Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Know What You're Doing There?
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 2 | Aired on 09.22.2011
Damon finds them and Elena jumps out of the car to inspect him. Damon hustles her into the car and she accuses him of being a caveman. Stefan watches from up on a hill. Elena catches sight of him from the corner of her eye, but when she turns to take a good look, he's gone again.
Gilbert Gables: Matt shows up with an apology, a six pack, and a bunch of Vicki's stuff. He knows Jeremy is one of the few people who really "got" Vicki. "I don't know what we're going to do with all this, but here." He gives him a backpack. Jeremy fetishizes the tank top for a moment and then tells Matt how he was compelled to forget Vicki's death. "So whatever my last moment was with her, I don't have it." Matt says, "I don't, either. I don't remember the last moment I had with Vicki, before she was a vampire -- when she was still my sister." Jeremy gets this look on his face, and at first I think he's going to tell Matt that he's watched too many monster movies and that whole "fiend that wears his face" deal is not how vampyrism works in their world (because it's not), but no. Jeremy senses Vicki. He spins around as she says, "Matty?" Matt knows something is going on, but he can't see Vicki's ghost. Jeremy confirms to Matt that she's there and then asks Vicki how he can help her. Vicki says, "I can come back. Help me come back." Before Jeremy can respond, Vicki is gone and a window breaks. Matt wants to know what's going on, but Jeremy can't answer him before Anna appears and tells Jeremy, "Don't trust Vicki." Commercial.
Kamp Klaus: Stefan stumbles back wearing Permanently Dead Ray like a shawl, again, and finds Klaus sitting forlornly amongst the corpses of his baby werepires. Klaus says, "They went rabid. Some of them I killed. The others just... bled out. In the end, they're all dead." He then throws a hissy fit and screams that he did everything he was told. "I broke the curse. I killed a werewolf. I killed a vampire. I killed the doppelganger." Oopsy doopsy. She didn't stay dead. He then looks at Stefan who must have left his poker face back in the woods. After a pregnant pause, Klaus tells Stefan he looks like hell. Stefan reminds him that he's dying and all, and that Klaus doesn't seem to want to heal him. He tells him that he had no choice but to kill Permanently Dead Ray, adding, "I failed you. I'm sorry. Do what you have to do." Klaus is still lamenting his babies. "It should have worked." He puts a few paces between himself and Stefan, then bites into his palm and squeezes it like a juice orange, 'til his blood pours into an empty beer bottle. Handing it to Stefan he says, "Bottoms up. We're leaving. It appears you're the only comrade I have left." It appears Klaus needs a better working definition of comrade. Stefan takes a swig of the Klause Kure, and tosses the bottle aside. I'm thinking he should have saved it for the next time he gets bitten. Waste not, want not, Stef! He doesn't listen. He just follows after his master. I expect him to develop a hunch back, a limp and a vaguely Eastern European accent, any day now.