You Made a Choice to Be Good is the eleventh episode of the eighth season of The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and sixty-sixth episode of the series overall.
Summary[]
WHEN EVIL RETURNS – Cade returns to Mystic Falls and presents Damon and Stefan with additional assignments, each with unthinkable consequences. Even with tension growing in their friendship, Caroline and Matt do their best to protect the town's residents from Cade's appetite for their souls. Bonnie and Enzo hit the road on a romantic trip, taking the bell with them in hopes to keep it safe.
Plot[]
Cade is now free to roam the world after the bell was rung 11 times, and he's not pleased with the work of his two new servants. He frees Stefan from the basement and offers Damon a new deal. Kill 100 evil strangers by sundown, or Caroline dies. Damon, being all about redemption now that his humanity is back on, isn't going to abide by the rules. He finds option three, the plan to kill Cade.
He finds Caroline at the high school and explains what is going on and that he has a plan B. Caroline and new town sheriff Matt are tasked with keeping the people safe by getting them out of the open. Everyone is then gathered at the high school to celebrate the Time Capsule Day, where they've unearthed a capsule buried in 1790 by the first settlers of Mystic Falls. Matt discovers Maxwell artifacts while Caroline is endorsed in the time capsule that Caroline, Bonnie and Elena buried when they were 11 years old. Inside, Caroline finds old photos, a letter she wrote to her future self and Bonnie's 6th grade bucket list, which apparently contained being on American Idol and MTV's Spring Break. This makes her even more depressed that all of her predictions are never going to come true now.
Speaking of bucket lists, Bonnie has an idea. Enzo and Bonnie are given a task to hide the Maxwell bell far away from Mystic Falls. But before they reach their destination, Bonnie decides to entertain the idea of making Enzo take advantage of his immortality before Enzo takes the cure. This includes skydiving and driving a race car.
Later on, Matt and Caroline takes everyone to The Grill. That way Caroline can try to keep Matt safe by mixing him a drink with her blood in it. But of course Matt despises vampires and he would never entertain the idea of becoming one. While Caroline is stuck listening to Matt rant for the millionth time about why being a vampire is not good, Damon is putting his plan into motion. He tries to kill Cade, who can't be killed and proves it by setting himself on fire and ripping his own heart out.
Luckily, Caroline comes up with a plan to defeat Cade: give the devil the cure. The one that's flowing through sleeping Elena's veins. But there is one problem to solve, Bonnie reserved it for Enzo. When they arrive at the safe house, where Elena's body is also being kept, Bonnie receives a call from Damon regarding the cure and their plan to use it on the "bad guy". At First, Bonnie is not happy with this, but being the selfless person she is, she decides to go along with the plan making her happy human ending take a back seat.
Back in Mystic Falls, Cade pays a visit to The Grill to check on Damon's progress. He must choose one way or the other because the alternative is to go straight to hell. After Cade kills two people (Matt saving the third person with an extinguisher), Damon starts bargaining for another way out. Damon learns that Stefan was offered the same deal. Either kill 100 people or Elena. The "humanity-less" Stefan chose to kill Elena.
While Stefan is on his way to kill Elena, the focus is on catching Stefan before he arrives at the safe house where Bonnie and Enzo are retrieving the cure. He changes the ownership of the safe house using the real estate agent he met at a gas station. This gives him an advantage, forcing Enzo out of the house, making it easier to kill Elena with no vampire around to stop him.
Damon asks why kill Elena? Stefan reasons that Elena is just in the way. She is the reason why Damon's humanity was slowly returning to him. Killing her will mean Damon will finally stop trying to turn Stefan's humanity back on. Damon will never forgive Stefan for this, and with this, Stefan will finally be free.
Stefan finally arrives at Bonnie's safe house. Enzo is caught by surprise as Stefan comes from behind and rips his heart out. Bonnie is left to witness the love of her life die at the hands of the guy she once called her friend. She breaks off a wooden peg from a coat rack, ready to defend herself. Stefan thinks he easily has the upper hand. Bonnie is carrying a syringe filled with the cure. Left with no choice, Bonnie is forced to give Stefan the cure. She then goes outside to cry over Enzo's body. There is a wave of energy that radiates from her body followed by a loud sound resembling a bomb exploding. From this we can only assume that Bonnie possibly got her powers back.
Cast[]
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Trivia[]
- Antagonists: Arcadius and Stefan.
- Arcadius offered Damon a deal to either kill 100 evil souls or the love of Stefan's life, Caroline, in their place.
- Arcadius offers the same deal to Stefan and he chose to kill Elena.
- At Mystic Falls High School a time capsule from 1790 is unearthed by the town's historical society.
- Caroline unearths at the school a time capsule that she, Bonnie and Elena had buried at the high when they were 11 years old. It included a few pictures of them together and letters to themselves: Caroline about the man she would marry and a bucket list for Bonnie.
- Bonnie had moved Elena's casket from the Brooklyn warehouse to the house she bought with the money her father had left her. This was after the events seen in Gods and Monsters when Enzo and Damon disappeared from the Armory.
- Caroline and Damon come up with the risky plan of extracting the Cure from Elena to use on Cade so he can be killed.
- However, neither of them knows if the cure will even work on Arcadius.
- Stefan is injected with the Cure by Bonnie and becomes human after he kills Enzo.
- Stefan becomes the third immortal doppelgänger of Silas and Amara's to be made human again by the cure after Katherine and Elena but the fifth immortal to do so after Silas and Amara themselves.
Body Count[]
- Two Men - Gastrointestinal bleeding; killed by Arcadius
- Mystic Grill Woman - Drained of blood; killed by Damon Salvatore
- Enzo St. John - Heart extraction; killed by Stefan Salvatore
Locations[]
- Mystic Falls, Virginia
- Café
- Salvatore Boarding House
- Mystic Falls High School (outside)
- Mystic Grill
- Grove Hill, Virginia
- Upstate New York
- Motor Speedway
- Gas station
Continuity[]
- Lorenzo and Dorian were last seen in The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch.
- Elena was mentioned. She was last seen in I'm Thinking Of You All The While.
- Rudy was mentioned. He was last seen in I Know What You Did Last Summer.
- Miranda was mentioned. Her voice was last heard in Stay.
- Sheriff Forbes was mentioned. She was last seen as a subconscious illusion in Nostalgia's a Bitch.
- Sybil, Seline, and Peter were mentioned. They were last seen in Nostalgia's a Bitch.
Behind the Scenes[]
- "You made a choice to be good" is a line of Elena to Stefan from season one's Blood Brothers.
- Hashtag during the airing was #BonenzoFeels
- The realtor's full name is Karen Bruck, which, in reality, is actually the name of the series' set decorator.
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Soundtrack[]
"In The Pits" – Muuy Biien
"Waste A Moment" – Kings of Leon
"Highway Drivin'" – MRCH
"Sleepy Tiger" – Cynnamon
"Hard To Believe" – The Rebel Light
"Restart" – BNQT
"How Can I Make You Remember Me" – Hammock
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