So what am I looking at here, hmm, blood clot, tumor, what?
MMax
I did a full workup on your blood, Katherine. It's clean.
My hair is going gray, and my teeth are falling out. I'm not sure what the suggests, but it's definitely not health.
MMax
Patient is irritable. Not sure if this is a symptom or personality.
(breaks the recorder) Personality. Now tell me exactly what the hell is going on with me.
MMax
You said you were turned into a vampire 500 years ago, give or take, and now that your human, let's say time is catching up with you.
Ok. Ok. Well, how do we stop it?
MMax
We don't. It's just life running its course quicker than normal.
MMax
If it continues at this rate, you have a few months. I'm sorry.
Relax. I'm-- I'm just bringing dinner.
AAmara
You're the Hunter. I never forget a face, but Silas killed you. You're dead.
AAmara
How? I said how? (to Bonnie) It was you, wasn't it? You're a witch. You brought him back.
AAmara
Of course I can see you. I'm not blind. I have eyes. Or are you dead? I get so mixed up. I can't tell the difference between the living and the dead.
Can you see people on the other side?
AAmara
I am the anchor to the other side. I can see everything. Gah! Don't touch me! Please don't-- don't touch me.
Jer, I think I've got an idea.
(Scene shift)
Amara could see Bonnie, and Bonnie could touch her. They made physical contact. It's like Amara's got a foot on each side or something.
Amara exists in both places at once, here and the other side?
Then she's not crazy crazy, she's just talking to dead supernatural beings roaming around in our basement.
The point is, if Silas isn't going to help us, what if Bonnie could be the same thing? What if she existed on both sides at once? What if she became the anchor?
You're right. Jeremy, you're right. So all we need is someone who could do that spell.
Oh, please don't say who I think you're gonna say.
Think about it. Silas wants Amara to die, and Amara wants Amara to die, so who besides us is the one person with the biggest stake against letting that happen?
(Scene shift)
I was hoping we could talk.
And I was hoping you were my Chinese food. Good-bye.
You remember Amara, right, brunette, brown eyes, I'm surprisingly not in love with her?
Well, she took the cure, she wants to die, and we have her.
For now. Silas is literally on his way here to kill her. He's completely obsessed with destroying the other side so that he and Amara can live happily ever after in the great beyond. Man, you were right about these Doppelgängers. They do always end up together. So how does it feel to say, "I told you so"?
Like I want to shoot fireballs at Silas and drown him in acid.
See? That's what I thought. So how would you feel about making us a deal?
So here's my pitch. In order to keep the other side in place, you need something to anchor the spell, right, something powerful, like an immortal being powerful. Now Amara was obviously a great choice until she downed the cure, so would you consider someone who's dead but stuck on the other side a viable candidate?
Because I've got a volunteer.
I'd be making a ghost a human toll booth between our side and the other side, giving her the power to interact with our physical world and the supernatural purgatory.
I need a massive amount of power to do a transfer spell like that.
I need something to draw on. The moon's not full, I don't think there's a worthy comet for another couple billion years.
think hard. I have a girlfriend at home who misses her best friend and a wacky stowaway on suicide watch. It's ridiculous.
Doppelgängers. They're powerful, mystically, naturally recurring.
You want Doppelgänger blood? I got Doppelgängers coming out of my ears. How many do you want?
You hate junk food. You call it toxic poison.
Yeah? Well, I've decided to live a little. Now may I be excused, scary vampire daughter?
You've been avoiding me, I don't like it.
We had a moment you and i, there was a bond. and then nothing. You abandoned me all over again.
Okay. first of all, i never abandoned you, you were snatched out of my arms at birth because my father thought i was a knocked up shameful slut. and second of all, it's been 500 years, do we really have to do this whole mother-daughter bonding thing? the estrangement is so much easier, don't you think?
sorry to Interrupt the world's weirdest lunch, [to Katherine] but you with the Doppelgänger blood, duty calls.
wonderful, now that Katherine is a human and fragile, everyone thinks that they can just boss her around.
Look, I thought that killing Silas would allow me to move on with my life, but I was wrong. I spent my summer locked in a safe. One minute, I think I'm fine, the next minute I feel like I'm dying all over again.
Oh. Classic PTSD. You survived a pretty traumatic event, and now you're back, and you've got nothing but free time to just relive that terrible experience in the safe. Well, allow me to give your life a purpose. Help me with one little favor.
Should have known this was gonna come around to you needing something from me.
I'm just trying to help. What would I know about post-traumatic stress? I only had my newborn ripped from my arms by my judgmental father ,and then had to run 500 years after my entire family had been slaughtered by a psychopath. But hey, that didn't have any lingering side effects...
(voice-over) Dear Diary, so here I am alive. Stefan saved me from killing myself. Now he's got me on suicide watch. He says it will be therapeutic for me to write down my feelings about the fact that I'm dying and there's nothing I can do about it. Deep thoughts, mortal coil, blah, blah, blah. Ugh. My hand's tired. (to Stefan) What kind of sentimental idiot writes down everything hey feel? Is this what the prophecy meant when it said that all the Doppelgängers were drawn together like magnets? Because if it is, I any my money back.
I'm just trying to make sure you don't slit your wrists.
Well, this whole neurotic granny vibe doesn't exactly make me want to live. Do you really have nothing better to do than stand there all day and watch me write in cursive?
I'm trying to make sure you don't kill yourself.
And how are you going to do that, you know, since you're still having your little panic attacks?
Yeah. Of course. You are the picture of mental health, Stefan, after being locked for 3 months in a safe at the bottom of a quarry.
I know. I mean, I heard you "dealing" with it earlier today in the library. It sounded like you freaked out and broke a chair, maybe even two. How are you supposed to help me stay alive if you can't even help yourself?
So does this mean you want to live?
No. It means that I can't work with people who can't give me 100%.
What the hell happened to you?
Ditto. Elena's not here by any chance, is she?
I haven't seen her, not that I've been looking.
You know, he hasn't seen her either. I know because we were together ... All night.
Look, I've had a really crappy couple of days, ok? If you're implying what I think you're implying--
Why? What were you thinking? That our hot, naked bodies collided in one unforgettable night of passion?
Great. Then my work here is done. Too-do-loo.
Where the hell have you been?
Aw, you know, being held against my will, shot in the head, and now I can't find Elena. How was your evening? Anything out of the ordinary happen?
Wait a minute. What do you mean you can't find Elena?
I mean, she's not picking up her phone, she's not in her dorm, she's nowhere in this house, which leads me to believe that Dr. Creepy Ken doll has her somewhere.
Are you talking about the Whitmore bio teacher?
Yeah, the one that operates on vampires during business hours, yeah, that one. Put your hero hair on, Stefan. Let's go get Elena.
You just said you don't know where she is.
I don't, which means we're gonna have to find us some leverage. So come on.
I'm not defending you. I'm not defending your decision to kill Aaron's entire family, to go out of the town and kill his aunt while we are so together.
So why are you still here? I'm bad Elena. I'm bad for you! So why wouldn't have you run away from me as far as humanly possibile?
'Cause I love you, Damon. Because I chose you and I stand by my choice.
Now I'm choosing. And I'm choosing to let you go.
I'm choosing to not to think about you must feel every time some ghost from my past comes in our lives. I'm choosing to relieve you of having to defend me for every awful thing I've ever done.
Stop acting like I'm perfect! Damon, I've done horrible things too. You think I wanna stand here and judging you after you've tortured for 5 years?
Stop defending me! I won't change who I am. I can't. But I refuse to change you.
