Damon is secretly tracking down Stefan's murders and covering his slaughtering in Tennessee with Alaric. On the day of Elena's birthday, Caroline plans a party for her at Damon's house. Meanwhile, Klaus and Stefan are chasing Ray Sutton, who is a werewolf, to know the place where his pack gathers. Jeremy continues to see Anna and Vicky and he tells Matt what is happening to him. During the party, Stefan gives a bloody message to Damon to stop following him and Carolina and Tyler spend the night together. Damon is shaken with Stefan's attitude and decides to forget him.
Tyler finds his mother verbena-poisoned his beloved Caroline, realizes she ignores his cursed paternal heritage and shows her, chaining himself down at fall moon for transformation. Assisted by will-less Stefano, Klaus forces torture-wounded Ray to betray his werewolf pack so he can bite them to create a hybrid army, but it fails, the spell having been crossed by Elena's secret resuscitation. Damon reluctantly follows Alaric and Elena, who recruited him to search for Stefano, wisely acting as backup. Jeremy, who is haunted by Vicky, gets initially reluctant Matt to ...
Klaus takes Stefano to Chicago, where he wants to resuscitate his sister Rebekah, who might hold the key to breaking the curse. Gradually, Stefano is reminded of his Prohibition period affair with her her while still bloodthirsty himself, and its tragic end. Tyler is rightly worried, turning for an ally to her mother sheriff Forbes, about the whereabouts of Caroline, whose bully father Bill actually holds her in a dungeon for 'vampire aversion therapy' of the most flagrant kind. Katherine puts Damon on feared Klaus's trail, so he can mount a rescue with Elena after ...
On Klaus's orders, original witch Gloria uses spells and torture to dig into helpless Stefano's memory and discover that the hybrid spell failed because the double lives. Alaric claims a 'regular human' seat in the town council, arguing it needs countering a vampire and a werewolf family member. Tyler and the sheriff help Caroline deal with her dangerously hostile bully father Bill. Damon is pushed too far. Jeremy and Bonnie face supernatural manifestations. He decides against allowing desperately lonely ghost Anna to contact him.
The homecoming dance becomes the backdrop for a battle of lethal wits between Damon's party, including Mikael and Rebeka although not at all reconciled, and Klaus's, which fields the hybrids by diverting the party to the Lockwood mansion. Tyler surprises Caroline by stating he doesn't really mind being under Klaus's spell as hybrid, it's not worse then monthly lunatic agony as pure werewolf. Fearing even with the eternal oak stake in Mikael's hand Klaus may outsmart them, Damon secretly enlisted Katherine, but Klaus prepared the most stunning surprise.
At the Mystic Falls High School, the seniors prepare pranks for the freshmen as per the tradition. Out of the blue, Klaus and Rebekah show up where Elena, Caroline, Bonnie, Tyler and Matt are and Klaus forces Tyler to feed with his blood and then he kills him. Bonnie and Matt run to find Jeremy to contact a witch from the beyond to learn how she can save Tyler before he dies. Stefan arrives in the spot and Klaus compels him, removing his humanity and asking him to look after Elena, killing her if she tries to escape. Meanwhile, Katherine shows Damon that she has ...
Elena meets Stephan at the high school and he tells that he is watching her following Klaus's order. Rebekah, who is living at the Salvatore's house, goes to the same classroom of Elena. Elena plots with Alaric and Damon to lock Stephan in the dungeon of their house. Tyler is fascinated and worshiping his sire bond with Klaus. Vicky convinces Matt to summon him from the afterlife while Anna tells to Jeremy that darkness is surrounding Vicky that has made a pact with an original witch. Vicky hits Matt on the head and seeks out Elena as part of her agreement with the ...
On the day of the Night of the Illumination in Mystic Falls, Mason ties Damon to a chair and the vampire believes that it is a prank of his brother Stephan. Later Mason tells that he is seeking redemption and wants to destroy Klaus to help Tyler. He goes with Damon to a cave with tunnels where it is supposed to have a weapon to destroy the Original Vampire. Elena asks Jeremy whether he may contact Lexi to learn how she can bring humanity back to Stephan, but her brother explains that he has no connection with Lexi. Bonnie goes with Caroline to the place where the ...
Damon, Alaric and Elena reach a hidden cage in the secret tunnel beneath the Lockwood mansion. Alaric studies the runes and primitive pictures, which indicate it was the home of an ancient Viking family, who interacted with the first werewolf, vampire and witch. They confront Rebekah, who is shocked to tie it up with her memories of their youth, when their father Mikael, now the only hunter they truly dread, bullied his sons, especially Niklaus, leading in interaction with the originally friendly werewolf neighbors to family drama and the origin of vampires. Adter ...
Damon is secretly tracking down Stefan's murders and covering his slaughtering in Tennessee with Alaric. On the day of Elena's birthday, Caroline plans a party for her at Damon's house. Meanwhile, Klaus and Stefan are chasing Ray Sutton, who is a werewolf, to know the place where his pack gathers. Jeremy continues to see Anna and Vicky and he tells Matt what is happening to him. During the party, Stefan gives a bloody message to Damon to stop following him and Carolina and Tyler spend the night together. Damon is shaken with Stefan's attitude and decides to forget him.Bonnie has weird dreams with four coffins. Jeremy hangs around with Tyler and invites him in his house. Stephan meets Bonnie and asks her to hide the coffins of Klaus's family. Klaus tries to force Damon and Elena to seek out Stephan and compels Jeremy to stand up in front of a pick-up driven by a hybrid in high speed without his ring; however Alaric saves him but has difficulties to recover. Jeremy kills the hybrid and he takes Alaric to the hospital with Elena. Damon meets Stephan and he tells that he saved Klaus to save Damon's life. Then Damon asks to participate ...