Cold as Ice

Cold as Ice is the ninth episode of the seventh season of The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and forty-second episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
THE SALVATORES ARE COMING TO TOWN — With the holidays in full swing, a search for Julian leads Damon and Stefan to a small town outside of Mystic Falls. While managing a holiday toy drive at Whitmore College, Bonnie seeks help from Nora and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Elsewhere, Caroline does her best to navigate her new life as a pregnant vampire, while Alaric grows concerned that the pregnancy is effecting her more than she's letting on. Finally, after finding himself at odds with Damon, Stefan is forced to take matters into his own hands, setting off a tragic chain of events that leaves their lives changed forever. 
==Plot==
Damon, Stefan, Nora and Valerie put Lily to rest. Later, as Christmas rings in the air, Stefan and Damon's search for Julian leads them to a town outside Mystic Falls. While they search based on Bonnie's locator spell-given address, they end their search at a bar filled with dead Santa's. After a while, Julian appears and there is a tiff between the brothers and him which later aggravates back home. Meanwhile, Nora becomes friendly with Bonnie during a toy drive. Alaric fears that Caroline is struggling with her pregnancy as her blood feeding urges keep her on the edge. Caroline shares a heart-to-heart talk with Sheriff Forbes' gravestone. Valerie teams with Stefan to abduct Mary Louise in order to force Julian to come out in the open and fight. Later, an unseen being whisks the unconscious Mary Louise away. The Salvatore brothers-Julian fight finally leads to Damon being staked by the Phoenix stone-dagger and getting trapped inside his hell. The same happens for Stefan as a revenge-seeking Nora pushes the dagger inside him, after siphoning out Bonnie's magic. It is shown that Damon is reliving his Civil War days while being trapped in the Phoenix stone - where he is gravely injured and scared.
Flashforward: Three years from now in Chicago, Stefan is picking up some stuff from Valerie's place. He burned his Porsche so he has to borrow her car to travel to Dallas to rescue Damon. She wants to go with him, but he refuses to let her come along. Valerie says that if something should happen to him, she will rain hell down on anyone responsible and they part with a kiss.
==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 (credit only)
*Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman
*Michael Malarkey as Enzo (credit only)
===Special Recurring Guest Star===
*Annie Wersching as Lily Salvatore (corpse)
===Recurring Cast===
*Elizabeth Blackmore as Valerie Tulle
*Scarlett Byrne as Nora Hildegard
*Teressa Liane as Mary Louise
*Todd Lasance as Julian
===Co-Starring===
*Tenaya Cleveland as Granola Instructor
*Kai N. Ture as Little Girl
*Dayna Stephens as Parent
*Daniel James Baldock as Other Parent
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Julian and Nora.
*This episode has internal present day time jump after the teaser featuring Lily's funeral of several weeks after as stated by Julian.
*In the 3 years from now flash forward, 2016, Stefan is seen living in Chicago with Valerie who he is once more involved with. Valerie wants to go with Stefan to help him take on the Huntress to save Caroline and Damon but Stefan doesn't want to risk losing her too. She tells him if anything happens to him she will make whoever hurt him suffer.
*Infuriated by Lily's death, Julian goes on a killing spree.
*Julian introduces Stefan and Damon to some of the vampires he's turned. Only one of them is recently turned by him.
*Both Damon (by Julian) and Stefan (by Nora) are killed by the completed sword with the Phoenix Stone.
*It's revealed by Julian that the Phoenix Stone is meant as a place to make vampire souls suffer when they are killed with the completed sword in their own personal hell. We see a glimpse of Damon's near at the end of the episode.
*Valerie and Stefan took Mary Louise as hostage to lure Julian.
**However, this plan failed resulting to not just Bonnie being siphoned and Stefan trapped inside the stone, but also Nora defecting from their side.
==Body Count==
*Sunberry Santa - Slain; killed by Julian
*Damon Salvatore - Stabbed with the Phoenix Sword; killed by Julian
*Stefan Salvatore - Stabbed with the Phoenix Sword; killed by Nora Hildegard
==Continuity==
*Bonnie and Alaric were last seen in Mommie Dearest.
==Locations==
*Chicago, Illinois
**Apartment (flashforward)
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Mystic Falls Cemetery
**Salvatore Boarding House
*McKinley, Virginia
**Whitmore College
***Common Dorm Room
***Scull Bar
***Caroline and Bonnie's Dorm Room
**Whitmore Hospital
**Alaric's apartment
*Sunbury
**Bar
*Pregnancy class
*Battlefield (Phoenix Stone)
==Behind the Scenes==
* In the Santa bar, Todd Lasance (Julian) went to lift one of the dead Santa dummies only to jump when he realized it was an actual person. 
