The Return: Nightfall (2009)
Teď už není pouhý člověk. Má sílu a nadání, které ji byly uděleny v posmrtném životě. Její krev má unikátní sílu, která ji dělá neodolatelnou pro všechny upíry.
Stefan chce najít způsob, jak udržet Elenu v bezpečí, aby spolu mohli žít. Damon, ovládaný neukojitelnou touhou po moci, chce Elenu pro sebe. Když je Stefan vylákán z městečka, Damon se ujímá své šance přesvědčit Elenu, že on je ten bratr, se kterým má strávit život.
A na městečko znovu upadá temnota a Damon, který byl vždy lovcem, se stává lovnou kořistí zlomyslného tvora, který ho ovládá svou vůlí, a který netouží jen po Elenině krvi, ale po její smrti.
Citace:
Meredith: "Why are you suddenly interested in Elena again? How can we be sure that you won't go spreading the news of this all around Fell's Church?"
Caroline: "Why would I want to?"
Meredith: "Attention. You'd love to be at the center of a crowd, giving them every juicy detail."
Bonnie: "Or revenge. Or jealousy. Or boredom. Or-"
Matt: "Okay. I think that's enough with the reasons."
Stefan: "Don't call on Hell. Not here. Not now. Because Hell might hear and call back."
Meredith: "Stefan would be polite while he was being staked to death." Bonnie: "It wasn't a wolf. It was ... backward. It's head was on the wrong side. Or maybe it had heads on both ends."
Damon: "Is it a halo? Did you get canonized while I wasn't looking? Am I addressing St.Stefan now?"
Matt: "The last thing I knew you were trying to kill me. That doesn't exactly get you on my good side. Second, people just don't go around kissing girls because they're pretty or their boyfriend takes a day off." Damon: "Don't they? I do."
Damon: "I used psychic pain on him, and that's stopped a lot of hearts from beating. But your Matt's tough. I like that. I made him suffer more and more, and yet he still went on living because he was afraid to leave you alone."