The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017): Season 5, Episode 10 - Fifty Shades of Grayson - full transcript

Damon realizes Elena is in danger and enlists Stefan's help to find her. The brothers pay a visit to Aaron, and Damon shocks Stefan by revealing his first-hand knowledge of Aaron's family. ...

Previously
on "The Vampire Diaries"...

I'm dying old age. Good-bye.

You're Katherine Pierce.
Suck it up.

I was 21051.

You were
an Augustine vampire?

I'm sure Augustine will be
thrilled to have you back.

That's my dad.

Grayson Gilbert
was one of the best doctors

the Augustines
ever had.

Elena, wake up.

- What the hell is going on?
- I've been here before.



Believe it or not,
I made a friend.

My name's Enzo.

You have to tell me
how you got out of here.

Damon, now!

Aah!

I'm sorry, Enzo.

Damon, please!

I turned off my emotions...

Damon!

And I left
my friend to die.

Welcome.

I'm 12144.

My name is Enzo.

Slick hands, cowboy.



Aah!

Come on!

Oh, my God!

Hmm. Hey.

Um, don't turn around.

What are you doing?

Um, just don't
turn around.

Where are you going?

Uh, everything's fine.

Just... go back to bed.

Unh! Agh!

What the hell
happened to you?

Ditto.

Elena's not here
by any chance, is she?

I haven't seen her,

not that I've
been looking.

Stef, you awake?

You know, he hasn't
seen her either.

I know because
we were together

all night.

Look. I've had a really
crappy couple days, ok?

If you're implying what
I think you're implying...

Why? What were
you thinking?

That our hot, naked
bodies collided

in one unforgettable
night of passion?

I'm gonna barf.

Great. Then my work
here is done.

Too-do-loo.

Ugh.

Subject 83182
appears conscious.

Where am I?

Why? Look familiar?

What is that thing?

What are you
doing to me?

83182 resume prep
for blood dialysis.

Count from 10.

9, 8, 7,

6, 5...

Where the hell
you been?

Aw, you know, being held against
my will, shot in the head,

now I can't
find Elena.

How was your evening?

Anything out
of the ordinary happen?

Wait a minute.
What do you mean

you can't find Elena?

I mean, she's not
picking up her phone,

she's not in her dorm,
she's nowhere

in this house, which
leads me to believe

that Dr. Creepy Ken Doll
has her somewhere.

Are you talking about
the Whitmore bio teacher?

Yeah, the one that
operated on vampires

during business hours,
yeah, that one.

Put your hero hair on, Stefan.
Let's go get Elena.

You just said you don't
know where she is.

I don't, which means we're gonna
have to find us some leverage.

So come on.

Pop quiz. So your girlfriend's
taken by a mad scientist.

Now, do you: "A," get
a new girlfriend;

"B," call the police;
Or "C," kill someone

close to that
mad scientist?

Sit.

4.1 pints drained.

83182 still shows signs
of consciousness.

Note that 15 years ago
subject 12144 faded

into unconsciousness
after losing 2.9 pints.

Evolution or luck?

Mystery for another day.

What are you
doing to me?

What are these tubes?

Let me go!

Relax. I plan to once
I'm through with you.

My friends are gonna
find me.

Your heroic vampire friends?

Did you know
Aaron Whitmore spent

his entire life thinking
his family was haunted

by some death curse?

Turns out that curse
was your boyfriend

systematically killing
every member

on his family tree.

I'm curious.
How does one justify

that in her mind?

And this, holding people
against their will,

torturing them
how do you justify that?

Science.

"June 25, 1999.
Incredible findings today.

"After enduring 3,000
volts of electricity,

"the subject continues
to have a heartbeat.

"June 26. More success.

"Subject was exposed
to 4,000 volts today.

"Seizing continues
after electrocution.

Flesh remains hot
to the touch."

You're a monster.

This isn't my journal,
Elena.

These are the hand-written
medical findings

of Dr. Grayson Gilbert,

your father.

What?

