This week’s episode of The Vampire Diaries centered on the funeral of what was the last remaining Lockwood. Tyler’s fate was sealed when he crossed Damon’s path on his way back to his home, Mystic Falls. “Coming Home Was A Mistake” finally revealed why Tyler came back to the home he left behind months ago.

As everyone is reeling from the news that Damon murdered Tyler, Bonnie has Enzo captive in the cabin they lived in. She is trying to get him to turn his humanity switch back on. While in her custody, Enzo tries to escape but is unable to do so as Bonnie has set up a powerful barrier spell. She used the flame of imprisonment to lock Enzo inside the cabin. Only Bonnie can come and go as she pleases as she is the one who lit the flame. She is also the only one who can put it out and won’t do so until Enzo turns back on his switch.

Back at the armory Ric finally realized that Georgie has gone missing. He asks Sybil if she knows where she is and doesn’t get anything from her. He then has his intern do research on her whereabouts while he attends Tyler’s funeral.

At Tyler’s funeral Stefan, Ric, Caroline and Matt are all greeted by Damon who has dug graves for everyone promising to bury them all if they don’t back off. Not taking his threats seriously, Stefan tries to talk him down. This only infuriates him even more. He takes out his anger on Matt and force feeds him some of his blood, threating to kill him and turn him if anyone takes a step closer. The group finally gets the message and Damon releases Matt then parts ways.

Out of ideas Bonnie turns to Caroline for help with Enzo. Caroline tells Bonnie that she was able to flip on her switch by dealing with her biggest fear head on.

Stefan comes up with a plan of his own and tells Caroline and Ric that they have to put Damon down in order to save him from himself. This is only a temporary fix until they can figure out how to break Damon from Sybil’s spell.

Speaking of Damon and Sybil…. Damon pays a visit to our resident siren. Turns out he felt something when he killed Tyler which means he isn’t fully under Sybil’s control. There is still hope! However, that doesn’t mean Sybil will stop trying to rope him in. She tries to play on Damon’s emotions and asks him how Elena would feel about this in hopes to erase his emotional past. When that doesn’t work she threatens him with Cade. Sybil then tells Damon to go find his brother and see if he still wants to feel any human emotion after seeing the look on his face. She knows that patching things up with Stefan means Damon will have to feel loads of pain. Pain from killing Tyler and hurting his friends, pain from the disappointment he knows Elena would feel because of what he has done and much, much more.

Also trying to patch things up were Matt and his Dad. They were beginning to box up Tyler’s things when Matt lays into his Dad about the struggles he dealt with growing up; the time his Dad missed after he left home. A box was then delivered to Tyler’s home for Matt. A guy from the armory dropped it off and enclosed was a letter from Tyler asking for Matt to help him find someone. That someone being Seline. Turns out Tyler was helping Virginia St. John find the sirens and he wants Matt to finish the job. Inside the box were pictures of Seline, the second siren everyone is looking for.

Seline being her ever-so-helpful/deceitful self takes the twins to the carnival in town and sirens her way to winning the girls a gold fish. She makes sure it is a dead one so that they can “bury” it at home. Little do they know that they will be “burying” Georgie as well. Seline takes the twins to a warehouse and begins to tell them the story of Cade. She then has the twins call to Cade and set the gold fish and Georgie’s body on fire using some of Seline’s magic.

Speaking of fires… Bonnie uses gasoline to light the cabin on fire. She is using Enzo’s fear of abandonment against him. She refuses to leave the blazing home until he turns his switch back on. Even if that means she dies in the process. Bonnie passes out from smoke inhalation and possibly carbon monoxide poisoning. This is enough for Enzo to turn his switch back on and toss Bonnie outside into the fresh air. When she comes to Enzo is still burning in the cabin. Not willing to lose him again she dashes inside and puts out the flame of imprisonment with her hand. Enzo scoops her up and they escape before the home comes down. Benzo forever!

The Salvatore brother relationship may not last as long as Bonnie and Enzo, especially after Stefan was able to grab Stefan at the carnival. Well Caroline actually shot him with vervain darts. Same difference. They are going to be husband and wife soon enough and they can share the victory, however short-lived it is.

