Can everyone gather ‘round? Just- yeah, in a circle. No, we don’t have to hold hands- I know how you feel about that. No, I just want everyone to slow clap for me. Can I get a slow clap that turns into a tumultuous round of applause for the excellence that is the Vampire Diaries?
You can say no, but I’m telling you right now, I will do the slow clap/wild applause thing on my own, and I will make you watch. So… it’s either join in or suffer.
Yeah… I thought so.
Clap with me!!
Let’s get started!
o o o
WHERE IS CAROLINE?!
Those are my first words as the episode opens. I don’t get an answer though. Instead, we see Damon watching some lady on the news talking about how dead Andie is. I hate this new anchor. She uses word play off Andie’s last name and falling stars. Anything for a story, huh bitch?!

Vultures, I swear.
Elena is lurkin’. Damon rips down his crazy walls as Elena accuses him of not taking her calls. Damon is all, ‘Girl, did you watch the news? No? Well it’s on right behind you – I’m going through things.’ Elena sighs, all put upon because we aren’t pulling a Claude Frollo and burning down the town looking for Stefan for one second. Hell Fire was my jam back in the day… when I was five. My mother didn’t invite anyone to the house for a while after I saw that movie – Every chance I got, I was belting out how I was going to destroy every village and slaughter Esmeralda if she didn’t sleep with me.
Hey, what happened to Elena living in the boarding house? Does that not apply anymore because Stefan is gone? Or do they foolishly think Elena is really safe? Not that it would matter anyway – Klaus could just Compel her to let him in as we saw him do last week.
Elena tells Damon that Stefan called her last night and Damon makes this face:

Crazy eyes! You’re back! I don’t think you made an appearance last week, but I might be mistaken.
Can we gossip for a second? Did you know Nina Dobrev and Ian Sommerhalder are dating?

I didn't
Do you think he looks at her like that sometimes in real life? I don’t have pictured proof, YET, but I hope he does. I really do.
Damon is hesitant to believe that Stefan is the one who called her and breathed heavily on the line for a few minutes – it could have been anyone (has she met Alaric?) But Elena says that she had the, still elusive, Sheriff Forbes trace the call and confirmed that it came from Tennessee. Damon still thinks it’s highly unlikely – Stefan has gone off the rails and is insane. Elena, ever the trooper, says that if Stefan was insane he wouldn’t have called. I beg to differ – it’s the only explanation I can come up with.
Damon throws all of his crazy walls into the fireplace and sets everything ablaze.

HELL FIRE!!
o o o

Who da hell...?
Alaric is trying to enjoy being passed out but someone keeps banging on his apartment door. He yells out, assuming its Damon (I love the idea that Damon stops by and knocks,) that he’s not in the mood, but the banging keeps on coming. Shirtless and pants undone he opens the door to find Elena. I found it hilarious that he started fixing himself up because it was her – if it was Damon he totally would have just stayed looking debauched and sexy.

