MOVIE: One wedding and a funeral in 'Vampire Diaries' season 7, episode 8

The episode starts off in the future again, where Lily (Annie Wersching) seems to have taken Damon (Ian Somerhalder) captive. By Lily standards, this seems like pretty normal behavior.

What’s surprising is that, in the present day, Lily and her sons seem to be getting along. The Salvatore sons, Enzo (Michael Malarkey) and Valerie (Elizabeth Blackmore) sit down to plot Julian’s death — with Lily’s blessing, as per the last episode.

At the mansion, Lily is trying to plan a party to celebrate Nora (Scarlett Byrne) and Mary Louise’s (Teressa Liane) anniversary. Enzo confronts her while she’s in the library — because that’s totally the place everyone goes to plan a party — and confesses his love for her all over again.

At the party, Julian (Todd Lasance) finally reveals why he’s been collecting an army of compelled people — he wanted them as party guests and buffet items rolled into one.

Just as Damon, Valerie and Stefan are about to leave for the party, Caroline (Candice King) shows up — to tell Stefan that she’s magically pregnant with Jo’s twins.

Meanwhile, at the party, Julian tries to convince Lily that she needs to feed on the guests and give up on her dreams of having her two families live together happily.

Damon shows up at the party and gets in a spat with Lily, but they still decide to go through with their plans.

Outside of the mansion, in a beautiful lakeside scene, Mary Louise asks Nora to marry her and Nora gleefully agrees — just before Valerie bursts in on the scene.

She wants to confront Nora and Mary Louise and tell them about Julian’s evils. As she does so, Stefan and Damon attack Julian. Lily strolls in and confirms Valerie’s story.

Then, as Damon and Stefan begin attacking Julian, Lily starts spontaneously bleeding — in front of the heretics, who all have the power to untether her life from Julian’s and allow her to live even when her evil lover dies.

Stefan gets some of Julian’s blood to use in the untethering spell and — in the middle of some serious drama — decides to take a moment for a heart-to-heart with her son.

Mary Louise, meanwhile, finds the room where Julian is being held captive till Lily can be untethered. Not convinced by Valerie’s story, Mary Louise knocks out Julian’s captors, Damon and Valerie.