Unfortunately for Stefan and the rest of the gang, Sybil was able to break free from her chamber and leave the armory with the pitchfork. She then heads to Damon and breaks him free from his coffin and chains. He is completely hers now.

This all happens while they have a memorial service for Tyler. This time Enzo and Bonnie join Stefan, Caroline, Matt and Ric. Stefan then turns on the carnival rides on in order to show the group that they need to remember to live. We then hear Ric writing a diary entry to Elena.

Matt and Caroline also have a cute moment together. He asks how the girls are and she shows him pictures. One of the pictures is of the twins with their nanny Seline. Matt tells Caroline about Seline being the second siren and tells her and Ric to rush home. Unfortunately the twins are not there when they arrive. Seline has taken them.

Next Episode (Friday December 2^nd):

Cade comes out to play

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Misery sure does love company and this week’s episode of The Vampire Diaries was no exception. An eternity of misery was what Damon promised Stefan in the pilot episode of the series. Over the seasons Damon turned over a new leaf but it seems he has finally succumb to his dark nature this season.

Continuing to do Sybil’s bidding, Damon heads to Texas for Sybil’s next victim. He douses a mechanic at a garage named Lou in gasoline and makes him conduct electricity and set himself on fire after he does not disclose Peter Maxwell’s (Damon’s true target) location. Turns out Damon is looking for a Maxwell family heirloom. Peter returns after his co-worker has charred and Damon demands Peter turn over the heirloom. He tries to compel him but much to his surprise good ‘ole Pete has been unknowingly vervained via a watch given to him by his son.

More surprises unravel for Damon as he learns Matt is Peter’s son. That’s why Pete looked so familiar. Anyway, angered by Peter’s inability to find the heirloom Damon stabs him. Luckily Matt comes to his father’s rescue and knocks Damon out. He then tells Dear Old Dad to drink Damon’s blood in order to heal his wound. Matt then ties up Damon and tortures him to get him to talk. We then learn Damon only injured Tyler and hasn’t killed him yet. He is bleeding in a park and go off of I-20. Matt leaves Damon behind goes off to save Tyler with his father.

Matt tells his father the truth about everything, supernatural creatures and all, on their ride to find Tyler. Unfortunately they are too late; Matt discovers a dead Tyler. He breaks down and his father consoles him.

Back at the garage, Damon forces a tool rack on himself in order to break free of his restraints. He finds the heirloom he was looking for and heads back to Sybil who has been keeping Alaric and Stefan busy all episode.

In this episode we learn the misery Sybil suffered at the hands of her family, both chosen and blood. Sybil tells Alaric and Stefan the story of Arcadius (Cade), the first psychic. He was stoned and burned at the stake because of the fear of other villagers. Cade got his final revenge on the villagers in death. He created hell with a psychic blast so powerful that it created its own world. Sybil then dives into her back story. She was exiled from her Mediterranean village because of her psychic abilities. A girl from the island becomes her sister as they both share the same psychic abilities. The two would lure sailors to their death and take their food and other previsions as they would wash up on shore. Sybil later learned that there were no previsions just sailors.

Turns out Sybil’s sister is still living and is very, very close by. She has been for a while now. Unfortunately before Stefan or Alaric can get an answer they are attacked by Georgie. Georgie vervains Stefan and traps Alaric in the tunnel system. Ric has to make himself blind and stabs his ear drums to make himself deaf in order to escape the tunnels. He ultimately escapes and comes out in the town square.

The same place where Georgie meets her end at the hands of Sybil’s sister aka Seline!!!!!!! Georgie was forced to attack both Stefan and Ric because Seline wanted her to rescue Sybil. Unfortunately Sybil wants nothing to do with her sister. Seline disappointed in Georgie’s persuasion skills as well as her sister, kills Georgie for failing at her mission. Moments later Georgie wakes up in hell and watches as Seline devours her body. She is then whisked away in the same fashion as Katherine was.

In his vervained state, Stefan is given even more insight as to who Sybil is and why she became who she became. She enters his mind with her memories. We learn Seline forced this life on her just as Stefan forced Damon into the vampire lifestyle.

