you." "On second thought, let's focus on all the charming, heroic things you obliterated from my girl's mind." "God, if I could take it all back, I would." "I know." "And listen." "Despite the fact that my long list of dastardly deeds involves killing you, I'm glad you're alive." " Thanks, man." " Yeah." "Unh!" "Although had you actually died a vampire instead of becoming human again, your compulsion would have gone away, and Elena would be mine again." "Hey." "Really heartfelt." "Appreciate it." "Now she's stuck with only evil me memories forever and ever." "If you kill me, I am dead for good this time." "You remember that." "Good morning." "Hey." "I don't know if this is a good time." "Just a heads-up, Doc." "You're gonna be in real high demand with a bunch of vampires who want to be human again if you could repeat that little healing trick that you did at the border with Ric last night." "Well, just a heads-up, but saving Alaric's life was a matter of a treatable death wound, perfect timing, and fear of losing the most interesting guy I've dated in a while adrenaline." "100% unrepeatable, which is why you will tell no one." " She's bossy." " Mm-hmm." "I like her." "Do you have a nice suit and a clean pair of socks?" "Uh, yeah, I think so." "Good." "I'm releasing you." "Hospital fundraiser's tonight." "I'm making the interns go, so I need a date." "Start your paperwork." "Hello again." "That was quite a mess you made at the border last night." "Hit-and-run." "Tsk, tsk, tsk." "Good thing Matt here was in the neighborhood to give you a ride home." "You brought me here?" "You went after my friends." "What'd you expect?" "Your friends who kill people." "Come on, Enzo." "Ask him what you want to know." "Let's get this over with." "Stefan has already made a very passionate argument in favor of snapping your neck, whereas in a surprising role reversal," "I've opted for the let's think this through, get all the information before we kill him method." "Don't be a dick." "You know, you can dry the vervain out of him, compel him to forget everything, and he'll never set foot in Mystic Falls again." "You don't really think he's a one-man vampire busting operation, do you?" "Look." "While Tripp tortured me for the names of your friends," "I had a front-row seat to quite a few urgent phone calls and visits from mysterious right-hand men, many of whom were wearing uniforms not dissimilar to the one you've been traipsing around in." "I'd just like to know what they're up to while he's here with us." "They're doing the same thing they were when they were with me." "They're tracking vampires like your friend Caroline Forbes." "Take two hours, get the names of his men and what they know." "After that, he's a liability." "Get rid of him." "You didn't feel anything?" "I felt scared and guilty, and his eyes were really, really blue and pretty, but... no." "I don't remember loving him." "So you don't remember." "So be it." "That's your advice?" "Well, Elena, look at your life right now." "You're doing well in school, you're following your dreams, you met Liam, who also has very pretty eyes, not mention he's never killed your brother." "True." "I mean, I just gave Stefan the friend boot." "Maybe a little break from the Salvatore brothers is in the cards for the both of us." "Look." "McDreamy's coming." "I got to go." " See you later." " Bye." "So guess who came into the hospital for a shoulder arthroscopy this morning." "Hello to you, too." "Lady Whitmore, the girl from the bonfire, the one you miraculously saved from certain death and I can't figure out how." "Turns out she was here on a tennis scholarship before she blew out her arm last year." "Now she needs to get her cartilage cleaned out every 6 months." "You're still obsessing over that." "But here's the crazy part." "She doesn't remember getting hurt in the corn maze crash." "Wow!" "She must have been really drunk." "I'm gonna take a look at her labs, see if she's not an alien or a super soldier or something." "Heh heh." "When do volunteers have access to the patient labs?" "Since never, but if you rat me out, you can't be my date to the hospital fundraiser tonight." "Yeah?" "Well, we have to go." "Jo said that it's mandatory." "Doesn't mean it can't still be a date." "Oh." "Look who's awake." "How do you feel?" "Like you shot me with an arrow." "Right." "Anyhoo, I have no idea how you managed to shatter the ascendant into a billion pieces, but we need to put it together before the eclipse at 12:28." "You want to help?" "I know you're a puzzle person." "I don't want to help." "You're a psychopath." "This place is your prison." "I'm not letting you out." "Besides, you'll just kill me the