One month after the LA Witch Massacre, everything is silent and breezy in Mystic Falls. But there are still regular problems afoot. Alaric is drinking more and more and begging Caroline to come home. Bonnie and Stefan seem to be heating things up in the romance department. At the exact same time they decide to go on the offensive with the witch purists. Meanwhile lonely Damon meets a mysterious woman in town with a darkness that might rival his own. The teens of the Salvatore Boarding School might be monsters but it's the adults who can't handle their emotions.