I Never Could Love Like That

I Never Could Love Like That is the eighteenth episode of the sixth season of The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and twenty-ninth episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
KILLER KARAOKE – With their humanity turned off, Stefan and Caroline begin wreaking havoc at Whitmore, leaving Damon to come up with a risky plan involving Lily. After rushing to help Jo treat victims of Stefan and Caroline's latest killing spree, Elena discovers Jo is pregnant, prompting her to reevaluate her own life as a vampire. Meanwhile, when Sarah boldly turns the tables on an unsuspecting Enzo, he is forced to open up about his tragic past. Lastly, at Scull Bar, a twisted round of karaoke leaves Tyler and Matt in a dangerous situation.
==Plot==
Caroline and Stefan try to settle a bet by scaring a bartender to death after hours. Caroline compels him into thinking he's having a heart attack, then covered in spiders, until he finally dies. She declares victory even though Stefan claims that that was cheating and insists they go sing karaoke.
Enzo drags Sarah Salvatore to the Salvatore house to drop her off. But he's unnerved when their mother, Lily opens the door. Enzo backs away from the door, scared, tells Sarah to go back into the car and drives off frantically. Later we find out that Lily was the one who turned Enzo in 1903.
Inside the house, Elena and Damon have a cozy morning with his mother playing house downstairs. When Elena goes to get dressed, Elena nearly stumbles upon the cure but was luckily looking the other way when it was is sight. Damon looks at the cure, and then shuts the drawer.
At breakfast, all Lily can talk about it returning to her prison world to get her friends. Lily casually brings up the fact of being human hinting that she heard Bonnie and Damon last night. Elena then gets a text from Jo that someone has been killing people at Whitmore, and apologizes for having to leave. Damon makes an angry gesture to his mother as Elena leaves.
On the road, Enzo explains the Salvatore's to Sarah, then brings up Lily and calls her the most dreadful person he's ever met.
In 1903, Enzo tries to board a ship from London to New York, but is turned away because he's sick. Lily comes to his rescue. Helping him up and asking him whether he wants to come with her and her companions.
Enzo explains to Sarah that he died on the voyage. He tries to compel Sarah to forget everything about the Salvatores, but states that Matt slipped her some vervain. She jabs Enzo with a needle full of vervain, making him weak before knocking him out.
Back at Whitmore's bar, Caroline sings karaoke to a captive audience of students trying to study. Stefan compels them to all listen. Matt and Tyler drop by in the middle of their police training and are appropriately freaked out. Stefan refuses to let them leave.
On the road to Whitmore, Damon tries to prepare his mom to talk to Stefan and bring his humanity back. She states that she overheard Damon and Bonnie talking about the cure. She knows he's afraid he'll lose Elena if he gives it to her. He tells his mother that she needs to give a performance of a lifetime because she claims that she wasn't coming back to America for Stefan and Damon like he thought.
At the hospital, Elena heals one of Caroline's victims. She breaks the news to Jo that Damon's mom is back and Kai is trapped in a prison world. Jo seems overjoyed, Elena realizes Jo is pregnant and congratulates her. Elena feels a pang of regret.
Enzo wakes up tied up on Sarah's couch.
Lily takes Enzo to the ship's doctor. Under compulsion, the doctor says Enzo won't live out the week. She explains to Enzo that she died of consumption and that she was turned by one of the nurses there.
Back at the Whitmore bar, Caroline leads Matt and Tyler through a round of Caroline trivia about herself to determine who lives. She asks a question and states that the one that answers first gets to live, once the questions revealed, Matt and Tyler freak out because Caroline hasn't told anyone but Stefan about her last memory with her mother, then announces they're going to kill them both.
Back at the hospital, Caroline and Stefan's victims line the halls continuing to appear. Elena sees it as a reminder that there's a part of her that is capable of the very same thing. Jo mentions Elena's reaction to her pregnancy news and asks if she's talked to Damon about her feelings about being human. Elena doesn't see the point, since there's nothing to be done about the fact she's a vampire.
In 1903, Lily tells Enzo how she was sent to a sanatorium by her husband and left to die, but it was there she found her "real" family. She invites Enzo to join them, making it sound all warm and fuzzy. As he coughs up blood, she slices open her palm and pours some of her blood into a cup for him.
At Whitmore, Lily worries how she's supposed to connect with Stefan. Damon suggests she tell the story of how she came back to get them, but Damon realizes she wasn't coming to get them. Lily admits she's been struggling to reconnect with how it felt to be their mother. She explains her "new" family helped her find herself again, but she lost any feelings she had for her old family in the process.
In the bar, Caroline taunts Tyler and Matt as she threatens to kill them. Matt tries to mediate, but Tyler breaks a chair for a stake and tries to charge Caroline. She grabs Matt and puts him in the path of the stake and Tyler ends up stabbing Matt through the gut.
Damon calls Elena, who then suggests that Lily would just simply try lying to Stefan if they hope to get him back. Damon orders Lily to give it her best shot, but she was assurances that they'll go get her people. She points out he's lying to Elena by not telling her about the cure and he gives her the ascendant as assurance.
