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Graduation is the twenty-third episode of the fourth season of The Vampire Diaries and the eighty-ninth episode of the series.
Summary
WHO WILL TAKE THE CURE? — On Graduation Day, Mystic Falls is overrun with ghosts intent on settling old scores and fulfilling their supernatural destinies. Damon’s life is in danger after a ghostly encounter, while Template:Matt and Rebekah join forces to battle a ghost determined to find The Cure. As everyone gathers for the graduation ceremony and the ghosts converge, help comes from an unlikely hero. Caroline receives a touching and unexpected graduation present, and Bonnie’s plan leads to the closing of the veil. Elena makes a decision about the Salvatore brothers and faces an epic confrontation with Katherine. Finally, Stefan discovers a terrifying clue to the mystery surrounding Silas.
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Cast
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Trivia
- Qetsiyah sent the Hunters to kill Silas so that he could be with her for an eternity on the Other Side in this episode.
- Antagonists: Kol Mikaelson, Silas, Katherine Pierce, Connor Jordan, Alexander and Galen Vaughn.
- This episode had a total of 6 antagonists in a single episode, the largest one to date.
- This is the final episode of Season Four.
- This is the final episode of the fourth chapter of Season Four, The Humanity Chapter.
- Graduation Ceremony occurred in this episode.
- This episode aired on Joseph Morgan's 32nd birthday.
- This episode and 500 Years of Solitude have the largest guest cast to date (11).
- This is the first season finale to not end with a member of the Gilbert Family, as it ended with Stefan drowning.
- Season One ended with Elena entering her house and hearing noises from the kitchen, where Katherine was attacking John.
- Season Two ended with Jeremy seeing the ghosts of his dead ex-girlfriends, after he was resurrected by Bonnie.
- Season Three ended with Elena transitioning into a vampire.
- Joseph Morgan (Klaus), Claire Holt (Rebekah), Daniel Gillies (Elijah), Nathaniel Buzolic (Kol) and Phoebe Tonkin (Hayley) leave the cast after this episode, with the possibility to return as guests later on in the series since The Originals was picked up.
- This is the first time the gang encounters Klaus since Because the Night.
- Kol amasses an army of the dead on his side to eliminate the MFG (Mystic Falls Gang).
- Witch Coven (Aja and 11 witches and warlocks.)
- Hybrid Pack (Adrian and the other 11 hybrids.)
- Alaric meets Connor and Lexi in this episode.
- Lexi also meets Jeremy off screen as Jeremy says Lexi will keep him company to Elena.
- Matt and Rebekah decide to go on an adventure around the world for the summer.
- Bonnie brings Jeremy back to life as human, and she puts the veil back up between the world of the living and The Other Side. This is the second time in the series that Jeremy has been resurrected after being killed, the last time was during As I Lay Dying, making him the only character in the series to be truly killed and truly resurrected the most.
- Elena chooses Damon and confesses her love for him, whereas in Season Three she did so for Stefan.
- Klaus' graduation gift to Caroline is Tyler's freedom.
- Elena forces the Cure onto Katherine to avoid her own death at Katherine's hands.
- Stefan is locked into a large safe and pushed over a cliff by Silas into the lake, and it is revealed that Stefan is his doppelgänger, nature's loophole to his immortality spell.
- There are three kisses in this episode:
- Matt and Rebekah.
- Elena and Damon after Elena chose him.
- Jeremy and Bonnie after saying their goodbyes.
- Matthew Davis makes his 50th episode appearance as Alaric Saltzman. The other actors who appeared in 50 episodes (or more) are: Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Candice Accola, Steven R. McQueen, Katerina Graham, Zach Roerig and Michael Trevino.
- This is the first season finale to not feature the Gilbert House (since Elena burned it down).
- The house was destroyed by Elena in Stand By Me.
- Galen confirmed in this episode that he died on the Island from starvation.
- This is the only full-moon episode in Season Four.
- This is the second season finale where Damon almost died because of werewolf venom and was healed by Klaus. The first one being As I Lay Dying.
- Though not known in this episode, in Original Sin, it is revealed that Qetsiyah escaped from The Other Side before Bonnie managed put the veil back up.
- This is the last episode where Katherine is a vampire until she possesses Elena's body.
Continuity
- Niklaus was last seen in The Originals.
- Aja was last seen in Because the Night. She was killed by Caroline in order to save Bonnie.
- Tyler was mentioned. He was last seen in Pictures of You.
- Adrian was last seen in O Come, All Ye Faithful. He was killed by Niklaus.
- This is the fourth season finale to feature Elena, Damon, Stefan, Bonnie, Jeremy, Caroline and Alaric.
