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{{Character Quote|I'm pregnant. I used to picture us having this conversation. It looked different, obviously. I was a human carrying my own children, and you... were... you were alive. I know they're not mine... But they're still my responsibility, you know? And I want to... I have to do this right. And I have no idea what I'm doing. And all I want to do is just sit on our kitchen counter while you burn our dinner and ask you a million questions.
 
{{Character Quote|I'm pregnant. I used to picture us having this conversation. It looked different, obviously. I was a human carrying my own children, and you... were... you were alive. I know they're not mine... But they're still my responsibility, you know? And I want to... I have to do this right. And I have no idea what I'm doing. And all I want to do is just sit on our kitchen counter while you burn our dinner and ask you a million questions.
God, I miss you.|[[Caroline]] to her mother's grave}}'''Cold as Ice''' is the ninth episode of the [[Season Seven|seventh season]] of {{The Vampire Diaries}} and the one hundred and forty-second episode of the series overall.
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God, I miss you.|[[Caroline Forbes|Caroline]] to her mother's grave}}'''Cold as Ice''' is the ninth episode of the [[Season Seven|seventh season]] of {{The Vampire Diaries}} and the one hundred and forty-second episode of the series overall.
   
 
==Summary==
 
==Summary==
'''THE SALVATORES ARE COMING TO TOWN''' — With the holidays in full swing, a search for [[Julian (Season Seven)|Julian]] leads [[Damon Salvatore|Damon]] and [[Stefan Salvatore|Stefan]] to a small town outside of [[Mystic Falls]]. While managing a holiday toy drive at [[Whitmore College]], {{Bonnie}} seeks help from [[Nora Hildegard|Nora]] and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Elsewhere, [[Caroline Forbes|Caroline]] does her best to navigate her new life as a pregnant vampire, while [[Alaric Saltzman|Alaric]] grows concerned that the pregnancy is effecting her more than she’s letting on. Finally, after finding himself at odds with Damon, Stefan is forced to take matters into his own hands, setting off a tragic chain of events that leaves their lives changed forever. {{clear}}
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'''THE SALVATORES ARE COMING TO TOWN''' — With the holidays in full swing, a search for [[Julian (Season Seven)|Julian]] leads [[Damon Salvatore|Damon]] and [[Stefan Salvatore|Stefan]] to a small town outside of [[Mystic Falls]]. While managing a holiday toy drive at [[Whitmore College]], [[Bonnie Bennett|Bonnie]] seeks help from [[Nora Hildegard|Nora]] and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Elsewhere, [[Caroline Forbes|Caroline]] does her best to navigate her new life as a pregnant vampire, while [[Alaric Saltzman|Alaric]] grows concerned that the pregnancy is effecting her more than she’s letting on. Finally, after finding himself at odds with Damon, Stefan is forced to take matters into his own hands, setting off a tragic chain of events that leaves their lives changed forever. {{clear}}
   
 
==Plot==
 
==Plot==
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===Uncredited===
 
===Uncredited===
*Unknown Actor as Raphael
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*Unknown as Raphael
*Unknown Actress as Dirty Robin
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*Unknown as Dirty Robin
*Unknown Actor as Seth
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*Unknown as Seth
*Unknown Actor as Xi Nguyen
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*Unknown as Xi Nguyen
 
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*This is the last episode of TVD to air in 2015 while the first episode to air in 2015 was Season 6's ''[[Woke Up With a Monster]]''.
 
*This is the last episode of TVD to air in 2015 while the first episode to air in 2015 was Season 6's ''[[Woke Up With a Monster]]''.
 
*In the 3 years from now flash forward, 2016, Stefan is seen living in Chicago with Valerie who he is once more involved with. Valerie wants to go with Stefan to help him take on the Huntress to save Caroline and Damon but Stefan doesn't want to risk losing her too. She tells him if anything happens to him she will make whoever hurt him suffer.
 
*In the 3 years from now flash forward, 2016, Stefan is seen living in Chicago with Valerie who he is once more involved with. Valerie wants to go with Stefan to help him take on the Huntress to save Caroline and Damon but Stefan doesn't want to risk losing her too. She tells him if anything happens to him she will make whoever hurt him suffer.
*Infuriated by [[Lily Salvatore|Lily]]'s death, Julian goes on a killing spree.
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*Infuriated by [[Lillian Salvatore|Lily]]'s death, Julian goes on a killing spree.
 
