This Is What It Takes

After Landon's disappearance, Hope returns to the Salvatore school to ask for help, but no one remembers her as she went through the Malivore portal. Initially Alaric and the Super Squad distrust her, but with Josie's help she brings back everyone's memory with a spell. Three weeks after Landon's disappearance, Alaric has sent all the students home in order to focus on saving Landon. Josie goes to orientation at Mystic Falls High, where she meets fellow student Finch, who takes her on a school tour. Hope and Alaric, after several unsuccessful attempts to recover a magical artifact, decide to try Professor Vardemus's therapy box, which catapults Hope into a summer camp in the 1980s where a masked killer wanders. The killer is a simulated Landon, who warns Hope to stop looking for him and leads her to believe she is the cause of his "disappearance" since her blood is toxic to him. Hope decides to stay with this Landon in the therapy box forever, but the game throws her out after Alaric unplugs the box. Alaric has found the desired artifact, but it fails to return Landon. Landon is shown walking towards a door highlighted by a bright light.

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