Klaus panics as shape-shifter Silas stabbed him with a splinter of the white oak stake. Caroline reluctantly agrees to remove it, if he allows Tyler to return safely, but ...

Ancient evil Silas is alive and hiding in someone, as turns out in Atticus, who succeeds in getting Bonnie and Caroline to complete the cycle of three dozen murders, now ...

Novel vampire Elena ruins a school party which ends up moved to the Salvatore house, only wild. The semi-willing hosting brothers not only fail to convince Elena she must ...

The expedition factions move in on Silas's tomb, desperate for the single dose of cure, but the primordial monster is awoken. Pretending to be Elena, Katherine gets away ...

Damon finds himself the prisoner of Galen Vaughn, one of the five Hunters, whose only goal is to kill Silas, even if that ruins the cure. Klaus toys with Tyler and Caroli ...

Tyler and Caroline are back just in time to watch Klaus, whom Bonnie's spell temporarily locked up in the Gilberts' home while they accompany the Salvatores and Rebekah o ...

Having locked up sired Damon to prevent him from killing Jeremy, Stefan teams up with Klaus to prevent Kol from doing so himself. Rebekah regrets the school gala being ca ...

Jeremy is furious when Klaus tries to control him by putting Matt's life in danger. Damon coaches Jeremy as he prepares to take on Klaus' new vampires, but they find that ...

Rebekah (CLAIRE HOLT) is back with a vengeance. Bonnie is uncomfortable when her father, Rudy Hopkins (RICK WORTHY - Supernatural), accepts the role of Interim Mayor. ...

Now that the hybrids have finally excruciatingly completed their siring therapy, Tyler takes goodbyes, being prepared to sacrifice the coming year or so as 'host' body fo ...

Tyler and Caroline find their scheme to break Klaus's sire hold on the hybrids challenged by the claim Adrian and his peers shouldn't suffer the horror of repeated transf ...

In order to speed up the slayer tattoos which contain the key to the cure, Stefan needs Jeremy to kill, hence even supplies a caught murderer. While more hybrids suffer t ...

Dead slayer Connor keeps entering Elena's visions, taking any shape to terrify her, kindling her fears and guilt, even tricking her into accidentally stake-stabbing Jerem ...

Slayer Connor has escaped, killing his hybrid guard, and takes hostages, including Jeremy, to lure and kill the vampires. Klaus convinces Stefan that they can't confide i ...

Klaus and Damon use Jeremy's posthumous witches dimension to draw Connor's magically invisible tattoo. While a hybrid guards the slayer, Klaus explains to the gang that i ...

Elena learns confronting Rebekah (CLAIRE HOLT) can be dangerous. Tyler gets a surprise visit from Hayley (PHOEBE TONKIN - The Secret Circle), a werewolf who helped him wi ...

Pastor Young's posse is killed in an explosion, so sheriff and mayoress are reinstated. Tyler is back in his body and happy with Caroline, who can't help worrying constan ...

Alaric having informed the founders council, mayoress and sheriff are deposed and zealot pastor Young takes charges of a ruthless hunt for vampires and werewolves. Klaus ...

Alaric has informed the ancestral council, which agreed to depose monsters-compromised sheriff and mayoress and resume the ruthless hunt for vampires. The Salvatore broth ...

Alaric isn't dying but transformed into a slayer like Michael, destined to eradicate vampires. The Salvatore brothers agree to dismiss their rivalry for Elena and seek al ...

Everyone is back home for the annual dance, with 1920s theme. Even Tyler risks rejoining lover Caroline, hoping he can persuade Klaus still to be under his vampire sire's ...

Damon and Elena, who this time can't resist him sexually, go see Jeremy in Denver, needing to use his trans-dimensional witches covenant connection to question Rose about ...

The brothers mobilize Alaric, Matt, Caroline and reluctant Elena to help kill at least one original, hence all, with the twelve stakes they forged from the remaining whit ...

Stefan still struggles desperately to get his blood-lust back under control. Damon keeps an eye on him, but has other priorities. Damon's former teacher Sage returns as h ...

Alaric is in jail accused by Dr. Fell of murder of the founders. Sheriff Forbes advises Damon to not interfere in her investigation. Damon recalls with Stefan the year of ...

After starting her day with a startling discovery of Damons' latest indiscretion, Elena is frustrated to find that none of her friends agree with her on how they should r ...

Now Klaus's original family's coffins are open, he's supplanted as family head by their sorceress-maker, mother Esther, who holds a grand ball in their splendidly restore ...

Now Klaus has Elijah back, they host a dinner party to negotiate a future with the Salvatore brothers, who actually procrastinate. Meanwhile combined witchcraft finally o ...

Prophetic dreams about the mysterious fourth coffin lead Bonnie and Elena to a surprising source, while Tyler seeks help to break free from Klaus' bond so he can be with ...

Bonnie tries to open the coffin and overhears something, but Damon and Stephan arrive in the house and Damon kills the hybrid. Elena and Bonnie are preparing a birthday p ...

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 f ...

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, whic ...