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Dead Man on Campus is the eighth episode of the fifth season of The Vampire Diaries and the ninety-seventh episode of the series.

Summary

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Promo

THE PARTY’S OVER - At Whitmore College, Elena and Caroline decide it’s time to throw a big party, but their plans are interrupted when Jesse suddenly needs Caroline’s help. At Elena’s request, Damon comes up with an effective method to get Wes to answer his questions. At the party, Elena finds that she and Aaron have a lot in common, and Caroline grows more concerned about Jesse. Meanwhile, Katherine does a favor for Template:Matt and manages to get through to Stefan, who is still struggling to overcome the events of the summer. Finally, Template:Bonnie does her best to cope with her new reality, and Damon makes a terrifying discovery about a secret society.


Plot

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Cast

Main Cast

Recurring Cast

Co-Starring

Trivia

  • Antagonists: Gregor, Jesse, and Wes Maxfield.
  • This is the first episode of the second chapter of Season Five, The Augustine Chapter.
  • We learn that it has been 14 days since For Whom the Bell Tolls. So the events of Monster's Ball, Handle with Care and Death and the Maiden take place over this period of time.
  • Despite killing Silas, Stefan is still suffering from the effects of his time in the safe, and Katherine informs him that he has PTSD. Katherine tells Stefan that she had PTSD as a result of her newborn being taken from her and Klaus slaughtering her family and hunting her for five hundred years.
  • Elena and Caroline throw their first college party.  
  • Jesse is killed by Elena to save Damon, since Jesse was essentially programed to drink vampire's blood until they were drained.
  • We learn that a new vampire like Jesse who feeds on vampire blood is stronger than an older vampire such as Damon, just like Mikael the patriarch of the Original Family.
  • Katherine attempted to kill herself by jumping off the clock tower so she wouldn't have to face dying by aging, but was saved by Stefan.
  • Stefan meets Nadia, and finds out she is Katherine's daughter. 
  • It is revealed that Katherine speaks Czech.
  • Damon is revealed to be one of the Augustine Society's vampires, which were used for scientific testing. 
  • It is revealed by Katherine to her daughter that her grandfather was a Traveller, before he was killed by Klaus.  
  • Stefan mentioned his first victims: Giuseppe Salvatore, Thomas Fell, Honoria Fell, Marianna Lockwood, Christopher Gilbert, Margaret Forbes. This means Stefan has killed members of all the Founding Family Tree.
  • Wes's major plan is to create vampires that will only drink from other vampire thus protecting humans from vampires.
  • Wes tells Damon that the vampires he is experimenting on are stronger than ordinary vampires, and we see Jesse overpower Damon easily.
  • The Travellers want to kill Katherine for some unknown reason (the reason is revealed in Resident Evil) and this was the reason Gregor was with Nadia.
  • Damon is heavily vervained and captured by Wes.
  • Bonnie gets a haircut, making her the first TVD main female character to do so.
  • Bonnie is now a freshman at Whitmore College, rooming with Elena and Caroline.
  • Following this episode, there was an one-week hiatus, until December 5th when The Cell aired.
  • Katherine removed Gregor from Matt's body killing Gregor in the process without harming Matt as well.
  • Caroline expresses some signs to Elena that she does not approve of her relationship with Damon.
  • Bonnie and Jeremy make love for the first time.

Body Count

  • Jesse - staked, killed by Elena.
  • Gregor (spirit) - stabbed, killed by Katherine with the Traveler knife.
  • Old Woman - unknown.

Continuity

  • Matt and Gregor return after being absent for three episodes.
  • Jesse is the first vampire (not counting members of the Original Family) to die because of a stake since Mary Porter back in Season Three's Heart of Darkness.

Behind the Scenes

  • This episode had about 2.67 million viewers in USA which was 0.05 million less than the previous episode.

Cultural References

Quotes

Stefan: "I thought that killing Silas would have let me move on with my life, but I was wrong."
Template:Bonnie: "See you tonight?"
Template:Jeremy: "Yeah."
Unknown witch: "I'm ready."
Template:Bonnie: "We knew there'd be consequences."
Katherine: "Stefan, relax."
Stefan: "I can't.. do that!"
Damon: "So, apparently we've been invited to a college party." (silence) "Yeah, that was my first reaction too. But then Elena promised ..... alcohol." (Damon sees Stefan is in bad shape) "Stefan, are you okay?"
Stefan: "Yeah, I'm fine."
Damon: "How about my favorite ..... chair?"
Stefan: (notices he had jammed his fingers into the chair, takes them out quickly) "Just tell Elena thanks, but I'm not really up for a party tonight."
Elena: "First rule of being a vampire is realizing how awesome you are."
Elena: "Okay. I know this is going to sound lame, but-"
Damon: "Anytime you start with "This is gonna sound lame," guess what? It is!"
Stefan: "Just out of morbid curiosity, which one of you is younger?"
Katherine: "I am."
Nadia: "I am."
Katherine: "Dear Nadia, sorry I had to kill your boyfriend, but it was the motherly thing to do. Suicide, however, not very motherly of me.I ran from my enemies for 500 years,and then one day, I stopped. Now a new enemy wants me dead.Sure I could run from the Travelers, but there's still one enemy that I can never escape, time.So call it pride or vanity, but after the life that I've led, I refuse to drift off into the sunset.Good-bye, Nadia."
Stefan: "Hey. You're Katherine Pierce. Suck it up."

Multimedia

Soundtrack

Last.fm_play.png "Harlem" – New Politics
Last.fm_play.png "Bad Intentions" – Digital Daggers
Last.fm_play.png "Slipping Away" – Barcelona
Last.fm_play.png "The Night Out" – Martin Solveig
Last.fm_play.png "Come A Little Closer" – Cage The Elephant
Last.fm_play.png "All Night" – Icona Pop
Last.fm_play.png "The Other Side" – David Gray
Last.fm_play.png "My My Love" – Joshua Radin

Videos

Pictures

References

See also

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