*Julian introduces Stefan and Damon to some of the vampires he's turned. Only one of them is recently turned by him.
 
*Julian introduces Stefan and Damon to some of the vampires he's turned. Only one of them is recently turned by him.
 
*Both Damon (by Julian) and Stefan (by Nora) are killed by the completed sword with the Phoenix Stone. Note: They're restored at some point to their bodies as seen by the flash forwards.
 
*Both Damon (by Julian) and Stefan (by Nora) are killed by the completed sword with the Phoenix Stone. Note: They're restored at some point to their bodies as seen by the flash forwards.
 
*It's revealed by Julian that the Phoenix Stone is meant as a place to make vampire souls suffer when they are killed with the completed sword in their own personal hell. We see a glimpse of Damon's near at the end of the episode.
 
*It's revealed by Julian that the Phoenix Stone is meant as a place to make vampire souls suffer when they are killed with the completed sword in their own personal hell. We see a glimpse of Damon's near at the end of the episode.
 
*[[Valerie Tulle|Valerie]] and Stefan took [[Mary Louise]] as hostage to lure Julian.
 
*[[Valerie Tulle|Valerie]] and Stefan took [[Mary Louise]] as hostage to lure Julian.
**However, this plan failed resulting to not just [[Bonnie]] being siphoned and Stefan trapped inside the stone, but also [[Nora]] defecting from their side.
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**However, this plan failed resulting to not just [[Bonnie Bennett|Bonnie]] being siphoned and Stefan trapped inside the stone, but also [[Nora Hildegard|Nora]] defecting from their side.
 
*This is Caroline's first and Bonnie's second Christmas (as she was trapped in the Prison World during the previous Christmas) in their lives that they won't share with Elena.
 
*This is Caroline's first and Bonnie's second Christmas (as she was trapped in the Prison World during the previous Christmas) in their lives that they won't share with Elena.
 
*Elena for the first time won't be sharing a Christmas with her best friends Bonnie and Caroline as she is currently under the "Sleeping Beauty" coma spell that Kai placed on her at Lily's suggestion. This is also the third episode in which Elena isn't mentioned since ''[[Best Served Cold]]'' by Bonnie to Lily.
 
*Elena for the first time won't be sharing a Christmas with her best friends Bonnie and Caroline as she is currently under the "Sleeping Beauty" coma spell that Kai placed on her at Lily's suggestion. This is also the third episode in which Elena isn't mentioned since ''[[Best Served Cold]]'' by Bonnie to Lily.
*This is the second time [[Stefan Salvatore|Stefan]] died in front of [[Caroline]]. The first time was in ''[[Promised Land]]''.
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*This is the second time [[Stefan Salvatore|Stefan]] died in front of [[Caroline Forbes|Caroline]]. The first time was in ''[[Promised Land]]''.
   
 
==Continuity==
 
==Continuity==
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*This is the third Christmas themed episode of the series and the third time it has been the mid-season finale episode. The first was Season 4's ''[[O Come, All Ye Faithful]]'' and the second was Season 6's ''[[Christmas Through Your Eyes]]''.
 
*This is the third Christmas themed episode of the series and the third time it has been the mid-season finale episode. The first was Season 4's ''[[O Come, All Ye Faithful]]'' and the second was Season 6's ''[[Christmas Through Your Eyes]]''.
 
*This is the second episode in which both Stefan and Damon have been killed in the same episode the first being in Season One's Children of the Damned. This is also the third time they have died in the series.
 
