I'll Remember/Transcript

Act 1:
OUTSIDE OF MYSTIC FALLS:

(On the outskirts of town, a young couple is laying inside of a tent, making out, while the latern outside flickers on and off. Suddenly, they are startled by a loud noise in the woods)


 * Jessie (whispering): What was that?


 * Male Camper: I have no idea.


 * Jessie: Go outside and check it out.


 * Male Camper: You go outside and check it out!


 * Jessie(rolling her eyes): Okay...

(She unzips the tent, slowly peeks her head out and eventually approaches the latern, which has gone off completely. After tapping it a few times, it finally comes back on)


 * Jessie (slowly turning around): Hey.. I got the lantern...

(Before she can finish her sentence, she sees a dark figure emerge in front of her, causing her to scream loudly. Finally, Sheriff Forbes flicks on her flashlight)


 * Jessie (relieved): Oh my God! Sheriff Forbes... I thought you were a serial killer.


 * Sheriff Forbes: Worse actually, because you'll still be alive when I call your parents.

(Liz holds up an empty beer can)


 * Sheriff Forbes: Pack it up and strike it down.


 * Male Camper: I'm like, for real, Sheriff Forbes.. You've got  nothing better to do than bust us for a couple of beer cans? Tax money at work.

(The young couple have reached their car, still carrying the lanter with them)


 * Jessie: Could have been worse.. Melanie Peterson was arrested for underage drinking last week. I swear, this place is turning into that town from Footloose.


 * Male Camper: Yeah, well let's just get out of here.

(The youg male camper slings the gear into his trunk. After he closes the lid, he looks around for his girlfriend, who is nowhere in sight)


 * Male Camper: Jessie?

(She doesn't respond. The only sound he hears is crickets)


 * Male Camper: Yo! Jessie!

(Suddenly, she falls hard from the sky and lands on the hood of the car.. then rolling off onto the ground)


 * Male Camper (rushing over to her and holding her in his arms): Jessie! No No No. It's going to be okay. I'll get help!

(Jessie is covered in blood, dripping from her neck and coming out of her mouth. She mumbles unintelligibly, finally saying "look up." When he looks, another dark figure pounces on him and he screams)

TITLE CARD AND OPENING CREDITS:
IN THE CEMETARY OUTSIDE OF MYSIC FALLS: 

(The following day, Elena walks through a cemetary on the outskirts of town all on her own)


 * Elena (voiceover): Today was a good day. Summer is officially over and I couldn't be more thrilled.


 * (Elena looks around quickly and enters a crypt)


 * Elena (voiceover): Sophmore year... I guess this is the year to pick a major and start carving out your path in life. So that's what I did (lighting several candles). You're looking at the future Doctor Elena Gilbert.

AT WHITMORE:

(Elena, along with a dozen other students, are dressed in khakis and maroon tshirts for an internship at a hospital)


 * Jo: Pop quiz.. Mr. Weatherly complains of chest pain and shortness of breath. Can anyone tell me what tests we run?

(A young male student lifts his hand up, but the instructor overlooks him)


 * Jo: Gilbert...

(Elena looks frazzled at first, but she quickly regains her composure)


 * Elena: Uh.. a pulmonary angiogram provides a clear picture of the blood flow in the arteries of the lungs, which is what we look for in a pulmonary embolism; a condition in which Mr. Weatherly's symptoms are common.


 * Jo: Good. Somebody's read ahead. Remember that. You'll need that in 3 years.

(Elena looks pleased with herself, but that expression dissipates swiftly)


 * Jo: Here's the bedpan you need to know about today...

(The instructor hands Elena the bed pan without hesitation)


 * Jo: Moving on..

(As Jo leads the students along, the male student turns to Elena)


 * Student: I was impressed..


 * Elena: Thanks..

BACK IN THE CRYPT:
 * Elena (voiceover): Ok.. so maybe I spent the day observing, but at least now we have unlimited access to blood bags. And trust me, we need all the help we can get.