She then goes on to show Stefan how she tried to kill herself but Arcadius came to her rescue. Seline made a deal with Cade; immortality, beauty and youth in exchange for serving their new master. Sybil tells Stefan there is no escape. The stain of his sins will always remain on his soul no matter how much he atones. This is why Damon chose to serve Cade for all eternity rather than suffer. Sybil tells Stefan he will too. That Cade is the answer to his problems. If he wants to help Damon all he has to do is kill the devil aka Cade. Is Cade the true “big bad” of this season? What misery awaits our heroes? Why does Sybil want Cade dead? Does that action set her free?

Just in case you missed it:

Even though we didn’t see it, Bonnie is vervaining and draining Enzo; the first step toward making him turn his switch back on.

Next Week:

Stefan decides he has to put Damon down even if that means losing him forever.

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In “You Decided I Was Worth Saving” Sybil continued to infiltrate Damon’s mind and change his memories of Elena. The first act of the episode kicked off with a flashback to the day Elena’s parents died. In this rendition all of the Gilbert’s including Elena die in the accident off Wickery Bridge. Sybil asks Damon if he knew Elena, he says he never met her. All memory of his beloved Elena has been erased. Knowing that she has hooked her claws into Damon, she asks him to kill Bonnie. More trouble in paradise for Benzo.

Unaware she is being hunted Bonnie and Caroline celebrate Caroline’s engagement to Stefan. Bonnie pops a bottle of champagne, finds Caroline’s old wedding book and takes her wedding dress shopping. Caroline is getting the June wedding she always dreamed of. As the duo look at dresses while Panic at the Disco’s Death of a Bachelor plays in the background, Damon enters the shop and quickly severs the celebration. Bonnie is grabbed by Damon but Caroline comes to her rescue, injuring Damon and allowing the two of them to escape.

Later in the episode Sybil learns about Damon and Bonnie’s relationship. She realizes that is the last piece of the puzzle; the final bit of humanity holding him back. She then penetrates those memories and erases Bonnie from Damon’s mind. Realizing he is in trouble Damon calls on Stefan for help. He has Enzo in his trunk, tied up and unconscious. This leaves Sybil to do her own bidding. She arrives at the Salvatore mansion and is waiting to meet Bonnie and Caroline. Sybil wants to have a heart-to-heart, although her definition of a heart-to-heart is a little skewed. She wants to make Bonnie choose between two literal hearts. Damon or Enzo. One lives and one dies spending an eternity in darkness, pain and emotional torment. Unfortunately for Sybil, Bonnie won’t play her game. However she does have a plan b.

12 minutes from the moment she arrives Damon and Enzo will fight to the death. If Bonnie doesn’t choose they will figure it out themselves. We then learn that Damon asked for Stefan’s help in killing Enzo. He knows that in the end Stefan will choose to save him over Enzo. In route to the battle, Bonnie sends Sybil flying through the windshield (always wear a seatbelt people) and races to save Enzo. Stefan is unsuccessfully trying to tear Damon and Enzo apart. Enzo goes in for the kill and Stefan protects his brother. He is forced to attack Enzo but Caroline and Bonnie arrive in time to stop him. Damon then snaps Caroline’s neck and Enzo does the same to Stefan.

Bonnie pleads with Damon to fight through Sybil’s spell and not kill Enzo to no avail. Sybil arrives and the only way Bonnie can save Enzo is by choosing him, thus completely demolishing her relationship with Damon. This does not satisfy Sybil and she turns the tables once again. She will now have Damon kill Bonnie unless Enzo turns off his humanity. Wanting to save the love of his life, Enzo flips off his humanity switch trusting that Bonnie will be able to turn it back on down the line. Long live Benzo!

You can’t trust Sybil as far as you can throw her. As soon as Enzo flips his switch she commands Damon to kill Bonnie giving her a 10 second head start. Ric to the rescue! Using the pitch fork he and Georgie uncovered, Ric is able to debilitate Sybil and they capture her. However, she is still able to control her minions. She sends Damon on a mission to change hearts and minds by destroying his relationships. Poor Tyler Lockwood. He comes back to town, sporting some scruff, and is torn to pieces by Damon. There may be no coming back from this, although Ric believes that they can bring him back. One can only hope.

