Growing Pains (Vampire Diaries)/Transcript

'''GILBERT HOUSE '''

(There is a bright white light and the sounds of church bells ringing, sirens, and yard work going on can be heard. Suddenly, Elena gasps for air and wakes up. Stefan is sitting on the end of her bed, watching her. She seems confused about what is going on around her.)

Elena: Stefan?

Stefan: Hey. I’m right here. You’ve been in and out for hours.

Elena: Wh-what happened?

Stefan: You were in an accident.

Elena: Oh my God. Matt is he…?

(Damon interrupts; he is sitting on the window seat next to Elena’s bed.)

Damon: Alive? (Elena and Stefan both look at him.) Ask Stefan. The hero.

(Elena looks back at Stefan.)

Stefan: He’s fine.

Elena: Thank you. I thought that I – how did you…?

Damon: Save you? He didn’t.

Stefan: When Jeremy brought you to the hospital before all this happened, your injuries were worse than anyone knew. Meredith Fell made a choice, she used Damon’s blood to heal you.

Damon: And when Rebekah ran Matt’s truck off the road, you had vampire blood in your system, Elena.

(Elena starts to panic.)

Elena: Oh my God. Does - does that mean that I – am I dead?

(Stefan and Damon say nothing.)

Elena: No, no, no, no! That wasn’t supposed to happen!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Maybe it doesn’t have to. I talked to Bonnie, she says she’s stronger than ever, there might be something that she can do to help you.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: No, the only thing that’s going to help is for you to feed and complete the transition.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: We have all day before she has to feed, Damon. That’s a day to exhaust every possible way out of this.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: There is no way out of it. We all know the drill. You feed or you die. There is no door number three.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: (crying) I was ready to die. I was supposed to die. I don’t – I don’t want to be – I can’t be a vampire! If there’s something that Bonnie can do we have to try.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: We will. We’ll try everything.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon scoffs and rolls his eyes.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Your choice, Elena. As always.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon gets up and leaves. Stefan looks at Elena who is still in tears.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">GILBERT HOUSE – KITCHEN

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon grabs a bottle of alcohol from a cupboard and pours himself a drink. Stefan enters the kitchen.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Way to get her hopes up for something that’s never happened in the history of vampirism.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: You know what, you weren’t there the day Elena looked me in the eye and told me she absolutely never wanted this.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon drinks the whole drink in a single gulp.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Then you shouldn’t have let her die.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: I never meant for her to die. She asked me to help Matt first and I did.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: And now the world has one more quarterback. Bravo, brother.

(Damon pours himself another drink.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: I made a choice that I will regret for the rest of my life. Now let me try to fix it.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan leaves. Damon finishes his second drink.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">GILBERT HOUSE – ELENA’S BEDROOM

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena is looking at herself in the mirror. She is breathing heavily and rubs her face. She touches her teeth to check if they have sprouted fangs yet. Her hearing has intensified and she hears the electricity running through a lightbulb and looks down at it. Suddenly, she sees Jeremy in the doorway and walks over to him.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> Elena: Jer!

(They embrace.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Are you okay? I watched Vicki go through this, she was a mess. Her emotions were all over the place. All these old memories came flooding back.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena glances over at the lightbulb again, but turns back to face Jeremy.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: I’m fine. I’m not Vicki.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: No, you’re not. You’re you. You act like everything’s okay so no one worries about you but you need help.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena keeps glancing at the lightbulb.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: (snappy) I said I’m fine, okay? I – I’m sorry, I…. Have you talked to Bonnie?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Yeah, she said when I was shot; she made some plea to the witch spirits to bring me back and they listened.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Yeah, but the consequences were horrible.

Jeremy: And what could be more horrible than you turning into a vampire? I need my sister, not another one of them.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: We’re gonna find a way out of this. Everything’s gonna be okay.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: I hope so.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Jeremy leaves. Elena turns around and looks at the lightbulb in the lamp. She strides towards it, pulls off the lampshade and crushes the lightbulb in her hand.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">LOCKWOOD CELLAR

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Klaus’ desiccated body is lying in a coffin. Bonnie is staring at it.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: It’s beautiful, isn’t it?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie turns around and sees Klaus in Tyler’s body entering the cellar.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: What is that doing here, Klaus? The deal we made with Tyler was that you’d leave his body and jump into someone else’s the first chance you got.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Yes, when I assumed I’d be a pile of ash. But apparently, fate and oxygen intervened and there I am.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Klaus walks towards the coffin.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Put me back.

