The season ending episode of the Vampire Diaries on the CW, ‘Founders Day’, starts out with what you think is a flashback, but it’s not - Stefan is dressing in period clothing and Elena is putting on her antebellum gown, both getting ready for the Founder’s Day parade. Damon meets up with Stefan, teasing him about taking Elena away from him. Stefan is not amused. They are both mesmerized when Elena walks up to them in her costume, giving them a little curtsy and looking identical to Katherine.
Anna comes to visit Jeremy in his room and she tells him that she plans to leave town now that Jeremy’s uncle has killed her mother. She gives Jeremy a vial of her blood, saying he can shut off all his sad emotions by becoming a vampire and leaving town with her. She will turn him, just like he wanted. But, this time, he declines the offer and Anna disappears from his room.
Stefan tells Elena about the connection John had to Isobel, and that he believes that John is her biological father. Elena is quite freaked that John might be her father but she is more upset by the fact that Jeremy now hates her for lying to him for so long. Stefan tells her to give him time and he will come around but Elena is not so sure. Jeremy tells her to go away every time she comes near him and, finally, he tells her it cannot be fixed so easily.
The Mystic Falls High School marching band sounds particularly good as the parade begins for Founder’s Day. Damon actually thanks Bonnie when he sees her in the crowd for taking care of` the machine that could have killed him. He does not know about her betrayal nor does anyone else…yet.
John is back in his room discussing how to use the machine with Richard Lockwood, the Mayor of Mystic Falls. He explains that it makes a high pitched noise that incapacitates the vampires and then they can inject them all with vervain, rendering them helpless. John is willing to put all the members of the Founders Day families at risk in order to have this chance to finish off the tomb vampires – once and for all.
Damon is at the grill when Elena enters and he compliments her on how she looks. He tells her that he likes her like this – dressed in modern clothes – that the period look didn’t suit her. Hmm, could have fooled me when he seemed so starstruck as she walked out in that Civil War era dress at the parade. Elena tells Damon to quit flirting with her and giving her the ‘eye thing’, Stefan is getting worried about his flirting with her and she does not like making him unhappy.
Elena tries once again to make it up with Jeremy but he is still just being rude – telling her to ‘go to hell’. Believe it or not, Damon comes to her defense, tracking down Jeremy and telling him to stop whining - which then turns into a threat. They are about to really get into it when Stefan steps in, naturally, to diffuse the situation and Damon thinks that Stefan is threatened by the fact that he is trying to help Elena.
John and Richard take their idea to kill all the vampires during the Founder’s Day festivities to the sheriff who says absolutely not to the idea of using Mystic Falls families as bait to kill the tomb vampires. She says no, she thinks it is done, but then John knocks her out and handcuffs her to a pipe because he is going to get what he wants - one way or another.
Anna finds Damon to tell him that the vampires are going to attack when the fireworks start. The vampire plan is to kill as many of the founding families as possible and they have to be stopped. Damon tells Alaric to get stakes from his car and they get ready for a fight - not knowing that their biggest problem is that Bonnie never deactivated the machine. The machine will work, taking the Salvatore brothers down as well as the tomb vampires.
Knowing what is coming, Richard makes Tyler drive Matt and Caroline away from town to safety. Anna goes to tell Jeremy to try and get him to leave as well. As the Mayor ends his Founder’s Day speech, the fireworks begin. And, as the applause starts, John cranks up the machine and all the vampires, including the good ones, fall to the ground in horrific pain. A really odd thing is that both the Mayor and his son, Tyler, are affected – they are not vampires, so what are they? Tyler wrecks the car that he is driving with Matt and Caroline inside due to his agony. Alaric helps Elena drag Stefan away from the deputies who are injecting all the incapacitated vampires with vervain but Anna is not so lucky - she is dragged out of Jeremy’s arms as he screams her name.
The vampires are all rounded up in the basement of a building in town including Anna, Damon, and the Mayor. Anna still has enough strength to grab John’s leg and he stakes her to death, as Damon watches helplessly. John pours gasoline and torches the building to kill all of the vampires. Stefan and Elena are safe with Alaric when they realize that Bonnie did not deactivate the machine.
