Best Served Cold

Best Served Cold is the sixth episode of the seventh season of The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and thirty-ninth episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
DAMON AND STEFAN COME FACE-TO-FACE WITH JULIAN — After being reunited with her former love Julian, Lily hosts a dinner party to introduce him to Damon and Stefan and to declare peace between her family of Heretics and the residents of Mystic Falls. Damon and Stefan find themselves at an impasse when they realize they have differing views on how to handle Julian's arrival. At the party, Bonnie and Matt uncover a strange mystery involving some unsuspecting residents, while a devastating revelation causes Alaric to reach his breaking point. Caroline and Enzo also appear.
==Plot==
In a flashforward three years into the future, Damon visits Alaric and talks about the twins. It's revealed that Caroline is his fiancé. At that moment, Caroline appears on television broadcast, head bloodied and announces that she has a message for Stefan Salvatore.
In the present, Stefan dreams about having a son named Jacob. He teaches him how to hunt and suddenly he goes missing. Caroline wakes him up and asks him why is he sleeping on a couch when Valerie in a towel walks by. When she leaves, Caroline and Stefan talk and she offers to take Valerie out of town, which she doesn't want to do as long as Julian is still alive. Later while she's planning another life for Valerie, Valerie reveals to her that there's a reason why she hates Julian so much. 
At the Boarding House, Julian and Beau practice fencing, which Lily interrupts. She tells them that she's planning a party and the whole town is invited, including the compelled people from neighboring towns. The Salvatore brothers are split on the matter of killing Julian: Damon wants to wait six months, to give Lily the illusion of happiness before taking him away from her, while Stefan plans on killing him at the party.
The guest slowly arrive at the party, first the Salvatore brothers, than Matt, Bonnie and Enzo. Nora and Mary Louise attempt to apologize to Matt, but he just wants them to leave the town, and Enzo tries to make Lily jealous. Lily introduces Julian to everyone and gives a speech about living in peace. Julian asks Beau to help him find something he left at Oscar. He also proves to be a bad influence as he convinces Mary Louse to break Lily's no feeding on guests rule.
Meanwhile, "Jo" tries to get used to Jo's life at college, but stars coughing and getting nosebleeds. They call Caroline and Valerie. Caroline tries to heal her with blood, which doesn't work. Valerie concludes that she's weak because she's a vampire living in a human body.
Matt teams up with Stefan and spikes Damon's bourbon with vervain and injects him with more to incapacitate him. That was Stefan is free to kill Julian tonight. Stefan stabs Julian and throws him on the fire, but Lily saves him. Damon arrives soon and Julian talks about how he's never gonna harm their mother. All three get into a fight and Lily stops them again. When the brothers leave, Lily makes him promise not to hurt her sons to which he agrees. At home, Stefan reveals to Damon that Valerie was pregnant with his child and that's why he wants him dead as soon as possible. Damon agrees to help him.
Meanwhile, Bonnie and Matt follow a guest a the party who leads them to a place with dozens of students hooked on IVs.
"Jo", whose real name is Florence is dying tells goodbye to Alaric. He thanks her for letting him hear his wife's voice again and allowing him to say goodbye. Valerie watches Alaric's wedding video and hears the spell the Gemini Coven was casting at the time. They thought it was a spell to send Kai to a prison world, but it was a spell to keep Jo's babies to save the next generation of Gemini twins. Valerie does a locator spell which shows that the twins are inside Caroline.
==Cast==
===Main Cast===
*Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
*Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
*Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett
*Candice King as Caroline Forbes
*Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
*Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman
*Michael Malarkey as Enzo
===Special Recurring Guest Star===
*Annie Wersching as Lily Salvatore
===Recurring Cast===
*Elizabeth Blackmore as Valerie Tulle
*Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as Jo Laughlin/Florence
*Scarlett Byrne as Nora
*Teressa Liane as Mary Louise
*Todd Lasance as Julian
===Co-Starring===
*Jaiden Kaine as Beau
*Ethan Andrew Casto as Jacob
*Valerie Sue Love as Waitress
*Rajeev Jacob as Caterer
==Trivia==
*Antagonist: Julian.
