Black Hole Sun

Black Hole Sun is the fourth episode of the sixth season of The Vampire Diaries and the one-hundred and fifteenth episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
FLASHBACKS TO YEAR 1994 IN DAMON'S LIFE – When Damon and Bonnie realize that uncovering a time in Damon's past may provide clues to finding their way home, Damon is forced to relive one of the worst days of his life. After an awkward run-in with Jo at the hospital, Alaric steps in to help Jeremy get his life together and cope with the loss of Bonnie. Elsewhere, Stefan attempts to show Elena what it's like to start over and create a new identity, while an unsuspecting Matt finds himself in a disturbing situation when Tripp lets him in on a dark secret. Lastly, Stefan, who is desperate to regain some normalcy in his life, is stunned when an unexpected visitor shows up. Enzo also appears.
==Plot==
Damon wants to know how to get out of the prison dimension, but Kai dodges it and asks Damon why he said it was his own personal hell. Bonnie comes back, bringing Kai several items he asked for.
Kai say he'll tell them how the items will help them once Damon tells him what meaning May 10, 1994 has for him.
In a flashback, we see Damon come back to Mystic Falls. Their distant nephew Zach has ownership of the boarding house, and he invites Damon in. Stefan tells Damon not to feed on Zach and Gail, Zach's girlfriend, who is pregnant.
In present day, Stefan shows Elena his system of starting over a new life. He shows her his job, in which his new life has no vampire privileges because he has taxes to pay along with social security and health insurance.
Alaric takes Jeremy to the hospital because he is wasted with a terrible hangover again, and he meets Jo again.
Kai tells Damon and Bonnie that he'll get them out of the prison dimension by harnessing the power of the eclipse using a mystical relic called an Ascendant.
Back in the flashback of 1994, Stefan notices Gail has two puncture wounds on her wrist. He interrupts Damon's conversation with Liz Forbes, whom Damon compels to forget ever meeting him. Damon had taken them off vervain a week earlier, without them knowing. Stefan snaps Damon's neck.
Bonnie locates the Ascendant on Kai. He had it all along, but he defends himself by saying he wanted to test Bonnie's precision.
When they're out looking for the spot that will get them free, she finds out Kai killed four of his siblings when she sees a newspaper. She changes her mind about helping him.
Alaric and Jeremy are in the woods, fighting, but Alaric has the advantage of being an Original vampire. He says Jeremy's head isn't in the game, which is why he keeps beating Jeremy. Jeremy says his problem is that everyone keeps thinking he shouldn't have one, but he has a right to be messed up because Bonnie told him over the phone that she was gonna die. Alaric says he understands, because his wife wanted to be a vampire than to be with him, and later lost Jenna, and then became a vampire, lost his own life, and came back again; yet, he moved on, because there's always a way to keep going.
During the eclipse of May 1994, Damon gets free of his imprisonment, and kills Gail and the other attendees. This incident restarted the Founder's Council. Stefan made Zach forget about Gail and the baby, and took off, as did Damon.
In the present, Stefan tells Elena that she had Alaric remove her memories of Damon because she couldn't handle her grief. Elena goes to Alaric, and he gives Elena her diary which has a letter from herself in case she found out.
Kai says he has a peculiar effect on magic. He can't generate it himself, but he can temporarily consume it from others. If he consumes all of Bonnie's magic, he'll end up killing her. But if they work together, they can all go home; or he can kill them both, and go home alone.
At the car shop, Stefan sees Ivy. She's in transition. Enzo had given her his blood before killing her.
==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 (credit only)
*Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
*Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood (credit only)
*Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman
*Michael Malarkey as Enzo
===Special Guest Star===
*Colin Ferguson as Tripp Cooke
===Recurring Cast===
*Marguerite MacIntyre as Elizabeth Forbes (flashback)
*Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as Josette Laughlin
*Emily C. Chang as Ivy
*Gabrielle Walsh as Sarah
*Chris Wood as Kai
===Guest Cast===
*Chris William Martin as Zach Salvatore (flashback)
===Co-Starring===
*Tadasay Young as Gail (flashback)
*Christopher Johnson as Chuck
*Jason MacDonald as Grayson Gilbert (flashback)
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Damon Salvatore (flashback), Kai and Tripp Cooke.
*Because Kai killed four of his siblings in Portland and nearly killed his twin sister, his family's coven, the Gemini Coven, banished him to live in a prison dimension they created, which was a temporal loop of the day he was imprisoned—the solar eclipse on May 10, 1994.
*Kai is the first witch shown to possess no magic of their own, but instead has the ability to absorb the magic from other supernatural beings and enchanted objects. He can then use the magic he absorbs as he sees fit, until it fades away or until he uses it all up, whichever comes first.
*Stefan confessed to Elena that she loved Damon and convinced Alaric to compel her to forget about it.
*Stefan teaches Elena how to start over with a new identity, as in Stefan's experience, a vampire needs to move to a new place every thirty years or so when people start to notice they aren't aging. 
**He explains to Elena that since 1864, he's been a carpenter, an ambulance driver, and a high school student as well as his current profession, which is an auto mechanic.
