I Carry Your Heart With Me

I Carry Your Heart With Me is the fourth episode of the seventh season of The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and thirty-seventh episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
HEAVEN & HELL BALL — Just as Damon thinks he's gained the upper hand in his fight against Lily, an unexpected turn of events leaves him scrambling for a plan B. Elsewhere, when the fallout of Damon's actions gains the unwanted attention of Mary Louise and Nora, Stefan and Caroline are forced to spend the night distracting the girls at Whitmore College's Heaven & Hell ball. Finally, after suspecting that she's up to something, Enzo sets off on a mission to find out what Valerie is hiding, while a plan set by Alaric and Bonnie leaves their worlds turned upside down. Matt also appears.
==Plot==
The episode starts with a flash forward to three years from when the show is taking place. It shows Alaric building something to try to fix a baby doll. When it doesn't work, he mutters "damn it." Two children, who are about three walk up to him and ask if it's fixed. Alaric dismisses them, telling them that it's past their bedtime. They leave to go brush their teeth, giggling. The giggling suddenly stops, causing Alaric to go check on them. He grabs a gun and slowly walks over to the door that they're standing and staring at. Damon's standing in the doorway. Ric says "step behind daddy," to the girls, proving that they're his children. Damon threatens Ric that if Ric doesn't oblige to what he wants to be done, he'll kill someone.
The episode cuts back to present day with Ric looking at the Phoenix Stone. A worker walks in and makes a sarcastic comment about Ric being in the morgue at 5 AM to which Ric replies that he needs the room for himself. Ric hands the worker money, to which the worker replies that Jo's body can't be held there anymore, as it's already been held there too long.
The scene cuts and reopens to Damon, walking down a hallway, getting a phone call from Lily, who asks to see Oscar. Once Damon tells her that he's about to wake Oscar up from a "vervain nap" Lily tells him that once he gets Elena's body back from her, she'll still be asleep and in a box. Damon hangs up the phone and opens the curtain to the room in which he's keeping Oscar's body, and finds that he isn't there. He opens the closet door and finds Oscar's dead body.
Bonnie's about to leave when Caroline wakes up and tells her that "[she'd] lost more sleep if [Bonnie] snuck out without saying 'hi.'" They hug and Bonnie tells her that she'll work on a way to unravel the skin-burning spell that Valerie put on her when she has the time. She also tells Caroline that she's helping Alaric try to connect Jo's spirit and her body using the Phoenix Stone and that her job is to let him down easily.
Stefan and Damon start arguing about how Damon was using Oscar to get back and that the way Stefan sees it, that Elena was in more trouble than ever because of Damon. Damon accuses of Stefan of being on Lily's side, to which Stefan responds that because Damon can't be with Elena, he makes all of his bad decisions about her. The scene ends with Damon telling Stefan that he needs to get rid of Oscar's body and Stefan tells him that he has to get rid of it.
Enzo walks in to Valerie making mushroom omelettes for Oscar because he was supposed to be returning home that day. Lily walks in, telling them that Damon never showed up with Oscar, and asks Enzo for a moment alone with Valerie. Lily tells Valerie that she found out about Stefan and Valerie in 1863. Valerie defends herself and Stefan stating that it was puppy love and that they were just children and that it meant nothing. She also tells Lily that she didn't want to tell her because she was fragile at the time. Lily asks why Valerie put Stefan through thinking that she was going to come back for him. Valerie apologizes and tells Lily that there's nothing more that she's holding back. Valerie turns to leave claiming that she needs to look for Oscar, to which Lily tells her that it wouldn't be necessary.
Nora and Mary Louise go to the university in which Stefan and Damon are to ask for Oscar back, while they're moving his body. Mary Louise asks for Oscar back and Damon tells her that he just left. Damon tells Nora that he's been binging hence the reason he smells like blood. She walks around breaking things until Damon changes his story, saying that Oscar knocked him out and took off and that he lost his bargaining chip. Mary Louise asks why Oscar hadn't been answering the phone, while in the background you see Nora walking toward the bathroom. The music gets suspenseful and Stefan looks and when he glances forward again he looks worried. Nora opens the bathroom door and she finds nothing. Aggravated, she turns around and asks why she doesn't believe him. The girls leave and it's revealed that they hung Oscar's body out the window. They bring his body in and put it on the couch. Behind them, a girl walks into the room with a letter from Nora saying "For every hour that Oscar isn't returned, a Whitmore student will die starting now." Abruptly the student stabs herself in the neck.
==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
*Tim Kang as Oscar/Unknown
===Co-Starring===
*Alan Wells as Med Tech
*Tierney Mumford as Lizzie
*Lily Rose Mumford as Josie
*Pamela Ricardo as Bartender
*Randy Havens as Tour Guide
===Uncredited===
*Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood
==Trivia==
*Stefan reveals that it has been 4 months since the events of I'm Thinking Of You All The While.
*Bonnie resurrects two unknown characters by placing them both in Oscar and Jo's corpses with the help of the Phoenix Stone. They are also the first supernatural characters brought back to life since the Other Side ceased to exist at the end of Season 5.
