(MUSIC PLAYING)
Happy birthday, Bonnie.
(GRUNTING)
ELENA: Hey.
You wanna give me a hand, please.
A little busy here.
Okay, fine, then you are on decoration duty.
It's Bonnie's birthday.
I know what today is.
You know how she'd want us to spend it.
She would have wanted us to celebrate by cooking her favorite food,
watching her favorite movies.
So we're throwing a birthday party where the guest of honor never shows up.
That's not depressing.
Or we could celebrate you going to art school.
Oh, wait, we can't because I found your application in the garbage.
Why didn't you tell me about going to art school?
I'm not. The only class I'm passing is study hall.
They'll never let me in.
Jer, I've seen your portfolio.
-You're good. -It doesn't matter.
I'm not leaving without knowing if Bonnie's okay or not.
Mom, I'm not calling to check up on you.
I'm just about to start making Bonnie's birthday cake.
I wanna make sure your recipe called for three eggs instead of four, right?
All right, I'm just a phone call away, in case you need any...
Bye.
(GASPS AND SIGHS)
Is it just me or do her eyes follow you around the room?
STEFAN: Hmm.
It's definitely you.
I haven't seen Miss Cuddles in 12 years.
Well, that's the bear Bonnie sent back from 1994.
-I guess she lost the original. -She didn't lose her.
I took her.
You know, when Bonnie and I were little, we got in this huge fight.
So to get back at her, I bearnapped Miss Cuddles.
I didn't want my mom to come home and find out, so then I buried her
in the woods.
I even left some M&Ms to mark the spot where I left her,
but something must have eaten them.
Well, I'm pretty sure that Bonnie is over it by now.
Miss Cuddles isn't.
She's out there, all alone,
like Bonnie.
You know what? I'm gonna go find her.
-You're gonna what? -Yeah, it's Bonnie's birthday.
Wait, wait, hold on. You've been going through a lot lately.
You think that maybe you're just a little confused about what you're upset about?
Yes, probably.
My mom's dying and my best friend is stuck in an alternate universe,
and her bear is in a hole in the woods.
There's only one of those things that I can do anything about.
Right.
Happy birthday, Bon-bon.
-Hi. -Hi.
Ooh. Think we could sneak one before the party?
-I think Caroline might fry us in the sun. -It's worth the risk.
Mmm.
Come here.
You know, we never talked about
-the fact that you kissed me. -And you kissed me back.
-Yeah. -I know.
That's the whole point of kissing, you don't have to talk about it.
Right, well, I just wanted you to know
-that I'm good with that. -Yeah?
Yeah, we're good.
Really good.
(ELENA CHUCKLES)
Is this the talk?
-Pretty much. -Perfect.
(DOOR OPENS)
KAI: Hello.
No.
That's impossible, because why would he...
He didn't. He's all merged, he's packed and he's on his way to Portland.
Whew. I forgot how massive this house was.
Yum, cupcakes.
Sorry, am I interrupting something?
-What are you doing here? -Funniest thing.
I need your help.
Why would we give a letter to Jo?
I can't find her using a locator spell.
And, you know, good on her.
Under normal circumstances, I'd be jazzed to gouge out her belly button.
-Why would we help you, Kai? -In case you haven't figured out by now,
I'm a sociopath.
I know, shocker. I like being a sociopath, you know.
I'm not burned by things like guilt or love.
So then, this merge happened with my brother Luke, and I won.
Great, because I absorbed his ability to do magic,
but now I can't stop thinking about how Luke died.
How Liv's life is ruined.
For some horrible reason, I can't shake
how badly I feel about it.
-You feel bad? -Yeah. So when I absorbed Luke's magic,
I must have gotten some of his qualities or something, like empathy.
So I Googled how to process emotional pain,
and they said if you write everything down
in a letter and burn it, you'll be healed.
So I started writing,
and this water literally started pooling in my eyes.
Has that ever happened to you?
Like, water just oozing out of my eyeballs,
like I'm some alien creature excreting fluids.
-You mean you cried? -Yes.
And after that was done, I burned the letter.
The feelings, they're still there.
So I really feel strongly that Jo needs to know how sorry I am
for destroying our family.
But let's face it, guys, all right? I mean, Elena, you of all people
should be willing to look past the things I've done to see
that there's good somewhere in me.
-You did it with Damon. -Okay.
-I think we're done here. Come on. -Actually...
What if there's something he can do for us in exchange?
I'm guessing you didn't bring me out here to watch you perv out on some co-ed.
It's not just some co-ed.
Meet the real Sarah Salvatore.
