Klaus is feverishly trying to get the piece of white oak stake out of his back. He is scratching his own flesh off, leaving the wound on his back a bloody mess. "Brie" enters. "Klaus, we need to talk" Klaus is moaning in pain "What happened to you?"
"Silas. He attacked me. He stabbed me with the white oak stake. A piece of it-is still inside me"
"Oh my god, Klaus, that could kill you"
Klaus laughs humourlessly "Well, I certainly feel like I'm dying"
Brie reaches for Klaus' face, stroking it. When she speaks, she doesn't sound like Brie "Hey. As much as I would love to watch you die, you still haven't found me that cure"
"Silas!" Klaus pushes Brie/Silas away and falls to the floor.
"That's right. Last night I looked like Shane, today I look like Brianna, and tomorrow-who knows?"
"Show me your real face" Klaus said through gritted teeth.
"Now why would I do that when I can look like whomever I want you to see?" Silas approaches and Klaus shudders in fear. "Resist me all you want, Klaus, but until you bring me the cure I will bring you nothing but misery" Brie/Silas disappears and Klaus relaxes painfully.
An hour later, Brie storms into the Mikaelson Mansion in search of Klaus "I got your fifty bajillion messages. This better be life and death" Brie shouts as she hears moaning echoing the hallway.
"Go away" Klaus growls in pain.
"Klaus? Where are you?"Brie finds Klaus shirtless sitting on the floor, leaning on a piano seat. She enters the room "What happened to you?"
Klaus: I need more time. Stop hounding me!
Brie pulls a face "I'm hounding you? I'm supposed to be helping Caroline run three different prom committees right now and you keep phone stalking me"
"Is it really you?" Brie looks surprised. Klaus struggles and pulls himself onto the piano seat and leans back against the piano. "Prove it to me"
"Okay, I don't know if this is some new way of flirting, but it sucks, and I have more important things to do" Brie turns around and starts to leave.
"Wait, please. Silas. He stabbed me with the white oak stake" Brie turns around. "There's a piece of it stuck inside me"
"Why would Silas attack you?" Brie asked crossing her arms.
"Well, I was in no position to ask questions. Suffice it to say, I'm hurt. So you can understand why I called you"
Brie laughs softly "You ran Tyler out of town, you killed his mother, and you think I'm the person to call for help?"
"If I die, you, Tyler, all of your friends die with me"
Brie thinks for a moment and then walks closer. "What do you want me to do?"
"Well, it's quite simple, really. I need you to cut the stake out of me" Klaus looks down at a pair of bloody pliers lying on the rug. Brie looks down at them, perturbed.
Klaus is bracing himself against the piano while Brie uses the pair of pliers to try to dig out the white oak stake. "Oh, my god. You do have a heart" Klaus yells in pain through gritted teeth as Brie moves the pliers in his back "Oh, my bad. It's just a bloody rib"
"Well I'm glad you're finding my misery so amusing"
Brie was still looking for the piece of broken oak stake but couldn't see anything "Ugh, I swear there's nothing in here. And if you think I'm having fun, you're insane"
"You killed twelve witches for your friend Bonnie. You can't even get your hands a little dirty for me? Here I thought we were becoming friends"
"Well, you thought wrong" She digs a little deeper into Klaus' back. He yells in pain and starts slamming his hand on the piano top. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You know what?" She yanks the pliers out of his back and he yells in pain. "I'm not sorry. You deserve to suffer for everything that you've done. So today, we're gonna do things my way. You want my help? You let Tyler come back to town, and give me your word that you will not hurt him" Klaus shudders in pain but doesn't respond.
Brie is sitting on the sofa looking at her phone while Klaus, propped up on the back of another sofa, is still reaching round at the wound in his back "I can feel the splinters moving towards my heart. Help me!" Klaus said moaning.
"Your word first" She said still looking through her phone, not giving him any eye contact.
"And what makes you think I won't simply break my word?"
Brie looks up from her phone "You wanna be friends? Friendship-Stage One. Show me that I can trust you"
"I saved your life...twice" Klaus says angrily.
"Because you put it in danger...twice. Why can't you just do something decent for once?"
"Because Tyler Lockwood tried to kill me!"
"We've all tried to kill you" Brie stands up "And you've tried to kill most of us. How do you think that you deserve my friendship when you've done nothing to earn it?"
Klaus stands and approaches Brie quickly. "I will not have my hand forced by you or anyone else!" He starts shouting.
Brie raises her voice "What is wrong with you? I'm reaching out to you despite everything that you've done, and you still can't get out of your own way. God! I feel sorry for you" She turns away but Klaus vamp-speeds to block her way.
"Don't turn your back on me!"