Enzo tells Sarah he woke up on the ship at sea, starving for blood and surrounded by corpses. The doctor comes in, compelled by Lily, and slits his own throat as an offering to Enzo. He looked around everywhere for Lily, but she was gone, along with her promises of a new life.
Enzo brakes the rope that binds his hands and turns on Sarah and decides to do to her what Lily did to him.
Back at the bar, Stefan and Caroline wonder if Matt dies, does that trigger Tyler's curse again? They're interrupted when Damon and Lily walk in. Damon gives Tyler his keys to his car to take Matt for help. Caroline realizes Lily is there to turn Stefan's humanity on, and then he's supposed to turn on hers. So she stakes Stefan in the back and runs out of the bar.
At the hospital, Matt refuses Elena's blood and insists on a doctor instead. He claims that there is enough vampires in his life and that he doesn't want to become one.
With Stefan, Lily tells her she's a ripper like him. She pours on the motherly warmth, telling Stefan the story he wants to hear about visiting him the day of her funeral. Damon watches as she reacts the sweet sentiments he fed her earlier. She promises never to leave him again. It works. He turns his humanity back on and hugs his mother with tears in his eyes. Stefan takes a few moments to contemplate all the killing he's responsible for then resolves to go find Caroline.
Elena checks on Matt, who tells her he can't hate vampires and also use them to his advantage.
With Enzo, Sarah convinces him to let her go but gets a speech that she should stay away from all of this.
Elena tells Damon she was jealous when she heard about Jo's pregnancy because she always wanted a family and knows it's never going to happen not that she's a vampire. Damon asks how she could feel if things could be different, but doesn't elaborate.
They get an urgent call from Jo. She says they have to get the ascendant back from Lily. She explains that long ago Lily met a group of heretic witches who could siphon power like Kai. She turned them, and as vampires they always have power to siphon, so they're both witches and vampire, and ruthless. They were coming to kill the Gemini coven when the coven stopped them and sent them to the prison world with Lily. "Imagine Kai with the bloodlust of a vampire, now imagine six of them," Jo says. So Lily wasn't sent to the prison world because she killed 3,000 people, she was just caught up at the wrong time with the wrong people.
==Cast==
===Main Cast===
*Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert
*Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
*Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
*Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert (credit only)
*Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett (credit only)
*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
===Recurring Cast===
*Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as Jo Laughlin
*Annie Wersching as Lily Salvatore
*Tristin Mays as Sarah Nelson
===Co-Starring===
*Lane Miller as Jason Hughes
*LB Brown as Steward
*Gabrielle Byndloss as Female Student
*Brian Patrick Murphy as Dr. Gabler
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Caroline and Stefan.
*Lily knows Damon has the Cure as she overheard Bonnie give it to him the night before. She knows the reason he hasn't told Elena he has it for fear that she'll want to take it. She tells him that they're the same as they both don't want to be alone.
**Elena almost discovers the Cure while looking for a t-shirt to put on and Damon keeps her from finding it by giving her one of his to wear.
*When Elena tells Jo that the sight all of Stefan and Caroline's victims doesn't bother her at all with Jo believing is because Elena has become desensitized to it as a doctor in training. Elena tells her that's not the reason but it's because she's a vampire and has done the same thing before and could do so again in the future with the right trigger.
*Elena learns that Josette is pregnant and reevaluates her life as a vampire. She admits that sometimes she misses being human and that she's a little jealous of Josette being pregnant, showing that she desires to have a family of her own. 
*Matt reveals to Elena that he sees her no different than any other vampire, telling her that she's capable of doing the same things as the humanity free Stefan and Caroline as the reason he refused her blood to heal himself as the reason he hates vampires including her.
*Sarah gets Enzo to open up about his past and he tells her that Lily was the one who turned him when she found him dying of consumption in South Hampton port.
*After Sarah learns of her true family from Enzo she wants Enzo to turn her into a vampire but he refuses to do so. Even though the vervain is out of her system he doesn't compel her to forget what she's learned.
*After Elena tells her of Kai's imprisonment in the 1903 prison world, Jo calls her father to tell the news and he asks that the Ascendant be destroyed, not to keep Kai imprisoned, but to keep Lily's family locked away.
==Body Count==
*Nearly a dozen students, teachers, and staff - Unknown; killed by Stefan Salvatore and Caroline Forbes
*Chris Benton - Drained of blood; killed by Caroline
*Jason Hughes - Heart attack by compulsion; killed by Caroline
*Meagen Lee - Unknown; killed by Stefan or Caroline
*Steward (flashback) - Broken neck; killed by Lillian Salvatore
*Lorenzo St. John (flashback) - Natural casues; died from and transitioned into a vampire
*Multiple passengers (flashback) - Drained of blood; killed by Lily
*Dr. Gabler (flashback) - Blood loss; killed by Enzo
==Continuity==
*Tyler and Matt were both last seen in Let Her Go.
*Joshua Parker was mentioned. He was last seen in Prayer For the Dying.
*Katherine Pierce was mentioned. She was last seen as a hallucination in While You Were Sleeping.
*Candice Accola (Caroline) sings for the fourth time in the show.
