2010

"“For a thousand years, I've been forced to watch you. Felt the pain of every victim, suffered while you shed blood. Even you, Elijah, with your claim to nobility, you're no better. All of you. You're a curse on this Earth. Stretched out over generations. If you've come to plead for your life, I'm sorry, you've wasted your time.“""- Esther about her children’s indiscretions"

March 25, 2010

 * Jeremy and Stefan realize that Elena is missing.
 * Trevor kills the man who kidnapped Elena, and take her to Rose. They call Elijah.
 * Bonnie does a locator spell and finds where they are keeping Elena. Her nose bleeds (but none of the vampires smell it or vamp out because there's already Jeremy's blood in the room) Jeremy looks at the area on satellite pictures and finds an isolated house.
 * Bonnie does a spell to send Elena a message, her nose bleeds again, and she passes out.
 * Rose tells Elena that her blood can break the curse of the sun and the moon, because she is a Petrova Doppelgänger.
 * It's the first time that "The Originals" are mentioned.
 * Rose tells Elijah that Katherine is alive, and she has a doppelgänger. Elijah "forgives" Trevor, but cuts his head for betraying his trust. He says he understands Rose's loyalty to Trevor, and grants her forgiveness.
 * Elena tries to negotiate with Elijah, but he compels her and learns that Katherine has the moonstone in the tomb.
 * Stefan and Damon battle Elijah. Elena throws a vervain grenade on his face. Damon stakes him with a wooden coat rack, but that does not kill Elijah.
 * Tyler puts pressure in Caroline until she tells him she is a vampire.
 * Stefan apologises to Damon for having turned him 145 years ago.
 * Rose warns Stefan that Klaus will be coming for Elena.
 * Damon tells Elena that he loves her, but he does not feel he deserves her. He then compels her to forget what he said. He returns her vervain necklace.

March 26, 2010
Katherine tells Elena how she turned into a vampire in 1492, after she learned that Klaus needed to sacrifice her to break the curse. Elena figures that besides the stone and the doppelgänger, he also needs to sacrifice a werewolf. Katherine tells her they also need a vampire, and a witch to do the spell. Katherine tells her that Klaus killed her whole family in revenge, and that everybody that Elena cares for are in danger. Elijah uses coins to break the cafe's windows. He compels Slater to call Rose and tell her that a witch can un-spell the moonstone (which is a lie - one witch cannot undo a spell made by another witch).
 * The Martins arrive in Mystic Falls. Luka puts the moves on Bonnie.
 * Elena asks Caroline to open the Tomb so she can speak to Katherine, and to distract Stefan.
 * Damon and Rose go visit Slater. Slater tells them that if a werewolf lifts the curse, they will be able to turn at will but the vampires will be stuck in night time. If the vampires break the curse, they will be able to walk in daylight, but werewolves will be stuck with the full moon forever.
 * Then he compels Slater to stake himself.
 * Dr Jonas Martin is working for Elijah.

March 30, 2010

 * Jules appears in Mystic Falls, and tells Carol that Mason never made it to Florida.
 * Because Elena is still determined to turn herself over to Klaus with the Moonstone, Damon and Jeremy have Bonnie make a spell to trap her inside the house.
 * Alaric and Damon try to poison Jules with Wolfsbane, but she outsmarts both of them. She also warns him that "he has been marked".
 * Elijah gets invited inside Elena's house. He offers her a deal: Elena has to stop to try and kill herself (by contacting Klaus), and Elijah will protect all her loved ones - until he has the opportunity to kill Klaus. Elena asks him to free Stefan from the tomb, and accepts the deal. For now.
 * Stefan and Katherine taunt each other. Katherine suggest they ask Isobel about Klaus.
 * Luka pretends to de-spell the Moonstone, create some fireworks, and deliver the stone to Elijah.
 * Caroline stand by Tyler as long as she can for his transformation.
 * Jules, in wolf form, breaks into the Salvatore house, and bites Rose.

April 2, 2010

 * Stevie deduces that someone is getting all the ingredients together to break the Sun and the Moon curse. So they decide they must stay and stop it.
 * In Caroline's house, Elena, Bonnie and Caroline are sleeping following last night's girls night, Stefan calls Elena, she tells him that, since her dad is in town, she wants to go as far away as possible. They go to the Lake House.
 * In the Salvatore Boarding House, Damon compels Andie not to reveal any of his secrets. Alaric asks Damon not to kill Andie, and to beware of Elijah.
 * In the grill, Caroline and Bonnie have a plan to take down Luka. She gets into his mind and forces him to tell the plan to kill Klaus. They are all horrified to learn that Elena still dies during the ritual.
 * At the lake house, Stefan and Elena are making out in the lake house. They discover a hollow wall that hides a secret door. In the room, they see a lot of vampire-hunter's weapons and the rest of Johnathan Gilbert's journals.
 * At the Historical Society Tea Party, Damon tries to pressure Elijah to reveal more of the plan, but Elijah easily overpowers him. John tells Alaric that he wants his ring back soon.
 * The werewolves break into Damon's house, kill Alaric and inject Damon with vervain. They chain Damon to a chair and torture him to find out where is the Moonstone. Elijah appears and saves Damon, again, ripping the hearts from three werewolves. Jules escapes.
 * Tyler and Brady go the lake house, shoot Stefan and try to capture Elena. Elena fights back, and Stefan tells Tyler what the werewolves have not told him: that to break the curse, Elena has to die.
 * Tyler leaves a letter to his mom, tells Matt to be good to Caroline and goes to Caroline's house, just to see her. Then he leaves town with Jules.

