The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017): Season 2, Episode 15 - The Dinner Party - full transcript

Previously on
"The Vampire Diaries..."

You must be Elena. How
do we look exactly alike?

You are a Petrova doppelganger.

You're the key to
breaking the curse.

The Sun and the Moon curse?

Klaus is the real deal.

From the first generation
of vampires.

The oldest vampire
in the history of time

is coming after me?

- Elijah.
- One of the Originals.

He's a legend.



I'm prepared to
offer you a deal.

What kind of a deal?

You and I shall draw
Klaus out together,

and I shall make certain
your friends remain unharmed.

And then what?

Then I kill him.

Take me far, far away.

Where would you
like to go?

These must be the other
Jonathan Gilbert journals.

I come bearing gifts.
This is how you kill an Original.

That ring Isobel gave you.

That's mine.
I'm gonna want that back.

Did he ever tell you
what happened to his wife?

What are you saying?



Why don't you ask Rick?

How will you kill Klaus?

After the sacrifice.

After the sacrifice?

Elena has to die.

You knew that you weren't
going to survive this?

If it comes down to
the people that I love

getting killed or me, I know
what my choice is going to be.

You're being a martyr.

That's not heroic.
It's tragic.

With the dying embers of the fire

at Fell's church, the scourge
of the vampires had passed.

And though war raged all around us,

our town was safe from
the demons of the night...

Or so we thought.

For the monsters we drove
to their fiery deaths

had begat new monsters.

Did you hear that?

- Stay here.
- No, Thomas.

It's all right, dear, the
vampires are all dead.

Yes, Honoria... they burned
in the church. We're safe now.

Please, Jonathan.
I'm worried.

Very well. I shall go too.

I can prove there are no vampires.

See?

Thomas?

Thomas?

Thomas!

No, stay inside! Get
back in the house!

No!

I knew I was about to die.

You can not run from a vampire.

I saw the vampire who killed me.

I recognized him.

It was Stefan Salvatore.

What's going on?

Well, I showered. I shaved.

Had breakfast. Very relaxed.

That makes one of us.

I did hear one piece
of good news though.

Tyler Lockwood ran away
from home last night.

How do you know?

Well, I heard it
from sheriff Forbes,

who heard it from a very
distraught Carol Lockwood,

thus, ending our werewolf
chapter, bringing us to...

killing Elijah.

Exactly.

Well, it's not going to
be easy. He's crafty.

Well, I've got a crafty little dagger.

He's an Original.

We don't know what all
that encompasses.

Oh, trust me, Stefan.

I'm gonna dot all my t's.
I don't want any surprises.

Wow, Damon, tell me you're actually
gonna be careful for once.

Yes, Stefan, I've become you.

How tragic for both of us.

Got to run. I've a murder
to plan. Busy day.

The old Fell property actually
starts just beyond that fence.

Ah, the Fells... one of
the Founding Families.

Why do you say it like that?

My research showed me that
this area was actually settled

almost two full centuries earlier.

It was a migration of
townsfolk from the northeast,

um, it was Salem, to be precise.

Massachusetts?
As in the witch trials?

Which means the ever lauded
founding families...

They didn't actually found anything.

Well, I bet it was the men
who made a big deal

about being founders back in 1860.

Men are very territorial.

Yes, they are.

Elijah, this is my friend,
Alaric Saltzman.

Yeah, I got your message
about walking Elijah here

through the old property lines.

I thought I would tag along.

You know being a history buff and all.

Where to next?

I'm pretty curious about the
freed slave property owners.

Some say, you know,
the descendents of the slaves

are the true keepers
of American history.

Well, I only brought the surveys.

I got the list in the car
just give me a sec.

Alaric Saltzman.

So you're one of those people

on Elena's list
of loved ones to protect.

So is Jenna.

You don't have to be jealous.

I don't really pursue younger women.

It's a joke, Ric, lighten up.

Right.

Hey, whatcha doin'?

Thinking about last night.

Yeah, yeah. Me, too.

It was a tough spell.

I could feel it draining me.
I need practice.

Yeah, well, uh, maybe, I don't know.

Maybe you should come over tonight.

We can practice.
Get stronger.

Yeah, sure. Thanks.

Ah, incoming.

You want to tell me what
the hell happened yesterday?

Sorry?

Don't play dumb.
You both were here and...

And?

And that's all I remember.

One minute I'm playing pool

and the next I'm waking up
in a bathroom stall.

Sorry, Luka, but everything
seemed normal yesterday.

I brought you a coffee
and we played pool.

See, I think you're lying.

And I think you
need to back off.

