On Thursday’s The Vampire Diaries, Stefan and Damon try to remove Lily’s blinders about Julian, and Caroline discovers the truth about Rick’s twins.
Three years from now, Rick and Damon race to take out the woman who is holding Caroline hostage. Damon asks Rick to pump Stefan full of vervain when he shows up. When Damon goes inside, the woman shoots him with multiple stakes and he collapses.
Today, Caroline takes a pregnancy test to see if she has Rick’s twins inside her. It comes back negative. Caroline thinks Valerie might have been playing with their emotions.
Matt calls Caroline and tells her he can’t get ahold of Bonnie. Caroline tells him she’s with Enzo. Matt says they tranquilized the compelled residents to make them leave the school, but the next morning they were all back. Matt finds the Grill is now full of residents as well and asks Caroline to come.
Stefan holds a Thanksgiving dinner with Lily to recruit her in his fight against Julian. Stefan tells her about Julian ending Valerie’s pregnancy. Lily doesn’t believe him because Valerie has lied to her before. Since he can’t convince her, Stefan puts concentrated vervain in Lily’s drink, knocking her out.
Bonnie and Enzo search an impound lot for Oscar’s car. They find what Julian is looking for in the trunk – a short sword. Bonnie recognizes it from the books about the Phoenix stone. She wants to do more research, but Enzo is anxious to use it on Julian.
Lily wakes tied to a chair with vervain ropes. The boys try to convince her that Julian is a monster just like their father was. They tell stories about a Thanksgiving dinner when their father tortured Damon with a lit cigar for taking money from his dresser.
Caroline meets Matt at the Grill. The compelled residents are hooked to saline IVs, which means they’ll be there a while. There’s no bites on any of them, but they’re being fed iron rich foods. Suddenly, Caroline vomits. She tells Matt she has food poisoning. Caroline suggests having Valerie syphon the compulsion from the residents.
Valerie tells Caroline if she takes the compulsion off, Julian will just replace these residents with others. She then tells Matt that Caroline is pregnant. Caroline tells her she’s wrong, but Valerie tells her to test again. Valerie begins taking off the compulsion.
Enzo confronts Julian and challenges him to a duel. They fight with swords. Lily admits to knowing that Giuseppe Salvatore was a monster. She suddenly starts bleeding and tells Damon and Stefan that she bound her life to Julian’s to protect him. Someone must be trying to kill him.
Enzo pulls out the short sword and Julian runs. Enzo follows Julian’s blood trail and Julian jumps him.
Beau finds Valerie, Matt and Caroline at the Grill. He attacks them with magic. Valerie stabs him and puts a cloaking spell on herself, Matt and Caroline.
Lily says she’s the one who took Giuseppe’s money. She says she was trying to save them. She wanted to save up and run away with the boys, but their father found the train tickets. Giuseppe hit her and said if she tried to leave again, he’d take the boys and disappear. So, she stayed.
Julian knocks Enzo’s swords away and aims a killing blow. Damon sneaks up behind and knocks Julian out. He finds the short sword and Enzo tells him he thinks it will kill Julian. Damon stabs Julian in the chest. Julian and Lily both bleed and collapse.
Bonnie finds Rick in his office. He’s drunk. She stays to do her research there. She asks if he wants to talk, but he doesn’t. Bonnie finds the sword in the book. It needs the Phoenix stone to work against immortal foes.
Damon mentions that Julian is linked to Lily. Enzo punches him, but then Julian rises and breaks his neck. He pins Damon to a tree with a sword.
Valerie tells Caroline that she could never forget the spell to move the babies. She tried to use it when Julian attacked her when she was pregnant with Stefan’s child, but she wasn’t strong enough. Caroline realizes this is the secret Valerie has with Stefan.
Julian tries to cut off Damon’s head with a sword, but Stefan grabs him from behind. Lily appears and stops them from hurting each other further. Julian says Damon was under the impression the sword would kill him. Lily asks to go home.
Bonnie calls Matt. He’s mad that she didn’t take his call earlier. He says Tyler and Jeremy think they’ve found a way to help with the residents and he’s looking into it. Enzo approaches Bonnie at the bar and gives her a drink. She tells Enzo that he’s better off without Lily.
Stefan yells at Damon about trying to kill Lily. Damon’s angry about how their life went down and says she deserves what she gets.
Lily asks Julian about attacking Valerie when she was pregnant. He denies it and changes the subject; apologizing for fighting with Enzo. She flashes back to Giuseppe apologizing for hitting her, but not admitting he was wrong. She doesn’t believe Julian.
Caroline and Rick go for an ultrasound, but there’s nothing there. Rick apologizes for putting Caroline through this. The doctor leaves, and Valerie comes in and touches Caroline’s stomach. She syphons away a cloaking spell and the babies are instantly visible on the ultrasound.
Damon opens the door to Lily. She tells him and Stefan that they were right about Julian. She says she has a plan to stop him.