Kill or Be Killed
Killed or Be Killed is the fifth episode of the second season.
Written by: Michael Daniels
Directed by: Jeff Woolnough
Original Air Date: 10/07/10
One year ago in Florida, Mason walks out of a bar and a friend of his, Jimmy, picks a fight, claiming Mason is sleeping with his girlfriend. He keeps hitting Mason until Mason is forced to fight back and he slams Jimmy to the ground. His head hits the pavement and is killed. Mason tells Tyler that that's how he triggered the curse. Mason then asks for the moonstone, and Tyler goes to the safe in the floor and opens it up, but it's not there. Tyler isn't ready to hand it over.
Elena tells Jeremy to stay out of the situation with Katherine. Stefan and Elena discuss their ruse in private, preparing to pretend they're on the rocks in front of everyone else. Caroline is surprised that Liz has actually taken a day off and will be spending time with her. Everyone goes to the volunteer day for the historical society to help out at a local park. Stefan tries to make peace with Mason, but only after Stefan threatens him does Mason seem to come around. Jeremy strikes up a conversation with Tyler and Tyler invites him over to his place, along with two girls--Aimee, the girl he made out with in Bad Moon Rising, and her friend, Sarah.
Mason tells Liz that Damon and Stefan are vampires. She doesn't believe him at first, stating Damon's her friend and has proven himself. Caroline complains a bit about her mother and then Elena says Stefan has been pushing her away. Liz mentions her problems with Caroline to Damon when he catches on to her acting a bit off. Damon asks Caroline why she's being a bitch to her mom, and then they both listen in to Stefan and Elena's argument. At Tyler's, they check out Jeremy's sketch book, which is full of drawings of wolves. Tyler takes Jeremy into another room and throws him against the wall, asking what the drawings are about. Jeremy says he knows what Tyler is.
At the park, Damon takes a drink of lemonade and immediately spits it out because it has vervain in it. Liz is watching in the distance. Caroline finds Elena and tries to comfort her. Right when she seems about to tell Elena something, Caroline spots her mom leaving and wonders where she's going. Because of the vervain in the lemonade, Stefan agrees to kill Mason. The brothers follow him into the woods, and Caroline also heads out there with Elena and tries to hear something. Damon and Stefan confront Mason and are suddenly shot by wooden bullets and then injected with vervain. Caroline hears the shots.
Tyler tells Jeremy about the curse and what triggers is. He then shows him the moonstone. Mason shows Liz and the two deputies to the underground cellar where they place Damon and Stefan's bodies. Mason then leaves and runs across Caroline and Elena. Mason grabs Elena and threatens her, but Caroline easily gets the upper hand and knocks him on his ass. Caroline and Elena head to the cellar as Liz shoots Damon and Stefan a couple of more times with wooden bullets, trying to get information out of them. Caroline doesn't want to go inside because it means exposing herself to Liz, but Elena runs inside, begging Liz to let Stefan and Damon go.
Seeing no other choice, Caroline rushes inside and bites a deputy, who is killed when the other shoots him while trying to shoot Caroline. She then knocks out the other. Liz is obviously shocked and heartbroken to see her daughter as a vampire. Damon drinks from one of the deputies to gain his strength back. Liz actually asks to be killed rather than have the knowledge of Caroline being a vampire, but Damon says he won't kill her. At Tyler's, Sarah takes the moonstone and basically plays keep away from Tyler. He tries to take it back and she falls down the stairs, which gives Tyler a hell of a scare. However, she ends up being fine.
They bring Liz to the cellar in the Salvatore mansion and prepare to have her there until the vervain leaves her system so they can compel her to forget what she now knows. Liz doesn't want anything to do with Caroline, which Caroline hears and immediately turns to go upstairs. Elena is about to follow when she notices Stefan at the blood supply in the basement. He's considering drinking a little human blood each day in order to build up a tolerance, like what Katherine has done with vervain.
Caroline tells Elena that she's scared to go home because Katherine will be there, and admits that Katherine has been having her spy on Elena and Stefan. While she was mad about it at first, Elena realizes that she's not doing it of her own accord. Caroline says that Katherine threatened Matt's life. Tyler tells Mason about what happened with Sarah and hands over the moonstone. Elena tells Damon that what he did for Liz is the Damon that was her friend. In return, Damon tells her that Stefan needs to drink human blood. Elena finds him and cuts her own hand for Stefan to drink from.
Mason enters a car that's parked in the woods to find Katherine waiting for him. It's then shown that she was there for him when he killed Jimmy, clearly having orchestrated it. Katherine tells him to stay away from the Salvatores and mentions needing the moonstone. He reveals he has it, and they kiss.
Soundtrack:
The Smashing Pumpkins - The Fellowship
Trent Dabbs - Counting Sleep
Athlete - Superhuman Touch
The Rifles - Sometimes
The Fast Romantics - Cool Kids
The Naked and Famous - Punching in a Dream
Sky Ferreira - Obsession
Title Tracks - Steady Love
New Politics - Yeah Yeah Yeah
The Pass - Colors
Kris Allen - I Need to Know