minute we get out." "You've been through a trauma." "Your memory's probably a little fuzzy right now, so you might be thinking that your magic will protect you, but all I have to do is hold your hand, and your magic suddenly becomes mine." "What was that?" "Huh?" "What?" "You're gonna do the spell and finally get us home?" "Agh!" " That's weird." " What's weird?" "None of your business." "We're not friends anymore, which means you can't just show up unannounced at my door." "Good-bye." "Hey, Caroline." "Look." "You're not safe." "Tripp's men still have your name." "So, what?" "You here to protect me?" "News flash!" "I don't need your protection, and more importantly, I don't want it." "Hey, mom." "Can I call you back?" "I'm trying to get a piece of gum off of my shoe." "Actually, honey, this can't wait." "Do you have any idea where Tripp Cook might be?" "Tripp?" "No." "I have no idea." "Why?" "Because one of his men just ran me off the road, and they're gonna kill me if they don't get him back." "Answer your phone, Enzo!" "I just..." "I didn't call her today, you know?" "I always call my mom every Saturday morning, but, no, today, I said, "screw it." ""I want to sleep in." "I'll do it tomorrow."" "Well, don't worry." "We're almost there." "We're almost there?" "You said, two hours and then kill him."" "Do you even remember how long ago you said that?" "I mean, what kind of person sets a ticking clock without setting his watch?" "Tell me that Tripp is still alive." "Tripp is still alive, surprisingly torture-resistant but alive." "What took you so long to answer your phone?" "My fingers were covered in blood, and the touchscreen wouldn't work." "Just don't kill him, ok?" "One of his guys took my mom, so just keep your hands off of him so I can get her back, ok?" "Enzo, please." "I thought I could make the world a better place by getting rid of them, teach kids like you to be strong, defend yourselves, but look at you." " You're on the wrong side." " I'm not on the wrong side, man." "My side's just really freaking complicated." "Update." "Tripp's henchmen kidnapped the sheriff of Mystic Falls." "What?" "It's a contingency plan in case anything ever happened to me." "That's your idea of being on the right side?" "You can set the meet for the edge of town of old Miller road." "You can do the trade there." "They know they'll be safe behind the border." "And send Matt." "They trust him." "Antibiotics." "Painkillers." "Unh." "An hour and 43 minutes." "I can do this." "Ahh." "Ohh!" "Seriously?" "You don't know how to fill a champagne glass?" "I never said I was a professional." "First and most obvious rule, they all have to be even and no slopping over the sides." "Thank you." "For what, not firing you?" "I'm not even paying you." "For letting me try to repay you." "I killed someone so that you wouldn't trigger your werewolf curse, and you think that being my bar back for a night is enough to repay me?" "Honestly, I'd rather chain myself up in a cellar and turn every month than have to wear this lame-ass tie." "Which isn't straight." "You should take some pride in your appearance." "So what are you, the guest of honor or something?" "I won an award for a battlefield medical clamp I patented." "Whitmore likes to trot me out when they want to raise money." "So basically, you're a genius." "Or she has a witchy advantage." "What, supposed to be a secret that she's a witch?" "I don't practice, so no witchy advantage, just a lot of hard work." "Who invited him?" "He sort of invited himself, mostly to stalk Elena." "Oh, don't be cynical." "I'm here to spend some quality time with my once dead, now human best bud." "Who's that?" "That would be Liam Davis, valedictorian, straight a's freshman year taking junior-level classes, not to mention medical royalty." "Not so bad on the eyes either." "Looks like he's Elena's date." "Did I say I liked you?" "I meant the opposite." "You know those things are rigged, right?" "Is that another one of your conspiracy theories?" "Super soldiers take over the world to carry out vicious fundraising schemes?" "Well, when you say it like that, I sound like a loser." "When I win my trip to Fiji, you don't have to come." "Oh." "Ok." "Maybe you can come." " Can you grab us a couple drinks?" " Sure." "Sorry." "I didn't know that you were here." "Hey." "Wine or beer?" "You know, um, it doesn't matter, whatever you want." "Hi." "Damon Salvatore, Elena's ex." "Nice to meet you..." " Liam." " Liam." " Wait." "Damon?" " Damon." "As in the ex who died?" "Right." "Yeah, um, that is what I..." "What I told you." "Obviously, that's not true." "It's a figure of speech." "It's more kind of an emotional death." "You know, it was