The Five (The Vampire Diaries)

"The Five"
The Vampire Diaries episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 4
Directed by	Joshua Butler
Written by	Brett Matthews & Rebecca Sonnenshine
Production code	2J6654
Original air date	November 1, 2012
Guest actors
David Alpay as Professor Shane Grace Phipps as April Young Todd Williams as Connor Jordan Claire Holt as Rebekah Mikaelson Paul Telfer as Alexander

"The Five" is the fourth episode of The Vampire Diaries's fourth season, premiering November 1, 2012 on The CW.

Plot

Klaus and Rebekah tell Stefan about The Five, a group of vampire hunters of whom they have known for 900 years. Rebekah had fallen in love with one of The Five, Alexander. However, Alexander betrays her love and daggers Rebekah. The Five then attempt to kill the rest of the Originals but their plan is thwarted when the dagger dipped into the white oak ash does not work on Klaus as a result of his werewolf side and Klaus kills Alexander. The tattoos which mark the bodies of The Five are a map to a way of ridding the world of all vampires. Stefan later convinces Rebekah to reveal the missing piece of the map- Alexander's engraved sword, which Rebekah had buried with him. Klaus convinces Stefan to help him as the map may lead them to a cure for vampirism. Stefan agrees, thinking of Elena's struggle to adapt. A guilty Stefan apologizes to Rebekah just before her brother daggers her.

Bonnie, Elena, and Damon visit the college Bonnie's grandmother used to teach at, at which there is a Halloween party. As Professor Shane helps Bonnie, Damon shows Elena how to feed properly. At first, Elena lets her emotions get in the way of her feeding but later at the Halloween party, she finds that preying on wrong-doers lessens her guilt. Elena, intoxicated with the human blood, dances with Damon as they both drink. However, when she sees Bonnie looking on in horror, Elena snaps out of the haze and feels guilty. They then go home to Mystic Falls where she apologizes to Damon for lashing out at him after the party, and admits that deep down she believes Damon's way of living as vampire is the right way. Elena admits that as a young girl all she ever wanted was to be a baseball superstar. Before Elena can continue, Damon assumes she is saying she doesn't want to be like him even though she feels this way, but before Elena can respond Stefan shows up and Damon leaves.

Connor, meanwhile, has been kept prisoner by Klaus. Klaus enlists Jeremy's help in drawing the tattoos as he is the only one with the ability to see them. However, the tattoos - and by extension, the map - are incomplete. The tattoos spread each time Connor kills a vampire, therefore meaning that there are more vampiric deaths to occur before the map can be completed. After Jeremy finishes the drawing, Klaus leaves a hybrid, Nate, to look after Connor. Nate is killed by Connor when he manages to escape using an earring ripped from Nate's ear. The episode ends with Connor arriving in Professor Shane's office at Whitmore College where it is seen that Shane sent Connor to Mystic Falls to kill vampires.

Reception

Ratings

When the episode aired on November 1, 2012, the episode was viewed by 3.27 million American viewers and garnered a 1.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic up 15% from the previous week.^[1]

References

↑ Bibel, Sara (November 2, 2012). "Thursday Final Ratings: 'The Big Bang Theory' Adjusted Up; No Adjustments for 'Scandal', 'American Idol' or 'Do No Harm'". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved November 2, 2013.

External links

Recap from Official Website

The Vampire Diaries

Creators	L. J. Smith (novel series) Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec (TV series)

Series	Television Episodes Season 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Characters	Elena Gilbert Katherine Pierce Stefan Salvatore Silas Damon Salvatore Jeremy Gilbert Jenna Sommers Bonnie Bennett Caroline Forbes Matt Donovan Vicki Donovan Tyler Lockwood Alaric Saltzman Niklaus Mikaelson Enzo St. John

Related	Awards and nominations Novel series Original Vampires The Originals (episodes)

The Vampire Diaries episodes

Season 1	"Pilot" "The Night of the Comet" "Friday Night Bites" "Family Ties" "You're Undead to Me" "Lost Girls" "Haunted" "162 Candles" "History Repeating" "The Turning Point" "Bloodlines" "Unpleasantville" "Children of the Damned" "Fool Me Once" "A Few Good Men" "There Goes the Neighborhood" "Let the Right One In" "Under Control" "Miss Mystic Falls" "Blood Brothers" "Isobel" "Founder's Day"

Season 2	"The Return" "Brave New World" "Bad Moon Rising" "Memory Lane" "Kill or Be Killed" "Plan B" "Masquerade" "Rose" "Katerina" "The Sacrifice" "By the Light of the Moon" "The Descent" "Daddy Issues" "Crying Wolf" "The Dinner Party" "The House Guest" "Know Thy Enemy" "The Last Dance" "Klaus" "The Last Day" "The Sun Also Rises" "As I Lay Dying"

Season 3	"The Birthday" "The Hybrid" "The End of the Affair" "Disturbing Behavior" "The Reckoning" "Smells Like Teen Spirit" "Ghost World" "Ordinary People" "Homecoming" "The New Deal" "Our Town" "The Ties That Bind" "Bringing Out the Dead" "Dangerous Liaisons" "All My Children" "The Departed"

Season 4	"Growing Pains" "Memorial" "The Rager" "The Five" "The Killer" "We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes" "My Brother's Keeper" "We'll Always Have Bourbon Street" "O Come, All Ye Faithful" "After School Special" "Catch Me If You Can" "A View to a Kill"

Season 5	"I Know What You Did Last Summer" "True Lies" "Original Sin" "For Whom the Bell Tolls" "Monster's Ball" "Handle with Care" "Death and the Maiden" "Dead Man on Campus" "The Cell" "Fifty Shades of Grayson" "500 Years of Solitude" "The Devil Inside" "Total Eclipse of the Heart" "No Exit" "Gone Girl" "While You Were Sleeping" "Rescue Me" "Resident Evil" "Man on Fire" "What Lies Beneath" "Promised Land" "Home"

Season 6	"I'll Remember" "Yellow Ledbetter" "Welcome to Paradise" "Black Hole Sun" "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get" "Do You Remember the First Time?" "Fade Into You" "I Alone"

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