A New threat on the horizon - After realizing the downward spiral he was on, Damon decides he's going to turn over a new leaf and that his actions moving forward will do right by Elena. Lily prepares for the arrival of a special figure from her past, while Enzo stands by not sure what to expect. Elsewhere, at Caroline's urging, Stefan comes face-to-face with Valerie and learns some upsetting details about her past, while Enzo and Bonnie find themselves at odds when they're forced to fend off a unhappy threat. Finally, when Bonnie learns some disturbing information involving the Phoenix stone, she is forced to confront Alaric.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 7 Episode 5 of The Vampire Diaries was watched by 1,340,000 viewers, resulting in a 0.60 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

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The Vampire Diaries Season 7 Episodes...

• s07e01 - Day One of Twenty-Two Thousand, Give or Take
• s07e02 - Never Let Me Go
• s07e03 - Age of Innocence
• s07e04 - I Carry Your Heart With Me
• s07e05 - Live Through This
• s07e06 - Best Served Cold
• s07e07 - Mommie Dearest
• s07e08 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
• s07e09 - Cold as Ice
• s07e10 - Hell Is Other People
• s07e11 - Things We Lost in the Fire
• s07e12 - Postcards from the Edge
• s07e13 - This Woman's Work
• s07e14 - Moonlight On the Bayou (1)
• s07e15 - I Would For You
• s07e16 - Days of Future Past
• s07e17 - I Went to the Woods
• s07e18 - One Way or Another
• s07e19 - Somebody That I Used to Know
• s07e20 - Kill 'Em All
• s07e21 - Requiem for a Dream
• s07e22 - Gods & Monsters

The Vampire Diaries Show Summary

Based on novels of the same name, Vampire Diaries follows Elena, a young heroine, who is the object of passion for two vampire brothers. Four months after the tragic car accident thathuged their parents, 17-year-old Elena Gilbert and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy are still trying to cope with their grief and move on with their lives. Elena has always been the star student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but now she finds herself struggling to hide her sadness from the world.

As the school year begins, Elena and her friends are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan Salvatore. Stefan and Elena are immediately drawn to one another, and Elena has no way of knowing that Stefan is a centuries-old vampire, struggling to live peacefully among humans, while his brother Damon is the embodiment of vampire violence and brutality. Now these two vampire brothers - one good, one evil - are at war for Elena's soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all the residents of the small town of Mystic Falls, Virginia.