*The 2016 flash forward shows Alaric and Jo's twins.
*The Phoenix Stone is Native American in origin according to Bonnie as she's telling Caroline it's a little sketchy as she plans on talking Alaric out of bringing back Jo with it.
*The shown side effect of the Phoenix Stone on bringing back a vampire, Oscar, is a ravenous thirst for blood and even attacking those you would consider family or friend as evidenced when Oscar went after Lily as she tried talking him down after he just killed bus full of people.
*It's revealed that Oscar has Ripper-like tendencies when he feeds but isn't one himself like Lily or her son Stefan.
*Nora siphons the magic cast by Valerie from Caroline.
*At first, both Nora and Mary Louise refuse to help siphon Valerie's spell on Caroline, stating how if Valerie finds out she'll do something much worse.
*Damon, after getting Elena's body back at the ruins of the old Salvatore estate, begins writing in a journal for Elena. In his first entry it says that it'll surprise her when she wakes up. Just like his sleeping girlfriend, Damon writes that he doesn't know who he is without her, just as she wrote about Damon. He is also saying goodbye to her until she wakes.
*Tyler takes possession of Elena's casket, which eventually ends up in 2016 Brooklyn, at Damon's request to remove it from Mystic Falls to both to keep her safe but keep himself out of danger protecting her. This after talking with Lily.
==Continuity==
*Beau is mentioned. He was last seen in Never Let Me Go.
*Matt Donovan and Enzo were last seen in Never Let Me Go.
*The "Heaven & Hell Ball" is the third dance that Caroline has attended at Whitmore College. The first being the "Historical Ball" in Monster's Ball and the second being the "Bitter Ball" in Total Eclipse of the Heart both in Season 5.
*Damon mentioned the time he waited for Katherine, saying there was a bottle of wine he wanted to open for her, but he didn't, and the bottle kept aging on the shelf.
*The tour guide mentioned Grove Hill, Virginia, which is a place Isobel grew up in.
*Damon referred to Lily as "Mommy Dearest", which is a title of a future episode.
==Locations==
*Dallas, Texas
**Alaric's apartment (flashforward)
*McKinley, Virginia
**Whitmore Hospital
**Whitmore College
***Common Dorm Room
***Caroline and Bonnie's Dorm Room
**Alaric's apartment
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Salvatore Boarding House
**Mystic Falls Cemetery
**Mystic Grill
**Salvatore Estate ruins
==Body Count==
*The Girl who brought a note from Nora and Mary Louise — stabbed in the neck with a pen (compelled); killed by Nora and Mary Louise
*Bartender — heart extraction; killed by Mary Louise
*The Man who rode into Mystic Falls — blood loss; killed by Unknown (in Oscar's body)
*Tour Guide and ten tourists, Anna, Lily Wynn, Tori Loren, Kinsey Dziwura — blood loss; killed by Unknown (in Oscar's body)
==Behind the Scenes==
*Filming began on August 23, 2015.
*Julie Plec says this episode is the show's Halloween episode.
*This episode had about 1.24 million viewers in the USA.
*In his diary entry to Elena, Damon's perspective on wine was inspired by a conversation that Ian [Somerhalder] had with Caroline Dries over Damon's hobbies.https://ew.com/article/2015/10/29/vampire-diaries-julie-plec-diary-i-carry-your-heart-with-me/
==Cultural References==
*The title of this episode refers to the famous poem I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart), written by the poet E.E. Cummings in 1952.
* is a 1984 American supernatural horror comedy.
==Quotes==
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:Damon: "You gotta be kidding me."
:Matt: "Pack it up and get out."
:Professor: "There's no real danger here."
:Professor: "Any questions before the final stop on our tour?"
:College Student: "When does this get scary?"
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:Damon: "You gotta be kidding me."
:Damon: "We need to get rid of this body."
:Stefan: "No. No. No. You need to get rid of this body."
:Mary Louise: "Where's Oscar?"
:Damon: "You just missed him!"
:Matt: "Pack it up and get out."
:Professor: "There's no real danger here."
:Damon (to Bonnie and Alaric): "We gotta bring this guy back to life."
:Professor: "Any questions before the final stop on our tour?"
:College Student: "When does this get scary?"
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:Caroline: "Mmm hmmm..."
:Bonnie: "I didn't want to wake you."
:Caroline: "Well, I would lose more sleep if you just snuck out without saying hi!"
:Bonnie: "Hi!"
:Caroline: "Hmmm...I missed this!"
:Bonnie: "Am I gonna catch fire?"
:Caroline: "No! I just can't touch vampires. Valerie basically turned my skin into vervain."
:Bonnie: "I'll work on unraveling the spell when I -"
:Caroline: "Stop! We have so much to catch up on. Let's just go shopping for Halloween costumes and we can worry about magic later."
:Bonnie: "Kind of worrying about magic already. Alaric think we can reunite Jo's spirit with her body, but he's in some sketchy need of American resurrection stone. My job is to crush his dreams in the most gentle way possible."
