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2	[[caption-width-right:350:"Stefan, these creatures are of the darkest parts of Hell. They have the ability to control your mind, seduce your spirit. They are deadly. They must be destroyed."]]
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4	Elena and Stefan search for Emily's Spellbook using the Gilbert journal.
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6	Damon tracks down Anna with Jeremy's help.
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8	Anna and Ben continue with their plan to free the vampire from the Tomb.
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10	In flashbacks, we learn of how Damon and Stefan relationship first fell apart due to their close relationship with the vampires of Mystic Falls.
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12	!!Tropes present in the episode:
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14	* AbusiveDad: In the 1864 flashbacks Giuseppe Salvatore gives Damon a hard time for deserting the Confederate army.
15	* BoundAndGagged: Giuseppe Salvatore does this to Katherine after poisoning her with vervain.
16	* BulletCatch: Stefan does it with a WoodenStake that Alaric fires at him.
17	* ContinuityNod:
18	** The episode opens with a flashback of Katherine teaching Damon to feint being dead in a road to get the drop on their victims, a trick he uses years later in the very first scene of the show in "[[Recap/TheVampireDiariesS01E01Pilot Pilot]]".
19	** Giuseppe Salvatore has Stefan drink vervain, since he correctly suspecting Katherine is a vampire that feeds on him. Stefan used this SelfPoisoningGambit years later on Damon in "[[Recap/TheVampireDiariesS01E05YoureUndeadToMe]] You're Undead To Me".
20	* DamselInDistress: At the end of the episode, both Ben and Anna successfully kidnap Bonnie and Elena.
21	* WholeEpisodeFlashback: ''Half'' of the episode is a {{Flashback}} showing Damon and Stefan's relationship with their father Giuseppe and how Katherine and the rest of the vampires were captured.
22	* GorgeousPeriodDress: Katherine, Pearl and Anna all wear these during the {{Flashback}}s.
23	* GraveRobbing: Stefan has to dig up his fathers grave to get Emily's Spellbook that he buried himself with.
24	* HoneyTrap:
25	** Anna plan is to have Ben try to seduce Bonnie, while she seduces Jeremy.
26	** In the {{Flashback}}s, Anna's mother Pearl seduces the Sheriff to find out about the vervain the Founders Council is making to stop the vampires.
27	* HostageSituation: When Stefan finds Emily's Spellbook before Damon, he holds Elena hostage, threating to turn her into a vampire if Stefan doesn't give him the book, forcing Stefan into a trade.
28	* InternalReveal: Stefan learns about Alaric being a vampire hunter who's after Damon, but he keeps it a secret, knowing Damon would kill Alaric easily if he knew.
29	* InterruptedIntimacy:
30	** Damon invades Stefan's room when he and Elena are waking up in bed, startling both, who quickly try to get him to leave.
31	-->'''Damon:''' "If I see something I haven't seen before, I'll throw a dollar at it."
32	** In a {{Flashback}}, Emily interrupts Katherine and Damon while they're in bed.
33	* TheLeader: Pearl is the leader of the vampires of Mystic Falls in 1864.
34	* ModestyBedsheet: Elena and Stefan cover themselves with one when Damon walks in on them in bed.
35	* NeverFoundTheBody: Alaric says his wife's body disappeared along with Damon when he Alaric walked on Damon draining her.
36	* TheReveal: Anna is an older vampire than the Salvatore brothers, daughter of Pearl, a vampire who was captured and locked in the tomb along with the other vampires in 1864 and she wants to free them. She also reveals she's the vampire responsible for bringing back Logan.
37	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Damon recognizes Anna as a vampire that was part of Katherine's circle back in 1864, making her an older vampire than him and Stefan.
38	* SexyDiscretionShot: When Elena pulls down Stefan under the bedsheets, the scene cuts away... to a {{Flashback}} of Katherine rising out of the sheets post-sex with Damon.
39	* WoundedGazelleGambit: In 1864, Katherine has Damon pretends he's injured on the road to lure her feeding victims out of their carriage, asking them to help her "husband", killing them while they're distracted checking on him. She does it to teach the soon to be vampire Damon on how to feed.
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