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The Vampire Diaries

Season 7, Episode 7 (140)

Air date

November 19, 2015

Written by

James Stoteraux & Chad Fiveash

Directed by

Tony Solomons

Episode Guide
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“	I was trying to save us! We were gonna run away. I was gonna protect you boys. We were... we were never gonna see him again. But your father, even drunk and miserable... He was always one step ahead.	”
	— Lily to Stefan

Mommie Dearest is the seventh episode of the seventh season of Template:The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and fortieth episode of the series overall.

Summary

SECRETS FROM THE PAST — In order to get through to Lily about Julian's manipulating ways, Stefan and Damon confront their mother with painful memories from their childhood. However, when Lily reveals a dark secret she's been harboring for over 160 years, Stefan and Damon are left questioning everything they've ever known about their family. Determined to prove himself to Lily, Enzo comes face-to-face with Julian and challenges him to a duel, but an unexpected twist threatens to complicate things. Elsewhere, Matt finds himself in the middle of a deepening mystery involving the residents of Mystic Falls, and Caroline's world is turned upside down when Valerie reveals some life-changing news to her. Bonnie and Alaric also appear.

Plot

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Cast

Main Cast

Co-Starring

Jaiden Kaine as Beau
Gavin Casalegno as Young Damon (flashback)
Luke Judy as Young Stefan (flashback)
Tasia Grant as Doctor

Trivia

Antagonists: Giuseppe Salvatore (flashback), Julian and Beau (present day).
This is the second Thanksgiving episode in the series & the first time the same holiday has been featured in back to back seasons. The first Thanksgiving episode was last season's 8th episode Fade Into You.
This is the second episode this season to feature both a flash forward and flashback. The first being Age of Innocence.
In 2016, Dallas, Texas 3 years from now, Damon and Alaric are headed to the TV station to rescue Caroline from the woman hunting Stefan, to keep Stefan from springing her trap. Damon goes inside to get Caroline and gets shot in the back with multiple vervain darts.
This episode features the first appearance of Giuseppe Salvatore this season and the first time someone other than James Remar has played the character.
This is the first episode in which someone else other than Ian Somerhalder has played Damon.
Damon becomes the fourth main character current and former to be seen as a child after Elena, Stefan and Caroline.
Lily learns from Stefan that Julian killed her grandchild to keep her from returning to Mystic Falls. She also realizes that her sons are right in that she traded in one monster for another. She decides to help them kill Julian also comes up with a plan to do so.
Bonnie and Enzo retrieve a sword from Oscar's car that when combined with the Phoenix Stone will kill a vampire but without the stone the sword is just a sword. Damon and Enzo find this out after Damon stabs Julian with the sword.
- Possible additional hints about the upcoming character, the Huntress, can be seen in this episode.
When Bonnie looked up the sword in one of Alaric's books the illustration shows a woman holding both the Phoenix Stone and the sword over a body.
- As of this episode, it is subtly implied that the dagger with the Phoenix stone can also be a weapon to kill vampires. However, it is still unknown as to how Julian retained his original body yet trapped inside the stone.
Lily revealed that she and Julian are linked by a binding spell.
Tyler Lockwood and Jeremy Gilbert are mentioned in this episode. This as Matt wants their help in dealing with the problem of the compelled people in town and the Heretics.
Matt finds more compelled people in Mystic Falls outside of the high school. In the Mystic Grill, City Hall and the Hospital. All the people Matt & Caroline had sent away from the school returned.
Valerie removes the compulsion from most of the people in the Grill and Caroline then re-compels them before sending them out of town.
Since Beau caught the bullet in midair, this implies vampires with enough experience can use their reflexes to catch more than just arrows, knives or other weapons thrown at them. Damon proved this last season when he caught the vervain dart shot at him by Tripp.
Beau attacks Valerie as soon as he sees her but Matt saves her by distracting him by shooting at him, he catches the bullet. He then attacks a fleeing Caroline who is saved by Valerie who makes her invisible.
Caroline does a pregnancy test, but the result is negative, and the babies are invisible to ultrasound. Near the end of the episode, Valerie realizes the twins are cloaked by a spell and she siphons it away. Caroline then checks again with ultrasound and confirms she's indeed carrying Alaric and Jo Laughlin's twin babies.
- Since the cloaking spell masked the presence of the babies from pregnancy test and ultrasound, it is possible that it also froze their development until Valerie removed it.

Continuity

Giuseppe Salvatore was last seen in an archival footage in a flashback in Handle with Care.
This is the first episode this season in which Elena is not mentioned.

Locations

Dallas, Texas
- KQBC Channel 3 News Studio
McKinley, Virginia
Mystic Falls, Virginia
- Lockwood Mansion
- Mystic Grill
- Salvatore Estate (flashback)
- Salvatore Boarding House
- Woods
- Mystic Falls Cemetery
Unknown
- Midlothian County Impound

Behind the Scenes

This episode is the least watched episode of The Vampire Diaries so far with 1.10 million viewers.
Hashtag during the airing is #Salvaturkey

Cultural References

Mommie Dearest is a memoir and exposé written by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford. The book, which depicts Christina's childhood and her relationship with her mother, was published in 1978.
Mommie Dearest is a 1981 American biographical drama film about Joan Crawford and the abusive relationship she had with her adopted daughter Christina Crawford and her adopted son Christopher, starring Faye Dunaway, Mara Hobel and Diana Scarwid.
"Mommie Dearest" is the title of the 8th episode of Scream Queens (2015) which airs on FOX.
Template:Legacies' episode has a similar titled episode Mombie Dearest.

Quotes

Stefan (to Damon): "We're hosting Thanksgiving!"

Stefan (to Lily): "Julian knows that I want him dead. You need to help us get rid of Julian."

Lily (to Damon and Stefan): "We did a spell. We're linked. If he dies, so do I."

Damon: "Best. Thanksgiving. Ever."

Damon: "Is that cornbread I smell?"

Stefan: "We're hosting Thanksgiving!"

Caroline (to Matt): "They're using them as human blood banks. I guess we know what the Heretics are having for Thanksgiving dinner!"

Stefan (to Damon): "Julian knows that I want him dead. I am creating an ally."

Stefan (to Lily): "You need to help us get rid of Julian."

Lily (to Damon and Stefan): "We did a spell. We're linked. If he dies, so do I."

Damon: "Best. Thanksgiving. Ever."

Bonnie: "Why would a centuries old vampire with a bunch of witch group is so desperate to find anything collecting dust in a peopling county intel? This is a little beneath him."

Enzo: "Well if Julian wants it then so do I."

Bonnie: "We're talking about Oscar's car or...Lily? You're not doing this to stop a psychopath. You just want the girl."

Enzo: "Congratulations. You just unlocked every man's true motivation in life."

Bonnie: "Let me give you some advice. Stop treating Lily like some prize to be won."

Enzo: "So the next summer is over in four over."

Bonnie: "It's not the turn on you think it is. Try flowers, a quiet dinner. Listening. Found it."

Enzo: "I'm assuming Julian doesn't want to give his Bluebook value. Charming."

Damon: "Is that cornbread I smell?"

Stefan: "We're hosting Thanksgiving!"

Lily (to Damon and Stefan): "I brought cranberries."

Stefan (to Lily): "I want us all to...start over."

Stefan: "You're drawn to men who manipulate you into seeing what they want! Men who abuse you!"