NARRATOR: Previously on The Vampire Diaries:
Being around you drives me nuts. And not being around you drives me nuts.
You two are miserable without each other.
So if you wanna be with him, just be with him.
I'm sorry but we need to make the doppelgänger blood useless.
One of you needs to die.
The spell started.
The spell will continue to unravel spirit magic as it spreads.
(SIZZLING THEN DAMON GRUNTS)
The Other Side is collapsing and everyone in it, including me, is going away.
Don't let go! Aah!
I'm pestering all of you till I'm returned to the land of the living.
MARKOS: Welcome back, Julian.
My wife's dead. I'm in somebody else's body.
I've got nowhere to go, my people are trying to kill me.
(GRUNTING)
(CAROLINE GASPS AND STEFAN GRUNTS)
There, dead doppelgänger...
-Oh, my God. -...stopped the spell.
No. Somebody help!
(CAROLINE SOBBING)
Oh, my God, Stefan.
I didn't know where to bring him. I just couldn't leave him outside.
Bonnie has a plan, right?
She said that she could bring people back.
Tell me that she can bring him back.
We'll bring him back. Come on.
Let's get away from prying eyes.
Okay.
(RUMBLING)
(GASPS)
(PANTING)
I got you.
Looks like I've saved you from metaphorical darkness...
...and actual darkness.
I think you owe me a beer.
Damon, stop.
-You said you had a plan, Bonnie. -I did.
-I had a Traveler who knew the spell. -And you lost her.
I didn't. She was sucked into oblivion like everyone else on the Other Side.
-Then find another one. -It's more than just knowing the spell.
Markos was able to come back...
...because Travelers were willing to sacrifice themselves to overwhelm me.
I doubt they'll be willing to do that for a bunch of supernatural strangers.
You know who needs motivation? You need motivation.
If the Other Side goes away, everyone we know there...
-...including you, goes away with it. -I know that.
Do you think I wanna die?
My brother is over there.
I know that.
So is Alaric, so is your grams.
I know that, Damon.
(ENZO CLEARS THROAT)
Let's not forget who else is at the top of the search-and-rescue list.
Enzo's here.
Well, if it's not Mr. Butterfingers himself.
How'd it feel to have your only hope of coming back slip through your fingers?
Hello to you, too, grumpy pants. Tell him to play nice, I have a plan.
Are you serious? You found another Traveler?
-Well, then, get on it. ENZO: I'm already on it, mate.
You'll still need someone to do this coming-back-from-the-dead spell.
I assume you still have a witch or two in your pocket?
More or less.
Oh, great. Grandma just passed us.
If you wanna drive, just say so.
No, I want you to drive.
Just at a speed more fitting for two people who just tried to commit murder.
They are not following us. Markos stripped the town of spirit magic.
There's no way they survived it.
Something tells me they did.
I bet if I turn around--
Using our own tricks against us.
Jerks.
Little tip.
If you're gonna flee the crime, take back roads.
You really wanna do this again?
The part where you try to kill a doppelgänger? There's no point, Stefan's already dead.
I know you don't believe me...
...but I am sorry.
ELENA: Good.
Because you're gonna help bring him back.
Look, I get what you need from us.
But if both doppelgängers are alive again, the Travelers can re-start their spell.
Witch magic goes bye-bye and all you vamps, you're goners.
They're not gonna have a chance to start again.
In order to bring Stefan back, we're gonna have to kill them.
-A lot of them. Including Markos. -We can't help you.
Even if we wanted to, our coven would kill us.
-Stefan saved your life. -I know he did but--
We can't risk it.
(LUKE GRUNTS)
-No! -Your brother is officially on the Other Side.
Think you can risk it now?
It is a good day, sheriff.
Maybe for you.
It took me all night to evacuate a 10-mile civilian radius around the town square.
Gas leak. Very clever.
I appreciate your cooperation.
It'll keep our residents away for now but certainly not forever.
We can think of something if we put our heads together.
FORBES: Why did they move our sign?
Our desire was to end spirit magic everywhere.
As you can see, we hit a snag.
Nevertheless, this is our home now. Just to keep things simple...
...we've reset the official border of Mystic Falls to where the spell begins.
Right there.
Of all the small towns to call home...
...you probably shouldn't have picked one full of vampires.
