
The Vampire Diaries · Season 5, Episode 3
Original Sin
First aired October 17, 2013
What it’s about
Stefan finally surfaces after three months being locked in a safe underwater in the quarry. When Elena tells Damon that she had a dream about Stefan in a bar, Katherine says she had them too. Damon and Elena, alongside Katherine go to a bar to search for Stefan where they find the waitress who was bitten by Stefan. Qetsiyah has Stefan hostage and tells her version of how Silas became immortal. Qetsiyah reveals that she was originally to marry Silas and made the spell for him, when he betrayed her to take the immortality spell with the woman he really loved, Qetsiyah's handmaiden, Amara, she created the cure and killed Amara. Qetsiyah continues to divulge her plans of destroying Silas by using Stefan to make him weaker. Nadia uses magic on Matt to contact Gregor (whom she killed to fool Silas) and uses him to get information about Katherine's whereabouts from Elena. Nadia kidnaps Katherine and goes to Silas to give her but she realizes that he is using her. When Damon finds Stefan, Qetsiyah warns him that Stefan and Elena are destined and he is just in the way. Qetsiyah performs a spell on Stefan, connecting him to Silas and ridding Silas of his psychic powers. When Stefan awakes following Qetsiyah's spell, he is suffering from amnesia.
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Season 5
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5x01I Know What You Did Last Summer
5x02True Lies
5x03Original Sin
5x04For Whom the Bell Tolls
5x05Monster's Ball
5x06Handle with Care
5x07Death and the Maiden
5x08Dead Man on Campus
5x09The Cell
5x10Fifty Shades of Grayson
5x11500 Years of Solitude
5x12The Devil Inside
5x13Total Eclipse of the Heart
5x14No Exit
5x15Gone Girl
5x16While You Were Sleeping
5x17Rescue Me
5x18Resident Evil
5x19Man on Fire
5x20What Lies Beneath
5x21Promised Land
5x22HomeEpisode data and images: TVMaze (texts CC BY-SA 4.0, images belong to the series’ rights holders).