
The Vampire Diaries · Season 8, Episode 12
What Are You?
First aired February 10, 2017
What it’s about
Stefan is arrested following his transition back into a human. Caroline manages to compel the police of his innocence but it doesn't erase the guilt inside of him. Bonnie is devastated about Enzo's death and her mother, Abby, comes to her house to console her. The two discover that Enzo is trying to communicate with Bonnie and that when he died, Bonnie opened the door between hell and earth. She tries to pull Enzo from hell but Abby ultimately burns his body, knowing that he would just drag Bonnie down with him. Cade tells Damon that their contract is up because of Stefan no longer being a vampire and tells Damon that he will claim Stefan's soul to take to hell at midnight if Damon doesn't retrieve the Maxwell journal. Matt, Alaric, and Dorian attempt to discover why the journal is important and Matt sees events from 1790 where his ancestor Ethan and Bonnie's ancestor Beatrice created the Maxwell bell and then encountered Seline and Sybil. The sirens forced Ethan to ring the bell twelve times and send hellfire to the town and he killed one hundred people. Beatrice trapped Seline and Sybil in the vault and Ethan wrote how to kill Cade in the Maxwell journal. In the present, Damon takes the journal and gives it to Cade, who burns it. Damon later tells Alaric that he is certain a certain artifact they have is how to kill the devil, having heard Sybil say it once. In the last scene, Damon and Alaric make plans to kill Cade and then Kai mysteriously walks in and says he has a better idea.
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Season 8
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8x01Hello Brother
8x02Today Will Be Different
8x03You Decided That I Was Worth Saving
8x04An Eternity of Misery
8x05Coming Home Was a Mistake
8x06Detoured on Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell
8x07The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You
8x08We Have History Together
8x09The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch
8x10Nostalgia's a Bitch
8x11You Made a Choice to Be Good
8x12What Are You?
8x13The Lies Will Catch Up with You
8x14It's Been a Hell of a Ride
8x15We're Planning a June Wedding
8x16I Was Feeling EpicEpisode data and images: TVMaze (texts CC BY-SA 4.0, images belong to the series’ rights holders).