Bonnie: I can’t right now.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Your history teacher outed Tyler and Caroline to the Council. They’re on a war path and this body’s vulnerable.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: I have to help Elena before she has to feed.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Elena’s dead and no longer my concern.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: You’re forgetting who just saved your life.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Klaus grabs Bonnie by the throat.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: And you’re forgetting that I could rip your tongue out. Now put me back.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: If I can keep Elena human, you’ll still have an endless blood supply to make your hybrids. Isn’t that what you really want?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Klaus releases Bonnie. Bonnie starts to leave, but Klaus super speeds in front of her and blocks her way out.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Same rules apply. No one knows. No one. Do you understand me, Bonnie?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">MYSTIC FALLS HOSPITAL

(Meredith is walking down the hallway and Pastor Young and some deputies approach her. She stops.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Meredith: Pastor Young! To what do we owe the honor? And don’t tell me it’s your blood pressure again.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Honestly, Dr. Fell, I wish it were.

(He turns to the deputies behind him.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Blood banks in the basement. One of you sweep the rooms.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Meredith: What are you doing?

Pastor Young: Adding a few security measures. The blood in this place has a habit of flying off the shelves.

Meredith: Who gave you that authority?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: The Council. They’ve entrusted me to secure the town and unlike some of our founding families, I don’t have conflicting interests.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Meredith: What is that supposed to mean?

Pastor Young: Alaric Saltzman told us everything, Meredith. Probably time to start looking for a new job.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Pastor Young leaves a shocked Meredith standing there.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">MYSTIC FALLS HOSPITAL ROOM

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Matt and Caroline are in the room together. Matt has been discharged from the hospital and is getting ready to leave.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Matt: Elena doesn’t want to be a vampire.

Caroline: She doesn’t want to be dead and now she’s not. This isn’t your fault, Matt.

Matt: It’s all my fault. I was driving. I was saved. She’s a vampire because of me!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Shh! Cool it on the V word. I’m a fugitive, remember? I’m supposed to be halfway to Florida by now.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Matt: If the Council is after you, then why are you here?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Because I don’t know where to go. (She starts to cry.) Tyler’s dead and everything’s different now and I…

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Matt embraces her. Suddenly, Caroline pulls away. They hear an officer coming towards the room. Caroline leaves. The officer opens the door and sees Matt standing alone.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Matt: Can I help you?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Officer: Sorry.

(The officer gets on his dispatch.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Officer: All good here.

(He exits the room and closes the door. Matt breathes a sigh of relief.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">LOCKWOOD MANSION

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(An officer is handcuffing Carol Lockwood. Pastor Young is standing nearby.)

Carol: What’s going on?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(The officer starts to lead Carol out of her house.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: We just need to ask you a few questions about your son.

Carol: You can’t arrest me! I’m the Mayor of this town!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Not anymore, you’re not.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">MYSTIC FALLS TOWN SQUARE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Sheriff Forbes is walking to the police department. Pastor Young stops her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Sorry, Liz, you’re not going to work today.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Liz: What are you talking about?

(The deputies surround the two of them.)

Liz: What’s going on?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: They’re taking your badge. You’re not fit to protect us anymore.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Liz: You have no idea what you’re up against.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: On the contrary, Liz, I’ve already taken your deputies. We’ve got the entire town’s supply of vervain, including the stash found in the Salvatore house. We’re making our move.

FORBES’ HOUSE

(Caroline is about to leave the house. Her phone is ringing. She answers it.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Mom, hey!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Liz: Caroline, where are you? And tell me it’s far away.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Where am I? Uh…Good question. Uh… there’s just a whole lot of boring highways. Why, is everything okay?

(Caroline leaves the house. She goes to lock the front door when an officer comes up from behind her and stabs a shot of vervain into her neck. She drops her phone and Sheriff Forbes hears the commotion.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Liz: Caroline, what’s going?!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">GILBERT HOUSE – KITCHEN

(Elena and Stefan are in the kitchen. Elena takes a bite of a sandwich and chews.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: It’s disgusting.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: (with her mouth full) No it’s, um…

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: It’s disgusting.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Yeah, I’m gonna puke.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena spits out the sandwich into a napkin.)

Elena: I never thought I’d be saying this, but I can’t stop thinking about blood.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: I should have saved you first. You shouldn’t be going through this right now.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: No, if you had saved me, then Matt would be dead. What do you think I’d be going through then?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan pours himself a drink and takes a sip. Elena gets up and walks over to him.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Stefan, listen to me. You did the right thing. You did what you always do; you respected my choice.

