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Previously: Katherine died, y’all! And I completely missed it! I guess I forgot that she was human again after being forced out of Elena’s vampire body, and so when the big whoosh came and DRAGGED HER STRAIGHT TO HELL I was all like, Uh…what just happened?
Also, she poisoned Elena with the Cannibal Vampire Virus! Because Katherine Pierce isn’t anything if not truly spiteful.
So now that Elena is Katherine-free she has to catch up on the last three weeks of her life, starting with why she’s having weird hallucinations and why she’s been confined via a boundary spell to her empty dormitory (SPRING BREAK! WOOHOO!). Since Damon is still on lockdown in the dungeons of Chez Salvatore, it’s Stefan who fills Elena in, while also providing her with some of his blood to tide her over.
May I just put in a formal request that if I ever have to be imprisoned somewhere that Matt Donovan and Jeremy Gilbert are my guards? Noted? Good.
Elena reaches out to Damon on the phone and their series of phone calls over the course of the episode is really quite sweet, if also a bit sad. Damon knows he has to confess to killing Aaron, especially after she begins hallucinating that she’s the one responsible for Aaron’s death. He’s so tired of letting her down and I feel just the tiniest bit bad for him. (I mean really, who cares about Aaron anyway?)
Caroline is doing what she does best – BFF duty! She’s back in Wes’s lab digging around for the antidote and listening to his notes. Enzo shows up (Enzo! He’s like a more sinister Alaric and with a sexier accent) and tells Caroline that he has the antidote. Turns out Elena isn’t infected with the same virus as Damon; hers contains werewolf venom which was extracted from Nadia’s bite (RIP) and added to Wes’s serum. He was positively vile, wasn’t he? No RIP for you, Nefarious Professor SnugJumper.
Elena is trying her damnedest to convince Stefan to just give her a bit more blood, but one addict can’t fool another. Elena vamps out when Stefan cuts his hand and she realizes just how out of control she is. Caroline rings Stefan to tell him that he has to meet her to get the antidotes. It’s all kinds of suspicious but Stefan trusts Caroline (those two are the BEST) and so off he goes!
And of course the travelers are involved! We meet a new face, Sloane, who informs Stefan and Caroline that in order to create the antidotes they need another doppelganger. THAT’S RIGHT, FOLKS. I mean, it kind of makes sense that Stefan would have a contemporary doppelganger but are they kidding me with this?
We hear of their leader, Marcos, who I expect will turn up next week, and Stefan agrees to allow Sloane to work her magic in order to find his contemporary doppelganger. Turns out he’s a medic who lives in Atlanta. Caroline has to find him and kill him, otherwise Stefan will be the one to die, so she heads off with Enzo (SNUBBING his offer of helping her down off the train car) to HotLanta.
Elena and Damon continue their phone calls from their mutual holding pens. Damon catches her up on all the hot goss (Caroline and Klaus, OBVS) and HAPPILY tells her that he killed Wes. Elena continues to hallucinate and runs into (our first gay character) Luke, a lovelorn dorm-mate who’s back from Cancun after being dumped by his man. Elena doesn’t know him so he must’ve met her while Katherine was still in residence. She’s absolutely starving at this point and goes to turn him so she can drink from him only to (WHAT) find out that he already HAS bitemarks and so compels him to find Bonnie and Liv and bring them to her. When they show up she’s burning her diaries, her clothes, anything and everything of hers that Katherine could have used or worn. Elena wants out, so she stakes Liv forcing her to break the seal so that she can heal her AND make her escape. Bonnie continues to be totally arbitrary and useless.
Damon is determined to come to her rescue (since Stefan isn’t there to feed her) and does his wonderfully Damon-y thing of threatening to kill Matt so that Jeremy will free him. When he finds her she mistakes him for Aaron so he finally confesses to murdering him. Before he was turned. Because he was super bummed that Elena/Katherine broke his heart. It really wasn’t his best day.
So while Liv is so totally stoked to be a witch (someone please kill her soon? Please?) and is happy for Bonnie to continue teaching her we then find out that Liv is actually already HELLA powerful AND Luke is her brother. Hmm.
Damon has managed to get Elena back to Chez Salvatore and she’s upset. Mostly because Damon didn’t realize that she wasn’t herself and let Katherine destroy them. This turns into heated fighting where Damon admits how toxic their relationship is if he can’t hold himself together without her, Elena agrees, they break up and then totally make out and ride the hobby horse. WIN.
Moments of Hilarity:
“So…eat anyone yet?” – Damon to Elena
“…Rebekah?” – Stefan to Caroline after having his mind melded
“Is it such an anomaly for Damon to have a friend?” – Enzo
“Caroline and an Original hybrid, sitting in a tree…” – Damon to Elena
Moments of Heart-Swelling:
“I wanted to fight for you. I still do.” – Elena to Damon
“You should have noticed.” – Elena to Damon
“Listen to us, this is toxic, we’re in a toxic relationship! I just killed your friend and you find someone else to blame!” – Damon to Elena
So what do you guys think of Liv and Luke, the Plotting WonderTwins? And another doppelganger? Will Enzo and Damon’s friendship survive their killing spree? Will Jeremy and Bonnie EVER be relevant on this show again?
About the Contributor:
Amanda Reid is an East Coast girl living in California who will never stop missing a true autumn. She’s a bookseller who specializes in kid and teen lit, and she bakes a damn fine pie.
