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The Vampire Diaries (season 8)
Season 8 DVD Cover
Starring
Paul Wesley
Ian Somerhalder
Kat Graham
Candice King
Zach Roerig
Matt Davis
Michael Malarkey
Country of origin
United States
No. of episodes
16
Release
Original network
The CW
Original release
October 21, 2016 (2016-10-21) – March 10, 2017 (2017-03-10)
Season chronology
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List of The Vampire Diaries episodes
The Vampire Diaries, an American supernatural drama, was renewed for an eighth season by The CW on March 11, 2016.[1] On July 23, 2016, the CW announced that the upcoming season would be the series' last and would consist of 16 episodes.[2] The season premiered on October 21, 2016 and concluded on March 10, 2017.[3]
Contents
1 Cast
1.1 Main
1.2 Recurring
1.3 Special guest
1.4 Special appearance
1.5 Guest
2 Episodes
3 Production
3.1 Casting
4 Ratings
5 References
6 External links
Cast[edit]
See also: List of The Vampire Diaries characters
Main[edit]
Paul Wesley as Stefan Salvatore[4]
Ian Somerhalder as Damon Salvatore[4]
Kat Graham as Bonnie Bennett[4]
Candice King as Caroline Forbes[5]
Zach Roerig as Matt Donovan[6]
Matt Davis as Alaric Saltzman[4]
Michael Malarkey as Lorenzo "Enzo" St. John[4]
Recurring[edit]
Kristen Gutoskie as Seline[7]
Demetrius Bridges as Dorian Williams[8]
Allison Scagliotti as Georgie Dowling[9]
Nathalie Kelley as Sybil[10]
Lily Rose Mumford as Josette "Josie" Saltzman[11]
Tierney Mumford as Elizabeth "Lizzie" Saltzman[11]
Wolé Parks as Arcadius "Cade"
Joel Gretsch as Peter Maxwell
Sammi Hanratty as Violet Fell
Kayla Ewell as Vicki Donovan
Reece Odum as Karen
Special guest[edit]
Michael Trevino as Tyler Lockwood[12]
Chris Wood as Malachai "Kai" Parker[13]
Special appearance[edit]
Steven R. McQueen as Jeremy Gilbert[14]
Sara Canning as Jenna Sommers[15]
Marguerite MacIntyre as Liz Forbes[16]
David Anders as John Gilbert[17]
Jodi Lyn O'Keefe as Josette "Jo" Laughlin
Jasmine Guy as Sheila Bennett
Arielle Kebbel as Alexia "Lexi" Branson
Jaz Sinclair as Beatrice Bennett
Natashia Williams as Lucy Bennett
Guest[edit]
Aisha Duran as Virginia St. John
Tristin Mays as Sarah Nelson[18]
Alexandra Chando as Tara[19]
Evan Gamble as Henry Wattles
Persia White as Abby Bennett Wilson
Melinda Clarke as Kelly Donovan[20]
Nina Dobrev as Katherine Pierce / Elena Gilbert[21][22]
Episodes[edit]
See also: List of The Vampire Diaries episodes
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1 "Hello Brother" Michael A. Allowitz Julie Plec & Kevin Williamson October 21, 2016 (2016-10-21) T27.13301 0.98[23]
A humanity-less Damon and Enzo are on a killing spree as per the vault monster's orders. Based on fresh leads, Stefan and Bonnie visit the slaughterhouse that Damon and Enzo now call home and try talking sense into them, but the duo are in no way even close to disobeying the vault monster. Alaric and his interns manage to delve deeper into the vault cave and discover ancient remains that have distinct Greek roots. Caroline has her hands full with finding clues and taking care of the kids along with the new nanny, Seline. On another side, Virginia St. John had escaped and gone straight for Seline. Caroline was right on time to save her kids, Seline and grill Virginia on spilling the beans about the vault monster but it was of no use, as Virginia bled to death. Bonnie was reminiscing about her and Enzo when she, along with Alaric, connected a similarity between a certain Greek story Enzo used to tell her and his current method of killing his victims. They all point towards Sirens or The Messengers of The Devil - a Greek myth according to which Fauns use mind control to lure their victims to their death. As the episode draws to a close, Damon and Enzo look on as the vault monster rises from the death pool with death gleaming in her eyes.
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2 "Today Will Be Different" Pascal Verschooris Melinda Hsu Taylor October 28, 2016 (2016-10-28) T27.13302 0.90[24]
The siren, Sybil cannot figure out why Enzo won't fully submit to her and in an attempt to get in his head and find out what's holding him back, she learns about Sarah Salvatore; the last living Salvatore apart from Damon and Stefan. Sybil tasks Damon, who never knew about Sarah, to kill her. A list of victims named Sarah Nelson ("Nelson" being Sarah's assumed surname) appears and Stefan, Caroline, and Bonnie go to the real Sarah's apartment to protect her from Damon and Enzo, the former of who is knocked out by Sarah with vervain upon their arrival. Enzo tells Bonnie they will both be in danger if he doesn't return to Sybil so Bonnie knocks him out and attempts to escape. Eventually, she must let him go but the two share a passionate kiss and he tells her he will never stop fighting for her. At Sarah's apartment, Damon attempts to kill her but Stefan tells him who she is and begs him to let her go for Elena. Damon lets her go, but Sybil shows up at that moment and kills Sarah. She is upset that Damon is tied to Elena so she changes his memories of Elena to her. Now fully submitted to Sybil, Damon walks out with her. When Enzo returns to Sybil, she gets in his head and sees his kiss with Bonnie. Meanwhile Alaric and his co-worker Georgie discover an artifact with a symbol that Georgie has tattooed on herself that she saw in a hellish state of mind after a near-death experience. In the end, Caroline moves into the Salvatore residence with Stefan, where she discovers he has made a room for her and Alaric's kids to stay and in the dresser drawer, an engagement ring. After making Stefan officially pop the question, Caroline accepts his proposal.
