Hidey-ho, TVD fans! We last left Elena waiting for Young Harry Hamlin to wakey-wakey, while Stefan and Damon presumably don’t have their vampire hearing on so they don’t know what’s going on in their own recently signed-over mansion. (By the by, does anyone else wonder how Katherine can fool the boys? I mean, can’t they hear heart beats, and smell blood and stuff? I mean, I’m GLAD she can fool them, but still…). We can only hope Alaric is unharmed by his recent possession by Klaus, and that Bonnie and JJ don’t become victims in a fire from their candle emporium/casa of love.
Thanks to reader Maggie, we have a new drinking game rule! So we’ll now drink whenever anyone mentions the ‘hundred dead witches’! Yay! Last week’s episode left me a little breathless, so let’s go ahead and see what “Klaus” has in store for us!
Elena is sitting in the Salvatore/her dungeon, and is looking a little bit nervous. I don’t blame you, Elena. Young Harry Hamlin suddenly jerks awake, and Elena rushes over to him! I’ve missed Young Harry Hamlin, too, Elena, but I think I might give the man some room, just sayin’. Ooooh, flashback! Drink! England, 1492. Ah, just when Columbus was sailing the ocean blue. Young Harry Hamlin is meeting Katerina for the first time! And he looks… is it love? (Have we discussed that if Katherine was the original doppelganger, then that means that there’s a THIRD one out there?!!! Give Nina Dobrev MORE to do! She can handle it!) Flashing back to the present, he is overcome by surprise, and faints. Can vampires faint? Oh, he’s only joshing… so he can SCARE us! Oh no! But he can’t breathe! Because he hasn’t been invited in! He busts out of the house, and asks Elena what the eff is going on. She gives him the ash dagger as a sign of good faith, so they can talk. Stefan wakes up and realizes Elena’s not in bed next to him, and I just have one question: why are you sleeping in a shirt, Stefan? Oh, hey! It’s the juice box! She hasn’t seen Elena, though. Damon wants to eat the juice box a little, but she asks him not to, because she has to go to work and ‘it’s so messy’. Drink! Suddenly, Stefan’s vampire sense kicks in and he rushes to the dungeon, closely followed by Damon. They find it empty. Really, boys, you are such sound sleepers.
At Alaric’s, Klaus is STILL in Alaric’s body, but is sending his house boy out for the REAL him, (huh?) and tells Katherine that now that Bonnie’s dead (hehe, silly Alaric/Klaus!) and he has the moonstone Drink! he’s ready to break the curse. He also tells her that he HAS to break the curse at the birthplace of the doppelganger Drink! and taunts her about slaughtering her whole family. Drink! Elena and Young Harry Hamlin are out for a drive, and they make a deal to help each other. Stefan calls, but Elena tells him that she and Young Harry Hamlin need some alone time. Stefan decides to trust her, but Damon says no way jose. Elena tells YHH that Klaus is in town, and asks him what to do, because he knew Klaus way back.
George: Yeah, we were drinking buddies. Bada-ching!
Flashback! Drink! Klaus stalks into his party like someone out of an Anne Rice novel, and is introduced to Elena, who seems… charmed?
YHH and Elena show up at the dead mayor’s wife’s house, and he compels her for some new clothes. Did I mention I’m glad you’re back, YHH? Your seat at the Handsome Club table has been waiting for you…
Stefan gets a call from Aunt Jenna, who’s back from college, and wondering where Elena and JJ are. Oh, funny, Aunt Jenna, how you didn’t care where they were while you were running away to college! Way to be a parental figure! Anyway, she tells Stefan she’s supposed to meet Alaric at the Bronze for lunch, and Stefan tells her not to go. Which, understandably, is confusing for her. Stefan tells her he’s on his way, and that he’ll explain everything. Damon says he’ll just stay put and be good, but we can tell by his crazy blue eyes that he’s planning on going to the Bronze to meet Alaric/Klaus, or something. Elena catches up YHH on everything that’s happened while he was dead-dead, and flashback! Drink! Katerina tells Klaus and YHH that she is ‘new to town’-eth. And OMG, KLAUS AND YHH ARE BROTHERS?!!!!! Ha! OMG IS the word I’m searching for, YHH! And I found it!
George: I heard that, but I thought you meant it, like, you know, ‘bro’s’…
Katherine decides to get crunk at Alaric’s, when Damon and the juice box show up!
Stefan arrives at Aunt Jenna’s to find that Alaric/Klaus is already there! YHH tells Elena that his whole family were humans, and that they became the very first vampires, ever. He is awesome. Drink! Damon gives Katherine some Vervain, so Alaric/Klaus (which Damon calls him, Drink!) can’t compel her any more. He is awesome. Drink!
