Vampires · Era V, The Doppelgänger War
The Salvatores Return
Stefan comes back to Mystic Falls because a girl there has Katherine's face. Damon comes back to open the tomb and get Katherine out. Neither errand survives contact with reality, and the two of them stay for eight years.
Details
- Damon's plan collapses the moment he learns Katherine was never in the tomb and never came looking for him.
- The brothers' relationship — not either romance — is the actual spine of all eight seasons, and the finale knows it.
- Zach Salvatore, a descendant of the line, is living in the boarding house when they come back, growing vervain in the basement. Damon snaps his neck in episode five.
- Damon's opening move is to turn Caroline Forbes into a feeding source, which the show treats with the seriousness it deserves several seasons later.