The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017): Season 4, Episode 9 - O Come, All Ye Faithful - full transcript

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 for Klaus to be locked in and buried. Conflict threatens as Stefan demands the plan be at least postponed until Klaus has helped him with the vampirism antidote for Elena. That proves void as Caroline thinks of using Rebekah's secretly stored corpse as host and Professor Atticus demonstrates he can get the cure even faster, knowing which male witch must be dug up for it. Atticus's method to control Jeremy's vampire-chaser instinct fails because his love for Elena isn't unconditional enough, but Damon solves that by using Bonnie. Damon cancels his sire hold on Elena, despite her hesitation, but Stefan just learned about and and gets lividly furious. Klaus crosses all vampire and hybrid plans by carrying out a bloody ritualistic deal struck with Atticus and April.

Stefan: Mystic falls...
I was born here.

This is my home.

Damon: And mine.
Elena: And mine.

For centuries,
supernatural creatures
have lived among us.

Caroline: They were
vampires, werewolves,
doppelgangers...

Bonnie: Witches.
Klaus: And even hybrids.

Some search
for a cure...

Aah!

No matter what
the consequences.

Uh!

Others plot a revolution.



Do you want
to be free?

We have to work
together.

And some try
to walk away.

Elena's sired
to damon.

You don't think
I'm going to be able
to do what I need to

When I have to tell
elena to stay away from me.

I know what you're
about to do.

Please, don't
do this to me.

I'm not the good
guy, remember?

I'm the
selfish one.

But I have to do
the right thing
by you.

This would be
so much more fun
if we were naked.

That was your call,
not mine.

I was being
a gentleman.



You shouldn't
have stayed.

I know.

I should have
made you leave,

Sent you packing.

I promised stefan.

I know.

You're sired to me,
elena,

Which means everything
that you think you feel

Might not even
be real.

I know, damon,
but...

It feels real.

And I'm not ready
to let go of that.

I could make you.

Invoke the sire bond.

So do it.

I told him
I would set you free.

Right after I didn't
tell him that we
slept together.

So, what do you
want to do?

I want to throw you
back in my bed
and never let you leave.

So do it.

[cell phone ringing]

Saved by
the cell phone.

I have to meet
bonnie.

She's teaching
jeremy how not
to kill me.

Want to come?

Stefan: Looks like
a giant snowflake.

I prefer to think
of it

As an expression
of post-modernism.

It's my donation
to the winter
wonderland

Charity event.

You said it was
urgent?

Yes. Take this
to the mystic
grill immediately.

You want me to be
a delivery guy?

What I want
is for you to do
whatever I say,

Without
the attitude.

Be careful
with that.

It's still wet.

Abraham lincoln
freed the slaves,
you know.

What is the point
of my hybrids
being sired to me

If I can't maximize
on the benefits
of free labor?

What are you
doing here?

Elena is sired
to damon.

I intuited as much.

Which means I need
to find the cure
now more than ever,

And here you are
making post-modern
snowflakes.

I've delivered.

I retrieved
the hunter's sword
from Italy,

Which we'll use
to decipher the map

Hidden in
the hunter's mark.

You're the one
who's supposed to
deliver the hunter

And his mark.

Well, jeremy
is the hunter,

And he has to
keep killing vampires
to complete his mark,

But we can't quite
figure out how

To keep him
from killing us.

Sounds like quite
the chore,

Which is why I feel
perfectly justified

In doing a little
charity work.

Or maybe you're
lying about having
found the sword.

Why would I lie
to you, stefan?

We're in this together.

The hilt acts
as a cypher

Which we'll use
to decode the marks

On jeremy's tattoo
when he's killed
enough vampires

To complete it.

I heard you moved
out of your house.

Bit of a martyr
move, hmm?

I'm not here
to bond, klaus.

Oh, on the contrary,

I think right now
I'm the best friend
you've got.

Adrian:
I'm sick of taking
his crap.

I should rip
his throat off,

See if he can
boss us around
without a larynx.

You won't have to
take it much longer.

You keep saying that,
but here we are, hiding,

Plotting a revolution
that's never gonna happen.

Never say never.

And never say I
don't pull through.

I found the witch
that's gonna save
your lives.

Are you serious?

We promised you guys
we'd free you from klaus.

You did your part
by breaking your
sire bond.

Now hayley and I
are going to do ours.

You're going to
do what?

Hayley found a witch
strong enough to do

The body-jump
spell--

You know,
the klaus specialty.

So you're going to
put him in someone
else's body,

And then what?

We'll encase the
body in concrete,
then bury it.

Why not just
desiccate him
like bonnie did?

