Previously on "The Vampire Diaries" A vampire k*lled my parents.
Maybe that was you.
That was all me. I'm bad, Elena. I am bad for you, and I'm choosing to let you go.
You think I'm gonna judge you after I find out that you've been tortured for 5 years?
Stop defending me!
Tyler: Do you know the reason we're together? Because Klaus granted us permission to be together. I can't live like that.
You take one more step, we are done!
Katherine, voice-over: I'm dying of old age.
Good-bye.
You're Katherine Pierce. Suck it up.
I may have an idea that will keep you alive longer.
Bulgaria, 1490
(Katherine is alone and pregnant. Suddenly, she’s hurting)
Present Day
[Mystic Falls Hospital]
(Katherine is unconscious and the doctors try to revive her)
Doctor: Clear! Give me 200 joules. Charged. Clear!
(Stefan is in the hallway. Nadia rejoins him)
Nadia: It doesn't make sense. I was just speaking with her. She sounded fine
Stefan: Doctors think it was a, um, heart att*ck
Nadia: Trust me. Katherine Pierce is not going to die from a heart att*ck. We both know my mother. She will fight this
Stefan: She's dying. Every single organ in her body is failing. Vampire blood can't save her. I compelled the doctors to let me take her home so she's more comfortable, but she's dying. They don't think she'll survive the rest of the day
[Whitmore College]
(Elena wakes up in her dorm)
[Mystic Grill]
(Jeremy et Matt find Damon at the bar)
[Whitmore College]
(Caroline and Bonnie rejoin Elena)
Caroline: Ok. Time to wake up, sleepyhead
Elena: No! I'm not leaving this bed
Bonnie: Which is why we brought breakfast to you
Elena: What's all this?
Caroline: This is your breakup breakfast!
Elena: My what?
[Mystic Grill]
Jeremy: Damon dumped Elena
Matt: Why?
Jeremy: I have no idea
Matt: Who spends two years pining after a girl to dump her?
Damon: I can hear you, dumbass
[Whitmore College]
Bonnie: So that's it? You're just giving up?
Caroline: As she should! I mean, he did say… and I quote… "I am a bad person. I am bad for you, and I am choosing to let you go."
Elena: You memorized my breakup?
Caroline: Of course I did. Drink this
[Mystic Grill]
Matt: So you sure it was just a fight?
[Whitmore College]
Elena: I just have to face reality. If Damon makes up his mind about something, it's done
(Her phone rings)
Caroline: It's Stefan
Elena: Tell him I don't feel like talking
(Caroline answers)
Caroline: She doesn't feel like talking
Stefan: Well, she's gonna want to talk about this
[Salvatore House]
(Matt, Damon and Jeremy are in the library, drinking)
Damon: Rule number one, think of the worst thing Katherine Pierce has ever done to you. Rule number two, toast to the glory of her impending death. Rule number 3, if you come across something that's worse… which you will… repeat rules one and two. She pretended to be buried in a tomb for 145 years while I waited for her lying ass. Wait. Does that b*at pretending to be Elena and kissing me on the front porch of your old house?
Jeremy: I don't think so
Damon: I don't think so either. Damn. Quarterback, go
Matt: Uh...
Damon: Think on that. Little Gilbert
Jeremy: She fed to my Silas, and I d*ed
Damon: Doozy
Jeremy: Then she made me crash my car into a pole and left me for dead again
Damon: Double doozy. Drink
Matt: My sister's dead because of her
Damon: Yes, she is because I wouldn't have even been in town to turn Vicki into a murderous vampire if I wasn't trying to get Katherine out of a tomb she wasn't in. Group sh*t
(Elena, Caroline and Bonnie enter)
Elena: Seriously?
