Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | 8 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT New York Dolls
By Cindy McLennan | Season 4 | Episode 17 | Aired on 03.21.2013
Damon stares at Lexi as he hops down from the bar and insists that talking about Katherine isn't going to help him. Lexi: "Why not?" Damon moves in close. His voice is soft as he says, "Because she's not the person I care about." Lexi looks at him for a moment before she can conjure up a response. "It flipped. The switch, why didn't you tell me?" Damon says, "Because I barely felt it at first. But every night it's gotten strong. It worked. You worked." He takes her face in his hands, and they kiss. As things heat up, we flash forward to the...
Present. NYC. Elena's all, "You and Lexi? Here? On the bar?" She takes her hand off the bar, as if to avoid 30-something year old sex cooties. Damon says, "On the bar, on the stage, on the roof. It was a very long night." Elena says, "Yeah," then considers for a moment, before grabbing a bottle of booze from behind the bar. As she starts to walk off, Damon asks where she's going. Elena says, "To the roof. I want to hear the rest of the story." Damon seems unconvinced, but he's willing to play along. At the other end of the bar, Rebekah watches as they walk off. Elena gives her an In Your Face face. Some big goon starts pawing at Rebekah's hair. With one hand, she shoves him down, flips her pretty hair and says, "Excuse you." Go ahead to the next paragraph. I'm just going to hang back here and watch that another hundred times.
Mystic Falls. Woods. Caroline and Klaus are searching for the other possible third point on the Triangle of Terror. They are, of course, bickering, so Caroline asks Klaus if he even knows how to read a map. Klaus says, "Yes. And you know who taught me? My friend, Magellan." Hee. What's even funnier is I'm not sure Hooky Artist Caroline gets the reference because in response she says, "Wow. You had a friend. Was he drawn to your darkness, too?" Klaus says he was talking about Damon and Elena when he said that, "But clearly, it struck a chord with you." Caroline insists it's not true; there's no allure to darkness.
Klaus asks if she's never felt an attraction to someone who does terrible things, but cares only about her. Caroline: "I did once, when I thought he was worth it, but it turns out some people can't be fixed. People who do terrible things are just terrible people." Thanks for spoiling the dramatic climax of the episode, Care Bear. She's not only spoiled us, she's also hurt Klaus's widdle feelings, so he changes the subject and points out that they've arrived at their destination, "...although judging by the lack of witches, here is not the correct location." We cut to the...