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Gods and Monsters: Directed by Michael A. Allowitz. With Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder, Kat Graham, Candice King. Despite their best efforts to help Bonnie through the harrowing predicament she now faces, Damon, Enzo and Caroline realize their options are running out and drastic measures need to be taken.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Michael A. Allowitz
- 2016-05-13
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- Body Count
- Continuity
- Locations
- Behind the Scenes
Gods and Monsters is the twenty-second and final episode of the seventh season of The Vampire Diaries and the one hundred and fifty-fifth episode of the series overall.
THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE — Despite their best efforts to help Bonnie through the harrowing predicament she now faces, Damon, Enzo and Caroline realize their options are running out and drastic measures need to be taken. With their only chance of saving their friend lying inside the Armory, Stefan breaks the news to Caroline that they may need help fr...
Damon talks with Stefan, Caroline and Enzo about the plan to kill the last Everlasting located in The Armory's Vault. After trying to open the Vault with explosives, Damon suggests using Caroline's twins' syphoning abilities to open it. Caroline mentions to Stefan that Lizzie syphoned her the other day, so that she has the abilities, but Caroline's not ready to involve them in the supernatural world.
Bonnie and Matt are in the car chasing Stefan and Caroline in the other car. Bonnie turn on the siren from Matt's police car and they almost catch up to them planning to crash into them, but Matt takes the wheel and lets Stefan and Caroline pass. Soon after Bonnie goes after them, leaving wounded Matt behind. He later hallucinates Penny, apologizes for accidentally killing her and realizes that he deserves better in this life.
Damon planned to kidnap the girls, but when he got the the airport, his plane and pilot weren't there because Stefan realized Damon's plan and he had put a stop to it. Meanwhile, Caroline changes her mind about the twins and decides to use them to open the Vault because she doesn't want Bonnie to suffer anymore. Stefan, Damon, Alaric, Caroline and the twins go to the Armory, and the twins manage to open the door.
Meanwhile, Enzo visits Virginia at Mental Health Center to ask her about the monster in the Vault and she reveals it to him off-screen. He calls Bonnie and asks her to chase him to give the others more time. She finds him at his safehouse cooking a meal. She starts shooting at him and chasing him around the house and manages to stab him in the stomach with the stake. He tells her about their three wonderful years together to try to appeal to her. At the same time, Damon enters the Vault alone, finds the last Everlasting's body and sets it on fire, breaking Bonnie's curse.
Caroline's scar also disappears. She talks with Alaric about their relationship and decide to call off the wedding. She goes to Stefan and they reconcile.
Damon is still in the Vault and texts Stefan to prepare the bourbon to celebrate. He calls Bonnie to talk and during the call he hears Elena's voice in the cave. Enzo comes to the Vault some time later to help Damon, but a creature in the Vault grabs him as well and the door shut sealed.
Main Cast
•Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore •Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore •Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett •Candice King as Caroline Forbes •Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan •Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman •Michael Malarkey as Enzo St. John
Recurring Cast
•Ana Nogueira as Penny Ares (dream)
Co-Starring
•Andrea Laing as EMT •Keith N. Collis as Mechanic •Lily Rose Mumford as Josie Saltzman •Tierney Mumford as Lizzie Saltzman •Chaka De Silva as Shaman •Aisha Duran as Virginia St. John
•Antagonists: Bonnie Bennett and The Armory's Monster.
•For the first time, a CGI creature is used in the series for the creature that was in the vault. According to Julie Plec, there is a name they are using for it internally, but they won't give it a formal name until Season 8.
•Virginia tells Enzo that what was in the Armory vault has been around for thousands of years, meaning it's been around longer than vampires. Enzo then compels Virginia to tell him what was in the vault and he then tells Damon he doesn't want to know what was in there.
•What was in the vault lures Damon with the sound of Elena's voice like Yvette's to Alex wasn't really Elena's voice.
•Just before the creature takes Damon, he has flashes of memory of both his relationship with Elena but his love for her as well. This love for Elena and his empathy are taken away by the creature.
•With this episode, Damon and Stefan Salvatore will have appeared in the most episodes of the series with 155 episodes. Elena Gilbert with the second most at 135 episodes (1 stock footage and 1 voice only appearance) until Season 8 when the remaining main characters Bonnie, Caroline and Matt will equal or surpass in episode appearances.
•The last Everlasting - Body incinerated; killed by Damon Salvatore
•60 missing persons - killed by Damon and Enzo
•This is the first and only season finale not to feature Elena and Jeremy Gilbert.
•Although she does not physically appear, Elena can be considered to be in the finale as Nina Dobrev recorded new voiceovers for the episode.
•This is the third season finale not to feature Tyler Lockwood.
•This is the first season finale of the series to be aired on a Friday night.
•Grove Hill, Virginia
•The Armory
•The Vault
•Asheville, North Carolina
•Mental Health Center
•Dallas, Texas
•This is the first episode since Pilot to feature only one guest star.
•Mouzam Makkar (Alex St. John) was originally supposed to appear in the episode; however, the only scene that featured her (and her character's death) was cut from the episode.
•The Mechanic is our transportation coordinator Keith. Call it nepotism, but believe us when we say: He was truly the best audition for the part. Authenticity goes a long way.
•Standards and Practices asked us to be careful with exactly how many bodies we put in the warehouse in the coda. Because apparently under 100 = acceptable. Over? Too much.
•We had two scenes that we had to shoot early due to the availability of Mouzam Makkar, who plays Alex. She booked a pilot that would be shooting every day during our finale. We scrambled to get the set ready and release script pages (even though the actual script wasn't done yet) and get it shot in time before we lost her. We didn't want to kill her, because we really liked her as an actress, and it turns out that we had to cut the scenes when the first cut came in 10 minutes long, so now I guess you can technically say Alex could be alive and well (or not well, considering what happened to the rest of her co-workers) somewhere inside the Armory. Maybe we'll get to see her again.
•Because I came back to LA before we had fully wrapped, the last scene of my Vampire Diaries career after seven years ended up being Bonnie pulling up in her car to the cabin. Very anti-climatic, and also cut. And thank goodness it was night time, so I could sneak away when we wrapped, and the crew wouldn't see me crying.
"Gods and Monsters" is the 22nd episode of the seventh season of the American series The Vampire Diaries and the series' 155th episode overall. "Gods and Monsters" was originally aired on May 13, 2016, on The CW. The episode was written by Brian Young and directed by Michael A. Allowitz.
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Gods and Monsters - Despite their best efforts to help Bonnie through the harrowing predicament she now faces, Damon, Enzo and Caroline realize their options are running out and drastic measures need to be taken.
After a brutal car crash left Matt immobilized and Bonnie free, she couldn't help making a beeline for her pals, most of whom had been marked by her when they entered her mindspace to save her last week.