April 3, 2010

 * Still at her family cabin, Elena reads Johnathan Gilbert's old journals about vampires. Stefan explains that when he first became a vampire, he was out of control from guilt and fear, leading him to turn off his emotions and behave recklessly.
 * Damon goes to visit Katherine's tomb. Katherine reveals that it is possible to kill an Original, but begs Damon to not kill Elijah until she figures out a way to get out of the tomb. She explains that if Elijah dies, she'll be compelled to stay in the tomb forever.
 * At the party, Alaric stops Damon just in time and surprises everyone by stabbing Elijah. Elijah appears dead, and they put his body in the cellar before Jenna comes back. Unfortunately, the dagger must stay in the body for the Original to stay dead. Elijah flees to the Martin household. Jonas learns that Bonnie knows about Luka's sister.
 * The seeds of suspicion that John planted in Jenna's mind are growing - probably because Alaric is actually hiding a whole lot of things from her. She breaks up with him, and Alaric gives the ring to John.
 * Jonas heads over to the Gilbert's where Bonnie and Jeremy are practicing spells. Jonas threatens them both and strips Bonnie of her powers.
 * Elijah shows up at the lake house and tells Elena that their deal is off, and demands that Elena come with him. Elena threatens to turn herself into a vampire. After Elijah renews the deal with her, Elena moves towards him and stabs him with the white oak dagger.
 * Back at the Salvatore's, Damon sees someone in the shower and assumes it's Andie; however, Katherine steps out from the shower, smugly explaining that when an Original dies, the compulsion wears off. She tells Damon that she wants to help Elena and the brothers.

April 9, 2010
Klaus takes possession of Alaric's body.
 * Caroline calls Stefan and tells him Matt now knows about vampires, but she can't find him anywhere. He is talking with Sheriff Forbes.
 * John invites Isobel into the Gilbert House to speak with Stefan and Elena. She heard that there are rumors that the doppelgänger is alive, so Klaus should be coming any minute now. She offers Elena a safe house - a house in her name where she can control which vampires can get in.
 * Damon, Bonnie and Jeremy go the Martin's house. Luka's body is still in the room. They are looking for the grimoire that has the spell to harness ancient dead-witch power. They then go to the witch burial ground. Damon is not welcome inside, but Bonnie does the spell and harness the witches power - she is locked and loaded.
 * Elena meets with Isobel. Isobel is working on a deal with Klaus to spare Katherine if she delivers the moonstone and the doppelgänger - they are both double crossing Damon and Stefan.
 * Katherine finds the moonstone hidden in the soap bowl.
 * Isobel delivers Alaric to Maddox, after telling him that she loved him. She then kills John at the Historical Society meeting, and Katherine changes place with Elena and vervains Stefan.
 * Isobel delivers Katherine to Maddox.
 * Isobel brings Elena to the Grove Hill Cemetery where they stand at her grave. The grave was put there by Elena's grandparents when it became clear to them that the police were never going to find Isobel's body. Isobel received a phone call from Maddox who told her that she has finished what Klaus compelled her to do and is free to let Elena go, she then she removed her lapis lazuli necklace and burned to death.
 * Matt asks Caroline to tell him all about vampires, then asks her to erase his memories. But he is on vervain and working with Sheriff Forbes, who does not know what to do about this information.

April 26, 2010

 * Klaus/Alaric has Katherine imprisoned and is learning about Elena's life from her.
 * Damon and Stefan transfer the deeds of the house to Elena, creating her personal safe house. But Elena makes Damon promise they will do things her way from now on before she invites him in.
 * Jeremy is divided. If Bonnie uses all of her power to defeat Klaus she might die. If she doesn't it could be Elena.
 * Klaus sends message that he is around, inviting Elena to the dance, asking her to save the last dance for him and dedicating a song for her.
 * After Klaus/Alaric finds out that Bonnie is fully loaded, he and Maddox make a plan to goad Bonnie into killing Alaric - this would kill her too, but the Klaus persona would be safe and could use another body.
 * Bonnie fights Klaus/Alaric and dies. It was part of her plan with Damon, and she wakes later at the Witches Burial place. She is going to hide in there with Jeremy.
 * Damon tells Stefan that he will be the bad guy, take all the life and death decisions and save her life while Stefan is worried about collateral.
 * Elena is decided to find another way, where her friends don't have to die and removes the dagger from Elijah.