The paramedics are on the scene of the car wreck, trying to revive Tyler. The paramedic opens his eye and a bizarre yellow eye looks back at him, freaking him out. Tyler, who appears to be dead, takes a deep breath and is suddenly alive. What is he? Stefan and Elena go and try to help the vampires in the burning building but John is out there and he threatens to kill Stefan. John lets Stefan go ahead, ‘you’ll save me the trouble of killing you later’, but he stops Elena. She tells him that since you are my father, you should let me go and – to her surprise, he does.
Just as Stefan enters the burning building, Bonnie stops Elena and completes a spell to protect Stefan so he can get Damon out of the building before he dies. The brothers live, Bonnie is forgiven, and Elena knows who her biological parents are. Elena tells Stefan that the authorities think the fire was caused by wiring. It’s a good thing they know nothing about forensics in Mystic Falls. Elena reaffirms her love for Stefan and tells him not to worry about Damon.
Damon arrives to tell Jeremy that Anna is dead and offers to erase his mind again but this time it is his choice. Jeremy refuses the offer and Damon tells him that what he did to Vicki was wrong and he wishes he had not done it. It looks like Damon is finding his humanity again. He tells Jeremy it was easier when he was a vampire who had no feelings, so of course now Jeremy wants to use the blood Anna gave him to become a vampire and stop feeling. Jeremy drinks Anna’s vial of vampire blood and kills himself with pills so he will turn. Now, we can listen to Jeremy whine for eternity.
Bonnie finds Stefan to let him know that she only saved him for Elena but then she gives him an ultimatum - Damon must change. If he kills another innocent in Mystic Falls, either he will die or both of them will die. Bonnie has the power and she knows how to use it. Elena finds Damon at her house as she comes home from the Founder’s Day carrying her dress. He opens up his heart to her, telling her that he knows it was her who decided that he was worth saving, and he thanks her with a kiss. Then it gets OH SO GOOOOD as they keep kissing. Well, it would have been good except that you next see Elena walking up to the door, wondering what happened to her dress and we realize that Damon kissed Katherine – not Elena. Katherine is in the kitchen, killing John when Elena enters the house, calling out when she hears noises coming from the kitchen. Yikes! This is a great Vampire Diaries cliffhanger.
And that ends season one for the Vampire Diaries. What a great ending with plenty of unanswered question, like any good cliffhanger. Why has Katherine come back after all this time? Will Jeremy become an interesting vampire? What kind of creature is Tyler? Will Bonnie let the power go to her head? Does Damon desire Elena above Katherine now? Vampire Diaries on the CW has been picked up for a second season, so, yay!, I hope I will get all these questions answered – plus more – in the next season.
Returning this week to The Vampire Diaries on the CW was worth the wait because a whole new side of vampire saga is about to begin. The episode is titled ‘Isobel’ and how appropriate that title is. Last week, the show ended with Alaric standing slack-jawed when he sees Isobel, his wife, for the first time since her supposed death. He knew she was not really dead so his stunned shock does not last very long as he asks her why on earth she has shown up in Mystic Falls.
As this is occurring, the more innocuous things in town are still going on such as Caroline planning the float for the Founder’s Day parade. While working diligently to make the float work, Caroline probes Bonnie to get the scoop on why she is mad at Elena. Her probing does not work though and we switch to Alaric informing Stefan, Elena, and Damon that Isobel is in town and she insists on seeing Elena. That does not seem so strange - considering she is Elena’s mother - but they all know what she really wants is the “invention”. Yes, we’ve got a little Vampire Diaries TV Show misdirection goin’ on!
Uncle John has gone to Isobel’s house to talk to her about how she is treating humans. He is angry with her for hurting people and treating them like dogs. John’s task in Mystic Falls was to acquire the “invention” for Isobel and he has not done such a good job. He threatened Damon and killed Pearl for it but he still has not succeeded and Isobel is not happy about it. As she knocks John to the floor with one backhand slap, she lets him know that she is taking over their endeavor and he better stay out of the way. John knew and loved Isobel when she was human but all of her humanity has disappeared and he is finally beginning to understand that. Vampire Diaries just keeps getting better and better!
Elena makes the decision to meet Isobel and they make their way to the Mystic Grill. Stefan is there at the pool tables, watching over her, and Elena sits nervously waiting to meet the mother she never knew. It is a bit of a letdown for Elena because her biological mother, Isobel, is cruel and cold and she only wants one thing…”the invention”. Isobel does remind Elena how much she looks like Katherine and Elena is shocked to find out that Katherine found Isobel soon after she was turned into a vampire. When Elena asks who her father is, Isobel tells her nothing except that he was a teenage ‘waste of space’. The conversation quickly turns back to the “invention” and threats to force Elena to make Damon turn over the part he has. Elena refuses to cooperate. Damon and Alaric are outside waiting and Alaric mentions how all of Isobel’s humanity is gone. Damon tells Alaric that emotions in a vampire can be turned on and off like a switch and Isobel has taken the easy way out.
