Find out what’s happening in The Vampire Diaries season 5 premiere episode, as five tantalising teasers reveal several shocking twists.

With The Vampire Diaries season 5 premiere only weeks away, TV Guide has released five spoiler snippets from the episode, which is titled “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”

Jumping ahead several months, The Vampire Diaries season 5, episode 1 will see Caroline (Candice Accola) and Elena (Nina Dobrev) starting college, while Silas (Paul Wesley) is still pretending to be Stefan.

Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Elena are now a couple, but Damon is stuck in Mystic Falls trying to keep everything together, allowing his girlfriend a bit of freedom at school.

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While Ian Somerhalder himself has promised several times that Damon will still be Damon, we can expect a somewhat more responsible version than we’re used to when season 5 opens.

TV Guide reveals that Damon will be trying to keep the recently resurrected Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) safe, in some “pretty sweet” scenes.

But don’t expect too much sweetness — this being The Vampire Diaries, the season will of course open with several deaths!

While we can only speculate about which characters are departing (and whether they’re major or not), “both deaths carry weight that will be felt for much of the season.”

From death to sex (in other words, business as usual), expect a different kind of twist in the first five minutes of The Vampire Diaries season 5: a threesome!

“One of the show’s couples invite a third party to join them in a champagne-filled evening that doesn’t leave the bedroom,” TV Guide writes.

We have to assume that this couple is either Damon/Elena, Caroline/Tyler, or Matt/Rebekah. Want to place your bets?

And finally, while we’ve been looking forward to seeing Silas make a move on Katherine, don’t expect love and roses on that front — poor Katherine is only another one of Silas’ pawns, after all.

The Vampire Diaries season 5 premieres Thursday, October 3, airing at 8/7c on The CW.