Stefan: And what am I supposed to do if Bonnie can’t figure out a way to help you, huh? Because then you have another choice to make. Either let yourself die or be a vampire.

Elena: Well then, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena pauses and laughs.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Oh my God, did - did I just say “cross that bridge”?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena starts to laugh maniacally.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: You’re laughing. I’m pretty sure you don’t actually think that’s funny.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: (still laughing) I – I can’t stop though.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Your emotions are a bit heightened today. A lot heightened.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena continues to laugh but then she starts to cry. Stefan embraces her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Hey. Shh, shh. It’s okay. It’s okay.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: I’m sorry. I…

(Stefan pulls away and caresses her face.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Listen to me. No matter what happens, I’m here for you. I can help you.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena looks out the window and squints her eyes due to the brightness of the sunlight.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Why don’t you go back upstairs where it’s dark? I’ll clean up.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena starts to walk away and shields her eyes from the sun. She walks up the stairs and towards her room. She sees Damon sitting on the window seat.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: I thought you left?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Cute PJ’s.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena looks down at her clothes, and then hears herself speaking from the bathroom. She looks over at herself.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: I’m tired, Damon.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon gets up and walks over to the memory version of Elena and holds up her old necklace.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: I brought you this.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: I thought that was gone. Thank you.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena continues to watch the memory unfold. The memory version of herself attempts to take the necklace from Damon but he pulls it back. Suddenly, Damon and memory Elena disappear. Elena gasps and looks around the room, confused. She turns her head and the memory continues on.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: I just have to say something.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Why do you have to say it with my necklace?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Because what I’m about to say is probably the most selfish thing I’ve ever said in my life.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Damon, don’t go there.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: No, I just have to say it once. You just need to hear it. I love you, Elena. And it’s because I love you that I can’t be selfish with you. Why you can’t know this? I don’t deserve you, but my brother does.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon kisses Elena on the forehead.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: God, I wish you didn’t have to forget this. But you do.

(Damon compels Elena to forget. The memory ends and the present day Elena touches her neck and looks down.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">KLAUS MANSION

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Rebekah is looking at pictures Klaus had drawn. She picks one up and begins to choke up. She throws the picture down and knocks the rest of them off the table in a fit of rage. Damon enters the room behind her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: You should know better than to sneak up on a lady.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Good advice. Have you seen one?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Rebekah turns to face him.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: Tragic about Elena. Not to make a grey cloud greyer, but does Matt even have automobile insurance?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Rebekah turns back around. Damon rushes at her with the indestructible white oak stake. She grabs his wrist and prevents him from killing her. She pushes him against a dresser and he drops the stake. Suddenly, someone starts firing wooden bullets through the window. Damon manages to escape but Rebekah is shot in the heart with an arrow and temporarily dies.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">GILBERT HOUSE

(Elena picks up a photo of her with parents and looks at it for a bit. Suddenly, she hears a commotion downstairs. She walks down the stairs.)

Elena: Stefan?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Elena, don’t move.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena stops on the staircase. Stefan is surrounding by officers and the Pastor. The officers all have their guns pointed towards him. Elena looks at the Pastor and back at Stefan.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">LOCKWOOD CELLAR

(Tyler/Klaus is sitting on the coffin containing his body. His phone starts to ring. Tyler/Klaus looks at it and sees it is Carol calling.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: You incessant woman!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(He answers the phone.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Hey, mom. What’s up?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Carol: Tyler, thank God. Are – are you okay?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Fine. Why? What’s going on?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Carol: (pouring herself a drink) Pastor Young had me arrested this morning. The Council grilled me on your whereabouts. Tyler, don’t tell me where you are, the less I know the better.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Mom, I’m okay. Relax.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Carol: You didn’t answer your phone, honey. I was so scared that you were with Caroline.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Why? What happened to Caroline?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Carol: The Council took her.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: What do you mean they took her?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">ON THE ROAD

(A black van is being escorted by two police cars; one in front and one in back. Inside the van, Rebekah wakes up; Caroline is sitting beside her and watching her. Rebekah struggles to get out of the ropes tying her down.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Vervain ropes. Looks like Alaric outed us all to the Council.

