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The Vampire Diaries
Season 2, Episode 5

Air date	October 7th 2010
Written by	Mike Daniels
Directed by	Jeff Woolnough
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Kill or Be Killed is the fifth episode of the Second Season and the twenty-seventh episode in the series.

Summary

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MASON’S PAST IS REVEALED — Tyler learns more about the Lockwood family curse from Mason. Stefan and Damon argue over how to handle Mason. Elena tries to keep Jeremy from becoming more involved with the Lockwood mystery but Jeremy makes an effort to hang out with Tyler and Mason gives Sheriff Forbes some startling information, leading to a night of violence, confessions and heartbreak.

Plot

SPOILERS AHEAD

In this episode, the short flashback is taking place one year ago, it shows that Mason accidentally killed his friend Jimmy in a fight. Mason told this to Tyler. It is Mystic Falls Historical Society Volunteer Day. Stefan tries to make peace with Mason. Despite a somewhat reconcilable conversation, it is obvious that Mason is still out for Damon.

Mason tells Sheriff Forbes that Damon and Stefan are vampires, but she don't believe it.Stefan and Elena continue making everyone making everyone think that they are in a fight. Caroline believes this, but Damon does not. Damon drinks some lemonade and topples over, because Mason spiked it with vervain. Sheriff Forbes watches everything go down and calls for backup. As she leaves, Caroline confronts her. Caroline sees how distressed her mom is and becomes curious. Caroline decides to eavesdrop on her mother's surroundings.Stefan and Damon corner Mason in the woods. Just when they were about to kill him, they were shot by wooden bullets. Liz and her deputies run over and inject them with vervain and take them into the cellar. Caroline hears all this and runs and tells Elena. They arrive and stop deputies from staking Stefan and Damon. Damon drank their blood, but Stefan refuses. Liz sees all this go down. Caroline pleads with her to keep this a secret. Liz does not accept her daughter being a vampire. Damon gets close to killing Liz, and then decides to keep her in the cellar until all the vervain leaves her system which will cause her to forget everything.On Caroline's way out, she overhears Liz say that Caroline is not her daughter anymore. Elena thanks Damon for not killing Liz. Damon tells Elena that Stefan didn't feed on the blood.

Elena cuts her hand and offers her blood to Stefan. He feeds on her a little.Jeremy and Tyler were hanging out with Sarah and Aimee at the Lockwood Mansion. Sarah asked to see Jeremy's sketches. They were all pictures of wolves. Tyler takes Jeremy aside and confronts him. Jeremy admits to knowing the Lockwood secret then he spills everything he knows about Mason, the moonstone, and the curse. Then Sarah jokingly took it. Tyler is furious and pushes her accidentally down the stairs and wrestles the stone back. Tyler is shaken up by his actions and later tells Mason what happened and hands over the moonstone.Mason gets into a car that Katherine is driving. It turns out that he works for her.He hands her the moonstone and they share a kiss. He thinks that Katherine loves him, He does not know anything about her history with Damon and Stefan.

Cast

Main Cast

Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert/Katherine Pierce
Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore
Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore
Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert
Katerina Graham as Bonnie Bennett (credit only)
Candice Accola as Caroline Forbes
Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan (credit only)
Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood
Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers (credit only)
Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman (credit only)

Recurring Cast

Guest Cast

Maiara Walsh as Sarah
Tiya Sircar as Aimee Bradley

Trivia

Antagonist: Mason Lockwood.
This episode had 3.5 million viewers in USA.
Elizabeth Forbes learns Damon and Stefan are vampires in this episode, as well as her daughter Caroline, but she is compelled to forget soon after.
Mason meets Elena and Caroline in this episode.

Continuity

Bonnie, Matt, Jenna and Alaric do not appear in this episode.
Jeremy was last seen in Brave New World.

Cultural References

Please Give Peace a Chance is a 1969 single written by John Lennon that became an anthem of the American anti-war movement of the 1960s.
Bionic Woman: the way that Caroline moves her hair, and the camera focus on her ear is just the way Jaime Sommers used to focus her hearing.

Quotes

Damon: "What are you doing?"

Stefan: "Negotiating peace on your behalf."

Damon (complains): "But I don't want peace!"

Stefan: "Huh.. consider it opposite day."

Damon: "Stefan, please tell me you don't seriously think a handshake just solved our problem."

Stefan: "No, actually, I think that the first chance Mason Lockwood gets, he's gonna drive a stake through your heart, and then through mine. All because you took it upon yourself to try and kill him. So thank you, 'cause we don't have enough problems."

Damon (to Elena): "Hey...Stefan didn't drink the people blood. But he needs to...and deep down you know that."

Elena (To Stefan): "It`s you and me, Stefan. Always."

Stefan: "Okay how about this. Today when we`re fighting if I say “I can`t do this anymore Elena” what I really mean is that I love you."

Elena: "And when I say “Fine, Stefan, whatever” that`ll mean that I love you too."

Multimedia

Soundtrack

"The Fellowship" – The Smashing Pumpkins
"Counting Sleep" – Trent Dabbs
"Superhuman Touch" – Athlete
"Sometimes" – The Rifles
"Cool Kids" – The Fast Romantics
"Punching In A Dream" – The Naked And Famous