In this episode: Katherine returns, we see the ghosts more involved, we learn a huge secret, love conquers all,… Let’s just say that on senior prank night, everything but pranking was going down in Mystic Falls high.

We start out in an empty and dark school, with a suspensful music in the background (as always). Matt! Look, who finally decides to actually show up! The whole gang is here, at least the ones that still go to school are here. Caroline, Bonnie, Elena, Matt, and Tyler are with the whole senior class setting up pranks for the rest of the school. Wow, this is weird. The only time we see them all together is when someone dies, but even Elena is actually participating in this whole “pranking” thing. She smiled!

Right before we even got into 10 minutes into the show, Klaus already caught Elena. And I know everyone’s hearts ran faster than usual when Klaus got a hold of Elena’s arm. He takes Elena to the gym where he tells everyone to get out with an American accent. And a while later, who shows up? The one and only Stefan. He tried to save Elena by telling Klaus that he will obey. Klaus being Klaus, does not listen, and takes the hard way. Klaus puts a timer to 20 minutes and he tells Stefan to feed on Elena when the timer is done, and what happens? He doesn’t. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, for the first time In Vampire Diaries history, a vampire controls the compulsion that is given by an original. Stefan is told to feed on Elena when the timer stopped, but when it did, Stefan used his love for Elena as help for himself, and he used the love as an obstacle for the compulsion to take over his body. Love really does conquer all.

Katherine returns, and this time she is teaming up with Damon? After Elena and Damon’s little fight last time, he fled Mystic Falls and he’s with Katherine. They are on a mission to kill Klaus, “…but not dagger dead. Dead, dead.” Yes, Katherine just said that there was a way to REALLY kill Klaus, and how? By getting the secret that only Pearl and her daughter knew, but wait, Pearl is dead. Yes she is, but who still has contact with her daughter Anna? Jeremy. Jeremy got some information from Anna to feed to Damon and Katherine. And we find out that our key to killing Klaus is a vampire hunter named Michael, which was the guy that Klaus and Rebecca were running from in the 1900’s. Anna warns them not to wake him, how can a vampire hunter be awakened? We will only know in the next episode, but all we know is that by the end of this episode, Katherine and Jeremy wake Michael, the vampire hunter, up.

Hello Vicki and Anna. Looks like these two ghosts are just up and about screwing with peoples heads. Anna helped Damon and Katherine get some information but what did Vicki do? She just gave a message to Bonnie. Why are they really here though?

And what was the big secret that we learned? Looks like, If Elena actually died in the sacrifice ritual, Klaus wouldn’t be able to make any Hybrids because you would need the doppelgangers blood to complete the transition. Tyler went through all the steps: Drank blood from Klaus, died, drank Elena’s blood and then transitioned into a hybrid. And from the way Tyler told Caroline that “It’s going to be an amazing year” It looks like changes will be coming following Tyler’s new Hybridity.

Couples Scene:

Elena and Stefan: It looks like these two aren’t smooching up anytime soon. Klaus compelled Stefan to get rid of his humanity and he did. Stefan is now, without a doubt, a ripper with the no guilt personality to back it up. At the end of this episode we all see Stefan come back and reveal that he will be staying in Mystic Falls for a while to look over Elena  as an order from Klaus. We all could see Elena’s face just about to fall off when she saw Stefan, but I’m interested on how the dynamic will now be between Stefan and Elena, now that Stefan is humanity-free.

Damon and Elena: Damon and Elena did not share much moments in this episode, due to the fact that he was too busy with her twin. Damon and Elena did share one special moment though.  Damon was taking care of Elena after her traumatic day with Stefan and Klaus, and after the hospital drained her of blood. She starts crying and she asks Damon what she is supposed to do now that Stefan is “really gone”, and right after Damon puts his hand on Elena and tells her he won’t leave her again, guess who pops in? Stefan. He is popping up everywhere. He explains to them that he will be staying for a while and then he tell them to carry on with whatever they were doing. What is one of my favorite things about humanity-free Stefan? His humor, its almost at Damon’s humor level.

Tyler and Caroline: This couple were smooching all over the place. Even some Matt+Caroline fans could see that Tyler and Caroline genuinely  have strong feelings for each other. The stuck together when Klaus separated them, they even stuck together when Tyler was on the verge of dying. Tyler and Caroline are going to have an “amazing” school year.

Characters that were not present in this episode: Sheriff Forbes, Carol Lockwood, and Alaric.