Because to do
that spell,

You have to stop
a human heart.

I was a little
short of volunteers.

Well, who was dumb
enough to volunteer
their body

To be a klaus
sublet?

Ok, don't freak out.

Freak out?

Freak out?

I'm about
to hemorrhage.
You volunteered?

It's not forever,
just long enough

For the hybrids
to be able to
completely disappear.

I can think of better
ways for us to spend
our senior year

Than you buried
in concrete, tyler.

This started
with me.

This has to end
with me.

I need your support.

Jeremy?

They shouldn't
be here.

They're here to
help you.

Do you trust me?

Yeah.

Yeah, I trust you.

Let's go inside.

What the hell is
professor shadypants
doing here?

I invited him.

Hey, listen.
We are ready to
get started,

But before
we can do that,

We need her...

In here.

This is your house
now, jer.

You have to
invite me in.

Go ahead, jeremy.
Invite her in.

You can come in.

[cell phone rings]

Hey. Sorry.
I know I'm late.

If I'm gonna be
a friend in your
time of need,

Then you need to
work on your
punctuality.

I'm in a crisis.
Where are you?

I'm at my house.
Why? What's wrong?

My boyfriend
is a dumb-ass
martyr.

And why are you
at your house?

Aren't you trying
to keep your
distance

From elena?

Well, she's not
here anymore.

Damon took jeremy
to the gilbert
lake house with bonnie,

So I guess her house
is safe for her again.

Hey, listen, I got
klaus to tell me

A little bit more
about this hunter's sword.

You know that map
in jeremy's tattoo?

The sword decodes it.

It's literally the key
to finding the cure.

Klaus told you this?

Yeah. Why?

And did he happen to
hand over the sword
for safekeeping?

Uh, what do you think?

[sigh]

What's wrong?

We need to get
our hands on that
sword, like, today.

Tyler
and his hybrids

Are taking out
klaus tonight.

Eee!

[music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

Here to steal
tiny tim's crutches?

Dickens was
a dark man.

Klaus: You would have
liked him.

Nice snowflake,
by the way.

Is my work
really that literal?

I'm serious.

There's something...

Lonely about it.

I'm gonna take that
as a compliment.

Can I offer you
some champagne?

Can't. Too many
adult prying eyes.

Don't want to be
a high-school
cautionary tale

At the next
town meeting.

Well, then,
it's a good thing

The high-school part
is nearly over.

If we're gonna
be nice to each other,

Then I will need
that glass of champagne.

Is that our thing?

We don't have
a "thing."

Allow me.

Damon: Well, he's not
walking around with it.

Check the rest
of the house.

I am. I haven't
found anything.

Damon: Try
the sock drawer.

People leave the
sketchiest stuff
in sock drawers.

I'm gonna need
real ideas, damon.

Damon: Here's two:
Kill tyler before
he goes to klaus,

Or, since klaus has
suddenly become mvp

In our relay race
for the cure,

Tell him about
the hybrids.

Nobody's killing
tyler.

Hello?

Stefan.

Look, I know
it's a touchy subject,

But do you know
where elena is today?

I think she's
running around...

Trying to figure out
how to deprogram
jeremy.

How'd she take it
last night--

You telling her
to stay away from you?

Not well.

You ok?

Peachy.

Got to go. Bonnie's
enlisted dr. Evil
in her plan,

And I have to
thwart him.

All jeremy feels
when he sees a vampire

Is a burning desire
to kill them.

Even if consciously
he doesn't want to,

As in your case,
it's his subconscious
that's calling the shots.

Bonnie: Persuasion
helps reverse
your conscious thoughts.

Shane: Think of it
as kind of a conditioned
response, right?

See vampire, kill vampire.

What I'm doing
is creating a kind
of middle step.

It's like a detour
where his subconscious

Learns to recognize
you as someone he loves,

Someone he wants
to protect.

And that gives him
a choice.

He can choose
to take the detour

Instead of the
conditioned response.

Ok. Talk to him.
He'll listen.

I'm not...
Sure what to say.

You chose to do this
here at your family's
vacation house, right?

So maybe just start
by telling him why.

Every holiday,
we came here.

This place
was family,

And when
mom and dad died,

Jenna made us
come here,

And we thought it
was an awful idea,

But it was like
they were here
with us.

They would have
wanted us to stick
together, jer...

To fight
for each other

No matter what.

Jeremy, how do you
feel about elena
right now?

She ruined our lives.
She's not even
my real sister.

She's just the reason
that everyone I've
ever loved has died.

She means
nothing to me.

I will kill her,
even if that means
I die myself.

[knock]

Did it work?

Hey.

Hey.

