- The present-day murders in Mystic Falls remind Damon of a similar crime spree a century earlier. Flashing back to 1912, Damon recalls a beautiful vampire.
- Alaric is in jail accused by Dr. Fell of murder of the founders. Sheriff Forbes advises Damon to not interfere in her investigation. Damon recalls with Stefan the year of 1912, when a serial killer murdered founders in Mystic Falls. Meanwhile, Elena and Matt break in the house of Dr. Fell to search for evidence to prove the innocence of Alaric. Damon and Rebekah force Stefan to drink human blood and Matt and Elena witness Stefan biting into the neck of a girl.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- The present-day murders in Mystic Falls remind Damon of a similar crime spree a century earlier. In flashbacks to 1912, Damon recalls a beautiful vampire, Sage, who showed him a whole new way to exist. Sheriff Forbes warns Damon not to get involved in her investigation, but Damon is convinced she's going after the wrong suspect. Elena and Matt resort to breaking and entering in their search for evidence to prove Dr. Fell is a murderer. For reasons known only to her, Rebekah becomes interested in locating one of the town's oldest landmarks. Finally, Elena comes to a new understanding of the path her life has taken, and Damon makes an emotional confession to Stefan.—angel mystery
- Mystic Falls, 1912 Sheriff Gerald Forbes worries about Mr. Salvatore getting home safely, given the recent murder of another councilman. Mr. Salvatore heads out alone, and is soon stabbed in the back.
Present Day Carol Lockwood (Susan Walters) yells at Sheriff Liz Forbes (Marguerite MacIntyre) to tell her who committed the council murders. Cut to Alaric (Matthew Davis) waking up in a cell, with a shoulder wound.
Damon (Ian Somerhalder) can't believe Liz is arresting him on Meredith's say so. Dr. Fell (Torrey DeVitto) cured him with vampire blood and is claiming Alaric came at her with the knife. She also said Alaric's wounds from the earlier attack could have been self-inflicted.
Alaric claims he's being framed, but since Liz has no evidence to the contrary, she's holding him.
Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Matt (Zach Roerig) go on a run. She's upset. He mentions he's talked to Bonnie. Abby has decided to complete the transformation and become a vampire. Caroline's going to help her through it. Damon turned her mom into a vampire to save Elena's life. She feels responsible.
Elena gets a call from Liz and goes to the courthouse. Damon tells Elena he plans to stay out of it. He needles her. "I'm mean, you hate me - the earth is back on its axis," he says. She tells him if he keeps pushing people away, he's going to end up alone.
Back home, Damon wants to look into the murder of Zacariah in 1912. He remembers it wasn't the first murder of a council member that year.
1912 Stefan (Paul Wesley) returns for the man he calls his Uncle Zacariah. Marianna Lockwood introduces herself and Samantha Gilbert. They tell him Zacariah wasn't the first murder. Samantha Gilbert tells him it's not a good time to be a founder of the town.
Damon says hi. It's been 50 years since he and Stefan saw each other. Zacariah is really their nephew. Damon is still angry at Stefan for turning him and killing their family.
Present Day Damon is fired up to solve a murder and wants Stefan's help.
At the Grill, Rebekah (Claire Holt) asks Carol about the trees in the village. The Lockwoods used to keep those records.
Damon and Stefan arrive. Damon eyes Rebekah. Carol tells her in the old days, the Salvatores owned all the logging mills, and would have the records.
Damon wonders what the medical examiner, Bill Forbes and Alaric have in common. Stefan is twitchy and distracted because he quit blood cold turkey. He answers the question: they're all on the council.
In lock-up, Liz Forbes lays out the case against Alaric. Meredith Fell told her Alaric saw her fight with the ME, her ex. She told him Bill threatened to report her for curing him with vampire blood. Alaric remembers they talked on the phone the night she claims, but he was drunk and doesn't remember the conversation. He has no alibi for when the ME was killed.
At the bar, Damon explains Zacariah was the bastard son of their father, who knocked up the maid. Rebekah asks about the mills.
The murders back then were unsolved. They wonder if it was another vampire, but there weren't any circulating, except Sage (Cassidy Freeman). The memory takes Damon down sex memory lane.
1912 Damon and Stefan get drunk and wander into a fight in a boxing ring. A hot ringletted red head knocks out a man and winks at Damon.
Present Day Rebekah remembers Sage as trash.
Elena confronts Meredith in the parking lot. Meredith tells her Alaric was arrested four times before he was 21. Isobel took out two restraining orders against him before they married. She claims Alaric is a murderer.