April 27, 2010

 * Elena sits as Elijah suddenly comes back to life and mistakes Elena for Katherine. He can't breathe because he is not invited in the house. She gives Elijah the dagger back to show that he can trust her.
 * Stefan realizes both Elena and Elijah are gone. On the phone and she tells him that she needs time alone with Elijah and Stefan needs to respect her decision.
 * Elijah tells Elena that Klaus is his half brother, and a werewolf/vampire hybrid. Also that the Sun and the Moon curse is false and has been planted by them. It was a ruse to get both vampires and werewolves looking for the Moonstone and the doppelgänger. The curse was placed on Klaus to make is werewolf side dormant, and when he manages to break it, he will be a true hybrid, and almost invincible.
 * Klaus/Alaric tells Jenna about vampires, and tricks Stefan to reveal himself to Jenna.
 * Elena leaves Elijah briefly to comfort her aunt and admit that not only do vampires exist, but basically everyone around her has known but her.
 * Damon admits that he loves Elena, and that he is using Andie as a distraction.
 * Elena renegotiates with Elijah, but Damon does not accept the new deal.
 * Greta and Maddox cast a spell to release Klaus from Alaric's body. They open up a life-size box and out walks present-day Klaus. "Now that's more like it," he says.

April 28, 2010
The hybrid curse is broken.
 * Maddox pushes Carol Lockwood down the stairs to lure Tyler back home. He comes with Jules, and both are captured, as well as Caroline.
 * Alaric is back on his own body. Klaus sent him with the message that the ritual happens tonight.
 * Damon does not accept Elena's decision to trust Elijah and go on with the ritual. He feeds her his blood, but regrets it immediately and does his best to delay the ritual by rescuing Caroline and Tyler. He has a run against Maddox and is saved by Matt. They don't have enough time to arrive in the cellar and lock Tyler up, who begins to transform. In the fight Tyler bites Damon.
 * Stefan takes Elena on a hike, for her to enjoy her last day as human and come to terms with her emotions. And she is very emotional about not wanting to be a vampire.
 * Although Damon risks his life to rescue Caroline and Tyler and postpone the ritual, Klaus has back ups: Jules the werewolf and Jenna, who is in transition to become a vampire.
 * Elena watches in horror as Greta feeds blood to Jenna to complete the transition.
 * Caroline and Matt hide inside the Lockwood's house, while Tyler in wolf form stakes them. Matt admits that he was in vervain when Caroline compelled him, and that her mother also knows.
 * Stefan offers himself for sacrifice instead of Jenna, but Klaus has other plans for him.
 * John finds a spell that can save Elena, at the cost of this own life.
 * Bonnie makes a spell that traps Jeremy and Alaric in the abandoned house. She goes with Elijah and Damon to the quarry where the ritual is taking place. They wait until Elena is dead before they make their move. Bonnie attacks Klaus while Damon kills Greta. Stefan asks Damon to take Elena away.
 * As Elijah has his hand inside his chest, Klaus tells Elijah that their family is in a safe location and that he can reunite them. Elijah super speeds out of there before Bonnie has a chance to take them both.

May 1, 2010

 * Damon goes to Elena's house and asks for her forgiveness, then tries to commit suicide burning in the sun. Stefan saves him and locks him in the cellar.
 * Klaus wakes up after spending 2 days as a wolf, proving that he can change at will. He also remembers all the kills.
 * Elena takes Jeremy and Caroline to the screening of "Gone with the Wind" as an attempt to distract them from their problems, but Stefan shows up and tells her that Damon's been bitten.
 * Bonnie contacts Emily and Stefan asks for help. The answer he gets is "Klaus", so he goes to Klaus to ask for a cure. He offers Klaus "anything he wants". Klaus says he wants the "Ripper" back and feeds him blood until Stefan breaks.
 * Klaus daggers Elijah, thus "reuniting him with the family", who we presume are all daggered.
 * Carol Forbes tells the Sheriff she must do something about the vampires, now, or she will find somebody to do it. The Sheriff goes to the Salvatore house, arrests Elena and accidentally free a crazy Damon.
 * Sheriff Forbes shoots at Damon, but he moves at superspeed, and the bullet takes Jeremy, who dies. Caroline tries to give him blood to heal him, but he is already dead. Bonnie makes a spell to bring him back to life, despite warnings that "there will be consequences".
 * Elena breaks free and finds Damon in the square. In his crazy state he mistakes Elena for Katherine and bites her. In his flashback we see that Katherine never compelled Damon, he fed on her of his free will.
 * Elena is by Damon as he suffers from the poisoning. He tells her that she would have liked him in 1864, but she tells him that she loves him now, just the way he is.
 * The cure for the werewolf bite is Klaus' blood. He puts it in a vial and gives to Katherine to take to Damon. Although Stefan thinks she will just skip town, she does actually take the vial to Damon, because "she owed him one". As she leaves, she tells Elena that "It's okay to love them both. I know I did."
 * Alaric stays with Jeremy at the Gilbert's house. Jeremy sees the ghosts of Anna and Vicki.