- This is the third season finale to feature Katherine, Matt and Niklaus.
- This is the third season finale to not feature Vicki.
- This is the second season finale to feature Rebekah.
- This is the first season finale to feature Alexander, Lexi, Silas, Connor, Kol, Vaughn, Aja, Rudy, Sheila and Adrian.
- This is the first episode in which Nina Dobrev plays three roles (Elena, Katherine and Silas).
- Nina would later play three roles again in three episodes of Season Five as Elena, Katherine and Amara in episodes Original Sin, Handle with Care & Death and the Maiden.
Locations
- Mystic Falls, Virginia
Behind the Scenes
- Filming of Season Four ended on the 25th of April, 2013.[1]
- This episode had about 2.24 million viewers in the USA which was 0.04 million less than the previous episode.
Cultural References
- Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the ceremony that is sometimes associated, where students become graduates.The graduation itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation.
- Graduation is also the name of the 21st episode of the third season of TV series Clueless.
- The scene where Silas locks and throws Stefan into the quarry is reminiscent of the last scene of the episode "Tomorrow," the season finale of the third season of the show Angel. In that scene Angel is waylaid by a vengeful Connor and Justine who seal him in a metal coffin and throw it off a boat to sink down to the ocean floor.
- The invasion/attack against the town, appearance of ghosts and the Undead Army are inspired by the events in the books: The Fury, Dark Reunion and The Hunters: Destiny Rising.
- In The Fury, Katherine uses her powers to control the town's dogs, and attack the inhabitants, especially Elena's family. Alaric, Meredith, Bonnie, Matt, and Caroline do everything possible to defend people from the attack.
- Result: Katherine von Swartzschild and Elena Gilbert die from exposure to sunlight.
- In Dark Reunion, the ghosts appear along with Elena's spirit. Ghosts attack the Old One, in order to avoid more bloodshed in Fell's Church.
- Result: Klaus, the Old One, is temporarily destroyed and Elena comes back to life.
- In The Hunters: Destiny Rising, Klaus is revived by Ethan Crane and the Vitale Society. The Old One used the blood of a number of vampires that he had changed to cast a resurrection spell, bringing back Katherine von Swartzschild and vicious vampires.
- Result: Klaus, Cristian Sulez, Katherine von Swartzschild, Ethan Crane, Vitale Society, Undead Army fight against Elena Gilbert, Stefan Salvatore, Damon Salvatore, Bonnie McCullough, Zander, Meredith Sulez, Alaric K. Saltzman, Matt Honeycutt, and the Original Pack (Shay, Tristan, Marcus, Jonah, Camden, Spencer, Enrique, Jared, Daniel, Chad). At the end of the book, Klaus, Cristian, Ethan, Chad, the Army, and members of Vitale Society die.
- In The Fury, Katherine uses her powers to control the town's dogs, and attack the inhabitants, especially Elena's family. Alaric, Meredith, Bonnie, Matt, and Caroline do everything possible to defend people from the attack.
- In The Fury, Elena and Katherine have their first and last fight. Both are killed by exposure to sunlight. Months later, in Dark Reunion, Elena comes back to life as human/guardian, after defeating Klaus, with the help of the ghosts.
- In Dark Reunion, Elena's spirit manages to communicate with Bonnie through dreams. In TV Series, Bonnie dies but can communicate with Jeremy or Matt (medium).
- In The Return Series, L. J. Smith had planned that Elena stays with Damon at the end. However, this was ruled out by the publishers and Damon died in the Dark Dimension and Elena stays with Stefan.
- Connor mentioned families of students as grandparents Jones, auntie Sue, uncle Mark.
- In the books, there is a character named Sue Carson, but she is a student and friend of Elena, Bonnie, Meredith and Caroline.
Quotes
- Rebekah: "What do you want from us?"
- Alexander: "To fulfill my destiny."
- Connor: "We want Silas, and we want the cure."
- Elena: "They're willing to kill every person in Mystic Falls until they get it."
- Galen Vaughn: "Where's Silas?" (Yelling and pointing a gun to someone's head)
- Kol: (Yells in rage)
- Damon: How is it even when you're dead you're still the bane of my existence?
- Kol: "Welcome back."
- Rebekah: "What do you want from us?"
- Alexander: "To fulfill my destiny."
- Connor: "And we want the cure."
- Elena: "They're willing to kill every person in Mystic Falls until they get it."
- Galen Vaughn: "Where's Silas?" (Yelling and pointing a gun to someone's head)
- Galen Vaughn: "There's a thousand years worth of hunters. Qetsiyah will just send more.