Everything I'm
doing to you

I learned from him.

I have no idea
where Wes took her.

Well, they're not
at his lab,

so where else
could he hide a vampire?

I'm sorry. Am I supposed
to know who you are?

That's my brother
Stefan,

but I'd watch
your tone with him

because he's kind of in
the midst of a psychotic break.

I'm sorry.
I'm what?

Oh, come on. You
don't think I know

about you
and Katherine?

Oh, I see.
You're jealous.

More like disturbed.

See? He's
off his rocker,

he's losing
his mind,

teetering on the brink of insanity.

How are you not dead?
I shot you.

Well, because you
went for the head.

You got to go
for the heart.

Go for the heart
next time.

Now where's Elena?

I have no idea.

All that Wes told me was to
go about my life as usual.

Well, you're gonna call Wes,
and you're gonna tell him

that if he doesn't
give us Elena

the next experiment
that he conducts

will be sewing
your arms back on.

This is my dad's clinic.

We're in the basement.

Was your dad's clinic.

Then your town council burned a
whole bunch of vampires down here.

Now it's just
a condemned building

in Mystic Falls where
no one will find us.

Aaron, hey.

Do you have Elena?

Aaron, what's wrong?

Uh, Stefan and Damon
Salvatore are gonna kill me

unless you give
them Elena.

Damon Salvatore is
locked in an impenetrable

and inescapable
fortified cell.

Or he's in front of me imagining
what my kidney would taste like.

Fine. Meet you
in my classroom.

Once I see you're safe,

tell them I'll give
them Elena.

Enzo...

Enzo, wake up.

When was the last time
you were out

in civilization?

What's that?

An insurance policy.

Guarantees you'll
come back to me.

I'm giving you
the day off.

You and Damon have
some catching up to do.

I don't hear
you counting.

3, 4, 5, 6.

Unh!

Good try.

Good try? That was
horrible, Matt.

Come on.
I'm paying you

to make me hot again,

whip me into shape,
and prolong

this death thing
as long as possible.

Yeah, that will happen.

What did you say?

No. Seriously.
I didn't hear you.

Oh, God. I'm going deaf.
I'm going deaf.

My entire body is
falling apart.

I can't breathe.
I can't breathe.

Wa... water! Give me
some water. Faster.

Deep breaths.

If you're so anxious
not to be dead,

why don't you just
have a vampire turn you?

Tried that.

Every time I ingest
vampire blood,

my body rejects it.

Ohh!

Who is that?
I can't see.

It's Nadia.
I told her you were here.

"Dear Nadia, sorry I had to
kill your boyfriend,

"but it was the motherly
thing to do.

Suicide, however,
not very motherly of me."

Great. So, um, Stefan
obviously gave you

my suicide note.

What's your point?

Damn!

That's for trying
to kill yourself

without saying good-bye.

You want to give me
a little back story

as to how you
know one another?

Aaron is
Aaron Whitmore,

and he comes from
a very long line

of vampire-probing,
blood-testing,

organ-removing
freaks

called Augustine.

Why do you know this?

Because I was
their test subject

in the fifties.

What do you mean
test subject?

Meaning I donated
my body to science

except I was alive

and it was
against my will.

Wait. Hold on a minute.

How do I not
know about this?

Don't get all guilt-ridden,
Stefan, on me.

We were on the outs
back then,

and by the time it
was over, you know,

it was over.

Why don't you finish
the rest of the story, Damon?

I don't recall saying
that you could talk.

Did I say that
he could talk?

I don't remember
anything.

I didn't think so.

I get it now.

If I was
living here,

I'd want to kill
myself, too.

It was a moment
of weakness.

I'm over it.

In a moment of weakness,
you eat chocolate

or kiss the wrong boy.

You don't jump
off a clock tower.

Do you see this?
This is raw kale.

In what universe
would I put this

inside of my body
unless I actually

wanted to live
another day.

Ok. Then what
changed your mind?

It's not so much
a matter of what

as it is who.