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Sybil has a sister

Stefan is vervained

Stefan and Sybil meet face to face

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Friday’s episode [October 30^th] of ‘The Vampire Diaries’ gave us a peek at the type of person our “big bad” for our final season is. Sybil, a siren and captor of Damon and Enzo, starts off the episode by luring a man to his death via singing. After she devours her meal, we learn she is unable to get inside Enzo’s head. Enzo is trying so hard to keep Sybil from finding out about Bonnie, therefore he is forced to give her a name to stop her prying. Unfortunately that name is Sarah Nelson.

Sarah Nelson aka Sarah Salvatore is the last remaining blood relative to Damon and Stefan. She is the child from their Uncle Zack and his girlfriend, who Damon murdered. Enzo realizes the danger he has put Sarah in and tries to alert the trio (Stefan, Caroline and Bonnie) by killing two other Sarah Nelson’s in North Carolina. The trio catches on and quickly races to go save Sarah before Damon and Sybil are able to get to her.

As if Bonnie hasn’t suffered enough, she becomes the third wheel to Steroline. You could see the pain cross her face when Caroline and Stefan touched hands. Bonnie is lost and hurt without Enzo. She feels so alone that she wants to die.

Caroline, Stefan and Bonnie reach Sarah and run into Enzo who was trying to help her escape. Not wanting to go anywhere with Stefan, Sarah argues and says the only way she is leaving is with Enzo. Unfortunately she doesn’t get that chance as Bonnie decides to take matters into her own hands; she vervains Enzo and kidnaps him unaware of the danger that presents. As this is going on Damon arrives, stabs Caroline, takes her daylight ring and smashes her cell phone. Damon then finds Sarah and attempts to kill her as Stefan tries talking him down. He listens and lets Sarah go only to reveal that Sybil was waiting behind the door the whole time. Sybil stabs her and compels Stefan to stay still. He can only watch Sarah die a slow and painful death. The last living Salvatore is dead. Their bloodline is gone and Stefan has been the reason behind or been involved with every Salvatore death.

Sybil is a crafty one. She overheard Stefan remind Damon about Elena and she is then able to see their first moment together. Damon stops fighting her and she is able to see their whole relationship. This is how she is going to win his complete obedience. Sybil inserts herself into all those memories erasing any trace of Elena.

We then jump back to Enzo’s kidnapping. Enzo pleads with Bonnie to let him go. He doesn’t want to put her in danger. He goes on to explain to Bonnie that if he gets too far away from Sybil she pulls him back by causing him psychical pain. Bonnie is forced to let him go and she heads back to Stefan and Caroline. Moments later Bonnie finds Caroline and gives her, her daylight ring back. The two get into an argument and Bonnie unloads all her emotions unto her. Caroline then realizes how much she had been neglecting her friend and vows to be there for her no matter what.

Speaking of vows… After Stefan creates a room in the Salvatore mansion for the twins, he proposes to Caroline. Caroline of course says yes! She is his family now.  #Steroline4ever

Paradise may be in sight for this couple, not so much for Enzo and Bonnie. After Enzo returned to Sybil, Damon injures him enough to allow her to see into Enzo’s memories/subconscious. Sybil sees Enzo and Bonnie kiss. Bonnie is now in more danger than ever before. Hopefully the information Alaric and Georgie uncovered at the armory can help her.

After Georgie got over her jealousy of “the hot nanny” aka Seline, she and Ric discover a cuneiform symbol. Georgie, terrified of what she just saw, takes off after seeing the symbol. Come to find out Georgie has seen the symbol before and has a tattoo of it. Georgie tells Ric she saw the symbol when she was dead; she was texting while driving drunk and got into an accident that killed her friend. She woke up somewhere else and could only see the symbol while feeling extreme and never ending pain and loneliness. Georgie becomes a firsthand source on the cuneiform symbol and goes on to uncover a missing artifact from 1790 in the vault with the same symbol on it. This is the same vault Sybil came out of. Does it belong to her? Can it defeat her?

