Gods and Monsters

Gods and Monsters is the twenty-second and final episode of the seventh season of The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and fifty-fifth episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE — Despite their best efforts to help Bonnie through the harrowing predicament she now faces, Damon, Enzo and Caroline realize their options are running out and drastic measures need to be taken. With their only chance of saving their friend lying inside the Armory, Stefan breaks the news to Caroline that they may need help from an unlikely source – her and Alaric's twin daughters. Elsewhere, Enzo keeps Bonnie preoccupied by bringing her back to their cabin but when his plan takes an unexpected turn, it'll be up to Damon to make the ultimate sacrifice to save his closest friends. Matt also appears.
==Plot==
Damon talks with Stefan, Caroline and Enzo about the plan to kill the last Everlasting located in The Armory's Vault. After trying to open the Vault with explosives, Damon suggests using Caroline's twins' syphoning abilities to open it. Caroline mentions to Stefan that Lizzie syphoned her the other day, so that she has the abilities, but Caroline's not ready to involve them in the supernatural world.
Bonnie and Matt are in the car chasing Stefan and Caroline in the other car. Bonnie turn on the siren from Matt's police car and they almost catch up to them planning to crash into them, but Matt takes the wheel and lets Stefan and Caroline pass. Soon after Bonnie goes after them, leaving wounded Matt behind. He later hallucinates Penny, apologizes for accidentally killing her and realizes that he deserves better in this life.
Damon planned to kidnap the girls, but when he got the the airport, his plane and pilot weren't there because Stefan realized Damon's plan and he had put a stop to it. Meanwhile, Caroline changes her mind about the twins and decides to use them to open the Vault because she doesn't want Bonnie to suffer anymore. Stefan, Damon, Alaric, Caroline and the twins go to the Armory, and the twins manage to open the door. 
Meanwhile, Enzo visits Virginia at Mental Health Center to ask her about the monster in the Vault and she reveals it to him off-screen. He calls Bonnie and asks her to chase him to give the others more time. She finds him at his safehouse cooking a meal. She starts shooting at him and chasing him around the house and manages to stab him in the stomach with the stake. He tells her about their three wonderful years together to try to appeal to her. At the same time, Damon enters the Vault alone, finds the last Everlasting's body and sets it on fire, breaking Bonnie's curse.
Caroline's scar also disappears. She talks with Alaric about their relationship and decide to call off the wedding. She goes to Stefan and they reconcile.
Damon is still in the Vault and texts Stefan to prepare the bourbon to celebrate. He calls Bonnie to talk and during the call he hears Elena's voice in the cave. Enzo comes to the Vault some time later to help Damon, but a creature in the Vault grabs him as well and the door shut sealed.
In the following week, Alaric cracked the code, but the Vault was empty. In the following months, the gang searched for Damon and Enzo, but couldn't find them. After some time, they heard rumors about the large number of people missing and concluded it was them. The final scenes show ruthless Damon and Enzo killing people in the unknown warehouse.
==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
*Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman
*Michael Malarkey as Enzo St. John
===Recurring Cast===
*Ana Nogueira as Penny Ares (dream)
===Co-Starring===
*Andrea Laing as EMT
*Keith N. Collis as Mechanic
*Lily Rose Mumford as Josie Saltzman
*Tierney Mumford as Lizzie Saltzman
*Chaka De Silva as Shaman
*Aisha Duran as Virginia St. John
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Bonnie Bennett and The Armory's Monster.
*For the first time, a CGI creature is used in the series for the creature that was in the vault. According to Julie Plec, there is a name they are using for it internally, but they won't give it a formal name until Season 8.
*Virginia tells Enzo that what was in the Armory vault has been around for thousands of years, meaning it's been around longer than vampires. Enzo then compels Virginia to tell him what was in the vault and he then tells Damon he doesn't want to know what was in there.
*What was in the vault lures Damon with the sound of Elena's voice like Yvette's to Alex wasn't really Elena's voice.
*Just before the creature takes Damon, he has flashes of memory of both his relationship with Elena but his love for her as well. This love for Elena and his empathy are taken away by the creature.
*With this episode, Damon and Stefan Salvatore will have appeared in the most episodes of the series with 155 episodes. Elena Gilbert with the second most at 135 episodes (1 stock footage and 1 voice only appearance) until Season 8 when the remaining main characters Bonnie, Caroline and Matt will equal or surpass in episode appearances.
*Damon and Enzo are affected by what was in the vault. Caroline, Bonnie and Stefan wait around days for them to come out but they don't. Stefan tries to opening it with brute force but it doesn't work, eventually Alaric is able to crack the code but both Damon and Enzo along with what was trapped in the vault some how got out.
*Bonnie no longer has her magic after being the new Huntress thus she is unable to do a locator spell to find them.
*Caroline writes in her diary for Elena about the recent events.
