It's time for arguably the best school dance episode: the 20s decade dance. While everyone is prepping for the dance, Esther starts plotting with Evilaric and makes him the ultimate weapon: an indestructible white oak stake. Fortunately, Damon has figured out Alaric isn't taking any of Bonnie's herbs, so he and Meredith are trying to get that under control. But not before it's time for the dance, where Elena has invited Stefan to be her date, Bonnie has brought Jaime, and even Klaus has come to try to woo Caroline and show up Tyler. It would be a great night if it wasn't a Mystic Falls High School dance, where something terrible always happens. This time, the chaos is caused by Esther and Dark Alaric trapping everyone but Matt and Jeremy in the school and luring Elena away to get her blood to make Alaric an Original Vampire. When everyone finally makes it to the Salvatore crypt Alaric is refusing to transition into a vampire and it's time for a hard goodbye.

This week: Season 3 Episode 20 | Do Not Go Gentle

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Now that they know what happens when you kill an Original, Elena and Damon take a trip to Denver to check in on Jeremy and to see if he can contact Rose on the Other Side to find out which Mikaelson sibling sired their bloodline. As soon as they arrive, Jeremy tries to meet up with a friend, but his friend turns out to be Kol who immediately starts beating Damon with a baseball bat. While they hide out and chat with Rose, Stefan gets stuck with Klaus supervising him as he tries to get Evilaric to tell him where the last white oak stake is. And while Matt and Rebekah decorate for the 1920s Decade Dance, Caroline spends the day with Tyler, who's finally back from breaking the sire bond. But of course, the Tyler-Caroline reunion is not the only romance plot of the episode. You already know what we're talking about: the ICONIC Delena motel scene.

This week: Season 3 Episode 19 | Heart of Darkness

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After turning the Wickery Bridge sign into 12 white oak stakes, Damon and Stefan enlist the teens into Salvatore Boot Camp to practice taking out one of the Originals. So Matt, Caroline, and Elena are now trained to stake any one of the Mikaelsons on sight, which will also take out Klaus since they're all still linked. But if you know Klaus, you know he's always one step ahead, which means he's holding Bonnie captive and threatening her loved ones until she unlinks him from his siblings. While Bonnie works on that, right in the next room, Rebekah is torturing Damon as revenge for his scheme with Sage. She's also getting in his head and giving him daydreams of Elena rescuing him—absolutely diabolical. But even more unrealistic than Damon's hallucinations is the fact that the teens actually get a shot at staking Finn and Matt of all people gets the kill shot. Later that evening, it's revealed that Matt didn't only kill Finn, but his entire bloodline.

This week: Season 3 Episode 18 | The Murder of One

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