 * (Elena pulls out a small pouch containing spices and herbs from her pocket. She dumps them into a small bowl and starts crushing them up)


 * Elena: Some of us are still getting the hang of the whole "drinking other people's blood" thing

AT WHITMORE:

(Alaric empties the contents of a blood bag into a cup at the front of the classroom. Elena enters the otherwise empty room)


 * Alaric: Want some?


 * Elena: That's alright. I had some on the way over. You know... this will never not be weird.


 * Alaric: What? That some ancient witch turned me into a vampire, or that four months ago, I rose from the dead?


 * Elena: ... that you're my college professor now.

(Alaric takes a drink of blood and the veins pop out under his eyes)

IN MYSTIC FALLS:


 * Elena (voiceover): In Alaric's defense, he couldn't exactly compell himself a job back at the high school. Nope.. the high school; the grill; the town square.. thanks to the traveler's anti magic spell, everything in Mystic Falls was still off-limits to anyone with fangs. A lot of us haven't been back home in months. On the plus side, the crime rate is way down.

(In the town square, Matt is fighting)


 * Elena (voiceover): Although I'm not sure Matt got the memo.

(He sucessfully takes down his opponent)


 * Tripp: Good move, Donovan.. Proving once again that self defense is the best offense.


 * Elena (voiceover): I will say he's never been better. I think he can benchpress more than Jeremy now, which is beyond freaky.

(Matt enters the Lockwood mansion and finds Jeremy on he couch makig out with a young girl)


 * Elena (voiceover): Speaking of Jeremy.. actually, let's not talk about my brother. Let's talk about Stefan.

(Stefan is working at a car in a garage in Savannah, Georgia)


 * Elena (voiceover): Last I heard, he was chasing some lead to some witch that can contact the dead.


 * Stefan's Boss: Hey! Get your a*s in here, kid. It's pay day.

(He gets out from under the car and joins his boss in his office)


 * Elena (voiceover): We haven't spoken in months, which can only mean his search for answers to what happened has been all-consuming.

IN THE CRYPT: (Elena lights a match)


 * Elena (voiceover): He's grieving.. He lost so much.. We all did, but we're all getting through it in our own way.

(Elena tosses the match into the bowl with the spices)

ON THE BORDER OF MYSTIC FALLS:


 * Caroline (over the phone): I dropped out of Whitmore. Why would I support their stupid football team?

(Caroline walks past the sign into Mystic Falls, where her mom's patrol car is parked)


 * Elena: It's the opening game of the season, Caroline. Time to come home.


 * Caroline: I am home! I just signed the lease to my new apartment.


 * Elena: ... On the border of a town that doesn't want you. That's not home.. That's sad.


 * Caroline: You don't even like football.


 * Elena: No, but I like drinking in the parking lot beforehand.

(Tyler comes up behind Elena and starts talking into the phone)


 * Tyler: Caroline, you're coming.


 * Tyler, don't act like you have any ground to stand on. You skipped an entire year...


 * Tyler: and you hounded me for an entire year! So here I am.. Now get your a*s back here.

(Luke is standing behind Tyler and he catches Elena's eye, pulling out the small pouch in his bag. Elena nonchalantly waves him off)


 * Elena: Caroline, I'm picking you up at 6 p.m. sharp tomorrow. Okay? Bring your school spirit. Bye!

(Elena hangs up the phone and Caroline and her mom have a picnic lunch)


 * Caroline (sighs heavily): Anyway.. (to her mom) as I was saying, I haven't exactly found a spell that can undo an anti-magic border per se, but this book mentions travelers. Which isn't all that helpful, but at least it puts us a step in the right direction..


 * Liz: Sweetheart..


 * Caroline: Yeah?


 * Liz: You should go with them tomorrow.


 * Caroline: No, we're going to go see a movie!


 * Liz: We have spent the entire summer together.


 * Caroline: Ahhh. You're sick of me..


 * Liz: Caroline, you just lost one of your best friends. It makes sense that you want to hold on to what's familiar, but Elena lost her too. She clearly misses you.