Between May and June 2010

 * Elena is looking for clues about Stefan's whereabouts.
 * Damon is following the leads, but hiding the information from her.
 * Stefan and Klaus are following leads, trying to find a werewolf pack - Klaus wants to start his hybrid army.

Mid/Late August 2010

 * Klaus, Stefan and Katherine visit Chicago. Rebekah is undaggered. Damon and Elena try to save Stefan from Klaus.
 * Caroline beats Damon in a fight when he tries to kill her father, Bill Forbes.

August 24, 2010

 * Klaus tries to create a hybrid.

August 31, 2010

 * Klaus turns Tyler into a hybrid.
 * Klaus compels Stefan to turn off his humanity.

September 6, 2010

 * Elena is training "vampire slaying" with Alaric.
 * Now, its Stefan who is drinking up sorority girls and staining the carpet with blood.
 * Rebekah was left behind when Klaus took off, and she takes residence in the Salvatore Boarding House.
 * Elena wants to lock Stefan down until Mikael comes to town and kill Klaus, so that the compulsion is lifted. They create a very elaborate plan to capture him.
 * They find out Tyler has been sired - he is totally subservient to Klaus.
 * Vicki convinces Matt to do a ritual that would allow her to interact with the physical world. She is being helped by the Original Witch on the other side, and the price she has to pay is to kill Elena.
 * Vicki sets Alaric's car on fire trapping Elena and a vervained Stefan inside. Luckily Stefan is strong enough to kick open the door. Elena escapes but comes back to rescue him, just before the car explodes.
 * Bonnie makes a spell to send Vicki back.
 * Katherine finally manages to wake Mikael up. When he declares that he can and will kill Klaus, she frees him from the chains. He then drinks from her blood.
 * We see both Anna and Mason's ghosts interacting with the physical world.

September 15, 2010

 * Flashbacks to the time when the Original family was created.
 * Damon is helping Elena with her training.
 * Alaric is deciphering the cave paintings. They learn from the names carved in the wall that Mikael is "Papa Original". He also learns that it was Klaus (the hybrid) who killed their mother, and not Mikael, as Klaus told his brothers.
 * Damon breaks Stefan free, and takes him to a bar to teach him moderation.
 * Elena talks with Rebekah, and learns the story of the Originals, and everything that happened in c.a. 1020.
 * Mikael, who has been freed by Katherine in Smells Like Teen Spirit, finds the Salvatore brothers. He threatens to kill Damon, and Stefan agrees to lure Klaus back to Mystic Falls.

September 17, 2010

 * Damon, Stefan and Elena make a very elaborate plan with Mikael to kill Klaus.
 * To lure Klaus back, Elena stabs Mikael. Both Stefan and Rebekah can truthfully confirm to Klaus that Mikael is daggered.
 * Afraid that Rebekah will put family above the play, Elena daggers her.
 * Klaus floods the gym and transfers homecoming to the Locke property. He brings several hybrids and calls the party a wake for his father.
 * Tyler realizes that if there is a plan against Klaus, he will be compelled to protect Klaus, because he, like all the other hybrids is sired, and won't let anything happen to him. He vervains Caroline and asks Matt to take her away from the dance.
 * Damon and Tyler fight, but are separated by Bonnie.
 * While Mikael and Klaus have their showdown by the threshold, Damon, who has the White Oak stake and an invitation into the Lockwood house, jumps on Klaus and tries to stake him. Stefan jumps on Damon. Klaus grab the stake and kill Mikael. The stake burns.
 * Katherine and Stefan run away.

September 26, 2010

 * On Sunday Morning, Elena while having a normal time jogging, discovers that a mysterious man is following her. Then her and Bonnie meet up at the Mystic Grill and share their eerie early morning encounters. Elena says that she is getting paranoid due the horrific recent events. Turns out her instincts are good, and she IS being followed by one of Klaus' hybrids.
 * Klaus is till in town, looking for Rebekah and the rest of his family, that Stefan has hidden.
 * Damon is day drunk and with Alaric. Alaric is worried about Jeremy's grades and is further shocked to discover that he was fired from the Grill and did not even bother to tell anybody.
 * Stefan has the coffins hidden in the witches house. He recruits Bonnie to help him hide them, and asks her not to tell Elena - which she does before the end of the episode.
 * Tyler and Jeremy are hanging out in the woods. Tyler is still pissed that Caroline had dumped him and wants to get drunk and "shoot stuff" with Jeremy, who recently also broke up with Bonnie.
 * Jeremy is "spiraling". He is faking his homework, got fired from the grill and is hanging out with Tyler. He get pissed with Elena and Alaric when they try to intervene and invite Tyler into the Gilbert house.
 * They learn from Tyler that being sired is like being brainwashed into a cult. Tyler got Jeremy out of vervain, and Klaus compels him to stand in front of a speeding car, without his ring. Alaric saves him in the nick of time. Lucky for him, the hybrid was driving the car, or else the ring would not have helped.
 * When Alaric returns from death, something is wrong, and when he comes back, his injuries are not healed.
 * Elena calls the ambulance, but the hybrid compels the paramedics to go away. Jeremy shoots Tony from behind, then cuts his head with a meat cleaver.
 * Tyler is upset that Klaus used him to try to kill Jeremy, but there is nothing he can do.
 * Damon learns that Stefan saved Klaus to save his life—again.
 * Elena returns Rebekah to Klaus.
 * Damon visits Alaric in the hospital and gives him blood to heal him. This raises the suspicion of a doctor, Meredith Fell. He also gets rid of the body. On Elena's request, he compels Jeremy to leave town, go to live with some friends in Denver.
 * Damon and Elena kiss.

