True Lies

True Lies is the second episode of the fifth season of The Vampire Diaries and the ninety-first episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
MISSING PERSONS — Without telling Elena that Stefan is missing, Damon turns to Sheriff Forbes for help finding his brother. Elena and Caroline try to find out who is covering up a campus murder, and a fellow Whitmore student named Jesse gives Elena some intriguing information about Professor Wes Maxfield. While Jeremy struggles to return to his old life, he continues to be the only person who can see and talk to Bonnie, but he can't convince her that it's time to let the others know that she sacrificed her own life for his. After learning that Silas is searching for Katherine, Damon asks Matt and Jeremy to keep her out of sight, but the situation quickly spirals out of control. Finally, Nadia uses violence to make a point about her own agenda.
==Plot==
Bonnie tells Jeremy that Silas killed her father in front of everyone at the 'End of Summer' party and that the whole town is under the influence of Silas to find Katherine. Katherine is then seen walking out of the woods onto a main road. A woman driving sees her and pulls over. The woman (under Silas' influence) maces Katherine and is about to call Silas but Katherine knocks her out. Matt and Jeremy then spot her before she is able to run away and they capture her to prevent Silas from finding her.
Elena and Caroline are in their dorm room. Elena informs Caroline that she has switched their 'Intro to Communications' class for 'Microbiology', a course taught by Wes Maxfield, the man responsible for covering up Megan's actual cause of death. When they enter the classroom, Jesse spots them and tries to make conversation but Caroline rebuffs him. When Elena and Caroline are seen whispering in the back, Wes Maxfield calls the two girls out in front of the class. When it is apparent that they don't belong in the advanced course, he kicks them out.
Elena is talking on the phone to Damon about it when she sees Silas (who she thinks is Stefan) on campus. Damon tries to tell Elena that it isn't Stefan but she is compelled to hang up by Silas. He tells her that Jeremy has been expelled and tricks her into telling him where Jeremy might be with Katherine. Before he leaves, he compels her to kill Damon.
Matt, Jeremy, and Katherine are now seen pulling into a gas station. While Matt buys cold medicine for Katherine, she goes to the washroom. She tries to escape while Jeremy is fueling up but is spotted by the gas station attendant (who is also under Silas' control) and Matt is forced to knock him out before he can call Silas.
Elena is next seen talking to Jesse at the bonfire where he tells her that Professor Maxfield is rumored to be a member of a secret society on campus. Damon then arrives and knocks out Jesse. Elena takes Damon into her dorm room and forces him to drink the vervain water to weaken him and ties him up so she can kill him. Damon realizes that she is under Silas' influence and tries to convince her to fight it. He tells her everything that has happened with Stefan and Silas. In the meantime, Caroline is taking care of Jesse at the bonfire. After Caroline tells him she has a boyfriend, he confides in her about his cheating girlfriend.
Silas, with Elena's directions, tracks down Jeremy, Matt and Katherine. When Matt goes to get more firewood, Silas tries to perform mind control on him. He quickly realizes that Matt is hosting a traveler in his body and promptly kills him, but not before Matt shouts out to warn Jeremy and Katherine. Jeremy takes Katherine to the truck and tells her to flee while he returns to fight Silas. After Silas stabs Jeremy (by stabbing himself first), Katherine returns and shoots Silas. Meanwhile, Matt is on the Other Side, waiting for the ring to bring him back to life when he sees Bonnie. Bonnie tells him the truth about her being dead and he comforts her when she is afraid to acknowledge her death and her father's. When Matt returns to his body, he doesn't remember anything that happened on the Other Side. When Jeremy spots Bonnie, he runs up to her and she emotionally tells him she doesn't know what to do about her dad, and Jeremy tells her he'll be there for her and will cover for her again by telling everyone that she's gone away with family.