Next Week:

Caroline plans her wedding.

Damon plans Bonnie’s murder.

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Ahhhh The Vampire Diaries has returned. The 8^th and final season of The CW show gave a slow and steady build in its premiere hour, ultimately revealing the face of our final big-bad. The biggest bad we have ever seen according to executive producer Julie Plec. “Hello Brother” kicks off with Damon and Enzo kidnapping a couple. The young girl dies quickly while her male counterpart gets tortured.

Steroline is back in full swing after reconciling in the season 7 finale. Therefore Bonnie is writing to Elena now; the three friends are taking turns writing to her. Not soon after she finishes up her journal entry, the police find the body of the young girl. Later in the episode we find out that Enzo left the girl’s body as a clue. Guitar wire was found around her neck and candle wax was found in her ear only 3 miles from an abandoned warehouse with drainage issues.

Bonnie has flashbacks of her and Enzo’s relationship. Him teaching her how to play the guitar and reading the Odyssey and a book on sirens to her. She then puts two and two together and realizes he is leaving her messages at the crime scene based off stories of the sirens; the wax, how he setup the girl’s body. Enzo wants them to help fight the creature. That’s why he is leaving clues. Enzo wanted Bonnie and Stefan to find them.

Damon has switched off his humanity again in order to survive. He has it in his head that there is no such thing as redemption. However, he still has flashbacks of the first time he and Elena met. Damon is calling out to Elena for help. He doesn’t know how long he can fight. Stefan learns this the hard way when he finds the warehouse.

Damon says his famous “Hello brother” line [God I love when he says that!] and proceeds to tell Stefan to give up and walk away. The banter between the Salvatore brothers continues but is cut short when Bonnie arrives and Damon realizes Stefan won’t leave without him. Stefan then stabs Damon with a broom stick in an attempt to kidnap him. Enzo comes out of nowhere and punches Stefan as Damon takes Bonnie hostage.

Stefan and Bonnie leave without Damon and Enzo. After seeing Enzo, Bonnie has regained her hope however Stefan may have lost his. Stefan is afraid Damon may never forgive him.

Understandably so, Damon did tell Stefan that his life has been over for over a century when Stefan took it away from him; when Stefan forced him to become a vampire. However, this was one last blow in hopes to keep his brother out of harm’s way. Damon is trying to protect Stefan from the creature that has Enzo and him under its grasp. Damon shut off his humanity because “You care for nothing, it can see nothing.” The creature will hurt or kill what you love.

Later on in the episode Damon and Enzo take another victim. This time it’s a painter who paints with human blood. As we learn the creature can sense evil/darkness in people and feeds off of that. It knows your darkest secrets, even if you try to hide them. The creature is revealed to be a woman toward the last act of the episode. She is singing and apparently has had enough to eat as she was strong enough to introduce herself to the boys.

Georgie and Alaric’s intern discover a place in the armory where you can go through the wall. The same wall that Damon, Enzo and the creature used to escape the armory. This wall leads to another tunnel, which leads to a hidden door with hidden treasures. While Ric is uncovering treasures his children and nanny (Seline) are being attacked by Virginia; the girl who escaped from the mental institution in season 7 and knows everything there is to know about the woman controlling Damon and Enzo.

Virginia slices Seline’s throat and goes after the twins. Caroline quickly arrives and knocks out Virginia. She then gives Seline her blood, saves her and has her take the twins out for ice cream so she can interrogate the deranged woman. Virginia lets Caroline know that the creature (siren woman) wants the twins. But why?

Before we can find out Virginia swallows her own tongue and dies.

Ric returns to the house and tells Caroline to go live with Stefan. He will move into her childhood home with the girls because it is what she wants. It will make her happy. Georgie may end up making him happy but he isn’t up for trying anything…yet.

Steroline moves in together and Stefan writes to Elena telling him that he thinks he lost Damon but promises he won’t give up on him.

Next week:

The siren comes out to play. Hello Sybil.

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