Jeremy is worried about Anna because she will not return his calls. John tries to give Jeremy some advice about girls but Jeremy is not interested. Damon has found his way to Isobel’s house and they have an interesting Vampire Diaries reunion. Since Damon was her maker, they have a lot to talk about. The most important thing is that Katherine wants the “invention” and Isobel is there to get it for her. Bonnie finally shows up at Elena’s so they can be friends again and that’s good too - because in Bonnie’s grandmother’s spell book is the information needed about the mysterious “invention”. Actually, I can stop using that word now because we come to find out that there never was an invention. How do you like that for a Vampire Diaries suspense element?
Bonnie shows Elena Emily’s spell book and they learn that Emily fooled Jonathan Gilbert into believing he had made an invention when actually she just put spells on different things to keep the ruse alive. Emily felt bad about all of the death caused by Katherine and the only way she could help was to fool people into thinking that Gilbert had actually invented a machine to stop vampires when actually it was Emily’s magic all along. Jeremy and Elena are at the Founder’s Day preparations. Jeremy is desperately looking for Anna and he tells Elena he knows she is a vampire but Elena still cannot help him and he leaves angry. Just then, Isobel shows up - threatening all of Elena’s family and actually hurting Matt as she once again asks for the device.
Finally, Isobel takes Jeremy, leaving Elena is frantic with worry. John comes to Isobel’s house to find out what she has done and sees his nephew tied up in her house. He begs her to remember what it was like to be human, but she just laughs in his face and beats the crap out of him before taking his ring of immortality. Isobel is truly the big villain in the Vampire Diaries TV show – even more than Damon.
Elena has gone to Damon to force him to give her the device and she is not taking no for an answer. Bonnie is with her and they tell Damon that the device is actually just a powerful form of magic and that Bonnie can remove any of its power so he gives it to them. What? Is the Vampire Diaries bad boy giving in?
Meanwhile John is recovering from his beat down back at Isobel’s while Jeremy asks him what is going on. John tells him that the old vampires want revenge on the town and John tells him that all the vampires have to be killed. Jeremy is adamant that there are good vampires out there but John says absolutely not. It is then that Jeremy finds out his dad knew about vampires too. Bonnie is removing the curse Emily put on the device so many years before and they make their way to meet Isobel. It turns out that Isobel had already returned Jeremy to his house. She tells Elena she knew Damon was going to give her the device because he loves her.
Say what?
Isobel leaves with the device while Stefan consoles Elena in her time of need. Elena finally feels strong enough to return home and finds Jeremy angry with her after reading her diary. Her “vampire diary” I would imagine. He always was a whiny brat and now it is worse. He is only happy when he has a girlfriend. Maybe he will find Anna and be happy again soon.
The most amazing thing is near the end of the episode when Isobel shows up at the high school to see Alaric. There must still be some residual humanity left in her since she just wanted to say goodbye to him. Alaric is of course very angry and Isobel tells him the truth about her regret in deciding to become a vampire. Well he won’t remember it since she erases his mind. Anna shows up at the last minute to tell Jeremy that her mother is dead and she has nowhere to go so he naturally takes her in. I assume Anna will have a bigger role on The Vampire Diaries in future episodes.
John is given the device by Isobel and it is at this point that we find out that John is actually Elena’s father – wow – I guess we’ll be seeing more of him too. Isobel tells John that he has to succeed in killing all of the tomb vampires as Katherine wishes and to also kill the Salvatore brothers. This Vampire Diaries episode ends with a confession from Bonnie concerning what she really did not do to the device that everyone thinks is now safe. She is worried because Elena is going to hate her for life and that is exactly what will happen if anyone gets hurt by what Bonnie has lied about. There is never a dull moment on Vampire Diaries and this week was no different.
This weeks episode of The Vampire Diaries, ‘Blood Brothers’, begins with a flashback. Stefan is locked away in a blood addict’s delirium, remembering his past and how he became a vampire. He is remembering how he and Damon tried to save Katherine from being taken by the townspeople and they end up getting shot and die. Then, Stefan is awakened from his dream by Damon and Elena – only, instead of Elena, he thinks Katherine is leaving him, being taken away in a wagon to her death.
