A View to a Kill

A View to a Kill is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of The Vampire Diaries and the seventy-eighth episode of the series.
==Summary==
DANGEROUS LIAISONS — When Rebekah turns down Klaus' plea to stop Kol and to protect Jeremy, Klaus turns to Stefan for help. After an angry confrontation with her father, Mayor Hopkins, over his unconventional approach to ending the violence in Mystic Falls, Bonnie has a frightening run-in with Kol, followed by an unexpected visitor. Klaus complicates the already tense feelings between Stefan and Damon by revealing a bit of Stefan's personal life, then surprises Damon by asking for personal advice. Elena tells Stefan about her dangerous plan for Jeremy, leaving Stefan in a difficult spot. When the high school's 1980s Decade Dance is cancelled by Mayor Hopkins, Stefan finds a charming way to make it up to a disappointed Rebekah.https://www.ksitetv.com/vampire-diaries/vampire-diaries-4-12-a-view-to-a-kill-official-description/18668
==Plot==
Stefan tries to leave the house after sleeping with Rebekah, but is immediately met by Klaus. He wants Rebekah to give him the dagger to neutralize Kol, but she refuses, and Klaus asks Stefan to talk her into it.
Jeremy stays inside the house to avoid Kol and plays video games with Matt while Elena calls Bonnie, who is setting up the gym for the 1980s Dance as a favor to Caroline. Elena reveals her plan to have Jeremy kill Kol, and, in turn, Kol's bloodline to finish the Hunter's Mark, free Damon from compulsion and get rid of Kol all at once. When she tries to do the dishes, Elena gets burned by the water: Rudy has put vervain into the town's water supply and cancels the dance. He tells Bonnie to come home to have a family meeting. On her way out, she has a brief fearful encounter with Kol. He tries to kill her to prevent everyone from finding the cure, but she uses her magic to get away.
Stefan leaves Klaus to watch over Damon while he stays locked up to keep him from killing Jeremy and give him blood. Klaus reveals Stefan's night with Rebekah to an amused Damon and stays in the cell with him. Klaus ponders how Elena always forgives Damon for any bad deed he does, as the sire bond can't have anything to do with it. Realizing Klaus is worried Caroline will never forgive him for killing Carol, Damon explains that Elena forgives him because his intentions were overall good; Klaus does bad deeds for no particular reason or selfish motives, making Damon the more forgivable one.
Elena calls Kol to call a truce on finding the cure as a way to trap and kill him. Kol insists on being invited into the Gilbert house, so Jeremy lets him in and leaves. Having told Stefan her plan, he is supposed to get the dagger from Rebekah so she can be neutralized. Trying to stall Kol as Jeremy goes to get Bonnie, Kol explains that Silas being released will unleash Hell on Earth, so it is best to leave the cure alone. He also has the White Oak Stake on him, leaving it difficult to obtain it.
Rebekah is disappointed the dance is canceled, so Stefan takes her there anyhow to give Matt time to find the dagger and use it on her. However, Rebekah has it on her person to keep it safe. Rebekah admits she wants to be human again and have a normal life. Jeremy shows up at Bonnie's house to get her, but meets her father instead, who refuses to let her leave. Shane's warning causes Rudy to insist on keeping Bonnie away from danger. Abby appears and wants Bonnie to stay away from Elena. Jeremy leaves at Bonnie's urging to talk sense into her parents, but her mother drugs her.
Kol leaves before Bonnie is able to arrive. Jeremy enters without her and explains the situation, and they discuss how the plan failed. Unfortunately, Kol hears the conversation and becomes enraged. As he has been invited in, they are forced to avoid him as he stalks the house to kill Elena and cut off Jeremy's arm, as killing him will cause the Hunter's Curse to affect him. He calls Klaus, assuming he was in on the plan, and Klaus immediately leaves Damon.
Abby tries to contact witches to wipe Bonnie's mind of all the things Shane taught her, but Bonnie uses her powers on her mother to stop her. She declares the spirits no longer have control over her and apologizes for hurting her mother. Unable to stop her, Rudy and Abby have no choice but to let her leave to help Elena.
Elena and Jeremy manage to avoid Kol for a time with weapons to slow him down, but he impales Elena to a wall with a stair beam and takes Jeremy to the kitchen to cut off his arm. Elena manages to break free and save him at the last minute and Jeremy uses the White Oak Stake on Kol; he screams in pain as he bursts into flames and dies. However, Klaus has just arrived and seen the whole thing. Elena and Jeremy try to point out it was necessary to get the cure, but Klaus reveals he no longer cares about making hybrids: he intended to destroy the cure when it was found. Unable to enter the house, he resigns to burning it down with Elena and Jeremy in it, but Bonnie arrives and has Jeremy invite him in. She traps him in the house with a spell for a few days. Jeremy takes the stake with him before they depart.
