"ANNOUNCER:" "Previously on The Vampire Diaries:" " You took everything." " Let bygones be bygones." " Resentment gets old." "STEFAN:" "Know what never gets old?" " Revenge." " No." "Klaus?" "Missing something?" "Three sleeping Originals." "Four coffins." "Who is in the lockbox?" "He's been sired." "He feels loyal to Klaus." "Klaus' blood created him." "He released me from a curse that was ruining my life." " I owe him for that." " Bite your girlfriend." "A hybrid bite would kill a vampire." "Consider this me putting your undying loyalty to the test." "not when it comes to you." "Ugh." "Ouch!" "no." " Did you just bite me?" " Caroline." " Get away from me!" "KLAUS:" "I figured out how to open it." "Can you?" "[BONNIE SCREAMS]" "[PANTING]" "[BANGING]" "[PHONE BEEPING]" "Let me out!" "Please!" "my God." "[SPEAKING IN LATIN]" "[BANGING]" "[GRUNTS]" "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" "Hey!" "I'm in here!" "I'm in here!" "[SCREAMS]" "I'm in here!" "BONNIE:" "I've been having these dreams for days now." "The witches are trying to send me a message." "ELENA:" "I just can't believe you guys have kept this from me." "Stefan thought if you knew where the coffins were Klaus could threaten people to get the information out of you." " So these are the rest of his family?" " Yeah." "Elijah and two others." "This one is the one we can't open." "We don't know who's in it or what's in it." "Only that I think my dream's telling me it will help kill Klaus." "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" " What are you doing?" " I needed her to know about the coffin." "Bonnie." "What are you gonna do?" "Are you gonna kidnap me so that I won't tell anyone?" "Elena." "I think I know who can open the coffin." "And I need Elena to help me find her." "Find who?" "What are you talking about?" "BONNIE:" "I couldn't place her face at first." "Then I realized... my God." "Bonnie." "Who is this?" "It's my mom." "Los Alamitos?" "too old." " Honolulu?" " Ugh." "I wish." " Heh." " How many of these are there?" " A lot." "I asked the sheriff's office to pull up every Abby Bennett in the country." "I know we haven't been able to really..." "That things have been weird because of Jeremy." "So thank you for helping me with this." "I know you have a lot to deal with." "Bonnie." "It's surreal." "Having to track down a woman who bailed on her own kid." "right?" "Let Stefan obsess over opening up the coffin." " It doesn't have to fall on you." " The coffin's spelled shut." "That makes it a witch problem." "So it does fall on me." "I was bound to see my mother sooner or later." "Sooner." "North Carolina." "blah." "A little compulsion helps speed up the research process." " This is her." "DAMON:" "Yep." "Road trip." "I call shotgun." "no." " Want me in the back with you?" " You're not coming." "Why?" "I'm the one who found her." "Bonnie hasn't seen her mom in over 15 years." "We don't need your snarky commentary narrating the experience." "What's going on with you two?" "now it's weird." "Have a great trip." "What are you doing here?" "I came to apologize." "Heh." "Apologize?" "You bit me." "Tyler." "That's the problem." "Klaus told me to do it and I said no." "it just happened anyway." "Like it was completely out of my control." "That's why I had your mom call him." "Caroline." "TYLER:" "I thought since he could resist compulsion maybe he could teach me to resist the sire bond." "Can you help him?" "I'm gonna try." " Why?" " Because he made a mistake." "And now he wants to make good." "And I understand that." "ALARIC:" "Do you want anything else?" "A beer?" "but I've got rounds in 15 minutes and a drunk doctor is a bad doctor." "Depends on what kind of drunk you are." " Angry." " Oh." "[BOTH CHUCKLE] sure." "next time dinner?" "that'd be great." "take care." " Bye." "Thanks." " Who's that?" " My doctor." " She's a doctor?" " Mm-hm." "Ooh." "What's the damage?" "it's a fact of life." "that smart?" "Damage." "I've been looking for red flags." "ex called her a psycho case the other day." " If it comes from her ex it doesn't count." "ALARIC:" "You're right." " That's yours." " Wonder what my exes would call me?" "they're all dead." "so he's dead-adjacent." " She dated a medical examiner?" " Mm-hm." "I think he's just dead." "What?" "Murdered." "Sheriff's trying to keep a lid on it because he was staked in the chest like a vampire." "Meredith didn't say anything about that." "red flag number two." " Who do you think killed him?" " I don't know." "your sexy doctor lady friend would definitely be a suspect." "[THE BLACK KEYS' "LONELY BOY" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "Klaus?" " Enjoying our stalemate." "what do you want?" "My hybrids left town as you demanded so please tell me what I need to do to get my family back." "um I'm not negotiating." "You understand