Death and the Maiden

Death and the Maiden is the seventh episode of the fifth season of The Vampire Diaries and the ninety-sixth episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
THE POWER OF DOPPELGÄNGERS - While Elena and Damon try to explain Amara's situation to Stefan, Dr. Wes gives Katherine some deeply disturbing news. Nadia shows up at Caroline's dorm room, searching for Katherine. After a surprising conversation with Amara, Jeremy and Bonnie share a glimmer of hope. Silas fails to keep a promise, causing Damon to turn to Qetsiyah, for help with his new plan, and Stefan makes a heartbreaking confession to Damon and Elena.
==Plot==
Silas heads back to Mystic Falls to find Amara. He no longer plans to help Damon bring Bonnie back to life after Amara attacked him. All he wants is to find her and kill her to destroy the Other Side and then kill himself so they can be together forever in the afterlife. Amara is kept at the Salvatore house's basement where they all try to keep her alive and safe. Jeremy brings her some food and Bonnie's spirit is also there. Jeremy and Bonnie are very surprised to discover that Amara can see and feel Bonnie and after this they have the idea of Bonnie taking the place of Amara as the anchor. They share this with Damon and Elena who agree to try it, only that they need a witch to perform the spell so Damon heads to Qetsiyah's to make a deal with her.
Qetsiyah agrees to help them since with that switch, Amara will die and the Other Side will remain existent so she can be there with Silas for the rest of time. To perform the spell she needs blood from all three doppelgängers, Elena, Katherine and Amara. Elena and Amara are already in town, they only need Caroline to bring Katherine back to town as well. Katherine, who got bad news from Maxfield that she is just aging and there is no way to stop it, agrees to come back with Caroline. Katherine makes a deal with Qetsiyah that after the anchor spell Qetsiyah will help her to find a cure to stop the aging, otherwise she won't give her her blood that is required for the spell.
During the spell, Silas intervenes and tries to stop it. The power goes out and in the chaos, Stefan – who just wants revenge against Silas after what he has done to him – kidnaps Amara while Silas and Qetsiyah start fighting. Silas impales her with a fireplace poker when Stefan calls him to say that he has Amara and if he doesn't find them in 10 minutes, he will take her away and keep her alive forever. Silas leaves to find Stefan and Amara.
Silas finds Amara tied on a tree and while he tries to untie her, she begs him to kill her. Stefan appears and they start fighting, with Stefan finally stabbing him. Silas dies and Amara stabs herself. In the meantime, Elena finds Qetsiyah and makes her finish the spell so that Bonnie becomes the anchor. She manages to finish the spell just in time before Amara dies. Bonnie becomes the new anchor and Silas is trapped on the Other Side.
Now that everything is done, Katherine finds Qetsiyah to ask for her cure only to find that Qetsiyah changed her mind and all she wants now is to die and meet her true love on the Other Side. She kills herself without finding a cure for Katherine. Katherine is once again alone since now that Bonnie is back, Caroline asks her to move out of their dorm. Nadia appears to ask her to go back with her to Prague, but Katherine turns her down. Caroline is shocked by the fact that Nadia is Katherine's daughter.
Qetsiyah needs to pass to the Other Side, but before she does, she informs Bonnie that from now on, whenever a supernatural creature dies, they will pass through her since she is the anchor and she will feel every death. Before she passes through her, she warns her that it hurts. Qetsiyah passes through Bonnie and Bonnie screams in pain. The episode ends with Stefan burying Silas. Stefan thought that by killing Silas it would make the pain go away but the memories are still there haunting him and he collapses in pain.
==Cast==
===Main Cast===
*Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert/Katherine Pierce/Amara
*Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore/Silas
*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 (credit only)
*Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood (credit only)
===Recurring Cast===
*Olga Fonda as Nadia Petrova
*Janina Gavankar as Qetsiyah
*Rick Cosnett as Wes Maxfield
===Co-Starring===
*Elizabeth Faith Ludlow as Girl
*Brady McInnes as Guy
*Autumn Dial as Doppelgänger Acting Double
==Trivia==
*Antagonist: Silas.
*The doppelgängers work together to transfer the role of the Anchor to the Other Side from Amara to Bonnie to allow Amara to finally die, to allow Bonnie to be allowed to return to a semblance of life in the world of the living due to the Anchor existing in both dimensions, and to ensure the Other Side would continue to exist as Qetsiyah planned so she could finally get her revenge on Silas.