Are you still mad?

Yeah, I'm still mad.

We had a difference
of opinion, Stefan,

we're not always gonna
agree on everything.

Elena, you've agreed to
sacrifice yourself to Klaus.

To say that we have
a difference of opinion

is the understatement of the century.

You would know.

What does Jonathan
Gilbert have to say?

A lot.

It's insane the things
he wrote in his journal

that he kept from
the founding families.

Stuff that nobody knows.
Stuff that...

You never told me.

We were, uh...

We were angry at the founding families

for what they did to Katherine.

We wanted revenge.

I didn't know about
Jonathan Gilbert's ring yet.

I didn't know that he would...
that he would survive.

He describes you as a monster.

That's what I was.

I want you to know the truth...

But I want you to hear it from me.

In the weeks after I became a vampire,

I relished in it.

I took it to
the darkest place I could.

Who wants to die next?

Me, I'm next.

Me, you promised me.

What about you?

You know if you
don't pick up the tempo,

you're going to lose
your head. Snap. Snap.

Company, brother?

I brought enough to share.

Are you mad bringing them here

when the entire town is hunting us?

Damon, if you're worried
about the founding families,

please don't be. They're
all dead or about to be.

Leave this place.
Never think of it again.

Same for you.
Leave this place.

Never think of it again.

Damon, don't be like this.
I'm just having some fun.

Staying alive is more fun, Stefan.

We have to be more careful than this.

More clever.
Like Katherine was.

Look what that got her.

I'm done here.

With you.

I'm leaving town.

You hate me. I know. I know.

An eternity of misery
and on and on. I know,

but you don't have to leave town.
Damon, I'll do better. I promise.

No, you will get us killed.

I'd rather leave you
to do that to yourself.

I wasn't myself then.

I was full of guilt.
What I did to my father,

to my brother.
I had to turn it off.

It was the only way I could survive.

It sounds like you were Damon.

I was worse.

Other than the lecture on
the history of Mystic Falls,

did you get anything out of Elijah?

No, it was boring.

Of course, Jenna thinks he's charming.

You sounded jealous.
Sound a bit jealous?

Kinda do.

Maybe we shouldn't
talk about this here.

Andie, she's been compelled

not to divulge
my secrets. Haven't you?

Uh-huh.

Mmm. My lips
are sealed.

This is too weird.

I just need the right opportunity.

Ah, there's Jenna
with her new boyfriend.

Hi.

Hey, guys.

So I hear you two had quite a meeting

of historical minds today.

Yeah, I guess you could say that.

Well, as much as I'd
love to continue this,

I've got papers to grade.

No, you know what?
We should continue this.

Let's have a dinner party.

Ooh, my girl.
Full of good ideas.

I'll be happy to host.

Say tonight. Maybe?

It's good for me. Jenna?

I don't know
if tonight works...

I'm free.

It'd be a pleasure.

Great.

Drink up.

Good girl.

I've come bearing gifts.

I didn't have time to properly shop,

but I did get a couple
of things. Hmm?

Wow, that blood did the trick.

You're almost pretty again.

What is it you want, Damon?

Guess who's back in town?

Your old friend, John Gilbert.

Really. Why?

Says he loves his daughter.

Wants to protect her from
Elijah and big, bad Klaus.

Touching.

Yeah, right.

He told me this old wives tale

about how to kill an Original.

And you want to know if it's true.

If it was, I wouldn't tell you.

Now, why not? I mean,
you want Elijah and Klaus

dead as much as I do.

Klaus, yes. Elijah, no.

He's compelled me to stay in here.

If he dies, I'm stuck forever.

Sucks for you.

Forget it, Damon.

Killing Elijah would be
a suicide mission.

You can't do it.

- Can so.
- Can't.

Even with a dagger and
a little white oak ash?

No. Damon, if you kill Elijah,

then I'm stuck in here forever.

You're really scared.

Just get me out of here first

and then I'll help you.

I'll... I'll help
you kill Elijah

or... or protect Elena.
Whatever you want.

I get you out of here and your ass

is sipping
Klaus-free margaritas

on some unknown island
somewhere. No way.

That's not true. I'll stay.

Damon, please just don't do it.

Well, thank you, you've told
me everything I need to know.

I've told you nothing.

You have. You have
indeed confirmed

that it is possible
to kill an Original,

which I will do tonight.

Guess who's coming to dinner?

For weeks I kept spiraling.

I was completely driven
by the desire for blood.

Hunt, prey, kill.

That was all I knew.

How come no one caught on

to what you were doing?

Mmm. There was a war going on.

The thing about wartime.

