'Vampire Diaries' Season 5 Spoilers: Bonnie To Find Out Katherine Isn't Dead & in Elena's Body? [VIDEO]
For those wondering why Katherine Pierce didn't pass through Bonnie Bennett and instead settled in Elena Gilbert's body, Vampire Diaries showrunner Julie Plec revealed the answer.
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"We needed Bonnie to see Katherine so we knew she was dead," Plec said at the ATV Festival panel discussion in Atlanta on Feb. 8, according to Wetpaint.
"We also couldn't let Katherine go through Bonnie, and so the line, 'Will she go through you to get to the other side?' was kind of - the response was, 'I think so, I'm not sure. She must be human now.' But then again, she is also intentionally supernatural in these other ways, so we left it kind of deliberate ambiguity in hopes that it would slip Bonnie's mind and she would chalk it up to, 'Oh, she's human.' So when Katherine comes out and she's perfectly acting as Elena, nobody had any reason to be suspicious."
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This allowed Katherine, who slipped into Elena's body using the Traveler's spell, to stay in her body indefinitely.
However, Katherine's evil ways will have a big impact on brothers Stefan and Damon, as Plec previously revealed to E! News.
"Oh, she's going to be at her best of no good. The thing that's so great is that she's so into Stefan right now and so not into Damon right now, and yet Elena was about ready to reembrace her relationship with Damon and Damon was all ready to win back his girl, so you can only imagine how that's going to go down," she said.
The Vampire Diaries airs on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST on the CW.