*Katherine is aging rapidly as a result of the Cure to immortality being drained from her body by Silas, and Wes predicts that she only has a few months to live. She also learns that she can no longer be healed by vampire blood.
*Qetsiyah finally got her wish: Silas and Amara both died before Silas could destroy the Other Side, which ensured that they would be separated for eternity, with Silas being trapped in the supernatural purgatory while Amara presumably moved on to one of the afterlife dimensions.
*Katherine asked Qetsiyah for help in slowing down or stopping her rapid aging, but Qetsiyah ultimately refused, citing that because she used magic to change mortality was what got her into trouble in the first place and she's learned her lesson.
*Stefan killed Silas, having believed that doing so would allow him to move on from the post-traumatic stress he was suffering after his summer locked in the safe. However, immediately afterward, Stefan was overcome by more hallucinations of drowning, suggesting that his plan didn't work as intended.
*Stefan admits to Elena and Damon that he spent the summer hoping that it would be the two of them who found him, and that he was disappointed when they weren't.
*Elena attempts to make peace with Stefan by starting their friendship anew until she discovers he has regained his memories.
*Nadia wanted Katherine to come back to Prague with her, and suggested they even return to Bulgaria to visit, but Katherine refused and insisted that Nadia leave and never see her again, as she didn't want Nadia to watch her age and die over the next few months.
*Caroline learns that Katherine is Nadia's mother.
==Body Count==
*Unnamed man - Fatal pain infliction; killed by Silas
*Silas - Stabbed; killed by Stefan Salvatore
*Amara - Stabbed; killed by herself
*Qetsiyah - Slit wrists; killed by herself
==Continuity==
*Nadia was last seen in Monster's Ball.
*Lexi was mentioned. She was last seen as a ghost in Graduation.
==Locations==
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Salvatore Boarding House
**Woods
*McKinley, Virginia
**Whitmore College
***Elena, Caroline and Bonnie's Dorm Room
**Wes Maxfield's Lab
*Qetsiyah's Cabin
*Bus stop in Philadelphia
==Behind the Scenes==
*This episode had about 2.72 million viewers in the USA, which was 0.13 million more than the previous episode.
*Hashtag during the airing is #Doppelpalooza
==Cultural References==
* is a 1994 American-British-French drama film directed by and starring , and .
*It is also the title of the second episode of the Pretty Little Liars spin-off, Ravenswood.
*Qetsiyah opinion of Amara being "the face that launched a thousand doppelgängers." is a reference to the being "the face that launched a thousand ships".
* is a 1990 play by Chilean playwright Ariel Dorfman.
==Quotes==
:Stefan: "Silas needs to die, and I need to be the one to kill him."
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:Damon: "You want doppelgänger blood? I got doppelgängers coming out of my ears. How many do you want?"
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:Elena: "We have a situation."
:Damon: "Of the doppelgänger variety."
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:Elena: "Look at me and tell me that killing Silas worked. That you'll be okay now."
:Stefan: "Why is this so important to you?"
:Elena: "Because I know how much he stole from you."
:Stefan: "Yeah, and he's dead."
:Elena: "And because while you were suffering in that safe, grasping onto hope, fighting every second so you wouldn't lose your humanity... I was happy. I got everything that I wanted, Stefan. I got to be in love, I got the summer of my dreams, I got Bonnie back. So, I need to know that this worked. I need to know that it's gonna take away all your suffering. I need to know that you're gonna be okay."
:Stefan: "I wanted it to be you. When that safe finally opened and somebody found me... I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be both of you."
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:Damon: "I was hoping we could talk."
:Tessa: "And I was hoping you were my Chinese food."
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:Damon: "You remember Amara, right? Brunette, brown eyes, I'm surprisingly not in love with her?"
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:Amara: "What is that?"
:Elena: "It's Bonnie's grimoire."
:Amara: (confused) "A grim... what?"
:Katherine: "It's a magic spell book. (She mutters under her breath) Idiot."
==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 5x07 Short Promo
The Vampire Diaries - Death and the Maiden
The Vampire Diaries - Death and the Maiden Clip
The Vampire Diaries 5x07 Webclip 2 - Death and the Maiden
The Vampire Diaries - Rehash Death and the Maiden
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Five