Elena is feeling a little guilty that she put Stefan in the cell but she knows it is to protect him from his addiction to human blood. Stefan continues dreaming and remembers how he awoke after being killed to find that Bonnie’s grandmother had saved both he and Damon. Bonnie’s grandmother had created special rings at the behest of Katherine so that he and his brother could be outside during the daytime. Katherine had compelled him to drink her blood and he was in transition to become a vampire, thereby surviving the bullet. Damon was in the same situation, only he didn’t have to be compelled to drink her blood, he had done it voluntarily. No surprise there…Damon tells Stefan about seeing Catherine go up in flames in the church and he tells Stefan it’s his fault she’s dead and the dream ends.
Jeremy and Anna continue their relationship as Anna re-enrolls in high school to be near Jeremy and he makes sure she knows how much he appreciates her effort. Damon is still trying to get Stefan to eat. Wow, what a turnaround for The Vampire Diaries bad boy Damon.
Stefan knows the human blood should be out of his system by now so he asks Damon why he continues to sit in the cell feeling sorry for himself. About this time, Alaric calls Damon to tell him that he has been doing some digging on Elena’s uncle and it appears that someone - possibly Isobel - is living nearby after all because dear Uncle John has been getting calls from a local phone number. Damon and Alaric decide to make a trip to find out who has been calling John. Meanwhile, John confronts Elena about the fact that she is dating a vampire but nothing comes of it. She shuts him down.
Stefan has yet another dream from the past where we see Stefan and Damon discussing their transition to full vampires. Damon actually just wants to die – he says he won’t be feeding, but you get the impression that Stefan will feed. However, in the present time, Stefan is the one who wants to die. Damon and Elena discuss the fact that Stefan is starving himself to death and they need to do something about it, but Damon has to leave to meet Alaric before they can come up with a solution.
Jeremy and Anna are oblivious to everything around them as they consummate their relationship. It’s nice to see him truly happy for a change. Alaric and Damon walk up to the mystery house where John has been getting calls. Damon breaks open the door and walks in, apparently - no invitation needed. He opens the refrigerator and sees bags of blood in there – just as a vampire attacks Alaric. Alaric knocks him back as Damon comes back in, recognizing the new vamp. It’s Henry from the tomb and he calls Damon ’sir’. I guess Henry was a Salvatore servant in the old days.
Elena is at the door of Stefan’s cell, he tells her that Damon has not fed him vervain in a while, he could be at the door in a flash, killing her. Again, she tells him he could, but he won’t. His reply – just leave, I don’t want you here. Sick of him, she pulls the bolt on the door and enters the cell, telling him he has to drink the animal blood. He’s up in a flash, grabbing her, going all vamp in the face and demanding that she ‘GET OUT’. Her reply? NO. I’ve got to give it the girl, she’s got guts. Stefan backs down.
Damon, Alaric, and Henry are chatting about John Gilbert, they want to know - how does Henry know John? Apparently, the great vampire hunter John Gilbert has been helping Henry adapt to the modern world. They ask him if he knows a woman named Isobel but Henry knows nothing about her. He says that he is just keeping an eye on the other tomb survivors who are angry at the founding families for trying to burn them alive. As they are talking, John calls Henry and Damon takes the phone, saying ‘let me talk to him’. Damon takes the phone and lets it ring while he and Alaric kill Henry, the tomb vampire.
Pearl and John are at the bar as John returns from his attempted phone call. He tells her that he needs the device that he knows she has from Jonathan Gilbert. John says that Jonathan Gilbert always loved Pearl, he never forgot her. You see Pearl’s face take in this statement, you see her glance down – these statements are getting to her - she’s about to fold. Next, it’s John laughing, saying ‘vampires, you’re so emotional’ and Pearl’s face totally shuts down. He says ‘Jonathan Gilbert hated you, his only regret is that he didn’t drive a stake through your heart himself’. She tells him that she gave the device to Damon, why doesn’t he ask Damon for it? Revenge is sweet as you see shock on John’s face.