Oh... Totally thought you were someone else. Damon. I thought you were Damon. Is Damon with you? Will Damon be here soon? Because I was expecting him...
Elena stares at his hairy man chest for a second, snaps out of it, and says she needs Alaric to brush off the whiskey haze, and tell her everything about Stefan and Tennessee. He blinks and buckles up his pants – does Elena forget how he left her alone to fend for herself on her birthday, last night. Elena brushes that off – people abandon her all the time, mostly due to their death, and Alaric isn’t dead (yet) so he can still help! She slips into his apartment while he throws on a shirt.
(Quickly – Mystic Falls is a small town, where people talk, and everyone knows basically where everyone else lives. What do people think about first seeing Alaric living in his young, attractive, (then illegal) female student’s house and now seeing her visit him at his apartment?)
Anyway, he tells her to go to Damon for help and she says Damon is too busy burning things to be much help to her. Alaric says good thing too, because there’s a good reason why Elena shouldn’t go meddling –It. Is. Not. Safe. For. Her.
But she doesn’t care! Stefan can be saved! Why does she have to be the one to save him? Because she doesn’t know the meaning of letting things go! The concept is so foreign to her that it literally just swoops over her glossy hair to settle somewhere else. She demands again for him to tell her what he knows and he does.
Note: that she clears away his empty beer bottles like a pro.
o o o
Smokey Mountains, Tennessee!
Aw! Klaus is being sweet to Stefan. They’re hiking, and he’s asking Stefan if he wants to sit or have a drink of water – Ray Sutton is super heavy-especially when he’s dead and slung over Stefan’s shoulders the way he is. Stefan rebuffs Klaus’ attempts at being companionable (which I find crazy, but then again I am a Klaus Lover – I love Klaus) but Klaus tells Stefan to stop being so broody and self-loathing. Burn!
Stefan says he wouldn’t be brooding if Klaus took him somewhere nice for once – they’ve been spending all summer tracking down werewolves, and would going to a beach once in a while kill them? Klaus says it’s all worth it, because they are now coming upon a friendly little group of campers setting up tents. They’ve found the pack.
All activity stops when Stefan drops Ray onto the ground and they ask Stefan who he is. Klaus steps in and says they should be asking who he is – and he is Klaus. They gasp out “you’re the hybrid” and Klaus is super chuffed that at least these people have heard of him.

See, baby, word is spreading.
o o o
WHERE IS CAROLINE??
Carol Lockwood is drinking alcohol as she spikes the morning coffee with vervain. Tyler comes down the stairs, kisses her good morning, and fixes himself a cup. Of coffee, not liquor. Carol acts as if everything is alright, but watches him like a hawk. She tells him that if he’s going to bring a girl to f**k in her house at least let her spend the night – that way they can all share in an awkward morning – no sneaking out like a prostitute. Tyler apologizes and is disappointed that Caroline snuck out. He takes a sip of coffee and makes a face. Vervain tastes awful apparently. He puts the cup away, tells his mother Caroline is Caroline not a prostitute, and leaves. Carol breathes a sigh of relief, and picks up the phone to call a man named Bill. She leaves him a message saying she has a vampire situation.
o o o
The Grill!
Jeremy walks into the back room even though he’s not working and Matt calls him on it. Not that I blame Jeremy – I’d come in to work right when Matt starts his shift if it means watching him change his shirt.

-and a side of fries please.
Hilariously, Jeremy asks Matt if he remembers that conversation they had that one time, last night – the one about how he sees things like dead ex-girlfriends and dead sisters. How high does Jeremy think Matt was?
Matt plays into the fact that apparently Jeremy thinks he was wasted and says the whole night was a blur. Too bad for him, cause Jere don’t care – remember or not, he’s here to tell Matt that he saw Vicki again. Matt asks Jeremy why he’s telling Matt this, and not Bonnie, his girlfriend, who is also a witch. But Jeremy doesn’t think that would be a good idea. Besides he’s been trollin the internet and found some stuff about calling up the dead.

Printed these out...
You guys, remember when Jeremy went online to go into vampire chat rooms?

lol
And then he looked up ‘back from the dead’ at the end of last season?

LOL
Lawl, someone take his computer away.
Anyway, he needs a family member and access to Vicki’s stuff. Matt vetoes that idea right away, but Jeremy says she asked for help.
Shaken, Matt makes Jere swear he’s not messing with him and Matt finally agrees to help. Oh Matt – bad idea, but I love that you are in a legitimate story line.
Still in the Grill.

Man, if this bar wasn't so close, I'd so jump over this wall and challenge you to fisticuffs
Elena is having a quick meeting with Tyler while Alaric watches from afar. And now people are going to see him staring intensely at Elena while she speaks to another guy her own age. Listen, is that when Sheriff Forbes is going to make her appearance this season? When she hauls Alaric away?
Tyler is telling Elena while most werewolves shackle themselves up on the full moon, some like to go out and enjoy it in secluded, open areas. Elena asks if there are any places like that in Tennessee and Tyler is all ‘sure – gimme your phone and I’ll pull up a map to lead you to your death.’ Because it is full moon tonight. He asks if she’s seen Caroline today and she says no.