a very messy breakup, but we're past that now, right?" "We're... we're in the friend stage." "Right." " Yeah." " Yeah." "So the ex meets the new guy." "Heh." "How freaked out are you right now?" "I feel a little threatened, but I think I could take you." "Confident." "Pfft." "Sexy." "Damon." "I'm sorry." "What's going on?" "Focus." "Go the bar, get her a Chardonnay." " I hate Chardonnay." " I know." "What are you doing?" "I'll explain on the dance floor." "May I?" "Hello, gorgeous." " What did you do to him?" " Oh, he's fine." "Just a little blood loss." "I think he may have an iron deficiency problem." "Knock it off." "Her mother's life is on the line." "Hang on." "Just so I'm clear." "All Caroline had to do to get you to treat her with a modicum of respect is to stop paying attention to you." " Is that how his works?" " Shut up, Enzo." "And did he really need 3 chains?" "I mean, who is this guy, the hulk?" "Well, I didn't restrain him." "No, but you let your sidekick Enzo do it because what could go wrong when you team up with your sworn enemy?" "Oh." "That's brilliant." "Of course that's why she hates you." "That's how you worked her into such a state in Savannah." "That's why she told you to go take a leap." "She hates you because she doesn't hate you at all." "I'm sorry." "Are you still talking?" "She got a thing for you, mate." "Tell your mum I send my best." "Whatever he just said, it will never be discussed again, ok?" "Mm-hmm." " Why are you doing this?" " Why?" "Well, because I'm an incredible dancer, and it would be a shame not to share my talent with the world." "Oh." "Don't worry." "I didn't see you smile." "Miss Mystic Falls." "First time we ever danced." "Stefan stood you up..." "Bloodlust issues, surprise, surprise..." "So I stepped in." "You're trying to stir up memories." "This isn't a good idea." "I stepped in, sexy as hell, and saved you from complete and utter humiliation." "Of course, you were just worried about Stefan, but there was this moment, this one moment, where everyone else fell away, and it was just the two of us." "Look." "I'm here with someone, Damon." "You can't just come unannounced and ruin my night." "Come unannounced?" "What are you talking about?" "I literallwent through time and space to be with you." "I know, but look." "Do you want me to feel guilty?" "Because trust me, Damon." "I do, ok?" "I feel horrible, and I'm sorry, but I don't..." "I don't know what to tell you." "What do you want me to say?" "I don't remember us." "I do, and no matter how much I missed you or how much pain I was in," "I never would have erased everything we ever had." "Even if I was drowning in grief," "I'd rather hang on to every moment that I ever held you or every laugh that I ever heard, every shred of happiness that we ever had." "I would rather spend every moment in agony than erase the memory of you." "I need some air." "So that seems to be going well." "Yeah." "That's my fault." "I shouldn't have compelled her." "You shouldn't mix painkillers and booze." "Whatever you did for Elena, that's her choice." "Remember that." "No pun intended." "I am not on painkillers." "In fact, I feel awful, but I am enjoying every miserable human moment of pain." "To being powerless and mundane." "Cheers." "Ahh." "So I guess we are both formerly supernatural beings." "Should we start a support group?" "Well, technically, I relinquished my magic and put it away for safekeeping." "I didn't know you could do that." "Let's just say I chose to remove myself from a tragically dysfunctional family, and I haven't regretted a moment of it." "Hey." "Who let you in?" "Oh." "A radiologist I met at the gym." "So what's the story with Tyler?" "It's a short story called" ""mind your own business."" "Liv, I'm not saying don't have fun, ok, because that's why we're here, but when the coven calls us home, they don't care if we're in love or not." "You sound like dad, and that's not a compliment." "Liv." "Have fun with your gym fling." "Leave me to mine." "Yes." "Ok." "Where's the last piece?" "Where is it?" "This isn't happening." "Looking for this?" "You stole the ascendant, naughty girl." "You weren't planning on using and leaving me behind, were you?" "You left a trail of blood in the driveway." "Figured where else would you stop and play nurse?" "Vados!" "Unh!" "Get off me!" "I thought about taking the keys, but that'd be like taking the cheese out of a mousetrap, right, Bonnie?" "Although, you know, fun fact." "Mice don't actually like cheese." "Isn't that great?" "Shh, shh, shh." "So we have an hour until the eclipse." "It's time to go home, Bonnie." "I want to remember." "Well, you're a day late and a dollar short, huh?" "I mean, I