holding them indefinitely is the same as... no." "You leave Mystic Falls and then give me a call in a few years and we'll talk." "I'm going to give you another chance." "Just one more." "Let's make a reasonable deal." "Or what?" "You make one move and I will drop... that's right." "Crazy Stefan." "Hmm." "How's that working out for you?" "Any friends left?" "BONNIE:" "I can't believe I'm gonna see her." "since I don't really remember her." " You don't talk about her." " What's to say?" "never called." "Not even when my grams died." "Could we talk about you and Damon instead?" "I'm not talking about it." "He kissed me." "It's not gonna happen again." "was it good?" " It doesn't matter." " That means it was." "[PHONE RINGING]" "Oh." "It's Stefan." "I told him I'd call him as soon as I got the address." "Ignore." "You're about to see your mom for the first time in years." "I'm not letting anyone ruin that moment." "but he's gonna keep at it until I pick up." "Fine." " What?" " Where are you?" "Bonnie and I are going to the lake house while we wait for Forbes to give us addresses." "I'm not." "We need a night off from your insanity." "Klaus knows I'm stalling." "We need to move faster." "We're doing everything we can." "So could you maybe not call every five minutes?" "Elena." "Whatever you say." "KLAUS:" "How's life on the road?" "DANIEL [OVER PHONE]:" "Scenic." "How's life in Mystic Falls without any hybrids?" "Boring." "For now." "just say the word." "There's no need." "I've been making friends with the town's civil servants." "but useful nonetheless." "You clear on what you need to do?" "I've got it covered." " Can I help you?" " Abby Bennett Wilson?" "That's me." "ELENA:" "Cute house." "for the middle of nowhere." "You ready?" "Come on." "JAMIE:" "Hey there." "Abby Wilson." " She's not home." "we can come back." "but you look so familiar." "Abby's my mom." "Oh." "you guys wanna come inside?" "Right this way." "You sure you don't want anything?" "some mango-guava something." " Water's fine." " Cool." "related?" "Abby's not my mom." "BONNIE:" "Oh." "dated my old man back in the day." "He's kind of a deadbeat." "When they broke up she took me in." "heh." "she sounds great." " Yeah." "ABBY:" "Jamie?" "Whose car's out front?" "That's mine." "I'm Bonnie." "Your daughter." "[SIGHS]" "Bonnie." "it's a process." "It took decades to train myself to resist compulsion." "the more it can do." "is about one thing." "Gratitude." "You believe you owe Klaus your life." " Ask yourself why." " I was cursed." "I had to change into a wolf." "It was torture." "Klaus took that away." "you feel indebted to him." "you gotta make yourself turn." "then you'll owe Klaus nothing and you'll be free." "But how can he turn?" "It's not a full moon." "right?" "am I right?" "but I don't know how to just start." " You're making excuses." "TYLER:" "You don't understand." "I break every bone in my body." "this is the only way." "How badly do you want your freedom?" " Okay." "BILL:" "Okay." "[GASPS]" "[GRUNTS]" "[PANTS]" "[SCREAMS]" "ELENA:" "How are you holding up?" " I'll be fine." "I'm not here to get my mom back." "I'm here to get help." "ABBY:" "So I hope you guys are hungry... food has always been my go-to icebreaker." "ha." "You're so sweet." "Just like your mom." " You knew my mom?" " Miranda was my best friend." "You had a daughter and a best friend and you still left?" "My best friend is why I left." "a vampire came to town..." "Elena." "Looking for the doppelganger." "No one could manage to kill him so I lured him out of town and cast a spell to desiccate him in a crypt in Charlotte." "Mikael." "He was an Original vampire." "It took every ounce of power I had." "Almost killed me." "but my magic didn't." " My powers never came back." " Neither did you." " It wasn't that simple." "BONNIE:" "It wasn't?" "put Mikael down and what?" " Had to teach Jamie how to drive?" " Bonnie." "she can't help us." "please!" "Don't go." "Talk to me." "Please?" "ELENA:" "I'll wait outside." "Elena." "Nice lake house." "WOMAN [OVER PA]:" "Dr. Raymond to the ER." "Dr. Fell." "right?" "Damon Salvatore." "I saw you at the Council meeting." "What are you doing here?" "Strolling the halls." "I like to wave at the newborns through the window." "Sorry about your boyfriend." "Animal attack." " Brutal." " Ex-boyfriend." "I'm still kind of processing." "I'm sure." "I thought I'd come by and tell you it wasn't an animal attack." "And then I realized you signed the death certificate." "Would you rather I say he was staked?" "Wasn't he the guy that coined the phrase "animal attack"?" " Why do you care?" " Because Ric likes you." "that would suck for him." "You think I killed my boyfriend?" "I think psychopaths are incredibly high-maintenance." "go figure out how Alaric came into the ICU on his death bed and walked out an hour