Endless, anonymous blood supply.

Ah!

What kind of an idiot are you?

Alexia Branson, as she
was known back then.

Lexi? Your
best friend Lexi?

That's how you met her?

What was she even doing
in Mystic Falls?

She had heard it was
a good place for vampires.

You know, had no idea that
they'd all been massacred.

Needed a place to crash,
so I brought her home with me.

I'd say it isn't
necessary to take me in,

but you did try to eat me
and well, with dawn coming,

beggars can't be choosers.

Or should they be?

I, um... I meant
to dispose of those.

My God, you're a ripper.

A what?

There are good parts
of being a vampire

and there are bad parts.

You're the bad parts.

Well... we're going
to have to change that.

You ok?

Talking about her brings up
things I'd rather forget.

Like Damon killing her?

So what's going on
with you and Alaric?

I feel like there's some tension.

I don't know.

I really like him.

It's more than like

and I want it to work,

but I can't help but
feel that he's hiding

something from me.
And then I've got John

whispering things in my ear about him.

Like what?

Things I don't want to believe.

Things I don't believe,

not if they're coming
from John's mouth.

Oh. Well, there you go, then.

Trust is the key to any relationship.

I mean, I am so grateful that
Damon tells me everything.

This is a bad idea.

There's no such thing as a bad idea.

Just poorly executed
awesome ones. Here.

No. I don't like the
idea of Elijah being

in the same house with Jenna.

Jenna's perfectly safe.

Besides, it's just
a fact-finding mission.

It's totally harmless.

Just a fact-finding mission.

Yeah.

Listen, no sneak attacks.
No surprise plans.

Nothing that's gonna put
Jenna in harm's way. Ok?

Scout's honor.

Hey, Jenna needs help with the wine.

- Thanks.
- Yeah.

Ok.

What's that?

Dessert.

Hmm.

Elijah's stronger than me.

Faster than me.

It's all about
the element of surprise.

Ah, it's too bad. I like him.
He's very old-school. Classy.

Which is why you should
encourage the gentlemen

to take their after dinner
drinks in here

while you do coffee in in
the kitchen with the girls.

Hmm. That is a little
too sexist for me.

Stop talking.

Who invited him?

John! Surprise... Leave.

When Jenna told me she was
coming to a dinner party

for Elijah, I decided I couldn't
miss out on all the fun and games.

There are not going to
be any games tonight, John.

It's just a friendly
dinner party.

What he said.

- Hey.
- Hey.

Thanks.

That thing weighs a ton.

I'm starving.
You guys have any... food?

Oh, God. Heh!
This is a date.

No, no it's not like a date, date.

More of a hey, I kissed you,

and I thought you liked
it, um... hang thing.

Jeremy, I need to make sure
Elena is cool with us

before anything else happens.

I didn't realize my sister had
approval over who I'm with.

She's my best friend,
I tell her everything.

And this whole hang thing
might freak her out.

All right, all right, so we'll, um...

We'll hang out, eat some food,

work on some spells.

It's not a big deal.

But you did...
You did like it, right?

Yeah. I liked it.

Good evening.

Thank you for coming.
Please, come in.

Just one moment.

Can I just say that
if you have anything

less than honorable intentions about
how this evening is going

to proceed,
I suggest you reconsider.

No, nothing, nothing dishonorable.

Just getting to know you.

Hmm. Well, that's good.
Because, you know,

although Elena and I have this deal,

if you so much as make
a move to cross me,

I'll kill you and I'll kill everyone
in this house. Are we clear?

Crystal.

Jenna. Wonderful
to see you again.

How are you?

- Nice to see you.
- You look incredible.

Thank you.

I hate to break it to you, Damon,

but according to Elijah,

your family is so not
a founder of this town.

Hmm, do tell.

Well, as I mentioned to Jenna earlier,

a faction of settlers
migrated from Salem

after the witch trials in the 1690s.

Over the next hundred years
they developed this community

where they could feel
safe from persecution.

Hmm. Because
they were witches.

Yeah, but there's no tangible proof

there were witches in Salem.

Andie's a journalist.
Big on facts.

Well, the lore says
that there was this wave

of anti-witch hysteria.
It broke out in the neighboring

settlement, so these
witches were rounded up.

They were tied to stakes
in a field together

and, uh, burned.

Some say you could hear the
screams from miles around us.

They were consumed by the
fire. Could you pass the...

I wouldn't repeat this
to the Historical Society.

It's starting to sound a little
like a ghost story to me.

So why do you want to know

the location of
these alleged massacres?

You know... a healthy historian's
curiosity, of course.