Rebekah: The Council? What exactly do they think they can do to me?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Suddenly, the wheels of the van start to screech. The van flips over. Caroline and Rebekah go flying. The van lands on its side. The two girls are fine, but in shock.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: What the hell happened?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Outside of the van, one of the police cars has been completely destroyed and another silver SUV is seen with its front end smashed in. The other police car that was escorting the van; which is further up the road; whips around and starts to drive back towards the van. Meanwhile, Klaus breaks off the back door of the van and goes in to rescue Caroline.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: (in shock) Tyler?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: I’m harder to kill than you think.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(He rips off the vervain ropes tying her down.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: (crying) You’re alive? How are you alive?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(He finishes ripping off the ropes and helps her up.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: No time. Come on, we’ve got to go.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: Wait, what about me?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Tyler/Klaus looks down at her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Keep them busy, little sister.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Tyler/Klaus gets up and leaves. Rebekah is shocked by this revelation.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: No. That’s not possible!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Rebekah struggles to free herself but gives up.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">GILBERT HOUSE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon is picking up stuff that was knocked over in the commotion. Sheriff Forbes enters the house.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: They’re gone. Whoever nailed Rebekah, took them too. Please tell me you have something. Anything.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Meredith walks out of the kitchen and into the living room.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Liz: I can’t. The Council locked Carol and me out of our offices. Files, computers, everything.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: So, the Mayor and the Sheriff never contemplated a backup plan, Liz?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Meredith: Damon, relax. When Caroline called to say she got away; did she know where they were planning to take her?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Liz: No. Just that she was in some van in the middle of nowhere and she managed to escape.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Perfect. We’ve narrowed it down to nowhere.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Someone knocks on the front door. Matt enters the house.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Matt: Hey, is Elena here?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon turns around and rushes towards Matt. He grabs him by the throat and pins him up against the wall; choking him.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: In what world are you the one that gets to live?!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Meredith tries to pull Damon off of him.)

Meredith: Damon, stop! It wasn’t his fault!

Liz: Let him go, Damon! Now!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Matt tries to pry Damon’s arms off his throat. Damon releases him. Matt breathes heavily.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">PASTOR YOUNG’S CATTLE RANCH

(Elena is in the small house. She is chewing on her fingernails. The Pastor turns the fire on the stove on.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: You still want to be a writer? I remember how you’d read your short stories to my daughter when you’d babysit. She still loves writing because of you.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Why did you bring me here?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: My deputies can watch out for us here. No vampires have been invited in. Look, Elena, I know it sounds crazy, but years ago it was your parents who were advocating having an emergency plan like this. I never thought we’d actually have to use it.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena can hear the ticking noise of a clock and panics slightly.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Elena? Elena, you okay?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena collects herself.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Where’s Stefan?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Where he can’t hurt you.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: He would never hurt me. You have no idea what you’re talking about.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Well, I know that wherever you go, Salvatore vampires seem to follow. You hungry?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: No.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Pastor Young pulls out a tray from the fridge.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: So, we’ll hold Stefan until Damon comes searching for you two. We’ll use Rebekah to lure her siblings back into town. You’ll give us the white oak stake and then we will exterminate the entire vampire race for good.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Pastor Young places a giant steak in front of Elena. Elena looks at it and starts to breathe heavily.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Is something wrong? Elena, are you okay?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena looks at Pastor Young’s neck.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Yeah.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(All of the sounds around her are intensified and she starts to panic.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: No, I’ve got to get out of here.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(She gets up and runs out of the house. She runs across the yard, shielding her eyes from the sunlight. Pastor Young follows her outside; he stays on the front porch.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Get her!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena continues to run but is blinded by the sunlight. A man hits her in the face with a wooden object and she blacks out.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">THE WOODS

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Caroline super speeds Tyler/Klaus into a tree and they begin to make out.)

Caroline: I never thought I’d see you again! I don’t get it. How are you alive?

Tyler/Klaus: This is going to sound incredible, but I….

(Caroline silences him with a kiss.)

Tyler/Klaus: But…

(Tyler/Klaus stops trying to talk and super speeds Caroline into a tree. They continue to kiss. Caroline helps Tyler/Klaus take off his jacket and shirt. Tyler/Klaus pulls away.)

Tyler/Klaus: Easy, love. Wrong time. Wrong place. Wrong equipment.

Caroline: But you’re miraculously alive. We’re fugitives on the run. All signs point to hot hybrid vampire sex.

(Caroline removes her jacket and continues to kiss him. She super speeds him into another tree. She pulls away for a minute to take her shirt off. She starts kissing him again, but suddenly stops.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Did you just call me love?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: I don’t know, love. Did I?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: What the hell did you do to Tyler?!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Caroline removes her hands from Tyler/Klaus neck and pushes them against his chest in anger.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: That’s what I enjoy about you. So much more than a pretty face.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Oh my God, you’re Klaus. You’re disgusting!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Caroline takes her hands off him completely and backs away.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: And you’re a glorious kisser.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Caroline slaps him.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Listen, I didn’t have to risk exposure to come save you.

