Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Full-Grown Alpha Male Douche Bag
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 11.19.2009
ght: Scum exits the warehouse, approaches his SUV and hears a clattering noise that stops him in his tracks. He looks around, but seeing nothing, he turns back toward his ride and is Stealth Salvatored. BY ALARIC! Scum backs up a few paces and asks, "Who are you?" Alaric says he's "a friend of Jenna's." When Scum takes that to mean Jenna sent him, Alaric clarifies that he came on his own. Logan smiles. "Oh, I get it. Well, buddy, I know you think this makes you brave, but actually it makes you pretty stupid." Alaric's not deterred. "Either way, here I am." When Scum asks Alaric what he wants, he replies, "Well, Jenna's a good person. She deserves the best. I'm here to make sure she gets it." Mmmmm. Alaric. Logan circles him. "Is that supposed to be a threat? Couldn't you throw a punch -- maybe provoke me a little?" Alaric stays on his toes. "I'm not a violent guy -- by design." Logan says he's not a very smart one, either and then turns his back on the man he mistakes for no threat as he adds: "Because you have no idea who you're talking to." As Scum speaks, Alaric lets a stake slip from his sleeve into his palm. When Scum turns on him -- in full vamp face -- Alaric is ready, and stakes him through his cheating heart. Scum falls to the ground with a gasp and starts to decompose like Vicki and Lexi before him, but this time, I'm cheering! Oh, my. What is it about me and slayers? Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Slayers. Alaric, for his part, looks like he's struggling to hold onto his lunch as he steps over Scum's rotting corpse and makes his way into the night. I do wish dead vamps poofed into ashes, don't you?MFHS Exterior: Tyler waits at Matt's car and tells him he's giving him a ride home. Pudding Pop says sure, but then stops to face his friend. "Look, I like Caroline. She's got this thing -- this -- this way about her, and I like her, okay? And I'm not going to defend it or apologize for it," because that's the Pure Pudding Pop way, darn it. When Tyler says, "Okay," Matt adds "So stop your little bromance bitch act." Whee! Tyler seems to be swallowing his own smile as he again says, "Okay." Matt heads towards the driver seat of his truck, while Tyler grabs shotgun.
Caroline's room: Caroline sleeps as her useless (if well-meaning) mother caresses her face. Her maternal moment is interrupted by her phone (which never wakes Caroline). Liz picks it up, and tells whoever on the other end of the line that she'll be right there.
Mossy Manse: After the loving, Elena notes that she's never before been in Stefan's room. She wants to know if he leaves it as is -- while he comes and goes. Stefan says all his important memories are there; it's the only place he has that has remained constant. Elena smiles as she snuggles down into his bare chest. Have mercy. When he asks her if she's thirsty, she replies, "A little. You?" and then realizes her faux pas. But there in the afterglow, that's a funny, awkward moment -- one which in no way reflects the serious nature of Stefan Salvatore's true nature. When he leaves to get her a drink, Elena gets up (wearing only Stefan's shirt) and inspects his room. She looks at his shelves full of books and smiles. She then moves on to sniff the scent of one of the hundreds of candles he has lit, and inspects the contents of his occasional table. Spotting a picture, she picks it up for closer inspection. IT'S KATHERINE'S PORTRAIT! Looking as if she's about to take sick (and well she should), Elena drops it on the table and we cut to...
The Woods: As Damon approaches the old Falls' Church ruins, his cell phone rings. It's Liz "She's-the-Sheriff" Forbes thanking him ever so for staking Logan "Scum" Fell, outside the old Fell warehouse where Scum was hoarding the corpses of his innocent victims. "This town owes you so much. So do I." When she terminates the call, we flash back to Damon. It takes a moment for it all to sink into his skull. When it does, he lets the hand holding his phone drop to his side, and he looks around for his magical toadstool, 'cause pretty boy has some crying to do.