The Vampire Diaries season 5 finale, “Home” aired tonight and it lead to a very, very intriguing ending for our favorite characters.

Death for everyone!

-Caroline shows Elena and Damon Stefan’s body, and she wants to know if Bonnie’s plan to bring people back is going to work.
-Stefan was just about to get sucked into the void on the other side when Lexi shows up and saves him.
-Damon starts threatening Bonnie to get her to find a way to save Stefan.
-Enzo shows up, and he says he found another traveler but they still need more witches.
-Luke and Liv are driving away from Mystic Falls, but then Elena and Caroline stop them. They tell them that Stefan died, and they need to help.
-Liv and Luke say that they can’t risk saving Stefan but then Caroline kills Luke, and tells Liv that her brother is now on the other side, and she has no choice.
-Markos got Sheriff Forbes to evacuate humans from the town “due to a gas leak,” and tells her they’ll figure out how to keep it permanent. He also shows her Tyler, aka Julian.
-Markos moved the Mystic Fall sign to indicate where the spell to strip magic begins, and then pushes Tyler over the edge causing him to revert back to his original form before transforming into a werewolf: A dead guy.

Where’s that history teacher?

-Bonnie is talking with Enzo when Tyler shows up, as himself and not possessed by Julian. Bonnie says they’re going to bring him back from the dead.
-Jeremy walked the perimeter of the spell to see where it ends and where it begins, and they mapped it out.
-Damon says they can blow up their town and kill all the travelers, but they don’t wanna blow up the whole town.
-So they decide to get all the travelers to one spot to kill them all, without the need to blow up EVERYTHING.
-Lexi talks to Stefan and she tells him about how Caroline and he should get together when Sherif Forbes shows up at the Grill trying to convince Markos to get everyone there.
-Bonnie explains to Jeremy the plan to save everyone, but he wants to know how Bonnie will get to back to life. She says she’ll be fine.
-Then Silas shows up, and he’s Enzo’s mysterious traveler that will help them get everyone back.

Half a sacrifice

-Stefan and Lexi make a deal: They’re going to find peace together if they can’t get back to life.
-Silas is teaching Bonnie the spell, when Elena and Liv show up. She doesn’t tell them it’s Silas.
-At the Mystic Grill, a bunch of travelers showed up to drink and party. Markos asks Sherif Forbes where she’s about to go when she tries to leave, and tells her to drink with him.
-Damon tells Elena that Project Kaboom needs someone to trigger the explosion, and he wants to do it but Elena says no. He says that she needs to respect his choice, and promises he will make it back to her.

Finding peace

-Just as they’re about to perform the spell, Enzo starts getting sucked into Oblivion. Silas tries to save him, but then he gets whisked away instead.
-At 7, Liv starts the spell with Luke looking over her.
-Bonnie’s gram comes to visit, and tells her that she won’t be able to survive all the people coming through her. But she found peace, because she made sure that Bonnie will find hers. Cue emotional goodbye.
-Matt and Jeremy were able to disconnect the gas line and cause the leak, but Sherif Forbes is still at the Grill.
-She manages to knock out Markos and then text the gang they should blow up the grill, but Markos comes back and attacks her.
-As Damon is about to drive into the town to cause the explosion, Elena climbs into the car with him. She’s going with him on the suicide mission.

Alaric lives

-Damon drives the car into the Grill and manages to cause the explosion. Sheriff Forbes is fine, though.
-The travelers die and start going through Bonnie to the other side, and then Damon and Elena do the same. They have to find their body on the other side in order to come back.
-Alaric then sees Elena, and tells her that he will find Damon because she needs to go find Bonnie.
-Luke gets back to their world, and tells Liv she needs to stop but she says she promised them she will help.
-Slowly they all start coming back, including Tyler but he isn’t a hybrid anymore.
-Time is almost up, but Elena can’t find Damon. Stefan and Elena get through to the normal world, but Lexi is still waiting for Damon to show up.
-Lexi manages to throw Markos through to Oblivion, but she doesn’t want to go through before Damon.
-Bonnie brought Alaric back to life!
-Before Damon can make it through, Luke stops Liv from doing the spell so he can’t get through.

Will it hurt?

-Elena gets to the place where Liv was as she was doing the spell, and finds out she’s gone.
-Damon shows up on the other side, and he’s there to say goodbye to Elena because he never made it through.
-Stefan sits with Caroline, explaining how he lost both Damon and Lexi.
-Damon explains that Elena was the best thing that ever happened to him, and it wasn’t going to get any better – he peaked.
-Bonnie explains to Jeremy it was all a lie, and there was never a way for her to stop being the anchor.
-Upset, he comes running to the cemetery to find her, and finds everyone there is wondering what’s happening.
-Damon is with Bonnie when the Other Side starts to implode.
-Bonnie asks if he thinks it’s going to hurt, and when he answers he gets cut off and the screen goes white.