You think I'm afraid of vampires?
Maybe you think your friend, Damon, or your daughter can come save the day.
Let me give an example of why that would be unwise.
-Tyler. -Oh, that's not Tyler anymore.
That's Julian, the Traveler who betrayed his people...
...when he killed the doppelgänger and stopped the spell.
A big, scary werewolf-vampire hybrid.
And yet, a little vervain, a touch of wolfsbane, and here you are.
Weak and all mine.
You think you're a great leader because you pillage a town?
That makes you king now? Heh.
Sorry, your highness, but I don't buy it.
That's because you haven't set foot inside my kingdom.
The spell the Travelers cast across Mystic Falls eliminates spirit magic.
So while my people continue to have access to the earth's purest magic...
...your friend, Tyler, will be stripped of everything the witches did to him.
First, his hybrid side. Then, his vampirism.
And with no vampirism to keep him alive...
...he'll just be a boy with a werewolf gene who happened to break his neck.
No. No. No.
Don't do this, no. No. Stop.
Stop. Please don't.
Don't, no, please.
(JULIAN GRUNTING)
(BONES CRACKING) (GRUNTING)
(YELLING)
Oh, my God.
(GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
One less witch-twin in the world.
No, one more person we need to bring back.
This list is getting uncomfortably long.
Tell me about it.
But with Liv doing the spell, not bringing her brother back would be--
-Smart? Savvy? -Cruel.
It would be cruel.
But none of it matters if your mysterious Traveler doesn't show.
TYLER: Bonnie?
Tyler?
Is that you?
How the hell did I get here?
You're dead and you're you.
Caroline was right.
Dying eliminated your Passenger.
TYLER: Hang on.
Did you say I'm dead?
I did, but we can bring you back.
And the list keeps growing.
I need you to trust me, okay?
Do I have a choice?
(BONNIE GRUNTS)
Class is in session. First assignment, anti-magic perimeter.
Gilbert? What do you got?
I walked around Mystic Falls this morning to see where my hunter instincts disappeared.
Meaning what, your biceps shrunk and your brain got smaller?
Meaning I have a supernatural urge to kill vampires.
So wherever I hated you less, there was no magic.
The cemetery's outside of the no-magic perimeter.
Couple of unpopulated areas, other than--
CAROLINE (OVER PHONE): Hey, Professor Salvatore, not everyone can see the map.
ELENA: Yeah, don't forget about us. -Donovan, you had one job.
I'll send you a picture right now.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
(CELL PHONE BEEPS)
-We should be there. DAMON: Nope.
You should not be, you're on witch duty...
...because without crazy-locks, no one's rising from the dead.
So next order of business, mass murder.
Quarterback?
Thank you.
I got these from the sheriff.
Apparently, there was truth to her evacuation story.
A major gas line runs underneath the town.
Now, if it did leak, it could be deadly.
As in massive explosion kind of deadly.
We can't blow up our hometown.
Says one of the only people left in this group who can actually live there.
We're not blowing up our town.
We just need to lure enough Travelers to one spot.
How? We can't lure anyone anywhere stuck out here.
That's where your mama comes in.
She will convince them to gather somewhere inside.
Meanwhile, these two geniuses at 7:00 will turn on the gas, let it leak.
We'll have 10 minutes before anyone can smell it.
You clear out, boom.
Travelers gone, resurrection spell starts, loved ones return.
Good? Good?
Class dismissed.
Ha. I thought for sure he'd be here.
If you were a history teacher turned vampire, where else would you be?
You seem, uh, very intent on finding someone you barely know.
-I have a thing for day-drinkers. -Mm.
Plus he has a cute name.
Alaric. Mm.
We'll find him.
Seriously, this is what I have to look forward to when I come back to life?
-All-you-can-eat potato skins? -Mm.
Remind me again why you never made it to Portland.
I was attacked by Silas and locked in a safe to drown for three months.
Right. And then you made it out and yet, you're still here.
Either one of us could blink out of existence any second, so if you have something to say--
-Caroline. -What about Caroline?
-Wow, you really don't see it, do you? -See what?
Listen, I might not carry a lot of weight with you people, but I'm still the sheriff...
...and I still represent the people who live here.
Travelers haven't been able to gather for centuries.
