Things We Lost in the Fire

Things We Lost in the Fire is the eleventh episode of the seventh season of The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and forty-fourth episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
MICHAEL TREVINO RETURNS TO MYSTIC FALLS IN THIS EPISODE DIRECTED BY PAUL WESLEY — With the traumatic effects of the Phoenix Stone taking a toll on his brother, Stefan attempts to help Damon regain his grip on reality, while secretly struggling with his own experience in the stone. Elsewhere, Matt and Bonnie deal with the fallout after Julian and his men take over Mystic Falls, leading Matt to spiral out of control and into trouble with an officer named Penny. Meanwhile, Tyler returns to town for Alaric's baby shower and Caroline makes an upsetting discovery involving Alaric and his future plan for the babies.
==Plot==
When Damon realizes that this time he came back to real life and that he has attacked them for real, he immediately feeds Bonnie and Matt his blood to revive them. Caroline injects him with vervain. He wakes up with his hands tied in chains. Meanwhile Stefan dreams about him drowning, Damon's calling him wakes him up. Stefan explains to Damon that this was to make sure that he calms down, and that what happened wasn't his fault because he came out of the stone and thought that he was still inside. Damon asks for a bro hug but Stefan denies by saying, "Hell messes with you, but post hell is much worse."
Then Tyler shows up for Caroline's baby shower, but he was unaware of Mystic Falls' evacuation due to the Heretics, it is then revealed that Damon had been in the Phoenix stone for weeks, and in that time Julian had taken over Mystic Falls. Bonnie and Matt set up trap for Julian's men, when a dating site matchasingle.com matches them. Bonnie advices Matt to show his softer side. Two cars of Julian's men came towards them and Matt killed them with Bonnie's help saying that he has lost his soft side. 
Damon and Stefan argue about Stefan allowing Matt and Bonnie to patrol the streets. 
Stefan tells Damon about what he had to go through when Damon was in the stone. A flashback of after Stefan came out of the stone is shown where Caroline and Stefan are on a date where he hallucinates the waiter as Damon trying to hurt Caroline with a knife and attacks him. Damon promises to Stefan that he won't have a psychotic break. Stefan says that he will unchain Damon on the condition that he won't leave Stefan's side until he is convinced that Damon is okay. Stefan then leaves to get the keys for Damon's chains. Soon after he leaves Damon starts hallucinating Henry's ghost.
==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 (credit only)
===Special Guest Star===
*Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood
===Recurring Cast===
*Scarlett Byrne as Nora Hildegard
*Todd Lasance as Julian
*Evan Gamble as Henry (hallucination)
===Guest Cast===
*Ana Nogueira as Penny Ares
===Co-Starring===
*Euseph Messiah as Ellis
==Trivia==
*Damon and Stefan are still experiencing the after effects of being contained inside the Phoenix Stone with Damon severely suffering far more than his younger brother.
*Bonnie invites Nora to the baby shower telling Matt having a Heretic for a friend is better than having one as an enemy. Nora is also revealed to be the one who helped Bonnie get Stefan out of the Phoenix Stone, Matt reminds Bonnie it was also Nora who put Stefan in there.
*Nora threatens Bonnie believing she sent her the postcard with a red X on it. She thinks Bonnie knows about The Huntress (Rayna Cruz) by her weapon the Phoenix Sword.
*Bonnie tells Nora she doesn't know anything about this Huntress but if her friends are in danger she'll do anything to protect them. She tells Nora there must be something they can do about her.
*This episode reveals that Kai's "Sleeping Beauty" spell on Elena doesn't protect her from being killed, as in Damon setting her on fire to kill her. Though it's later revealed the coffin was a decoy and that it was empty.
*Matt rescues Caroline from The Huntress.
*Damon seemingly burns Elena's body.
==Body Count==
*Two street racer vampires - Shot with a wooden bullets; killed by Matt Donovan
*Ellis - Heart extraction; killed by Damon Salvatore
==Continuity==
*Tyler was last seen in I Carry Your Heart With Me.
*Elena was last seen in I'm Thinking Of You All The While.
*Alaric and Nora were last seen in Cold as Ice.
*Jo and Alaric's twins Josie Saltzman and Lizzie Saltzman were last mentioned in Cold as Ice.
*This is the first and only episode in which Nora appears without Mary Louise.
*Mary Louise, Beau, Malcolm, Valerie and Oscar were indirectly mentioned. 
**Mary Louise was last seen in Cold as Ice.
**Beau was last seen in Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me.
**Valerie was last seen in Cold as Ice.
**Malcolm was last seen in Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take.
**Oscar was last seen physically in Live Through This.
*Lily was mentioned. She was last seen in Hell Is Other People as a hallucination.
==Locations==
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Lockwood Mansion
**Town Square
**Mystic Grill
*Unknown
**Restaurant (flashback)
*McKinley, Virginia
**Whitmore College
***Common Dorm Room
**Alaric's apartment
*Greensboro, North Carolina
**Warehouse
*Grove Hill, Virginia
**Police Department
*Dallas, Texas
**KQBC Channel 3 News Studio (flashforward)
==Behind the Scenes==
*It was Paul's idea to have Tyler's doll's head fall off during the baby shower diaper-changing race. Matt's comment on his own poorly diapered doll ("Looks like a helmet") was actually an ad lib from Zach during his in-character reaction while we rolled that take.