want to try." "Knowing that there's this whole piece of my life missing, it's... it's driving me crazy, ok?" "So I have to at least try to get it back." "Yeah." "How are you supposed to do that?" "I know there's nothing we can do about the compulsion, but maybe if we unwind the memories backwards, something might trigger something, and maybe they'll all come back, right?" "Yeah." "Sure." "Tell me what you want me to do." "Take me to the last place I told you I loved you." "I brought you a present." "Ta-da!" "Ms. Cuddles!" "Thought you might want to bring her along." "Thanks." "I know you think I'm a monster." "I mean, I did murder or heavily maim most of my immediate family, but after a long period of self-reflection," "I've come to the conclusion that I could have handled my anger better." "You said you wanted to get out of here..." "And I quote... "To give the rest of the Gemini coven an excruciating death."" "I didn't mean it." "Honestly, I would do anything to get my family back, and the thing I'm most scared of is trying to figure out how to live in the world again." "Sort of hoping you've been a positive influence on me." "You're a good person, Bonnie." "You're brave, loyal, patient." "I want to be more like you." "What do you say?" "Friends?" "Let's just go home." "They're here." "Mom?" "Caroline, stop!" "The border." "You're bleeding?" "What'd you do to her?" "I'm fine." "Ok." "Let's do this." "Let her go, and you can have him." "Tripp first." "Let her go, or I'll kill you." "Sweetheart, it's ok." "Stefan, let Tripp go." "He's across." "Now let her go." "Are you ok?" "What's happening to me?" "Oh, my God." "What the hell did you do?" "Wasn't me." "Enzo must have turned him into a vampire before we got there." "It's now or never." "Just in case you thought you'd try to go without me." "So long, 1994." "What the hell's happening?" "Keep going." "Hurry." " I can't." " Keep going!" "I can't." "I've lost my magic." "What are you talking about?" "You were just doing the spell." "Unh." "There's nothing there." "There's no magic." "It's so strange." "I wonder if I accidentally put it somewhere." "Oh, I remember now." "I put it somewhere safe." "Where did you put your magic?" "Do you remember saying you wanted to be more like me..." "Brave, loyal, patient?" "You put it in the bear, didn't you?" "Come on!" "Where's the stupid bear, hmm?" "Oh, it's gone." "I guess we're stuck here forever." "Sorry." "I don't remember being here with you that night." "Ok." "What do you remember?" "How are you rewired?" "I remember that we had to stop the travelers." "Yeah." "You had a plan, but you didn't tell anyone what you were doing, and the next thing I know, you're dead." "I heard that you drove your car into the grill and then blew yourself up so that you could trigger some explosion." "There's just one little part of that story that you're missing." "You got in the car with me." "What?" "!" "I was all ready to go, and the door opens, and you jump in the car and say," ""we're in this together,"" "and you weren't taking no for an answer." "That was the moment I realized you were the perfect girl for me because you were just as crazy as I was." "Ok." "Tell me more." "Something happy." "Ok." "Happy." "Well, there is a motel ice machine in Denver that's got some stories." "What else?" "Well, can't forget the night of your graduation." "Well, I did, so..." "Shame." "Probably one of your best speeches." "You in your very passionate and adorable way told me you were in love with me, and hell if you were gonna apologize for it." "My favorite memory of us, oh, one that I've relived a million times over the last 4 months is this summer night that we had before you went off to college." "You wanted to show me this meteor shower, so we drove out in the middle of nowhere, and the moment those shooting stars started to fall, rain, lots of rain." "You were so sure it would clear, and it was just easier to believe you, and I took your hand..." "This isn't working." "I'm sorry." "Hey." "Maybe you just need to try a little harder." "I am trying!" "I get that we had an amazing life together, and I know that I loved the fact that you were reckless and probably made me feel very free, but now when I look into your eyes, I just..." "What?" "What do you feel like?" "I feel like..." "Like I'm looking at a stranger because I'm never gonna be able to give you what you want, because I just can't remember." "Hey." "There are things you can't erase, and you know that." "Hey." "Sorry." "Where are you going?" "Elena!" "Hey!" "Elena!" "Elena!" "Hey!" "What the hell are you doing?" "90 more seconds, you'd be dead." "Hey." "I'm trying to undo the compulsion." "It's the