Of course.

Jonathan Gilbert
got crazier and crazier.

I guess that's what happens when you
spend your life obsessed with vampires.

He researched the Originals.

You're kidding.

Later in life, Look.

Pages and pages of
questions and scribbles.

What's that?

"The wood from one tree
and one tree alone,

"an ancient white oak would bring
death to an Original vampire.

When the tree burned,
all hope was thought lost."

He was trying to figure out
how to kill an Original.

"But the ash from the tree was saved

"and witches forged
a dagger to which the ash

could be bonded. This alchemic bond
provides the necessary poison."

Elena.

I wonder if this is true.

I mean, do you think this
dagger actually exists?

I know it does...

Because John gave it to Damon.

John gave Damon the weapon

that's supposed to
kill Elijah? This one?

"It must be brandished by
humans alone, for it will

bring death to all
demons who wield it."

John's trying to get Damon killed.

Does anyone care for some cognac?

I have a bottle
I've been saving for ages.

None for me thanks.
Nine bottles of wine is my limit.

Why is your phone off?
Call me.

What's going on, Stefan?

Damon is planning on killing Elijah.

Tonight.

The gentlemen should take
their drinks in the study.

I have to say the food was almost

as wonderful as the company.

I like you.

Here you are, gentleman,
make yourself useful. Hmm?

Here, here. Put me to work.

Um, I got it.

Hey, Jenna, are you...
are you ok?

Yeah, fine, Ric.

I suspect this is my fault.

What did you do now?

I merely mentioned you haven't
been completely honest

with her about your dead wife.

You son of bitch.

I think I've been very
clear with you, Ric.

I want my ring back.

Hello. Slow down.
Slow down.

Stefan?

So, let me guess. In
addition to the moonstone,

the doppelganger, the lion,

the witch and the wardrobe,

you need to find
this witch burial ground.

Because I feel as though
we've grown so close, Damon,

I'll tell you yes.

Do you know where it is?

Maybe.

Tell me why it's so important.

We're not that close.

It's quite a collection you have here.

Hmm.

It's a funny thing about books.

Before they existed, people
actually had memories.

Uh!

Gentlemen, we forgot about dessert.

Elijah?

Miss Star...

Sorry, guys, dessert is
taking longer than I thought.

I usually just unwrap food.

So... I know this
is a social thing,

but I... I would really love
to ask you some more questions

about the work that you're doing here.

I'd love to answer.

Great. Oh, that's so great.

Ric, would you do me a favor and
grab the notebook out of my bag?

Elijah, did John tell you
he's Elena's uncle/father?

Yes, I'm well aware of that.

Of course, she hates him,
so there's absolutely no need

to keep him on the
endangered species list.

Ric, it's in the front pocket.

On the... you know what?
Excuse me, guys. Sorry.

What I'd like to know, Elijah,

is how do you intend on killing Klaus?

Gentlemen, there's a few things

we should probably
get clear right now.

I allow you to live solely
to keep on eye on Elena.

I allow Elena to remain in her house

living her life with
her friends as she does

as a courtesy. If you
become a liability,

I'll take her away from you and
you'll never see her again.

Ok. My first question is when
you got here to Mystic...

Aah!

Now, get rid of him before
Jenna comes back with dessert.

All right.

Elena, we need to talk about this.

What good is talking if you and
Damon are just gonna lie to me?

If you don't like
my decisions, that's fine.

There's nothing I can do about that,

but if you ever go
behind my back again, I'll...

you're gonna what? Hmm?
What are you gonna do, Elena?

It's my life.
Yeah, exactly.

It's your life and I'm
gonna do everything

I can to make sure that you live it.

Then what? This... this...
this trip through the past.

You being honest.
Was there any truth to that

or were you just distracting me?

I was telling you about a time

when I thought everything was lost.

When I had given up because

that's exactly what
you're doing right now.

That is not what...

Yes, it is! Even if you don't
want to admit it.

You are giving up...
and Lexi?

She wouldn't let me give up.

I'm not gonna let you.

All of these men are dead or dying.

What does that make you feel?

Nothing.
I feel nothing.

Because you shut out the part
of you that was human.

The part that lets you feel.

Is that not the point?

Well, there is a better way.
You simply have to want it.

Is it better?

Not at first. You can't
choose what you feel.

You have to let it all back in.

The pain and the look in their eyes

when you took their life.
The cries of their loved ones.

Why would I want
to do that? Hmm?

Because once you
can hurt, you can love.

Love, Stefan.

That's the point.

Everything is intensified
when you're a vampire.

When we hurt, we really hurt.