Alaric drinks whiskey that’s served in a coffee cup when Elena runs up to him. She’s got the map! She asks how he feels about a hike through the Smokey Mountains. He looks at her like she’s crazy and is like ‘you want to hunt down a pack of werewolves on a full moon?’ and she’s all ‘we’ll be in and out before the moon is in the sky.’
Alright. Lets just say it’s around 12 in the afternoon right now –they can’t sell liquor before then. It’ll take them 30 minutes to go back to Alaric’s place and another 30 to go to hers. An hour to get their crap together, and roughly 9 hours to get to the Smokey Mountains, not including pee breaks and fill ups. And let’s just say, for argument’s sake, that they are right at the very edge of Virginia – that is still at least seven hours.
Alaric, so tired of his life, says that that is not a great idea at all, to which Elena replies, ‘I’m going to go by myself anyway if you don’t come with me. And what do you think people in this town will think when they find out you let me go hiking alone?’ Besides didn’t he say that she’s eighteen now and has the legal right to get herself killed all on her own? He yelps out he meant that she could fail the SAT’S on her own and poison her body with TV dinners, not this. She stares, he relents, and off they go. He says she has to drive, though – did you think I was kidding about his cup being filled with whiskey?
o o o
The Smokay Mountains!
Klaus is waxing poetic about how kickass it is to be a hybrid when Ray Sutton gasps awake. He starts scrabbling at the ground and when one girl asks what’s wrong with him, Klaus lets Stefan do the honors of explaining. To complete his transformation into a vampire, Ray needs some human blood or he will die. Klaus and Stefan ask who in the group is a human along for the ride (and what insane human is along for the ride during a full moon surrounded by werewolves?) No one answers, but Klaus picks the human out quite easily. He bites a chunk out of dude’s arm, tosses him to Stefan, who holds him down and tells Ray to drink before he does it – when he starts he doesn’t know when to stop. While that’s going on, Klaus feeds a girl his blood, before killing her and pronouncing that she will thank him for this one day. I think he really believes it. He’s said it twice already. I think he’s expecting a flood of Hallmark cards or something…
I’ll send him one at least. Just so he doesn’t feel bad.

Thanks for the card, Coquills!
You’re welcome!!
o o o
It’s the Grill. Tyler is still there, playing pool and texting Caroline.
WHERE. IS. SHE?
Matt comes over to fill up his coffee cup and asks if Tyler needs anything – he’s been here all day. Tyler says no, but asks if he’s seen Caroline. Matt says no with this sourpuss look on his face and Tyler says he didn’t know that he and Caroline being friends would be such a big deal to Matt.
Listen, Tyler, I love you, you know I do, but stop treating Matty like an idiot. He’s just really, really pale, not blind.
Matt says whatevs, and turns to walk away, but comes back and asks if Tyler is turning tonight. Tyler says yeah, and Matt says Caroline usually helps. Tyler confirms again, and, because Matt is wonderful, he, in a rounabout bro way, offers to help Tyler out if he needs it. Tyler says thanks, but no thanks, and takes a sip of his coffee. He’s all this is AWFUL, and Matt is all, yeah it’s the vervain Sheriff Forbes has him slip into the drinks every now and then. He’s surprised Tyler can even taste it, the coffee usually masks the tastes. “For humans anyway.”
Horrified, Tyler connects the dots.

