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ON THE ISLAND
[Vaughn has Damon tied up to a tree with ropes soaked in vervain. Vaughn crouches over a campfire while Damon struggles against his bonds, groaning in pain.]
Vaughn: Something botherin' you?
Damon: Would you believe me if I said mosquitoes?
Vaughn: Aye, I would. How does it feel when a relentless eating machine is draining the blood from your veins?
Damon: Itchy.
Vaughn: Your friends from Mystic Falls think you're funny, Damon?
Damon: You obviously know who I am and where I'm from. Have you been spying on me?
Vaughn: Aye, I have. [gets up] You and Stefan, Elena, your witch, Bonnie. Do you need her to cast the spell written on your pal, Jeremy's hunter's mark... [sits down again] ...the tattoo that looks exactly like this?
[Damon looks at Vaughn's tattoo.]
Damon: You wanna know something, just ask.
Vaughn: I've been killing vampires my entire life. Still, this thing refused to reveal itself to me. That was, until three days ago and it just magically completed for no apparent reason.
Damon: Come on, man. Do I look like I know anything about tattoos? Look at my skin. It's flawless.
Vaughn: Ah! You're not taking me seriously. [walks over to Damon] I don't blame ya. You don't know me. [He holds up a pointy wooden stick that he's been holding over the fire] So let me introduce myself. [he stabs Damon's neck with it] My name is Galen Vaughn, and you'd better start talkin'.
[Cue title card and opening credits]
THE ISLAND
[Elena, Stefan, and Rebekah are on the beach. Elena is on the phone with Caroline.]
Caroline: [over the phone] Tell me you're not serious.
Elena: I wish I weren't.
[Cut to the Gilbert house, where Caroline is on the phone while Klaus remains trapped in the living room. The shots alternate between Caroline in the Gilbert house and Elena on the island throughout their conversation.]
Elena: [over the phone] When we got back from looking for Jeremy, Shane and Bonnie were gone too. [on the beach] Shane needs Bonnie to cast a spell on Jeremy’s tattoo in order to find the cure, and he managed to sneak them both out from under our noses.
Caroline: Well, where's Damon in all this?
Elena: [over the phone] We had an argument. [on the beach] I thought he was just taking a walk, but then when we went to the beach, we saw signs of a struggle.
Caroline: Meaning what?
Elena: Meaning somebody probably jumped him and then grabbed him!
Caroline: Do you think Shane took him?
Elena: No, I mean, he’s not strong enough to take Damon on, even with the element of surprise. He must have someone, or at least a few someones helping him.
Caroline: I’m so sorry. I wish I was there to help.
Elena: Well, maybe there’s something you can do from home.
Caroline: Anything. Tell me.
Elena: So Shane’s looking for the cure. We think we can find him. We have pictures of Jeremy’s tattoo, but we just can’t translate the map.
Caroline: Unless you get the Hunter’s Sword from Klaus.
Elena: [over the phone] Exactly.
Rebekah: He’ll never give up the sword.
Stefan: Yeah, but if anyone’s gonna get him to give it up, it’s Caroline.
Rebekah: He will never give up the sword, not even for Caroline. He’s terrified we’ll use the cure against him to make him mortal, and even if he wasn’t, he wouldn’t want any of us to derive a moment’s worth of happiness from being human.
Stefan: Well, maybe he doesn’t have to give it up. I mean, Klaus is stuck in Elena’s house by Bonnie’s spell. He can’t go anywhere. There's only so many places you can hide a three-foot piece of metal.
Caroline: I’ll find it, don’t worry. Just e-mail me photos of Jeremy’s tattoo. I’ll find the sword, and I’ll call you back.
Elena: Thank you, Caroline.
Caroline: Bye. [she hangs up]
Klaus: [smirking] Need my help with anything, love?
Caroline: Nope.
[Caroline strides out of the house without looking at Klaus, leaving him looking slightly amused.]
ON THE ISLAND
[Shane, Bonnie, Jeremy, and Massak are walking towards the cave entrance, Shane leading the way. Inside, they reach the hole they have to climb down into.]
Massak: This is as far as I go.
Shane: We're on the brink of a monumental event in human history. We're going to raise the most powerful immortal creature that ever was. Come on, our work's not done yet.
Massak: Mine is. You said get the kid and the witch. I did. I wanna get paid now.
[Shane opens his bag and pulls out the tombstone. He walks over and hands it to Massak. Massak looks over at Bonnie and Jeremy.]
Massak: I'll say a prayer for your souls.
