Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 1840 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Full-Grown Alpha Male Douche Bag
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2009.11.19
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Logan "Scum" Fell is a vampire. He's back, and he's hungry, particularly for something Jenna-flavored, but based on his reaction when Jenna has the good sense to refuse him an invite, I wouldn't say he's picky. As a seemingly orphaned baby vamp (more on that in the weecap), Scum is not too clear on monster etiquette. He's also desperate to get some revenge on the Brothers Salvatore, or at least find out how and why they're "daywalkers" but his go-to means of persuasion is wooden bullets, so Damon's not feeling too chatty. When Scum absconds with Caroline from some nighttime event at the school, it's Damon and Stefan to her rescue. Since Scum has rendered the poor thing unconscious, Stefan takes her home, leaving Damon to slay Scum. And he's totally going to. He just wants to find out who sired him, first. If Scum knows, he's not saying, so Damon's about to decapitate him. But then -- Scum tells Damon he knows another way to free the vamps held captive beneath the old Falls Church (where Katherine and two baker's dozen other vamps are magically buried). Damon can't resist, so when he sees the Sheriff approaching the scene, he tells Scum to make it look like he over-powered him and then take off -- which he does. They plan to meet later, in the woods. When the sheriff arrives, Damon plays helpless and hapless human to the understanding Sheriff who is just glad to hear her daughter got home safely.
Meanwhile, Jeremy tries to make nice with Tyler, but Tyler hasn't been enthralled to the extent Jeremy was, so they end up coming to blows. Their fight is broken up by Tyler's Mayor-Dad and that new teacher who likes invites and bling -- Alaric Saltzman. But the Mayor then drags the boys outside and tries to make them fight each other, even though they're not interested. Alaric follows them and puts a stop to the Mayor's sadistic game, but not before the Mayor is all too rough on his son, acting -- in Alaric's words, like "a full-grown alpha male douche bag." Later, Alaric encounters Scum, knows him for what he is, and stakes him. Sigh. I have such a thing for slayers. And of course, because Damon can fall in shit and come up smelling like roses, when the sheriff finds Scum's decaying, vamp corpse, she thinks Damon is to thank -- so she does. And somewhere in there, Germ hunts Tyler down, and offers sympathy that his father is such a dick, but his sympathy pisses Tyler off, so he punches Germ. When Germ asks Ty what his problem is, Ty pauses under the FULL MOON, staggers, and says, "I don't know." Say, did anyone else think it was hinky that MFHS' teams are the Timberwolves? Yeah, me neither. Arrooooooo!
Meanwhile, Stefan and Elena continue to ride the seesaw of love. At first, that's a metaphor. Later? Not so much, if you know what I'm saying, and I know you do. Also? She tells him she loves him. But after the loving, he leaves her in his room while he goes to get her a drink, and she (FINALLY) finds Katherine's portrait – on account of the fact that he just left it lying out! Stefan's super-vamp hearing fails him, and he doesn't hear her take off. When he returns to his room, all that's left is her Vervain-laced amulet, lying atop Katherine's picture. As the magical necklace-free Elena makes her tearful way through the night, some vamp or other boogedy boogedy jumps in front of her car and she doesn't have time to swerve; she hits him; her windshield breaks; her car goes careening and flips over and over, landing upside down. Still trapped in the car, Elena tries not to freak as she looks out the window at her "victim." He unbreaks all his bones, stands and strides towards her wrecked car. Elena screams because these BASTARDS ARE LEAVING US HANGING LIKE THIS FOR THE HOLIDAY HIATUS. Grr. Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh.
I'll catch you on the flipside with the full weecap, which will include Matt's feelings for Caroline!!! In the meantime, come on over to the forums. It will keep you from inviting your ex in. Seriously? Don't invite him in.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Previously, on The Vampire Diaries: your faithful recapper promised her tween daughter that for said daughter's birthday, she would take said daughter and friends to see New Moon, and then out for ice cream and then, said recapper would host a slumber party for them. And being a woman of her word, your faithful recapper did all these things, and then nearly died, because 11 year olds have no problem staying up until 2:00 AM, provided they've loaded up on sugar, whereas faithful recappers [who may possibly be age (11 times 3) and then some], are not nearly so energetic. So, since we're staring down a terribly long-ass hiatus, you'll have plenty of time to find out what happened previously, on The Vampire Diaries. The CW is even running a "marathon" of the first ten episodes during the week of December 14, 2009 (two episodes per night -- Monday through Friday). Be there, or be previously...less.
Now: We pick up where we left off at the end off "History Repeating." It's nighttime and Logan "Scum" Fell is at the Gilbert Gables door, trying to wheedle an invite inside, from Jenna. She's still pissed that he rekindled their romance and then took off, with no notice except an email. He's surprised that there was an e-mail, but hides it well enough through his repeated requests for an invitation and his degrading summary of her character. "C'mon Jenna. It's me. I know you. You were always one step from a maybe -- a tiny nudge to yes." Aunt Jenna ain't having that, yo, and closes the door in his face. Hurrah! Out on the sidewalk, Scum eyes the older gentleman next door who's taking his trash the curb. Drusilla says: "I met an old man. I didn't like him. He got stuck in my teeth." And Scum must have boned up on his Buffy (not like that, although given Buffy's...never mind) because in his crazy baby-vamp persona, Scum really takes on an air of Spike. After he greets the gentleman, he decides since he's got no floss handy, he'll let him continue back inside his safe-as-houses home, unmolested. There's more Spike-ishness as Logan inhales deeply, and his vamp sniffer picks up the scent of a succulent niblet who is jogging around the corner. Did you see James Marsters written all over Scum's physicality, in this scene? Niblet stops, because she's a big fan of Scum's newscast; she's missed him while he's been off the air. She introduces herself as Daphne; they shake hands and then Scum vamps out -- right there on the sidewalk. Right in front of Gilbert Gables. We fade to black just about the time Daphne is blacking out from blood loss, and...Title card.