Hope took Lizzie to a carnival to test her control, which did not go well, Lizzie losing challenge after challenge. Lizzie decided to stay behind to help a young girl when Hope refused to. Lizzie found the corpse of the girl's sister, then was captured by a group of vampires. Hope saved her and they killed the carni vampires together onstage. Lizzie revealed she didn't want the sire bond to be severed. Back at the Salvatore School, the students were drugged with a truth weed, true feelings spilling out. Jed admitted his budding romantic feelings for Ben to Finch. Aurora made her grand entrance posing as Eve Bloom, the new headmistress of the Salvatore School. Cleo figured out Aurora was hiding something, but she was not able to stop her; Aurora entered her subconscious and stole her inspiration, which led Aurora to question Ben about the gods. MG and Kaleb reunited to go find Ethan. MG posed as Alaric so that they'd be taken more seriously, but Ethan's sister quickly realized they weren't who they pretended to be, so they had to compel her to forget that they were there. MG forgave Ethan and convinced him to come clean to his sister about his new powers.