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3 "You Decided That I Was Worth Saving" Michael Karasick Chad Fiveash & James Stoteraux November 4, 2016 (2016-11-04) T27.13303 0.94[25]
Sybil realizes that both Damon and Enzo are tied to Bonnie and that she is main cause of whatever unwillingness to submit to her that either of them has left. Bonnie wants to put the search on Damon and Enzo on hold to help Caroline shop for a wedding dress but their day is ruined when Damon attacks. Caroline manages to save Bonnie but Sybil launches a new plan in which she forces Enzo and Damon to fight to death. Sybil introduces herself to Bonnie and Caroline and she tells Bonnie that she must choose between the two men. Bonnie, Caroline, and Stefan manage a head start to Damon and Enzo and try to keep the two from killing each other. However Damon eventually gains the upper hand just as Sybil arrives and Bonnie tells her that she chooses Enzo. However, Enzo being the more stubborn of the two, Sybil decides to instead force Enzo to shut off his humanity with Bonnie's life as a threat; when Enzo's humanity is off, Sybil sends Damon to kill Bonnie anyway and Alaric saves her last second and the ensuing supernatural violence is witnessed by Georgie. Bonnie takes Enzo back to their cabin to work on restoring his humanity. Stefan, Alaric, and Caroline, have Sybil captured now with Damon out to fulfill her mysterious plans.
159
4 "An Eternity of Misery" Rob Hardy Brett Matthews & Neil Reynolds November 11, 2016 (2016-11-11) T27.13304 1.00[26]
More than two thousand years ago, Sybil asks her "sister", fellow siren, to tell her a happy story. Her sister tells her about Arcadius "Cade", a man with psychic abilities that was killed for what he was. In his last breath, he used his powers to create a new world where his soul traveled upon his burning at the stake. In the present, Sybil tells Stefan that her boss wants him to know the full story of her and her sister. Sybil's sister Seline, posing as the nanny of Alaric's kids, forces Georgie to trap Alaric in the vault and makes Georgie look like the other siren. Sybil's boss, revealed to be Cade who gave Seline and Sybil their immortality, tortures the souls of humans, considering them to be the most evil in the world. Seline kills Georgie and Georgie's soul is sucked into what appears to be Hell, where Cade will torture her soul while Seline eats her body. Meanwhile Damon goes after an object that he is subconsciously aware that Sybil wants; he ends up attacking and nearly killing a man, who is revealed as Matt Donovan's father. Matt saves his father from Damon, afterward telling him about the existence of vampires. Damon tells Matt that he killed Tyler Lockwood. Matt finds Tyler's body, confirming Damon killed him.
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5 "Coming Home Was a Mistake" James Thompson Celine Geiger November 18, 2016 (2016-11-18) T27.13305 0.92[27]
Matt informs the others of Tyler's death and when he, Caroline, Stefan, and Alaric go to bury him, they are met by Damon. Matt learns that before Tyler died, he was looking for a siren named Seline with the now deceased Virginia. Seline babysits the twins on her day off and takes them to the carnival. They win a goldfish, which is dead, so Seline decides to explain the process of burial to the twins and tells them about Cade. Damon goes to Sybil wanting to be free of her mind control, which she denies him and is upset that he apparently hadn't fully submitted to her. Damon meets Stefan at the carnival where he is knocked out by Caroline. Stefan puts Damon in his coffin to hide until they can defeat the sirens. When Georgie's remain are discovered, the Armory is left alone and Sybil escapes, taking the tuning fork with her and then frees Damon from the coffin, who has decided not to feel and fully submit to her. Meanwhile Bonnie uses a magical candle from the Armory to keep Enzo inside the cabin and then lights the cabin aflame to use her impending to death to forcibly switch Enzo's humanity back on. It works and Enzo and Bonnie meet up with the others at the carnival to say goodbye to Tyler. Caroline shows Matt pictures of the girls on her phone and Matt recognizes Seline as the siren. Alaric and Caroline rush to the house only to find Seline and the twins gone with a kids-drawing of Elizabeth, Josette, Seline, and Cade.
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6 "Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell" Paul Wesley Alan McElroy December 2, 2016 (2016-12-02) T27.13306 1.05[28]
Damon and Sybil meet up with Seline and the twins at a diner. Seline reveals her plan to offer up Josette and Elizabeth to Cade for the freedom of her and Sybil's souls. Alaric and Caroline desperately search for their daughters. Meanwhile Sybil decides to punish Enzo for escaping her by singing to him over the phone, thus putting herself in his subconscious where she tortures him. Stefan uses the predicament to speak to Sybil through Enzo to try and find Josette and Elizabeth. Damon, Sybil, Seline, Josette and Elizabeth arrive at a motel where they use magic to summon Cade. Sybil tells Stefan where she is on the condition he comes alone and promises him an offer he cannot refuse. At the motel, Cade is at first interested in Seline's offer to have the twins become his slaves in about a decade or so until Sybil gives Cade her own offer of the Salvatore brothers instead. Stefan tells Caroline that he offered up his soul and that he was granted twenty-four more hours to be with her. Bonnie and Enzo may finally be free of Sybil, who leaves his subconscious after her meeting with Cade. Alaric and Matt attack Damon, because of the former's belief that it is necessary to keep his kids safe and Alaric stakes him in the heart.
162
7 "The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You" Tanya Hamilton Shukree Hassan Tilghman December 9, 2016 (2016-12-09) T27.13307 0.98[29]
On the night of Christmas Eve 1917, the ripper Stefan drinks blood from a camp full of people. In the present, Stefan is determined to make the most out of his final day with Caroline over a Christmas Eve dinner. Unfortunately, Damon and Sybil crash the party and Damon stakes Stefan sending him to a meeting with Cade. Cade reveals that on that Christmas Eve a century ago, Seline had witnessed the murder Stefan inflicted on the camp of people and wanted to trade places with him, only to realize he wasn't evil and she erased his memory of their meeting and his slaughter of the camp. However, Cade had decided way back then that Stefan was a perfect servant for him. Meanwhile, distraught over the ruined Christmas festivities, Caroline gives Damon a present that could alter his decision to kill someone that night. Bonnie and Enzo find Seline and ask her for the tuning fork to which she agrees to give them on the condition that she can remove the psychic powers she had planted inside of Josette and Elizabeth, hoping to redeem herself and not go to hell when she dies. When Damon and Sybil leave the party, Damon gives her Caroline's present, not having known what it was. When he sees it is Elena's old necklace, he rips out Sybil's heart and leaves her to die. Stefan proposes a deal to Cade to turn off his humanity, so that he can feed Cade souls more rapidly in exchange for Cade shortening his contract to serving him for only a year as opposed to eternity. Cade agrees to the deal but makes it apparent that he doubts Stefan will want to leave him after serving him for a year. Caroline spends her last few hours with her daughters before Alaric takes them away to be safe and it is discovered that Bonnie and the twins also all receive splitting headaches when the tuning fork is used around them. In the end, Damon and Stefan drive out of Mystic Falls and Stefan turns off his humanity.
