Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT The Writing's On The Wall
By Cindy McLennan | Season 3 | Episode 7 | Aired on 10.27.2011
Grill: Elena rounds a corner as sees the newly manifest-to-her Anna, making out with Jeremy.
Downtown, Exterior: Stefan sees the now-manifest Lexi.
Grill bar: A now-manifest Mason grabs Damon's drink. Alaric sees him and hisses to Damon, "Mason." Mason says, "God, I miss whiskey," and takes a healthy swig. He then smashes the glass against Damon's forehead. After he yells, "Ow," Damon turns to Alaric and says, "Told ya." Commercial.
Downtown: Neither Lexi nor Stefan have any idea how he can see her, but Lexi is determined to take advantage of it while she can, and man, both the show and I need a new term for "off the rails." When Stefan says he doesn't want Lexi's help, she mocks him and says he says that every time. When he suggests that maybe she should listen this time, Lexi smashes his head against a car and knocks him out. YAY!
Abandoned Mansion: A tearful Bonnie sobs that she can't believe her Grams is here. Grams tells her there's no time for tears and then greets Caroline. Caroline may be a currently freaked-out vampire, but she's still a polite southern girl. "Hi, Miss Sheila." Sheila exposits that when Bonnie brought Jeremy back to life, she cracked open the door to the other side. "There's an old witch over here. She took advantage of it. She took advantage of you, honey. When you did that spell to send Vicki Donovan away, she wedged the door wide open, giving a free pass to anybody with unfinished business." Sheila knows all this because, "Witches talk, even on the other side. Who do you think makes all the rules?" When Bonnie asks what the old witch wants, Sheila says, "That's Original Vampire business, not yours. I don't want you getting in the middle of that. I'm here, because you upset the balance of nature and it's your duty to set it right. You need to close that door." Riddle me this, Grams. If the last time Bonnie tried to shut the door, she wedged it wide open, how do we know that this time, she won't blow the door right off the hinges?
We cut to Elena at the Grill. She's still with Anna and Jeremy in a back room, but she's on the phone with Caroline, asking how they do that (i.e. close that door). Back at Abandoned Mansion, Caroline says that the old witch is using her talisman (Elena's necklace) to draw power from this side to "the other side." That phrase is as overused as "off the rails" but I don't want to add to the confusion already inherent in this episode, by coming up with a new one. Caroline says, "I know you're not going to like this, but Bonnie needs to destroy it." Putting Bo before bro, Elena says, "I just walked in on Jeremy kissing the reason I am completely okay with that." Elena tells Caroline to text Damon, because he has the necklace and says she'll call Care Bear right back.