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2x08 Rose:
Elijah [sniffing Elena]: Human. It’s impossible. Hello there.

Elijah: Well, we have a long journey ahead of us. We should be going.
Elena [to Rose & Trevor]: Please, don’t let him take me.

Elijah [offering his hand to Elena]: Come.
Elena: No, what about the moonstone?
Elijah: What do you know about the moonstone?
Elena: I know that you need it, and I know where it is.
Elijah: Yes.
Elena: I can help you get it.
Elijah: Tell me where it is.
Elena: It doesn’t work that way.
Elijah: Are you negotiating with me?

Elijah: What is this vervain doing around your neck?

Elijah [compelling Elena]: Tell me where the moonstone is.
Elena: In the tomb underneath the church ruins.
Elijah: What is it doing there?
Elena: It’s with Katherine.
Elijah: Interesting.

Elena: I’ll come with you. Don’t hurt my friends. They just wanted to help me out.
Elijah: What game are you playing with me?



2x11 By the Light of the Moon:
Elijah: Hey. I’m Elijah.

Elijah: It’s a pleasure.

Elijah: And, Elena…I hope to see you again sometime soon.

Elijah: That’s a wise choice.
Elena: What do you want?
Elijah: I think it’s time you and I had a little chat.

Elijah: Oh, forgive the intrusion. I mean your family no harm.

Elena: Why did you kill those vampires when they tried to take me?
Elijah: Because I didn’t want you to be taken.

Elijah: Klaus is the most feared and hated of the originals. But those that fear him are desperate for his approval. If word gets out that the doppelganger exists, there’ll be a line of vampires eager to take you to him, and I can’t have that.
Elena: Isn’t that exactly what you’re trying to do?
Elijah: Let’s just say that my goal is not to break the curse.
Elena: So what is your goal?
Elijah: Klaus’ obsessions have made him paranoid. He’s a recluse. He trusts only those in his immediate circle.
Elena: Like you?
Elijah: Not anymore.
Elena: You don’t know where he is, do you? So you’re trying to use me to draw him out.
Elijah: Well, to do that, I need you to stay put and stop trying to get yourself killed.
Elena: How do I know you’re telling the truth?
Elijah: Well, if I wasn’t being truthful, all your family would be dead and I’d be taking you to Klaus right now. Instead I’m here, and I’m prepared to offer you a deal.
Elena: What kind of a deal?
Elijah: Do nothing. Do nothing, live your life, stop fighting. And then, when the time is right, you and I shall draw Klaus out together. And I shall make certain that your friends remain unharmed.
Elena: And then what?
Elijah: Then I kill him.
Elena: Just like that?
Elijah: Just like that. I’m a man of my word, Elena. I make a deal, I keep a deal.

Elena: How are you going to be able to keep everybody safe?
Elijah: You know, I notice you have a friend, Bonnie, is it? She seems to possess the gift of magic. I have friends with similar gifts.
Elena: You know witches.
Elijah: Together we can protect everybody that matters to you. So do we have a deal?
Elena: I need you to do one more thing for me.
Elijah: We’re negotiating now?

Elijah: The lovely Elena drives a hard bargain. However, we reached a peaceful agreement, she and I. Please.

Elijah: Elena will explain the arrangement to you. If she keeps her word, I’ll keep mine.



2x15 The Dinner Party:
Elijah: Gentlemen, there’s a few things we should probably get clear right now. I allow you to live solely to keep an eye on Elena. I allow Elena to remain in her house living her life with her friends as she does as a courtesy. If you become a liability, I’ll take her away from you and you’ll never see her again.

Elijah: I need you to find Elena. Now.

Elijah: You know, I might not be able to enter this house… But I’m a very patient man. I’ll wait you out.
Elena: They shouldn’t have done what they did.
Elijah: The deal is off.
Elena: I’m renegotiating.
Elijah: You have nothing left to negotiate with.
Elena [pulls out a knife]: I’d like to see you lure Klaus into Mystic Falls after the doppelganger bleeds to death.
Elijah: Stefan won’t let you die.
Elena: No, he won’t. He’ll feed me his blood to heal me and then I’ll kill myself and become a vampire, just like Katherine did. So unless you want that to happen again, promise me the same as before. Promise me you won’t harm anyone that I love even if they’ve harmed you.
Elijah: I’m sorry, Elena. I’m going to have to call your bluff. [she stabs herself] No! Yes. Yes, you can have your deal.
Let me heal you.
Elena: Give me your word!
Elijah: I give you my word.