*Bonnie and Matt discover a group of humans in Mystic Falls High School, having been compelled to act as human blood bags.
*Stefan reveals to Damon that he got Valerie pregnant.
*Stefan tells Damon that seeing Julian reminded him of their father, Giuseppe.
*Valerie reveals that Julian will eventually go mad as a result of him being brought back by the Phoenix Stone saying it happens to everyone bought back by the stone, she says its even more so for Julian as his soul has been in the stone for over century.
*Lily attempted to make amends with Bonnie in which the latter sarcastically denied because of the former's involvement in her best friend's slumber spell.
*Caroline is revealed to be engaged to Alaric three years for now and is currently pregnant with his twins, having been transferred to her by the Gemini Coven. It was previously believed that they were attempting to create a new Prison World for Kai. Note: This was done so as to keep Caroline in play as a character by writing in Candice King's real life pregnancy.
*Caroline Forbes becomes the first known female vampire in the 1000+ years of the vampire race to be pregnant albeit through magical means, not by the normal means of procreation.
*The mysterious spirit inside Jo's body is revealed to be a vampire named Florence. She dies in this episode, showing that mortal bodies can't contain vampire souls unless prepared before hand.
==Body Count==
*Florence - Magical deterioration; Inability of Josette Laughlin's corpse to house Florence's spirit
==Continuity==
*Matt was last seen in I Carry Your Heart With Me.
*Elena and Kai were mentioned. They were last seen in I'm Thinking Of You All The While.
*Oscar was mentioned. He was last seen in Age of Innocence and his corpse was last seen in Live Through This.
==Locations==
*Dallas, Texas
**Alaric's apartment (flashforward)
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Woods (Dream)
**Lockwood Mansion
**Salvatore Boarding House
**Mystic Falls High School
*McKinley, Virginia
**Alaric's apartment
**Scull Bar
==Behind the Scenes==
*Hashtag during the airing is #RevengeOnTheRocks
*Michael Malarkey's "The Greatest Trick I Know" was used in the soundtrack for this episode.
**This is the second time his song was featured in an episode. The first was "Feed the Flames" in Never Let Me Go. but it was only the melody. The third will be "Scars" in We Have History Together.
**He is the second cast member to have a song in the soundtrack, the first being Kat Graham in The Sacrifice (excluding Candice Accola's live singing).
==Cultural References==
*The popular expression "" suggests that revenge is more satisfying if enacted when unexpected or long feared, inverting traditional civilized revulsion toward "cold-blooded" violence.
*In the 1982 second film , the movies villain Khan quotes "revenge is a dish best served cold" as a proverb. in his 2002 film uses the Klingon proverb version of this expression from Star Trek II.
* is Joe Abercrombie's fourth novel. It was first published in June 2009 by Gollancz in the UK, with an American edition following from Orbit Books. It is the first stand-alone novel set in  world.
* is a city in , which is in England.
==Quotes==
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|-|Promo=
:Damon (to Stefan): "Looks like mom raised her man crush from the dead."
:Lily (to Julian): "We have enemies here."
:Stefan (to Damon): "You need to help me kill him."
:Lily (to Julian): "I am referring to my sons."
:Damon (to Stefan): "I'm in."
|-|Extended Promo=
:Damon (to Stefan): "Looks like mom raised her man crush from the dead."
:Lily (to Julian): "We have enemies here."
:Stefan (to Damon): "You need to help me kill him."
:Lily (to Julian): "I am referring to my sons."
:Bonnie: "Lily Salvatore's having some party."
:Stefan: "I plan on killing the bastard tonight."
:Damon: "I'm in."
:Stefan: "It's about to get ugly."
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:Caroline: "Silly. What are you doing down here?"
:Valerie: "That would be my fault. I...I just..wanted to let you know that I used the last of the shampoo."
:Caroline: "Valerie! I didn't...know that you were staying here."
:Stefan: "Stayed. Past tense. Um..Just one night."
:Valerie: "I should go...put some clothes on."
:Caroline: "Yeah you do that."
:Valerie: "Alright."
:Caroline: "Okay." (to Stefan): "Explain!"