Silas is next seen at the gas station that Jeremy, Matt and Katherine were at hours before. He forces the attendant to feed him and encounters the two travelers who are chasing him. The man tells him that they want to put him back in the tomb, but the woman, Nadia, kills her partner and says that she has her own agenda, which Silas is able to see psychically.
The next day, Elena decides to leave Whitmore for a few days in order to find Stefan. Before she leaves, she has a talk with Professor Maxfield who tells her that he knew her father and that he was a legend in the town. At the end of the episode, Sheriff Forbes takes Damon and Elena to the safe that Stefan is locked in. When they open it however, they find a dead man who appears to have been fed on by a vampire; realizing that Stefan's bloodlust is going to be harder to control than ever.
==Cast==
===Main Cast===
*Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert/Katherine Pierce
*Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore/Silas
*Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
*Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert
*Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett
*Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes
*Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
*Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood (credit only)
===Recurring Cast===
*Marguerite MacIntyre as Liz Forbes
*Olga Fonda as Nadia
*Rick Worthy as Rudy Hopkins (archive footage)
*Kendrick Sampson as Jesse
===Guest Cast===
*Rick Cosnett as Wes Maxfield
===Co-Starring===
*Hans Obma as Gregor
*Ammie Leonards as Woman
*Russ Tiller as Cashier
*Hunter Smit as Student
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Silas, Gregor and Nadia Petrova.
*Elena mentions that she finds Wes Maxfield attractive.
*Katherine reveals that she has never used a gun in her 538 year lifespan, and makes a point of arguing that as a vampire, she was much more deadly on her own. However, Katherine saves Jeremy from being killed by Silas by shooting him twice in the chest with a shotgun. When Jeremy points out that she claimed she didn't know how to shoot a gun, Katherine admits that she figured it out.
*Silas wonders aloud what Elena sees in Damon, echoing sentiments previously stated by Caroline, Stefan, and Klaus, among others. In response, Damon jokes that it is because Silas has never had sex with him.
*When Damon refers to Silas and Stefan as being twins due to Stefan being Silas' doppelgänger, Silas states that Stefan and Damon are more like his very-distant nephews, confirming that Silas is a distant ancestor of the Salvatore Family.
*Elena sneaks to Whitmore Medical Center and steals Megan's death certificate, and after reading it, she learns that a Dr. Wesley Maxfield was the coroner who ruled her death as a suicide. So, to further investigate him to confirm whether or not he's aware of vampires, Elena compelled herself and Caroline into his Applied Microbiology class to get to know him.
*Caroline is majoring in Drama at Whitmore, and that she and Elena were both originally enrolled in Introduction to Communications until Elena re-enrolled them in Applied Microbiology instead.
*Wes Maxfield explains that Whitmore College was originally founded as a hospital during the Civil War, and also states that the origin of bonfires came from the need to burn all of the bodies who had died from various injuries and ailments during the war.
*Bonnie explains how the Gilbert ring works—every time a human dies while wearing the ring, their spirits go to the Other Side, where they have to reunite with their body in order to return to the world of the living. She also reveals that as the wearer dies more and more often while wearing the ring, their spirits awaken farther and farther away from their bodies, taking them increasingly longer amounts of times to be resurrected by the ring's magic. This explains why both Alaric and Jeremy, after being killed while wearing the rings, began staying "dead" for longer and longer periods of time as their total number of deaths increased.
*When Silas was speaking to Matt, he realized that he couldn't read his mind because someone else was already in there. He identified the person possessing him as a Traveler and asked them why he was watching him before shouting, "Odpowiedz mi!" which means "Answer me!" in Polish.
**Coincidentally, Paul Wesley is Polish and can speak the Polish language fluently.
*Elena and Damon's kissing scene at the end of this episode was declared the scene of the week in an online poll.
*Jeremy finds Katherine on "Route 9." In reality, the only Route 9 in Virginia is nowhere near where Mystic Falls is supposed to be located (near Falls Church).