2x19 Klaus:
Elena: Elijah. Elijah! It’s me, it’s Elena. Shh.
Elijah: Oh, my God. I can’t— I can’t breathe! What’s happened to me?
Elena: Are you ok?
Elijah: I can’t… I can’t be in this house.
Elena: You’re not invited in.
Elijah: You need to get me out of here.


Elijah: What happened?
Elena: Shh! I’ll tell you. Not here. Can I trust you?
Elijah: Can I trust you?

Elena: You look better.
Elijah: Where did you get the dagger?
Elena: I’ll tell you everything. But we have to work together, Elijah. I need your word.
Elijah: Your ability to make demands has long passed.
Elena: No demands. I’m offering you my help. And in return, I want yours.
Elijah: And why should I even consider this?
Elena: The same reason that you haven’t killed me. You need my help to kill Klaus. And I need you.

Elena: No, Stefan, Elijah and I need some time alone. Elijah is a noble man, Stefan. He lives by a code of honor. I can trust him. He knows that I’d be incredibly stupid to betray him again. By removing the dagger, I have proven myself. 

Elena: He’s here.
Elijah: Klaus is here?
Elena: He’s taken over Alaric’s body.
Elijah: Of course he has. One of his favorite tricks.
Elena: Well, what are his other tricks? What is he going to do next? You’re the only one who knows him.
Elijah: Yes, I do.

Elena: How did you know she’s not on vervain?
Elijah: ‘Cause I’m the one who got her off it. Right before you and your friends killed me. Twice.

Elijah: So I assume that the Martin witches are no longer with us.
Elena: No. I’m sorry.
Elijah: And Katerina. She would have been released from my compulsion when I died.
Elena: Klaus took her. We think that she may be dead.
Elijah: I doubt that. Not Klaus’ style. Death would be too easy for her after what she did.
Elena: I don’t understand. You say that you want Klaus dead, but you still made Katherine pay for betraying him.
Elijah: I have my own reasons for wanting Katerina to pay. There was a time…I’d have done anything for Klaus. Yes. Klaus is my brother.
Elena: I heard that. I’m still processing.
Elijah: Yes, I’m a little behind on the times, but I believe the term you’re searching for is “O.M.G.”

Elena: There’s a whole family of Originals?
Elijah: My father was a wealthy land owner in a village in eastern Europe. Our mother bore seven children.
Elena: So your parents were human?
Elijah: Our whole family was. Our origin as vampires is a very long story, Elena. Just know…we’re the oldest vampires in the world. We are the Original family, and from us all, vampires were created.
Elena: Right, but Klaus is your brother. And you want him dead?
Elijah: I need some air. I’m still feeling a tad…dead. Come.

Elijah: So as you’ve seen, nothing can kill an Original. Not Sun, not fire, not even a werewolf bite. Only the wood from one tree. A tree my family made sure burned.
Elena: That’s where the white ash for the dagger comes from.
Elijah: Yes. The witches won’t allow anything truly immortal to walk the earth. Every creature needs to have a weakness in order to maintain the balance.
Elena: So the Sun can’t kill an Original. Why is Klaus so obsessed with breaking the Sun and Moon curse?
Elijah: Right. The curse of the Sun and the Moon. It’s all so…Biblical-sounding, don’t you think?
Elena: What’s so funny?……..I don’t understand. So Klaus drew the Aztec sketches about the curse?
Elijah: Roman scrolls, African tribal etchings, and any other culture or continent we felt like planting it in.
Elena: But why?
Elijah: Easiest way to discover the existence of a doppelganger or to get your hands on some long lost moon stone is to have every single member of two warring species on the lookout.
Elena: So it’s not Aztec at all?
Elijah: The curse of the sun and the Moon… is fake. It doesn’t exist.
Elena: What?

Elijah: Klaus and I faked the Sun and Moon curse dating back over a thousand years.
Elena: But if there’s no curse…
Elijah: There’s a curse. Just not that one. The real one’s much worse. It’s a curse placed on Klaus.
Elena: What are you talking about?
Elijah: Klaus has been trying to break it for the last thousand years. You were his only hope.
Elena: What is this curse?
Elijah: Your phone will not stop its incessant buzzing. Answer it, please.
Elena: Stefan—what’s wrong? No. No, no, no, no. Ok, I’ll be right there. Klaus went after Jenna. I have to go to her.
Elijah: I’m afraid that wasn’t part of today’s arrangement.
Elena: She’s my family, Elijah. I have to. I’ll be back. You have my word.
Elijah: That doesn’t mean anything to me until you live up to it.
Elena: Thank you.

