Thursday, 5/10 at 8 PM on The CWThe Season 3 closer is a flashback-filled episode, where viewers will be taken back to the day when Elena's parents died in a car crash. Will this memory help Elena decide to be with Damon, Stefan, or neither of the Salvatore brothers? But more pressing is the threat of a now-evil Alaric hell-bent on ridding the town of vampires by any means necessary. Meanwhile, with Klaus out of the picture (or is he?), his siblings Elijah and Rebekah return to Mystic Falls. Ian Somerhalder teased that the last scene he shot for the finale involved his character, Damon, getting a serious beating and lots and lots of blood.