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8 "We Have History Together" Ian Somerhalder Matthew D'Ambrosio January 13, 2017 (2017-01-13) T27.13308 0.95[30]
Stefan decides that he wants Tara, a young doctor, to be Cade's next meal. In his plot to find the darkness within her, he knocks up Damon on vervain and keeps him on bed rest in the hospital. Stefan learns that Tara's parents were killed by a drunk driver and compels her into believing that Damon was the driver in an attempt to convince her to kill Damon. She eventually gives into her darkness so Stefan takes her to be fed on by Cade. Meanwhile in Mystic Falls, Caroline's job sends her to her old high school where she discovers Sybil has used her siren ability to get herself a job as a teacher. Sybil uses her powers to make the class tie themselves to trees with one remaining student to set them ablaze unless Caroline retrieves an old bell for her for a mysterious reason. Matt is annoyed with his father for having abandon him and even more so when he discovers that he is the one that got rid of the bell by throwing it in the lake under Wickery Bridge, which is revealed to be because Matt's family actually founded the town and made the bell, but it was taken over by the founding family. It is then revealed that the bell was discovered in 2009, after Elena's parents' car went into the lake and is now in Caroline's garage; Caroline and Sybil go to retrieve it but Seline had taken it, leaving a note for Sybil to taunt her. Damon can't seem to rid himself of Elena's necklace, even going after it after throwing it out the car window, showing that he has enough humanity to care about Elena. Sybil also creates doubt inside of Caroline about Stefan coming back from his ripper phase when his contract with Cade is up and even if he does, he could become a ripper again at any time.
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9 "The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch" Geoff Shotz Neil Reynolds & Penny Cox January 20, 2017 (2017-01-20) T27.13309 0.86[31]
Damon has the bell striker so Sybil makes him return to Mystic Falls to give it to her. While Damon does return, he realizes he can tell Sybil no and ultimately denies her the striker and locks her up. Meanwhile Stefan turns Violet into vampire during the Miss Mystic Falls pageant and Caroline comforts her after returning her engagement ring to Stefan. Also, Seline is determined to assemble the bell herself and reveals it can kill sirens and that she wants to kill Sybil as a part of righting her past misdeeds and she teams up with Dorian to do so. Elsewhere, Enzo gives a vial of his blood to Bonnie in the form of a necklace, hoping she'll become a vampire to be with him for eternity. However, with her life tied to Elena's she is unsure of how it would affect her. In the end, Bonnie suggests that Enzo take the cure and Sybil, chained up by Damon, uses her powers to return Damon's humanity to him, flooding him with guilt from his recent actions under the siren's control.
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10 "Nostalgia's a Bitch" Kellie Cyrus Brett Matthews January 27, 2017 (2017-01-27) T27.13310 0.94[32]
Sybil has put Damon into a catatonic state, forcing Bonnie and Caroline to free her so that she will release him in exchange for the bell. However, Sybil realizes Damon's mind is in an induced hellish state, put there by himself because of his guilt. Bonnie and Caroline go into his subconscious to speak with Damon and tell him they forgive him for everything. Meanwhile Stefan kills Violet and reveals that Cade is requiring more souls so he makes a deal to acquire the bell for Sybil so that Damon will be conscious again and do his share of killing. Afterward, Seline offers another deal, which involves Matt ringing the bell twelve times in order to release hell on earth and kill everyone in Mystic Falls. Stefan compels Matt into doing so and then goes to retrieve Damon after being told that the Damon's need for forgiveness is about him. Once inside Damon's head, Stefan realizes Damon needs to forgive Stefan for turning him into a vampire all those years ago, causing every terrible thing that has happened since. Damon wakes up and Stefan is chained and told by Caroline that she loves him and she will do whatever it takes to restore his humanity. Damon stops Matt at the eleventh ring, which stops hell from burning the town, but allows enough power for Cade to come to the real world. In the final scene, Cade meets Sybil and Seline at a diner, where after telling the sirens that he'll take it from there, lights them on fire.
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11 "You Made a Choice to Be Good" Carol Banker Melinda Hsu Taylor & Celine Geiger February 3, 2017 (2017-02-03) T27.13311 0.92[33]
Cade frees Stefan from captivity and sends him on a mission. He then tells Damon that his work isn't cutting it and that by sundown he must either kill one hundred people or Caroline. Bonnie encourages Enzo to complete his bucket list before taking the cure; once complete, they travel to a house she bought in New York where she is secretly keeping Elena. Caroline and Damon scheme to give the cure to Cade so that they can kill him and Bonnie reluctantly agrees to draw Elena's blood and give them the dosage instead of Enzo. Cade later reveals that his mission for Stefan was also to kill a hundred people or Elena. Stefan chose the latter and so Damon races to New York to stop him. Stefan compels Bonnie's realtor to sign the house over to herself and then invite him in so that he can get to Elena. Bonnie draws the blood from Elena and then gives it to Stefan after Stefan arrives at the house and kills Enzo.
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12 "What Are You?" Darren Genet Chad Fiveash & James Stoteraux February 10, 2017 (2017-02-10) T27.13312 1.11[34]
Stefan is arrested following his transition back into a human. Caroline manages to compel the police of his innocence but it doesn't erase the guilt inside of him. Bonnie is devastated about Enzo's death and her mother, Abby, comes to her house to console her. The two discover that Enzo is trying to communicate with Bonnie and that when he died, Bonnie opened the door between hell and earth. She tries to pull Enzo from hell but Abby ultimately burns his body, knowing that he would just drag Bonnie down with him. Cade tells Damon that their contract is up because of Stefan no longer being a vampire and tells Damon that he will claim Stefan's soul to take to hell at midnight if Damon doesn't retrieve the Maxwell journal. Matt, Alaric, and Dorian attempt to discover why the journal is important and Matt sees events from 1790 where his ancestor Ethan and Bonnie's ancestor Beatrice created the Maxwell bell and then encountered Seline and Sybil. The sirens forced Ethan to ring the bell twelve times and send hellfire to the town and he killed one hundred people. Beatrice trapped Seline and Sybil in the vault and Ethan wrote how to kill Cade in the Maxwell journal. In the present, Damon takes the journal and gives it to Cade, who burns it. Damon later tells Alaric that he is certain a certain artifact they have is how to kill the devil, having heard Sybil say it once. In the last scene, Damon and Alaric make plans to kill Cade and then Kai mysteriously walks in and says he has a better idea.