" I should have turned my back on you ages ago!" Brie shouting emotionally.
They remain silent for a moment." It's gone." Klaus says realising the pain in his back was gone.
"What?"
"The pain" He reaches round to his back. "The pain is gone" he starts realising something "It was never there. He got in my head Silas" gesturing at his temple "got inside my head" He takes Brie's hand. "You took my mind off it. You brought me back, Brie"
Brie takes her hand back gently and turns around, bringing her hands to her head and walking a few steps. She turns back to Klaus "If Silas can make you, of all people, believe that you're dying...what can he do to the rest of us?"
Bonnie walks alone through a cemetery, carrying a bouquet of flowers. She comes to a stop in front of Jeremy's headstone, which reads: "JEREMY GILBERT - BROTHER AND FRIEND".
"Hey, Jeremy" She is crying silently while she kneels and places the flowers on his grave "You know, I was- I was thinking about the last thing I said to you. "We did it." Totally lame last thing to say to someone. That wasn't a goodbye, Jeremy. You were supposed to come back with us"
"Bonnie" She hears Jeremy's voice behind her, and smiles with excited hope.
"Jeremy?" She turns to see him standing behind her.
"Bonnie, wake up" Jeremy says urgently.
"I don't understand"
"Open your eyes. Bonnie, open your eyes!" Jeremy grabs her by the arms while imploring her to wake up. Suddenly, Bonnie is lying on a couch at home and her eyes open. The blanket covering her is on fire.
"Oh, my god" She waves her arm over the flames and the fire disappears. Mouth hanging open, Bonnie looks horrified.
Back at the Mikaelson Mansion, Brie enters the room, wiping her hands on a towel. "I used all your bleach" She starts to walk past Klaus but he reaches out and grabs her arm. She turns to him
"Hey. Thank you for helping me"
"Yeah" She pauses awkwardly "Well , if you need anything else...don't call me" She turns and walks away.
Klaus starts smiling "Friends, then?"
Brie pauses, then turns back round. "Are you gonna let Tyler come back into town?"
Klaus' face falls and he doesn't say anything. Brie shakes her head slightly, then turns away. "You might have noticed" Brie faces him again "I'm not exactly scouring the earth for him, am I?"Brie smiles, then finally leaves the room. Klaus smiles as well.
Later in the day, Brie storms into the house, talking to Stefan while she looks around for Elena. "Where is she? I wanna see her"
"We're not letting anyone see her, that's the whole point. Isolation leads to misery leads to emotion"
"She's been here for days. She hasn't improved at all?"
"Look, she doesn't want to, Brie, not yet. She's devastated; she lost her brother, she she attacked her friend, she killed an innocent woman"
"You said that you knew how to help her"
Stefan nods "I did say that. We are."
"What, how? By torturing her?"
"It's not torture, it's an intervention. The only chance we have with her is to provoke her, to trigger something. Fear, anger, self-pity, anything"
"Let me talk to her. Before any more interventioning. If she's weak, she can't hurt me. Please, just let me try" Stefan still looks reluctant but they go down to the cellar.
"Good luck" He leaves. Brie looks at Elena for a few moments, sympathetic. She withdraws a bottle of blood from her pocket.
"I brought you something. It doesn't have any vervain in it, I swear. I just figured a little blood might help you think straight" She approaches Elena, holding out the bottle after she opens it. Elena pauses for a moment before seizing on the bottle and drinking it desperately "For the record, I don't agree with what they're doing. I mean, I agree that you need to turn your humanity back on, but I don't think that making you suffer is the way to do it. That's not who you are"
Elena spins the empty bottle on the stone floor "What makes you such an expert on who I am? I tried to kill you, Brie I'm not exactly BFF-material anymore. You should move on" Elena continues to spin the bottle on the floor until Brie reaches out suddenly and stills it.
"I am not going to give up on you"
"This annoying, clingy thing that you're doing. Klaus and Elijah? I mean, let's just say it: nobody likes a tease. Brie rolls her eyes, making an exasperated sound "Hey, I'm not judging. Might be nice to have a bad boy ruffle those perfect feathers"
Brie tries to keep it together "You're in pain, you're lashing out, I get it. But you can't stay this way forever. We're about to graduate, and start new lives! And you deserve"
"Are you seriously talking about high school graduation? Brie, do you realise how pathetic you're gonna look in that cap and gown, pretending to be human while your mom fake-smiles and just counts down the minutes until you leave town so that you can stop being a reminder that her daughter is a repulsive, blood-sucking control freak monster?" Brie losing her patience, stands up and turns away "It's really too bad Stefan stopped me before I put you out of your misery, but hey, here's to second chances"
Elena vamp-speeds over to Brie to attack her. Brie holds her off while Elena growls, teeth bared "Elena" Elena doesn't let up, so Brie snaps her neck. Elena falls to the floor. Stefan returns, standing behind Brie. She speaks without looking at him. "Do whatever you have to do" She turns and looks at him "I'm gonna be upstairs" She walks past Stefan and leaves.