[Massak leaves quickly, and Bonnie turns to Shane.]
Bonnie: [angrily] That's what the tombstone was for? To pay off a mercenary?
Shane: The core of that tombstone is made up of Qetsiyah's calcified blood. In some witch circles, that stone's more valuable than the Hope Diamond. So... so who wants to go down first?
GILBERT HOUSE
[Caroline and Tyler walk into the house. Caroline has a laptop in her hands while Tyler has the sword wrapped in a blanket. Klaus is sitting on the coffee table.]
Klaus: Well, if it isn't little orphan Lockwood. Come to show how laughably impotent you are against me?
Tyler: I'm just trying to help my friends find the cure.
[Caroline sits on the couch, and Tyler reveals the sword from the blanket.]
Tyler: Found this in your attic.
Klaus: And you think finding the sword brings you closer to the cure?
Tyler: You tell me. I was playing around with the handle on the ride over, and I found this.
[Tyler unwraps the leather on the top of the sword, revealing some sort of turning device. Klaus gets up and walks over to Tyler.]
Klaus: And what do you think 'this' is?
Caroline: [gets up] It's called a cryptex. [Tyler looks at her.] I've seen The da Vinci Code. You turn the different sides to the different symbols to get the translation on the other side. [turning to the table] And with the magic of the internet, Elena sent over these. [She holds up print-outs of Jeremy's tattoo.] So now all we have to do is cryptex away. [sits down again] If you happened to want to help, we wouldn't stop you.
Klaus: Right. Well, might I suggest using the magic of the internet to purchase an Aramaic-to-English dictionary from your nearest retailer. [Klaus smirks.]
Tyler: [turning to Caroline] What's Aramaic?
Caroline: It's a dead language. It hasn't been used since, like, biblical times.
Klaus: Qetsiyah's native tongue, I'm guessing. You know, even if you had the best dictionary in the world, it could take days to translate. [sits down] Perhaps weeks. "In bas so-teen-too ara-ma-eet."
Caroline: What does that mean?
Klaus: [grinning] "If only you spoke Aramaic."
ON THE BEACH
[Rebekah is raising her cellphone in the air but gets only a busy signal and gives up. Elena and Stefan are sitting and talking.]
Elena: And once again, everyone's life is in danger looking for this cure because poor Elena can't deal with being a vampire.
Stefan: No. Everyone's here because they want to be. Not just for you, but for themselves too.
Elena: Stefan, why didn't you tell me that you wanted the cure for yourself?
Stefan: I mean, why wouldn't I want to take it? I've seen every side of vampirism there is. The power... the misery, the guilt. In the long run, even the good parts kind of suck, too.
Elena: Yeah, I mean, I know why you would want to take it, but what I'm saying is... why didn't you tell me?
Stefan: Because it had nothing to do with you. I mean, you know how much I wanted a human life with you. Being human myself, being normal -- that's something I've wanted since long before I met you.
Elena: Well, I'm glad you told me now.
Stefan: Yeah, what's a deeply buried personal secret between friends, right?
Elena: Between friends? I like that.
[Elena smiles at Stefan and reaches for his hand as Rebekah watches from a few yards away.]
SOMEWHERE IN THE WOODS
[Damon is still bound by the vervained ropes, leaving him no choice but to walk with Vaughn through the forest.]
Damon: Mind telling me where we're going?
Vaughn: At the wishing well lies an entrance to a crypt. In the crypt lies Silas. And with Silas lies the cure, which will allow me to kill Silas, bring the mission of the brotherhood of the Five to an end. You're my leverage, Damon; I use you to get your witch friend to open the passage to Silas' crypt for me.
Damon: What a minute, you're using me to get to Bonnie Bennett? Whoa, brother, ha! You picked the wrong vampire.
Vaughn: I guess we'll see about that.
Damon: Here's the deal, Shrek. My witch friend will open the passage for you. No leverage necessary. We don't care about Silas. All we want is the cure, so you cut us in on your share, and we'll get out of your hair.
Vaughn: You really don't understand, do you?
GILBERT HOUSE
[Caroline has the pictures of Jeremy's tattoo and index cards of the Aramaic symbols laying on the table. She has her computer open and is sitting with Tyler.]
Caroline: Okay, this is it. We've translated all the symbols on the tattoo. [she reads the translation] "Passage inside... requires a young senator, and a pretty flower." [irritated] Okay, none of this makes sense!
IN THE WOODS
Damon: [in a slight accent mocking Vaughn's] No, I don't understand, so why don't you explain it?
