Plan B

Plan B is the sixth episode of the second season of The Vampire Diaries and the twenty-eighth episode of the series overall.
==Summary==
KATHERINE CHOOSES A NEW VICTIM — Despite Elena's efforts to keep Jeremy safe, he offers to help Damon and Alaric deal with Katherine. Sheriff Forbes and Caroline share a few rare moments of quality mother/daughter time. Bonnie accidentally discovers new information about Mason and shares it with Stefan, leading Damon to take matters into his own hands.
==Plot==
Katherine reassures Mason that she is in love with him and he promises her that he will give her the moonstone when he gets it. Stefan continues to feed on Elena's blood every day. Jeremy goes to Damon and tells him about the moonstone, offering to get it back for him. Alaric comes in with Isobel's research on Aztec legends. They discover that the moonstone can break the werewolf curse.
Mason runs into Stefan at the Lockwood house. Bonnie bumps into Mason and gets a vision of him and Elena (really Katherine) together. Stefan is confused and tries to figure out what that means. Damon tells Jeremy about his discovery about the moonstone. Stefan and Elena continue pretending they are in a fight. Jeremy eventually finds out that Tyler has given the moonstone to Mason. Damon enlists Bonnie's help. He wants Bonnie to go into Mason's mind and retrieve information about the moonstone. She agrees and they end up capturing Mason. They keep him tied up at the Salvatore's. Bonnie reads Mason's mind and finds out that the moonstone is hidden in a well at the Lockwood's.
Bonnie leaves the Salvatore's and runs into Caroline, who is still emotional over what happened in the cave. Bonnie decides to trust her again. They go meet up with Stefan and Elena. Damon stays back and tortures Mason with wolfsbane, the werewolf version of vervain. He tries to get more information on Katherine. Mason says that he needs the moonstone so he and Katherine can be together. Damon tells him that Katherine doesn't love him and then rips out Mason's heart.
Stefan and Elena head over to the well and Stefan jumps in, only to find out the well is full of vervain water. Luckily, Caroline arrives and belays Elena down the well to get Stefan. Just as they get him out, Elena finds the moonstone, and then snakes start to attack her. Caroline pulls her out the well safely, with the moonstone in hand. Caroline visits her mother again who offers to keep everything a secret instead of getting her memory erased. It breaks Caroline's heart, but she has to wipe her mother's memory clean. Stefan goes back home with the moonstone. He and Damon text Mrs. Lockwood from Mason's phone so she will think he left town again. Damon calls the last number dialed on his phone, and it turns out to be Katherine. She is upset about Mason's death and tells them that she has a plan B.
Elena goes home and gets a phone call from Katherine. She taunts Elena and tells her to watch out. All of sudden, Jenna stabs herself in the stomach with her kitchen knife. Katherine had compelled her to kill herself. Luckily, she was rushed to the hospital in time to be saved. Elena is very shaken up by this and ends things with Stefan. It is revealed that Katherine needs a werewolf for her plot to be successful. Since Mason's gone, she asks Matt to go after Tyler, not stopping until Tyler ends up killing him, which will activate the curse.
==Cast==
===Starring===
* Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert/Katherine Pierce
* Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
* Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
* Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert
* Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers
* Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett
* Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes
* Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan
* Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood
* Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman
===Guest Starring===
* Marguerite MacIntyre as Liz Forbes
* Taylor Kinney as Mason Lockwood
===Co-Starring===
* Susan Walters as Mrs. Lockwood
==Trivia==
*Antagonist: Katherine Pierce.
*Katherine mentions "Mrs. Flower", a reference to the novels' Mrs. Flowers.
*When Caroline compels Elizabeth to forget about vampires, she only mentions herself, not Damon and Stefan. This is likely a continuity error, otherwise, one can assume that Caroline included the necessary details off-screen.
==Body Count==
*Mason - Heart extraction; killed by Damon Salvatore
==Continuity==
*Bonnie and Matt were last seen in Bad Moon Rising.
==Locations==
*Mystic Falls, Virginia
**Bed and Breakfast
**Gilbert House
**Salvatore Boarding House
**Lockwood Mansion
**Woods
***Lockwood's Well
**Mystic Falls Hospital
==Behind the Scenes==
*This episode had about 3.58 million viewers in the USA, which was 0.08 million more than the previous episode.
==Cultural References==
*: is a fictional professor, archaeologist and adventurer. He was first seen in the 1981 movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
*Both Plan B and the title of the previous episode Kill or Be Killed are said on screen in this episode. Katherine mentions that she has a "plan b", while "kill or be killed" is a phrase Damon says to Jeremy regarding Mason.
**"Kill or be Killed" is a common catch phrase in many genre movies and series, including .
***The common usage today is often credited to Jack London's : "He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed."
==Quotes==
:Katherine: "Mason? You should've been here an hour ago."
:Damon: "Wrong boy toy."
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:Damon: "Mason? Oh, he's right next to me, if you want us to send him over... Except his heart's on the other side of the room."
:Katherine: (furiously) "You shouldn't have."
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:Jeremy: "It's gonna be okay."
:Elena: "No, it's not."
:Jeremy: "She's gonna pay, Elena. I don't know how, but she's gonna pay."
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:Jeremy: "Damon..."
:Damon: "You wanted to be a part of this? Well, here it is. Kill or be killed. The guy's a werewolf. He'd kill me the first chance he got! So you suck it up, or leave. He wants me to kill him, anyway. Don't you, Mason? It really is a curse, isn't it? You know, I look at you and I see myself. A less dashing, less intelligent version."
:Mason: "I love her."
:Damon: "Oh, I know! I've been where you are. But Katherine will only rip your heart out. Let me do it for her."
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:Stefan: "You're staring."
:Elena: "I'm gazing."
:Stefan: "It's creepy."
:Elena: "It's romantic."
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:Damon: (to Jeremy) "Kill or be killed. You either suck it up, or leave."
==Multimedia==
===Soundtrack===
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==References==
==See also==
Category:The Vampire Diaries Episode Guide
Category:The Vampire Diaries Season Two
Category:Episodes featuring all main characters