Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C+ | 7 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Real Slim Shady
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.29.2012
Gilbert Gables. Night. Elena is having trouble fastening her necklace. Jeremy stops outside her room and asks if she needs a hand. As he gets to work on the clasp, Elena tells him she picked up his dry cleaning. Jeremy looks at her reflection in the mirror and says, "I really wish you'd stop acting like you were still my sister." With that, he pulls the necklace tight around her throat. As Elena struggles, her neck starts to bleed. Jeremy wakes with a start. The Elena haters go into fits of apoplexy. As the now awake Jeremy struggles to catch his breath, he looks around and finds a knife and freshly carved stakes (which bear the same symbol we saw on Connor's stakes). His confused expression makes it clear that Jeremy doesn't remember carving them. Commercial.
The next day, as they're getting all prettied up for the pageant, Matt questions Jeremy about how he could have woken up with a knife in his hand and not know how it got there. While Matt is sure the Hunter's Mark is to blame, Jeremy worries that it the psycho-killer protect-o ring could also be to blame. What if, like Alaric, he's developing an alter-ego. I hope it's both, personally. Matt reads some hunter research which seems to support his theory that hunterdom is to blame here, though. Rising to his feet, Matt says, "You're not having a psychotic break, Jer. You either tell Elena, or I will." Well honey, it's sort of like a psychotic break, even if the forgetfulness is a passing thing all newbie hunters experience. Regardless of what we call it, or its cause though, surely he should tell Elena, anyhow. Jeremy agrees. He'll tell Elena when he sees her. Just then, Jeremy gets a text from Shady Stefan: "Meet in Lockwood Cellar. Don't tell anyone." When Matt asks Jeremy if he needs a ride to the pageant, Jeremy tells him to go ahead. He'll meet him there. Okay, that's dumb, Jeremy. Never go meet a Salvatore without telling at least one person. Also, its dumb, Show, that Matt came over to get prettied up with Jeremy, but then isn't disturbed when his bud (who isn't driving yet, as far as we know) doesn't need a ride.
Lockwood Mansion. April holds up two gowns for Caroline and Elena's opinion. They both tell her to choose the blue. April looks fond of the red one though, and worries that the blue might be too safe. Elena says safe is good when it comes to the judges, and Caroline tells a little anecdote that I don't feel like sharing, because I'm irrationally irritated by our Vampire Barbie this episode. So there.