The Salvatore brothers join forces to take down Lily and her psychopath boy toy.
Faking your own death and abandoning your two sons are definitely characteristics that would make a womanMommie Dearestcaliber.
Lily Salvatore makes Joan Crawfords aversion to wire hangers look like childs play.
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But Lily is a different person now.
Stefan invites Lily over so he can calmly remind her that shes shacking up with a psychopath.
Spoiler: Your boy toy murdered your grandchild.
Valerie is a liar.
Lily wakes up tied up to a chair.
Her two sons take turns comparing Julian to their father.
Obviously, Lily has a problem dating losers.
Especially a man who served a 12-year-old his pet turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
Say it aint so!
In a flashback, we learn that Giuseppe Salvatore forced Damon to eat poor Sammy.
Bring on the nightmares.
Meanwhile, Bonnie and Enzo find Oscars car in a junk yard.
Enzo is determined to uncover what is hidden away in the trunk that Julian could possibly want.
Bonnie recognizes it and wants to study it closely.
Enzo wants to stick the pointy end in Julians heart.
Guess who wins that argument?
Lets just say that both could be candidates for the Dread Pirate Roberts, should the need arise.
Over at the Lockwood Mansion, Damon goes back to that awful Thanksgiving night.
As if eating your own pet turkey wasnt bad enough, Giuseppe accused Damon of stealing money.
Its clear that Damon didnt take it, but he confessed to make it protect Stefan.
A cigar to the forearm.
Current-day Lily looks wounded and defiant at the same time.
She claims that she knew Giuseppe was a monster.
And then, her neck begins bleeding.
Through choking breaths she reminds her boys that she bound herself to Julian.
If he dies, she dies.
Stefan unties Lily so her neck wound can heal.
She tells him that she took the money to buy three train tickets so they could escape Giuseppe.
All she cared about was protecting the boys.
Then she doubles over with blood soaking her blouse and spilling from her mouth.
Cut to Damon shoving the miniature sword he snatched from Enzo into Julians body.
Enzo didnt know Lily was linked to Julian.
He punches Damon out of anger before Julian cracks Enzos neck.
To quote Damon, Should Julian be deader?
Julian stabs Damon; Stefan arrives and cracks Julians neck.
Everyone lives because the special sword doesnt permanently kill vampires.
Julian picks up the sword and leaves with his bloody girl.
Notice that Julian picked up the sword.
Because Bonnie is a research genius, she discovered that the sword IS a significant weapon.
It just needs one thing to possess the power against immortal foes the Phoenix Stone.
Without it, the sword is just a blade.
And now Julian has it.
NEXT: Twinning is winning
Speaking of freaky magic not working, Caroline is not pregnant.
After Valerie told Caroline that she was carrying Jos Gemini twins, a store-bought pregnancy test begs to differ.
While he turns to bourbon for comfort, Caroline meets Matt at The Grill.
It looks like Julians band of compelled out-of-towners just got a lot bigger.
There are dozens of people all over town who just sit around with saline drips looking spaced out.
When Matt goes into great detail about how Julian must be fattening the cows for slaughter, Caroline pukes.
I know what youre thinking, and the answer is no.
Caroline is already calling Valerie to come siphon the compulsion from the defenseless people.
When Valerie arrives, she voices her concern about Carolines delicate condition.
Caroline takes great pride in telling Valerie that shes wrong.
Now get to siphoning, heretic!
All bets are off when Beau pops in, rendering everyone useless with his witchy headache tricks.
Valerie casts a spell to cloak Caroline and gets the hell out of there.
Who cares about Matt.
That dude has nine lives.
He can fend for himself.
Valerie tries to convince Caroline to take another pregnancy test.
Caroline wonders how she knows so much about that Gemini spell.
Valerie finally admits that she used it on herself.
She tells the story about Julian and the baby.
Caroline uses context clues to figure out that the baby was Stefans.
Ric accompanies Caroline to have an ultrasound.
A nurse confirms that there isnt a baby, let alone two.
Valerie comes in, and Caroline delivers the sad news for the second time that day.
Then it hits Valerie: the cloaking spell!
She touches Carolines abdomen as Caroline grabs the ultrasound wand.
The sonogram doesnt lie.
The babies are alive and well.
Say hello to the next generation of Gemini twins.
Back at Thanksgiving Central, Damon defends his actions to Stefan.
He plunged a sword into Julians body because he wanted to kill two birds with one stone.
He doesnt care about Lily.
She deserves what she gets.
And what shes getting is some pretty pathetic lies from Julian.
He promises Lily that she was never in any danger during his little sword fight with Enzo.
He also feigns shock when she mentions his role in Valerie losing her baby.
He really turns on the charm and asks for her forgiveness.
Lily flashes back to Giuseppe beating her senseless for buying train tickets and then asking for her forgiveness.
Both men promise to never hurt her.
Lily heads to the Lockwood Mansion to announce that the boys were right she traded one monster for another.
And Lily has a plan to take darling Julian down.
Suit up, boys.
And ensure to bring the wire hangers.