Last thing they'll tolerate is a list of your ground rules.
What if there's an open bar.
(CHUCKLES)
She's trying to gather the Travelers. They're planning something.
I should go with you.
BONNIE: You need to go be a younger, hotter Bruce Willis.
And if I take one step into Mystic Falls, goodbye magic, goodbye Anchor, goodbye me.
At least, tell me how this works.
BONNIE: Being an Anchor is like being a gateway.
Usually, it's one way, but when the Travelers die, Liv will do the spell.
Her magic combined with all those Travelers opening the gate at once...
...will allow the people on the Other Side to push their way through me like Markos did.
-What about you? What happens? -I stop being the Anchor.
Yeah, but how do you get through?
Jeremy, I'll be fine.
Look, I gotta go, okay? Be careful.
What is your plan, exactly?
My plan is my job.
Just like the spell is yours, which apparently you suck at.
We should already be on the road.
I'm late, aren't I? My bad.
I was watching some 80-year-old witch get dragged off to never-never land.
It was, uh, weirdly entertaining.
-Stefan? -Not exactly.
Bonnie, meet the Traveler with our one-way ticket out of here.
Though you may know him better as an ancient immortal with a desperate need of a cure.
Oh, my God.
Silas.
You killed my dad.
And now, I'm gonna help you bring your friends back to life.
And me along with them.
So, what do you say...
...bygones?
-Where the hell is Alaric? -I don't know.
Maybe he finally found peace.
If he did, I'm gonna be pissed he beat me.
Why didn't you? If anyone was gonna find peace, it should be you.
I don't know. Maybe there's something I'm still supposed to do to, earn my stripes.
Let's make a deal.
If all this fails, and we're stuck here...
...we're not gonna let whatever's happening to these people happen to us.
-We're gonna find peace together. -A death peace pact?
I like it.
Come on, let's go. I'd hate for you to miss your come-back-to-life window...
-...before your first date with Caroline. -Oh, shut it.
(SILAS & BONNIE SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH) Esvet, not vat. I feel like I'm teaching calculus to an infant.
I'm a little nervous about unleashing a plague onto humanity.
Ooh. I've been upgraded to a plague?
Ah. How Biblical and fitting.
Seeing as I probably will kill a lot of people in an epic, all-inclusive way once I'm out of here.
Oh, speaking of, how is my shadow self?
Is it a crime for someone so good-looking to be so sad all the time?
Just teach me the damn spell.
Hey, did you find the Traveler that's gonna get us out of here?
Yep. Learning the spell as we speak. I'd introduce you, but, um--
Thank you, whoever you are.
-Oh, just a perfect specimen of man-- -Moody old lady, kind of senile.
Got it.
Well, I'm gonna call Damon. I'll let him know that we're ready.
Can we talk about the irony of blowing up the only place dumb enough to hire us?
I'm sure the Salvatores will make a generous contribution to help fix it.
Yeah, if they can come home.
No one said killing the Travelers will get rid of this anti-magic thing.
Although Mystic Falls might be a half-decent place to live again.
No more vampire attacks, crazy blood rituals, you know? Safe.
Like it used to be.
Except that I wouldn't be able to invite my girlfriend over.
There are worse things than having to visit your girl at college on weekends, Jer.
It's called normal.
We're here.
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS (ALL SHOUTING AND CHEERING)
I warned you they probably wouldn't give you the chance to speak.
They don't seem to have a problem with free food.
Where are you going?
I'm clearly not gonna have much of an impact here.
So I think it's time I take my own orders and evacuate.
We're not lawless, you know.
We could use someone like you. Have a drink with me.
Allow me to convince you this can be your home.
My home is a place my daughter can come visit. Goodbye.
Please, I insist.
-So you're good? -Operation Massacre.
Assuming Donovan knows the difference between a water and a gas main...
...yeah, I'm good.
Listen, I wanted to spare you the gory details.
Then I figured, I'd be lying and the point of saving the universe...
...will be moot because you'd be pissed.
So here it is.
Project Kaboom needs someone to trigger the explosion, so to speak.
Okay.
Wait, you?
No, Damon. No, absolutely not, no.
Go with your first instinct, Damon. Lesson learned.
Look at me, Damon.
Do you see a future with me?
Because that's all I see.