**However, The Vampire Diaries is filmed in Covington, Georgia, near Atlanta, where there is a Route 9.
==Body Count==
*Gregor - Stabbed; killed by Nadia, though his spirit lived on as a passenger in Matt's body
*Cam Peterson - Drained of blood; killed by Stefan Salvatore
*Matt Donovan - Broken neck; killed by Silas but resurrected by the Gilbert Ring
==Continuity==
*Niklaus was mentioned. He was last seen in Graduation.
*Katherine's father, mother, and sister are indirectly mentioned. They were last seen in a flashback in Katerina.
==Locations==
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Salvatore Boarding House
**Steven's Quarry
*McKinley, Virginia
**Whitmore College
***Elena, Caroline and Bonnie's Dorm Room
***Wes' classroom
*The Pit Stop BAR-B-Q
==Behind the Scenes==
*This episode had about 2.14 million viewers in the USA, which was 0.45 million less than the previous episode.
*Hashtag during the airing is #TVDSearchParty
==Cultural References==
* is the title of a 1994 movie starring and , which was written and directed by .
* is a 1999 album by .
* is the 8th episode of the 2003 TV series .
==Quotes==
:Caroline: (to Elena about Tyler) "He's deferring from enrolling and deferring from returning my phone calls. So, I'm deferring from having sex with him ever again."
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:(Matt is tying up Katherine's wrists with rope while Jeremy loads up the truck)
:Katherine: "Are these ropes really necessary?"
:Jeremy: "Bullet would've been more effective, but we're trying to be nice. You crashed my car and left me to die."
:Katherine: "You were gonna hand me over to Silas to get Stefan back. I was just protecting myself."
:Matt: "How many people have you killed using that excuse? Just be glad we got you some clothes."
:Katherine: "Don't play the hero. You two are just waiting for the convenient time to hand me back over to him. I've done this a thousand times. I get it. I'm the leverage. I'm that thing that everybody wants. (She pouts in realization) I'm the freaking moonstone!"
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:(Katherine is staring at the shotgun that Matt's holding)
:Jeremy: "Don't even think about it."
:Katherine: "Please. I wouldn't even know how to use it. I've never shot a gun in my life. Didn't need to-- I was much more deadly."
:Jeremy: "Key word: was."
:Matt: "I'm gonna go get some wood for the fire. I'll be back."
:Katherine: "I survived childbirth, the death of my entire family, and five hundred years of running from an immortal hybrid. You can understand why I'm a little upset that I'm on the verge of being defeated by a sinus infection!"
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:Jeremy: "Get in the truck and drive."
:Katherine: "Where are you going?"
:Jeremy: "I can't leave Matt."
:Katherine: (stutters) "Wait. How do you think I survived five hundred years? It wasn't because I was a vampire, it's because I never looked back. Don't be dumb. Survive."
:Jeremy: "That's why people treat you like an object and not like a person."
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:Elena: "It was mortifying. We just sat there in silence."
:Damon: "You want me to beat him up?"
:Elena: "Not yet. Whatever he knows, I'm gonna get it out of him."
:Damon: "Did you compel him?"
:Elena: "No, because chances are, if he knows about vampires, then he also knows about vervain."
:Damon: "How about violence? Did you threaten him?"
:Elena: "No, I didn't threaten him."
:Damon: "Would you at least tell me you used torture?"
:Elena: "Damon!"
:Damon: "You do realize that you are dating a reformed serial killer, right?"
==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 5x02 Promo
The Vampire Diaries 5x02 Extended Promo - True Lies HD
The Vampire Diaries 5x02 True Lies - Short Canadian Promo
The Vampire Diaries 5x02 Webclip 1 - True Lies
The Vampire Diaries - True Lies Clip
The Vampire Diaries 5x02 Webclip 3
The Vampire Diaries Canadian Promo 5x02 - True Lies
The Vampire Diaries - Rehash True Lies 
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Five