Vampires · Era V, The Doppelgänger War
Klaus Comes to Mystic Falls
A thousand years of searching ends when the Originals learn a Petrova doppelgänger is alive in Virginia. Klaus arrives, and the series stops being about two brothers and a girl and starts being about a family older than most nations.
Details
- Rebekah, Elijah, Kol and Finn all follow. The show's ceiling goes up by an order of magnitude and never comes back down.
- Klaus arrives possessing Alaric's body, which is the single best reveal in the first three seasons.
- Elijah negotiates, Rebekah enrols in the high school, Kol causes chaos, and Finn wants everyone dead including himself.
- Klaus's interest in Caroline Forbes begins here and remains the franchise's most-discussed unfinished thread.