:Stefan: "Okay. Lily wants to raise Julian from the dead. Valerie tired to scorch his body before she could get her hands on him and that did not work out so well."
:Caroline: "Now following how...that's our problem."
:Stefan: "Okay. If and when Lily welcomes Julian back into his body, he will find out what Valerie did and he'll come after her."
:Caroline: "Yeah just not connecting those dots."
:Stefan: "Well maybe you can just trust me that I know what I'm doing."
|-|Webclip 2=
:Bonnie: "Oh. Do you what animal they're serving for dinner for their plus one?"
:Enzo: "Hilarious. I was invited." 
:Bonnie: "You're scooping the competition." 
:Enzo: "No competition to scoop."
:Enzo: "Since you're here, if anyone was wondering, you're my date."
:Bonnie: "Sorry?"
:Lily: "Lorenzo. I'm so glad you came." 
:Enzo: "Wouldn't miss it."
:Lily: "Bonnie I know that we've had a rocky past but I hope this means that you're willing to start fresh."
:Bonnie: "You're the reason I'm never gonna see my best friend again so...I hope you're joking."
|-|Inside Episode=
:Lily (to Beau and Julian): "Gentlemen. The back yard's not big enough."
:Lily: "I have another idea."
:Julian: "And I like it already."
:Damon: "Julian makes her happy Stefan. More time they spend together, the happier she gets, the more tragic it'll be in six months when I hand deliver his heart to her."
:Stefan: "That might be a bit of a problem brother because I plan on killing the bastard... tonight."
:Julian: "I'm Julian."
:Damon: "I'm Damon."
:Julian: "Lily told me all about you."
:Alaric (to Valerie): "What are you doing?"
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==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 7x06 Promo "Best Served Cold" (HD)
The Vampire Diaries 7x06 Extended Promo - Live Through This HD
The Vampire Diaries 7x06 Webclip - Best Served Cold HD
The Vampire Diaries 7x06 Webclip 2 - Best Served Cold HD
The Vampire Diaries Inside Best Served Cold HD
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2015-11-13_Ian_Somerhalder_Paul_Wesley_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder
2015-11-13_Kat_Graham_Michael_Malarkey_Twitter.jpg|Kat Graham, Michael Malarkey
2015-11-13_Paul_Wesley_Ethan_Andrew_Casto_Twitter.jpg|Paul Wesley, Ethan Andrew Casto
2015-11-13_Ethan_Andrew_Casto_Twitter.jpg|Paul Wesley, Ethan Andrew Casto
2015-11-12_Annie_Wersching_Todd_Lasance_Instagram.jpg|Todd Lasance, Annie Wersching
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2015-09-09_Michael_Malarkey.jpg|Michael Malarkey September 9, 2015
2015-09-08_Ian_Somerhalder_Paul_Wesley.jpg|Ian Somerhalder September, , Paul Wesley September 2015
2015-09-08_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|©Annie Wersching September 8, 2015
2015-09-05_Ian_Somerhalder_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder September 5, 2015
2015-09-04_Michael_Malarkey_Instagram.jpg|Michael Malarkey September 4, 2015
2015-09-04_18-10_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|Michael Malarkey September 4, 2015
2015-10-08_Paul_Wesley_Cornell_Willis_Instagram.jpg|Paul Wesley, Cornell Willis September 4, 2015
2015-10-07_Ian_Somerhalder_Cornell_Willis_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder, Cornell Willis September 4, 2015
2015-09-04_05-24_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|Annie Wersching Cornell Willis September 4, 2015
2015-09-04_01-15_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder, Annie Wersching September 4, 2015
2015-09-04_00-37_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|©Annie Wersching September 4, 2015
2015-09-04_Darren_Genet_Trevor_Stott_Instagram.jpg|Darren Genet September 4, 2015
2015-09-03_Ian_Somerhalder_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley September 3, 2015
2015-09-03_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|©Annie Wersching September 3, 2015
2015-09-03_23-20_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|©Annie Wersching September 3, 2015
2015-09-03_05-17_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|©Annie Wersching September 3, 2015
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Seven
Category:Episodes featuring all main characters
Category:Flashforward episodes