The hothouse flower Stefan's been keeping secret all these years.
Why do you even care?
Because Damon thinks he killed Sarah.
Instead of absolving him, Stefan's using Damon's guilt to keep him in check.
Not very brotherly now, is it?
So I help you destroy some innocent girl or what?
You're gonna kill me? Then go ahead and kill me.
I don't wanna kill you, just do a few simple tasks.
Screw you, I'm not gonna be your bitch for the rest of my life.
I don't wanna kill you,
but I will kill you.
Oh. Look at that.
Very brave.
I admire your tolerance for pain.
Does that run in your family?
Just wondering if your mother, if she has your pain threshold.
Took a drive down to South Carolina to take a peek at Mama Donovan.
Quite a dish, that one.
(MATT GASPS)
Good.
Now that that's settled, it's time for you to get to know Sarah Salvatore.
KAI: Sad attempt at iron welding.
ELENA: I tried to fix it.
I can't bring Bonnie back with this.
I thought you are the all-powerful leader of the Gemini Coven now.
I destroyed this so that it couldn't be used again.
Can we use that hunk of junk to send a message, at least?
It is her birthday.
-It is? -Yeah.
It's really sad, I mean, little Bon-bon,
she'll be getting all dressed up for a party no one's gonna show up to.
I wonder if she even knows
that it is her birthday, or do all the days
just blend into one vast sea of misery?
I wonder.
One of the crown wheels survived, that's a positive.
Plus, I am mega powerful.
Yeah.
What do you wanna say?
Well, Bonnie needs magic to get out,
we just need to tell her where to find some.
(DOOR OPENS)
(DOOR CLOSES)
I was gonna wear this for the merge ceremony.
It's the dress I would have died in.
How could Luke do this?
He didn't do this to you, Kai did.
And he's going to finish what he started by killing you and every other Gemini.
Grab what you need, and let's get out of here, or Luke will have died for nothing.
Just haul ass out of here like my dad?
Live out the rest of my life wondering, is today the day that Kai finds me?
I should have just done the stupid merge.
At least, then, Luke and I would still be together.
All our lives, we've never been apart.
I don't know how to do this.
I'm so sorry, Liv.
I can't run, Tyler.
Kai took my entire life.
There's nowhere for me to go.
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, look at me, look at me.
Whatever you want to do...
I will help you get through it.
Fine.
Then I wanna kill Kai.
ELENA: Okay, so we know that Jo stored her magic
in a hunting knife.
Bonnie sent hers over with Miss Cuddles.
What receptacle of magic am I not thinking of?
Let me give you a hint. Scorned lover.
-Katherine. -Older.
-Silas. -Hotter.
I don't know, Silas was hot.
Ugh.
-Qetsiyah. -(CLICKS TONGUE)
Her blood is on Silas's headstone. It's filled with magic.
Yup, so in Bonnie-land, that means
on an island off Nova Scotia, there's a magical battery waiting to be tapped.
We just need to remind Bonnie of that.
And what reminded you?
I was just gonna plan a trip there, change of scenery.
Only so much you can take of Mystic Falls on repeat.
Oh, thank God. (CHUCKLES)
You two, together, is still totally revolting to me.
Finally, a familiar feeling.
Luke didn't take me over completely.
What the hell is he doing here?
Hi.
If you're gonna creepily stalk me, you could have at least brought a shovel.
Nah. I'm not big on digging.
Calluses.
You bury corpses all the time.
Yeah, but I don't dig them up.
So do you really think that finding a teddy bear
will make everything right in the world?
You know what, you are right.
This is such a waste of time.
I should be at the dive bar picking a fight
with a stranger in order to feel pain.
Ooh.
Look, if you think I'm insane, I get it, I probably am,
but nobody is forcing you to be here.
I should probably stay.
Keep an eye on you.
You know, in case you have a psychotic breakdown.
People don't just change like that.
People usually don't merge with their siblings either.
For the record, I would had been fine with any of Luke's qualities,
the hair, the whole gay thing.
You know, maybe not the height.
You seriously buy this?
I'm not saying that we have to like him.
If there's a way for us to tell Bonnie how to get out...
We should trust the guy that changed personalities overnight?
Think of it like Elena in reverse.
I know, she was human, pure,
dating the good Salvatore, then she became an undead blood-vacuum,
stopped caring about right and wrong, started dating the bad one.
That's not how it happened.
Mmm. I'm sure I missed a detail or two.
I'm just paraphrasing what Damon told me in the prison world.
Speaking of, there's a witch over there we'd like to save.