 * Liz: No.. Elena has clearly taken up residency on planet denial; where football is more important than her boyfriend being swept away into oblivion. Do you know she has barely cried for him? I mean, she was a full-on wreck over Bonnie for months, but when you mention Damon, it's like nothing ever happened.


 * Liz: Caroline, Elena has experienced more grief than anyone I've ever met. You should cut her some slack.

(Liz's phone starts buzzing, interrupting their conversation).


 * Caroline: What? Did someone trample over Ms. Davis' flowerbed again?


 * Liz: Two kids were admitted to the hospital with suspicious wounds on their necks...


 * Caroline: Vampire attacks? How? Vampires can't get into Mystic Falls.


 * Liz: No, but they can lurk around the borders. I gotta cut lunch short.. That's it. I gotta take care of this.

(Liz gets up to leave, forgetting to pack up her basket)


 * Liz: Listen, consider Elena's offer, okay? Mystic Falls isn't going anywhere.

(Caroline suddenly realizes she left the basket)


 * Caroline: Hey. Don't forget your basket.

(Caroline reaches over the anti-magic line to hand the basket to her and her skin starts to burn, causing her to drop the basket on the ground)

IN THE CRYPT:
 * Elena (voiceover): She  does't want to let go. I don't blame her.. I don't want to let go either. I don't want to think that everything has changed and that I have to start over... the worst thing that could possibly happen actually did.

(Finally finished with the herbs, she picks up the cup and drinks from it)


 * Elena: But I don't have to. Anyway... that was my day. How was yours?

(Elena is hallucinating Damon sitting beside her)


 * Damon: Can we go back to the part where Rick came back to live to be a college professor?

(They both laugh and Damon puts his arm around Elena)

ACT 2:
AT WHITMORE:

(Rick is teaching a class at Whitmore, which Elena happens to be in)


 * Alaric (writing on the blackboard in front of class): Occult: the word in its literal translation means hidden.

(Instead of following along with the lecture, Elena has a notebook laid up in front of her face while she drinks from a cup)


 * Alaric: Therefore, the study of the occult...

(Alaric becomes flustered)


 * Alaric: Uh.. Therefore, the study of the occult is the study of the hidden knowledge. Today, we're going to discuss it and how it relates to ressurection.

(From the front row, Liv snickers)


 * Alaric: Is there something funny, Liv?


 * Liv: Uhh. More like ironic, but okay...

(Suddenly a late and sweaty Tyler runs into the room)


 * Alaric: Ah. Mr. Lockwood.. How generous of the squad to lend you to us.


 * Tyler: Sorry I'm late.

(Tyler sits next to Liv)


 * Alaric: Typically not all occult groups held a consensus on the topic.


 * Tyler: (He looks at Liv's text but she covers it immediately) Sorry princess. Just trying to check what page we're on.


 * Liv: Shh, I'm trying to listen.


 * Alaric: (Continues his lecture) ...Apostles, Athanasian Creeds Tertullian...

(Liv uses magic to turn a page in Tyler's text)


 * Alaric: ...and the western church were inclined to believe in resurrection of the flesh, whereas the Gnostics held the firm belief that resurrection existed inly in a spiritual sense. (He turns back to his students and whispers so only Elena can hear him thanks to her vampire hearing) Elena, you know I can smell that, right? (Elena startles and stops drinking blood from a bottle) I'm teaching a class full of kids who all look like blood sausages to me. Now, put that away.


 * Elena: (whispering) Sorry.


 * Alaric: Uh, whereas others like the early church Fathers...

SCHOOL CORRIDOR

(Elena notices Luke)


 * Elena: Luke, hey.


 * Luke: Hey, I gotta run, actually.


 * Elena: Oh, no, I'll be quick. Really quick. I just... I've been really thirsty lately. Do you think it's because of the... you know.


 * Luke: Are you asking me if there are side effects to the ancient psychotropic herbs I've been giving you, because there haven't exactly been clinical trials.