- Kol: (Yells in rage)
- Kol: "Welcome back. It was our deaths that allowed this day to come to pass. The slaughter of innocents by the so-called hero protectors of Mystic Falls. Twelve witches, twelve hybrids, massacres performed in the name of resurrecting the immortal Silas. They risked unleashing hell on earth for their own selfish gain. And today, that's exactly what they're going to get."
- Connor: "Hello Elena."
- Rebekah: "What do you want from us?"
- Alexander: "To fulfill my destiny."
- Connor: "We want Silas and we want the cure."
- Elena: "They are willing to kill every person in Mystic Falls until they get it."
- Damon: "I don't care about anyone else."
- Vaughn: "Where's Silas?!"
- Vaughn: "There's a thousand years' worth of hunters. Qetsiyah will just send more."
- Damon: "How is it even when you're dead you're the bane of my existence?"
- Bonnie: "I hit kind of a snag."
- Caroline: "A snag? A snag is a bad yearbook picture. You hit a tsunami. Where are you?"
- Bonnie: "Trying to fix it, but I'm running into some trouble. I need to wait until the full moon tonight until I have enough power to put the veil back up."
- Caroline: "Are you telling me that we might graduate right smack in the middle of a ghost-filled Expression Triangle?"
- Bonnie: "Maybe we should just cancel."
- Caroline: "No, we are not going to cancel. Graduation is the most important event of our lives, the last ceremony of our youth. It is our rite of freaking passage! Hell will freeze over before I let anyone cancel graduation."
- Bonnie: "Can you not make jokes about hell freezing over? We're not that far off from that already."
- Caroline: "Just promise me that today is a friend day."
- Bonnie: "Okay, I promise. I love you."
- Caroline: "I love you, too."
- Katherine: "I don't think red is really your color, Bon-Bon."
- Bonnie: "And here I was hoping the ghost of anyone would have killed you already."
- Katherine: "Funny you should mention death, because I'm here to collect that immortality you promised me."
- Bonnie: "How do you think you're still gonna get it. I told you Qetsiyah is the only witch who knows the immortality spell. She was a no show. You're out of luck."
- Katherine: "See, here is the thing, Bonnie. I can't disagree with you, because I have been feeling out of luck lately. But you know who has been getting all of my luck? My beloved doppelgänger Elena. My shadow self is living a better life than I am. So if I don't get that immortality, I may just have to get rid of her altogether."
- Bonnie: "Did you just threaten my best friend? I can crush your skull without even flinching."
- Katherine: "Go ahead. Make your move."
- Damon: (to Lexi) "So if you and Ric and little Gilbert are all flesh-like and real-seeming, that means something went horribly wrong when Bonnie tried to put that veil up; and here you two are having Dance Party USA."
- Stefan: "You're right. How selfish of me to be indulging in these precious moments with my formerly dead best friend. I should be sacrificing my own happiness for the good of others, right? I should be upstairs grooming my hero hair."
- Damon: "Are you drunk?"
- Stefan: "I don't know, Mom. Am I?"
- Lexi: (laughs) "Okay."
- Damon: "Well, I guess that's one way to celebrate our supernatural apocalypse. Now, care to hazard any guesses on what the hell went wrong?"
- Kol: "Welcome back. It was our deaths that allowed this day to come to pass. Massacres performed in the name of resurrecting the immortal Silas. Twelve hybrids, twelve witches, the slaughter of innocents by the so-called hero protectors of Mystic Falls. They risked unleashing hell on earth for their own selfish gains. And today, that's exactly what they're going to get."
- Damon: "I wanted to apologize..."
- Elena: "Good."
- Damon: "Let me finish. I said I wanted to. And then I realized, I'm not sorry."
- Elena: "You would rather die than be human, and you expect me to be okay with that?"
- Damon: " I didn't say you were supposed to be okay with it, I just said I'm not sorry. But you know what I really am? Selfish, because I make bad choices that hurt you. Yes, I would rather have died than be human. I'd rather die right now than spend a handful of years with you, only to lose you when I'm too old and sick and miserable and you're still you. I'd rather die right now than spend my last final years remembering how good I had it and how happy I was, because that's who I am, Elena, and I'm not gonna change. And there's no apology in the world that encompasses all the reasons that I'm wrong for you."
- Elena: "Fine, then I'm not sorry either. I'm not sorry that I met you. I'm not sorry that knowing you has made me question everything, that in death you're the one that made me feel most alive. You've been a terrible person, you've made all the wrong choices, and of all the choices that I've made this will prove to be the worst one. But I am not sorry that I'm in love with you. I love you, Damon. I love y–"
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