Stefan tells Rebekah about Kol's death and she is distraught to discover Stefan was in on it. Stefan argues it was almost inevitable as Kol would never have allowed them to find the cure. He offers to keep the partnership up and she agrees.
Jeremy, Elena, and Bonnie wait for the mark to grow and Damon appears, no longer compelled. Stefan arrives and admits Rebekah is not neutralized, to Elena's shock and Damon's annoyance. Damon outs Stefan's sleeping with Rebekah, and hits Stefan when the latter accuses Damon taking advantage of Elena's sire bond. Before things get worse, the mark finally completes itself, and everyone can see it.
==Cast==
===Main Cast===
*Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert
*Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
*Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
*Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert
*Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett
*Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
*Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes (credit only)
*Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood (credit only)
*Joseph Morgan as Niklaus Mikaelson
===Recurring Cast===
*Claire Holt as Rebekah Mikaelson
*Rick Worthy as Rudy Hopkins
*Nathaniel Buzolic as Kol Mikaelson
===Guest Cast===
*Persia White as Abby Bennett Wilson
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Kol Mikaelson and Niklaus Mikaelson.
*Kol's vampire visage is seen for the first time when he attacks Bonnie.
*Vervain is put into the town's water supply by Bonnie's father Rudy Hopkins, who is the new interim mayor. Previously, Caroline's father Bill proposed that the town do the same at a Founder's Council meeting.
*Damon's compulsion to kill Jeremy ends with Kol's death.
*Jeremy's Hunter's Mark is completed after he kills Kol, and ultimately his sireline, with the White Oak Stake.
*Klaus and Kol are both invited into the Gilbert House for the first time; in Kol's case, he came back a second time some time after he was first granted entry.
*When Kol says he can't kill Jeremy with his own two hands or he'll suffer the hunter's curse, he says "hands" in Nathaniel Buzolic's natural Australian accent, rather than Kol's usual English accent. This variance can be justified as a result of Kol's world travels.
*Kol tells Elena that all of his family lived in New Orleans (except for Finn who was daggered at the time).
==Body Count==
*Kol Mikaelson - Staked; killed by Jeremy Gilbert
*Kol's Sireline - Sireline death; indirectly killed by Jeremy through Kol's death
==Continuity==
*Abby was last seen in Before Sunset.
*Katherine was mentioned. She was last seen as a hallucinations in We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes.
*Carol was mentioned. She was last seen in O Come, All Ye Faithful.
*Lexi was mentioned. She was last seen in We'll Always Have Bourbon Street.
*Finn was mentioned. He was last seen in The Murder of One.
==Locations==
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Rebekah's House
**Mystic Falls High School
**Salvatore Boarding House
**Gilbert House
**Bennett House
==Behind the Scenes==
*This episode had about 2.57 million viewers in the USA, which was 0.14 million less than the previous episode.
*Hashtag during the airing is #VampsWannaHaveFun
==Cultural References==
* is the fourteenth spy film of the  and the seventh and last Bond film to star . It's also the title of a stand alone by which was also in the same movie.
*Bonnie mentions that she only made 89 red balloons which is a reference to 's song "".
*Shoulder pads were considered by many the worst fashion offense of the '80s. Love them or hate them, they practically define much of the '80s pop fashion.
* - Microsoft's game console.
*Xbox brains - there is a misconception that people who play too many video games have shorter attention spans and can't concentrate on anything for longer than ten minutes. Other people blame it on TV - ten minutes is usually the interval between two sets of commercial breaks.
*Mary Sue -  A character who is created to be admired, envied or pitied rather than empathized. It is often a fanfiction author's avatar. The fictional universe bends around Mary Sue - all the other characters are obsessed with her.
* - English band formed in 1976. Considered Pop-Punk reached the apex of success in 1987 with the album .
*Lloyd Dobler - 's character in the 1989 movie .
* - popular name of a large cassette player with two loudspeakers. They packed loud music into a "portable" (for the time) device. Some were as big as a small suitcase - but they still could be carried around and operated in batteries.
* - 1987 romantic comedy adventure by . It's often listed as one of 100 best movies and is considered a .
* -  1985 coming of age movie directed by . Considered one of the best high school movies of all times. This movie featured corridor surfing.
