One Way or Another is the eighteenth episode of the seventh season of The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and fifty-first episode of the series overall.
Summary[]
THE RACE TO SAVE STEFAN — Determined to capture an escaped vampire named Ambrose, who may be the key to getting Stefan back safely, Damon heads to Memphis with Alaric in tow. However, reluctant to step back into his former vampire hunting ways, Alaric makes his unwillingness to participate clear, while revealing the truth about the past three Damon-less years of his life. Meanwhile, in the psych ward, Bonnie meets a young woman named Virginia, who provides her with some valuable information about why The Armory may be after her. Finally, Enzo takes matters into his own hands when he learns some devastating news from Rayna.
Plot[]
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Cast[]
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Trivia[]
- Antagonist: Ambrose.
- Bonnie has been taking pills The Armory created with Rayna Cruz's blood, which suppresses magic, in order to avoid being detected by locator spells in order to stay off The Armory's radar. Near the end of the episode, Enzo tells Bonnie the pills will be making her sick as they did Mary Louise.
- Enzo tries to get answers from Rayna to possible cures for witches who takes pills made with her blood. She tells him The Armory already tried and failed to make a cure, and that the effects of her blood cannot be reversed, only enhanced.
- Bonnie entered the mental hospital to learn from Virginia what the Armory wanted with her under the alias Bonnie McCullough and had a doctor who could sign her and Virginia out at anytime.
- Bonnie McCullough is her name in the novel series.
- This episode marks the first appearance of Virginia.
- Bonnie learns from Virginia why The Armory needs her as a Bennett witch sealed something so terrible in the basement that Virginia attempts to kill her in order to keep her being used to free it.
- Lucy "Bennett" is revealed by Virginia to Bonnie to have been missing for about 4 years believing The Armory may have been responsible, though she could have gone into hiding. This would have been sometime after Damon got some her blood in I Alone to use to activate The Ascendant in their first attempt to free Bonnie from Kai's 1994 Prison World.
- Alaric tells Damon that Bonnie is in Asheville, North Carolina.
- Valerie reveals that Gemini Coven spells are designed to be cast by at least two witches working together, making it hard for a single witch to do them alone. Despite this, she manages to cast the Gemini transfer spell by herself to return Stefan's soul into his own body before Marty could die.
- Valerie ends her relationship with Stefan telling him it's because she believes he still has feelings for his ex-girlfriend Caroline and that she's decided to strike out on her own into the world alone.
- There is not a single scene set in Mystic Falls.
Body Count[]
- Unnamed humans - Slain; killed by Ambrose and themselves (via compulsion), one transitioned into a vampire
- Sully - Smashed; killed by Ambrose
- Frank - Drained of blood; killed by Ambrose
Continuity[]
- Bonnie Bennett was last seen in I Would for You.
- Enzo was last seen in Days of Future Past.
- Lucy was mentioned by Virginia. She was last seen in Masquerade. She was last mentioned by Damon to Elena in I Alone.
- Valerie mentions Malcolm, Beau, Lily Salvatore, Mary Louise and Nora Hildegard.
- Malcolm was last seen in Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take.
- Beau was last seen in This Woman's Work.
- Lily was last seen as a hallucination in Hell Is Other People.
- Nora and Mary Louise were last seen in Days of Future Past.
- Alex St. John is mentioned. She was last seen in Days of Future Past.
- Caroline was mentioned. Her voice was heard in Days of Future Past.
- This is the 21st and final episode of the series in which she does not appear.
- Jo Laughlin was mentioned by Alaric. She was last seen as a corpse in Best Served Cold.
- This is the fourth episode in which Elena Gilbert isn't mention or referenced in any way this season.
- The doctor was last seen in Live Through This.
- The Filipino bartender was last seen in Days of Future Past.
Locations[]
- Arkansas
- Hospital
- Asheville, North Carolina
- The Philippines (flashback)
- Memphis, Tennessee
- Memphis College
- Alpha Rho Tau Fraternity House
- Stefan's Hideout
- Wildwood Motel
Behind the Scenes[]
- Valerie makes a reference to the Salvatore House's "upstairs study" (she asks Stefan if he'd rather spin the old globe in the upstairs study). That is Rebecca's in-joke. We used that set only once: in ep 507, for the three doppelganger blood-knot ceremony, and then the set was dismantled and carted away, never to be seen or spoken of again.
- In order to execute the ambulance stunt, production had to buy two identical ambulances: one to flip, one to shoot inside of. Our stunt coordinator Paul Burke was cast to play EMT driver Sully, who meets a quick and horrible end.
- This isn't the first episode that Damon threatens to feed a victim's body part to the squirrels. In 316, Damon mulls over chewing out Meredith Fell's tongue and feeding it to the squirrels for accusing Ric of the Founders' Council murders. It's fun to see that this particular threat has been part of Damon's lexicon for a long time.
- The writers particularly loved Valerie's goodbye. These characters live in a dangerous world, so it's not often that all our great supporting characters get to survive their departure from the show. But since Valerie's life was always controlled and manipulated by others — leaving her mostly hurt and alone — it seemed right that she get to walk away and have a chance to live her own life for the first time.
- After a relatively balmy shoot for 717, nature got cruel for this episode, which involved a lot of outdoor location work. The cast and crew worked in temperatures in the low teens for an entire week, leading to some crankiness and some unwelcome intermittent snowflakes that you can spot throughout the episode.[1]
- Hashtag during the airing is #SavingStefan
Cultural References[]
- "One Way or Another" is the fourth single by American rock band Blondie from their second studio album Parallel Lines. The song was released on May 14, 1979.
Quotes[]
- Damon: "How small?"
- Ambrose: "Bullseye."
- Officer: "Marty Hammond, you're under arrest for driving under the influence."
- Alaric: "Apparently he was a serial killer before he became a vampire. He would stalk sororities and fraternities and murder for sport."
- Damon: "Maybe he'll be so busy snacking on drunk sorority girls, that this will be an easy smash and grab. Listen, thanks for coming all this way to help out buddy. It means a lot!"
- Alaric: "Yeah, well I didn't exactly volunteer Damon."
Multimedia[]
Soundtrack[]
"Still Standing" – Electric Owls
"Honey Bee" – Rogue Wave
"O Ilaw (O, Light)" – Raffy Lata
"Why Are You Not Rocking?" – Monster Truck
"Brussels" – Waxhead
"Top Guy" – Thrust
"Staring Down the Dust" – Ten Commandos
"Citrus" – Millions
"I Get to Love You" – Ruelle
Videos[]
The Vampire Diaries 7x18 Promo "One Way or Another" (HD)
The Vampire Diaries One Way or Another Trailer The CW
The Vampire Diaries 7x18 Webclip 1 - One Way or Another HD
The Vampire Diaries One Way or Another Scene The CW
The Vampire Diaries Inside TVD One Way or Another The CW
Pictures[]
©Michael Malarkey February 17, 2016
©Michael Malarkey February 16, 2016
©Penny Cox February 13, 2016
©Michael Malarkey February 11, 2016
Ian Somerhalder February 10, 2016
Ian Somerhalder February 10, 2016
Ian Somerhalder February 10, 2016
Michael A. Allowitz February 10, 2016
Rebecca Sonnenshine, Michael A. Allowitz February 10, 2016
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