Can I ask you something
absentee mother

to mildly abusive
daughter?

I'm listening.

Do you think after all
the horrible things

that I've done
it would be possible

to be forgiven?

Of course I do.

That's actually
why I'm here.

I may have an idea
that will keep you

alive longer.

I'm listening.

When did you meet
my dad?

He was working
with Augustine

to turn vampire blood
into a magical cure-all

to fight disease,
cure cancer,

save the world.

Do you know if he ever
brought a vampire down here?

I remember coming
down here as a kid.

There was something
about this place

that always
creeped me out.

Wes, I saw Enzo
when I woke up.

I know he's alive.

Where is he?

He's on a little day trip.

Apparently he has
some unresolved business

with your boyfriend.

What did you do?

What did you do?

What did you do?

Which one is it?

It's right here.

21051.

Enzo!

It's been
a while, mate.

Who the hell
are you?

Lorenzo...

But my friends
call me Enzo.

Ah. Kidding. I don't
have any friends.

Heh.

Enzo's another
Augustine vampire.

Our cells were next
to each other.

So we're here to meet somebody...
Wes Maxfield.

You know him?

That's your first
question for me?

Not "how are you?
How'd you survive

in that fire I left
you to die in"?

Uh, does somebody
want to tell me

what the hell
is going on here?

I'd love to.
Have a seat.

Been waiting 70 years
to tell my story.

Enzo is
the Augustine vampire.

He killed my roommate
Megan, didn't he?

Conserve your energy.

I've drained enough blood
to start phase two.

Let me guess.

You're not gonna tell me
what phase two is, are you?

If it works, you'll be
the first one to know.

Why did Megan have
a picture of my dad

on her cell phone?

Maybe because her
parents helped fund

your father's projects.

They knew about
Augustine, too?

Well, no.
All they knew was

that your dad had
an unregulated compound

that could cure
most injuries.

Vampire blood.

Exactly,
but as Megan grew up,

she got suspicious,
enrolled at Whitmore,

roomed with
Dr. Gilbert's daughter,

and she went to a party
at Whitmore house

and put her nose
where it didn't belong.

She found Enzo
in his cell.

And being clueless
to what a starving vampire

will do around
fresh human blood,

I'm guessing she got
too close.

Aaron.

Where's Elena?

Who's this?

We have Aaron,
and we're trying to decide

how to kill him.

Funny. I have Elena,
and I'm wondering

how she'll function
without her cerebral cortex.

Touch him, and you'll
never see her again.

That threat works
both ways.

Damon and I had been locked
in those cells for years,

tortured, beaten,
humiliated,

but we weren't gonna
let them break us, no.

We decided if we were
going to escape

we needed to work together.

We needed each other.

He's not
sending her.

Tragic. Can I continue
my story now, please?

Doesn't he know
we have Aaron?

He doesn't care.
He's willing to risk it.

What? Let me talk to him!
He'll listen to me.

What part of "he doesn't care"
are you not registering?

Where were we?

Uh, ah, right.

I was telling my story,

and you were all
politely listening.

Huh?

So I'd given Damon
all of my blood ration

so he'd have
the strength to escape

and save me
in the process.

Our plan began perfectly,
didn't it?

I was waiting in the cage
for him to release me,

waiting for my friend,
my cellmate,

the only soul with whom
I'd connected with

in all those years
of captivity.

Then a fire starts,
burns out of control,

but Damon just can't
get the damn cage open.

Aah! Ugh!

I'm sorry, Enzo.

He looks me in the eye

as if he doesn't
even recognize me,

turns around,
saves himself,

leaving me to die.

Well, you didn't
die obviously.

No. Unfortunately
I lived.

I was spared by one
of the scientists

so I could spend
another 50 years

on a table being
opened and closed.

Now that we've all
been acquainted,

I'm gonna go find something
to wet my whistle.

You didn't tell me
about him.

It was the 1950s.
I'm supposed to remember

every moment
of my life?

Do you want to kill Aaron,
or should I?