October 10, 2010

 * Caroline's 18th birthday occurs. Her friends tried to give her a birthday party, but she refuses. Elena then proposes that, since she is dead, what she needs is a funeral.
 * Stefan tells Klaus to get rid of the hybrids, but Klaus refuses. Stefan kidnaps Elena, feeds her his blood and threatens to turn her into a vampire. Klaus complies.
 * Klaus orders Tyler to bite Caroline, he says he won't, but later when he visits her at the graveyard he bites her anyway.
 * Alaric meets Meredith Fell at the council meeting. She knows about the vampires in town. She has a discussion with the Medical Examiner, her old Prom date.
 * Klaus comes to Caroline's house to heal her and wish her a Happy Birthday. He gives her a diamond bracelet.

October 19, 2010

 * Bonnie walks through the cemetery toward a coffin above ground. She tries to open it. Klaus appears behind her and asks if she can open it, then he rushes her and bites her. She wakes up, but her situation has not improved. She's trapped in a coffin, with only the light of her cell phone. She tries a spell, but it does nothing. She hears someone outside and pounds furiously. It opens and she sees a woman looking over her. She wakes up again.

October 20, 2010

 * Bonnie realizes the dream means she needs the help of her mother to open the coffin, and enlists Elena's help to track her. But it is Damon who finds out where Abby is, using a bit of compulsion.
 * Elena insists she and Bonnie go alone, and ditch both brothers. They find Abby living in an isolated house with an adopted kid, Jamie. She lost her magic when she locked Mikael down in that cemetery, but agrees to help out.
 * Stefan shows up, but Jamie shoots him and tie Elena up, while Abby kidnaps Bonnie - they have been compelled by the hybrid. But Elena manages to find a loophole in the compelling and frees herself.
 * Abby tells Bonnie she must tell where the coffins are, but allows her to warn her friends - Damon has enough time to move one of the coffins.
 * Damon confronts Meredith Fell about the murder of the Medical Examiner. She vervains him and collects some of his blood.
 * Tyler enlists Bill Forbes to try and get rid of the sire bond. Bill insists Tyler must turn into a werewolf so many times that he owns the pain and is not grateful to Klaus anymore. The chains are not strong enough, he breaks free and attacks Bill.
 * Meredith reveals to Alaric that she uses vampire blood to heal patients that are on the verge of death, like Bill Forbes.
 * Elena tells Stefan she kissed Damon. Stefan apologizes for almost killing her.
 * Damon undaggers Elijah.

October 21, 2010

 * Sheriff Forbes tell Elena that the Medical Examiner was killed with one of the Gilbert family weapons, and has a clear set of her prints, but she does not think Elena is the murderer.
 * The obvious suspect is Meredith Fell, but Elena refuses to believe she did it.
 * Damon has a meeting with Elijah, they set up a dinner date.
 * Abbie and Bonnie work together to open the sealed coffin.
 * Caroline goes to pick up Bill Forbes, but finds out he has been stabbed but is in transition to become a vampire. He chooses not to drink blood and complete the transition, so he dies a tragic death.
 * Alaric finds out that Bill Forbes was stabbed with another weapon from the Gilbert collection.
 * Klaus, Elijah, Damon and Stefan have a delightful dinner and discuss proposals to solve their impasse, but they cannot come to an agreement.
 * When Elena arrives home with Matt, they find Alaric has been stabbed and is dying. To save him, Elena kills him to activate his Gilbert ring.
 * Elijah and Damon undagger all the remaining Originals - Rebekah, Kol, and Finn - and they are quite pissed with Klaus.
 * Damon and Stefan admit to each other that they both love Elena.
 * Esther, the Original witch and mother to the Originals was in the coffin that the Bennett witches opened. She shows up at Klaus' mansion and say she forgives him, and just wants to bring the family together.
 * Rebekah confronts Elena at night after leaving the hospital after she drops Alaric there to stay the night. She is saved by Elijah.