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13 "The Lies Will Catch Up with You" Tony Solomons Neil Reynolds February 17, 2017 (2017-02-17) T27.13313 0.99[35]
It is revealed that when Matt rang the bell eleven times and Cade came to Mystic Falls, Kai was able to as well, but only halfway, so he enlists Damon and Alaric's help to bring him back fully in exchange for him waking up Elena. Matt and Caroline learn that everyone Stefan ever compelled are now remembering things they've forgotten. This includes Dorian, who abducts Stefan and explains that he now recalls Stefan murdering his family back when Stefan was being forced to work for Klaus. Dorian shoots Stefan, but then regrets it and tries to get him to a hospital. Cade comes to Stefan during an out of body state as a result of him dying and tells Stefan that Caroline would be better off without him. In the hospital, Stefan breaks up with Caroline and tells her that he is leaving Mystic Falls. Bonnie finds out that she has psychic powers and tries to contact Enzo. She does with Cade's help and learns that like when Cade created hell, she created a place where Enzo's spirit now resides. Alaric brings the girls to see Caroline and tells her that they have lost control of their powers. Cade learns Kai escaped from hell and Damon tries to convince him that he can only be fully redeemed and saved from Cade if he brings back Elena. They go to her casket where Kai stabs Damon, tells him that he doesn't believe in redemption, and escapes with Elena while Damon falls to the floor, desiccating.
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14 "It's Been a Hell of a Ride" Pascal Verschooris Brett Matthews & Shukree Hassan Tilghman February 24, 2017 (2017-02-24) T27.13314 1.04[36]
Enzo encourages Bonnie to forgive Stefan. Kai gives Elena to Cade and Cade keeps Damon from dying so as to use him to get the dagger that can kill the devil and deliver it to him in exchange for Elena. Damon keeps Stefan from leaving when telling him that Cade has Elena; they go after Kai, who has the dagger, and get it from him as well as abducting him and trapping him in the Armory. Caroline goes to Kai for help with the twins' uncontrollable siphoning to which Kai reveals that the Armory causes an outburst of witch siphoning powers and then uses that power to escape and go after the girls. Alaric rings the Maxwell bell to weaken Cade while Stefan goes to kill the devil; however, Kai calls him and reveals his intentions to kill the twins and so Alaric must deal with that and since he isn't ringing the bell, Cade overpowers Stefan. Eventually, Alaric and Caroline defeat Kai and then Alaric reveals that he wants the two of them to run a school for kids like Josie and Elizabeth. Damon meets Cade and Stefan in the cave and Cade tries to force him to choose between the deaths of Elena or Stefan. Damon ends up choosing himself; he kills himself but is rescued by Bonnie who fights Cade for his soul. While Cade and Bonnie's psychic powers are battling, Stefan uses the dagger on Cade and kills him. A psychic blast from Cade's death sends Damon's soul back into his body; Bonnie makes it clear that she hasn't forgiven Stefan but he tells her that he won't give up on her forgiveness. Stefan also re-proposes to Caroline and she accepts. Bonnie traps Kai in another prison world and he tells her that when Cade died, the person given power over hell was Katherine; Bonnie relays this information to Damon.
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15 "We're Planning a June Wedding" Chris Grismer Story by : Jen Vestuto & Melissa Marlette
Teleplay by : Melinda Hsu Taylor March 3, 2017 (2017-03-03) T27.13315 1.14[37]
Matt's mother, Kelly returns to Mystic Falls claiming to want to be there for Matt, but it is soon revealed that she is working with Katherine and had been after having died two years ago. Damon concocts a plan to lure out Katherine by throwing the last minute wedding of Stefan and Caroline. Damon and Stefan also construct a dagger made from Katherine's bones to kill her. Bonnie tells Caroline she can't be at the wedding of the man who killed Enzo, but Enzo encourages her to go for her best friend. At the wedding, Kelly slits Peter's throat after a failed attempt to get the dagger from him. Everyone expects Katherine to interrupt the ceremony, but she doesn't, so Stefan and Caroline say their vows and actually get married. During the reception, Bonnie goes with the twins to the Lockwood house; Kelly interrupts Damon's speech and reveals that the Lockwood house is going to catch fire because she started a gas leak. The fire starts with Bonnie and the girls in the house. However, Josie and Elizabeth are able to siphon Bonnie's magic to save them and they all use their power to escape with Bonnie having to lose her connection to Enzo in the process. In the end, Kelly reveals that Katherine's plan was to distract them with the housefire while a now resurrected Vicki Donovan has returned and begins ringing the Maxwell bell to bring hellfire to Mystic Falls; as the bell rings, Bonnie falls to the ground, nose bleeding, and presumably dying.
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16 "I Was Feeling Epic" Julie Plec Julie Plec & Kevin Williamson March 10, 2017 (2017-03-10) T27.13316 1.15[38]
As Stefan and Caroline attempt to revive Bonnie, Bonnie enters the state between life and death and sees Elena. Enzo comes and tells Bonnie that it isn't her time and she returns to her body. Katherine finally reveals herself to the Salvatore brothers and even though Stefan stabs her with the dagger made from her bones, she comes back to Damon later, revealing that she can leave hell whenever she wants and that Cade had been under her control since her death. Vicki reveals that she wants to die from the hellfire so as not to return to hell, where she has been residing in a miserable existence. Vicki will ring the bell every five minutes until the end of the hour. Matt and the police evacuate the town. Alaric, Caroline, and the twins leave Mystic Falls when Bonnie comes up with a plan to use her magic to reverse the hellfire back into hell, destroying it and Katherine. Damon stays with Katherine in the tunnels under the Armory to make sure she is in hell when Bonnie does this; Stefan comes forward to sacrifice himself instead, and Damon refuses, telling his brother he loves him before compelling him to leave. However, Stefan is able to override the compulsion because he had vervain in his system and then hurries back into the tunnels, where he injects a syringe filled with his blood into Damon, making him human and then dies while making sure Katherine is in hell while her body is destroyed. Stefan visits Elena in the state between life and death, tells her what happened, and then joins Lexi in the afterlife. Some time later, Bonnie breaks Elena's sleeping curse and Elena reunites with her, Damon, Caroline, Matt and Alaric. The Salvatore boarding house is turned into a school for supernatural children by Caroline and Alaric with Jeremy and Dorian among the people running it and a donation from Klaus. Matt is awarded with a bench in his honour for saving the town that night and announces that he’ll run for Mayor. Bonnie decides that she wants to travel the world and live her spared life to the fullest. Vicki, Tyler, Liz, Jo, and Enzo are shown watching over the living. After having lived their long and happy life together, Elena reunites with her parents, John, and Jenna in her form of Peace at the Gilbert family home, while Damon reunites with Stefan at the Salvatore mansion, concluding the series.