So why don't you get your Gemini jumper cables
-and fix that thing? -Okay.
(CHANTING IN LATIN)
What are you doing? Liv?
Come on, talk to me. What are you doing?
When Luke and I were kids, we used to play hide and seek,
we found a way to cheat by using a spell to see through each other's eyes.
(RESUMES CHANTING)
DAMON: Come on, Kai.
You done yet?
The bastard's at the Salvatore house.
-Why the hell would he be there? -I have no idea.
Damon would find a reason to work with him.
Look, Liv. I know how pissed you are right now, I get that
probably more than anybody...
But what? I'm supposed to live with it, get through it?
Something tells me you didn't punch a wall after your mom died.
Liv, stop. Like it or not, Kai is your leader.
You kill him, your entire coven dies, you, your dad, Jo.
-You. -We're dead anyway.
He'll kill his way through the coven,
our friends, the guy at the drive-thru who screws up his order.
At least this way, I can take him with me.
I told you if anybody tried to hurt you, they'd have to get through me first.
Well, guess what, that includes you.
(CHANTING SOFTLY)
I'm sorry, Tyler.
(CAMERA CLICKING)
(SIGHS)
Heh. I got it.
I'm guessing you're not here on a basketball scholarship.
That's not a regulation trash can.
Hey.
I saw your camera. Thinking about buying one. Do you like it?
It gets the job done.
What kind of photography are you into?
A little bit of everything.
Okay, well, it has good color reproduction, nice tonal range.
You wanna shoot raw, if you don't want the highlights to get clipped, and...
You have no idea what I'm talking about, do you?
No. No, I don't, sorry.
Don't feel bad, you went for it.
Not your fault you led with the second most common pickup line guys use
when they see a girl with a camera.
What's the first?
They offer to pose for some tasteful nudes.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Look, I'm really flattered,
and I'm sure you're a nice guy, but...
No, it's okay, I get it.
-Good luck with your photography. -Thanks.
Oh, man.
You truly have an epic lack of game.
-I tried, okay. -Really?
Grunting at her would've been more effective.
I gotta get you back on track.
Right, give me your jacket, your wallet and your cell phone.
So I can't send us back physically,
but I can probably send a part of us back.
-Probably? -You remember the movie Ghost?
Okay, Bonnie is gonna be Demi Moore because she's the alive one
and we'll all be a collective Patrick Swayze.
The ghost. By the way, how much does that suck?
-About Patrick Swayze. -Will she be able to see us or not, Kai?
I don't know, I've never done this.
So let's all just take a deep breath, right?
Close our eyes.
And?
(KAI CHANTING IN LATIN)
(GASPS)
What happened to the pool table?
Oh, my God.
Bonnie? Bonnie!
She can't hear me.
We can't touch anything, either.
Nice spell, Kai.
This place is my own personal hell.
-Drama queen. -Hey.
Reporting to you live from retro world, I'm Bonnie Bennett.
Joining us today in the studio is special guest Damon Salvatore.
-No. -What?
That bottle of bourbon is the oldest one in the house.
We made a pact, if we couldn't take being
trapped here alone for one more day, we'd....
We'd kill that entire bottle.
And then we'd kill ourselves.
(GASPS)
What...
What happened? Why are we back here?
KAI: I don't know, spell must require too much magic.
I lost my connection.
-Then reconnect. -It's not that easy.
You see this blood? That's not a good sign.
Bonnie is going to kill herself.
Can she do that? Can she die there?
I couldn't. Of course, it was my own personal solitary confinement.
Didn't want me to end my sentence by killing myself.
Ooh. I tried every method in the book.
I drove down to D.C. because there was this museum that has an actual guillotine.
We get it, for whoever is not lucky enough to be you, dead means dead.
We have to stop her, we have to give her hope. Send her a message somehow.
-How? She couldn't hear us. -Message is already there.
In the atlas. I scribbled some notes on Nova Scotia, have to get her to see it.
How do we open an atlas if we can't touch anything?
We need to get Kai to crank up his witchy-woo, don't we?
So we can make physical contact.
All while sending the three of you back over there? Sure, yeah.
Why don't I reanimate your parents for a tea party?
Sorry.
Insensitive.
What if you just send me back?
-What? No. KAI: That might work.
I focus all of my magic on one person.
It might be enough of a boost that he could physically interact.
If I can hold the spell.
And if you cannot?
The magic overwhelms me...
and I can't pull Jeremy out, he'll be stuck there for eternity.
-Jer... -Don't. Don't say anything.
If I can get through to her, we save Bonnie's life, if not...
at least I'll be with her when she dies.