October 22, 2010

 * While Elena, Damon and Stefan are discussing last night events, Elena receives an invitation to the Mikaelson's Ball, with a special note from Esther, that she wants to chat with Elena.
 * Elena wants to go, but Damon is very much against the idea.
 * The recently undaggered Original brothers bicker like 12 year old children.
 * Elena tries to recruit Caroline as her vampire body guard.
 * Rebekah invites Matt and Klaus invites Caroline (and sends a beautiful gown with the invitation).
 * Klaus courts Caroline, but she tells him some hard truths.
 * Elena recruits Stefan to keep Damon out of the way while she talks with Momma Original.
 * Esther wants Elena's blood for a ritual that will bond all her children, so that what happens to one happens to all of them. Finn has volunteered to sacrifice himself, killing all the Originals this way.
 * Rebekah asks for Kol's help to kill Matt, but desists after Matt gives her his coat. Kol is upset and breaks Matt's hand.
 * Elena lies to Elijah about Esther's real intentions.
 * Both Stefan and Elena tell Damon that he "cares too much", although both regret this later, it is too late. He switches off his "caring" and goes a little crazy - this includes some Original sex.

October 23, 2010

 * Elena wakes up and calls Stefan, to discuss about Esther's plans. The call is ignored. She also calls Damon, who is still in bed with Rebekah. Elena goes to Salvatore's boarding house and discovers Damon's indiscretion and is upset by it.
 * Rebekah returns back to the Original's manor, is teased by her brothers, mostly Kol, about her one night stand. Elijah is suspicious of his mother and confides with Rebekah whether Esther has been acting strange. Rebekah rebuffs his reasoning.
 * Bonnie, Caroline and Elena are trying to replicate Esther's privacy spell to no avail. Esther has approached both Bonnie and Abby for help in performing the sacrificial ritual of the Originals.
 * Stefan and Damon are given an ultimatum from Elijah: they either stop Esther from completing the ritual or Rebekah kills Elena.
 * Damon and Stefan turn to Meredith and Alaric for help in daggering Kol, which ends up being a terrible choice: Klaus finds out about the ritual as well.
 * Elijah, Klaus and Kol show up to stop Esther's spell. To make sure everyone is safe Damon turns Abby, thus preventing her to be a witch anymore. Esther and Finn flee after they are discovered by the other originals and Abby dies.
 * Elena hears the news and the price of saving her. She seeks Bonnie who is watching over Abby who is in transition. Caroline tells her Bonnie does not want to see her.
 * At Dr. Meredith Fells house, Alaric wakes up, and finds one of the blades that belongs to Elena's family along with files and information on all the recent deaths, while Alaric is seeing everything, Meredith walks in on him. She tells him that he wasn't supposed to see them, and shoots him with a gun.

October 28, 2010

 * Damon wakes Alaric up early in the morning and fills him in on the events of last night.
 * Caroline and Jamie are in the garden planting, and she offers him some advice.
 * Abby decides to leave Bonnie again.
 * Stefan celebrates with some bourbon while Damon arrives with the Wickery Bridge wooden sign.
 * Elena visits Alaric in the Loft but Damon does not allow her to enter because they are cutting the Wickery Bridge sign into stakes.
 * Klaus goes to find Finn, and bring him back to Mystic Falls where he reunites with Sage.
 * Stefan calls the whole gang: they have 12 white oak stakes. They rehearse scenarios to kill originals.
 * Rebekah imprisons Damon and starts to bleed the vervain out of him.
 * When they see Finn in town with Sage they put forward a plan to kill him, and they succeed.
 * At the same time, Bonnie is being coerced to make a spell to unbind the Originals.
 * After Finn is dead, Sage and Troy also die. They conclude that when one Original dies, the whole bloodline dies as well. So now their priority changes to keep the Originals alive, at least until they find out to which bloodline they belong.
 * Stefan trades the stakes for Damon. He tries to hide 3 stakes, but Klaus sees the deception and wants all the stakes.
 * Evil Alaric has hidden his, so they need his "cooperation" to reveal where his stake is.

November 1, 2010

 * Alaric is locked in the dungeon where he'll hopefully morph into his crazy self and reveal where he hid the white oak stake.
 * Stefan decides to stay and hang with him while Damon and Elena road trip it and get Jeremy and soon the two are boozing to try to speed up the turning process.
 * Damon and Elena arrive in late afternoon to get Jeremy to contact Rose.
 * Rose reveals that a vampire called Mary Porter turned her, she leaves to find out where she is.
 * While they wait, Elena and Damon bond and kiss passionately.
 * Esther shows up to Rebekah and changes place with her.
 * Boozing did not work out to bring Evil Alaric. Klaus kills Alaric, but when he returns from death he is still Alaric, so Stefan has to torture him, and keep torturing him after Evil Alaric surfaces to make him confess where he hid the stake.
 * Rebekah take him to the Lockwood tomb, and reveals herself to him as Esther.