Vaughn: Silas is immortal. I have to cram the cure down his throat in order to kill him.
Damon: Yeah, what does that have to do with me and my friends?
GILBERT HOUSE
Klaus: [speaks Aramaic, then the English translation] "Requires a powerful witch and a hunter in full bloom."
Tyler: What are you doing?
Klaus: I don't need to tell you my reasons. Caroline. Bring my sword over here.
IN THE WOODS
Vaughn: I need to use the cure against Silas. Your friends, they can't exactly have it, now, can they?
Damon: So you use it on Silas, and we'll use it for whoever wants to use it.
GILBERT HOUSE
[Caroline has brought the sword close enough for Klaus to read the cryptex.]
Klaus: "Silas rests on the far side, the means of his destruction at hand." [He glances at the pictures of Jeremy's tattoo on the computer screen.] Turn the cryptex to the right. [Caroline obliges] Stop. The top of the hilt reveals a key to a nautical map. Turn it to the left. [she turns it] Now turn the other piece. [she does] There's something else.
IN THE WOODS
Damon: You don't want to share it with us?
Vaughn: Even if I wanted to, I couldnae.
Damon: And why can't you share it?
Vaughn: So it is written.
GILBERT HOUSE
Klaus: [speaks Aramaic]
Caroline: What does it mean? [Klaus smiles at her] Klaus, what does it mean?
IN THE WOODS
Vaughn: There is only one dose.
THE CAVE
[Bonnie is lowering herself down into the lower chamber of the cave in a harness attached to a rope. Suddenly she loses her grip and falls the rest of the way down, landing painfully on her hand. Jeremy, already down, rushes over to her.]
Jeremy: You okay?
Bonnie. Yeah, I just slipped. [She lifts her hand and groans; her glove is torn and bloody. Jeremy rips off a strip of his T-shirt and helps Bonnie pull off her glove. Her hand is bleeding profusely. He uses the fabric to make a quick tourniquet for her hand.]
Jeremy: It's okay.
Bonnie: Thanks. [She chuckles as Jeremy helps her up; she unhooks the rope for her harness.]
Shane: [from above the hole's opening] Hey, guys, I'm coming down.
Jeremy: [quietly] Hey, Bon. What do you think's gonna happen once you cast a spell on my tattoo and there's nothing in between Shane and Silas?
Bonnie: Do you trust me?
Jeremy: Yeah, of course.
Bonnie: Then trust me when I promise I won't let Shane raise Silas.
Jeremy: [looks up briefly as they hear noises from above, lowers his voice even further] Just don't do anything stupid. If your Expression gets out of hand, Shane is the only one that could help you keep it in control.
Bonnie: Don't worry about me. I'm fine. But if Shane tries to lift a finger on his hand to hurt either one of us... I'll kill him myself.
[They prepare to keep moving. The camera zooms in on the spot where Bonnie landed, where her blood has soaked the floor of the cave. It seeps through a crack in the floor, dripping down to a chamber below, into the mouth of a figure that resembles a sarcophogus.]
THE ISLAND
[Rebekah is still on the beach when her phone rings.]
Rebekah: Hello?
Caroline: [over the phone] Hey, it's Caroline. We have the translation of the tattoo. [cut to the Gilbert house] We're emailing you pictures of the map and instructions right now.
[cut back to the beach; Rebekah checks her phone and receives the email.]
Rebekah: Got it. Thanks.
Klaus: [over the phone] Actually, it was me.
Rebekah: [cut to the Gilbert house; over the phone] Nik, you helped?
Klaus: You sound so surprised, little sister.
Rebekah: [on the beach] Shouldn't I be? I mean, you don't want me to be human. You don't want any of us to be human. Why would you help us find the cure?
Klaus: [at the Gilbert house] Maybe I finally realized the longer I stand in the way of what you want, the longer you'll continue to hate me. Perhaps I want my sister to finally know happiness.
Rebekah: [on the beach] Fool me once, shame on you; fool me a hundred times--
Klaus: [at the Gilbert house] No more fooling. No more games. I hope you get to live, and die, as you wish.
Rebekah: [nodding] So do I.
Klaus: [at the Gilbert house] There is one more thing, Rebekah. [Caroline and Tyler look up; Klaus speaks quickly] There is only one dose of the cure. You need to find it first and take it. It's the only way you'll-- [Tyler rushes to end the call]
Rebekah: [on the beach] Nik. Nik!
IN THE WOODS
[Damon is still walking ahead of Vaughn, who gives him a little shove.]