*After Elena confronts Alaric about compelling her to forget she loved Damon, he gives her her journal, in which she reads a letter she had written to herself in the case that one of her loved ones confessed her secret to her. In it, she wrote she assumed it would be Caroline who spilled the beans, though it was actually Stefan.
**In this letter, Elena calls Damon her soulmate and tells herself she wants her to be happy.
*Damon reveals to Bonnie that attacking Gail and the other party attendees in 1994 is what caused the Founder's Council to be restarted.
*It was revealed that Damon and Stefan first met Liz Forbes in 1994, but Damon compelled her to forget that she ever met them.
**Her then-husband Bill Forbes was mentioned by Liz as well, when she told Damon that Bill would "get a kick out of him" and that he should come over to their house for dinner. This is ironic, considering how much Bill disliked Damon when he finally did meet him in 2010.
*Tripp reveals to Matt that Enzo isn't dead, and that he kept Enzo alive to get information on the vampires that attacked Sarah Salvatore and possibly his wife, if he can.
*Tripp also reveals to Matt that he was married until his wife Kris died in a car accident. He then admits that when he returned to Mystic Falls after the "gas leak explosion" at the Mystic Grill over the summer, he crossed over the border and suddenly remembered it was a vampire that killed her, and that he was compelled to believe he had actually caused her death.
*Sarah shows up at the Salvatore Boarding House and threatens to call 911 and out Jeremy's "vampire sister" Elena to the evening news if Jeremy tries to do anything to her.
*Stefan is has been rebuilding Damon's 1969 Chevy Camaro in Dean's garage after it was blown up when he and Elena triggered the explosion that killed the Travelers in Home.
*Ivy returns to Stefan's home in Savannah and reveals herself to be a vampire. It's implied that her first kill was Dean, since he was compelled by Stefan to bury her in the woods.
==Body Count==
*Gail (flashback) - Broken neck; killed by Damon Salvatore
==Continuity==
*Alaric was last seen in Yellow Ledbetter.
*The Gemini Coven was mentioned.
*Zach Salvatore was seen in flashbacks to 1994. He was last seen in You're Undead to Me.
*Isobel was mentioned. She was last seen in Know Thy Enemy.
*Ivy was last seen in Yellow Ledbetter.
*Kol was indirectly mentioned. He was last seen in Resident Evil and in a flashback in Every Mother's Son on The Originals.
==Locations==
*1994 Prison World
**Salvatore Boarding House
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Salvatore Boarding House 
**Tripp's Office
**The Woods
***Cabin
*McKinley, Virginia
**Whitmore Hospital
**Whitmore College
***Elena and Caroline's dorm room
*Savannah, Georgia
**Dean's Garage
**Bar
==Behind the Scenes==
*This episode marks the 90th appearance of Jeremy Gilbert on the show, excluding one archive footage montage appearance.
*This episode marks the 40th appearance of Sheriff Liz Forbes on the show, who is now the most recurring non-main character.
*This episode had 1.66 million viewers in the USA, which is 0.17 million less than the previous episode.
*Hashtag during the airing is #DamonsWorstDay
==Cultural References==
*"" is a song by , released on their 1994 album .
*There really was a solar eclipse on May 10, 1994.
*911 is an emergency number in most of the US that is used in order to call for the police, fire department or emergency medical assistance without having to call the individual emergency services.
*Damon brought an issue of Mystic Falls Courier from April 1994. reporting the death of a frontman .
**Smells Like Teen Spirit has been named after .
==Quotes==
:Elena: "Where do you think you're going?"
:Stefan: "Ah, I'm going home."
:Elena: "Savannah's not your home, Stefan. It's an escape. A hiding place. This..." [indicates Mystic Falls welcoming sign]
:Elena: "is your home."
:Stefan: "No, this was my home, but I can no longer enter its borders. Therefore I have...a new home."
:Elena: "So you're just gonna throw in the towel... and go back to your fake new life?"
:Stefan: "Look, my fake new life ended when Enzo decided to kill my not-so-fake girlfriend, Ivy. So I am going to go home, pack up and start over."
:Stefan: "Again."
:Elena: "By pretending like your life here never existed."
:Stefan: "You'd be surprised by how easy it is to forget the past, Elena."
:Elena: "I'm not buying it. You lost your brother. There's no way that you're fine."
:Stefan: "You do not have to worry about me. It's not like I haven't done this before. I have a system.
:Elena: "Show me. Prove to me that your system works. If I believe that you actually are happy..." [shakes her head]
:Elena: "then I'll let you go. But if I don't buy it, which I probably won't... I'll keep harassing you until you come home. And I'm talking about, like, Enzo-sized harassment. [holds up keys, waves them]"
:Elena: "Deal?"
==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
===Videos===
The Vampire Diaries 6x04 Extended Promo "Black Hole Sun" (HD)
The Vampire Diaries 6x04 Webclip
The Vampire Diaries 6x04 Webclip 2 - Black Hole Sun HD
The Vampire Diaries - Inside Black Hole Sun
The Vampire Diaries - Rehash Black Hole Sun
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:Flashback episodes
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Six