Did you find
the sword?

Nope.

What are we
gonna do now?

Klaus is the only
shot we have
at finding the cure.

We need him.
Tyler has to
call it off.

Tyler: Well, that's
not gonna happen.

You told him?

I've had 12 hybrids
sworn to secrecy
for a month.

I have hayley
and a witch risking
their lives,

And you're blabbing
my plan to him?

Look, all I'm asking
you for is a little
bit of time, ok?

How long?
An hour? A day?

Because every
minute that goes by

That we don't do this,
they're at risk.

You and klaus
already served
one of them up

For jeremy to kill.

I don't owe you
anything.

Tyler: I'm taking
him out.

I'm sorry,
but I can't let you
do that.

Caroline:
Stephan--

I'm sorry,
but I can't.

Stefan.

Tyler: Sorry, man,
but you don't have a choice.

[footsteps]

You're not allowed
to feel this sorry
for yourself

Unless you're
sitting on a bar stool.

Fortunately,
I travel with the bar.

It didn't work.

I shouldn't have
put so much hope

Into reprogramming
someone's mind.

If it were
that easy,

Then you and I
wouldn't be
in this situation.

Right?

Last time
I was here,

I was so completely
in love with stefan.

Now that's barely
a memory.

Is that
the sire bond...

Or just that I'm
so happy to be here
with you?

Maybe there's something
else they can try.

Tyler.

Keep them down here
until we're ready
to bring klaus in.

Use these if you have to.

Stefan: Come on, tyler.
This is bigger than you.

It's about more than
revenge for us.

I know what it's
about for you,
stefan.

It's about the cure.

You know what
happens to
a hybrid

When he's cured
of being
a vampire?

We go back to
being werewolves,

Turning on every
full moon.

We could give
a rat's ass
about the cure.

Tyler, come on.

I needed you
on my side, care.

That's all I wanted.

You ok?

Shane wants
to try again.

Survey says: Ehhh.

Professor shane
has been dipping into
the magical herbs

A little too much
if he thinks
using a vampire

To suppress the need
to kill another one

Is going to work
on a hunter.

It's like dangling
a cheeseburger

In front of someone
on a master cleanse.

Just find someone else
to attach

Your warm and fuzzy
detour feelings to.

Gee, I wonder
who that could be.

You.

I feel that way
about you.

Damon: Well, this isn't
awkward at all.

I'll be...Anywhere else.

It was good thinking
using bonnie

As jeremy's
emotional
touchstone.

Damon is very
intuitive.

And bonnie told me

About your
relationship
with him.

I don't mean
to pry, obviously.

It's...Complicated.

Oh.

Elena: Any ideas
how to hypnotize me
out of it?

You know, in all
my world travels,

The one spell
that I've never
found

Is how to break
somebody from
loving too much.

Trust me,
I've looked.

My wife and son died.

I was just--I was
trying to figure out
a way not to miss them.

[footsteps]

If your hypno-herbs work,

We should be singing
"kumbaya" around the fire
by dinner.

So now tell me why
I'm not killing you.

Damon.

I'm serious.
Why are you after
the vampire cure?

I didn't say I was
looking for the cure,

But I can tell you
where to find it.

Klaus' sword will
tell us where to find it.

The sword will lead
you there, sure,

But so can I.

Elena: What?
How?

Because I've already
been there.

[music playing]

Instruct the guests
to drop their
donations

At the gift tree
in the grill.

Yes, ma'am.

Excuse me.

There you are.

Quick, a toast
before people can
can judge us.

What's wrong?

Please say
something.

But you'll miss
graduation.

Which...I guess
is a ridiculous thing
to worry about.

I'm their alpha.

They're looking
to me to help them.

You do what you
have to do, tyler.

Don't look so shocked.

I'm trying to
channel your father.

He'd be proud
of you, you know.

You're a leader of people,
just like he was.

Thank you, mom.

It's a rock.

It's not just any rock.

Hmm. So is this
that silly little
wives' tale

That you told
at the occult exhibit?

All right,
long story short--

Once upon a time,
there was a witch
named silas

Who loved a girl
and wanted to be
with her forever.

So he and his best
friend, another witch,

Made an immortality
spell,

And then silas'
best friend witch
got jealous

And killed silas' girl
before he had a chance
to make her immortal.

Well, cursed to
an eternity without
his one true love,

Silas finds a way
to reverse the
immortality spell,

And then, before
he has a chance
to take it,

His former friend
buries him underground,

Leaving him
and the cure to rot.

So it's a cure
for immortality?

Human blood
is the life force
of an immortal.

No more immortality,

No more need
to feed on blood.

You dig up silas,

And you've got your cure.