Production[edit]
Filming for the season began on July 20, 2016.[39] It was announced on July 23, 2016, that season 8 of The Vampire Diaries would be the series' last. The season would contain 16 episodes.[40] Filming for the season ended on February 8, 2017.[citation needed]
Casting[edit]
On January 26, 2017, it was announced that Nina Dobrev would return as Elena Gilbert in the series finale.[41] At the end of the episode, "It's Been a Hell of a Ride" on February 24, 2017, it was revealed that Dobrev would reprise her role of Katherine Pierce as well.
Ratings[edit]
No.
Title
Air date
Rating/share
(18–49)
Viewers
(millions)
DVR
(18–49)
DVR viewers
(millions)
Total
(18–49)
Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Hello Brother" October 21, 2016 0.4/2 0.98[23] 0.3 0.63 0.7 1.62[42]
2 "Today Will Be Different" October 28, 2016 0.3/1 0.90[24] 0.4 0.72 0.7 1.62[43]
3 "You Decided That I Was Worth Saving" November 4, 2016 0.4/2 0.94[25] 0.3 0.69 0.7 1.63[44]
4 "An Eternity of Misery" November 11, 2016 0.4/1 1.00[26] 0.3 0.73 0.7 1.72[45]
5 "Coming Home Was a Mistake" November 18, 2016 0.3/1 0.92[27] 0.4 N/A 0.7[46] N/A
6 "Detoured On Some Random Backwoods Path to Hell" December 2, 2016 0.4/2 1.05[28] 0.4 0.72 0.8 1.78[44]
7 "The Next Time I Hurt Somebody, It Could Be You" December 9, 2016 0.4/1 0.98[29] 0.5 0.90 0.9 1.88[47]
8 "We Have History Together" January 13, 2017 0.4/2 0.95[30] TBD TBD TBD TBD
9 "The Simple Intimacy of the Near Touch" January 20, 2017 0.3/1 0.86[31] 0.4 0.74 0.7 1.60[48]
10 "Nostalgia's a Bitch" January 27, 2017 0.3/1 0.94[32] TBD TBD TBD TBD
11 "You Made a Choice to Be Good" February 3, 2017 0.3/1 0.92[33] TBD TBD TBD TBD
12 "What Are You?" February 10, 2017 0.4/2 1.11[34] TBD TBD TBD TBD
13 "The Lies Will Catch Up with You" February 17, 2017 0.4/1 0.99[35] 0.4 0.75 0.8 1.74[49]
14 "It's Been a Hell of a Ride" February 24, 2017 0.4/2 1.04[36] 0.4 0.69 0.8 1.74[50]
15 "We're Planning a June Wedding" March 3, 2017 0.4/1 1.14[37] TBD TBD TBD TBD
16 "I Was Feeling Epic" March 10, 2017 0.5/2 1.15[38] TBD TBD TBD TBD
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This article is about time management in gridiron football. For time management in other sorts, see running out the clock.
In gridiron football, clock management is the manipulation of a game clock and play clock to achieve a desired result, typically near the end of a match. It is analogous to "running out the clock" (and associated counter-tactics) seen in many sports, and the act of trying to hasten the game's end is often referred to by this term. Clock managements strategies are a significant part of American football, where an elaborate set of rules dictates when the game clock stops between downs, and when it continues to run.
Contents
1 In American football
1.1 Rules for the game clock
1.2 Strategies
1.2.1 Strategies for leading teams on offense
1.2.2 Strategies for trailing teams on offense
1.2.3 Strategies for the defense
2 Canadian football
3 See also
4 References
5 Further reading
In American football[edit]
Rules for the game clock[edit]
See also: Untimed play
Upon kickoff, the clock is started when a member of the receiving team touches the ball, or, if the member of the receiving team touches the ball in their end zone, carries the ball out of the end zone. The clock is stopped when that player is tackled or goes out of bounds. (The clock never starts if the receiving team downs the ball in their own end zone for a touchback.) The clock is then restarted when the offense snaps the ball for their first play and continues to run unless one of the following occurs, in which case the clock is stopped at the end of the play and restarts at the next snap unless otherwise provided:[1]
A player carrying the ball goes out of bounds. Unless after the 2-minute warning of the first half or inside the last 5 minutes of the second half/overtime, the clock is restarted when the ball is spotted, unless another condition causes the clock to start at the snap.
A loose ball is out of bounds. The clock is restarted when the ball is spotted, unless another condition causes the clock to start at the snap.
A forward pass is ruled incomplete.
Either team calls for a timeout or an official calls for a timeout, perhaps because a player is injured or there is a penalty on the play. Officials will restart the clock after an official timeout, but not a team timeout, has concluded unless another of the conditions applies, or if the timeout is for a penalty enforcement after the 2-minute warning of the first half or inside the last 5 minutes of the second half/overtime (absent special timing rules for specific fouls).
10 seconds will be taken off the clock, and the clock started when the ball is spotted, if the offense, after the 2-minute warning of either half, fouls or commits certain other acts that cause the clock to stop (including an injury when the offense is out of timeouts, except under certain circumstances), unless the clock will stop anyway for a different reason. In Canadian football, the offense may execute one additional untimed play if the clock expires while the ball is not in play.
A score or touchback occurs. Additionally, the clock does not run during or after a conversion attempt in the NFL or NCAA college football.
Possession of the football is transferred between teams for any reason.
In college football, the clock is briefly stopped when a team earns a first down to allow the chain crew to reposition themselves. The NFL has no such stoppage.
If the clock runs out during a play, the current play is allowed to continue to its conclusion. If the clock runs out between downs, the period ends in American football, but in Canadian football the offense is allowed one last down.
Each team is given three timeouts per half which they can use to stop the clock from running after a play. In the NFL, teams get two timeouts in a preseason or regular season overtime period, or three in a postseason overtime half.
On a fair-catch punt, the clock starts at the snap and stops at the end of the play.
Strategies[edit]
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Strategies for leading teams on offense[edit]
A team on offense that has the higher score seeks to use as much time as possible. A drive that scores no points may nevertheless benefit the team by taking time off the clock. The team may:
Favor run plays over pass plays.
Use the center of the field rather than the sidelines to avoid going out of bounds and stopping the clock.
Delay the start of each play until the play clock approaches 0.
The team may use counterintuitive game plans, such as declining to score or allowing the opponents to score, to accelerate the end of the game.