only way." "No, no, no, no." "Hey." "Listen." "I would give anything for you to remember, but I'm not gonna risk your life." "It's the last thing I would ever do..." "Even if you don't remember that." "Let's get you home." "This is totally unnecessary." "You hit your head." "You could have a concussion, and I know better than to trust that you're going to take yourself for a checkup back home." "You can go now." "We're fine." "Sweetheart, could you at least just check and see how long the wait is gonna be?" " Gladly." " Ok." "I see she's still icing you out." "Yeah." "Anyway, you want to help me fix that?" "Sorry, Stefan." "I'm her mother." " I'm not allowed." " Right." " We'll be right outside, ok?" " Ok." "Let me see it." "Please don't ask my mother for her opinions." "You heard that?" "Yeah." "I've got superhearing." "I hear everything." "Only when you listen." "Why?" "Why was I listening?" " Why do you have a thing for me?" " I don't." "Ok." "Um..." "Why did you have a thing for me?" "We said that we would never talk about this again, so just..." "Look, Caroline, please just talk to me." "Tell me how, tell me why." "Please just make me understand how it is that I missed it." "What kind of a stupid question is that?" "Why did I have a thing for you?" "I don't know, Stefan." "Maybe it's because I thought you worth having a thing for, because when I woke up as a vampire you told me that I would get through it and I did, because when I watched Elena move on with your brother" "I couldn't imagine why she would let anyone like you go, because you were practically my best friend, because I trusted you." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry for not seeing it, I'm sorry for not..." "Feeling it back?" "No." "I didn't say that." "I..." "I..." "Look." "I don't know what I felt." "You know, my head was all over the place, but I am incredibly sorry for the way that I treated you." "Yeah." "Well..." "I know what you felt, Stefan, because even if just a little tiny piece of you felt for me what I was starting to feel for you you wouldn't have walked away, and I don't hate you for that." "I don't hate you for mourning your brother," "I don't hate you for being the biggest jerk on the planet while doing so, and I accept your apology." "But you do still hate me." "Yes." "Yeah, I hate you because if I don't hate you for ruining our friendship, then I have to hate myself for ruining it, and I think that I deserve better than that." "I remembered something out there, just bits and pieces, but, um..." "There were these stars, and then it started to rain." "When you became a vampire, part of me was thrilled because suddenly there was this possibility" "I could have you in my life forever, but then the other part of me was devastated because I realized you'd lost the life that you wanted to have." "It started to rain, and then what happened, Damon?" "And since I've been gone, you've gotten part of that life back." "You're thriving, you're happy." "Yeah, sure." "Maybe you'd be happy if we gave it another chance, but the truth is is..." "You're better off without me." "What are you talking about?" "I died." "You started over." "I need you to live your life." "Be happy." "I love you, Elena." "Enough to let you go." "It started to rain, and then what?" "It got cold and muddy." "You were miserable, so we got in the car and..." "We drove home." "Ok." "Ohh." "I might have to rethink this whole painkiller thing." "I need to get out of this dress and order a pizza." "Ok." "Ouch." "This?" "Yeah I had an accident when I was younger." " I lost my spleen." " Car accident?" "Actually it was less an accident and more like my brother tried to gut me with a hunting knife." "Like I said, tragically dysfunctional family." "Yeah." "Ha!" "I just killed the mood, didn't I?" "No, no." "Let's just say, uh, we both have complicated, tragic, and dysfunctional histories." "Guess we're a match." "Hey." "You're still talking to me." "Sorry I ran out like that." "What's this?" "So I finally got a look at lady Whitmore's labs." "Turns out they sent her home without doing the shoulder surgery because the injury doesn't exist anymore." "Seems to have spontaneously healed itself, and all this after meeting your dead boyfriend tonight?" "None of this adds up." "The only thing that's really clear is that you're not just a liar, but you're a liar with secrets, so you can tell me the truth, or I can figure this out on my own." "One for you, one for me." "Cheers, Horatio Fell." "Come on." "It's time to abandon ship." "No, no, no, wait." "Just give it a second." "It will clear up." "Promise me this is forever." "I promise." "To optimism." "Bonnie." "You're still alive."