Elena is talking to Stefan in his cell. He flashes back and he’s saying good bye to his father, but he finds out it’s his father who was the one who shot both he and his brother. Stefan is shocked. His father attacks him, and Stefan stabs his father and the blood from the wound completes his transition to a vampire as he starts to lick it off his hands. Yucky! He’s drinking from his father. Stefan has been telling all of this to Elena, he can’t believe she has not turned from him in disgust. By the way, Stefan’s got a nice rose tattoo on his shoulder. Wonder when he had that done?
Alaric and Damon are bonding in John’s vampire safe house, drinking beer and talking about Isobel. Damon is relating his experiences with Isobel, totally oblivious to the effect on Alaric. Alaric is determined to stop seeking his wife, he says he is done with all of this.
Damon returns home, finding Elena still there, and she tells Damon that he bears some of the blame for Stefan’s overwhelming guilt – Damon has been spending the last 140 years blaming Stefan for Katherine’s death. Damon says she does not know the whole story, only a small part of it. And there’s another flashback which shows Stefan bringing a girl to Damon for him to drink. Damon is appalled, he wants nothing to do with it. To bizarre, to watch Stefan force Damon to drink blood. Stefan says he will not let Damon die. And you see Damon bend his head to the girl’s neck, drinking his fill.
Elena goes back down to the cell but Stefan is gone and his ’sun-protection’ ring is lying on the floor. Stefan is out in the woods walking around, flashing back to Damon promising to make Stefan’s life a misery for all eternity – he really didn’t want to be changed. Elena appears on the scene in the present, accepting every bad action that Stefan has done, she tells him that a person cannot change the past. He says she cannot make it okay. It hurts him, knowing what he has done and that the pain of his actions is with him all the time. Every day he fights it. But she knows that he can keep fighting, fighting with her. It’s his choice. And she walks away. He calls her name, she turns, and he puts the ring back on. They stand in the woods, kissing and hugging. I’m so glad they’re cool with one another – I hope Stefan gets over his guilt because I don’t want him to become some angst-ridden dude on The Vampire Diaries.
Pearl and Harper are packing to move, waiting on Anna to return home. Pearl opens the door and is stabbed in the heart and dies in Harper’s arms. Stefan and Elena return home to Damon. Damon says he hates him – not because he forced him to turn – but because Katherine turned both of them. It was supposed to be only Damon who was turned. Anna arrives home to find Pearl and Harper stabbed through the heart as John calls the Sheriff with an ‘update’ about the vampires. This episode of The Vampire Diaries ends with Alaric at the bar, drowning his sorrows, when he hears ‘hello Ric’ and he turns to face Isobel, his long lost wife. And, once again, the Vampire Diaries on the CW ends with a shocker - Elena’s mother and Alaric’s wife has reappeared. What’s in store for us next week, what surprises will this new character bring?
Here’s looking forward to next week’s episode of The Vampire Diaries!
‘Miss Mystic Falls’, episode 18 of the Vampire Diaries on the CW, begins with a flashy Stefan, zooming up to the high school to pick Elena up in his classic car. Not the typical demeanor that we are used to from Stefan, he usually tries to keep such a low profile….and that’s when we see him opening the trunk of his car, littered with empty blood bags - he’s high on blood.
Bonnie is back, and it’s obvious that things are not ‘business as usual’ between her and Elena. There must be some hard feelings left over from the tomb opening that ended up killing Bonnie’s grandmother. Damon confronts Stefan about his suspiciously upbeat self. Stefan insists that he is ‘clean’ and he walks away. Later, Stefan is down in the basement, opening a big cooler full of blood bags when Damon comments from behind him, ‘well, well, he’s a liar and a thief’.
Oh no, is our Vampire Diaries hero a blood addict?
Damon calls him a ‘closet blood junkie’ but Stefan insists that he has it under control. It’s pretty amusing seeing Damon as the voice of reason and Stefan as the loose cannon - not typical for an episode of the Vampire Diaries. Talk about role reversal!
John stops by to get Damon to go vampire hunting. Damon wants to know what’s really going on, and John tells him that one of the original founders, Johnathan Gilbert, had an invention that was supposedly burned up with the vampires in the church – thought to be lost forever. But now that those vampires in the tomb are released, John thinks the invention is retrievable.
Caroline and Elena are interviewed by the Founder’s committee in preparation for the Mystic Falls beauty pageant. All the participants are taking dancing lessons with their partners, with Stefan acting light-hearted and a bit goofy. Elena notes his good mood, but with her usual obtuseness, she does not associate it with his newly acquired thirst for human blood.