*Matt leaves Mystic Falls to find out which fight is his and what's not.
*There is a 3 month internal episode time jump.
**Damon and Enzo have been leaving a trail of bodies of missing persons along the West Coast for 3 months.
==Body Count==
*The last Everlasting - Body incinerated; killed by Damon Salvatore
*60 missing persons - killed by Damon and Enzo
==Continuity==
*This is the first and only season finale not to feature Elena and Jeremy Gilbert.
**Although she does not physically appear, Elena can be considered to be in the finale as Nina Dobrev recorded new voiceovers for the episode.
*This is the third season finale not to feature Tyler Lockwood.
*This is the first season finale of the series to be aired on a Friday night.
==Locations==
*Grove Hill, Virginia
**The Armory
***The Vault
*Asheville, North Carolina
**Mental Health Center
*Dallas, Texas
**Alaric's apartment
*Gas station
*Enzo's safehouse
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Salvatore Boarding House
**Town Square
*Unknown warehouse
==Behind the Scenes==
*This is the first episode since Pilot to feature only one guest star.
*Mouzam Makkar (Alex St. John) was originally supposed to appear in the episode; however, the only scene that featured her (and her character's death) was cut from the episode.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHAaoyOBhX0
*The Mechanic is our transportation coordinator Keith. Call it nepotism, but believe us when we say: He was truly the best audition for the part. Authenticity goes a long way.
*Standards and Practices asked us to be careful with exactly how many bodies we put in the warehouse in the coda. Because apparently under 100 = acceptable. Over? Too much.
*We had two scenes that we had to shoot early due to the availability of Mouzam Makkar, who plays Alex. She booked a pilot that would be shooting every day during our finale. We scrambled to get the set ready and release script pages (even though the actual script wasn't done yet) and get it shot in time before we lost her. We didn't want to kill her, because we really liked her as an actress, and it turns out that we had to cut the scenes when the first cut came in 10 minutes long, so now I guess you can technically say Alex could be alive and well (or not well, considering what happened to the rest of her co-workers) somewhere inside the Armory. Maybe we'll get to see her again.
*Because I came back to LA before we had fully wrapped, the last scene of my Vampire Diaries career after seven years ended up being Bonnie pulling up in her car to the cabin. Very anti-climatic, and also cut. And thank goodness it was night time, so I could sneak away when we wrapped, and the crew wouldn't see me crying.Julie's Diary: Season 7 Finale Blog 5/13/2016
*Hashtag during the airing is #TheUltimateSacrifice
==Cultural References==
* is a 1998 British-American drama film that recounts the (somewhat fictionalized) last days of the life of troubled film director.
* is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series .
* is a 2015 direct-to-video animated superhero film featuring the superhero team the and is part of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies.
* is an American psychedelic rock band from New York City.
*Gods and Monsters is the name for several albums:
**The album by English rock band which was released on April 11, 2005.
**The album by the electronic goa trance band . The album was released on April 22, 2008.
**The fourth album by which was released on 2007.
**The studio album of , released in 1992 through Enemy Records.
*"" is a song by American singer and songwriter from her third extended play Paradise and was released on November 9, 2012, with the rest of the Paradise EP.
*A reference to Cthulhu was made when Enzo assured Damon that the thing in the Vault was not an evil tentacle creature.
==Quotes==
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|-|Promo=
:Stefan: "This thing...in the Vault, do we know what it is?"
:Damon: "Bad."
:Damon (to Stefan): "This is appropriately creepy."
:Stefan: "Ready to do this?"
:Damon: "Elena?"
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:Virginia: "You can't fight it. You can't kill it."
:Stefan: "This thing...in the Vault, do we know what it is?"
:Damon: "Bad."
:Caroline: "Stefan..."
:Stefan: "Whatever you're about to say, say it when this is over."
:Stefan: "Ready to do this?"
:Damon: "Elena?"
|-|Sneak Peek #1=
:Caroline: "Lizzie and Josie could siphon Bonnie's spell. But they're your kids and I can't make that decision for them."
:Alaric: "Well, they're just not my kids Caroline, they're our kids and that's a decision we need to make together." 
|-|Sneak Peek #2=
:Stefan (to Caroline): "I got this."
|-|Webclip #1=
:Enzo "Weren't you meant to be on a plane?"
:Stefan: "Flights got cancelled because of the storm, where are you?" 
:Damon: "I'm in Solutionland, baby. There's a preserved body at the Armory called The Final Everlasting. All we have to do is destroy that and Bonster's a monster no more." 
:Caroline: "But if you kill the Everlasting, then Bonnie dies and so do we for that matter."
:Enzo: "I've been told differently." 
:Caroline: "By who? Someone who wants you dead?"
:Enzo: "A descendent of the people who created Rayna Cruz."
:Caroline: "Yeah, the people who hate us."
