Family Ties (The Vampire Diaries)
| "Family Ties" | |
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| The Vampire Diaries episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 4 |
| Directed by | Guy Ferland |
| Written by |
Andrew Kreisberg Brian Young |
| Production code | 2J5003 |
| Original air date | October 1, 2009 |
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"Family Ties" is the fourth episode of the first season of The CW television series, The Vampire Diaries and the fourth episode of the series overall. It originally aired on October 1, 2009. The episode was written by Andrew Kreisberg and Brian Young and directed by Guy Ferland.
The episode starts with Elena (Nina Dobrev) waking up to a noise. While trying to check where it's coming from, she sees on the news that she was found dead after an animal attack. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) appears and starts chasing her. Stefan (Paul Wesley) wakes up from his dream with Damon sitting next to him. As it appears, all of these were just things that Damon put into Stefan's head while he was sleeping. Damon also informs him that the police captured the animal that is responsible for the attacks since he decided to stay for a while at Mystic Falls and he covered his tracks.
Elena tries to polish a pocket watch from her family heirlooms because Mrs Lockwood asked for it along with some other things for the Founders Council heritage display. Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) gets upset when he hears that she is going to give it away and the two of them disagree about it. Stefan comes and Elena asks him to escort her to the Founder's Ball. At the same time, Damon compels Caroline (Candice Accola) to ask him at the Founder's Ball.
Tyler (Michael Trevino) is at the bar/restaurant where Vicki (Kayla Ewell) works with his parents, but when she comes to their table he acts like he does not know her. After his parents leave, he tries to talk to her but she is upset and she brings up the Founder's Ball and how he did not ask her to escort him. Tyler asks her but Jeremy who sees the whole conversation tells her that he only asked her because she brought it up.
Bonnie (Kat Graham) talks with Caroline and she encourages to reveal her the secret that Damon told her about Stefan because she is worried about Elena. Caroline reveals the secret and Bonnie tells Elena later about it, planting the suspicion that Stefan may be concealing the truth about his relationship with Katherine. Elena tells her that this is Damon's side of the story.
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