Four months after the final fight against the Wanderers brought down the Other Side, Mystic Falls remains magically protected against supernatural live beings. Inside, Matt is the closest thing to a master of the house, unable to get mourning couch potato Jeremy back into the game. At the outskirts, Stefano slaves as exploited car mechanic, Alaric teaches at college. Tyler is blindly hopeful, model student Caroline shocked to discover that Elena, finally returning to college too, is the mystery vampire who lurks around town bloodthirsty, in fact a side-effect of the herbal potion witch Luke gives her to communicate with dead Damon, who also feels she must make a clean break and seize life again.
