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 is the 22nd episode and finale of the Fifth Season and the 111th episode of The Vampire Diaries (TV Series).

Summary
AN EXPLOSIVE SEASON FINALE — Heartbroken by an unexpected tragedy, is focused on holding himself together, while pushing  harder than ever to find a way to stop the disintegration of the Other Side. takes matters into her own hands and demands that Liv and Luke help her, but Liv refuses to cooperate until provides her with some personal motivation. Sheriff Forbes is horrified when Markos uses violence against /Julian to prove that Mystic Falls is now under the control of the Travelers. With new information from Sheriff Forbes, Damon comes up with a dangerous plan that relies on split-second timing from and. Liv's off-hand remark regarding gets a surprisingly emotional response from Caroline. As conditions on the Other Side worsen, Bonnie takes the opportunity to settle an old score. Finally, Damon’s plan causes a massive explosion in Mystic Falls, and everyone is caught up in the confusion, leaving a trail of heroism, sacrifice, relief and despair.

Main Cast

 * Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert
 * Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
 * Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
 * Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes
 * Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert
 * Katerina Graham as Bonnie Bennett
 * Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
 * Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood/Julian

Recurring Cast

 * Raffi Barsoumian as Markos
 * Penelope Mitchell as Liv Parker
 * Chris Brochu as Luke Parker
 * Marguerite MacIntyre as Elizabeth Forbes
 * Jasmine Guy as Sheila Bennett

Trivia

 * MAY 15 SEASON FINALE | The final hour of Season 5 culminates in an all-out battle for Mystic Falls -- against the Travelers, of course. Iin addition to the usual "blood, death and tears," Dries says to brace for more reunions with "faces that we've been missing over the series." (That's right, she said "series.") She also promises the finale "will end in true Vampire Diaries fashion, with a stunning cliffhanger that leaves us thinking, 'Wait, what? No. Tell me that didn't just happen.'"
 * Damon fans, start gearing up for an emotional hour when The Vampire Diaries signs off in May. "There's quite a lot of suffering and celebration in the last two episodes," Julie Plec warned teased. "Because of Markos's efforts to make the town of Mystic Falls a magic-free zone and the imminent destruction of the Other Side, lots of lives are in jeopardy and Damon has to, as he says, 'strap on his hero hair.'"
 * All season long, the Travelers have been on the fringes of the story, but Wesley warns that these bohemian witches will play a big part in how Season 5 ends. "You're going to meet their leader, Markos," Wesley says. "The Travelers have an agenda and he's putting on this innocuous act.
 * "I think that there will be an impressive body count on both shows by the time the seasons are over," executive producer Julie Plec teases. (And yes, some of them will be kind of a big deal.)
 * Dries teased that Stefan will soon have a “hard time” and that things “get even worse for Stefan toward the end.” The youngest Salvatore brother reportedly takes “a turn for the worse” toward the end of season 5.
 * There is no more confusion about who The Travelers are and what they want: to break the witches' curse so they can finally settle. And if their leader Markos successfully breaks the centuries-long curse, magic could be destroyed — which could be catastrophic for Bonnie and the other side. But perhaps Bonnie won't be alone if she exits the world our heroes currently exist in.
 * Longtime fans will not want to miss the season five finale as we're hearing some familiar faces will be popping up in Mystic Falls. Plus, EP Caroline Dries teases that the finale's cliffhanger is "up there" with the series' best, including Katherine chopping off Uncle John's fingers in season one.
 * Matt Davis was spotted on set for 5x22, so it's possible Alaric may return at the end of Season 5.
 * "The finale will be emotional," Dries says. "We'll get to see a lot of our favorite friends from the past possibly pop in. Basically, every place on the show where s*** can possibly go wrong, it goes wrong. Just when you think, oh it can't get worse than that, it does."
 * Well, KS, before you ask what’s coming up in Season 6, you should probably ask which characters might not live long enough to see it. ”There are going to be a lot of goodbyes as we realize the other side is disintegrating,” executive producer Julie Plec tells TVLine. “Not everybody is going to survive that. We’re going to have to say goodbye to some characters that we’ve grown to love over the years. That’s what we’ll see when we get to the finale.”