Rebekah tries again to ask about the Salvatore relatives cutting down trees. They brush her off.
Matt helps Elena break into Meredith's place. Elena checks the closet and finds a secret compartment, like a true founder. There are boxes of files. There are files on Brian Walters, Bill Forbes, and Alaric.
Damon doesn't think a woman is capable of murdering a man. He thinks Stefan is being a wet blanket. He remembers Stefan's old sanctimony, reading from Stefan's diary to prove it. Damon remembers he was in love with Katherine, who was in a tomb. He was miserable.
1912 Sage critiques Damon's approach to feeding and tells him he should enjoy being a vampire more. She takes him back into the boxing tent. She points out the buttoned up women and tells her they secretly want to be seduced. Sage points out Samantha.
Present Day Rebekah knew Sage. She was obsessed with Finn over 900 years ago. Damon yells at Stefan for being twitchy and makes him admit he's jonesing.
In Meredith Fell's box, they find an old Gilbert journal. A country coroner's report contradicts the ME's time of death.
They hear footsteps and hide in the closet. Meredith comes home. They wait until it's quiet and open the door. Meredith is standing outside it.
At the Sheriff's office, Liz already knows the time of death of Brian Walters was wrong. Meredith brought her a letter from the coroner several hours ago and apologized for accusing an innocent man. Alaric will be released as soon as the coroner's letter is authenticated.
Stefan stalks the streets. Damon tries to find a way to help. He finds a woman on the street and compels her, then bites down. Stefan stops him. Damon presents her to him, saying he can't go from one extreme to other and has to learn how to not be controlled by blood. Stefan considers her for a moment and then bites down.
Damon stops him before he drains her, then he opens his own wrist to heal her.
Matt and Elena come around the corner and sees Stefan with blood on his teeth. Elena is aghast and walks off. "So, that's gonna take a little time," Damon sums up.
Back at Elena's house, Matt doesn't understand her thing with the Salvatores. She says she felt safe with Stefan after he parents died, which she realizes sounds crazy. She knew he'd never stop loving her. He'd never die. And Damon just sort of snuck up on her.
"Once you fall in love with someone, I don't know if you can ever shake them," Matt says.
Matt gives her the old Gilbert diary he swiped from Meredith. Liz didn't notice he took it. "Sometimes it pays to be the only normal one in a town of vampires, you're practically invisible," Matt says.
Alaric comes home. Elena rushes to hug him.
At home, Stefan is in a mood. Damon comes home and tells Stefan he's on the road to recovery and will be the king of moderation soon. Stefan tells Damon he doesn't need his help. Damon reminds him the last time he said that, in 1912.
Back at the ringside, Damon tries to convince Stefan to feed on humans. Sage reminded him how good it feels. He suggests Marianna.
Cut to Stefan chowing down on her ferociously and pushing Damon aside when he tries to stop him. He goes too far. He accidentally snaps her head clean off. Stefan runs off.
Present Day Damon reminds him by the end of the decade, Stefan was the Ripper of Monterey. Damon didn't do anything to stop him. Stefan thinks he couldn't have. Damon said he could -- he just didn't want to. He wants to now. He tells Stefan he's going to be there to help him from now on. "Because right now, you're all I've got," Damon says.
Elena reads through the old Gilbert diary. Alaric tells her he doesn't want her getting in trouble for him. She suggests they agree to take care of each other.
She thought it was Jonathan Gilbert's diary., It ended up being his granddaughter's, who went just as crazy as he did.
At the Salvatores, Stefan has the old family archives. They got a confession in 1922, from Samantha Gilbert. They locked her up in an insane asylum. Damon finds that very weird, because he's pretty sure he had already killed her.
Meredith knocks on Alaric's door. She tells him she forged the coroner's note to clear his name so they wouldn't suspect him. She asks to come in.
Elena reads the diary, in which Samantha says she's losing time and doesn't feel like herself.
Stefan thinks Samantha might be a vampire, still alive, running around killing people. Damon thinks they'd know if she was a vampire. She would have needed a ring to bring her back to life.
John Gilbert only made two. Jeremy has one. Alaric has the other.
Meredith suggests Alaric might not know he's doing it. She asks if he's had any blackouts or lost time.
"You're insane," he says.
"No, but I think you might be," she says. "You wear a ring that helps you cheat death. How many times can you die before it changes you?"
She wants to help. She tells him it happened 100 years ago. Elena comes downstairs holding the journal. "Ric, I think she's right," Elena says.
Flash back to Zacariah being stabbed in the square -- by Samantha Gilbert. She's wearing the ring.
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