Welcome to Paradise

Welcome to Paradise is the third episode of the sixth season of The Vampire Diaries and one hundred and fourteenth episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
TROUBLE AT THE SWIMMING HOLE — In an attempt to bring some fun back into their lives, Elena persuades Caroline to meet her at the swimming hole where she plans to introduce her to Liam. Tyler, still working on controlling his anger issues, asks Liv for a favor and is surprised when she makes an unexpected confession. Stefan arrives back in Mystic Falls looking for Enzo and is caught off guard when he notices a strange change in Elena. Meanwhile, at the lake, Enzo's actions cause Matt to make a startling revelation, and Jeremy makes a discovery about the anti-magic spell that could potentially put Elena's life in danger. Elsewhere, Damon and Bonnie stumble upon clues that lead them to believe they're not alone.
==Plot==
Stefan goes to his boss Dean and asks him for a few days off. Dean denies him that, so Stefan reveals that he's a vampire and then compels him to bury Ivy's body.
Meanwhile, Elena decided to throw a party and invite everyone including Liam Davis. Matt invites him friend from the militia Jay. Tyler asks Luke and Liv for a keg from the Skull Bar for the party and she ultimately agrees. Stefan arrives to Whitmore College and talks with Elena. They talk about their new life and Elena invites him to the party as well, which he happily accepts once he learns that Enzo, who killed his girlfriend, is going too. Meanwhile, Sarah moves to Salvatore Boarding House, and Jeremy and her decide to go to the party as well.
In 1994, Damon and Bonnie go about their day. Damon still doesn't believe that there's someone in their world, but Bonnie notices that the pork rinds are missing from the shelf and that someone started a small horse carrousel. Damon inspects the carrousel thinking that there's a faulty wiring. At some point, Damon sees his car that got destroyed in Home.
Meanwhile, at the party, Jay gets into a fight with Tyler, but Matt manages to stop them. Elena sees Jeremy and Sarah and tells him that he's risking by inviting a girl who was compiled to forget about her attack. Elena tries to have a moment with Caroline, Tyler and Matt, but realizes that no one is having fun like they used to. Later, Liam kisses her, but she tells him that it's a mistake.
Stefan tracks down Enzo and attacks him. During the fight, Jay attacks them, but Enzo manages to kill him first. Caroline stops any further fighting. Later Enzo drops Jay's body on Matt's truck and asks him to bury him. Meanwhile, Stefan tells Caroline about Enzo killing Ivy, but she argues that killing him won't bring her back. 
In 1994, Damon and Bonnie argue and he goes to the store to get bourbon and meets Kai. Damon drinks a bourbon from the shelf and it turns out that it's filled with vervain. Kai tries to stake him, but Bonnie stops him by using magic. Later, Damon tortures Kai who reveals that he never planned on killing him. Instead, he had hoped that Bonnie would show up and access her power. He hopes that her magic will help them get out of there.
The gang realizes that the magical border is near and that every compelled person, including Sarah, now remembers the things they we're compelled to forget or do. They search for Sarah, with no luck.
Meanwhile, Caroline decides to stay at college. Elena tells her that she overheard her and Stefan talking and that she feels like she has feelings for Stefan, which she confirms. 
Enzo enters a bar and asks for a drink. Tripp injects him with vervain, which weakens him, but he's still able to attack Tripp. Stefan arrives and shoots Enzo with wooden stakes. He reveals to Tripp that he's also a member of one of the founding families and tries to finish Enzo off when Tripp ask him not to do it as he has his own ways of doing 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
*Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes
*Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
*Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood
*Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman (credit only)
*Michael Malarkey as Enzo
===Special Guest Star===
*Colin Ferguson as Tripp Cooke
===Recurring Cast===
*Penelope Mitchell as Liv Parker
*Chris Brochu as Luke Parker
*Emily C. Chang as Ivy (corpse)
*Gabrielle Walsh as Sarah
*Marco James as Liam Davis
===Guest Cast===
*Chris Wood as Kai
===Co-Starring===
*Jayson Warner Smith as Dean
*Matthew Barnes as Jay
*Marshay Weaver as Halter Girl
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Kai, Stefan and Tripp.
*The Magic Purification Spell the Travelers cast around Mystic Falls can undo the effects of vampire mind compulsion, which is a result ofDark Magic that originally gave vampires the ability.
*Caroline admits to Elena that Enzo is one of the more stable people in her life at the moment.
