The Vampire Diaries season 8, episode 13 proved once again that Bonnie is the baddest witch around.

Who could literally create their own world in between Earth and Hell? Bonnie, of course! What can’t this woman do? Besides bring her love, Enzo, back from her world, apparently?

Tonight’s episode seemed a bit less jam-packed than a few of the more recent ones, but the chess pieces are definitely moving forward. We have only three episodes left until we say farewell to our beloved vampires and co. Read on for our review of “The Lies Will Catch up to You.”

‘The Vampire Diaries’ 8×13 recap

Kai is back, ya’ll! Well, sort of. Hell’s bell brought him back and he’s kind of stuck in between worlds and Cade has no idea — yet. The man has guts to even be in the same room as Alaric after killing is wife fiancée. But of course Kai has an idea to kill Cade and save Elena. Who do we think is first to bite the bait? Let’s all welcome Mister Damon Salvatore to the episode.

Ah, Damon. You never let us down when it comes to a plan involving doing something terrible for something possibly good to happen. Jumping to help Kai in a heartbeat is so typical of him. When will he just get over “saving” Elena and just let Bonnie live her life? What’s 60 or so years to a vampire?

So now that Stefan is human, EVERYONE he’s compelled is now remembering strange stories they were told by an “intense guy with weird hair.” Matt and Caroline are stuck with damage control. Caroline re-compels the victims with new stories. That is, until Matt gets a call from Dorian that he kidnapped and shot Stefan.

Oh, did we not get to that yet? You know Dorian, the guy that’s been helping Matt and Alaric at the Armory? Well, turns out he’s one of those people that has been compelled by Stefan in the past.

Okay, rewind. So, Dorian. Correction — Dorian Williams, kidnaps Stefan and reminds him that he killed his parents, Robert and Tina Williams. Stefan remembers that it was during one of those Klaus-binge-ripper killings.

Well, Dorian is pissed, as he should be, and tells Stefan to basically dig his own grave. One thing leads to another and Dorian shoots Stefan and then immediately regrets it because he’s a good guy. Not Stefan — Dorian. Dorian Williams.

Caroline and Matt rush to help Stefan. They almost lost Stefan to Cade, but Stefan chose to stay and live instead of giving Caroline peace. Or so was said by Cade. Stefan continues to break Caroine’s heart by saying he thinks he needs to leave Mystic Falls… alone. Caroline calls bullshit.

Would Caroline really have been at peace if Stefan died? Well, there are still three episodes left. We’ll find out soon enough!

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Bonnie is psychic, created her own world when Enzo died — which is harboring him now — and is also so badass that she walks up to the Devil himself to ask him how to reach Enzo.

Cade “teaches” Bonnie how to benefit from her powerful traumatic awakening. He tells her that when Enzo died and she screamed, it brought about her new abilities. Cade helps Bonnie to channel Enzo and find him in her in-between world. There, Enzo tells Bonnie not to trust Cade because Cade is still searching for him to take his soul.

Damn, so here’s Enzo, just chilling in Bonnie’s world hiding from the Devil. When Bonnie comes to, she leaves and tells Cade that nothing happened, but of course Cade has no chill. He figures out Bonnie’s world and tries to access it through her. Didn’t work, though! At least this time.

Kai’s nose starts to bleed as he’s catching up on his Twitter feed. Speaking of, whoever is handing his twitter account seriously needs to get on top of things. As of this moment this is @KobraKai1972‘s last tweet:

So Kai killing “bad” people with Damon didn’t work out as planned and now Cade knows about Kai. Damon comes up with the very stupid idea to have Kai redeem himself so he doesn’t go back to Hell by bringing back Elena right now. Why did he think Kai would go for that?

Damon tells Kai to reverse the spell and Kai says he needs to siphon magic from Damon. As Kai siphons enough to knock Damon out, he beforehand tells Damon that his soul cannot be redeemed and he plans on going out with a bang. Then he basically apparates with Elena’s coffin.

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