Matt: Elena, we were just, uh…
Elena: I know what you're doing
(She looks at Jeremy)
Elena: You're cut off. If anyone is drinking to Katherine's last days, it's gonna be me. She impersonated me repeatedly... Made Aunt Jenna s*ab herself in the stomach and cut off Uncle John's fingers
Jeremy: He might have deserved that
Bonnie: My grams d*ed trying to close a tomb she wasn't in
Caroline: Tyler's werewolf curse got triggered because of her
Elena: Klaus followed her to Mystic Falls, and because of that, we lost Jenna
Damon: And Alaric
Matt: We're gonna need more booze
Elena: She tried to k*ll me at least twice
Caroline: She did k*ll me, although I'm weirdly better off
(Katherine is laying on Stefan’s bed. He’s with her)
Katherine: They're talking about me, aren't they?
Stefan: They're reminiscing
Katherine: It's fine. I'm sure I deserve everything that they're saying. Does my hand look wrinkled to you?
Stefan: It looks fine
Katherine: If I start to sag anywhere, you take a Kn*fe and you jam it into my carotid artery immediately, ok?
Stefan: Ok
Katherine: What?
Stefan: You know, even on your death bed, you're vain
Katherine: Hey. If a girl's got to go, it may as well be glamorous, right? That's definitely an age spot
Stefan: This is not an age spot, Katherine
Katherine: You're being too nice to me. Why?
Stefan: You're dying. I think I can muster up a little bit of compassion
(Matt is in the basement. Nadia arrives)
Matt: Nadia
Damon: Rumor has it she burnt down the entire city of Atlanta once
Jeremy: That might win
(Stefan enters)
Stefan: All right. Knock it off or take it somewhere else. You guys are being insensitive
Damon: Come on, Stefan. Don't let the sight of a frail, human, Elena look-alike cloud your memories of the manipulative psycho that she is
Stefan: In 1864, Katherine moved into my home, she compelled me to love her, seduced my brother, fed us full of vampire blood, and then started a w*r with the town that got us k*lled
Damon: Exactly. Bottoms up
Stefan: But centuries before that, she was just an innocent girl who was shunned by her family, so for 500 years, she lied and manipulated and did whatever she had to do survive, and she did. She’s a survivor. So that's the girl that I will drink to today. Cheers
Damon: Please. One night of hot sex with her and you're brainwashed?
Elena: What?!
Caroline: Oh, my… I forgot to tell you. You were kidnapped and hostaged and… bottle's empty
Damon: Actually, that's why you never send a busboy to do a man's job
(Nadia enters)
Damon: Nadia, the devil's spawn. Hey, Caroline. Did you remember to tell Elena that?
Elena: I think my mind just exploded. Ok. Katherine's upstairs
Nadia: Actually, I'm here to see all of you. I found a way to save my mother, and I need some help
Damon: Uh-uh. No way. Even my biased brother knows I will kick his ass from here to Kentucky if he helps Katherine Pierce live one more day on this earth. No volunteers
Nadia: I figured as much, which is why I found that old safe your brother spent his summer drowning in and buried it on this property with your friend Matt inside of it. Oh. Without this
Elena: What?!
[A field]
(Nadia, Stefan and Elena arrive at an abandoned house)
Nadia: I figured you two would be my volunteers
Elena: Congratulations on your intuition. We're here. We volunteered. Now tell us where Matt is
Nadia: Matt will be freed once you help me get what I need
Stefan: Which is what exactly?
Nadia: I need a Traveler. Katherine was born into a traveler bloodline. She can make herself be a passenger in someone else's body if a Traveler teaches her how to do it
Elena: Like your boyfriend Gregor hopped a ride in Matt's body until Katherine k*lled him of course. Your mother k*lled your boyfriend. Why are we saving her again?
Stefan: Gregor was gonna k*ll her, and she was protecting herself
Elena: Oh, please don't defend her, especially now that you've…
Stefan: Now that I've slept with her. I'm sure you have plenty to say about that
Nadia: We're here
Elena: So we're just supposed to help you let Katherine take over someone's life?