(Caroline turns around and starts to put her shirt back on.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Oh, you do one semi-decent thing and now you’re my hero? Oh, I need to go sanitize my mouth!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Your mouth was all over me. I was an innocent victim.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Caroline faces him.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Put Tyler back!

<span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;font-size:12pt;">Tyler/Klaus: Gladly. Then maybe I’ll take you up on your offer of hot hybrid sex.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Tyler/Klaus looks at her, smirks and walks away.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">ABANDONED WITCH HOUSE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie is reciting a spell. Jeremy is pacing back and forth in front of her. She stops chanting.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: The spirits aren’t listening.

Jeremy: Was that it? Is that all we can do?

Bonnie: There’s something else I could try.

Jeremy: What? Do it.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie gets up with the spellbook.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: If the witches won’t help me save Elena, then maybe I can go to the Other Side and bring her back myself.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: The Other Side? The Other Side is for dead people.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: She’s still in transition. Not fully dead, not fully alive. What if her spirit still exists on both sides?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Even if it does, how can you get there? You’re not dead.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie says nothing. Jeremy realizes what she is going to do and walks towards her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: No! No, Bonnie!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: I was able to stop your heart to stop Klaus’; I’ll do the same thing to myself. Witches have free reign on the Other Side. I will find Elena and I will bring her back with me.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Assuming you wake up!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: I’m stronger now. I found a new source of power.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: A new source of power?! What kind of power is going to let you kill yourself and bring someone back with you from the dead?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Do you want Elena back or not?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">GILBERT HOUSE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Liz: With your vervain and Alaric’s weapons; they could be anywhere.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Come on, guys, think. It takes a lot to hold a vampire. Reinforced steel, iron doors.

Matt: The Pastor has a cattle ranch. (They all look at Matt.) Those pens could easily be modified.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Meredith: It’s remote, it’s secluded.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: (To Matt) Well, guess what? Looks like you get a chance to prove how sorry you really are. Let’s go.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon and Matt leave the house.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">PASTOR YOUNG’S CATTLE RANCH

(In a barn, Elena wakes up on the floor. She looks around her. Vampires are coughing due to the vervain being ventilated through their cages. Elena sits up while holding her head. Rebekah is in the cage across from her; looking at Elena.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: I thought I killed you.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Where am I?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: They thought you were a vampire, so they stuck you in here with us.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Where’s Stefan?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan speaks from the cage adjacent to Elena. They can hear each other but cannot see each other.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Elena, I’m right here. Are you okay?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Stefan.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena tries to pull herself up but is too weak to do so.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: I didn’t feed.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan looks worried.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: Ahh, I see what’s going on here. You died with vampire blood in your system and you didn’t feed and now you’re locked up in here without a drop of human blood in sight. That is a problem.

Stefan: Just ignore her.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: Has anyone done the math or shall I? I’d say you’ve got less than three hours to feed before I get to watch you die all over again.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena tries to breaks through the bars.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: My day just got a whole lot better.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena stops. She’s beginning to get paler.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">ABANDONED WITCH HOUSE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie and Jeremy are sitting on the floor. Bonnie has his hands in hers. She is reciting a spell. The spirits are whispering to them. Jeremy opens his eyes and sees that Bonnie’s nose is bleeding profusely.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Oh my God.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie continues to chant the spell as the spirits get louder. Jeremy looks worried.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Bonnie. Bonnie, open your eyes. Bonnie, I can’t let you do this! Bonnie, you’re dying!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie begins to chant louder. Black veins start to creep up her arms.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: What the hell is that?!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie starts to hyperventilate, than she dies. Jeremy rushes towards her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Bonnie, no! Bonnie! Bonnie, wake up! Bonnie! Wake up!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">IN THE BARN

(Bonnie is in the cage and sees Elena, sitting on the floor with her eyes closed. She walks over towards her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Elena.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(She kneels down next to Elena and takes her arms in her hands.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Come back. Come back.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena opens her eyes. Bonnie pulls her up. Elena can’t see Bonnie and is unsure of what is happening.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Stefan. Stefan, something’s happening.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan looks at the wall dividing him and Elena.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: We’re going home.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Suddenly, Grams appears behind the bars of Elena’s cage.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Grams: No!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie drops Elena’s arms. Elena falls back down on the floor; too weak to stand on her own.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Grams? What are you doing?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Gram: You can’t be in here. You stay away from this sort of darkness.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Elena needs me.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Grams is suddenly standing right in front of Bonnie instead of behind the bars of the cage.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Grams: She is not your problem to solve. Now, go! Before they try to keep you here.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Grams, please.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Grams: This magic is dark, Bonnie. It is not nature’s plan. Touch it again and the spirits will unleash their anger in ways that will make you suffer. Stay away. GO!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">ABANDONED WITCH HOUSE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Bonnie, wake up! Wake up! Come on. Open your eyes.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie opens her eyes.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: You’re awake!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Jeremy pulls her up into a sitting position and holds her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: You’re alive.