Alaric appears at Elena’s door, preparing to shuttle them to the pageant. Uncle John gets the brush-off from Jenna as she turns down his ride in favor of Alaric. Anna appears at the pageant party, greeted by Damon, who looks mighty fine in his suit and tie. Damon quizzes Anna on the mysterious invention that Uncle John is hunting for, telling her that if they can get John out of town, Anna and Pearl will be able to stay in Mystic Falls.
Damon waylays Elena in the pageant dressing room, telling her about Stefan’s little forays into hospital blood banks. Damon fears that Stefan will endanger their existence in Mystic Falls. Elena feels guilty because she fed him the human blood in the first place that has caused this bloodlust. Stefan walks in on their discussion, looking all the world like an addict trying to convince everyone that he is fine. And, now that he is discovered, he really loses it, taking one of the other contestants out to the woods for a drinkfest. Oh, dear, looks like we may need a Vampire Diaries Intervention.
Jeremy and Anna have a nice long talk at the pageant, it looks like there is going to be a real connection there. Stefan is dragging Amber, the pageant contestant, out to the parking lot, mesmerizing her into coming with him. He’s conflicted about taking her but he says he’s so hungry! He tells her that he wants to kill her. He knows that if he does this, there is no going back, but it’s to much to resist and he bites her neck.
Caroline and Elena are introduced at the pageant, but as Elena comes down the stairs, she sees that Stefan is missing. Damon promptly steps into his place, escorting Elena out to the dance. Good things these guys are from the 1800’s because they don’t need any lessons for the old style of dance they are doing - Damon picks it right up. Looking into each other’s eyes, there is a serious moment there – perhaps he is reliving dances with Katherine from the past. He sure looks happy. See, this is why I love the Vampire Diaries TV show - you never know what might happen with the characters.
Caroline wins the Miss Mystic Falls pageant and she can’t believe she beat Elena. Perhaps now she’ll lose some of that chip on her shoulder. Damon, Elena and Bonnie catch Stefan wildly drinking Amber’s blood and everyone is horrified by his looks – dark vampire face, hunched over with blood drooling out of his mouth. He fights with Damon, but Bonnie puts a spell on him, breaking the blood frenzy that he is in. He runs away. Elena tries to ask Bonnie about what she did to stop Stefan but she refuses to talk with Elena, sending her away. Here’s hoping they reconcile in a future episode of the Vampire Diaries.
Damon returns home to find Pearl and Anna waiting for him. Pearl hands him the mysterious Gilbert invention that John is after. She does not know what it does but she is giving it to Damon as an ‘apology’ for what they did to Stefan in their little torture room. Elena is in Stefan’s room, saying they need to talk. He calls himself a monster, a predator. She says he can’t scare her off – she believes in him. He throws her up against the wall, apologizing, fighting for control as Elena reaches into her pocket for a knife and stabs him. He immediately collapses to the floor.
She and Damon take him down to the basement and lock him in a cell - it looks like he is going to go through de-tox, whether he likes it or not. Elena sits on the floor next to the cell door and Damon joins her which is where we end this episode of the Vampire Diaries. Where will the interesting chemistry between Damon and Elena go? Especially now that Stefan has shown us that he is not the perfect boyfriend she has seen to date. And, of course, will he even trust her again after she shoved a knife in his back and locked him in a cell? With only three episodes left for the Vampire Diaries, every episode counts as season 1 winds down…
Stay tuned for next week’s write-up of the Vampire Diaries episodes.
This week’s episode of the Vampire Diaries begins with some hot shots of Stefan working out in his tank top, trying to ‘detox’ from his human blood binge from last week. Damon is taunting him, telling him that he has got to drink human blood if they are going to be strong and survive all the new vampires who escaped from the tomb. Elena and Jeremy’s Uncle John appears on the scene and it’s pretty apparent that he’s a sleaze ball. No one seems to like him. And of course, the first thing he says is that he is handling the money for Elena and Jeremy since they are minors. I suspect that money will be gone pretty fast….
Damon goes to the Mystic Falls Founders meeting where - surprise, surprise, Uncle John is speaking, telling everyone that he is a member of one of the ‘founding families’, the Gilberts, and the vampires are not gone, nothing has been solved. Uncle John is insisting that Jeremy attend the Founder’s Day party and Jenna is making sarcastic comments to anything John says. Jeremy asks, ‘why does she hate you’, and John tells them all that he and Jenna used to sleep together causing her to throw something at his head.