 * Elena: (laughs) Oh, obviously. I don't... I was just wondering if maybe you could, like, I don't know... Add something to the next batch?


 * Luke: Yeah or maybe there shouldn't be a next batch.


 * Elena: Luke, it was your idea that I see him again, remember? You were all, Hey Elena, I'm sorry that I wronged you. I'm sorry that I'm the reason your boyfriend is dead, remember?


 * Luke: I am. I'm sorry. Something I made clear when I made Alaric's daytime bracelet, because you asked.


 * Elena: Yeah, I know.


 * Luke: And when I went against my coven rules to get these herbs - because you asked.


 * Elena: Right...


 * Luke: (cuts off) But it's time to return to reality.


 * Elena: Luke, I'm fine. I'm okay, I promise. Just come by my place by 5, okay?


 * Luke: Elena... (he's about to say something but Elena doesn't let him)


 * Elena: Thank you.

DEAN'S GARAGE


 * Stefan: (he speaks as he gets into his boss's garage) Hey, Dean. I think a zero might've fallen off my paycheck.


 * Dean: (doesn't look at Stefan while fixing a car) Oh yeah, I had to dock you 200 bucks.


 * Stefan: For what?


 * Dean: Dan Zimmer said you put a ding on the hood of his Shelby.


 * Stefan: Dan's wife put a ding on the hood of his Shelby.


 * Dean: That's funny. Sounds like you're calling my best customer a liar.


 * Stefan: You're ripping me off, Dean.


 * Dean: What you gonna do about it, kid? Huh? You gonna quit? Run off to wherever the hell you came from?

(Stefan shrugs, gives up and pockets his paycheck)


 * Dean: That's what I thought.

(Stefan's phone rings so he pulls out and answers it)


 * Stefan: Hello?


 * Alaric: Hey, just checking in... (cut to Alaric sitting in a diner) ...to see if your contact panned out yet.


 * Stefan: (sees a young woman standing outside the garage) Still working on it.


 * Alaric: Good. Keep me posted. Let me know how it goes.

(Stefan hangs out and stares at the girl)

A DINER

(Caroline walks in and comes over to Alaric's table. She puts three books on the table and sits opposite Mr. Saltzman)


 * Alaric: (surprised) You already read all that?


 * Caroline: Cover to cover, with no mention on how to undo an anti-magic force-field. And if I'm going to single-handedly take back our town, I'm gonna need a little bit more to go on.


 * Alaric: Got it. All right, well. (he draws a book) I brought "Ancient Witchcraft, volume two".


 * Caroline: I read it.


 * Alaric: How about "The Art of Hexing" and "Elements of Magic"?

(Caroline takes one of the books from Alaric)


 * Caroline: Fine. Thank you. So... how's Stefan?


 * Alaric: He's ok.

(Caroline smiles awkwardly)


 * Caroline: How often do you talk to him?


 * Alaric: I don't know. Couple times a week.


 * Caroline: Oh, huh.


 * Alaric: I'm gonna go out on a limb here, Caroline. Is something bothering you?


 * Caroline: He didn't say goodbye. Damon and Bonnie died and he just left. No phone calls, no e-mails. Just disappeared into thin air. And I haven't heard from him in months. I actually convinced myself he was in some remote mountain region and couldn't accept my calls.


 * Alaric: Or maybe he just doesn't want to bother you with every half-lead that goes nowhere.


 * Caroline: Or maybe I just need to get over it. Thanks for the books.

(Caroline goes out as Alaric smiles sadly)

LOCKWOOD MANSION/ELENA'S DORM


 * Elena: (on phone) Why isn't Jeremy answering his phone?


 * Matt: (goes downstairs) I don't know. He's probably doing homework or something.

(Jeremy's sitting on the couch, playing video games and drinking alcohol)


 * Elena: Doing homework? Put me on speaker, please. (Matt puts her on speaker and lies his phone on the table next to Jeremy's foot) Jeremy, I know you can hear me. Get your b*tt off that couch and do something productive.