Caroline: Oh,
this is ridiculous.

We are not hostages.

Sure you are,
sweetie.

[cell phone rings]

Relax.

It's my brother.

What's up?

Don't ask how
or why or who,

But I just found
the answer to your
tyler problem.

You're kidding.

We don't need the sword.

Shane:
This is the mark

Of the brotherhood
of the five.

Then up the arm,
you have the murder

Of a girl by a witch.

The symbols in the vines
are your map,

Which you obviously
no longer need.

When this mark
is complete,

It will contain
the spell that we need

To dig up silas.

And where did you say
he was buried?

Oh, I forgot.
You didn't.

You've threatened
to kill me, what,

Like, 3 times
already this week?

The location is how
I'm gonna survive
your bad moods.

Elena: And what's
in it for you?

If not the cure,
then what?

I'm in this for silas,
all right?

Up until this point,
he's only been myth.

So write a thesis.

Would you rather
be the guy who writes
about noah's ark

Or the one who
sails it down
the hudson river?

I'm not buying it.

You don't have to
buy anything.

Shane: You just
have to believe

That I can fix
your brother,

And when his hunter's
mark is complete,

I'm gonna take you
to the cure.

How the hell
did you even get out?

I got out because
even your idiot
hybrids

Recognized
the stupidity

Of your alpha hybrid
martyr plan.

I'm not going to fight
with you anymore, caroline.

Oh, we're gonna do
plenty of fighting,

The second that
you shove klaus

Into someone
else's body.

We've been through this.
I don't have anyone
else's body.

Yeah? Well, I do.

What? Who?

Klaus' sister
rebekah.

She's got a dagger
in her.

Stefan's been
hiding her coffin
in the tunnels.

We dump klaus
into her body
and bury her.

We just killed
two original birds
with one stone.

It's too late
to change the plans.

Call bonnie.

Make sure it'll work.

Tyler.

It's a brilliant
plan, hayley.

You're a genius.
I love you.

Ha!

Mmm. I love you,
even when I hate you.

I got to go find
my mom,

Let her know I might
actually graduate.

How's it going?

I think we're
making progress.

[cell phone rings]

Caroline, hey.

Bonnie, I need you
to think fast.

I know that the daggers
don't work on klaus,

But what if we put
his essence into rebekah?

It'll work, right?
Say it'll work.

Bonnie: Slow down.
Slow down.
What's happening?

Just come on, bonnie.
Will it work?

Yeah. I don't see
why not.

Caroline: Oh. Bonnie
bennett, I love you.

Bonnie: Do you
need my help?

I can leave
elena here
with jeremy.

Elena? She's there, too?

Yeah. She came
with damon.

Who's being slightly
less horrible
than usual.

You know what?
I can't deal with
this right now.

[beep]

She said
it would work.

I gathered.
Congratulations.

Thank you.

My pleasure.

Jer and I

Should take
these decorations
home with us.

We could use
the holiday cheer.

Look at you--
suddenly polly
optimist.

I think shane's
gonna get us through this.

I trust him.

Which you clearly don't.

Maybe because I think
he blew up 12 people
at the young farm.

What?

A little tip,
professor:

I heard you before
you even took
your first step.

I see we're back
to the false accusation
part of our relationship.

What is he talking
about?

Da--ha. Damon
discovered that
I was in contact

With pastor young
prior to the explosion
at the young farm.

The pastor was
severely depressed.

He had lost his wife
to cancer,

And he sought me out
for a little
supernatural assistance.

I tried to help,
but he was too far gone.

It's just I never
expected that he'd take
11 innocents with him.

Jeremy: Elena.

It's ok.

I think we've got this.

Bonnie: Elena,
don't move, ok?

No matter what.

Jeremy, remember
the detour.

Choose the right path.

[cell phone buzzes]

[no audio]

[music playing]

She doesn't
like me much.

Where have you
been all day?

I've been around.

I'm not interested
in vagaries, stefan.

You've been dodgy
and caroline's
been lovely,

Which I've come to
recognize as a tool
of distraction.

Now do you have
something to share
with me,

Or should I compel
it out of you?

I broke into your safe
to look for the sword.

Why?

Because I don't
trust you.

I showed you
the sword.

I explained
its value.

I've been
on your side
the entire time.

What do you want
from me--

A secret brotherhood
handshake?

I found the letters.

You have a few pen pals
over the centuries?

Well, is keeping
my victims' letters
really so different

From writing their
names on a wall,

Like you did,

Ripper?

Loneliness, stefan.

That's why you and I
memorialize our dead.