Nadia: Not just anyone's life. Mine. I'm going to make her a passenger in my body
[Salvatore’s House]
(Caroline, Bonnie and Jeremy are outside)
Jeremy: I don't see any freshly dug ground
Bonnie: This property it massive
Caroline: Hello! Is no one gonna comment on the fact that Stefan slept with Katherine? I mean, that's kind of a big deal
Jeremy: Does it matter? We've all slept with our fair share of bad choices
Bonnie: No offense taken
Jeremy: No. Obviously not you
Caroline: Bonnie Bennett! Wait. Did you two? And you didn't tell me?
Bonnie: I didn't think I was obligated
Caroline: Of course you were obligated. You're my best friend. Oh, my God! Does Elena know that her little brother…
Bonnie/Jeremy: No!
Caroline: Aw! Scandalous sex! Even better! God, how am I the only person on the planet who's not having scandalous sex?
Jeremy: Why don't we split up and think about that?
Caroline: Good idea. We'll cover more ground that way
Bulgaria, 1492
(Katherine arrives at her parents’ home and finds them dead)
Katherine: No, no! No, mama. No!
(Damon appears in the memory)
Damon: What a mess
Katherine: Damon?
Damon: Ok. I'll say it. I miss Klaus. I mean, the way this guy used to t*rture you. Sword in the daddy. Nice touch
Katherine: Get out of my head
Damon: Remind me how this slaughter went down again. Oh, right. Klaus was gonna k*ll you in a blood sacrifice, and you, being you, ran for the hills, only to come back and find your entire family had been massacred. So if I'm adding this up right, your family's entire death was all your fault
Katherine: No! No! No! No!
Nowadays
[Salvatore’s House]
(Liz enters)
Liz: Put the pillow down, Damon
Damon: Liz
Liz: If you k*ll her, it's m*rder. I mean, I'd have to bring you in, lock you up. There's all that paperwork
Damon: Every awful thing I've ever done is linked to her. She taught me how to k*ll, how to enjoy it. She ruined me, and I can't take any of that back
Liz: Look at how much control she still has over you. Prove her wrong
[The Woods]
(Caroline is looking for Matt)
Caroline: Matt! Matt, we're coming for you!
(She sees Klaus)
Klaus: Hello, Caroline
Caroline: Klaus
[Abandoned House]
(Nadia, Stefan and Elena enter)
Stefan: Not exactly the Ritz
Nadia: Travelers don't have much. They're always on the move, but on the plus side, sometimes their services can be bought. I found one who named the right price
(A woman rejoins them)
Woman: You brought them
Nadia: Yes, Mia. Are you ready to make the deal?
Elena: What's going on?
Stefan: I have the feeling the right price for the deal was us
Nadia: I'm sorry, but they asked for doppelgangers. No idea why
(She leaves. Elena and Stefan burn in the sun)
Elena: Our rings. They're messing with them. We can't go outside
[The Woods]
Caroline: Sorry. Matt's buried alive. No time to chat
Klaus: You're not even the least bit curious as to why I'm here?
Caroline: I literally just whooshed at the sight of your face, so no
Klaus: Damon informed me that Katerina Petrova has taken a tragic turn
Caroline: So you're here to gloat over her corpse to be, to delight in the closure of 500 years of revenge! Great! Now I'm even less interested
Klaus: Well, then perhaps you'd be more interested in talking about Tyler
Caroline: Is he… did you…
Klaus: No. I sent him off with little more than a bruised ego. He really does hate me, poor lad. Revenge, it eats at him. I hear you two broke up
Caroline: Because I made him choose… me or his stupid revenge fantasy, and he chose wrong. I suggest that you learn from his mistakes and let Katherine die in peace. Dying sucks enough learn as it is. No need to rub anyone's nose in it
[Salvatore’s House]
Liz: Ok. Here's the sedatives from the hospital. Should help with the pain
Katherine: I don't want them. They make me weak, and when I'm weak, he can get in my head
Liz: Ok. Suit yourself. They're right here if you want them
(She looks at Damon)
Liz: Still looking for Matt? Any word from Elena?