 * Jeremy: Or what? You're gonna come here and make me?


 * Elena: Or I'll have the sheriff arrest you and drag you to the town border, where I will kick your a*s myself. Matt, a little help, please.


 * Matt: Yeah, I'll deal with him.


 * Elena: Thank you. (she hangs up)


 * Matt: (sighs) So, this is it, huh? Video games. Random girls. Drunk by noon every day. Look, it s*cks that Bonnie's dead, Jer. I get it, but you need to start living your life again.


 * Jeremy: How? By joining the community protection squad? What exactly are you protecting us from? Bike theft? Litter? Magic doesn't work here. The town's safe.


 * Matt: (visibly annoyed) For now. But Caroline's working on a way to reverse all that. So, it's only a matter of time before we're dealing with all the problems that come along with vampires again. You're a hunter. You have skills. Use them.


 * Jeremy: No more magic means I'm not a hunter anymore. (opens can)


 * Matt: Yeah, you're right, Jer. You're not much of anything anymore.

LUKE'S DORM


 * Luke: Hey.


 * Elena: Hey. You're home. I thought you were coming over at 5.


 * Luke: I know you did. (looks down) Look, Elena, I can't help you anymore.


 * Elena: Is it because I told you that I was thirsty? It's fine. I can get more at the blood bank at the clinic. I work there. It's easy.


 * Luke: Elena, you're going through this stuff like crazy.


 * Elena: Yeah.


 * Luke: I'm not a drug pusher.


 * Elena: No, you're my friend. (goes inside the dorm room and starts searching for herbs in Luke's drawers) My frind in spite of the fact that my boyfriend got stuck on the Other Side...


 * Luke: Elena, don't.


 * Elena: Because you decided to stop the spell that could bring him back. My friend that owes me.


 * Luke: No. A friend who cares about you and thinks you're living in denial.


 * Elena: I know you have more.


 * Luke: (angrily) Elena, stop.


 * Elena: (catches Luke's clothes, shakes him and pushes into a wall) Where is it?


 * Luke: Look at you.


 * Elena: Where is it? I need to see Damon, Luke, and I'm not asking.

ON THE ROAD


 * Elena: I kind of want to set up Ric (music playing) with Jo from the hospital. I mean, we both know he has a soft spot for the s*xy doctors type. (Damon shakes his head) How long do you think it takes after somebody comes back to life before they can start dating again?


 * Damon: Well, the fact that you can say that with a straight face is one more reason that I love you. (smiles)


 * Elena: So, like, 3 months?


 * Damon: Can I ask why there is not a Bennett witch in the back? I mean, can't Luke whip up a batch of herbs in Bonnie flavor?


 * Elena: You know, if I had to drive around with everyone that I've lost, I'd need a school bus. (smiles)


 * Damon: Or you just know that Bonnie would agree with Luke. The last thing you need to do is conjure up someone who's gonna tell you the truth.


 * Elena: Can we not talk about it?


 * Damon: About what? The fact that I'm dead? Because I am.


 * Elena: Technically, you were dead when we met.


 * Damon: Good point. Now I'm just gone.


 * Elena: Damon, please, don't say that.


 * Damon: And this conversation is pretty much the smart, level-headed you talking to the irrational possible drug addict you. (scoffs) Which is clear evidence of your insanity.


 * Elena: Yeah. Ok. (turns up music)

ACT 3:
WHITMORE COLLEGE

(People have fun before the match. Tyler suddenly bumps into someone in the crowd)


 * Tyler: Oh. Watch it, d*ck! (he sees it's Alaric and startles) Whoa, sorry. Still working out the kinks of being human. My tolerance blows. (he drinks beer)


 * Alaric: Yeah, Tyler, not to play chaperone here, but are you sure somebody with your anger issues should be drinking at all this close to a full moon?


 * Tyler: My issues are under control. Coach lets me practice with the football team. I get to kick a*s in a controlled environment.


 * Alaric: Till you get plastered and do something stupid and trigger your werewolf curse all over again.


