Brave New World

Brave New World is the second episode of the second season of The Vampire Diaries and the twenty-fourth episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
THE CARNIVAL FROM HELL — When a confused and desperate Caroline leaves the hospital and joins her friends at the Mystic Falls Carnival, Damon wants to take immediate action, but Stefan and Elena come to Caroline's defense. Matt is completely mystified by Caroline's behavior, but still tries to tell her about his feelings for her. Damon has suspicions about Tyler's uncle Mason and uses Tyler's volatile personality in an attempt to get Mason to reveal his secret. Upset with everything going on around her, Bonnie takes her anger out on Damon.
==Plot==
Caroline awakens disoriented in her hospital room. She gets up and walks out into the hall, where a nurse tells her to go back in her room. Hungry and unknowingly in transition, she is drawn into a nearby room where a patient is in the middle of receiving a blood transfusion. The nurse catches her and leads her back to her room, not knowing that Caroline has slipped the blood bag under her gown. Unable to resist the allure of the blood, she drinks the from the bag and transitions into a vampire, not yet comprehending what has happened to her.
Elena and Bonnie are helping set up the carnival. Bonnie interrogates Elena about Katherine, but Elena just wants to do normal things and not worry about vampires for a while. At school, Stefan gives Jeremy some vervain to protect himself from Damon or any other vampires in town. Elena arrives and shares with Stefan her desire for more normalcy and less supernatural drama. At the Lockwood's, Carol asks Damon to take charge of the Council and he agrees. Mason asks Tyler about what happens when his anger gets out of control, wondering if it happens in a pattern of once a month. At the hospital, Caroline discovers that her skin burns in the sun and starts to panic when Matt tells her they won't release her until the next morning. At the boarding house, Stefan and Damon touch base, and Damon admits his suspicion about a Lockwood family secret. After Matt leaves the hospital, Caroline unwittingly compels the nurse to release her in the evening and to forget that she had fed on her.
At the carnival, Bonnie and Elena discuss the event's success and wrangle a carnival worker to help fix a broken karaoke speaker. At the Lockwood mansion, Mason asks Tyler about a family heirloom called a moonstone, which he's hoping to find for its sentimental value. At the carnival, Damon and Jeremy exchange threats. Caroline finishes compelling the nurse with a cover story and leaves the hospital. Damon watches Tyler and Mason arm wrestle at a carnival booth and suggests that Stefan challenge Mason to gauge his strength. Surprised when Stefan loses on purpose and reports that Mason has superhuman strength, Damon's curiosity about the Lockwoods intensifies. As an experiment, Damon compels a carnival worker to pick a fight with Tyler to see what happens. Caroline shows up at the school, delivers Katherine's message to Damon and reveals that she's now a vampire.
In the parking lot, Stefan watches the compelled man fight with Tyler, but Mason intervenes at the last moment, helping Tyler. Mason crouches and jumps with amazing speed and Tyler sees the color of his eyes change from hazel to black and gold. Meanwhile, Damon shares his new-found information about Caroline with Stefan and Elena and suggests they kill her to prevent her from exposing them.
Caroline has trouble controlling her strength in front of Matt, and later runs into the same carnival worker from earlier who fought Tyler and received a bloody nose. She can't control her hunger after smelling his blood, and is unable to resist feeding on him, accidentally killing him. Tyler and Mason get back to their house, where Tyler grills Mason about what happened during the fight. Mason remains tight-lipped and says Tyler only saw him get pissed because he had to pull Tyler out of a fight.
Damon finds Caroline crying with blood all over her face and the worker's body at her side. Caroline begs for her life, so Damon soothes her while preparing to stake her through the back. Stefan appears and stops Damon, while Elena stands in front of Caroline when Damon tries to have another go at her. Bonnie arrives and sees the body and Caroline with her full vampire-face covered in blood. Stefan takes Caroline away to help her calm down and get cleaned up. Bonnie blames Damon for what has happened, and uses magic to give him painful aneurysms and lights a fire that spreads on the ground. Elena stops Bonnie before she can kill Damon and comforts her, walking her away from Damon.
