Since he's possessing Alaric's body, Klaus can stroll right into Mossy Manse, even without an invite, and so he does. This gives him an all access pass to the Fellowship of the Falls strategy sessions, in which he learns Bonnie has regained her own powers and harnessed those of 100 dead witches, besides, in order to kill him. After consulting with one of his manwitches, who lays some sort of protect-o whammy on him, Klaus-Alaric assumes Alaric's life, and job (which is damned amusing) and attends the big Mystic Falls event o' the week -- a 1960s theme dance. He compels students to menace Jeremy and distract our Beautiful Brothers Salvatore and has no problem isolating Bonnie and Elena from the rest of the gang. Bonnie has enough mojo to fend him off, allowing Elena to escape. With encouragement from Damon, it seems Bonnie will do anything to kill Klaus, even if that means her own death, and the death of Alaric's pretty, pretty body, too. Poor Elena and Stefan watch through magically locked doors as Bonnie confronts Klaus-Alaric and dies in battle. But she she dies at 8:45 PM, so if you're not Elena and Stefan, it's pretty clear she's only "dead." The question is, has Damon vamped her to save her, or is something else going on?

Damon enlists Jeremy's help with "disposing" of Bonnie's body. The Germ disposes of it right in that old plantation house where Bonnie sucked up all the dead witch juice, and she comes back to life.

Meanwhile, back at Mossy Manse, Elena is understandably heartbroken and horrified that best friend "died" in a futile attempt to save her life. Stefan comforts her until Damon returns home and riles her up so that she slaps his face. He takes his damned sweet time about revealing it was all a ruse and that Bonnie put herself under a spell so that she would appear dead to Klaus-Alaric. Now the Fellowship of the Falls has the power of 100 witches as its secret weapon. Later, Elena finds Damon in his room and tells him she understands why he made the choices he did, but that she will not allow Bonnie to die for her. Damon gives it right back to her. When he explains that if it comes down to Bonnie's death or Elena's, it's no contest, he tells her "I will always choose you," -- a line which has already spawned 500,000 fanfics as I type. It resonates with Elena too, so when she leaves his room (with a parting glance at his great big bed), she sneaks down to the dungeon and into Elijah's cell-crypt, pulls the dagger out of his chest and then slumps to the floor and waits for him to resurrect.

There's lots more with all sorts of love-triangle tweaking, dancing, eye-thinging, Katherine stabbing herself over and over, and a whole Liz/Matt/Caroline subterfuge subplot, as well, but I don't want to blow my whole wad in the recaplet. I'll be back with the weecap ASAP. In the meantime, please grade the episode at the top of the page and then join us on the boards, where we will always choose you.

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