* During shooting, one of the dead Santas fell asleep and started to snore, ruining a take.
* In the spirit of the holidays (even though it was October), episode 709 was big on family visits. Both Ian's [Somerhalder] and Candice's [King] moms came to hang out and watch the magic happen.
* Did Caroline and Alaric's hippie birthing coach seem authentic? She should, because in real life she lives on a commune.
*Hashtag during the airing is #SantasSlay
==References==
*"" is a 1977 song by the band Foreigner.
**The song was sampled by hip-hop duo M.O.P. in 2001.
* founded in 1947 by Major Bill Hendricks run by the US Marine Corps Reserve distribute toys to children whose parents cannot afford to buy them gifts for Christmas.
* is an annual mass gathering and in which people dressed in Santa Claus costumes or as other Christmas characters parade in several cities around the world. It has been variously also known as Santarchy, Santa Rampage, the Red Menace, and Santapalooza.
==Quotes==
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|-|Promo=
: Damon (to Stefan): "Merry Christmas brother." 
: Damon (to Stefan): "Eggnog?" 
: Damon (to Stefan): "You gotta be kidding me...." 
: Damon: "We have a lot of disappointed faces Christmas morning." 
|-|Extended Promo=
: Damon (to Stefan): "Merry Christmas brother." 
: Damon (to Stefan): "Eggnog?" 
: Caroline (to Stefan): "Wait till you see me. I popped this week." 
: Damon (to Stefan): "You gotta be kidding me...." 
: Damon: "We have a lot of disappointed faces Christmas morning." 
|-|Webclip 1=
: Damon: "Just so we're clear, me helping you kill Julian is your Christmas present, so don't be expecting any socks or a TV or anything."
: Stefan: "Yeah, be we gotta find him to kill him."
: Damon: "We will. Bonnie did a locator spell and she said Sunberry. We're in Sunberry so....Oops. I'm dry. Pit Stop."
: Damon: "Merry Christmas brother. Think we found him."
|-|Webclip 2=
: Mary: "Julian's not here. If that's what you're worried about."
: Valerie: "Is he coming back?"
: Mary: "None of your concern."
: Valerie: "I left a few things. I'll just...grab them and be on my way."
: Mary: "Have you seen her?"
: Valerie: "Which wagon? "
: Mary: "This is your fault, you know. This...fracturing."
: Valerie: "Yeah if only I hadn't fallen in love and place my pregnant womb in front of Julian's boot."
: Mary: "Sticking to your story are you?"
: Valerie: "It's not a story."
: Mary: "If by some stretch of the imagination it's not, the timing if awfully suspect isn't it?"
: Valerie: "What's that supposed to mean?"
: Mary: "Well, you had over a hundred years to tell this story. And you only did once you were back in Stefan's life. Till it served you. Gained you sympathy."
: Valerie: "I always thought you were the nice one. That you had a heart deep down Guess I was wrong. Nora will blossom without you."
|-|Inside clip=
: Damon (to Lily): "One swift stab straight through the heart. Let's get this over with."
: Julian: "No! Lily!"
: Stefan: "I promise I'll make this right." 
: Damon: "Just so we're clear, me helping you kill Julian is your Christmas present, so don't be expecting any socks or a TV or anything."
: Stefan: "Yeah."
: Nora: "Let me guess. Hot cocoa and vervain?" 
: Bonnie: "Close. Bourbon." 
: Bonnie: "You and Mary Louise... broke up. You need to move on and become your own person."
: Bonnie: "She's dead to you." 
: Mary: "Am I?" (To Nora): "Can we talk?"
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==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 7x09 Promo "Cold As Ice" (HD) Mid-Season Finale
The Vampire Diaries 7x09 Extended Promo "Cold As Ice" (HD) Mid-Season Finale
The Vampire Diaries 7x09 (Mid-Season Finale) Webclip 1 - Cold as Ice HD
The Vampire Diaries Cold as Ice Scene The CW
The Vampire Diaries - Inside Cold as Ice HD
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2015-10-06_Brian_Young_Kat_Graham_Instagram.jpg|Kat Graham, Brian Young October 6, 2015
2015-10-06_Brian_Young_Instagram.jpg|It's Christmas in Mystic Falls ©Brian Young October 6, 2015
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:Holiday episodes
Category:Flashforward episodes
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Seven