Elena and Stefan are discussing Jeremy’s school paper about vampires. The secrets that everyone are keeping from each other are starting to pile up and become unmanageable. Elena is concerned about Stefan, how is he handling the lack of human blood after partaking a few days ago? They are going at it hot and heavy in her bedroom when he isn’t able to control the blood lust, his face starts to turn and he throws himself away from her, fighting his vampire side.
Next, you hear a knock on the door and we see Elena pull Damon into the house, taking him up to her bedroom. He’s full of one-liners, saying ‘it looks just like I remembered’ and she tells him to stop messing around. Damon flops down on her bed, spying the mess in the corner where Stefan threw himself off Elena when he vamped out. She looks sad and says how worried she is about Stefan, he’s clearly struggling. How long is his recovery going to take? Damon says a few days – give or take – as he goes into her lingerie drawer and pulls out a bra. They continue bantering back and forth, he says Stefan has deprived himself for so long, it’s going to be harder to rein himself back in. And, oh yummy, yummy, when he backs her up against the furniture, he gives her that stare – something is going to happen with these two, it just has to!
The Founders Day Party is in full swing as Stefan and Damon show up. Damon harasses him about cravings and urges and he just goes after some alcohol – I guess that’s his way of coping. Elena asks Stefan if he’s drunk, and he states that he wants to dance. Just like a guy – has to be drunk to want to dance.
Alaric shows up, asking Jenna for a drink. Elena and Matt start dancing, and then Stefan cuts in. Elena accidentally bumps into a jerk on the dance floor who tells her to get off the floor if she is so clumsy. Stefan goes into full mind-meld mode, making the guy apologize to Elena. She’s quite disturbed by this. Elena and Damon are at the bar. He tells her that Jeremy has been asking a lot of questions about Vickie Donovan – why was she buried if it was a drug overdose? Damon wants to compel Jeremy, making him forget Vickie all over again. I guess the first time didn’t take?
John comes up and introduces himself to Damon. John seems to know about the tomb under the church and he knows that Damon set them free. So, John knows Damon’s a vampire and he thinks he’s immune because he ingests vervain. Damon walks away and John arrogantly looks after him when Damon suddenly comes back with vamp speed and snaps his neck, throwing him over the balcony. Problem solved….or is it?
Matt’s mom and Tyler appear to be hooking up. Gross. He dated her daughter, Vickie. Matt and Elena are going out to get some air and they see Tyler and Matt’s mom lip-locked, going at it hard. Matt rushes them, pulling Tyler off his mom and Tyler starts to beat the crap out of Matt. Stefan smells the blood on Matt’s mom’s forehead and he’s drawn to it, unable to stop himself. He makes himself leave the party while he licks the blood off his fingers.
Damon is back at the party, checking out the women, when he gets a real shock – John walks back in the room. Whoa, is he a vampire? John gets up to give a speech, and Damon spots a ring on his hand that looks just like the one that Alaric has which brings him back from the dead. Where do they get all these awesome man-rings? Rings to let vampires walk in daylight, rings to bring you back from the dead….
Stefan walks away from the party and the jerk dancer who he made apologize earlier is waiting for him. Pushing him and forcing him into a fight. Stefan’s face goes vamp and I suspect this guy is going to be his next ‘fix’. But, then Elena shows up and Stefan races off, saving the guy to be a jerk for yet another day. Jeremy is in Elena’s room, looking through her stuff and finding her diary. Bad boy! He reads the part where they took away his memory after Vickie died. This does not bode well. Matt is insisting that his Mom leave the house and she keeps promising that she’ll never do it again. Yeah, right, like he hasn’t heard that before.
John is walking out of the party next to Alaric and Damon and we find out that he knows a whole lot, much more than either Alaric or Damon. And he’s quite smug about it, throwing out references to every mysterious character we’ve met in the series so far. Stefan shows up in Elena’s room, scaring her and admitting that he needs help. He can’t stop wanting blood, he can’t stop the dark side of him. He’s afraid of what he’ll do to her, but she holds him and tells him that she loves him no matter what. Stefan winds up back home and the Vampire Diaries on the CW ends with Stefan tossing back glasses of blood, finally looking satisfied. Will his blood lust end or will he finally get it ‘under control’?