(GRUNTS)
(EXHALES)
Hey, is that an M&M?
-Where? -Right there.
Little to the left. Little to the left. Right there. Oh... Whoa... Whoa. Oh.
Sorry, it was just a leaf.
Is this funny to you?
Well, we are in the middle of the woods,
searching for a teddy bear buried
in a shallow grave by a 9-year-old version of you.
I can't even say it with a straight face. So, yeah, that is funny.
-You're drunk. Give me that. -No, no, no.
You have more ground to cover.
You're a jerk.
-Jerk, huh? -Yeah.
-Now you sound angry. -I'm not angry, okay? I'm just annoyed.
I'm going through an emotional situation right now
and you're just sitting there, mocking me.
-Definitely angry. -I'm not angry.
-Okay? -Well, you should be.
Your mom is dying. Best friend's stuck in some netherworld,
and you're here trying to find a stuffed animal?
Shut up!
-That make you feel better? -No.
-Try again. -Screw you!
That's good. Get it out.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
I cannot believe you just did that.
Well, you started it.
It felt good though, didn't it?
Maybe a little.
(BOTH LAUGH)
(CHANTING)
I didn't know you and Bonnie had a death pact.
DAMON: It was my idea.
I thought of it after we watched The Bodyguard for the billionth time.
(CONTINUES CHANTING)
I never thought she'd go through with it.
I can't watch this.
Hey.
-Ansel Adams. -I have no idea who that is.
-Where are you trying to go? -Virginia.
-Mystic Falls. -Virginia?
This is a campus bus. It has, like, five stops.
-Farthest you'll get is Lenox Hospital. -Great.
My buddy bailed on me, and my phone and jacket are in his car.
This is why I don't visit animal shelters.
Come on. I'll show you where you can catch a real bus.
Oh, that'd be great. I'm freezing out here.
There's a cafe on the way.
We'll get a coffee, and you can warm up.
Too bad my wallet's in my jacket.
How were you planning on paying for the bus?
Charm?
Yeah, well, in that case, I'll buy you a bus ticket to go with that coffee.
Thank you.
Come on.
Our suicide bourbon.
Bonnie and I made a pact we'd drink this together, that's what I'll do.
Mmm.
To you, Bonnie.
(COUGHS) Oh.
So was Kai right about me?
By turning into a vampire, I completely changed?
Kai is a psychopath.
Don't let him get in your head.
I'm not.
But do you ever think about it, like,
if I would still be with you if I was human?
Okay, we're doing this.
It's just a question, Damon.
-No. -No, what?
No, I don't think we'd be together if you were still human.
You had a choice. You chose Stefan.
Human you was on your way home to him.
Car went off the bridge.
You turned, and suddenly I was back in the picture.
(INHALES SHARPLY)
I'm gonna go check on Jer.
(GRUNTS)
What's going on?
JEREMY: Okay, 1994, let's do this.
KAI: Where's the stupid map?
-It's working. -Hurry up and find Nova Scotia.
Nova Scotia, got it.
Kai, do something.
Kai?
No, what are you doing?
(CHUCKLES)
Dang, sis.
-That was harsh. -Shut up.
(YELLING)
(CHANTS)
(YELPS)
(CHUCKLES)
It's all coming back to me, Livie-poo.
-You know the charge... -Stop it, Kai.
-...that races through your bones... -Stop it.
...at the prospect of watching someone burn to death.
I really miss that feeling.
(CHUCKLES)
Just kill me, Kai.
You already killed my best friend.
So just do it.
Get it over with.
Why can't I do this?
(SOBS)
I don't care about you.
Why can't I kill her? Come on.
Kai, do it. Do it.
Come on!
Kill her!
(SHOUTING IN LATIN)
(YELPS)
What the hell's happening?
(LIV AND KAI GRUNTING)
Liv's trying to kill Kai.
Jeremy!
Send me back. Please.
Jeremy, look at me.
-I'm half dead. -I need to stop Bonnie.
Okay.
(CHANTING IN LATIN)
Cheers to making it this far.
(SOBBING)
Okay.
I think it's time I cut myself off.
(YELLS)
Stay here.
Well, I think I got all the catharsis out of this that I'm gonna get.
-Let's go home. -All right.
-Wait a minute. -What?
-What is that? -Shut up.
No, no, no. I'm serious.
Is that an ear?
Oh, my God.
Cuddles.
I'm sure we can clean her up.
Make her as good as new.
Yeah, the...
(BOTH LAUGH)
Hey.
Hey, I'm sorry.
(SOBBING)
Kai!
Get out here!