If the defense does not have enough time-outs to stop the clock before the ball is turned over on downs, the offense can run out the clock by executing repeated quarterback kneels until the clock runs out. In the NFL and college football, up to 40 seconds can be taken off the clock between plays. The NFL also has a built-in two-minute warning that stops the clock after the play that occurs when the clock hits two minutes ends. In order to successfully run out the clock by kneeling, there must be less than 40 seconds on the clock if the opponent has two time-outs, 1 minute 20 seconds if the opponent has one time-out, or 2 minutes if the defense has no time-outs remaining, at the beginning of the series of downs. The offense can burn further time off the clock by timewasting: keeping the ball live (and the clock running) simply by keeping away from any defensive player, regardless of position on the field.
Strategies for trailing teams on offense[edit]
A team on offense that has the lower score seeks to conserve time. The team may:
Use a no-huddle offense; forgo detailed design of a play and instead signal and initiate a play quickly.
Have the quarterback "spike" the ball, sacrificing a down to stop the clock. (An explicit exception is written into the American football rule books so that the move is not penalized for intentional grounding.)
Use a passing play (because an incomplete pass stops the clock) or a run play toward the sidelines (because taking the ball out of bounds also stops the clock).
Most ideal after a 1st down.
If a play ends such that the game clock continues running, use a timeout.
If the ball is still alive while the clock runs out and the team with the ball is still trailing, do everything within the team's power to keep the ball alive until it can be advanced to the end zone. Often this incorporates a series of lateral and backward passes to avoid the ball carrier being tackled and the game ending.
A team that is tied or trailing by one or two points but is within the red zone (and thus in easy field goal range) seeks to burn a specific amount of time off the clock, such that they can stop the clock with five or fewer seconds on the clock, so that their placekicker can kick a field goal with no time remaining and win the game.
Strategies for the defense[edit]
A team on defense has little control over the pace of the game. It may expend its timeouts to ensure that there is adequate time left on the clock, in case the team regains possession. The defense can make decisions on how to stop the ball carrier based on whether the team is trailing or leading: if the offense is trying to conserve time, the defense can foil that by tackling the ball carrier in-bounds before they can get out of bounds. Defenses likewise can safely devote more personnel to the perimeter and leave the center of the field less defended, as an offense that cannot afford to keep the clock running will have to throw toward the sidelines. Various rules ensure that the defense cannot deliberately commit fouls to manipulate the game clock, and in the most extreme such cases, an unfair act can be declared and the game forfeited to the offense. (Likewise, if the offense commits fouls to burn off time and get extra downs, the clock is reset and unsportsmanlike conduct is called on them.)
Canadian football[edit]
In Canadian football, a team trailing by one point or tied has an additional option: a ball can be kicked from anywhere on the field in that sport, and balls kicked into or through the end zone and not returned score a single point. This allows a team trailing by one to advance the ball upfield, then punt the ball toward the end zone in hopes of tying the game for one point (the player could also drop kick the ball, which would allow the kicking team to win on a field goal if kicked through the uprights). To prevent this scenario, defending teams will place their punter in the end zone to retrieve the ball and kick it back out of the end zone, preventing that single point from being scored.
Several of the strategies discussed above for American football above can be used in the Canadian code, however rule differences mean that running out the clock much more difficult:
Teams are allowed only three downs to advance the ball 10 yards without losing possession (as opposed to four in the American game).
The offensive team has only 20 seconds after the ball is whistled into play to start a new play (as opposed to 25 seconds in American high school football and 40 seconds from the end of the last play in college football and the NFL).
After the three-minute warning in Canadian football, two key timing changes occur:
The clock stops after every play. The clock restarts when the referee whistles the ball in play after a tackle in bounds, and with the snap after an incomplete pass or a tackle out of bounds.
A "time count" (the same foul as "delay of game" in American football), which is a 5-yard penalty (with the down repeated) at other points in the game, becomes a loss of down penalty on first or second down and a 10-yard penalty on third down. Additionally, if the referee deems a time count violation on third down in the last three minutes of a half to be deliberate, he can require the offensive team to legally place the ball in play within the 20-second count, with a violation resulting in loss of possession.[2]
If the clock hits 0:00 between plays, Canadian teams are required to execute one final play, even if the ball has not yet been snapped. In the American game, if the clock hits 0:00 between plays, the game is over unless the previous play ended in a defensive penalty, a score, or circumstances warranting various types of kicks.
These differences make for radically different endgames if the team with the lead has the ball. In the NFL, a team can run 120 seconds (2 minutes)--and slightly more in the NCAA--off the clock without gaining a first down (assuming that the defensive team is out of timeouts). In the Canadian game, just over 40 seconds can be run off.
See also[edit]
Gaming the system
Running out the clock
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "2016 NFL Rulebook". NFL Football Operations. Rule 4, Sections 3 & 4. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
Jump up ^ "Rule 1, Section 7, Article 9: Time Count" (PDF). The Official Playing Rules for the Canadian Football League 2015. Canadian Football League. pp. 18–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 21, 2015.
Further reading[edit]
"3-2-1 ... Meltdown". ESPN The Magazine. 2009-01-16. Retrieved 2016-02-28.
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Working My Way Back to You
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"Working My Way Back to You"
Single by The Four Seasons
from the album Working My Way Back to You
B-side
"Too Many Memories"
Released
January 1966
Format
7"
Genre
Rock
Length
2:33
Label
Philips
Songwriter(s)
Denny Randell-Sandy Linzer
Producer(s)
Bob Crewe
The Four Seasons singles chronology
"Little Boy (in Grown-Up Clothes)"
(1965) "Working My Way Back to You"
(1966) "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me)"
(1966)
"Little Boy (in Grown-Up Clothes)"
(1965) "Working My Way Back to You"
(1966) "Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'Bout Me)"
(1966)
"Working My Way Back to You" is a song made popular by The Four Seasons in 1966 and The Spinners in 1980.
Written by Sandy Linzer and Denny Randell, the song was originally recorded by The Four Seasons in 1966, reaching number nine on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. In the UK Top 50 chart it spent three weeks - all at No. 50. It is the only hit to feature the group's arranger Charles Calello in the temporary role of bassist/bass vocalist, having replaced original member Nick Massi.
The song is about a man who cheated on his girlfriend and also emotionally abused her. When she leaves, he realizes that he did love her and is very remorseful about his past actions. He vows to win her love back. It is in some ways a re-casting of the melody from their previous hit, "Let's Hang On!".