Elena and Stefan touch base, and she tells him goodnight. Tyler finds the moonstone Mason was asking about under a loose floorboard in his father's office and pockets it. Damon finds Jeremy at the boarding house armed with a wooden stake and having laced his bourbon with vervain, though he decided against using it at the last minute. Matt sneaks into Caroline's house, asking her why she has been acting so weird around him, and he confesses he loves her. Stefan goes to Elena's room and takes her out to the Ferris wheel at the carnival shortly before dawn so he can fulfill her wish of kissing him on top of the Ferris wheel. They acknowledge that life isn't going to get any easier any time soon.
==Cast==
===Starring===
* Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert
* Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
* Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
* Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert
* Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers (credit only)
* Katerina 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)
===Guest Starring===
* Taylor Kinney as Mason Lockwood
* BJ Britt as Carter
===Co-Starring===
* Susan Walters as Mrs. Lockwood
* Terri James as Nurse
==Trivia==
*Antagonists: Damon Salvatore and Caroline Forbes.
*Now as a vampire, it is never explained how Caroline was invited back into her home without Liz getting suspicious. While this could be a continuity error, Caroline does leave her mother a voicemail explaining she'd been signed out of the hospital and considering she was working late, she could have been invited in off-screen and/or over the phone.
*Stefan jokes about the Lockwood's family secret, that they could be "ninja turtles", zombies, or werewolves. Ironically, Damon claims that there's no such thing as "werewolves".
==Body Count==
* Carter - Drained of blood; killed by Caroline Forbes
==Continuity==
*Vicki is mentioned. She was last seen in Haunted.
==Locations==
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Mystic Falls Hospital
**Mystic Falls High School
**Lockwood Mansion
**Salvatore Boarding House
**Forbes House
**Gilbert House
==Behind the Scenes==
* This episode had about 3.04 million viewers in the USA, which was 0.31 million less than the previous episode.
* Katherine, Jenna and Alaric do not appear in this episode.
* Mason meets Stefan for the first time in this episode.
*Terri James reprises her roles as "Nurse". She was originally seen in The Night of the Comet, albeit uncredited.
==Cultural References==
* is a novel by Aldous Huxley, first published in 1932. The title is derived from Shakespeare's play, .
* and are characters in .
*Team Jacob refers to , a character in Stephenie Meyer's , a series that is also about vampires and werewolves.
* When Stefan arm wrestles Mason and loses, he and Damon discuss Mason's strength, and Stefan jokes that Mason and Tyler could be Ninja Turtles. This is a reference to the 1980s franchise , which featured a band of humanoid turtles who fought crime.
==Quotes==
:Elena: (to Bonnie) "I'm human, and I have to do human stuff, otherwise I'll go crazy."
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:Bonnie: (to Elena) "We have to make Caroline proud, or she will kill us."
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:Jeremy: (to Stefan) "I was killed by a vampire and brought back by a magic ring. How do you move forward from that?"
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:Mason: (to Tyler about his rage blackouts) "Is there a pattern? Like, once a month, only at night?"
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:Damon: "Aren't you worried that one day all the forest animals are gonna band together and fight back? I mean, surely they do talk."
:Stefan: "I'm just happy that's a, um, a blood bag and not a sorority girl supplying your dinner."
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:Bonnie: (to Elena) "The ring-toss is out of Bart and Homer dolls and "Team Jacob" tees."
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:Stefan: "Maybe they're Ninja Turtles?"
:Damon: "You're not funny."
:Stefan: "Or, no—- zombies. Werewolves."
:Damon: "No comedic timing at all."
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:Damon: (to Stefan and Elena) "Need I remind you of a tragic little story of a girl named Vicki Donovan? Caroline of all people will not make it as a vampire. Her mother's a vampire hunter. Guys, come on, we all know how this story ends, so let's just flip to the last chapter, and..."
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:Elena: (to Stefan) "Nothing about my life is normal. My best friend is a witch, my boyfriend's a vampire, and I have a doppelgänger who's hell-bent on destroying all of us."
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:Damon: (to Jeremy) "My father hated vampires, too. Same reason your dad did. Only it was 1864-- people knew how to whittle."
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Two