She's right below us.
LIV: You can't hide from me.
What are you doing?
I said I was saving this for something special.
(SHRIEKS)
(ENGINE STARTS)
(COUGHS)
No, come on.
You don't wanna do this. Just turn off the car, Bonnie.
You can't die.
It's probably a waste of time even recording anything.
But, Damon, Elena,
or whoever,
if you find this and you figured out how to work this stupid thing,
please tell everyone that I'm sorry.
Bonnie.
Tell them that I tried.
I really tried to make it work.
Um....
You know, I just miss it too much.
I miss saying hi to strangers...
(SOBBING) Ordering dinner in a restaurant,
laughing with my friends.
But, um,
spending every day here alone
with no one to talk to,
going weeks without speaking,
it's just the loneliness. It's, uh... I can't take it.
(INHALES AND EXHALES DEEPLY)
And I only know one way to turn it off.
I'm sorry.
Jeremy...
I....
I hope you're living your life with no regrets.
Hope you fight for the life you want.
And don't ever give up on yourself.
And stay strong.
That's what my grams said.
(COUGHING)
Stay...
...strong.
(COUGHING)
Come on, Bonnie. Get up.
Come on.
Gonna stay strong.
I'm not gonna die in this place.
Bonnie, come on. Get up!
(GASPING)
Bonnie, get up. Open. Come on!
Come on!
(GASPS)
Oh, Jeremy. Jeremy.
Hey, Jeremy. Wake up.
Kai. Hey. Wake up.
Damn it.
Jeremy, wake up. Jer, wake up.
Jeremy.
I'm okay.
Bonnie, is she...
I saw her.
She's gonna be okay.
We might be able to salvage a piece.
I don't think Bonnie would want us to let cake go to waste.
You know, I get it. I get what she was going through.
Why she would want to end it.
Feeling trapped and alone.
Every day is the same. Disappointment, misery.
You go to sleep and wake up and do it all over again.
But she's not the only one that's trapped.
Jeremy, I know what you've been going through.
-Don't tell me I gotta be strong. -Actually,
I was gonna say it's okay to move on.
Bonnie decided to save herself.
And from what you told me, I think she wants you to do the same.
Go to art school. We'll all help you. Just....
Just find the life that you want.
And be happy.
What about you?
I'll be fine.
I promise.
Just get out of here.
And don't look back.
(GRUNTS)
How did I get back here?
Well, first, I woke up on the floor.
I guess a pillow would have been too much to ask for.
And when I figured out where you've gone, I raced over to the Salvatore house.
Only to find you unconscious.
I convinced Elena to give you some of her blood.
And now that I see you're okay,
I never wanna see you again.
-Tyler, wait. -You lied to me.
-No, I never wanted to hurt you. -You lied to me!
-Please, just calm down, okay? -I'm not gonna calm down.
I would have done anything for you.
And you chose death over me.
(DOOR CLOSES)
So how was your little coffee date?
Heh. You fancy her, don't you?
What was the point of this?
You were a test.
I wanted to see what kind of person the last remaining Salvatore really is.
What kind of person she is?
She spurned your comically inept attempts to charm her,
and yet proved to be a Good Samaritan when you needed assistance.
On a scale of one to 10, I'd say her purity ranks about 9.5.
When I'm through with her, she'll be a one.
So, what?
-You're gonna compel her to be bad? -I'm not gonna compel her.
I want Sarah to know that everything she did was of her own free will.
What are you talking about?
I'm going to insinuate myself into her life.
Make her do things she had never dreamed of doing,
until she begs me to make her a vampire.
(CHUCKLES)
Stefan thought he could protect her.
I'm gonna show him how wrong he is.
So Jer's applying to art school. Hmm.
Might want to compel him a decent portfolio, because he ain't that great.
Don't be mean.
-(CHUCKLES) -He needs to move on with his life and...
...so do I.
I'm not sure I'm a fan of that transition.
Look, I've...
...made some huge mistakes in my life.
Being with you wasn't one of them.
And, yes, I had Alaric compel away my love for you.
And, yes, I did love Stefan once.
The night I died,
Matt was driving me back to him.
And yet, I found my way back to you.
Damon, I somehow always find my way back to you.
It doesn't matter if I have memories or not.
It doesn't matter if I'm a vampire or not.
You're just saying that because you can't change what you are.
No, Damon. I don't care what human me would have done.
Because she's not here, I am.
And if the past is a place without you and me together,
then let's stop living in it.
Yeah.
Nova Scotia? Damon, you're a genius.
(ENGINE STARTS) on, you're a genius.