The Vampire Diaries Season 6 Episode 6 Recap: Border Wars

While The Stefan Salvatore Apology Tour made its way through The Vampire Diaries Season 6 Episode 6, the bulk of this installment focused on Stefan’s suddenly-returned handsome brother.

Oh, yes, present day Mystic Falls: Damon Salvatore is back.

But did he enjoy a welcome homecoming?

In a word: No.

After rehashing part of what went down in 1994 (leaving out any mention of Kai and saying that Bonnie wasn’t actually there), Damon is told by Stefan about the whole Elena memory erasing thing.

This makes it hard for Damon and Alaric to enjoy some bourbon together because Damon is angry over his best friend’s actions, but Alaric says he won’t return Elena’s memories unless she asks him to.

Damon is then hanging out in Elena’s dorm room after she refuses to see him when Tripp pays him a visit.

He came by to Caroline because her name was all over Ivy’s phone, which Tripp stole after he killed and some other vampires by driving them into Mystic Falls.

Instead, he finds Damon and takes him hostage. He puts Damon in the same van as Enzo (happy reunion, fellas!) and is driving them out to Mystic Falls when Alaric and Stefan interrupt the trip right at the border.

The car flips over and both Stefan and Alaric risk their lives to save their friends. Stefan pulls Enzo and Damon to safety, but Alaric is badly injured.

Good thing (who earlier told Elena she knows that she and Alaric are vampires) is on the scene to work her doctor magic (is she a witch?), saving Alaric’s life… but not before he loses his vampirism. He’s now a human again.

This means he can’t return Elena’s memories to her, which she had just decided she wants him to do. Talk about unfortunate timing!

But Elena says she wants to see Damon after all in order to learn how she feels when they lock eyes. We end the episode with Elena opening her dorm door and these two standing across from each other.

ELSEWHERE:

• Jeremy, believing Bonnie was never in 1994, accepts that she is gone. In a violent manner. He smashes his phone and bloodies his hand.
• Matt tells Sarah that Damon and Stefan are her relatives. And that they’re vampires.
• Caroline tells Stefan she isn’t sure if they can be friends again.

A very character-based episode without any real mythology, not that that’s a bad thing.

No Kai. No Bonnie. And no major plot movement, except that the vampire secret is now out to Sarah, Jo and Tripp as well (he limped away from the accident at the border.)

But the main question is this: Will Elena get her memories back upon seeing Damon? Do you hope so?

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