With Bonnie already showing symptoms of impending fatal weakening, Enzo, the brothers and Alaric, whom 'bored mother' Caroline insists to join, engage in an epic race to eliminate enough Phoenix stone-escaped vampire fiends to earn Rayna's last life. Stefan faces Matt, who wants to kill him for his girlfriend's death by vampire, but finds the truth even harder to bear. Bonnie, who has fallen in love with Enzo but refuses to take his cue and make up with Damon, exhausts Alex's demand to unseal her and Virginia's sister's magical prison, where she has been turned into a hellish ogre, turning on the Armory goons, but with a viciously vindictive witchcraft twist. The vampires are in for their own eerie surprise when Rayna's life force is transferred by the shamans' heir to Bonnie.
—KGF Vissers