Damon: We're not on a speaking basis
Katherine: Didn't you hear, Sheriff? He was so afraid to dirty her... white dove feathers that he let her little wings fly free, and it was all my fault. Oops
(He injects her with sedatives)
Damon: That'll shut her up for a while
Mystic Falls, 1864
(Katherine and Emily are in a carriage)
Katherine: How much further until we reach this Lockwood plantation?
Emily: Won't be long now. We've just entered the town of Mystic Falls
Katherine: Good. What is it now?
Emily: Looks like a gentleman's having some problems with his carriage
Katherine: At this rate, we won't arrive until sundown. What does it matter if…
(Stefan is the gentleman in question)
Stefan: Thanks for your help. I should be all right
Katherine: Who is that? He's so handsome. What do you say, Emily? Think that gentleman's family would take in a poor orphan girl from Atlanta?
Nowadays
[Salvatore’s House]
Damon: What the hell was that?
Katherine: You never heard the real story of how I came to meet your brother? I want to think that this prophecy of the universe bringing the doppelgangers together is absurd, but the moment that I saw Stefan… I can't describe it… the out-of-the-way road, the downed tree, the broken-down carriage, it just… it sounds like fate to me
[Abandoned House]
Elena: This isn't awkward
Stefan: Guess we probably picked the wrong day to be in a fight, huh?
Elena: I'm sorry, ok? It's not my place to judge, especially after everything that you've been through. You don't happen to speak Czech, do you?
Stefan: No
Elena: Ok. Stefan?
Elena: It's ok. I guess he wants doppelganger blood
Elena: Should we knock his head off?
Stefan: Depends. If I k*ll him, do the rest of these boards fall down?
Elena: Right. Blood it is. Why aren't we healing?
[The Woods]
Caroline: Matt! Matt!
Klaus: Would you give me the same choice?
Caroline: What?
Klaus: Were I to abandon my revenge against Katerina, would you offer me the same choice as Tyler?
Caroline: I don't know what you mean
Klaus: Yes, you do
Caroline: You… you can't do this to me. You can't just show up and distract me while my friend is in danger
Klaus: You know, while you've been vamping off in all the wrong directions, I heard Matt's distant and desperate screams
Caroline: Where?
Klaus: Don't worry, luv. I've got it covered. Trust me. He'll be quite happy with his rescuer
(Matt opens the safe and comes out. He sees Rebekah)
Rebekah: I'm gone not 3 months, and look at the trouble you're in
[Salvatore’s House]
(Damon is still with Katherine)
Katherine: Just go away. Don't you think that you've made your point?
(Jenna appears)
Jenna: What point? Like this one?
Katherine: Jenna?
Jenna: Remember when you compelled me to s*ab myself?
Katherine: No, no. No, no, no! Unh!
Damon: Poor Aunt Jenna. I had to compel her to think that she walked into that Kn*fe. She was so confused
Katherine: No. No. No more dr*gs!
(John appears)
John: Hello, fingers. Good-bye, fingers
(Katherine screams. He disappears and Elijah arrives)
Elijah: Enough!
Katherine: Elijah
Elijah: Katerina
Katherine: You're here
(He disappears)
Damon: I'm so sorry. Did you think that that was real? Nope. No one's coming to say good-bye, Katherine, because no one cares
Nadia: I do
Damon: Come on
Nadia: Let's get on with this
[Abandoned House]
Stefan: Guess it's a good thing I'm not claustrophobic anymore
Elena: That's what Katherine helped you with… Silas aftermath
Stefan: She did
Elena: Can I just hate her anyway?
Stefan: You can
Elena: Thank you
Stefan: But I don't. I know I should, but for some reason, I keep rooting for her to find peace. Katherine's not the only one, you know? Damon keeps pushing you away because he hates himself, who he is, what he's done. Just remember that you never gave up on me, so don't give up on him. Don't let him give up on you either, ok?
