Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Your Diabolical Plan: The Sequel
By Cindy McLennan | Season 1 | Episode 12 | Aired on 01.28.2010
Jeremy is sketching what may be Vervain when the Gilbert Gables doorbell rings. It's a pizza delivery man, and because Elena and Stefan are too mean to tell her nearest and dearest that they're living in a town crawling with vampires, Jeremy invites him in -- so we know he's a vampire right away, but just in case you took off your thinking cap when you got home, the camera gives us a close shot of his feet crossing the threshold. Too bad Elena can't watch from our angle, because she's none the wiser when she comes downstairs to pay Pizza Boy his $22.00 plus tip. After she shuts the door, Pizza Boy pulls up his hood to show us that he is Humpty Dumpty. Man this show moves fast.
Damon tears apart Mossy Manse library. And while I'd be harping, "I am so not cleaning that up," Stefan, instead, asks what he's looking for. Damon says it's none of his concern. Stefan's all: pshaw. Elena is his concern and Damon put her in harm's way by bringing her to Atlanta, GA. Damon taunts that they had a blast together, so Stefan taunts him back. "I get it; you're just bitter that one of us gets to be with the person that we love, and poor Katherine is just out of reach.... Unless there's another way for you to get into that tomb. Is that what Bree said?" Damon quips that Stefan is pathetic when he's fishing. Stefan counters that Damon is transparent when deflecting, so Damon deflects some more: "Don't you have school?" Stefan smiles as he walks away.
MFHS; classroom: Alaric gives Jeremy back his extra-credit paper. He's earned an A for it, but Alaric (who recently slayed Logan "Scum" Fell, intrepid boy reporter and vampire n00b) wants to pump Jeremy for information. "You don't actually think there are vampires in Mystic Falls?" Germ says he doesn't, but points out the unusually high rate of animal attacks and missing persons in town. Alaric says it's conjecture, but creative conjecture. "I just wouldn't get too caught up in the whole conspiracy theory of it all." Jeremy says he won't, but before he leaves, Alaric asks him for his source. "A first person account of the Civil War is like porn for a history teacher." Jeremy is happy to oblige. I'm happy (I think) that my daughter (who is not usually allowed to watch this one, but weaseled her way in when I was re-watching) didn't ask me what porn means. Anyhow, Jeremy hands his teacher Jonathan Gilbert's journal.