Alaric/Klaus is chopping vegetables and acting psycho. And silly. He tells Jenna that he, Alaric, just LOVES vampires. She thinks he’s playing a joke on her. Or something. YHH is telling Elena how nothing can kill a member of the royal family, except for that one ash tree, that they burned down. Flashback! Drink! Klaus and YHH are perusing a Roman parchment… that Klaus had made… and we find out that the whole Aztec sun and moon curse… IS MADE UP!!! By Klaus! WHOAH! Let’s Drink!
Jenna tells Alaric/Klaus to get out. But he doesn’t wanna. Jenna makes to leave, and Alaric/Klaus pulls a knife on her! Stefan puts the knife to Alaric/Klaus’s throat and tells Jenna to run, and then beats him up! Drink! Careful, Stefan, not the face!
YHH tells Elena that there IS a curse, but that it’s just on Klaus. Stefan keeps calling Elena and interrupts. Elena tells YHH she has to go to Jenna, but that she will be back. Flashback! Drink! YHH and Katerina are playing tag!
Then they are talking about love and stuff. And we realize that YHH is in love with Katerina!
George: Of course! Everyone is in love with her! Does she have an enchanted vagina or something?!
At the Salvatore’s/Elena’s mansion, Jenna is crying. She’s in shock, now that she knows the truth, and Elena feels bad for hiding things from her. Aunt Jenna has a sad because she feels like SHE’S supposed to protect THEM, which is kinda funny, really.
Elena has a sad, too, though. And outside the door, Stefan is listening in, having a sad right along with them. So Drink!, Drink!, and Drink!
Elena has to go back to YHH, and Stefan is not happy about it, but he lets her go. Damon, however, says no way jose AGAIN, and Stefan gets all up in his face. Meanwhile, Katherine is having a lot of fun dancing around Alaric/Klaus’s apartment, and George really wants to GO THERE. Alaric/Klaus comes in and compels her, and she pretends to be compelled. Then the house boy comes in with some other people, and hey! Is that dead Luka’s sister? She seems to like Alaric/Klaus an awful lot for someone taken against her will. Maybe it’s not her? Elena returns to YHH, and he’s pleased to see her. He tells her that his mom had an affair, and that Klaus was not their father’s son! And that his REAL dad was a werewolf! And YHH’s dad killed his wife’s old werelover, starting the war between the weres and the vampires! And Klaus is both a were and a vampire! DRINK! Klaus’s curse is that the witches made his werewolf side dormant! And he wants to break the curse, so he can BE both a were and a vampire and start a whole race of werevamps. Underworld, anyone? BUT YHH figured out a way to kill him, with the help of a witch, and Elena tells him she just might know a witch (with the power of a 100 dead other witches Drink!) and so then YHH says, ‘well, then I’ll tell you one more thing…’ AND Flashback! Drink! YHH comes to Klaus and tells him that there’s a way to spare the doppelganger, but Klaus doesn’t care, ’cause she’s only and old human. He tells YHH that in this family, they DON’T love. YHH has a sad.
The juice box is being considerate, if a bit smothering to Damon. Stefan comes in and tells him he’s a jerk face to the juice box, and wham! There it is! They FINALLY have it out in the open that they both love Elena! And… Salvatore fight!!!! Drink! But then Elena and YHH show up, so they stop.
And flashback! Drink! Klaus tells YHH that Katerina is gone and threatens him a bunch. YHH swears that he will find her. We think they are showing this to show us that he and Klaus were JUST LIKE Damon and Stefan! YHH asks the boys for an apology, and Stefan steps right up to do it, but Damon says no way…
Damon goes to his room, and the juice box is hanging out in her underpants! She’s awesome for a second Drink! She tells him she cares about him, and he’s overwhelmed with emotion, so he eats her a little. Then he starts crying, and compels her to leave before he kills her. And we have a sad for Damon, because his face is so full of expressions. Drink! At Alaric’s the house boy and the witch are performing a ritual, and Alaric takes a deep breath, and we realize it’s just Alaric again, but then he collapses! He best still be alive, yo. Then Klaus steps out of the big box, and, okay, I don’t mind him, you guys. He won’t be joining his brother in the Handsome Club, because he hasn’t proven himself to be THAT awesome, but… he could take his shirt off, if he wanted to.
Well, they really blew the mythology asunder this week with all of YHH’s truth bombs. I don’t know about you guys, but my head is a-spinning. Although, that could be because this episode was a drinkathon! Srsly. At least the preview for next week showed Alaric! Alive! So let the discussions begin. What do we think about this?