This guy was
your cellmate for 5 years,

you left him to die,
he comes back,

and you're
completely unfazed?

Fine. I will.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Wes gave me a bunch
of files on my family history.

They're in my dorm, ok?

Maybe there's something
in there you need,

a name, I mean,
another lab.

That's a timely revelation.

Yeah. Well, you know,
he's not gonna help me,

so why should I
help him?

I don't like you,
I don't like your family,

I don't like you messing
with my relationship.

If you're lying,
I'm gonna take my thumbs,

and I'm gonna gouge out
your sad little eyes

out of your sad
little head!

Ah. It's frightening
what you can find

on campus these days.

Knock yourself out.
We're going with plan "B".

Damon's not.

Damon's staying
right here.

He knows all
my secrets,

so he knows how ornery
I can get

when I don't get
my way.

Call me if you
find anything,

kill him if you don't.

Let's go.

You didn't just propose
spirit possession

with a straight face?

You said my grandfather
was a traveler,

which means your
father was a traveler.

Therefore, you are
a traveler.

We just need to find
one who can teach you

how to do
the passenger spell.

Hang on.
I'm hardly a traveler, ok?

My father banned us
from doing traveler magic.

He said it was
the devil's work

or something dramatic
that terrified us,

and then I became
a vampire

and never thought
about it again.

But it's
in your blood,

which means you have
the ability

to keep living inside
someone else's body.

Gregor was a traveler.

He put his spiritside
inside Matte's body.

So that even after his
body died he lived on.

Yes! He lived on
in a busboy.

Good idea, Nadia.

Let's put my essence
in some nobody.

Thing is, Stefan
actually likes this body.

What are you
talking about?

Stefan and I may have
rekindled

an old flame last night.

I see.

So when you asked me
about forgiveness,

you were asking
about him, not me?

Look. Maybe I don't
want to die

a sad, lonely
538-year-old.

If I have to bow out,

knowing that Stefan
still cares

might not be
the worst way to go.

No. You had it
right the first time.

Go kill yourself, see
if anyone misses you.

What about cricket?

That ever become
a thing here?

No.

Oh, shame. Fun sport.

Not that I can play.

Took up drawing
for a while.

Of course I had
no pencil,

so I'd just
prick my finger

and paint the cell wall
with my blood.

What do you want?

You want me
to feel guilty?

I couldn't save you.

Now where's Elena?

What's wrong with you?

Wes injected me
with poison

that will stop my heart.

I'll desiccate
if I don't return

for the antidote.

All the more reason
to tell me where he is.

Look. You get the antidote,
I'll save my girlfriend,

we'll kill Wes together.

Did you even think
about it after you left,

the experiments,
the cell,

or did you just go out

and live your merry life
to its fullest?

Look at me.

If you go back,
we go back together.

We finish this for good.

Come on.

You're not gonna see
your girl again, Damon,

because I want
the antidote,

and Wes told me
not to come back

until you were dead.

I imagine you just
broke your clavicle.

Probably a few lumbar
and thoracic vertebrae.

It's funny what you
learn about your body

when it's taken apart
like a bloody automobile

right before your eyes!

I'm not gonna
fight you, Enzo.

What are you gonna
do then, run?

You're good at that.

I want to find
my girlfriend.

While you were out
running wild,

I had one
single thought,

that I'd have
the pleasure of killing you.

Enzo, look at me.

Bloody poison!

Where is she?
Where's Elena.

Tell me where she is!

Or what?!

You never see
her again?

It might be good for you
to know what it's like

to miss someone
for the next 60 years.

Enzo, look at me. Hey!

Enzo! Where is she?
Where is she?

Enzo, hey.

All the files of my family
history are in here.

Hurry up.

Is this all a lie, huh?

If you want me
to kill you,

I will kill you.

Do not test me.

Do it. I'm dead already.

Damon's been planning
my death

since before
I was born.

What are you
talking about?

Damon left out
the best part

of the Augustine story,

the part
after he escaped.