==Locations==
*McKinley, Virginia
**Whitmore College
***Scull Bar
**Whitmore Hospital 
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Salvatore Boarding House
*South Hampton, England
**The docks (flashback)
*Atlantic Ocean
**Ship (flashback)
*North Carolina
**Sarah's Apartment
*Unknown
**Warehouse (flashback)
==Behind the Scenes==
*This episode had about 1.35 million viewers in the USA.
*Hashtag during the airing is #KillerKaraoke
==Cultural References==
*"I Never Could Love Like That" is a song written by Elmer Bowman (lyricist) and Al Johns (composer), and recorded by vocalist in 1903.Discography of American Historical Recordings – "I Never Could Love Like That"
*Natural Born Killers is a 1994 crime film directed by Oliver Stone starring Woody Harrelson, Juliete Lewis, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Sizemore and Tommy Lee Jones.
==Quotes==
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|-|Promo=
:Elena (to Damon): "You have to give her a chance. She's your mother."
:Damon: "She is a tool to get our supernatural killers out of circulation."
:Caroline (to Matt and Tyler): "Heads I kill Tyler. Tails I kill Matt."
:Stefan: "Seriously, right now?"
:Caroline (to Stefan about Lily): "Who's that?"
:Stefan: "That's my mother."
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:Elena (to Damon): "You have to give her a chance. She's your mother."
:Damon: "No. She is a tool to get Stefan's humanity back. The sooner we can get our supernatural born killers out of circulation, the better."
:Caroline (to Matt and Tyler): "Heads I kill Tyler. Tails I kill Matt."
:Stefan: "Are you serious right now?"
:Damon (to Lily): "We can do this. All you have to do is just try.."
:Caroline (to Stefan about Lily): "Who's that?"
:Stefan: "That's my mother."
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:Caroline: "Lets play... Caroline trivia."
:Tyler: "I don't even know what that is."
:Caroline: "Oh, sure you do. You've both dated me, which means you should know everything about me. So, I'm gonna ask you some questions about myself and whoever answers them right... lives."
:Matt: "You're sick."
:Caroline: "When is my birthday... Tyler."
:Tyler: "October tenth."
:Caroline: "Very good. Alright Matt, your turn. What is my favorite color?"
:Matt: "That's a trick question, you don't have a favorite color."
:Caroline: "Correct. Okay, now a tie-breaker. Whoever answers first, wins. What was my mom's final memory, before she died?"
:Tyler: "How would we even begin to know that."
:Caroline: "Oh I'm sure I mentioned it at some point."
:Matt: "No, you didn't."
:Caroline: "Come on, tick tock tick tock. Judges are waiting for a final answer. What was my mom's final memory before she kicked the bucket?"
|-|Clip 2=
:Lily (to Elena): "Well, this was always Damon's favorite. Eggy and baskey."
:Damon (to Lily): "Doesn't taste like I remember."
:Lily (to Damon): "Well, you were human the last time you tasted it. Our tastes change over time."
:Lily: "But Elena. You're fairly new at this, aren't you?"
:Elena: "I turned a few years ago."
:Lily: "Do you ever miss it? Being human?"
:Elena: "Sometimes."
:Lily: "So if I understood correctly; In order to free my companions from that place I was trapped, we'll need the magical device."
:Damon: "The Ascendant."
:Lily: "Yes. The Ascendant. Where is that?"
:Damon: "Safe. Very safe."
:Lily: "And we'll also need a celestial event."
:Damon: We'll have to do some digging, yeah. Be patient. They take time. They're very rare.
:Lily: There's a full moon coming up, will that work? If not, the lyrids meteor shower's in two weeks.
:Damon: "Well, lucky you. If you're not a one woman farmer's almanac."
:Lily: "Actually, I took your advice and I've been dabbling on Stefan's computer. What a wondrous invention. All that knowledge."
:Damon: "And videos of cats running robot vacuum cleaners."
:Damon (to Elena): "Everything okay?"
:Elena: It's Jo. Someone's been attacking people at Whitmore.
:Damon: "Let me guess. One of them's blond and the other likes turning people into human pez dispensers."
:Elena: "That's exactly what I'm going to go find out." (to Lily) "Thank you so much for breakfast."
|-|Inside Clip=
:Man: "Who are you people?"
:Caroline: "Oh. I'm Caroline. This is Stefan and that..... hmm....was delicious."
:Stefan (to Caroline): "Oh look! It's the police officers in training! You guys here to arrest us?"
:Damon (to Lily): "I'll take care of Caroline, you look Stefan right in the eyes."
:Lily: "And I will return him to the man he used to be."
:Damon: "Exactly."
:Lily (to Enzo and Sarah): "Hello."
:Enzo (to Sarah): "Look. You wanted to know who that woman is? She's the most dreadful person I've ever met."
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==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 6x18 Extended Promo - I Never Could Love Like HD
The Vampire Diaries 6x18 Webclip 1 - I Never Could Love Like That HD
The Vampire Diaries - I Never Could Love like That Clip 2
The Vampire Diaries - Inside I Could Never Love Like That
The Vampire Diaries - Rehash I Could Never Love like That
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:Flashback episodes
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Six