:Enzo: "Well, whether we believe them or not, it's Bonnie's only chance." 
:Damon: "Look, best case scenario, we destroy it, everything goes back to normal. Worst case scenario, we all die and Stefan lives to tell the tale of our demise to the lovely Elena."
:Caroline: "Are you forgetting about the other problem that's in there?"
:Enzo: "Oh you mean the ambiguously terrifying monster from the Vault? I'm on it. Perhaps it'll be less ambiguous and less terrifying." 
:Stefan: "Guys, it doesn't matter. Bonnie's sealed the whole Armory, you can't get in."
:Damon: "Don't tell me what I can't do."
|-|Scene=
:Damon: "Let me guess, it's ancient tentacle evil that will destroy our lives and the world as we know it."
:Enzo: "Don't be ridiculous. Not tentacles."
:Damon: "Do I even wanna know?"
:Enzo: "Well it deter you from going in?" 
:Damon: "Nope."
:Enzo: "Then no, you don't. Has anyone heard from Valerie?"
:Damon: "Unnecessary." 
:Enzo: "Somebody has a plan. Care to share?"
:Damon: "It's messy." 
:Enzo: "Free for going how messy I can be."
:Damon: "Small runway a few miles east of the Armory. Meet me there. Bring your cowboy boots."
|-|Inside clip=
:Enzo: "Bonnie's life is linked to that of the final Everlasting. If we sever the link, it might also sever the curse. Unfortunately for us, the Everlasting resides in the Armory."
:Virginia: "She didn't listen, did she? After everything I said, she still opened the Vault?"
:Enzo: "It's complicated. We need to know what exactly what we're dealing with so we can fight it."
:Virginia: "You can't fight it. You can't kill it."
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==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 7x22 Promo "Gods & Monsters" (HD) Season Finale
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05-13-2016_Michael-Malarkey-Instagram.jpg|Michael Malarkey May 13, 2016
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2016-04-05_Trevor_Stott_Instagram.jpg|©Trevor Stott April 5, 2016
2016-04-05_Colin_Duran_Instagram.jpg|©Colin Duran April 5, 2016
2016-04-05_Tony_Griffin_Trevor_Stott_Instagram.jpg|Tony Griffin April 5, 2016
2016-04-03_Michael_Allowitz_Pierre_OHalloran_Instagram.jpg|Michael A. Allowitz April 3, 2016
2016-04-06_Michael_Allowitz_Twitter.jpg|Michael A. Allowitz April 3, 2016
2016-04-06_New_Car_Michael_Allowitz_Twitter.jpg|©Michael A. Allowitz April 3, 2016
2016-04-02_Michael_Malarkey_Sara_Taylor-Torres_Instagram.jpg|Michael Malarkey, Sara Taylor-Torres (double stunt) April 2, 2016
2016-04-02_Paul_Wesley_Pierre_OHalloran_Instagram.jpg|Paul Wesley April 2, 2016
2016-04-02_Michael_Malarkey_Instagram.jpg|©Michael Malarkey April 2, 2016
2016-04-02_Twitter.jpg|April 2, 2016
2016-04-01_Dayvid_Wilson_Instagram.jpg|Dayvid Wilson April 2, 2016
2016-04-01_Ian_Somerhalder_Sara_Taylor-Torres_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder, Sara Taylor-Torres (double stunt) April 1, 2016
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2016-04-01_Colin_Duran_Instagram.jpg|Colin Duran April 1, 2016
2016-04-01_Patrick_Hanson_Colin_Heath_Trevor_Stott_Instagram.jpg|Colin Duran, Trevor Stott, Patrick Hanson April 1, 2016
2016-04_01_Michael_Malarkey_Instagram.jpg|©Michael Malarkey April 1, 2016
2016-03-30_Kevin_JEdwards_Instagram.jpg|©Kevin J Edwards April 2, 2016
2016-03-30_Ian_Somerhalder_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder March 30, 2016
2016-03-30_Colin_Duran.jpg|Colin Duran March 30, 2016
03-29-2016_Michael_Malarkey_Instagram-7742.jpg|©Michael Malarkey March 29, 2016
2016-03-29_Candice_King_Instagram.jpg|©Candice King March 29, 2016
2016-03-29_Ian_Somerhalder_Instagram.jpg|Ian Somerhalder March 29, 2016
2016-03-28_Kat_Graham_Instagram.jpg|Kat Graham March 28, 2016
2016-03-28_Michael_Malarkey_Michael_Allowitz_Twitter.jpg|Michael Malarkey March 28, 2016
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2016-03-23_Candice_King_Instagram.jpg|Candice King March 23, 2016
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2016-03-17_20-38_Brian_Young_Instagram.jpg|Brian Young March 17, 2016
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Seven
Category:Episodes featuring all main characters
Category:Season Finales