Elena: So that's it? All you needed from us was a bucket of blood? Let's get out of here
Stefan: Come on
[Salvatore’s House]
(Nadia and Mia are still with Katherine)
Mia: Repeat the spell so I know you understand how the passenger works
Katherine: I can't
Nadia: Just say it. Jaryakat a zem. Daryeet acza. Say it, and it's done. Your spirit goes inside my body, Mia will activate you by calling you forth, and you get to live
Katherine: Can I have a moment with my daughter, please?
Nadia: I know what you're going to say… We don't have time for this
Katherine: Nadia... Letting my father rip you out of my arms, it was the biggest regret of my life. I should have fought harder to keep you, but I didn't. So I spent the next 500 years making sure that I never made that mistake again. I fought for everything, and in the process, I had a long, full life, and I got to know my beautiful daughter. And you spent the last centuries searching for me. Don't waste another minute on me. It's your turn to live
Nadia: I can't do this
Katherine: Let me. I've made selfish decisions all my life. Let me do the right thing for once
Nadia: Fine. Then go. Leave me. Drift off into oblivion, but I will not sit by your side and watch you die
[The Woods]
Klaus: So the quarterback has been saved. What now?
Caroline: Don't you have a dying girl to go punish for all of her sins?
Klaus: I do, but I won't for you
Caroline: So you came all the way to Mystic Falls just to back off when I ask you to?
Klaus: No. I came all the way to Mystic Falls to gloat over a corpse to be, as you so poetically put it, but I will leave minus the gloating in return for one small thing
Caroline: And what is that?
Klaus: I want your confession
Caroline: My confession? I didn't do anything. Confession about what?
Klaus: Me. As soon as we're done here, I'm gonna walk away, and I'm never coming back. You'll never again have to look me in the eye and cover our connection with hostility and revulsion. You'll never have to loathe the darkest parts of yourself that care for me in spite of all I've done. I will be gone, and you will be free. I just... Want you to be honest with me
Caroline: I'm in college. I'm building a life for myself. I have plans and a future and things that I want, and none of those things involve you, ok, none of them
Klaus: I see
Caroline: No, you don't because, yes, I cover our connection with hostility because, yes, I hate myself for the truth, so if you promise to walk away like you said and never come back, then, yes, I will be honest with you. I will be honest with you about what I want
Klaus: I will walk away, and I'll never come back, I promise
[Salvatore’s House]
(Stefan enters his bedroom. Damon’s still here)
Stefan: What the hell happened to you?
Damon: In a shocking twist, Katherine's daughter's a psychopath. Whew. She's all yours. I've had fun messing with her mind all day
Stefan: Damon
Damon: I know, Stefan, I know. It's been a rough couple days. I needed an outlet, ok?
(He leaves. Stefan looks at Katherine)
Stefan: Hi
Katherine: These dr*gs are... Hardcore
Stefan: Close your eyes. I came to say bye
Katherine: I want to see you
Stefan: You will
Bulgaria, 1492
(Katherine is crying. Stefan appears)
Stefan: So this is the memory you came back to? A little dark, no?
Katherine: Damon already had his fun with this one. This was the worst day of my life. He said it was my fault, that I deserved everything bad that's ever happened to me. He's right. He was right, Stefan I don't deserve to be loved
Stefan: Open your mind to me. Look at your father
Katherine: He's gone. What are you doing?
Stefan: You deserve to feel peace
Katherine: Mother!
Stefan: You were a 17-year-old girl. Katherine... None of this is your fault
Nowadays
[Salvatore’s House]
Stefan: Good-bye, Katherine
Elena: Is she...