Contents
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1 Charts
2 The Spinners version
3 Chart performance
3.1 Weekly charts
3.2 Year-end charts
4 Boyzone version
4.1 Track listing
4.2 Charts
5 Personnel
5.1 The Four Seasons' version
5.2 The (Detroit) Spinners' version
5.3 Boyzone version
6 References
Charts[edit]
Chart (1966)
Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 9
UK 50
The Spinners version[edit]
"Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl"
Single by The Spinners
from the album Dancin' And Lovin'
B-side
"Disco Ride"
Released
December 1979 (U.S.)
January 1980 (UK)
Format
45 RPM, 7", 12" maxi
Recorded
1979
Genre
R&B, soul, disco
Length
4:02 (single)
6:03 (album version)
Label
Atlantic
Songwriter(s)
Denny Randell-Sandy Linzer
Producer(s)
Michael Zager
The Spinners singles chronology
"Body Language"
(1979) "Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl"
(1979) "Cupid" / "I've Loved You for a Long Time"
(1980)
"Body Language"
(1979) "Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl"
(1979) "Cupid"/"I've Loved You for a Long Time"
(1980)
In 1979 American soul and R&B group The Spinners recorded a medley of "Working My Way Back to You" and Michael Zager's "Forgive Me Girl," topping the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in April 1980.[1] On the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, the medley (released in December 1979 in the U.S.) peaked at the number two position in March and April 1980 for two weeks, behind "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd. The Spinners version also made it to number six on the Soul Singles chart[2] and number eight on the disco/dance chart.[3]
Chart performance[edit]
Weekly charts[edit]
Chart (1979–80)
Peak
position
Australia KMR 12
Canada RPM Top Singles 5
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[4] 7
UK Singles Chart[1] 1
Irish Singles Chart 1
German Singles Chart [5] 12
Netherlands 2
New Zealand Singles Chart 3
Swiss Singles Chart [6] 8
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 2
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles 6
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance/Disco 8
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary 5
Year-end charts[edit]
Chart (1980)
Rank
Australia [7] 50
Canada [8] 44
New Zealand [9] 37
UK [10] 9
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [11] 14
Preceded by
"Going Underground" by The Jam UK number one single
12 April 1980 - 25 April 1980 Succeeded by
"Call Me" by Blondie
Boyzone version[edit]
"Working My Way Back to You"
Single by Boyzone
Released
May 1994
Format
CD single, Cassette
Recorded
1994
Genre
Pop
Length
3:41
Label
PolyGram
Songwriter(s)
Sandy Linzer, Denny Randell
Producer(s)
Ian Levine
Boyzone singles chronology
"Working My Way Back to You"
(1994) "Love Me for a Reason"
(1994)
"Working My Way Back to You"
(1994) "Love Me for a Reason"
(1994)
The Irish boyband, Boyzone, released a cover version of "Working My Way Back to You" as their debut single in May 1994. The song reached #3 on the Irish Singles Chart. It is one of the few songs to feature Mikey Graham on lead vocals. The band recorded two versions of the song, one of which was a collaboration with Alliage. The track is credited as being a major turning point in the career of producer-songwriter Steve Mac.[12] A lack of interest from the "usual producers" led to Polydor phoning up Mac and asking him to take on the role, and by doing he effectively made a decisive progression from his early Dance-pop singles to the mature balladry he has since made a very successful career out of.[12]
Track listing[edit]
Working My Way Back To You[13]
"Working My Way Back To You" - 4:12
"Working My Way Back To You" (POD 12" Mix) - 8:13
"Father And Son" - 2:49
Te Garder Pres De Moi
"Te Garder Près De Moi" (Featuring Alliage) - 4:41
"Te Garder Près De Moi" (Instrumental) - 4:41
Charts[edit]
Working My Way Back to You
Chart (1994)
Peak
position
Irish Singles Chart 3
Te Garder Près De Moi (with Alliage)
Chart (1997)
Peak
position
UK Singles Chart 129
France Singles Chart 3
Personnel[edit]
The Four Seasons' version[edit]
Lead vocals by Frankie Valli
Background vocals by Tommy DeVito, Charles Calello and Bob Gaudio
Instrumentation by Charles Calello (bass), Bob Gaudio (keyboards), Tommy DeVito (guitar)
The (Detroit) Spinners' version[edit]
Lead vocals by Jonathan Edwards and Pervis Jackson
Background vocals by Bobby Smith, Pervis Jackson, Henry Fambrough and Billy Henderson
Instrumentation by various Philadelphia area musicians
Boyzone version[edit]
Lead vocals by Stephen Gately and Mikey Graham
Background vocals by Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Shane Lynch and Ronan Keating
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 379. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 545.
Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 243.
Jump up ^ RPM Adult Contemporary, April 26, 1980
Jump up ^ "Die ganze Musik im Internet". musicline.de. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
Jump up ^ Hung, Steffen. "Spinners - Working My Way Back To You". hitparade.ch. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
Jump up ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
Jump up ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". www.collectionscanada.gc.ca.
Jump up ^ "The Official New Zealand Music Chart". THE OFFICIAL NZ MUSIC CHART.
Jump up ^ "UK Singles of the Year" (PDF). Record Mirror. London: Spotlight Publications. December 27, 1980. p. 30. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
Jump up ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1980/Top 100 Songs of 1980". www.musicoutfitters.com.
^ Jump up to: a b "Interview With Steve Mac". HitQuarters. April 12, 2010. Retrieved April 13, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Boyzone Working My Way Back To You Ireland (republic of) 5" CD SINGLE (309437)". Eil.com. 2004-11-11. Retrieved 2012-01-12.
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Joe Long
Gerry Polci
Albums
Sherry & 11 Others (1962)
The 4 Seasons Greetings (1962)
Big Girls Don't Cry and Twelve Others (1963)
The 4 Seasons Sing Ain't That a Shame and 11 Others (1963)
Golden Hits of the 4 Seasons (1963)
Dawn (1964)
Rag Doll (1964)
Born to Wonder (1964)
Stay and Other Great Hits (1964)
4 Seasons Entertain You (1965)
The 4 Seasons Sing Big Hits by Burt Bacharach... Hal David... Bob Dylan (1965)
Working My Way Back to You and More Great New Hits (1966)
Lets Hang On (1966)
On Stage with The Four Seasons (1965)
New Gold Hits (1967)
Edizione D'Oro (Gold Edition) (1968)
The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette (1969)
Half and Half (1970)
Chameleon (1972)
Who Loves You (1975)
Helicon (1977)
The Very Best of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons (2002)
Singles
"Bermuda"
"Sherry"
"Big Girls Don't Cry"
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
"Walk Like a Man"
"Ain't That a Shame"
"Candy Girl"
"New Mexican Rose"
"Dawn (Go Away)"
"Stay"
"Ronnie"
"Alone (Why Must I Be Alone)"
"Rag Doll"
"Silence Is Golden"
"Save It for Me"
"Sincerely"
"Big Man in Town"
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
"Bye, Bye, Baby (Baby Goodbye)"
"Since I Don't Have You"
"Girl Come Running"
"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)"
"Let's Hang On!"