later without a scratch." "Fair enough." "[DAMON GRUNTS]" "[GROANS]" "[TYLER SCREAMING AND GRUNTING]" "I can't." "I can't." " Try harder." " Can't he just rest for one second?" "go." "Caroline." "Just go." "CAROLINE:" "No." "Caroline!" "[PANTING]" "[TYLER GRUNTING]" "What are you doing?" "man?" " Does that bother you?" " Knock it off!" " Good." "Get angry." " It's in you." "You know it is." " Unh." "I said knock it off!" "Your bond to Klaus is putting my daughter in danger." "right now." "[SCREAMING AND GRUNTING]" "Bonnie." "Please just stop with the muffins and the compliments." "I just wanna know the truth." "Why didn't you come home?" "[SIGHS]" "I had no magic." "I was in a new city and I realized I had a chance to be somebody else." "To be Abby Wilson the woman not Abby Bennett the witch." "Bonnie." "I ran." "I know I ran." "let's face it your grams is way better at this stuff than I am." "You don't know?" "What?" " How?" " We were doing a rough spell and we both exhausted ourselves." "Her more than me." "she raised you right." "I'm sure she would've been very proud of you." "now you know my whole story." "heh." "How about you tell me yours?" "What brings you to me?" "actually." "I thought you were supposed to help us." "it's... but I'm not completely useless." "And the earth still provides herbs and such." " There might be something I can do." " I don't think so." "please." "Let me help you." "You think I wouldn't find out?" "I didn't care." "This is why I didn't want you in the loop." "Because now you can't do whatever you want." "STEFAN:" "Unh." "Damn it." "JAMIE:" "Hey!" " Everything all right out here?" "ELENA:" "Hey." "okay?" "it's better off for you there." "I don't think so." "man." "I don't think so." "Get back upstairs before I tear your damn throat out do you understand me?" "I don't think you realize how bad you've gotten." "right." "Out-villain the villain." "I get it." " You're not supposed to be here." "ELENA:" "What are you doing?" "It's what I was told." "He's not supposed to be here." "he's compelled." " Aah!" "What was that?" "[GRUNTING]" "looking for a bunny." "You're good." "For now." "You still obsessed with Meredith?" "[GRUNTS]" "Don't you have an Original vampire to worry about?" "Uh-uh-uh." "Do 10 more of those." "You're gonna wanna buff up if you start dating this one." " Self-defense and all." " What is your problem?" "Your doctor vervained me." "And then she blood-jacked me." "when did you even see her?" "When I went to accuse her of killing her ex-boyfriend." "very sensitive subject." "huh?" " Why are you mad?" " I told you I'd handle this." "I proved your theory." "Diagnosed psycho case." "You're welcome." "[ELENA GRUNTS]" "ELENA:" "Why are doing this?" " Stop moving." "[STEFAN GROANS] he needs help." "ABBY:" "Jamie!" " Bonnie." "Bonnie!" "[GRUNTS]" "[SCREAMING AND GRUNTING]" "my God." "TYLER:" "These chains aren't strong enough." "You need to leave." "Run!" "[ROARS]" "DANIEL:" "So?" " She didn't tell me where the coffins are." "The vampire showed up." "Did Jamie take care of it?" "He did." "But she's not gonna talk now." "There's no way." "I tried." "you should try again." " What'd you do to me?" " You'll be fine." "Don't try any spells." "Those herbs I used muted your magic." "listen to me." "I need your help." "I need you to tell me where those coffins are." "Why?" "that man compelled Jamie to kill himself." "I can't." "This goes beyond you and me." "ABBY:" "All you need to do is tell me where they are then we'll have held up our end of the bargain." "please." "[ELENA GRUNTING]" "ELENA:" "I've almost got it." "[GRUNTING]" "Abby hasn't called yet." "just let us go." "don't do anything." "why I'm holding this gun..." "I'm gonna shoot him again." "I won't." " Who gave you that gun?" " A man came by here earlier today." "He said it was wooden buckshot." "Told me if anyone got in our way I'm supposed to shoot him." "What else did he say?" "If Abby didn't find the locations of some coffins I'm supposed to shoot myself." "What about me?" "What did he say about me?" "I'm not supposed to hurt you." "[SIGHS] are you sure?" "Because these ropes are so tight that it is hurting me." "[JAMIE GRUNTS]" "What can I do to help?" "the wood shifts inside of me." "I can feel it scraping against my heart." " You need to get the pieces out." " Ugh." "[STEFAN YELLS]" "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" "What took you so long?" "Hiding behind your witchy friends." "no less." "[SCREAMING]" "Insulting a bunch of dead witches?" "Not smart." "I made the same mistake first time I came in here." "the funny thing about witches... they care about their own." "A hundred dead witches have a thousand living descendants." "[SCREAMING]" "And I have no problem killing every last one of them if I don't get my coffins back." "my hybrid friend is