....shit.
o o o
The Lockwood Mansion!
The doorbell rings and Carol opens it. Some man we don’t know comes in. She asks if anyone saw him come in and he’s all ‘naw, I didn’t drive through the town waving at folks. I came straight here.’ She offers him a drink, but he gets straight down to business. He wants to know what Carol wants him to do, and she says she was hoping he would tell her what to do.
She tells him it’s Caroline who is a vampire and he asks if any of the council know. That thing still exists? Carol says no one knows anything – she’s been setting up this sting all on her own for months. She’s at a loss on what to do now, though – she can’t do anything for a lot of reasons, not least of which is because she was there when Caroline was born.
He tells her to suck it up. Caroline is a vampire, they have to do what they have to do.
I don’t like him.
o o o
Elena and Alaric are hiking. He points and says something to the effect of ‘ soon over yonder, that ridge will see the kiss of the full moon.’ Elena laughs at him for being a gay and a boy scout and he tells her to shut up. He’s just a drunk loser, who loves to talk about the stars. They stop by a lake and he hands her a canister of wolvesbane – wolvesbane grenade they call it. Doesn’t that sound like an awesome drink?
In return, she offers her dead UncleDaddy’s ring to him. He doesn’t want it, but she wants him to take it. They go back and forth, and back and forth, and back and forth until finally he takes it. Her parting argument is that she’d feel bad if she got him killed before happy hour and – don’t joke about it, Elena. Your ability to kill EVERYONE around you and Alaric’s alcoholism are two VERY serious things.
She drops her bag and starts to say something to the effect of she has no idea why Alaric thinks he’s a lost cause when she is PUSHED far and wide into the lake.


AHAHAHA! She goes flying and her scream is hilarious! HAHAHH!

Not cool, bro.

You mad?
Anyway, it’s Damon. He pushed her. And she’s all ‘how are you even here??’ And Damon goes ‘My broham over here told me, that’s how.’ She shoots betrayed eyes at Alaric, but he feels nothing – did she think he was really going to take her up to the mountains where there’s Stefan, Klaus, and God knows how many werewolves, without backup? And right here Alaric looks JUST like Chord Overstreet.

Lookit!
Speaking of which, I couldn’t watch Glee because I knew he wouldn’t be there. R.I.P TROUTY MOUTH!
o o o
Back at the campsite, Stefan and Klaus have finished Turning everyone, except that one dude who is a blood bank. Ray Sutton is shivering and jerking while Stefan and Klaus chat. Stefan asks if this is Klaus’ plan – to build a hundred slaves? Klaus says they are not slaves but soldiers. Comrades. Stefan asks how he plans to keep all these hybrids loyal, and Klaus is all duh! It’s not hard to be loyal when they’re on the winning team. Stefan will figure it out when he stops being depressing. Stefan asks Klaus if this is why he’s keeping him around, to see him shake off being a Debbie Downer, and Klaus tells him he will know why Klaus wants him around when Klaus wants him to know.
(Pssst. It’s cause he loves you.)
Ray is still shuddering and hurting and starts bleeding tears of blood.

This... was not according to the plan.
o o o
Damon is telling Elena to get out of the water. She says no – if she gets out of the water Damon will make her do something reasonable like go home. He calls her an idiot, Alaric calls them both idiots, and Alaric is looking FINE tonight. Is anyone else noticing how good he looks?

Yeah, I look like this all the time. NBD
Elena says Damon gave up on Stefan and Damon says he ‘just faced reality, now get out of the water.’ She says no and he wades in. He asks what her big plan is and it is to! find Stefan and help him.
So yeah, she has no plan.
They go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and FINALLY he agrees to help them find Stefan.

But mainly because she’s soaking wet and wearing a thin tank top.
There is this cute moment where he says that she has to make sure they are out of here before the full moon and she promises. He says she better promise unless she wants to relive ‘that whole death bed-kissy thing’ and she says she promises!
Heehee. Cuties.
o o o
Ray’s a trembling while Klaus watches, displeased.

