Qetsiyah (Janina Gavankar) agrees to help them since with that switch, Amara will die and the Other Side will remain existent so she can be there with Silas for the rest of the time.
Katherine, who got bad news from Maxfield (Rick Cosnett) that she is just aging and there is no way to stop it, agrees to come back with Caroline.
Silas impales her with a fireplace poker when Stefan calls him to say that he has Amara and if he does not find them in ten minutes, he will take her away and keep her alive forever.
In the meantime, Elena finds Qetsiyah and makes her finish the spell so that Bonnie becomes the anchor.
Nadia (Olga Fonda) appears to ask her to go back with her to Prague, but Katherine turns her down.
"The highlight [of the episode] is the inevitable scene where all three doppelgangers finally meet face-to-face for the first time, to help Qetsiyah gather enough power to perform the anchor switching spell.
Despite some very overly busy direction, the sight of three Nina Dobrevs in one scene together is delightful enough to overcome this distraction.
Writer Rebecca Sonnenshine included a perfect amount of sass, most notably with Tessa, to break the intensity.
[5] All three main actors of the show, Dobrev, Wesley and Somerhalder, received positive comments from the reviewers.