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| "I need you so much closer..." |
Bonnie walks around a creepy, ghost-y mansion. She enters
the basement and finds five coffins, presumably Klaus’s family. Yet when she
opens one, she finds Klaus inside, peacefully sleeping in a suit. He has a
familiar piece of jewelry on his hand. Bonnie reaches for it, but whips around
at the sound of a creaking coffin lid. This jerks her out of her slumber, and
she sits up in her own bed.
Elena jogs past humongous houses and stops to catch a
breath and check her time. She sees a man jogging behind her. She begins to run
again, picking up speed in order to get away from him. Elena pauses again, only
to bump into the same man. He smiles and apologizes before running off.
At the Mystic Grill, Elena and Bonnie commiserate about
going insane. As far as they know, Klaus is still out there, but he hasn’t
sought revenge. Bonnie keeps having the same dream about Klaus and the coffins,
but she inexplicably attributes this more to stress than to premonitions, even
though she is a witch. Elena says they haven’t heard from Stefan after he
betrayed them all and is no longer the man they knew. Bonnie looks skeptical.
(Why wouldn’t she be, considering Elena accepted Damon’s bad side for so long,
but now cannot tolerate Stefan’s?)
Damon is drinking his pains away (aka the whole bar), and
for once Alaric is putting his job above boozing with Damon. He has been
waiting for Jeremy because he plagiarized his midterm. The barmaid tells him
that Jeremy was fired last week.
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| I can only go out with you if I know you will become a vampire and die. |
Jeremy is drinking and shooting things with Tyler, who is
once again in jerk mode. Sigh. They are doing this because their girlfriends
dumped them. (I might add the ladies had legitimate reasons to do this.) Tyler
tells Jeremy to try to shoot him with a crossbow because hybrids are harder to
kill than vampires and werewolves. Because Jeremy’s life is nuts, he tries to
shoot his friend, who catches the arrow in the air, drunk and all.
Elena is furious at and worried about Jeremy. Damon points out that getting fired from the Grill is not a tragedy, and being moody is hardly uncommon for teenagers. He also says that Jeremy has one woman he cares about: Elena. She asks about his mental health and they flirt a bit. Then, who should show up but Mr. Klaus. He says he’s just having a drink with his friend Tony, the man who ran into Elena. Klaus says he won’t hurt them if they tell him where Stefan is; he stole from Klaus. Elena says this sounds like a Klaus and Stefan problem. (Even Elena knows about their tumultuous relationship.) Klaus laughs and says this is him broadening the scope. Also, Klaus is better at darts than drunk Damon.
Bonnie goes to the mansion and into its basement, as she
did in her dream. Instead of coffins, she finds Stefan. He tells her to help
him hide Klaus’s one weakness: his family.
Alaric and Elena cook dinner. Jeremy arrives but says
he’s going to hang out with Tyler. The others disapprove, but he points out
that Elena is a complete hypocrite when it comes to hanging out with dangerous
individuals. Elena and Alaric don’t care if Tyler can hear them, because they
point out that he is dangerous due to being sired by Klaus. Jeremy is either
compelled or the most stupid person on the planet because he invites Tyler into
the house.
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| If I can't have one Salvatore, I'll have the other. |
Klaus visits Damon who is agreeable to Klaus’s come-ons.
Klaus jabs Damon about plotting against him, Stefan’s betrayal, and Rebekah’s
whereabouts. Damon points out that Rebekah betrayed Klaus, who has no mirth in
his eyes even as he smiles. Damon wisely offers him a drink.
Tyler explains that being sired is totally different from
being compelled. He has complete faith in Klaus, but he also has free will.
Jeremy nods approvingly until Tyler admits that he would rip out his own heart
if Klaus told him to. Tyler says Klaus would never do that, and that everyone,
including Caroline, is thinking too much. Perhaps it is dawning on Jeremy that
he is the stupidest kid alive.
Damon and Klaus have an interesting dynamic. Klaus says
they have a lot in common. Damon asks if it’s a mutual hatred for Stefan, the
buzzkill. Klaus explains that Stefan stole his family. Damon says he doesn’t
work for Klaus, who retorts that Damon and company only seem to respond to
violence. Klaus calls someone and tells him to do that thing he told him.
Unfortunately, that doesn’t sound very threatening.
Tyler leaves, Alaric and Elena discuss his psychology, and
Alaric hilariously goes on in a nerdy fashion about Tyler not being aware of
his psychosis. When they turn around, only Jeremy’s ring is to be found. Jeremy
is outside, standing in the middle of the road. Alaric pushes Jeremy out of the
way and is smashed by the car. Perhaps he won’t die if a supernatural creature
is driving the car. I honestly don’t care how this stuff works. Luckily Alaric
will probably live, no thanks to that jerk Tony. Jeremy tells Elena that Klaus
called him.
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| Poor Jeremy is a terrible shot. Good for me, bad for him. |
Klaus is setting up shop with his hybrids. Tyler shows up
and Klaus gayly calls him the man of the hour. Tyler is confused as to why
Klaus tried to kill Jeremy, Alaric, or anyone. Klaus sighs and explains that
this is what they do to get what they want. You can see him thinking, “Stefan
all over again, both more pliable and stupid.”