Bonnie: I couldn’t do it. It didn’t work.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">IN THE BARN

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Stefan.

Stefan: What happened?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: I’m out of time. I need blood. I’m dying.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan is worried. Elena is breathing heavily. Stefan pulls himself up off the ground.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Hey! Anyone, hey!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: Will you shut up?!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: You think we’re afraid of you?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(An officer opens the barn door and walks up to Stefan’s cage.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Officer: You want more vervain? Keep it down.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Listen to me. Elena’s gonna die if you don’t let her out of here.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(The officer glances at Elena who is in bad shape. He looks back at Stefan.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Officer: Sorry, not my problem.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: She’s innocent. Let her out.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(The officer begins to walk away. Stefan rushes towards the other side of the cage.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: (shouting) Let her out!

(The officer shoots Stefan in the stomach and he falls to the ground.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Stop!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan gets back up and rushes back to the bars.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: I said, let her out!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(The officer shoots him again, this time in the leg. He leaves the barn. Stefan falls to the ground again. Rebekah watches him.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">ABANDONED WITCH HOUSE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Tyler/Klaus and Caroline have come to the house to see Bonnie about getting Klaus out of Tyler’s body.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: She said she’s not strong enough.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: You were strong enough to put me in here. Surely, you’re strong enough to get me out.

Bonnie: I upset the spirits trying to save Elena. I can’t use that kind of magic again. It’s too dangerous.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Bonnie, do the bloody spell!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: She said she can’t okay?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Tyler/Klaus turns around and looks at Caroline.)

Caroline: We’ll just wait a few days until you’re strong enough to do it with traditional magic, right Bonnie?

(Tyler/Klaus rips open his shirt, takes a deep breath, and extends his claws on his right hand. He punctures his chest with his claws and grabs Tyler’s heart and begins to rip it out.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: What are you doing?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler/Klaus: Ripping Tyler’s heart out. I’ll jump into someone else. (He turns to Jeremy.) Maybe you.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(He continues to tear out Tyler’s heart.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Oh my God.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: You’re hurting him! Stop! Stop!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: He’s bluffing. He needs a witch to do that.

Tyler/Klaus: What makes you think I don’t have one? Or ten? Pick, Bonnie! You or Tyler!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(He has almost successfully torn open his chest.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Stop, please! You’re killing him!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Fine, I’ll do it! Just stop.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Tyler/Klaus takes his hand out from his chest.)

Tyler/Klaus: Good. Let’s begin.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">IN THE BARN

(Stefan drags himself over to the wall dividing him from Elena. He pulls the wooden bullet out of his leg.)

Stefan: Elena? You still with me?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena is sitting on the other side of the wall. She has grown even paler and is breathing heavily.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Yeah. Yeah, I’m here. I’m okay.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: No, you’re not. I can hear you breathing. Damon was right, you should have fed this morning. I’m so sorry.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Don’t be. You had hope. That’s all I ever wanted you to have and you had it.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: I love you so much.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Do you know why I was even on that bridge? I was coming back for you, Stefan. I had to choose and I picked you.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan starts to cry silent tears.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Because I love you. No matter what happens, it’s the best choice I ever made.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena places her hand against the wall dividing them.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: God. It sucks that I can’t see you right now.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: I’m smiling.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Me too.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Rebekah looks saddened by the fact that Stefan may lose Elena. Elena takes her hand away from the wall and closes her eyes.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">OUTSIDE THE PASTOR’S HOUSE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon and Matt get out of Damon’s car and walk towards the house.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Matt: So, what, we just storm the place with zero weapons?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Nah, we don’t need weapons. Just bait.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon rushes towards Matt and bites his neck. Matt falls to the ground, groaning in pain.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Yoo-hoo! Anybody home? Big, bad vampire out here.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Pastor Young opens the front door and sees Matt on the ground, bleeding.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Let him go. The boy’s innocent.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Well, that’s the point. Give me Stefan and Elena, he’s all yours.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon grabs Matt by the scruff of his shirt and picks him up.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Come on, Pastor. You know I’ll kill him. I want to kill him.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Go away! You are not invited in and I’m not coming out!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon is suddenly shot in the chest and falls to the ground.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">ABANDONED WITCH HOUSE