prepared to end the Bennett line." "[INDISTINCT WHISPERING]" "Now." "show me the coffins." "Here we are." "Where's the fourth?" "Show me!" "here's the thing." "They can't." "It's not here." "Bonnie gave me the heads up." "but I did have time to get one." "I will tear you limb from limb." "when you're a writhing mass of blood and flesh will I rip your heart from your chest." "Sorry." "Same rules apply." "Leverage and all." "I know you want your family back." "But something tells me you want what's in that coffin a lot more." " Tell me what you're up to." " You talked to Damon." " Yeah." " Wasn't supposed to wake up." "I used enough vervain to sedate him for hours." "He drinks it to build up an immunity so people don't get the jump on him." "Ric." " Then what are you?" "Watch your back." "You really wanna know?" "Stick around." "Is that Bill Forbes?" "[GRUNTING]" "please." "Just get it out." "maybe I'll feel sorry for you." "[GASPS]" "You've changed." "Something's different about you." "You're stronger." "Tougher." "Stefan." "We all had to." "[CHUCKLES] though." "There's something I have to tell you." "And it's not because I feel guilty that it happened it's just I feel guilty you don't know." "[GRUNTS]" "[SIGHS]" "I kissed Damon." "There." "All done." "ALARIC:" "What happened?" "MEREDITH:" "He was found in the woods." "An actual animal attack." "Bite marks over half his body." " Lost about three liters of blood." " Is he gonna make it?" "not on his own." " What is that?" " What you think it is." "Vampire blood." "You wanted to know my secret?" "I cheat." "I hate when people die." "I do." "Stefan." "Say something." "Please?" "I shouldn't have kidnapped you." "the bridge." "It was too far." "Thank you." "But you shouldn't have lied to me." "You can't go off and do things like that." " Not while Klaus is still alive." " I know." "I just..." "I wanted to give Bonnie a moment with her mother without everything else getting in the way." "Without me getting in the way." "I didn't plan on kissing him." "Elena." "You're better than both of us." "BONNIE:" "Elena's on her way." "Jamie's safe." "but he's safe." "Think the hybrid will come back?" "You kept your end of the bargain." "Klaus usually keeps his." "You were willing to do all this for him..." "Bonnie." "but he is." "But that doesn't mean I don't care about you." " I wanna help you." " You can't." "and I don't trust you." "When I put Mikael down my magic didn't just leave me." "It drifted away." "the weaker it got." "I think nature was punishing me for abandoning you." "Maybe you can help me get my magic back." "I thought you said you didn't want it anymore." "I don't." "I would do that for you." " You're better." "BILL:" "Yeah." "but I didn't have any say in the matter." "I didn't mean to hurt you." "I lost control." "Again." "I knew the risks when I decided to help you." "[SIGHS]" "So was it worth it?" "How do you feel?" "Different." "A little more myself." "Then we'll continue tomorrow." "What are you talking about?" "I turned." "turning needs to be painless." "we're still a long way off." "I can't put myself through that again." "You will." "Because until you're capable of acting on your own free will I'm not gonna let you anywhere near my daughter." "You told me your secret and this is mine." "You're a vampire hunter." "Semi-retired." "You're trying to get out of taking me to dinner." "I just wanna be honest." "No secrets." "Okay." "Then tell me how you survived getting hit by a truck." "Your injuries were fatal." "Was it vampire blood?" "this ring." "It protects me from death at the hands of supernatural beings." "Vampire hunter who can't be killed by vampires." "heh." "Are you worried I'm a supernatural being?" "one can never be too careful." "[DOOR OPENS]" "hey." "Um..." "Sorry." "sure." "I am s..." "I'm sorry." "it's okay." "it's not even my place." "it's your family's place." "The minute you slept on that couch it became your place too." "We needed you and..." "[SIGHS]" "And you stayed." "So thank you for that." "I know it's hard." "But Jenna's gone." "And you're allowed to move on." "you're still alive?" "I assume that means Klaus didn't get his coffins." "DAMON:" "Don't look so happy." "I was only able to get one of them out in time." "The locked one." " Probably a good choice." " Yeah." "you're screwed." " She doesn't have any powers." " Yeah." "Doesn't surprise me." "It's been that kind of night." "Is Elena okay?" "[DAMON GRUNTS]" "I take it you two had a heart-to-heart." "And I take it you don't wanna talk about it." "Noted." "So why don't we talk about this?" "What did you do?" "You've got your family back finally." "You gonna open them?" "Not quite yet." "I still have some unfinished business to take care of." "What business?" "[GRUNTS]" "So Niklaus." "Elijah." "What did I miss?" "[English" " US" " SDH]"