*This is the second episode in which both Stefan and Damon have been killed in the same episode the first being in Season One's Children of the Damned. This is also the third time they have died in the series.
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==Locations==
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*[[Chicago|Chicago, Illinois]]
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**Apartment <small>(flashforward)</small>
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*[[Mystic Falls|Mystic Falls, Virginia]]
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**[[Mystic Falls Cemetery]]
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**[[Salvatore Boarding House]]
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*McKinley, Virginia
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**[[Whitmore College]]
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***[[Whitmore College#Inner Locations|Common Dorm Room]]
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***[[Whitmore College#Inner Locations|Scull Bar]]
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***[[Elena, Caroline and Bonnie's Dorm Room|Caroline and Bonnie's Dorm Room]]
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**[[Whitmore Hospital]]
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**[[Alaric's Apartment in McKinley|Alaric's apartment]]
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*Sunbury
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**Bar
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*Pregnancy class
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*Battlefield <small>([[Phoenix Stone]])</small>
   
 
==[[Season Seven Body Count|Body Count]]==
 
==[[Season Seven Body Count|Body Count]]==
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* In the Santa bar, Todd Lasance (Julian) went to lift one of the dead Santa dummies only to jump when he realized it was an actual person. 
 
* In the Santa bar, Todd Lasance (Julian) went to lift one of the dead Santa dummies only to jump when he realized it was an actual person. 
 
* During shooting, one of the dead Santas fell asleep and started to snore, ruining a take. 
 
* During shooting, one of the dead Santas fell asleep and started to snore, ruining a take. 
 
 
* In the spirit of the holidays (even though it was October), episode 709 was big on family visits. Both Ian’s [Somerhalder] and Candice’s [King] moms came to hang out and watch the magic happen.
 
* In the spirit of the holidays (even though it was October), episode 709 was big on family visits. Both Ian’s [Somerhalder] and Candice’s [King] moms came to hang out and watch the magic happen.
* Did Caroline and Alaric’s hippie birthing coach seem authentic? She should, because in real life she lives on a commune.<nowiki/>
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* Did Caroline and Alaric’s hippie birthing coach seem authentic? She should, because in real life she lives on a commune.
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*Hashtag during the airing is [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23SantasSlay #SantasSlay]
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==References==
 
==References==
 
*"{{w|Cold as Ice (Foreigner song)|Cold as Ice}}" is a 1977 song by the band Foreigner.
 
*"{{w|Cold as Ice (Foreigner song)|Cold as Ice}}" is a 1977 song by the band Foreigner.
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: [[Damon Salvatore|'''Damon''']] (to [[Lillian Salvatore|'''Lily''']]): ''"One swift stab straight through the heart. Let's get this over with."''
 
: [[Damon Salvatore|'''Damon''']] (to [[Lillian Salvatore|'''Lily''']]): ''"One swift stab straight through the heart. Let's get this over with."''
   
: '''[[Julian]]''': ''"No! Lily!"''
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: '''[[Julian (Season Seven)|Julian]]''': ''"No! Lily!"''
   
 
: [[Stefan Salvatore|'''Stefan''']]: ''"I promise I'll make this right."''
 
: [[Stefan Salvatore|'''Stefan''']]: ''"I promise I'll make this right."''
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2015-11-12_Trevor_Stott_Instagram.jpg|©[[imdb:nm2618642|Trevor Stott]]
 
2015-11-12_Trevor_Stott_Instagram.jpg|©[[imdb:nm2618642|Trevor Stott]]
 
2015-10-15_Scarlett_Byrne_Kat_Graham_Instagram.jpg|[[Kat Graham]], [[Scarlett Byrne]] October 15, 2015
 
2015-10-15_Scarlett_Byrne_Kat_Graham_Instagram.jpg|[[Kat Graham]], [[Scarlett Byrne]] October 15, 2015
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2015-10-15_Scarlett_Byrne_Elizabeth_Blackmore_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|[[Annie Wersching]], [[Elizabeth Blackmore]], [[Scarlett Byrne]] October 15, 2015
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2015-10-15_Elizabeth_Blackmore_Scarlett_Byrne_Instagram.jpg|[[Elizabeth Blackmore]], [[Scarlett Byrne]] October 15, 2015
 
2015-10-15_Todd_Lasance_Elizabeth_Blackmore_Scarlett_Byrne_Twitter.jpg|Todd Lasance, Elizabeth Blackmore, Scarlett Byrne October 15, 2015
 
2015-10-15_Todd_Lasance_Elizabeth_Blackmore_Scarlett_Byrne_Twitter.jpg|Todd Lasance, Elizabeth Blackmore, Scarlett Byrne October 15, 2015
 
2015-10-08_Ian_Somerhalder_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder October 8, 2015
 
2015-10-08_Ian_Somerhalder_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder October 8, 2015

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I'm pregnant. I used to picture us having this conversation. It looked different, obviously. I was a human carrying my own children, and you... were... you were alive. I know they're not mine... But they're still my responsibility, you know? And I want to... I have to do this right. And I have no idea what I'm doing. And all I want to do is just sit on our kitchen counter while you burn our dinner and ask you a million questions.