>:(

Another girl wakes up and Klaus tells blood bank to do his job. But before he can, Ray goes rabid and tears off into the forest.
Stefan tries to subdue him, but gets bitten. He starts after Ray again but picks up on Elena, Damon, and Alaric bickering.

Of course
Klaus comes up inquiring about Ray, and to distract him Stefan holds out his festering arm for him to heal. Klaus says ‘bring that sucker back, then I heal you.’ Stefan goes off, grumbling.
o o o
Carol Lookwood is in her study when Tyler corners her. He demands to know why she put vervain in his coffee. She tries to play dumb, but he’s not with that mess. So she says it was because she noticed him hanging out with Caroline a lot lately. He asks what Caroline has to do with this. She tells him to cut the crap – he cannot be with Caroline ever, ever, ever because she is a monster.
Both Tyler and I demand to know where Caroline is, but Carol is mum. Bitch.
He’s silent for a moment, before it hits him – “You have no idea what I am, do you?”
Carol is confused as to what he means.
Yay! Everyone is going to be filled in on everything this season! Love it.
o o o
Our trio is still trekkin’ when they come upon Ray Sutton, stumbling about. He sniffs out Damon and attacks. They grapple for a bit before Elena throws him her wolvesbane grenade. Damon breaks it in Ray’s face, kicks him in the gut, and hybrid is down for the count.
o o o
Matt and Jeremy go to, I guess, Matt’s garage, where all of Vicki’s stuff is stored. Jeremy blabs about how he read on the internet that having personal items builds a stronger connection as he pulls one of her shirts out of a box. Matt pulls out a crackpipe and they giggle over what a drug addict Vicki was.
I just realized they’ve both done each other’s sisters. Do they realize that?

Matt pulls out a photo of he and Vicki at Christmas a few years ago. I think. Is that supposed to be him? Isn’t he older than Vicki? He looks way younger. Anyway, he pulls out this picture and tells Jeremy he has no idea why he let Jeremy talk him into this. Jeremy says it’s because he has a chance to help Vicki, but it all becomes too much and Matt puts the photo face down. He tells Jeremy he can’t do this and tells Jeremy to leave. Jeremy does and Matt turns back around to see the photo propped up.


o o o
Back in the Smokey (Death) Mountains, Alaric and Elena are dosing ropes in vervain and wolvesbane, and tying Ray to a tree. Alaric says that this isn’t going to hold Ray long enough for them to get to the ridge to find Stefan and Elena says that’s fine. If they can get Ray to talk then they can go straight to Stefan – no searching needed. She goes to wake him up, but he jolts awake on his own and starts pulling at the cables. He’s stressing, and growling, and beginning to transform. Even though it’s still evening. All three of them freak out, bump into each other, and run away.
o o o
Back at the campsite, Klaus is alone with his creations, who are all stumbling and shuffling around, moaning and groaning, and not being good hybrids. Guess who feels like Frankenstein!
o o o
They’re all still running when Elena trips. Damon tells her not to move, but she looks up enough to see a werewolf right in front of her face.

Sup?
Damon acts quick and gets it on his own heels while Alaric tells Elena to keep on running. She argues that they can’t leave Damon (who has taken off like Flash Gordon, by the way) but Alaric all about threatens to throw her over his shoulder if it gets her to run her ass. She gets up and runs.
o o o
Tis the full moon y’all!
Tyler has dragged Carol down to his changing cell. She’s scared and confused, and Tyler is rambling as he grabs his chains that if she thinks Caroline is the monster wait she gets a load of this. She’s all WHAT?? But he just stuffs her behind a cage, rants more about a family curse, and begins to strap himself down. He screams, she screams, he transforms and skitters on the ground, and she shits herself. While screaming.

CHRIST ON A CRACKER!!