But when we love...

Lexi showed me that
there was another way.

And from that day forward,
I started fighting for it.

For my own survival.

That's all I want you to do.

I just want you to fight for it.

Now, you said there wasn't
going to be any violence.

Says the guy that did all the killing.

Hey, I took the shot
because I saw an opening,

not because I planned
to do this with Jenna

in the house.
Now, you can't lie to me like that.

Hey, I am your friend, damn it.

And you don't have any friends.

So, no more lying.

Elijah's dead.

Alaric did it.

Originals believed in truth and honor.

It was forbidden for a vampire
to kill another vampire.

So, the dagger would take both lives.

And as long as the dagger
stays in place,

the Original, for all intents
and purposes, is dead.

What happened?

I need you to find Elena.

Now.

Ah... now, that is cool.
How does it work?

It's called channeling.

Siphoning power
from something...

another witch...
the Moon, an element.

So, technically, you could channel me.

What?

Well, I'm an element, sort of.

I mean, isn't... isn't
the human body mostly water?

You're right.

Let's... see what happens.

What the hell are you doing here?

Jeremy!

What did my son tell you?

What did he tell you?

He told me about your daughter.

I know Klaus has her and I
want to help you get her back.

But I want us to work together.

Please.

This is for your own good.

No! No.

No!

If any harm comes to my son

because of what you did,
you will answer to me.

You ok?

It's ok.

What happened?

He took my powers.

He's here.

You have to go. I need
to talk to him alone.

- Elena.
- Stefan, I'm ok.

He can't come in the house.

You know, I might not be
able to enter this house...

But I'm a very patient man.

I'll wait you out.

They shouldn't have
done what they did.

The deal is off.

I'm renegotiating.

You have nothing left
to negotiate with.

I'd like to see you lure
Klaus into Mystic Falls

after the doppelganger
bleeds to death.

Stefan won't let you die.

No, he won't.

He'll feed me his blood to heal me,

and then I'll kill myself
and become a vampire,

just like Katherine did.

So unless you want
that to happen again,

promise me the same
as before... promise me...

You won't harm anyone that I love.

Even if they've harmed you.

I'm sorry, Elena.

I'm going to have to call your bluff.

Uhh!

No!

Yes. Yes, you can
have your deal.

Let me heal you.

Give me your word!

I give you my word.

Uhh!

Uhh.

Uhh!

Little tip. Don't
pull the dagger out.

Where did John disappear to?

Maybe the same place the rest
of the dinner party ran off to.

Look, Jenna, I'm, uh...

I'm so sorry
tonight was...

what happened to Isobel?

You know, John should have
never brought that up.

That's not an answer.

He's just trying to stir up trouble.

That's not an answer, either.

I can't talk about this, Jenna.

I keep thinking that maybe it's me.

Maybe I'm reading into things.

I should trust you.

That's what a relationship
is about, right?

But then I think that
maybe John is right

and maybe you're not
being honest with me.

So... are you being honest?

Hmm.

Right, ok.

That was an answer.

Well, that was awkward.

You know, I can clear
all this stuff up

about Isobel tomorrow, if you want.

Or not.

You want it?

Take it.

It's yours.

And after what you did to Damon...

You're gonna need it more than me.

Uhh!

What do we have here?

A little moonstone bar of soap.

I'll hold on to this.

So, that's it.

I mean, as long as we keep the dagger

in there, then he stays dead.

Pretty much.

Ok, then...
Good night.

You know, you guys want me
to fight, fine, I'll fight.

But if we're gonna do this,

you can't keep anything
from me anymore.

From this moment on,
we're doing it my way.

That seems fair.

Ok.

Ok.

Seems like she's had
a change of attitude.

How did you get through to her?

I told her a little story

about when I was making
the wrong decisions

and somebody showed me
there was a better way.

Lexi?

Yeah.

You remember her?

Going somewhere?

You must be the vampire I hear
my brother complaining about.

That would be me.

And you must be
the brother who hates him.

We are at irreparable odds.

You know the hate you're
feeling towards Stefan?

Towards everyone?

You think you have it under
control but you don't.

It will get the best of you.

Help him.

He needs it.

I'll help him.

Andie?

I thought you left.

Hello, Damon.

Hey, do you have a robe?

How did you get out?

I knew that if I begged
you not to kill Elijah,

that's exactly what you'd do.

Little known fact... Originals
can compel vampires.

But as soon as they die,
the compulsion wears off.

And you knew?

And I'm still here.

I didn't run.

I meant what I said to him, Damon.

I'm going to help you.

So...

How about that robe?