November 5, 2010

 * Rebekah is neutralized.
 * Esther was in Rebekah's body, and has made a deal with Evil Alaric. She fools Klaus and convinces him to go to the decade dance.
 * Elena asks Stefan to take her to the ball, and he agrees, despite their tragic historic related to decade dances.
 * Alaric leaves his loft and he did not take Bonnie's herbs.
 * Esther uses the power of the hotspot created at the place where she was killed to channel power. She fuses the last Oak Tree stake with Alaric's immortality ring to make an indestructible stake.
 * Tyler comes to the dance, and has a face off with Klaus. But he decides to pretend he is still under Klaus influence, although he is very jealous.
 * Esther pours a gigantic salt ring around the school that traps all the vampires inside, and takes Elena to the cemetery, where she uses Elena's blood to turn Alaric into an Original Vampire.
 * When Alaric wakes up in transition, he decides he will not complete the transition. Almost all the cast shows up in the cemetery to say their goodbyes.
 * Damon resists his impulse to snap Alaric's neck and end his misery, which gives Esther a chance to interfere. She possesses Bonnie and goes to the Cemetery and feed Alaric her blood completing the transition.

November 6, 2010

 * Rebekah, Caroline and the cleanup committee occurs early at 8:03 am.
 * Klaus tries to take Elena out, but cannot enter the Gilbert house. He stakes the house in the best Big Bad Wolf style.
 * Klaus, Stefan and Damon team up to free Caroline and Elena.
 * Bonnie offers to desiccate Alaric, but it's Klaus who end up desiccated. She has to tap into dark magic to do this.
 * Elena figures that Alaric's vampire life is linked to her: if she dies, he dies too.
 * Klaus drains Elena's blood, but Tyler saves her - he has managed to break the sire bond.
 * Alaric tells the council about Caroline, Tyler and all the other friendly vampires.

Night between November 6 and 7, 2010
Stefan kisses Elena before he goes to face Alaric.
 * Because he found Elena on the floor bleeding by the nose, Jeremy took her to the hospital.
 * Damon and Stefan turn ballistic, because her life is in danger, and order him to take her back home.
 * They flip coins to decide who will go back to Mystic Falls, and who will proceed to hide Klaus.
 * Alaric tries to make a pact with Jeremy.
 * Elijah makes a deal with Elena: if she returns Klaus body and the stake, he, Rebekah and Kol will scatter around the world, Alaric will follow and leave her alone. They promise they would not revive Klaus while she, or her children are still alive.
 * Carol Lockwood and Sheriff Forbes call Caroline and Tyler. They give them some money, fake ids and tell them to run for their lives.
 * Bonnie meets Damon, allegedly to make a spell that will prevent Alaric from finding Klaus body.
 * Matt drugs Elena, puts her in his truck and drives her away from Mystic Falls.
 * Alaric found out where Damon is. He fights him and Rebekah and stakes Klaus.
 * Believing that Klaus sired their bloodline, all the vampires we came to love prepare to die - only they don't die.
 * Elena chooses to go to Stefan (Caroline and Tyler) instead of towards Damon.
 * We learn that Damon met Elena before Stefan, but compelled the memory away from her.
 * Tyler tricks Caroline into believing he is dying, but actually, Bonnie has switched him with Klaus, or put them both together in Tyler body, or something - so no friendly vampire dies.
 * Because Klaus is dead, Rebekah decides to kill Alaric by killing Elena.
 * Matt and Elena drive off Wickery Bridge and Elena drowns.
 * Alaric dies because Elena has died.

November 7, 2010

 * Elena wakes up in transition the morning after the accident to find the thing she dreaded the most has come true. She died with Damon's blood that Dr. Fell gave her, now she is in transition to become a vampire. Stefan promises her that he and Bonnie will exhaust every possible way out of the situation, Damon is furious with his brother for letting her die in the first place.
 * Pastor Young drops by the hospital and informs Dr. Fell he's upping the security surrounding the hospital blood supply, under the authority of The Mystic Falls council.
 * Next, he arrests the mayor and takes the sheriff's badge. He takes Caroline, Rebekah, Stefan and Elena to his cattle ranch.
 * Klaus (as Tyler) saves Caroline, but leaves Rebekah revealing himself to them.
 * Damon, Matt, Meredith and Liz try to sort out where Caroline, Elena and Stefan could be. Matt realizes they may be at Pastor Young's ranch, and Damon and Matt set out there.
 * Bonnie does the spell to try and bring Elena's human soul back to her body, but Grams shows up, telling Bonnie she is not allowed to do that. Grams sends her back to the land of the living, without Elena.
 * Though Rebekah initially shows happiness in seeing Elena die, she is impressed by their love and helps Stefan kill a guard. His blood allows Elena to turn into a vampire, just in time to prevent Damon from killing Matt.
 * Klaus forces Bonnie to put him back into his body. Grams pays the price for her actions and Bonnie is shattered by what has happened.
 * Klaus rejects Rebekah as part of his family abandoning her for good and leaves town.
 * Stefan gives Elena her daylight ring, as they sit on the roof of his house contemplating how life is going to change forever for Elena.
 * Pastor Young locks himself and many council members in house and kills himself for a purpose.