Elena, I've seen it since the second I laid eyes on you.
Then don't go on a suicide mission.
Listen, technically, it's only half a suicide mission.
We're gonna be bringing people back and I'm gonna be with them.
What if something goes wrong?
All right, not to relive old fights, but this is my choice.
And I need you to respect it.
(SCOFFS)
That was a low blow.
Hey, I will make it back to you.
I promise.
I promise you.
Everything all right in there?
We're good.
But Silas is a crappy mentor, FYI.
(WIND HOWLING)
It's back.
She's ready, let's get on with it.
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
(GRUNTS)
Help me.
(SILAS GRUNTING)
Bygones.
(SILAS YELLS)
(CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
You can do this, Liv.
(CONTINUES CHANTING)
(BELL TOLLS)
All right, it's 7:00 on the dot. Let's go.
(GAS HISSING)
(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING IN DISTANCE)
BONNIE: Come on, Grams.
Where are you?
SHEILA: Didn't I teach you not to rush your elders?
We move a little slower.
-Thank God. I found us all a way out. SHEILA: Think I was born yesterday?
I know what you're doing.
You cannot survive all these people coming through you.
And even if you could, when it's all said and done...
...you're still the Anchor. And when this place--
-I know what you're about to say. -No, you don't.
I was going to say...
...that it's been my privilege to watch you grow into the beautiful woman you've become.
(CHUCKLES)
You need to pass through me when the ritual begins.
No.
I'm staying here.
Grams, you can't.
This place is imploding and taking everyone with it.
I can't come, Bonnie.
You're not the only member of this family who knows how to make a sacrifice.
What does that mean?
It means that I'm gonna be fine.
I found peace...
...because I made sure that you'll find yours.
I don't understand.
Not your concern.
Just know I looked out for you.
(SOBS)
I love you, Bonnie.
You stay strong.
I love you.
(BONNIE SIGHS)
(CHATTERING)
(CELL PHONE RINGS)
Third phone call in five minutes.
-Look, what am I doing here? -I was wondering the same thing.
You evacuated the town, yet you stayed to lecture us on our civic duties?
Captain goes down with his ship.
Or you're up to something.
Do you smell gas?
I think there's a leak coming from the hatch.
(MARKOS GRUNTS)
(SIGHS)
(CELL PHONE BUZZING)
What the hell are you doing?
You said to respect your choice. And I did.
Now you can respect mine.
Whoa. No. No, that's not how this works, Elena.
The second we cross that border you're gonna feel everything.
You're gonna drown again. Take you back to the night you died a human.
I know what I signed up for, Damon.
And I'm all in.
(ELENA SIGHS)
What are you staring at?
Drive.
(CAR ENGINE STARTS)
Hurry. We have to die while we're still vampires--
(COUGHS)
No.
(TIRES SCREECHING)
No. Come on.
Damon.
I know.
(ALL SCREAMING)
(LIV CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(COUGHS THEN CONTINUES CHANTING)
LUKE: Just keep going.
We meet again.
We can do this all day, Bonnie.
Your friends kill me and I come right back through you.
I look forward to the déjà vu.
(BONNIE SCREAMING)
(CONTINUES CHANTING)
(GROANING)
-Bonnie. -Elena.
Did it work? Are you--?
-Yes. -Yeah?
-Did Damon--? DAMON: Right here.
BONNIE: Okay.
When you pass through me, you're gonna wake up on the Other Side.
-I need you to get back here as fast as you can. -Okay.
Did you seriously wear your seat belt?
Oh, my God.
Alaric, what are you--?
Come on. You gotta go.
What about Damon? I need to find him.
No, you need to go home to your brother. I'll find Damon.
-I can't-- -Come on, Elena. Get out of here.
-Go. -Okay.
(GROANS)
Liz. No. No, no.
(GRUNTS)
Come on.
Friendly advice, when you finally get the girl...
...don't blow her up.
(CHUCKLES)
-Good to see you too, buddy. -Yeah.
(FORBES GROANS)
I think she's gonna be okay.
(CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
(SOBBING AND CHANTING)
Bonnie. Bonnie.
Bonnie! Hey!
Look, it's too much for her. We need to start now.
No. We go together. Damon isn't here yet.
I don't care.
(BONNIE YELLS)
Hey. Liv.