 * Tyler: Alaric, chill. It's under control.


 * Alaric: Good. (takes the beer from Tyler) But just in case.


 * Tyler: Really?


 * Alaric: You know, I haven't been buzzed since I came back to life. And saying that aloud while sober really freaks me out. Ahem. (chuckles and sees that Tyler is staring at Liv) As the only sober person here, trust me when I tell you this, Tyler... The girl is not so into you. Thanks for the beer. (he leaves)

STEFAN'S PLACE

(Ivy joins Stefan in bed)


 * Ivy: Your fridge makes me want to kill myself. We're gonna have to split this.


 * Stefan: Knock yourself out.


 * Ivy: So. You want to grab dinner? There's that crab shack on the harbor you want to check out.


 * Stefan: Uh, yeah, I would, but, um, I told Dean I'd stop by the garage later.


 * Ivy: Yeah, never heard that one before.


 * Stefan: Hey, look, no offense, Ivy, but, uh, you're the one who showed up to me today.


 * Ivy: Hey, I'm not asking for your hand in marriage. Stefan, come on. We've been hanging out for two months now. I don't know anything about you or your family. Your friends you never talk about call you and you get all weird.


 * Stefan: I get weird?


 * Ivy: Yeah. You get weird. So, we'll play a game. You tell me one thing about you and I'll tell you one thing about me.


 * Stefan: Well, I already know everything about you. You're from Colorado. You love dogs. Your dad's a bit of a pain in the a*s, but you graciously let him pay your rent.


 * Ivy: [laughs] Okay. Fine. Your turn. Now tell me something I don't know about you.


 * Stefan: I'm a vampire.


 * Ivy: You're so annoying.


 * Stefan: Hey. And I like you.

(Stefan kisses Ivy)

WHITMORE COLLEGE – PARTY

(Alaric fills his flask with blood; Jo spots him and turns to talk to him)


 * Jo: Thank god. Someone over 20. The rest of the chaperones are huddled around the burger bar.


 * Alaric: And you're a vegetarian.


 * Jo: I don't eat red meat. I look at blood all day. (beat) Because I work at the medical center. Not because I'm a serial killer or anything. I'm Jo.


 * Alaric: Alaric. I teach Occult Studies here.


 * Jo: I didn't know that was an actual thing.


 * Alaric: Yeah.


 * Jo: Not that it's not a thing. (points to his flask) May I?


 * Alaric: Uh, you know, actually, I'm a germaphobe.


 * Jo: A germaphobe. So, you're like the vegetarian of cool people.


 * Alaric: Ha ha! Yeah. Exactly. Um... Will you excuse me a second? I actually have to make a— A quick phone call.

(Alaric leaves a voice message)


 * Alaric: Ok, so, when I lost my human nature, I also lost my game. Where are you?

ON A ROAD OUTSIDE MYSTIC FALLS

(Elena reaches into the back seat)


 * Damon: What are you looking for?


 * Elena: I thought I had— guess not. What's this?

(Seeing a woman standing outside her car on the side of the road, Elena stops next to it)


 * Elena: Hey. Are you okay?


 * Sarah: Depends. Am I still in the western hemisphere?


 * Elena: Hang on. I can help.


 * Sarah: I'm sorry. I'm from New York and we're big on cell phone reception.


 * Elena: Where you heading?


 * Sarah: Mystic Falls. My GPS died and then I started second-guessing myself—aah! Aah!

(Elena feeds on Sarah)


 * Damon: Easy. This is when you wipe her slate and let her go.


 * Elena: I'm still hungry.


 * Damon: You're gonna kill her, just like you nearly killed the last one and the one before that and the one before that.


 * Elena: I got it, Damon. I'm gonna let her go. I'm just— I just need a little more.

(Caroline shows up)


 * Caroline: Oh, my god! What are you--


 * Elena: Caroline. It's not--

(Sarah starts running away)


 * Elena: No!

(Elena reaches the border of Mystic Falls and her arm burns in the sunlight; Sarah gets away)