*The underwater sequence was shot on our stages. In season 4, we built a small tank in order to drown Carol Lockwood for Christmas. By season 7, we're up to a 12,000-gallon tank. If we hit season 9, we'll be able to film Titanic 2. Directed by Paul Wesley, written by Julie Plec.
*This episode's title is based on one of my favorite scripts of all time, a film written by Allen Loeb. That script is an extraordinary piece of material and a must-read for any budding writer.
*Hashtag during the airing is #SexyWesley
==Cultural References==
* is a 2007 drama film directed by Susanne Bier and written by Allan Loeb, starring Halle Berry and Benicio del Toro. Julie Plec said that she based the title on this movie.https://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/05/vampire-diaries-julie-plec-diary-the-things-we-lost-in-the-fire
*"" is the eighth episode of the twelfth season of the American television medical drama Grey's Anatomy, and the 253rd episode overall. It aired on November 19, 2015 on ABC in the United States.
*"" is the sixth single by British indie rock band Bastille from their debut studio album Bad Blood. The song was released on August 23, 2013 and was played in the twenty-second episode of the fourth season of The Vampire Diaries.
* is a 2001 album by Low, their fifth full-length release. In 2006, the album was performed live in its entirety as part of the All Tomorrow's Parties-curated Don't Look Back series.
==Quotes==
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|-|Promo=
: Damon: "I'm a hundred percent okay."
: Henry: "Peak-A-Boo."
: Caroline: "Something happened in that hell world! Something that you won't admit!"
: Stefan: "If wanted to survive. I had to go on without him. So I let him go."
|-|Extended Promo=
: Stefan: "Hell messes with you. Post hell is much worse."
: Damon: "I'm a hundred percent okay."
: Henry: "Peak-A-Boo."
: Caroline (to Stefan):"Something happened in that hell world!"
: Damon (to Henry): "Can't you find someone else to haunt!?"
: Caroline (to Stefan):"Something that you won't admit!"
: Stefan: "If wanted to survive. I had to go on without him. So I let him go."
|-|Webclip #1=
: Caroline: "Hey. How did you do that?"
: Alaric: "Well it's a diaper, not a bomb. Though I could dismantle a bomb blindfolded if I needed to."
: Caroline: "Ha. Ha. There's nothing funnier than newborns and C4."
: Alaric: "So I shouldn't store my explosives in the nursery? I think I read that one in the 20 parenting magazines you left in my office."
: Caroline: "Okay. Okay, I get it. I'm the overprotective no-fun surrogate."
: Alaric: "No. No. Actually, you are...and incredibly generous friend who I will forever be indebted to."
: Caroline: "Well it's not about debt. As long as you understand. Once these babies are born, I will not be on call 24/7 to burp and bathe and feed and diaper...."
: Alaric: "I get it, Caroline. I don't expect that to be your problem."
: Caroline: "Well it's not a problem. It's just that there's...Ooph! Baby A just kicked!"
: Alaric: "What she did? Really? Oh damn! My daughter's in it!"
: Caroline: "Oh yeah. There goes Baby B."
: Alaric: "What you can tell them apart?"
: Caroline: "Of course!"
: Alaric: "Oh..."
|-|Webclip #2=
: Damon: "No vervain this time? Are we switching up the menu?"
: Stefan: "I just wanted to make sure you had a chance to calm down."
: Damon: "Oh I'm calm. No. No. No. You're going to say to me, you're going to say that I screwed up so bad and nearly killed all of our friends because I thought I was stuck in that...fake hell world."
: Stefan: "You don't have to explain. It wasn't your fault."
: Damon: "Huh?"
: Stefan: "It was a honest mistake. You're getting a pass."
: Damon: "Wait...You skipped a bunch of stuff. First I say that I see the error of my ways and then you tell me that that's not good enough then you judge me harder and I say something mean but true. Totally throws you off balance."
: Stefan: "You came out of the Phoenix Stone but you thought you were still inside of it. Everybody understands."
: Damon: "Huh. That's pretty generous considering I just....stabbed your pregnant girlfriend in the chest."
: Stefan: "Yeah, well....Hell does a number on you."
: Damon: "Yeah..Yeah it does. Well I'm here...and it's real. Ready for my bro hug. I wouldn't until you unchain me brother."
: Stefan: "Here's the thing Damon....Um...Hell messes with you. Post hell is much worse."
: Damon: "Huh."
|-|Inside clip=
: Damon: "None of this is real!"
: Caroline: "Damon! Don't--!"
: Damon: "No...."
: Henry: "Damon. Peak-A-Boo."
: Caroline :"Something else happened in that hell world! Something that you won't admit! You can't keep hiding like this Stefan! You can't!"
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==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 7x11 Promo "Things We Lost in the Fire" (HD)‎‎
The Vampire Diaries 7x11 Extended Promo - Things We Lost in the Fire HD
The Vampire Diaries Things We Lost in the Fire Scene The CW
The Vampire Diaries 7x11 Webclip 2 - Things We Lost in the Fire HD
The Vampire Diaries - Inside Things We Lost in the Fire HD
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Seven
Category:Flashforward episodes
Category:Flashback episodes