There's the briefest
of moments before we kill

Where we literally
hold their life
in our hands,

And then we
rip it away,

And we're left
with nothing.

So gathering other
people's letters

Or writing their names
on a wall--

It's a reminder...

That in the end
we're left infinitely

And utterly alone.

Oh. Sorry.

Oh. Hello?
Are you ok?

Um...

Oh, my gosh!
Caroline!

Oh! Somebody help! Help!

Holy crap!

Have you seen hayley?

[beep]

You didn't
have a pulse.

You were dead.

Stefan, it's me.

That little werewolf
slut has lost her mind.

Go to the lockwood
cellar and make sure

That rebekah's body
is still there.

I'm gonna find tyler.

Hayley is trying to
screw this up.

[beep]

Forget everything
you just saw and heard.

You are miss mystic falls,

And you have duties
to fulfill.

Ok.

There you are.

Stefan has been
looking for you.

Adrian's leading
klaus to the cellar.

How come the only
time April young

Isn't following you
around like a lost puppy

Is when I'm lying dead
with a broken neck?

April saw you?

Yeah. It's ok.
I compelled her.

She's--she's wearing
jeremy's vervain
bracelet.

She can't be
compelled.

Tyler: Hey, mom.
I don't see you.

Things have changed.
It's gonna be fine.

I'll be back later.
I'll pick you up.

What are you
doing here?

You're supposed to
be taking the witch
to the cellar.

There is no witch,
tyler.

What?

I made it up.

Kimberley:
Where the hell
is the witch?

Adrian should
be here any minute.

[whoosh]

Kim.

Uh!

No!

I never intended
for you to put klaus down.

I needed him
for the sacrifice.

What?

I don't know
how to explain it,

But I made a deal
with someone

Who can help me
find my family.

What are you
talking about?
What kind of deal?

There needed to be 12
for the sacrifice, tyler.

12 what?

I'm sorry.

Hayley, what
did you do?

If you run now,
you might make
it out alive.

[music playing]

Where is tyler
lockwood?

You'd do well
to answer me, love.

Where is he?!

I don't know.

Wrong answer.

[knife slices]

[music playing]

Check this out.

Jenna used that to
make out with logan fell.

All the drama,
and you're missing
the actual fun part.

Elena, we can't.
I can't.

Damon, you can't
keep telling me
that this isn't real.

I know how I feel
and that you
feel it, too,

So stop fighting it.

It's good to see you
like that--

All normal
with your brother.

I want that again
for you.

Christmas was always
mine and stefan's
favorite holiday

When we were kids,
not that I've
celebrated since.

I kind of miss that.

You're thinking about
how upset he'll be

When he finds out
that you and I
are together.

I've been lying
to him all day.

No. You were helping me
with jeremy.

The point is not
what I was doing.

The point is
that I'm here
with you.

I was supposed to
invoke the sire
bond, elena,

Send you away.

I was supposed to
do the right thing
by you

And the right thing
by my brother.

Which is what
I'm gonna do
right now.

You're gonna
go home.

What? No. Damon--

I'm gonna stay
here with jeremy.

I'm gonna help him
complete the mark.

I'll teach him
how to hunt.

I'll protect him,
and we'll kill
vampires

Without you.

Damon, please.

I'm setting you
free, elena.

This is what I want.

This is what
will make me happy.

I can't find April.
I can't reach tyler.

This is a disaster.

Is this you
in crisis mode?

Because it's a lot more
stealth than mine.

I thought I'd be
happier

Watching klaus get
led away to the
slaughter,

But for some reason,
I can't help but feel
kind of...

Guilty.

Yeah. You and me both.

All day I've been
trying to remind myself

Of all the horrible
things he's done.

See, that's
the thing.

We've all done
horrible things.

And I'm sitting here
trying to figure out

What makes us
any better than him.

And I think it's
just that we have
family we can trust.

Yeah.

You're right, stefan.

Trust is everything.

Have you heard
from damon?

Yeah. He's still
with jeremy
at the lake house.

Did he happen
to mention...

Where elena was?

Wait. Why are you--
why are you
asking me this?

They're together,
aren't they?

How together
are they?

Caroline, tell me.

How together
are they?

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Thank you.

I was ready to
fight you on this,

But suddenly every
part of my body

Is telling me that
I need to get
in this car

And leave you.

So do it.

[music playing]

Tyler, honey,
you're supposed to be
in my sober cab.

I think I drank
half the party.

Good evening, carol.

If you're looking
for tyler,

I'd like a little
word with him myself.

Klaus, please.

Don't hurt him.

He's my son.

He's all I have.

And you're all
he has.

There's a beautiful
symmetry to that,
don't you think?

Aah!

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