God, I miss you.

Caroline to her mother's grave

Cold as Ice is the ninth episode of the seventh season of Template:The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and forty-second episode of the series overall.

Summary

THE SALVATORES ARE COMING TO TOWN — With the holidays in full swing, a search for Julian leads Damon and Stefan to a small town outside of Mystic Falls. While managing a holiday toy drive at Whitmore College, Bonnie seeks help from Nora and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Elsewhere, Caroline does her best to navigate her new life as a pregnant vampire, while Alaric grows concerned that the pregnancy is effecting her more than she’s letting on. Finally, after finding himself at odds with Damon, Stefan is forced to take matters into his own hands, setting off a tragic chain of events that leaves their lives changed forever. 


Plot

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Cast

Main Cast

Special Recurring Guest Star

Recurring Cast

Co-Starring

Uncredited

  • Unknown as Raphael
  • Unknown as Dirty Robin
  • Unknown as Seth
  • Unknown as Xi Nguyen

Trivia

  • Antagonists: Julian and Nora.
  • This episode is the seventh mid-season finale of the series.
    • This is the seventh mid-season finale to feature Stefan and Damon; the sixth to feature Bonnie and Caroline; the fourth to feature Alaric; the fifth to not feature Enzo; the first to feature Julian, Mary Louise, Nora and Valerie. It is also the first mid-season finale to not feature Elena and Matt.
    • This is also the third mid-season finale of the series to end on the 9th episode.
    • This is the second season in which Christmas has been the back to back mid-season finale.
  • This episode has internal present day time jump after the teaser featuring Lily's funeral of several weeks after as stated by Julian.
  • This is the last episode of TVD to air in 2015 while the first episode to air in 2015 was Season 6's Woke Up With a Monster.
  • In the 3 years from now flash forward, 2016, Stefan is seen living in Chicago with Valerie who he is once more involved with. Valerie wants to go with Stefan to help him take on the Huntress to save Caroline and Damon but Stefan doesn't want to risk losing her too. She tells him if anything happens to him she will make whoever hurt him suffer.
  • Infuriated by Lily's death, Julian goes on a killing spree.
  • Julian introduces Stefan and Damon to some of the vampires he's turned. Only one of them is recently turned by him.
  • Both Damon (by Julian) and Stefan (by Nora) are killed by the completed sword with the Phoenix Stone. Note: They're restored at some point to their bodies as seen by the flash forwards.
  • It's revealed by Julian that the Phoenix Stone is meant as a place to make vampire souls suffer when they are killed with the completed sword in their own personal hell. We see a glimpse of Damon's near at the end of the episode.
  • Valerie and Stefan took Mary Louise as hostage to lure Julian.
    • However, this plan failed resulting to not just Bonnie being siphoned and Stefan trapped inside the stone, but also Nora defecting from their side.
  • This is Caroline's first and Bonnie's second Christmas (as she was trapped in the Prison World during the previous Christmas) in their lives that they won't share with Elena.
  • Elena for the first time won't be sharing a Christmas with her best friends Bonnie and Caroline as she is currently under the "Sleeping Beauty" coma spell that Kai placed on her at Lily's suggestion. This is also the third episode in which Elena isn't mentioned since Best Served Cold by Bonnie to Lily.
  • This is the second time Stefan died in front of Caroline. The first time was in Promised Land.

Continuity

  • Bonnie and Alaric were last seen in Mommie Dearest.
  • This is the third Christmas themed episode of the series and the third time it has been the mid-season finale episode. The first was Season 4's O Come, All Ye Faithful and the second was Season 6's Christmas Through Your Eyes.
  • This is the second episode in which both Stefan and Damon have been killed in the same episode the first being in Season One's Children of the Damned. This is also the third time they have died in the series.