Elijah: Welcome back.
Elena: Tell me. What is Klaus’ curse?
Elijah: Please.

Elijah: My family was quite close, but Klaus and my father did not get on too well. When we became vampires, we discovered the truth. Klaus was not my father’s son. My mother had been unfaithful many years before. This was her darkest secret. Klaus is from a different bloodline. Of course, when my father discovered this, he hunted down and he killed my mother’s lover and his entire family. Not realizing, of course, that he was igniting a war between species that rages until this day.
Elena: A war between the species?
Elijah: The vampires…and the werewolves.
Elena: So Klaus’ real father was from a werewolf bloodline? What does that make Klaus? A werewolf? Or a vampire?
Elijah: He’s both. A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature would not stand for such an imbalance of power. Therefore the witches,
the servants of nature, saw to it that my brother’s werewolf side would become dormant.
Elena: That’s the curse that Klaus wants to break?
Elijah: He wants to trigger that part of him that’s a werewolf. If allowed, Klaus would sire his own bloodline. He’d build his own race. Endangering not just vampires, but everyone.
Elena: But you helped him.
Elijah: I helped him because I loved him. That’s changed, now he must die.
Elena: We have the dagger now. We can stop him.
Elijah: When a werewolf is wounded by silver, it heals. An Original can’t be killed by anything but white oak ash on a silver dagger. So you see the conundrum. The dagger does not work.
Elena: What, are you saying that Klaus can’t be killed?
Elijah: There’s one way to kill any supernatural species—at the hands of the servants of nature themselves.
Elena: A witch. If they can channel that much power. But it would kill them.
Elijah: The curse must be broken during the full moon. When Klaus is in transition. That’s when he’ll be at his most vulnerable. A witch with enough power… Can kill Klaus.
Elena: What if I told you that I knew a witch that could channel that much power?
Elijah: Then I would tell you there’s one more thing that you should know.

Elena: You found a way to save the life of the doppelganger?
Elijah: Yes, Elena. I did. But unfortunately, Katerina took matters into her own hands first. I believe you already know how that played out.

Elena: You cared about her, didn’t you?
Elijah: It’s a common mistake, I’m told. And it’s one I won’t make again.

Elena: Sacrifice is going to happen, Damon. Bonnie will be able to kill Klaus without hurting herself and Elijah knows how to save my life. I told you I’d find another way. And I did.



2x20 The Last Day:
Elijah: Well, the ritual itself is relatively straightforward. The ingredients, so to speak, you already know.
Stefan: The moon stone.
Elijah: A witch will channel the power of the full moon to release the spell that’s bound within the stone. After that, Klaus, being both werewolf and vampire, will sacrifice one of each.
Elena: And where do I fit into it?
Elijah: The final part of the ritual. Klaus must drink the blood of the doppelganger…to the point of your death.
Elena: And that’s where you come in.
Elijah: This is an elixir that I acquired some 500 years ago for Katerina. It possesses mystical properties of resuscitation.
Elena: So I’ll be dead?
Elijah: And then you won’t.

Elena: Do we know if Klaus has everything he needs to do this? Does he have a werewolf?
Elijah: Klaus has been waiting to break this curse for over a thousand years. If he doesn’t already have a werewolf, my guess is by tonight, he will.


Elena: You’d think he’d understand why I’m willing to do this.
Elijah: Why are you?
Elena: I’m the key to breaking the curse. Klaus is here because of me. If I don’t stop him, then he’s going to hurt people. It’s that simple.
Elijah: You know, there’s a possibility this elixir won’t work. I don’t want to mislead you.
Elena: I know the chance I’m taking.

Elijah: Well, it sounds like you won’t be needing this anymore. Feeding her vampire blood rendered it useless. Tell Elena I’ll be back before nightfall. We’ll proceed as planned.

Elijah: The problem, Damon, you talk a good game but you don’t actually know anything. She’ll never forgive you. And never for a vampire… It’s a very long time.



3x13 Bringing out the Dead
Elijah: Stefan. Where is the lovely Elena tonight?



3x14 Dangerous Liaisons
Elijah: Well… I believe we have a little catching up to do.

