‘The Vampire Diaries’ recap: ‘The Lies Will Catch Up to You’ – EW.com

The Lies Will Catch Up to You: This weeks title takes us back to season 1, episode 5, and, more specifically, to a Damon quote. After Stefan locked his older brother up in the Salvatore basement forbeing a threat to exposing what they were, Damon told his brother: You won. You got the bad guy. Now nothing can come between you and Elena. Except the truth. The lies will catch up to you, Stefan, as long as you keep lying to yourself about what you are.

And that brings us to tonights episode, which was quite literally about all of Stefans lies catching up to him. See, when Stefan became human, his compulsion wore off, meaning every single person he ever compelled has now been flooded with memories. In other words, Stefan has a lot of explaining to do. Or rather, Caroline does.

When Matt tells her that the police station is being flooded with people reporting old crimes involving Stefan, she heads down there to re-compel everyone to forget the intense guy with weird hair. As for Stefan, youll remember that last week ended with him being kidnapped, and we quickly learn why. Remember when Dorian mentioned that his father and sister died in a house fire? Well, thats actually what Stefan compelled him to believe. In reality, Dorians family lived in Knoxville, and, as any die-hard fan can guess, that means Dorians family members were victims of Stefans during his time with Klaus (specifically, during the season 3 premiere).

And now, Dorian has kidnapped Stefan and is forcing him to dig his own grave. This kids out for revenge.

Meanwhile, back in Mystic Falls, Kai has returned! As he explains his reappearance to Ric and Damon, we get a flashback to the moment Matt rang the Maxwell bell for the eleventh time. It was then that a very hot literally Kai found himself in the Mystic Grill. Suddenly, he was alive. Or at least almost alive. When Kai couldnt taste or feel anything, he realized his predicament. As he tells Ric and Damon back in present day, hes not so much a ghost as he is a psychic imprint with one foot on earth and another in hell. At this point, he can still do magic, but only when he siphons himself, and so he needs to find a way to stay in the land of the living. And if Damon will help him, he offers to bring back Elena.

Damon immediately thinks to call Bonnie. If shes found a way to bring Enzo back from hell, maybe she can help with Kai. Only, Bonnie still hasnt found Enzo. And it also only takes her about 30 seconds to realize Kais back. (Im kind of loving that this season is bringing back Bonnie being psychic, which started in the pilot.) With that, she heads straight to Cade for answers.

Sitting in the middle of a populated coffee shop, Bonnie joins hands with Cade so that he can teach her about her new gift. Now that shes had a powerful traumatic awakening, Cade says Bonnie must open up her mind to Cade and together they can reach Enzo. So, as she remembers the moment of Enzos death again, you guys are in public shes transported to the cabin where she and Enzo fell in love.

After a quick reunion with Enzo, he warns her to stay away from Cade. According to Enzo, Cade is trying to use Bonnie to find him in order to claim his soul for hell. Translation: Enzos not in hell yet. So where is he?

Allow Cade to explain: When Enzo died, Bonnie screamed, and in the moment of her deepest pain, a powerful psychic blast created an entire world, a private dimension linked only to her. So yeah, she pulled a Cade. Except her dimension is hidden, even from Cade. Angry, Cade reads her mind and discovers that Kai might have gotten out of hell.

NEXT: Kai pays Elena a visit

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'The Vampire Diaries' recap: 'The Lies Will Catch Up to You' - EW.com