Elena explains to Jeremy that Tyler got him off of
vervain. Damon tells Elena that Stefan stole coffined family members. She wants
to wake Rebekah, who is too dangerous, according to Damon. Jeremy’s IQ
skyrockets when he suggests they all pack their bags, stop worrying about
school, and leave Mystic Falls. He emphatically states that none of them are
going to get out of this town alive. Jeremy has gone from sub-moron to the
smartest person in Mystic Falls. Still not very smart, but a complete genius in
comparison to his company. Elena calls Bonnie and asks her to find Stefan and
the coffins. Bonnie tells her to come to the magical mansion to find him.
The witches are still angry at Damon, so he has to wait
outside. (Why do they like Stefan, who was even more sadistic?) Stefan tells
Elena to go away and stop talking. She complains to him about Jeremy almost
getting killed, but Stefan doesn’t react. He says he’s not giving Klaus
anything and Jeremy isn’t his problem. She slaps him and tells him to go to
hell. He’s getting a taste of Damon’s world.
Damon sends Elena off to deal with her brother and says
he will brave the witches and burning sunlight to talk with his brother. Stefan
responds to Damon’s approach by saying “so let’s talk.” He seriously worked for
the mafia. Damon notes that everything is difficult with Stefan before tackling
him, dragging him outside, and stabbing him in the stomach with a branch. Stefan
explains that he was abused by Klaus, so he is taking everything away from Klaus
in return. He saved Klaus to save Damon, who is appalled and tells him to stop
saving him.
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| I shoot friends with crossbows all the time. |
Jeremy tries to shoot an offended Tyler with a crossbow.
Tyler explains that he didn’t think Klaus would try to kill Jeremy. He says his
focus is his family, but he also says that Klaus isn’t done with Jeremy. Jeremy
says to think about the fact that Klaus kills people left and right. As he
walks away Tyler looks regretful, but all he can say is “stay inside.”
Elena asks when Alaric returned to the land of the
living, and Alaric nonchalantly responds “just a few minutes ago.” Somehow,
Klaus is able to get around the ring thing – maybe it was being hit by a car
instead of being directly attacked – because Alaric starts coughing up blood.
Paramedics arrive but so does Tony, who tells them to leave. He says he can
save Alaric with his blood if Elena invites him in. Tony is shot in the back by
Jeremy who grabs a cleaver and chops his head off. Jeremy has gone from his
lowest moment to his most insanely awesome moment. Elena is understandably
traumatized by the sight of her baby brother decapitating someone.
Damon interrogates Stefan about why he saved him. Stefan
evades him, and Damon says, “Deflection: that’s not going to work on me, I invented that.” I love their
conversations. Stefan thinks there is another way to kill Klaus. Damon says he
wants in. Damon tells Stefan to look at his life choices: he’s been hiding out
in a “haunted house.” Damon notes that they will have to be “cutthroat and
devious,” and he’s so much better at that than Stefan. They agree that Elena
will stay out of this. Stefan invites Damon into the haunted house and shows
him the coffins – the witches are agreeing to hide them.
Alaric has recovered. He shares sexual tension with an
astounded nurse. He says his health is due to both a guardian angel and selling
his soul to the devil.
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| As good as Damon at invading personal space. |
Klaus pushes past Elena, so she can show him Rebekah’s
dead body. He shows how highly he thinks of Jeremy by saying, “my sister’s life
for your brother’s, yeah, I’d say that is
a deal.” He can tell Elena is lying about not knowing where Stefan is. Klaus
threatens more of her loved ones, but Elena points out that Klaus is the one
who turned Stefan into a heartless monster, so he’s Klaus’s problem now. (Does
she ship them?) She also points out that Rebekah knows Klaus killed their
mother. Klaus looks stricken, and Elena awesomely tells Klaus, the Klaus, to see himself out.
So Damon’s blood helped Alaric recover. Romantic. Alaric
offers an ear to Jeremy, who says his life sucks, but murdering a hybrid is a
typical Sunday.
Elena frets about washing blood off the porch, her
brother, and Stefan. She says she made a deal with Klaus and gave him Rebekah,
but she’s confident they won’t kill her. Then she and Damon share a romantic
moment, and Damon tells her everything will be okay, twice.
In a poignant scene, Klaus talks to an unconscious
Rebekah about how they’ve waited 1,000 years and he hoped he’d share this with
her. But as she starts to move and gain color, he stabs her again. His eyes
well up.
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| Tony the powerful hybrid, killed by a 16 year old human. |
With input from Alaric and Elena, Damon compels Jeremy to
leave Mystic Falls and never look back. This is so sad. The siblings are
separating. They’re all they have.
Bonnie tells Stefan the coffins are probably shut with a
spell. She approaches the one she dreamt about and says opening this is
probably their answer.
Elena worries more about Jeremy, and Damon continues to
tell her things will be okay – estranged is better than dead. She thanks him
for everything. As they move in closer, Damon’s conscience prompts him to tell
Elena that Stefan saved Klaus to save Damon. Elena gets flustered, asking what
that means. Damon says that he was an idiot because he thought for once he
didn’t have to feel guilty about what he wanted. He starts to walk away but
soon turns back and says screw it, he’s going to do something to feel guilty
about. They share a beautiful, sexy kiss, and he wishes her goodnight.
