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Four months after the tragic car accident that killed their parents,
17-year-old Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev, "DeGrassi: The Next Generation")
and her 15-year-old brother, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen, "Everwood"),
are still adjusting to their new reality. Elena has always been the star
student; beautiful, popular and involved with school and friends, but
now she finds herself struggling to hide her grief from the world. Elena
and Jeremy are now living with their cool-but-overwhelmed Aunt Jenna
(Sara Canning, "Smallville"), who is doing her best to be a surrogate
parent.
As the school year begins at Mystic Falls High, Elena and her friends
are fascinated by a handsome and mysterious new student, Stefan
Salvatore (Paul Wesley, "Fallen"). Stefan and Elena are immediately
drawn to one another, although Elena is puzzled by Stefan's increasingly
bizarre behavior when he appears suddenly at the cemetery where her
parents are buried. What she doesn't realize is that Stefan is hiding a
dark, deadly secret of his own – the fact that he's a vampire. At a
bonfire party the next night, Elena and Stefan are just getting to know
each other when chaos erupts after Vicki is attacked and left bleeding
from a savage bite to the neck.
Fearing that he knows who is responsible for the attack, Stefan returns
home and finds his older brother, Damon (Ian Somerhalder, "Lost"), whom
he hasn't seen for 15 years. Damon is also a vampire, and the two
brothers have a long and bitter history. Damon ridicules Stefan for
rejecting their legacy of violence and brutality, but he understands his
brother's obsession with Elena, since she looks exactly like a woman
Stefan loved more than a century ago; a woman that Damon tried to make
his own. Now these two vampire brothers – one good, one evil – are at
war for Elena's soul and for the souls of her friends, family and all
the residents of Mystic Falls, Virginia.
Based on the series of books by L. J. Smith, THE VAMPIRE DIARIES is from
Alloy Entertainment and Bonanza Productions Inc in association with
Warner Bros. Television and CBS Television Studios with executive
producers Kevin Williamson ("Scream," "Dawson's Creek"), Julie Plec
("Kyle XY," "Wasteland"), Leslie Morgenstein ("Gossip Girl," "Private")
and Bob Levy ("Gossip Girl," "Privileged"). Marcos Siega ("Dexter")
directed the pilot.
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