Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | 104 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Ding Dong The Dead's A Witch
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.31.2013
In another private room hosting more of the collection that everyone is there to see, yet no one is bothering to actually see, Q finds her pendant/talisman and starts to chant. She's interrupted by Stylus, who she assumes is Stefan. Stylus tries to put the whammy on her again, but his powers start slipping away. He falls to his knees in pain. We cut to...
The original, inexplicably private room. Stefan twitches just enough to get Damon to come close, then he snaps Damon's neck. "How does it feel, brother?" Commercial.
Q still thinks Stylus is Stefan, at least until the real Stefan walks in the room and tells her who is who. He punches Stylus in the face, takes back his daywalker ring, and tells Q that Silas is working with Damon, "...and everything he said to you is a lie." Once Stefan leaves the room, Q confronts Silas. She holds out a hand and chants, but Silas laughs that she can't kill him. She says she doesn't need to, yet. As she again starts to work her magic, Silas taunts that she loves him. She admits she used to, "...but then you broke my heart. Now I'm going to break yours." She reaches in his chest and exposits that she's stopping it from working so that the blood can't flow. He'll dry up and rot from the inside out so that the world can see him for the cold, grey hideous monster he is. With tears in her eyes, she breathes a nearly satisfied sigh, like you do when you are a crazy bitch who can't get over the ex she knows is so bad for her.
The ball is just about over. Aaron is on his way out, but Maxfield stops him and orders Aaron to hand over his keys, since he's been drinking. We learn the bad doctor is the boy's guardian. He warns Aaron to stay away from Elena Gilbert, but doesn't give him a reason, other than that he cares for him. We cut to the...
Second inexplicably private room. Damon is standing over a cold, grey, hideous, lifeless-enough Silas. Elena at first mistakes him for Stefan, but Damon sets her straight, and says Q must have had her way with him. Elena thinks that's a good thing, so Damon has to set her straight again, which I assume he does during the commercial break.
We return to another hotel room. Nadia wakes and tells her mother (!) that she was a fool not to run, because Silas will find her. Katherine reminds her daughter (!) that she's good at dodging diabolical fiends, and figures she's safe at least until Silas figures out how to destroy the Other Side. "If he cures himself before then, he goes back to being a witch. If he dies as a witch, he'll be stuck in..." you don't need me to spell this out. Katherine asks Nadia where she was in 1498. Nadia doesn't remember. She was only eight years old, so she asks her mom why she wants to know. Kiki says by that time, she'd ditched the people who were chasing her. She returned to Bulgaria and searched every village, but she couldn't find Nadia. Nadia is moved to learn her mother went back for her. Katherine is moved that Nadia is moved. It's all so moving that we're moved to tears. But shut them right off, because this next scene doesn't deserve it.