*Matt reveals that he has known Jay, who was killed by Enzo, since he was ten, and is initially surprised that Jay is a Vampire Hunter.
*Caroline tells Enzo not to mention Damon around Elena, nor the fact that she was involved with him, and threatens to kill him if he doesn't comply. She later told him she would also kill him if he brought up Stefan to her.
*Stefan realizes that Elena no longer has memories of being in love with Damon, which has made her dislike him, as she can only remember the horrible things he has done, such as when he killed Jeremy in The Return.
*Elena tells Stefan that she's inspired by seeing people getting well in the hospital and that it feels right for her to be studying medicine to eventually become a doctor.
*Elena is trying to get Caroline to come back to college after she spent the night in the dorms with her. Caroline eventually agrees to move back in with Elena, and will also end up re-enrolling in classes.
*After an encounter with a girl Caroline compelled earlier, Jeremy eventually figured out that if anybody is compelled and then enters Mystic Falls, their compulsion is stripped away as soon as they cross the anti-magic barrier.
*Bonnie is finally able to do magic again, after Kai motivated her into triggering her powers by putting Damon's life in danger.
*Liam kisses Elena in this episode, despite her attempts to set him up with Caroline.
*When confronted by Elena about her feelings for Stefan, Caroline admits that she may have had some.
*This episodes firmly establishes that the timeline of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals currently takes place in 2012 when Damon tells Bonnie he doesn't remember where he parked his car eighteen years ago.
**Also, Elena and Stefan's relationship is established in this episode as having ended two years ago, in 2010, when Elena tells Liam that she isn't involved with Stefan anymore, though she once was.
*Elena takes Caroline, Tyler and Matt to the spot where they would go and get wasted while their parents were grilling together by the swimming hole, where she admits to them that she feels like they are all drifting apart in the aftermath of Damon and Bonnie's deaths and many of their resurrections in the previous season.
==Body Count==
*Jay - Stabbed in the neck; killed by Lorenzo St. John
*Shirley - Exsanguinated; killed by Enzo
==Continuity==
*Tyler was last seen in I'll Remember.
*This is the first time since You're Undead To Me that we'll see Elena in a bikini. Though it was only the bikini top, as she was wearing jean shorts. The bikini Nina wears in this episode is her own, like it was in You're Undead To Me.
*This episode marks the first appearance of Kai.
*This episode marks the 70th appearance of Tyler Lockwood on the show.
*This was the first episode since Graduation that Bonnie Bennett has performed magic.
*Damon's car was last seen in Home, when it was destroyed by him crashing it into the Mystic Grill with Elena in the passenger seat.
*Stefan and Elena's breakup was referenced by both of them in a conversation with Liam. They broke up in We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes, when Elena admitted to Stefan she had feelings for Damon.
==Locations==
*Savannah, Georgia
**Dean's Garage
*McKinley, Virginia
**Whitmore College
***Elena and Caroline's dorm room
***Alaric's classroom
**Diner
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Salvatore Boarding House
**The Woods
***The Swimming Hole/Lake
**Bar
*1994 Prison World
**Bell's Grocery Store
**Salvatore Boarding House
==Behind the Scenes==
*This episode had 1.96 million viewers in the USA, 0.29 million more than the previous episode.
*Hashtag during the airing is #StefansRevenge
==Cultural References==
*"" is a song by , released on their 1994 album .
*Redneck: a term used to describe those people in the USA who subscribe to "country living."
*"" was a TV series starring David Hasselhoff that ran from 1989 to 2001.
*Welcome to Paradise is a 2007 drama movie.
==Quotes==
:Stefan: "My girlfirend Ivy... Somebody killed her last night. I need to find him and kill him. I need a few days off."
:Elena (to Stefan): "...swimming hole today. You should come."
:Stefan (to Elena): "Will Enzo be there?"
:Tripp: "Can't have you killing. You never know whose eyes are watching."
:Caroline (to Enzo): "Is that blood? Or Pie?"
:Enzo (to Caroline): "Shirley."
:Bonnie (to Damon Salvatore): "Did you just see that?"
:Enzo: "You've got to be bloody kidding!"
==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 6x03 Extended Promo
The Vampire Diaries 6x03 Webclip 1 - Welcome to Paradise HD
The Vampire Diaries 6x03 Webclip 2
The Vampire Diaries 6x03 Webclip 3 - Welcome to Paradise HD
The Vampire Diaries - Rehash Welcome to Paradise
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Six