Liv.
Hey, look, you need to stop now, okay? If you keep going, it's gonna kill you.
No. I promised that I'd help them.
(GRUNTS)
(CONTINUES CHANTING)
You need to come through.
What about everyone else?
You don't have to tell me twice.
(BONNIE YELLS)
ENZO: Whew.
Ah.
See you around, gorgeous.
(BONNIE GRUNTS)
-Tyler? -Yeah. It's me.
(BOTH LAUGH)
-Whoa. -What's wrong?
That felt different.
What do you mean?
(TYLER GRUNTS)
You're not healing.
I'm not a hybrid anymore.
Come on, guys, we don't have much time.
Grab my hand.
-Go. Go. You have to go. Come on. -No.
I can't find Damon.
-You go. I'll wait here. -No, I'm not leaving without him.
-This place is falling apart. -No.
(ELENA GRUNTS)
Elena, thank God.
No, Bonnie. Why would you do that?
-I can't leave without him. -We'll find him.
What's going on? Who are we missing? Where's Stefan?
(COUGHING)
Are you okay?
-What's going on? ELENA: Oh, my God.
Bonnie?
No. No. No.
-Stefan. -I was just trying--
-What's wrong? -She fell.
-I was trying-- CAROLINE: What?
Damon. He's not there yet.
-This isn't happening. -It's okay.
I can do this.
(ELENA WHIMPERING)
Bonnie.
This is killing you, isn't it?
I can hold on.
I have to. Just come through.
We have to finish this.
Not just yet.
(MARKOS GRUNTS)
(GRUNTING)
(YELLS)
Lexi. Come on. It's your turn.
Every person that passes through takes you one step closer to death.
What kind of a best friend would I be if you died before Stefan got his brother back?
You're not gonna get me.
(LIV CONTINUES CHANTING)
DAMON: Bonnie.
Thank God.
(COUGHS)
Screw those guys.
I won't let you die for them.
(CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
-Where's Elena? -She made it through.
-Okay. -Come on.
Well, would you look at that?
Oh, my God.
Liv!
No. No. No.
Bonnie. We need to find them.
-We need to start the spell again. -We can't. That was our one shot.
But Damon's on the Other Side. We have to--
Elena.
(SIGHS)
It's too late.
No.
(SOBBING)
He's here.
You can say goodbye.
I lost them both.
Two people I've known longest in this world...
...both gone.
Lexi?
She never came out.
Neither did Markos. I know that's not a coincidence.
It was her, uh, unfinished business.
And Damon, uh....
He finally had everything he wanted.
He was happy.
He should be here.
(STEFAN SOBS)
You lied to me.
(ELENA SOBBING)
Even if I wanted to apologize...
...you couldn't hear me.
So I won't.
Please, don't leave me.
I don't have a choice, baby.
You are by far the greatest thing that ever happened to me in my 173 years on this earth.
The fact that I get to die knowing that I was loved...
...not just by anyone...
...by you, Elena Gilbert...
...is the epitome of a fulfilled life.
(CONTINUES SOBBING)
It was never really gonna get any better than this.
I peaked.
I love you, Elena.
Please.
Please come back to me.
Bye.
Come back to me.
BONNIE: It was all a lie.
There was never a way for me to stop being the Anchor.
When the Other Side goes, I go with it.
You told me you could come back.
If I would've told you the truth...
...it would've changed our last days together.
I didn't want it to change.
We were happy.
So none of it was true?
Bonnie.
Don't move, okay? I'm coming to you.
I died, Jer.
I died the day before our graduation...
...and the rest of this has been a gift.
And I choose to be thankful that I didn't waste a second of it.
So...
...take care of Elena.
No. Don't you dare hang up on me.
-I love you. -Bonnie.
Bonnie, don't you dare--
(DOOR OPENS)
MATT: The main gas line's off, Jer.
Jer?
I need to get to Bonnie.
(ELENA SOBBING)
(GASPS)
He's gone.
JEREMY: Bonnie!
What's going on?
JEREMY: Bonnie!
This place is going down, isn't it?
It is.
I'm sure there are a million people we'd both rather be with right now.
But....
Couple thousand at most.
(BONNIE CHUCKLES)
Do you think it'll hurt?
I don't kno-- t'll hurt?