(Bonnie is performing the spell to get Klaus out of Tyler’s body and back into his. She has her hands on the side of Tyler’s head. Caroline and Jeremy look worried.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: This is black magic. She shouldn’t be doing this.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Tyler opens his eyes and looks up.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Tyler?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Tyler: (smiling) Caroline. Hey.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Tyler tries to get up, but falls down to the ground.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Tyler?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Caroline rushes to his side. Bonnie is still chanting.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Bonnie, what are you doing?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Bonnie stops chanting. Her Grams appears in front of her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Grams: I warned you, child. I warned you to stay away.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Jeremy: Bonnie, it worked. Stop.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Grams and Bonnie are holding hands.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: What’s happening? Let me go!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Grams: I can’t.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Let me go!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Bonnie, what’s happening?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Dark veins start creeping down Bonnie’s arm towards her Grams’ and suddenly appear on her arms as well.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: Okay, let her go!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Grams: You made your choice. Now they’re taking it out on me!

(The veins creep up Grams’ face and she begins to scream in pain.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: I’m sorry, Grams! They can’t do this to you! Please, don’t do this to her!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Bonnie, stop!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: No! No! Oh my God!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Grams disappears and Bonnie falls down on her knees, crying. Jeremy gets down next to her and tries to comfort her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: What have I done?! What did I do?!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Caroline: Hey, we’re right here.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Bonnie: What did I do? What did I do?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">IN THE BARN

(The officers come back in; carrying more vervain with them. Stefan and Rebekah look at each other and Rebekah nods her head.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Officer: I got this. Bring the other one in.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(The other officer leaves the barn.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: Excuse me? Hello, sir?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Rebekah starts pretending to cough. The officer loads his gun and walks over to her cage.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Officer: I thought I told you to shut up.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: Here’s the thing, my family we – we have money, castles, apartments, jewelry; just name your price and let me out.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(The officer gets closer to the cage.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Officer: I’d much rather watch you die.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Rebekah gets up and rushes towards the bars. The officer is startled and pulls out his gun but he falls back towards the bars of Stefan’s cage. Stefan grabs him and slams the officer’s head repeatedly against the bars until he starts to bleed. He drops the now dead officer on the floor towards Elena’s cage. Elena is still sitting on the ground. She sees the dead officer lying close to her cage.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Elena. Elena!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena sees the blood slowly spreading across the floor. She reaches her hand out and reaches for the blood that is pouring from the wound. She reaches as far as she can, but still cannot get close enough to get any blood. The blood is still running towards her and finally, she is able to place her fingertips in it. She puts her hand to her mouth and licks the blood off her fingers. She starts to regain the color in her face.)

OUTSIDE THE PASTOR’S HOUSE

(Damon is lying in the grass. Two officers come around the corner with their guns out. They approach Damon’s body. One of the officers gently nudges Damon with his foot. Damon doesn’t move. Suddenly though, Damon gets up and grabs the guns out of the officers hands. He kills both of them by snapping the neck of one of them and stabbing the other one with his own gun. Matt is still on the ground nearby. Damon walks over to him and kicks him hard.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Matt: Go ahead and kill me. You can’t possibly hate me more than I hate myself.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Oh, yes I can.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon places his foot on Matt’s throat and begins to push down.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: It should have been you.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Out of nowhere, someone rushes towards Damon and knocks him off of Matt. It’s Elena and she is vamped out.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Leave him alone!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">IN THE BARN

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Matt stumbles into the barn and falls to the ground. Stefan runs over to him and feeds him his blood. Matt pushes his arm away and sits up.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Matt: Just stop! Stop saving me.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: What the hell is your problem?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Matt: What do you want me to say? Thank you? Cause honestly, I wish you’d have just let me drown.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: What, you think you were my first choice?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Matt: Elena’s a vampire, because of me. I have to live with that every day for the rest of my life.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: No, no, no, you don’t have to live with that; you get to live with that. Because Elena put your life before her own. So every morning you get out of bed, you sure as hell better earn it.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan leaves.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">OUTSIDE THE PASTOR’S HOUSE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena and Damon walk towards his car.)

