They follow the thick trail of blood back to the cooler and find a pile of vampire bodies. Kol steps out, confessing to the killing.
He cautions them about the risks of waking Silas. A few years back a group of Silas' worshippers told Kol that resurrecting him would lead to the end of the world, and he's against that. He killed them all.
Jeremy isn't convinced.
Since Kol can't kill Jeremy without suffering from the hunter's curse, he proposes to rip off his arms. Damon pins Kol and tells Jeremy to run. Kol quickly gets Damon in a headlock.
Rebekah and Stefan tear through Shane's office. She sees he's pent up and angry and offers him "herbs." She remembers how much fun he was in the 20s.
Rebekah assures Stefan that Shane won't be back any time soon.
In the sheriff's station, Liz interrogates Shane, accusing him of orchestrating the death of the council members. Bonnie's dad says April Young told them what he did and Rebekah corroborated that he confessed. Bonnie wants to hear it for herself. She joins the interrogation and her dad and Liz leave.
"Rebekah told them you confessed, I know she's lying," Bonnie says. "You know the truth is: She's not," Shane says.
Elena brings Matt back to town. He's angry and blaming Damon for everything. He can't believe she left Jeremy alone with him.
Jeremy calls her, telling her Kol has Damon.
Elena goes to Klaus for help. He calls Kol, who says he gave Damon "a good and proper beating, for old times' sake."
Klaus warns Kol to stay away from Damon. Kol gives his word he won't touch him, then hangs up and compels Damon to stab himself.
In the freezer, Kol guesses that Damon doesn't really want the cure for Elena because he likes her as she is. He thinks Damon really wants Jeremy dead.
He compels Damon to find Jeremy and kill him and also to forget he was compelled.
Back at their house, Jeremy is ready to go finish his mark, but he doesn't trust Damon's motives. He warns Elena to stay back, since he's in full hunter mode.
Hanging out in Shane's office, Rebekah tells Stefan the reason she wouldn't compel memories of Elena out of him was because she wanted him to suffer. She thinks love and caring ruin vampires. They had fun in the 20s because they didn't care. She comes on to him, remembering how they just did what felt good. He remembers the sex was good because she's crazy and crazy sex is always good. They seem to be considering it.
Later, a guy comes into Shane's office looking around for a secret compartment. He finds the headstone. Rebekah finds him.
Damon comes by Elena's. She tells him Jeremy is at the Grill. Damon says he wants to go apologize.
Back in interrogation, Bonnie turns off the camera and makes sure her dad isn't watching. Shane assures her he was always going to tell her the truth. He says killing the council was a ritual to raise Silas, and Silas will bring them back.
"I'm not crazy, I'm just passionate," he says.
Shane brings up Bonnie's Grams, asking if she wants to see her again.Damon shows up at the Grill with Elena, still looking for Jeremy. He vamps out the second he sees him, even though they're in a crowded public place. Elena's voice stops him.
Jeremy sees the look in Damon's eyes and steps into the storage room to arm himself.
Elena follows Damon into the storage room, asking what's wrong. He realizes Kol must have compelled him and follows Jeremy into the secret passage to the tunnels.Damon yells at Jeremy that he's been compelled and he's coming to kill him. "You need to go, now!" Damon says.
In Shane's office, April tortures the man who came for the tombstone. He's full of vervane, so they don't know if he was compelled, but he's not talking. As they're figuring out what to do, the man bites off his own tongue. Then he grabs the knife from Rebekah and stabs himself in the throat.
Guess he was compelled after all. But by whom? "Maybe there's another team in the race," Stefan says.
In the station, Shane tells Bonnie that her Grams is being tortured on the other side. She yells at him to be quiet and when he won't, she uses Expression to break his hand. He sees that she can't stop. Her dad comes in to try to help and she creates a wall of fire to keep him away. They can't reason with her, so Shane speaks to her hypnotically again, snapping her out of it. The flames disappear and his hand is healed.
She leaves and Shane addresses the mayor. "Your daughter is a prodigy. With my guidance, she can be one of the most powerful witches in the world. But without it, she's a time bomb," Shane says.
Rebekah grabs Stefan's phone when Elena calls. She tells them about Kol compelling Jeremy in the hopes they care enough to save the way to the cure.
Down in the tunnel, Jeremy cuts his hand to draw Damon to him. Damon finds him easily and attacks, biting his arm. Jeremy shoots him, but Damon tells him he has to shoot him in the heart because he won't be able to stop himself. Damon goads him until Jeremy pulls the trigger.
Later, Damon wakes up and pulls the wooden bullet out of his head. He curses Jeremy as a "stupid, idiot, borderline brain dead moron."
Rebekah confronts Kol, pointing out that Klaus won't be happy. She gets a dagger near his back and threatens to use it. He laments what their family has become, siblings daggering each other over every disagreement. He turns on her and reveals that he has the white oak dagger. Klaus intervenes before Kol can really kill Rebekah.
Jeremy runs wounded and bleeding through the forest. He stops to rest and Damon catches up. Elena finds Damon and begs him to stop, saying he can resist the compulsion because he loves her. But he hears Jeremy's blood dripping and runs to it.
Again, he confronts Jeremy, telling him to shoot. Jeremy pulls the trigger, but Stefan pushes Damon out of the way at the last second. Then he snaps Damon's neck.
Damon wakes up in his cellar. Stefan bled him out to weaken him so he won't go after Jeremy. He won't let him see Elena because with her sire bond, he can tell her to let him out and she will. He plans to keep Damon locked up until they find the cure.
Upstairs, Stefan explains to Elena why she can't see Damon. Elena reminds him Rebekah tried to kill her and asks why he's working with her. Damon tried to kill Jeremy twice, so nobody's perfect, he says.
Elena tries to understand why he's acting this way. He explains that this is how he is when he's not in love with her.She leaves.
Bonnie sits down to dinner with her dad at the Grill. He says he wants to get her help, but she doesn't think she needs it.
Klaus knocks on the Gilberts' door, offering to protect Jeremy from Kol. Elena turns him away.
"As for you, hunter, there's no shortage of people to turn or loved ones to threaten. So sleep well. We'll plan on finishing our work tomorrow," Klaus says.
Stefan drops in on Rebekah. She thinks Kol has lost his mind. Stefan wants to know where headstone is, but she says she's keeping it safe. Given that he's betrayed her twice and she's betrayed him never, she thinks it's smart.
She's trying to figure out why he's there. "You even have to ask?" he says.
She gets it. "No feelings, no attachments."
They throw each other on the bed.
Back at the house, Jeremy is desperate for a way out. Elena reminds him that killing one original will kill their entire line of vampires, thousands. So Jeremy will kill Kol.