I deserve an Emmy!!
Michael Trevino. Win an award. Someone please give Michael Trevino an award! This guy!
o o o
Damon is a wandering. CLIMB A TREE, Damon! But it’s too late! Ray Sutton comes barreling out and they have an epic fight! It’s a really good fight scene, you guys. And Ray is winning before he suddenly falls to the ground, dead. Stefan is standing there with Ray’s heart in his hand, which he tosses to the side carelessly.
R.I.P. Ray Sutton. Once Klaus has his target on you, you’re as good as dead. There was nothing anyone could have done.
ANYWAY! Stefan is all, ‘what did I tell you about leaving me alone, Damon?’ And Damon’s like ‘Um, before you say that to me, how about you stop calling your girlfriend on the phone, breathing all heavy, and pretending it’s the good ol’ days?’ Stefan says he has no idea what Damon is talking about, and Damon scoffs. He tells him that Elena will never give up on him and Stefan says she has to because he is never coming back. Now, can he take Elena home and see if he can keep her there, this time?
I’d HATE to have that responsibility put on me.
I think all my hair would fall out at once.
o o o
Elena is freaking out – both Stefan and Damon are out there, and she and Alaric aren’t using their feeble human bodies to help them!? Alaric is like ‘calm your tits – we couldn’t do anything anyway. Let the vampires duke it out while I protects the humans.’ I laughed out loud here, because, Alaric? Stop.
Elena turns to him to say she thought Alaric was done taking care of people, and Alaric says he knows what angle she’s playing, so she should give it a rest. There is NO lesson to be found in this godforsaken predicament. She tells him he’s not so bad at protecting people, and he calls her a sucker for lost causes. She insists he’s not a lost cause. Just LOST. Just like Jeremy, and her. Then she basically tells him that everyone else they loved or vaguely cared for is dead, and that they are stuck with each other so they need to band together. Because everyone else is dead. And all he has is her. Elena. And sometimes Jeremy. But mainly just her.
All of his hair falls out.
Hah, not really, but he does say he’s keeping the ring. Smart man.
Damon comes stomping up. Elena wants to hug and kiss on him (in a strictly platonic way of course) but he’s like get in the damn car.

Scoot
She calls him a caveman as he pushes her and its cute. Once in the car she thinks she sees Stefan, but he moment she looks back he’s gone and she thinks she’s just going crazy.
o o o
Matt is back at Jeremy’s house. He apologizes for not wanting to contact the dead, and Jeremy is like it’s all cool. Matt holds up the beer he brought and Jeremy invites him in. I like them together in scenes. I really do. It’s a nice friendship to behold, despite the whole voodoo, ooga booga business they have going on.
He tells Jeremy he went through Vicki’s stuff and found something they could use. He goes on to say that most people didn’t get Vicki, but Jeremy did. He doesn’t know what they’re going to do with all her things, but he trusts Jeremy. He hands him a bag and Jeremy pulls out a shirt. They both go on to say they both don’t remember their last moments with Vicki – Jeremy was Compelled to forget and Matt doesn’t even know when Vicki wasn’t human anymore, so he can’t recall her last human moment.
They commiserate and then bam! Vicki is behind Jeremy. Matt can’t see her, but asks what’s she saying.
She says ‘Matty’ and it’s so sad. When Jeremy asks her what exactly does she need help with, she whispers that she can come back. Matt asks again what she’s saying, but before Jeremy can tell Matt, a glass in the door shatters. Vicki is gone and now it’s Anna, looking scared, and begging Jeremy not to trust Vicki. OH! OH OH! THAT IS SO GREAT! Seriously, I thought this was going to be a weird, creepy version of Three’s Company, but this is so much better!
o o o
Back at the campsite, Stefan brings back dead Sutton and drops him on the ground. Klaus is depressed and drinking a beer surrounded by dead folks. He tells Stefan that they all went rabid – some he killed and the others bled out.

DAMNDANGDARN!!
And he’s furious, you guys! He smashes a beer bottle and screams his frustration to the sky while Stefan watches. He goes over it aloud – he did everything right. He broke the curse, killed the vampire, the werewolf, and the doppelganger…

...