Locations

Body Count

Behind the Scenes

  • In the Santa bar, Todd Lasance (Julian) went to lift one of the dead Santa dummies only to jump when he realized it was an actual person. 
  • During shooting, one of the dead Santas fell asleep and started to snore, ruining a take. 
  • In the spirit of the holidays (even though it was October), episode 709 was big on family visits. Both Ian’s [Somerhalder] and Candice’s [King] moms came to hang out and watch the magic happen.
  • Did Caroline and Alaric’s hippie birthing coach seem authentic? She should, because in real life she lives on a commune.
  • Hashtag during the airing is #SantasSlay

References

  • "Cold as Ice" is a 1977 song by the band Foreigner.
    • The song was sampled by hip-hop duo M.O.P. in 2001.
  • Toys For Tots founded in 1947 by Major Bill Hendricks run by the US Marine Corps Reserve distribute toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas.
  • SantaCon is an annual mass gathering and pub crawl in which people dressed in Santa Claus costumes or as other Christmas characters parade in several cities around the world. It has been variously also known as Santarchy, Santa Rampage, the Red Menace, and Santapalooza.

Quotes

Damon (to Stefan): "Merry Christmas brother."
Damon (to Stefan): "Eggnog?"
Damon (to Stefan): "You gotta be kidding me...."
Damon: "We have a lot of disappointed faces Christmas morning."

Damon (to Stefan): "Merry Christmas brother."
Damon (to Stefan): "Eggnog?"
Caroline (to Stefan): "Wait till you see me. I popped this week."
Damon (to Stefan): "You gotta be kidding me...."
Damon: "We have a lot of disappointed faces Christmas morning."

Damon: "Just so we're clear, me helping you kill Julian is your Christmas present, so don't be expecting any socks or a TV or anything."
Stefan: "Yeah, be we gotta find him to kill him."
Damon: "We will. Bonnie did a locator spell and she said Sunberry. We're in Sunberry so....Oops. I'm dry. Pit Stop."
Damon: "Merry Christmas brother. Think we found him."

Mary: "Julian's not here. If that's what you're worried about."
Valerie: "Is he coming back?"
Mary: "None of your concern."
Valerie: "I left a few things. I'll just...grab them and be on my way."
Mary: "Have you seen her?"
Valerie: "Which wagon? "
Mary: "This is your fault, you know. This...fracturing."
Valerie: "Yeah if only I hadn't fallen in love and place my pregnant womb in front of Julian's boot."
Mary: "Sticking to your story are you?"
Valerie: "It's not a story."
Mary: "If by some stretch of the imagination it's not, the timing if awfully suspect isn't it?"
Valerie: "What's that supposed to mean?"
Mary: "Well, you had over a hundred years to tell this story. And you only did once you were back in Stefan's life. Till it served you. Gained you sympathy."
Valerie: "I always thought you were the nice one. That you had a heart deep down Guess I was wrong. Nora will blossom without you."

Damon (to Lily): "One swift stab straight through the heart. Let's get this over with."
Julian: "No! Lily!"
Stefan: "I promise I'll make this right."
Damon: "Just so we're clear, me helping you kill Julian is your Christmas present, so don't be expecting any socks or a TV or anything."
Stefan: "Yeah."
Nora: "Let me guess. Hot cocoa and vervain?"
Bonnie: "Close. Bourbon."
Bonnie: "You and Mary Louise... broke up. You need to move on and become your own person."
Bonnie: "She's dead to you."
Mary: "Am I?" (To Nora): "Can we talk?"

Multimedia

Soundtrack

Last.fm_play.png "I Can Almost See You" – Hammock
Last.fm_play.png "A Great Big Sled" – The Killers
Last.fm_play.png "Holiday" – Julie Frost
Last.fm_play.png "It's That Time Again (Holiday Version)" – Tim Myers
Last.fm_play.png "When The Snow Falls Down" – Amy Stroup
Last.fm_play.png "Home For The Holiday" – Sugar & The Hi Lows
Last.fm_play.png "Sleigh Ride" – KT Tunstall
Last.fm_play.png "Jingle Bells" – Denmark + Winter
Last.fm_play.png "A Way To You Again" – Peter Bradley Adams
Last.fm_play.png "Silent Night" – Digital Daggers

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See also

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