:Caroline: "Wow! Okay...you don't think it'll even work?"
:Bonnie: "I think it should. The Other Side is gone, there's no more Gemini Prison world, which means Jo's spirit...is probably in peace."
:Caroline: "Our lives are weird."
:Bonnie: "Tell me about it."
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:Valerie: "Have you done your duty to the family and found Julian yet?"
:Oscar: "I found him months ago."
:Valerie: "But Julian is the devil. I can't let Lily bring him back."
:Damon: "Mother. Tell me you have Elena."
:Lily: "Let me speak to Oscar."
:Damon: "No can do. Not until I wake him up from his little vervain nap."
:Mary Louise: "Where's Oscar?"
:Damon: "You just missed him!"
:Mary Louise (to Nora): "Come Nora."
:Stefan (to Caroline): "I have come up with the genius plan to keep them occupied while Damon sorts out his Oscar problem."
:Nora: "What's this?"
:Caroline: "Just some silly Heaven and Hell Ball."
:Nora: "We're going!"
:Damon (to Bonnie and Alaric): "We gotta bring this guy back to life. Now."
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==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 7x04 Promo "I Carry Your Heart With Me" (HD)
The Vampire Diaries 7x04 Extended Promo "I Carry Your Heart With Me" (HD)
The Vampire Diaries 7x04 Webclip 1 - I Carry Your Heart With Me HD
The Vampire Diaries Inside Carry Your Heart with Me
Rehash Episode Two The CW
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2016-03-02_Matthew_DAmbrosio_Instagram.jpg|Matthew D'Ambrosio
2016-03-03_Kat_Graham_Instagram.jpg|©Kat Graham
2015-10-30_Colin_Heath_Instagram.jpg|©Colin Duran
2015-10-30_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|©Annie Wersching
2015-10-29_20-56_Matt_Davis_Kat_Graham_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|Matthew Davis, Kat Graham
2015-10-29_20-49_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|©Neil Reynolds
2015-10-29_20-42_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|©Neil Reynolds
2015-10-29_20-32_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|©Neil Reynolds
2015-10-29_20-30_Tony_Griffin_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|Tony Griffin
2015-10-29_20-27_Jeffry_Hunt_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|Jeffrey Hunt
2015-10-29_20-26_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|©Neil Reynolds
2015-10-29_20-16_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|©Neil Reynolds
2015-10-29_20-12_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|©Neil Reynolds
2015-10-28_Neil_Reynolds_Twitter.jpg|©Neil Reynolds
2015-08-24_Jeffrey_Hunt_Instagram.jpg|Paul Wesley, Jeffrey Hunt, Ian Somerhalder August 24, 2015
2015-08-22_Neil_Reynolds_Instagram.jpg|©Neil Reynolds August 22, 2015
2015-08-22_Jeffrey_Hunt_Instagram.jpg|Geoff Shotz August 22, 2015
2015-08-22_Annie_Wersching_Twitter.jpg|Annie Wersching August 22, 2015
2015-08-22_Annie_Wersching_Twitter_Ian_Somerhalder.jpg|Annie Wersching, Ian Somerhalder August 22, 2015
2015-08-22_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|©Annie Wersching August 22, 2015
2015-08-22_Annie_Wersching_Instagram_Jeffrey_Hunt.jpg|Annie Wersching, Jeffrey_Hunt August 22, 2015
2015-08-21_Nei_Reynolds_Instagram.jpg|©Neil Reynolds August 21, 2015
2015-08-21_Jeffrey_Hunt_Instagram.jpg|Geoff Shotz August 21, 2015
2015-08-20_Patrick_Hanson_Trevor_Stott_Instagram.jpg|Patrick Hanson August 20, 2015
2015-08-20_Ian_Somerhalder_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder August 20, 2015
2015-08-19_Jeffrey_Hunt_Instagram.jpg|Jeffrey Hunt, Ian Somerhalder August 19, 2015
2015-08-19_Geoff_Shotz_Trevor_Stott_Instagram.jpg|Geoff Shotz August 20, 2015
2015-08-18_Annie_Wersching_Twitter.png|Paul Wesley, Annie Wersching August 18, 2015
2015-08-17_Michael_Malarkey_Instagram.jpg|©Michael Malarkey August 17, 2015
2015-08-17_Jeffrey_Hunt_Instagram.jpg|©Jeffrey_Hunt August 17, 2015
2015-08-14_Michael_Malarkey_Instagram.jpg|Michael Malarkey, Zach Roerig August 14, 2015
2015-08-14_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|©Annie Wersching August 14, 2015
2015-08-13_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|©Annie Wersching August 13, 2015
2015-08-11_Neil_Reynolds_Instagram.jpg|©Neil Reynolds August 11, 2015
2015-08-07_Jeffrey_Hunt_Instagram.jpg|©Jeffrey Hunt August 7, 2015
2015-08-05_Annie_Wersching_Instagram.jpg|Annie Wersching, Candice Accola August 5, 2015
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:Episodes featuring all main characters
Category:Flashforward episodes
Category:Holiday episodes
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Seven