...
There’s a pause where Stefan is terrified Klaus has found out that Elena isn’t dead. They stare at each other and Klaus, after a long moment, says Stefan looks like hell. Stefan holds out his nasty arm and is like ‘I’m dying over here.’ He puts on the servant act, though – says that he had no choice but to kill Ray and he’s sorry that he failed Klaus.
Klaus seems appeased by this – he rips a gouge in his palm, trickles the blood into the bottle, and gives it to Stefan before wandering away, saying that Stefan is his only friend.
You know he knows that Elena is still alive. Or suspects it. Klaus is at least going to check – he’s going to check on every single possible lose thread.

Oh God... all the paperwork...
Also – where is the Park Authority going to even START when they find this scene?
o o o
Elena comes out of her bathroom to find Damon in her bedroom. He says that he was wrong. She asks if he is drunk and he does this great face:

HAHAHAH!
He says he thought Stefan was gone, but he was wrong. Elena gets all excited and asks how he’s so sure. He replies that Stefan is an insuffarble martyr who needs his ass kicked – even at his darkest, he still won’t let Damon die. So Damon won’t give up on him – he’ll help bring him back to the light side.
But first! He demands to know why Elena insited they high-tail it out of there. She waffles, but he presses and she’s like fine! I didn’t want you to die! I care about you!
He says thanks and leaves, but she stops him and wants to know why it matters so much that she say it aloud.

Listen, lady.
He steps close and cradles her face – he tells her that he wants her to remember this. When he’s fighting to drag Stefan back to her, he wants her to remember how she felt when he was gone.
He leaves the bedroom, passing an Alaric who is moving back in – and C’Mon! What do these neighbors think??
Alaric asks her if she has all this vampire-angst-love triangle bull under control, and she’s like not even a little bit.
He shrugs.
You should fall in love with Alaric, Elena. It will be easier. Yeah, I know Alaric is a mess, but it would still be easier.
o o o

Typical morning
Tyler wakes up in chains and naked, and I whistle. Not even a wolf whistle, but those ones where you use two fingers and pump your other fist in the air.
Carol is watching him from behind her cage and tells him she won’t let Caroline get hurt.
o o o
WHERE. IS. CAROLINE?
Carol is on the phone with Bill. She’s saying she rethought the whole thing and its totally okay that Caroline is a vampire.
WHERE IS SHE?
Bill is all ‘don’t feel guilty. Vampires are monsters and not humans – I was born into the business of dealing with vampires while you just married into it. I’ll take care of it. I know what my obligations are.’
I’LL SCREAM. I SWEAR I WILL IF YOU DON’T TELL ME.
He hangs up and Carol is panicking.
CAROLINEEEEEE!!!