"Don't Think Twice"
"Working My Way Back to You"
"Opus 17 (Don't You Worry 'bout Me)"
"On the Good Ship Lollipop"
"I've Got You Under My Skin"
"The Proud One"
"Tell It to the Rain"
"Beggin'"
"Can't Take My Eyes Off You"
"C'mon Marianne"
"Lonesome Road"
"Watch the Flowers Grow"
"Will You Love Me Tomorrow"
"My Eyes Adored You"
"Our Day Will Come"
"Who Loves You"
"December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"
"Silver Star"
"Grease"
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The Spinners
Henry Fambrough
Charlton Washington
Marvin Taylor
Jessie Robert Peck
Ronnie Moss
Pervis Jackson
Billy Henderson
C. P. Spencer
James Edwards
Bobby Smith
George Dixon
Edgar "Chico" Edwards
G. C. Cameron
Philippé Wynne
John Edwards
Frank Washington
Harold "Spike" Bonhart
Studio albums
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2nd Time Around
Spinners
Mighty Love
New and Improved
Pick of the Litter
Happiness Is Being with the Spinners
Singles
"That's What Girls Are Made For"
"I'll Always Love You"
"Truly Yours"
"It's a Shame"
"How Could I Let You Get Away"
"I'll Be Around"
"Could It Be I'm Falling in Love"
"One of a Kind (Love Affair)"
"Together We Can Make Such Sweet Music"
"Mighty Love"
"I'm Coming Home"
"Then Came You"
"Sadie"
"Games People Play"
"The Rubberband Man"
"Are You Ready for Love"
"Working My Way Back to You"/"Forgive Me, Girl"
"Cupid"/"I've Loved You for a Long Time"
"Yesterday Once More"/"Nothing Remains the Same"
"Funny How Time Slips Away"
"I'll Be Around" (with Rappin' 4-Tay)
Related articles
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Atlantic Records
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Volt Records
Book:The Spinners
Category:The Spinners
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Boyzone
Keith Duffy
Mikey Graham
Ronan Keating
Shane Lynch
Stephen Gately
Studio albums
Said and Done
A Different Beat
Where We Belong
Brother
BZ20
Dublin to Detroit
Compilation albums
By Request
Ballads – The Love Song Collection
Key to My Life: Collection
Back Again... No Matter What
B-Sides & Rarities
Love Me for a Reason – The Collection
Singles
"Working My Way Back to You"
"Love Me for a Reason"
"Key to My Life"
"So Good"
"Father and Son"
"Coming Home Now"
"Words"
"A Different Beat"
"Isn't It a Wonder"
"Picture of You"
"Mystical Experience"
"Picture of You"
"Baby Can I Hold You"
"All That I Need"
"No Matter What"
"I Love the Way You Love Me"
"When the Going Gets Tough"
"You Needed Me"
"Every Day I Love You"
"Love You Anyway"
"Better"
"Gave It All Away"
"Love Is a Hurricane"
"Love Will Save the Day"
"Light Up the Night"
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Subsidiary alliance
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The subsidiary alliance, in South Asian history to describe an alliance between princely states and the British East India Company.
It was framed by Lord Wellesley, British Governor-General in India from 1798 to 1805. Early in his governorship, Wellesley adopted a policy of non-intervention in the princely states, but he later adopted the policy of forming subsidiary alliances, which played a major role in the expansion of British rule in India.
In a subsidiary alliance, princely rulers were not allowed to have an independent armed force. They were to be protected by the East India Company but had to pay for the subsidiary forces that the company was to maintain for protection. If Indian rulers failed to make the payment, part of their territory was taken away as penalty. For example, the Nawab (ruler) of Awadh was forced to give over half of his territory to the company in 1801, reason provided by British officer was Maladministration. Hyderabad was also forced to cede territories on similar grounds.
By the late 18th century, the power of the Maratha Empire had weakened and the Indian Subcontinent was left with a great number of states, most small and weak. Many rulers accepted the offer of protection by Wellesley, as it gave them security against attack by their neighbours.
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1 Terms
2 Adoption
3 See also
4 References
Terms[edit]
An Indian ruler entering into a subsidiary alliance with the British would accept British forces within his territory and to pay for their maintenance.
The ruler would accept a British Resident in his state.
The ruler who entered into a subsidiary alliance would not join any alliance with any other power or declare war against any power without the permission of the British.
The ruler would dismiss any Europeans other than the British and avoid employing new ones.
The ruler would let the British rule on any conflict any other state.
The ruler would acknowledge the East India Company as the paramount power in India.
The ruler would have his state be protected by the Company from external dangers and internal disorders.
If the rulers failed to make the payments that were required by the alliance, part of their territory would be taken away as a penalty.
Indian rulers have to maintain British troops in his state.
Adoption[edit]
Indian rulers under British protection surrendered the control of their foreign affairs to the British. Most subordinate disbanded their native armies and instead maintained British troops within their states to protect them from attack, but that became increasingly unlikely in most parts of India as British power grew.
The Nawab of Awadh was the first to enter into such an alliance after the Battle of Buxar in 1764. Tipu Sultan of the Kingdom of Mysore refused to do so, but after the British victory in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, Mysore was forced to become a subsidiary state. The Nizam of Hyderabad was the first to accept a well-framed subsidiary alliance. After the Third Anglo-Maratha War, Maratha ruler Baji Rao II also accepted a subsidiary alliance.
Other states Tanjore (1799), Bhonsle (1803), and Indore (1817) adopted the system.
See also[edit]
Client state
Indirect rule
Unequal treaties (China)
References[edit]
This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (March 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
George Bruce Malleson: An Historical Sketch of the Native States of India in Subsidiary Alliance with the British Government, Longmans, Green, and co., 1875, ISBN 1-4021-8451-4
Edward Ingram: Empire-Building and Empire-Builders: twelve studies, Routledge, 1995, ISBN 0-7146-4612-1
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