Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 96 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT A Touch of Grey Kinda Suits You, Anyway
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 11.07.2013
Damon tells Elena that Silas is "...M.I.A. and out and about, which is pretty bad. And Amara's been cured, which is even worse, because now she's easy to kill. So the fate of the Other Side, where Bonnie currently resides, rests on the fate of a living, breathing human being we now need to protect." Elena: "We need to protect?" We cut outside. Damon opens the SUV hatch to reveal a bound and gagged Amara. "Elena, meet crazy pants. Crazy Pants, meet Elena. Despite the gag, Amara screams. Perhaps she's the Original Elena Hater.
Stefan arrives in his room to find a still wounded Q waiting for him. No, I don't know how or why she's in Mossy Manse, but this is the end of the episode, so let's just go with it. When Stefan asks what she's doing there, she doesn't answer, anyhow. Instead she moans about how awful it's been watching history repeat. I imagine it's much like listening to your frigging dialogue, Q. Stefan offers to heal her, but Q wants to keep her wound as a reminder of what he truly is. "Memories are important." She says she made a mistake when she found him, by easing his pain. "You used to have a lot of pain, remember." She raises her hand and Stefan doubles over in pain. She magically restores his memories, blahing about how he killed his own father, forced Damon to be a vampire, hated himself for a century, and then fell for Elena. Stefan asks her to stop, but Q says the ending is the best part. She reminds him of the physical agony of drowning over and over again, all summer. "The only thing keeping you sane was the hope that one day, one of the two people you loved -- they'd come rescue you. But they didn't. I did. Always remember that." Witchery over, Stefan pants. Title card.
Well, that's it for me. Just tell me -- who's the Augustine Vampire? Is it Aaron, or a Player To Be Named (who may damned well be played by either Paul Wesley or Ian Somerhalder --- I don't know which is worse).
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