Stefan: Not yet. With these dr*gs, she won't wake up again
(Stefan and Damon are outside)
Stefan: You know, I was in a dark place, Damon
Damon: And Katherine pulled you out of it. Irony abounds
Stefan: You know, whatever is going on with you and Elena, you need to fix it. She's the best thing that ever happened to you
Damon: What, don't you think I know that? I can't live without her... But when you think about it, I'm no better than Katherine. Elena will be happier without me. What, I'm being selfless? Don't give me that look
Stefan: I'm not giving you a look
Damon: Katherine fricking Pierce has a selfless moment, I'm not allowed to? Fine. Fine.When I get Elena back and the whole universe freaks out because the fated doppelgangers are torn apart, just remember you… you're the one that pep talked me out of doing the right thing for the universe and all mankind
Stefan: I will keep that in mind
Damon: You do that
(Caroline comes back and rejoins Bonnie, Jeremy and Matt)
Matt: Hey. Where have you been?
Caroline: In the woods. I got lost. So what are we doing?
Jeremy: We are waiting for Katherine to bite it
Matt: So this anchor thing, does it mean that you'll, like, be able to feel Katherine's death or whatever?
Bonnie: I think so. I mean, she's human, but she's also a doppelganger and Traveler apparently
Matt: So who else do you see over there? Anybody I know?
Bonnie: I see lots of people. My grams, the other witches. Vicki. I just don't talk about it, you know, just…
Vicki: because it's depressing as hell. Tell Matty I love him
Matt: What's happening?
Bonnie: She's here. She said she loves you
Vicki: Tell him that I watch over him and no more knocking around with that blond original chick who almost got him k*lled
Matt: Wait. Wait. What's happening? What am I missing?
Tyler: Me
Caroline: Tyler?
Tyler: Rebekah says to tell you I'm her parting gift. Hey, care
Caroline: Hi
(Stefan and Damon enter)
Stefan: We've really gone through 4 bottles of bourbon today?
Alaric: Can someone tell these idiots to lay off the booze?
Bonnie: Oh, my God
Jeremy: Alaric?
Damon: Ric's here?
Jeremy: Where the hell have you been? I thought you bailed on us to go find peace or something
Alaric: Do you honestly think I'd leave Damon in charge and never look back?
Damon: He's talking about me, isn't he?
Jeremy: He says you're a d*ck
Damon: Cheers, buddy
Alaric:
Bonnie: Katherine
Damon: Ding-dong. Does that mean the witch is dead?
Katherine: No. It's too soon. I can't!
(Katherine wakes up. Elena is here)
Elena: Wow. You really don't want to die, do you? I swear I just heard your heart stop
Katherine: Where am I?
Elena: Still alive... Sadly
Katherine: I thought I was a goner there for a second, but I still have unfinished business
Elena: So do I. I had this whole speech that I was preparing to give your unconscious body
Katherine: Let me guess. Hate, loathe, screw you, die, bitch, et cetera
Elena: Yes. Plus one more thing. I forgive you
Katherine: You what?
Elena: I forgive you. You weren't born evil. Your life made you that way. You lost everyone that you cared about way too young, and you didn't have a family that looked after you. Sound familiar?
Katherine: Is this the... "We're not so different you and I" doppelganger speech? Because I'd be happy to skip it
Elena: I'll save it for the funeral that we probably won't have for you
Katherine: Perfect
Elena: I just wanted to get the forgiveness part out. It's part of me that I... I never want to lose
Katherine: Good for you. Now maybe you can help a girl out and give me one more syringe, and if anyone's gonna plunge a needle in me one last time, may as well be you. Symmetry and all that. Elena... Thank you for your forgiveness
Elena: You're welcome
(She loses consciousness. Her phone rings. She answers. Mia activates her and then Nadia takes the phone)
Nadia: Hello? Are you there?
Elena/Katherine: I'm here
Nadia: Talk to me. Did it work?
Elena/Katherine: Of course it worked. I'm Katherine Pierce. I survive. I'll see you soon
(She hangs up and looks at herself in the mirror)
Katherine: Hi. I'm Elena Gilbert
05x11 - 500 Years of Solitute
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