Talk.

It wasn't enough
for Damon to kill

the doctors
who tortured him.

He had to torture
their families

and their
future families.

He spent the last
60 years killing

every one of my relatives

except he's a psychopath.

He leaves one alive
so that they can continue

the family line so that he
can destroy future generations

of innocent people.

So go ahead and do it,
kill me

because I don't want to
give Damon the satisfaction,

so do it.

Do it!

You know, not all of us
are like my brother.

Stefan?

This is everything Wes
gave me on Augustine.

I saw Elena's last name
on a few pages.

Maybe it will help.

Hey.

You're not supposed
to be down here.

Basement's a kid-free zone,
remember?

I heard someone
screaming.

Oh, it's ok.
Everything's fine.

In fact, today's
a good day, Elena.

Why?

Daddy's gonna save
a little girl's life.

She's just about
the same age as you.

Pretty cool, huh?

All right.
Get out of here.

Doctor's orders.

Ok, dad.

Good news. The sample
cells mutated.

My compound worked.

I don't follow.

You kicked me out
of bio, remember?

You've heard of Pavlov?

Conditioned his dog
to salivate

at the sound of a bell.

This compound is
like that bell

except instead of a ding
your body will salivate

at the smell
of vampire blood.

Oh, my God.

That's what you
did to Jesse.

You turned him into
some rabid vampire

who only wanted to feed
on other vampires.

Jesse was a fantastic
case study,

but he took too long
to condition,

and considering the size

of the vampire
population,

a single-dose injection
is much more efficient.

Yeah, but he couldn't
stop feeding.

He tried to kill Damon.

Exactly. Vampires are
now one shot away

from craving
their own kind,

and you're about to be
patient zero.

What? No.

No, you can't do
that to me.

You'll turn me
into a ripper.

I know.

Subject 83182 prepped
for compound injection.

No. Please. You can't
do this to me.

You'll be doing
the world a favor, Elena.

I might not be able
to kill vampires...

No! Let me go!

But you will.

No.

Aah!

Elena!

Stefan!

Oh, God. Ohh.

Come here.

Oh. You're ok.
I got you.

I got you. I got you.
I got you.

Get me out of here.

Come on. Come on

get me out of here.

Look. We're closing,
so...

We met on a little
patio like this, remember?

The twinkling lights,
music.

That was a fun night.

Yeah. I'd kind of rather
just put us, um,

behind us.

Fine. Will do,

but I need you to hold
on to this for me.

The travelers' knife?

No way. I just got rid
of that thing.

It's not about you.

I'm leaving Mystic Falls,

and I need to know
it's safe.

Why, and why do
people want it?

I thought I could
convince Katherine

to live a little longer.

I was wrong,

but if she changes
her mind,

she will need this.

That's all
you need to know.

Well, she won't

because Katherine
cares about Katherine

and only Katherine.

If she doesn't want
to do something,

then she won't.

I spent 500 years
searching for her.

I finally find her
only to lose her

all over again.

I don't know if I should
hate her for giving up

or be at her side
when she dies.

Listen.

I get the whole
crappy parenting thing.

My mom kind of sucked.

She was selfish,
and she drank too much

and never really thought
about how it would

affect me.

Then you know what's like
to hold on to the hope

that maybe just once
she'll do what you want.

If she changes her mind,

the knife will be
with me.

Oh. Never mind.

What did you do now?

Well, I injected you
with a bunch of these

that say, "antidote,"

and apparently,
one of them worked.

If this is some attempt
to make amends,

it's a bit pathetic, mate.

I don't care
about amends, mate.

My girlfriend's safe,
so technically,

I'm not suffering,

and it'd really suck if
you desiccated in vain...

And I'm gonna tell you
my side of the story.

You asked me if
I thought about you

after I escaped,
and answer is no,

and I sure as hell
don't feel guilty

about leaving you
because in order for me

to save myself
and leave you,

I had to shut off
my humanity, damn it,

so I flipped the switch,

and then I felt nothing,

no remorse, no regret,
no pain.