Elena: You were gonna kill him.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Yep. Guy just won’t die.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: It was my choice to save him. Why aren’t you seeing that?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: It’s a little hard to keep track of all your choices lately, Elena.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon starts to walk away.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: I remember everything.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon stops.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: One of the highlights of my transition: remembering everything that you compelled me to forget.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Damon walks back over to her.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Like how you and I met first. You were a stranger that told me you wanted me to get everything I wanted from life. Damon, why didn’t you tell me?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Would it have made a difference?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Elena says nothing.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: I didn’t think so.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: You asked me to make a choice, Damon. So I did. If you’re gonna be mad, then take it out on me. Not on Stefan or Matt or anyone else. Me.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: Are we done here?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: If it had been you at the bridge last night and not Stefan and I begged you to save Matt....?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: I would have saved you! In a heartbeat, no question.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: That’s what I thought. And then Matt would be dead, because you couldn’t let go. Matt would be dead!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Damon: But you wouldn’t be! And you would have gotten to grow up and had the life that you wanted; the life that you deserved. And I know that I didn’t use to get that but I do now and I wanted that for you, Elena, and I would have gladly have given it to you and let Matt die; because I am that selfish. But you knew that already. The first night we met is not all that you remember.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(He walks away.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">KLAUS MANSION

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Klaus is putting the last three bags of Elena’s blood in an ice box. Rebekah rushes into the room. She is in tears.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: How dare you save Caroline over me!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Klaus: Hello brother. Thought you were dead. So pleased you’re not.

Rebekah: You left me!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Klaus: I only had time to save one of you and you can’t be killed. Rest assured, I had a worse day than you. I think it’s time for us to move on; find some more werewolves.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: So you can create your hybrid family? You don’t know anything about family!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Klaus: Well, I know how easily they can be silenced with a dagger.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Rebekah grabs one of the blood bags and throws it against the wall.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Klaus: NO!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Klaus turns to face Rebekah. She has the last two blood bags in her hands.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Klaus: Drop them.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: I mourned you! My heart broke thinking I’d never see you again!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Klaus: Put the blood down, Rebekah. There’s a good girl.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: It’s always been me! Not Finn, not Elijah, not Kol, me! I loved you through everything and you don’t even care!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Klaus: Drop it!!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: You want your family?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Rebekah squeezes the blood bags and they burst; leaving no more blood for Klaus to make hybrids.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Rebekah: Here’s your family!

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Klaus rushes towards Rebekah and grabs her by the throat.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Klaus: You know something, Rebekah, you’re right. I don’t care. From this moment on; you’re not my family, you’re not my sister, you are nothing.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Klaus snaps Rebekah’s neck and walks out of the room.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">SALVATORE BOARDING HOUSE

(Elena and Stefan are sitting on the roof of the house together.)

Elena: The whole Council knows who we are now. Everything’s about to change.

Stefan: Yeah, I’m sure Damon has a revenge plan cooked up. (He places his hand on Elena’s back.) We’ll figure out a way to deal with that.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: You don’t have to convince me that everything is gonna be okay.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: I know. Wish I could though. Wish I could just tell you that you’ll never feel pain, that you’ll never crave blood. But you will. It’ll be the worst thing that you’ve ever lived through.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: But I’ll get to live. (She puts her arm on Stefan’s shoulder.) I’ll be a sister and a friend and I’ll be with you. Forever, if I want.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(They kiss.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: I’m gonna get through this. Just like we get through everything; one day at a time. We should get inside before sunrise.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Bonnie made this for you yesterday.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan pulls out a daylight ring and shows it to Elena.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: Just in case.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Elena: Daylight ring?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Stefan puts the ring on her finger.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Stefan: One day at a time, right?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(He smiles. Elena nods and smiles too. Elena kisses him and places her forehead against his. She rests her head on his shoulder and they watch the sun begin to rise.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">PASTOR YOUNG’S HOUSE

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(Pastor Young releases the gas hose from the back of his stove. The Council is in the house with him.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Folks, by now, you know that the vampires have escaped.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(There is vervain lying on the table. The Council members are passing it around to each other.)

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: And it won’t be long before they retaliate against us. But fear not; (He locks the front door.) For I have been chosen to lead us in a movement.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Council Member: What are you talking about?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Hear me, loved ones. Soon you’ll be free to pass through the gates. (He pulls a lighter out of his pocket.) And we’ll all reunite in eternity.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Council Member: Seriously, Pastor, what’s going on here?

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">Pastor Young: Friends. We are the beginning.

<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"">(He lights the lighter. The Council members scream with fear. The kitchen is set ablaze.)