Damon: You touch me again--
Vaughn: And you'll what? Threaten me? Sorry if you're upset about the cure, Damon, but we've got road to cover.
Damon: I don't care about the cure. In fact, I don't know why anyone wouldn't want to be a vampire. You know what? If I wasn't a vampire, then I wouldn't be able to do 9 of the things I'm gonna do to you when I'm free. [Vaughn shoves Damon again] Make that 10.
Vaughn: Right.
Damon: All right, I admit, okay? My friends want the cure, and I want them to have it, and I get very upset when I can't provide for my loved ones. But tell me something, Vaughn, if all you're worried about is Bonnie the teenage witch, then why'd you save Jeremy and Elena yesterday?
Vaughn: How did I do that?
Damon: Big guy. White paint all over him. You stuck a hatchet in his spine.
Vaughn: I don't remember doing such a thing.
[Vaughn pulls on the rope but Damon resists, refusing to walk]
Damon: We're on a remote island. There's you, me, and a bunch of unpleasant locals. You expect me to believe that someone else took out that monster truck of a human being that went after Jeremy and Elena?
Vaughn: I'm telling you, it wasnae me.
[Vaughn shoves Damon forward again, but they stumble upon a body - Massak, clearly dead with his throat slashed.]
Damon: Was that you?
Vaughn: No. You?
Damon: No.
Vaughn: [looking around] Well, I reckon there really is someone else on this island.
THE CAVE
[Shane is walking around with a flashlight.]
Shane: It's just amazing. Isn't it? Once we raise Silas, all of our sacrifices will have been worth wild. We'll have what we want.
Bonnie: Or he'll kill us all. Listen, you're going to see him rise. Just so you don't get any ideas, if anything happens to me, something else will happen to you.
Jeremy: All right, where is this stupid magic passage she needs to open.
Shane: Just look for anything that looks out of place. All right, anything not occuring in nature like a-like a drawing or an inscription or a....geometrically perfect circle!
[Shane crouches to the ground and wipes off some dust of a circle carved into the ground.]
Shane: [slapping the ground] This is it! This is the spot.
[Jeremy and Bonnie share a look.]
IN THE WOODS
[Rebekah, Elena, and Stefan are walking.]
Elena: What did Caroline say?
Rebekah: I don't know. We lost the signal. Come on, this way!
[They come to a cliff and stop.]
Rebekah: [holding up the phone] We need to get down and across. Advantage vampires. All we have to do is jump.
Elena: W-wait. Um, maybe you should leave the map behind. In case you fall-you don't want anything to happen to the phone.
Rebekah: Are we doing this again? I thought we were a team?
Stefan: [interrupting] Guys, we don't have time for this. Elena, you go first. We'll be right behind you.
[Elena looks at the two and jumps. Using her vampire powers, she lands on her feet, stumbling. She looks back up the cliff. Stefan is about to jump when Rebekah stops him.]
Rebekah: There's something you should know about the cure.]
THE CAVE
[Bonnie has her hand on Jeremy's shirtless chest where the tattoo is. Her other hand is in Jeremy's. Her eyes are closed.]
Shane: You're doing it, just breathe, all right? Focus on what you can do; don't be afraid of what you can't.
Jeremy: You can do this. Remember, just like you taught me. You're in control.
Shane: That's it. It's just like drawing breath. Now just pull the power into you.
[Bonnie and Jerem breath deeply as his tattoo begings to fade away.]
IN THE WOODS
[Vaughn is still dragging Damon around. They come to a stop as Vaughn's tattoo disappears.]
Vaughn: Looks like your witch is casting her spell.
THE CAVE
[Bonnie looks at Jeremy before closing her eyes again. The cave begins to cave in as the ground shakes. Shane ducks for cover.]
IN THE WOODS
[Elena is still waiting for Stefan and Rebekah to jump down.]
Stefan: So you're sure that Klaus is telling the truth? That there's only one dose of the cure?
[Rebekah gently nods.]
Stefan: Well, I guess that's what happens when you're dumb enough to hold on hope.
Rebekah: There's still hope for one of us. But even if I felt pitty for you, I wanted to ease your pain so I gave you the cure to use on yourself, you'd give it to Elena, wouldn't you?
[Stefan doesn't reply, and they both know his answer.]
Rebekah: That's what I thought. Well, I'm sorry that it couldn't work out the way that we all wanted it to.
[Stefan looks confused, and Rebekah snaps his neck and his body falls to the ground. Elena watches in horror from the bottom of the cliff.]