November 22, 2010

 * Connor took Tyler's venom and puts the beer keg at the Curfew party. It affected Rebekah (who's Original,so nothing happened to her) and Elena. Klaus healed Elena.
 * When Damon went to investigate Connor he got caught in his trap. Meredith helped him out of it.
 * Klaus came back to town with a few hybrids to protect Tyler.
 * Klaus and Damon set the same trap in the hospital. Connor got out and blow up the hospital.
 * Klaus found out that Connor is one of The Five, so he saves and imprisons him.
 * Elena and Rebekah fight.
 * Hayley arrives and Klaus found out that she was with Tyler.
 * Elena loses control while feeding on Matt and almost kills him. Damon arrives just in time.

November 23, 2010

 * Damon raids Connor's trailer trying to find some clue about "The Five".
 * Bonnie, Elena and Damon go to Whitmore College. Bonnie wants to visit Professor Shane, who is taking over the Occult Studies classes formerly taught by Sheila Bennett, Bonnie’s grandmother.
 * At a costume party, Damon gives Elena a lesson in being a hunter.Rebekah buys Matt a new truck, as an apology.
 * Klaus has Connor imprisoned. He teams up with Stefan to get information from Rebekah about The Five. He also forces Jeremy to make a drawing of the invisible tattoos. Connor tells Jeremy that every time he kills a vampire, the tattoos grow.
 * After he gets the information from Rebekah, Klaus daggers her.
 * Elena is disgusted at herself, that she was having fun feeding at the party. Stefan will do everything to make her human again - even a deal with Klaus.

November 24, 2010

 * Klaus is in Italy, digging for Alexander's Sword - which he finds.
 * Connor invades the Mystic Grill and takes Jeremy, April and Matt as hostages.
 * Elena, Damon, Tyler and Caroline try to come up with a plan to rescue the hostages, but Stefan interrupts - nobody knows he is working with Klaus and they need Connor alive.
 * Connor has rigged some werewolf venom bombs, and another hybrid dies while trying to rescue the hostages.
 * Caroline finds out about Tyler and Hayley's relationship.
 * Elena loses control and kills Connor - then immediately spirals into regret and depression.
 * The hunter's mark appear on Jeremy's hand.
 * Elena has a vision of blood all over her bathroom, and the word killer written in blood in her mirror.

November 25, 2010

 * Terrifying hallucinations leave Elena shaken and confused.
 * Mistaking Jeremy for Connor, she stabs him on the neck, killing him.
 * Luckily he was wearing the Gilbert Ring, so he came back to life.
 * Elena is still mad at Stefan because he is working with Klaus, compelled Jeremy to forget something and has been hiding stuff from her.
 * Klaus recovers Alexander's Sword. He kidnaps Elena to keep her safe from her hallucinations.
 * Tyler and Hayley are working to free the hybrids from the sire bond. Caroline agrees to fake she is fighting with Tyler to help them.
 * Professor Shane gives a lecture about the first immortal, Silas, and how his spurned lover, the witch Qetsiyah, buried him alive.
 * Damon learns from him that hallucinations will stop when the next hunter is activated.
 * Caroline tell Klaus about Jeremy being a potential hunter. Klaus agrees to sacrifice one of his few remaining, incredibly precious, impossible-to-make-more-while-Elena-is-a-vampire hybrids to activate Jeremy as a hunter.
 * Stefan lets Elena escape. Following the hallucinations, she goes to the Wickery Bridge, where she throws away her daylight ring.

November 26, 2010

 * Damon saves her in the nick of time, just before sunrise.
 * Stefan and Elena break up.
 * Matt gives Damon startling new information about Professor Shane.

November 27, 2010

 * Stefan told Caroline and Damon that he and Elena broke up.
 * Klaus threatened to have Jeremy kill Stefan if he did not find (or make) vampires for Jeremy to kill to grow his Hunter's Mark.
 * Stefan found a convicted murderer in the hospital. After ensuring that the guy was unrepentant, he fed him his blood and broke his neck.
 * Jeremy had a nightmare about killing Elena. He woke up with a knife in one hand, and a stake in the other, into which he had carved the Hunter's symbol.

December 1, 2010

 * A Winter Wonderland-themed party was thrown in Mystic Falls.
 * Stefan and Caroline did not agree with Tyler's elaborate plan to neutralize Klaus.
 * Caroline proposed a brilliant solution to their problem, but Hayley, who had her own agenda, was not on board with the new plan.
 * Tyler and Carol Lockwood had a major heart to heart.
 * When Klaus found out about Tyler and the hybrids' plan, he brutally slaughters all of the hybrids, except for Tyler, with Alexander's sword.
 * Elena and Damon retreated to the Gilbert Lake House to help Jeremy control his vampire killing instincts, with the help of Bonnie and Professor Shane.
 * Shane revealed that he knew where the Hunter's Mark will lead them, which meant they wouldn't need the sword, which Klaus could translate, to decipher it.
 * After killing twelve of his thirteen hybrids, Klaus sought after Tyler to complete his revenge.
 * Unfortunately, Klaus found Carol Lockwood first, and after exchanging a few words, Niklaus decided it would hurt Tyler more if his mother died instead, and killed her by drowning her in a fountain.