And now what
do you feel,

remorse, regret, pain?

Even if I forgave you,
Damon,

would that make you less
of a horrible person?

Damn it!

We're even, Enzo.

You were the most
important person in my life,

and you ruined me,

but that's just
who you are,

that's who you'll
always be...

A monster.

It's weird.
Even as a kid,

there was something
about that basement

that creeped me out.

Sure you want to give
yourself nightmares

reading that thing?

And I remember my dad
talking about this little girl.

I think he was talking
about my roommate Megan.

Look. "January 1999.
Saw Megan King today.

"Megan is 7 years old.

"She suffers from
a congenital heart defect

"with a life expectancy
of two months.

"A single injection
of vampire blood appears

to be an effective
life-saving solution."

That's why Megan had
a picture of my dad

on her phone...
Because he saved her life.

A hundred pages
of horrific torture,

and you find
the one happy passage.

My dad used his research
to save people, Damon,

children, families.

Yeah. And dissected
vampires along the way.

News flash, Elena.
You are a vampire.

I mean, do you honestly
think that he would

sit here and see you
as anything more?

I don't know.

He was my dad.
I can't not defend him.

No. I know you can't

because you do it
for me all the time.

I'm not defending you.

I'm not defending
your decision to kill

Aaron's entire family,

to go out of town
and kill the aunt

while we were
still together.

So why are you
still here?

I'm bad, Elena,
I am bad for you,

so why wouldn't you
have run away from me

as far as
humanly possible?

Because I love you, Damon,
because I chose you,

and because I stand
by my choice.

Well, now I'm choosing,

and I'm choosing
to let you go.

What?

No, Damon.

I am choosing to not
have to think

about how you must feel
every time some ghost

from my past comes
into our life.

I'm choosing to
relieve you

of having to defend me
for every awful thing

I've ever done.

Stop acting like
I'm perfect.

Damon, I've done
horrible things, too.

You think I'm gonna
stand here and judge you

after I find out that you've
been tortured for 5 years?

Stop defending me!

I won't change
who I am.

I can't...

But I refuse
to change you.

Can I come in,
or are you gonna freak out

and run away again?

I'm getting wrinkles.

Heh. Katherine Pierce's
chickens come home to roost

in the form of wrinkles.

It's kind of brilliant.

What's the opposite
of funny?

Oh, right. Not funny.

Hmm. So what are you,
uh, doing in my room?

I want to talk
about last night.

Ok.

So talk.

Well, um, it was
a long day,

we had a moment,
and we got swept up in it.

Did you memorize
that from...

A textbook or something?

Katherine,
what do you expect?

You want me just forget
everything

that you've put me through
for the last 147 years?

I'm dying, Stefan.

I know you are,
and I'm sure that

you will figure
a way out of it.

No. I mean, it's
for real this time.

Look at me.
I'm dying.

What does someone
have to go through

to get a little
redemption around here?

147 years is
a long time to forgive

in one night.

One night...

An eternity...

You'd never look at me
the way you look

at Elena, would you?

Good night, Stefan.

Hey.

I'm sorry that
you're dying.

Trust me.

I am, too.

Wes? Wes?

Aaron?

What the hell
is this place, huh?

It's one of Augustine's
research labs.

Do you really think
that you're helping people

with this vampire crap?

You sold me out!

You used my life
as a bargaining chip.

Agh.

Aaron, I'm sorry.

I never want to
see you again.

Get the hell out
of my life.

Aaron.

Aaron!

So do we have a deal?

You'll find me a traveler
that will teach me

how to do do the spell?

I guess this
means you want to live.

I'm a survivor.

Staying alive is
my specialty.

Mm-hmm. Assuming of
course it's on your terms.

Clearly Stefan inspired
some profound thinking.

I think Stefan believes
that a part of me

can still be redeemed.

And what do you think?

Is he right?

Unh!

Hello?

Ohh!

Katherine?

Katherine?