Elena: Look, Elijah promised me that his family wouldn’t hurt any of us. I believe him.

Elijah: Elena. I understand my mother requested to see you.
Elena: Uh, yeah. Why, is something wrong?
Elijah: Well, her ability to forgive my brother after everything he’s done to destroy this family strikes me as a little strange to say the least.
Elena: Do you think that it’s an act?
Elijah: It has me asking questions I never thought I’d ask. Can I depend on you to tell me what she says?
Elena: Of course. I’ll find you later, okay?

Elijah: So how was my mother?
Elena: Intense.
Elijah: And for what reason did she need to speak to you in private? Elena. Should I be concerned about my mother’s intentions?
Elena: She just wanted to apologize for trying to have me killed.
Elijah: So it’s true, then? She’s forgiven Klaus?
Elena: It’s true

Elijah: Cheers.



3x15 All My Children
Elena: Uh, because to kill Klaus she has to kill all of them, including Elijah. And he doesn’t deserve this!

Elena: I just keep thinking…. Before the sun and the moon ritual, Elijah found a way to keep me alive. And now I’m in the exact same position and I’m just gonna let him die? It just doesn’t feel right.

Elijah: Elena.
Elena: Elijah.
Elijah: I don’t mean to intrude. I was hoping you might accompany me. I want to show you something.

(Elena and Elijah get out of a car and walk around.)
Elijah: Forgot how much I missed this land.
Elena: I can’t even imagine what it must have been like a thousand years ago.
Elijah: You know, your school was built over an Indian village. Where I saw my first werewolf. The town square was where the natives would gather to worship. Matter of fact, near that, there was a field where wild horses use to graze.
Elena: That’s incredible.
Elijah: Come.

Elena: Do you know this place too?
Elijah: I do. Below us is a cavern I use to play in as a boy. Connects to a system of tunnels that stretch across the entire area. Perhaps it’s nature’s way of providing us with shelter against the savagery of the full moon. My mother said there must be a balance.
Elena: Elijah, I should probably go home.
Elijah: I admire you, Elena. You remind me of qualities I valued long before my mother turned us. It’s not in your nature to be deceitful and yet when I asked about your meeting with my mother the other night, you lied to my face.
Elena: That’s not true. I told you that all your mother wanted was a new start.
Elijah: I can hear you heartbeat. It jumps when you’re being dishonest with me. You lied to me at the ball, you are lying to me now. Tell me the truth.
Elena: I never wanted this to happen.
Elijah: What, Elena?
Elena: We were told that whatever was going to be in that coffin was going to kill Klaus. When we found out that it was your mother…. We didn’t know what to think.
Elijah: Since her return she says she only wants this family whole again.
Elena: When she asked to see me, I… I thought that maybe she could help. That she would find a way to kill Klaus. It’s not just Klaus that she wants to kill.
Elijah: She wants to kill us all, doesn’t she? She wants to undo the evil she created.
Elena: I’m so sorry, Elijah. I wish there was something I could do to help.
Elijah: You know, one thing I’ve learned in my time on this Earth… be careful what you wish for.

Elijah: “Elena, today I did things I abhor to protect the one thing I value most. My family. If anyone can understand that, it’s you. Your compassion is a gift, Elena. Carry it with you. As I will carry my regret. Always and forever. Elijah.”



3x22 The Departed:
Elijah: All we need is to take that stake away from him. Once it’s been disarmed, the weapon’s in my possession, my family will scatter to the ends of the Earth and Alaric will follow us.
Stefan: And you’ll just run?
Elijah: We’ve done it before. Klaus and Rebekah spent the better part of a thousand years evading my father. What’s another half century while Elena is able to live out the rest of her natural life?
Elena: We’ve finally stopped him, Elijah. After everything that he’s done to us, I can’t just let you bring him back.
Elijah: I give you my word, Elena. I will not revive Klaus within yours nor even within your children’s lifetimes. Perhaps that will finally teach him some manners.
Matt: Why should she trust you? All you’ve done is screw her over.
Elijah: And for that, I am deeply ashamed. But know this, she could have been dead the instant I walked through that door tonight, so Elena, I leave it to you to make the decision whether to trust me or not.

Elijah: Rebekah and Kol will honor the terms. If you return Klaus’ body to us, Elena will come to no harm. Do we have a deal?

Elena: Why do you want Klaus’ body?
Elijah: He’s my brother. We remain together.
Elena: We have a deal.