* - a small bouquet used on a woman's dress or wrist. In the USA it is customary for a man to buy his date a corsage.
*Rebekah's outfit at the dance is somewhat reminiscent of many worn by around the time of her 1983 debut album, . It also resembles those worn by and others in the late '80s.
* - one who is trained to escape from restrains and other traps.
* - a fictional character by Marvel. He is a gigantic green superstrong mutant. Damon mentions him while in the cell, and later, when Kol's line of vampires die and Jeremy's Hunter's mark completes, he "hulks out" and rips his shirt just like  used to do in the TV Series .
*A pot of gold is supposed to be at the end of the rainbow -  but not the cure.
==Quotes==
:Damon: "If you're gonna be bad, be bad with a purpose."
:Elena (to Bonnie): "I want Jeremy to kill Kol"
:Bonnie (to Elena): "You want him to kill an Original?"
:Klaus (to Stefan): "If you let Kol roam free, we can kiss the map to the cure goodbye."
:Kol (to Bonnie): "No one can get to the cure if you're too dead to find it."
:Kol (outside the Gilbert home to Elena, Jeremy and Matt on the inside): "Open the door and invite me in."
:Jeremy (to Elena): "We need Bonnie's help."
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:Elena: "Oh, my God."
:Stefan: "They may be dysfunctional lunatics, but they stick together no matter what."
:Elena: "We need to find the dagger and use it on Rebekah."
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:Rebekah: "This is my place, Nik, and I don't appreciate you invading my privacy like some kind of creeping Tom."
:Klaus: "Well, I apologize for breaking up this sordid little tryst, but I do have some urgent business... or have you forgotten our paranoid brother, Kol, is running around with the white oak stake and homicide on the brain?"
:Rebekah: "He tried to kill me last night. I didn't forget."
:Klaus: "Yes, well, unfortunately, he seems to have absconded with my set of daggers."
:Rebekah: "Oh, poor Nik. However will you get your way without your precious daggers? They were so handy when you wanted to end a conversation with one of us!"
:Klaus: "Kol's irrational fear of Silas has pushed him over the edge. We need to put him down before he does anymore damage. Now, I know you have the last dagger, and I know you seem to have some white oak ash, so hand it over."
:Rebekah: "Mm-hmm, and leave myself unprotected? You can file that request under "no chance in hell." Be gone by the time I have showered, lurkers aren't welcome here."
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:Klaus: "Hello, mate."
:Damon: "What the hell are you doing here?"
:Klaus: "Babysitting."
:Damon: "Oh!"
:Stefan (about Damon): "Give him a vial of blood every couple of hours so he doesn't desiccate. If he gets too much strength back, or if he just annoys you, bleed him out again."
:Damon (about Stefan to him then to Klaus): "Silent treatment, huh? Is that your best shot? He's still pissed at me for sleeping with Elena."
:Klaus (to Damon about Stefan): "You sure about that? ´Cause I caught him trying to sneak out of Rebekah's bed this morning, which would suggest to me, he's moved on."
:Damon (to both of them): "Well, well. Looks like my brother ripped a page out of my revenge-sex handbook."
:Stefan (to both of them then to Klaus): "Oh, well, why don't you two enjoy your little... uh... villain bonding time. I'll let you know when I get the dagger from Rebekah." (He leaves)
:(Klaus smirks)
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:Rebekah: "So is everything about the '80's so... excessive?"
:Stefan: "It had it's charm. Say Anything, Lloyd Dobler standing outside of a bedroom window with a boombox over his head, desperately trying to get back the girl of his dreams. Princess Bride, Wesley slays giant rats for love. Breakfast Club, one detention turns a bunch of outcasts into allies."
:Rebekah: "So it was a decade of sentimental drivel as well?"
:Stefan: "Well, I was gonna say love, friendship, possibility of anything happening. You would've loved it."
:Rebekah: "And why is that?"
:Stefan: "Because as much as we both hate to admit it, we care about those things."
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:Rebekah: "What's going on with you? You're... fun tonight."
:Stefan: "I can't listen to this music without thinking of my best friend, Lexi. We spent most of the '80s together. I remember this one time she snuck us backstage and compelled half the band to do tequila shots with us before the show. She was fearless. Kinda like you."
:Rebekah: "So, you slept with her, too?"
:Stefan: "No, it wasn't like that. I was just a better person when I was with her. I didn't think I'd ever feel that way again."
:Rebekah: "Until Elena."
:Stefan: "Until Elena. And now that's over."
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:Kol (to Bonnie): "No one can get to the cure if you're too dead to find it."
==Multimedia==
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Four