Outside the boarding house, Brie and Matt talk. Brie hears Elena's scream coming from inside. "We have to keep talking. If we don't keep talking, then I won't be able to stop myself from listening in, and I can't stand to hear Elena in pain"
They come to a stop in a patio area; Brie sits in a chair and Matt leans against a half wall "Well, what do you wanna talk about?"
"I don't know. Anything" She pauses " Caroline ordered you a cap and gown"
"She did?"
Brie Nods "She just figured that you'd forget, so she ordered yours when she ordered mine and her. And she got one for Elena, too"
Matt starts to move closer to Brie to sit in another chair "It's gonna work. We're gonna get Elena back" They hear a door open across the way, and see Rebekah inside through some glass doors, carrying a brown paper bag.
"What the hell is she doing here?" Inside, Rebekah withdraws a takeout box from the paper bag when Matt and Brie come inside "Hi. I don't mean to interfere. It's just, I happen to know all they keep in this house is blood and booze, so I brought a peace offering. Burgers?"
Matt approaches her and takes the box, smiling slightly. "Thanks"
"Yeah, we can't really entertain right now, but thanks for stopping by"
"I think I might stay. Matt mentioned that he was failing classes and needed a study buddy"
Brie gives them two thumbs up and leaves. Outside, Brie reaches her car but drops her keys. She crouches down to get them when she hears a rustling noise nearby. She stands back up slowly and warily "Who's there?" She turns round to see Klaus standing right behind her. "Oh, my god"
"Hello, Brie"
Brie is walking with Klaus "Why are you here Klaus?"
"The truth is, I've tried to stop thinking about you, and I can't" Brie starts to push past Klaus. "Come to New Orleans. What are you afraid of?"
"You! I'm afraid of you, wait your moving to New Orleans? What about Elijah?"
Klaus ignores her question "Wouldn't it be more accurate to say you're afraid of yourself, your darkest desires? Elena was right, wasn't she? Deep down, you long to have your perfect feathers ruffled"
Brie raises her eyebrow "How do you know what Elena said to me in that cell?"Klaus suddenly pins her against a tree "Then again, there's so much to be afraid of, isn't there? Like what I'll do to you if your friend Bonnie doesn't come out of hiding. Where is she?"
Brie suddenly realises who it was "Silas"
Silas begins to shout "Where is she?! She's not at home, she's not anywhere. Bonnie is playing games with me, and I don't like it" He leans in close to speak into Brie's ear "Tell her I'm looking for her. Tell her to come out of the shadows. Tell her that this" He stabs Brie in the chest with a stake "Is only the beginning" Gasping, Brie falls to the ground, unconscious.
Brie's phone is on the ground buzzing with Matt's call. She wakes up after it stops, putting a hand to her chest - there's no stake there. She sits up and frantically runs through the woods when Matt appears out of nowhere and stops her. Brie gasps in fright. "Brie! Where've you been?"
Brie grabs his arm and pulls him "Matt, we have to get out of here"
"No, Brie. wait. It's okay" he says pushing her hand off him.
"No, it's not okay. Silas is out there and he made me think that it was Klaus"
"What are you talking about? What's Silas want with you?"
"He's trying to get to Bonnie. Do you know where Bonnie is?" She asked.
"If I knew where she was, I wouldn't bother with you. Matt/Silas grabs Brie's throat. "Now get me Bonnie or I'm going to kill someone." Matt/Silas releases Brie roughly and she runs away from him. She runs up the stairs to a door into the boarding house but she runs smack into Klaus/Silas. "No one in the house can help you. Find Bonnie or I'll kill the person you love the most" Klaus/Silas tosses Brie down the stairs and she falls, screaming. She gets up and vamp-runs to her car,
She hurries into her car and puts the car in reverse. She starts backing up but sees in her car's rearview camera a figure standing behind her. She slams on the brakes and turns her head to look out the rear window, but there's no one there. A shadow passes on front of the car right before Brie whips back around to see the rearview camera's screen is still person-less. Suddenly Silas appears in his true form right outside her car door's window and she screams. Throwing the car into drive, she speeds out of the driveway.
Brie is at her front door, talking on the phone while she unlocks it and lets herself in "Bonnie, why aren't you answering? Silas isn't going to just give up. You're the only one that can stop him. Call me"