Caroline! She’s waking up in a dungeon, chained to chair that she can’t get out of. She calls for help. She calls for Mrs. Lockwood and she hears someone coming down the stairs. She struggles and calls for anyone to help her, but the only person that steps through the door is Bill.
oddly, Caroline’s face melts into relief and happiness, mixed with disbelief when she sees his face.
“Daddy?” she whispers.
o o o
That’s it! OMG that was so great, you guys! Another slam dunk, touch down, hole in one, whatever else sport euphemisms I don’t know! If this how the whole season of The Vampire Diaries is going to be, then hallelujah! For reals!
Questions!
-Am I the only one who wants Stefan and Klaus to kiss?
-What do you think Anna means when she says don’t trust Vicki?
-Do you think Elena and Jeremy ask each other how the other’s days went?
-Was anyone else expecting Caroline’s dad to be more… fabulous?
See you next week! Or on Twitter! Stay out of them mountains, y’all!
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-Am I the only one who wants Stefan and Klaus to kiss? [yes, and i would add: matt+jeremy and damon+alaric to the wanna see them kiss in my fantasies, what is wrong with me, train...]
-What do you think Anna means when she says don’t trust Vicki? [the actress that plays anna said something about how vicki is going to mess with a lot of people and her intentions are not honorable and anna is there to sort of not let vicki get her way, i dont know but this is playing out SO awesome that i am fully invested]
-Do you think Elena and Jeremy ask each other how the other’s days went? [probably, but when do they have time to see each other?]
-Was anyone else expecting Caroline’s dad to be more… fabulous? [hah, my boyfriend was like, its horn-rimmed glasses dad from heroes!... anyway, i am so excited about this development, actually about this season period, what a great show]
“Quickly – Mystic Falls is a small town, where people talk, and everyone knows basically where everyone else lives. What do people think about first seeing Alaric living in his young, attractive, (then illegal) female student’s house and now seeing her visit him at his apartment?)”
I would love – love – if this gets brought up at some point. Not as a big plot or anything, but people ‘would’ be noticing, and I’ve thought it would be hilarious since that time Elena’s class looked at her weird for calling Alaric “Rick”.
“Was anyone else expecting Caroline’s dad to be more… fabulous?”
Yes, and I’m glad he wasn’t – it threw me a little. Jack Coleman is a great actor, I’m really happy I didn’t know he was appearing and was tacken by surprise.
“Am I the only one who wants Stefan and Klaus to kiss?”
Probably not, but I still cannot stand the guy playing Klaus.
Agreed regarding Trevino btw – given his start on the show, I never would have suspected he could prove a good actor given the chance with the right material, but he has.
“You should fall in love with Alaric, Elena. It will be easier. Yeah, I know Alaric is a mess, but it would still be easier.”
Heh, I guess. Although that changes the story to Alaric’s girlfriend dies, then he moves in with her hot niece, who has fallen in love with him; in that scenario, one of them looks like the killer.
(also, what the hell does the whole town think happened with Jonathan and Jenna anyway? Not that they are all that quick – the Salvatores are a Council family and yet no-one bats an eyelid when two brothers show up despite no-one in the town ever seeing them in the town before).
This show is addictive, but is no longer a guilty pleasure – remarkable.
So glad you’re recapping this show! I started watching because it was about vampires and I love Ian Somerhalder but it has really turned into a great show. So much eye candy too
Thank you for pointing out the ridiculousness of going to Tennessee and thinking there was any way they’d be done before nighfall. And if Stefan could hear the three of them in the woods, surely Klaus could too.
Anyways….
1- Yes, the Stefan-Klaus dynamic reminds me of the Louis-Lestat dynamic of Interview with the Vampire!
2- I loved this twist at the end. Does Jeremy maybe have some secret power to bring them back?? Or is it just all in his head since he was brought back from the dead? Side note- Jeremy keeps getting hotter IMO!
3- Probably not, considering what happens on this crazy town!
4- I used to watch Heroes, so this was a fun surprise. Coquills- the actress who played Andie (RIP) also was on Heroes, albeit the last season which I didn’t really like.
I love that Ian & Nina are a couple, they look cute together. Some of his faces, which you masterfully captured, are hilarious and I do wonder if he ever makes them in real life!
OHMYLord you are funny. I heart this show so much and your recaps make it even more fun!
I too was wondering about the vamp-hearing. I was wondering why Damon couldn’t hear Klaus & Stephan when they were all in the same spots as when Stephan heard the Scooby Gang walking by.
Oh well, who cares? I love this show.
Oh, and also….I’ve been screaming this for 3 years, but since this a new recapped show for TVGasm, I’ll say it here.
Sometimes I can only see the white of Damon’s crazy eyes. Hey CW….TURN A F**KING LIGHT ON!!!
and p.s. Are they ever going to go HD and/or join the OnDemand club??
“Hey CW….TURN A F**KING LIGHT ON!!!”
I’ll second that! It seems a recurring problem for them.
YES!!! Its so dark on VD, even in the daytime.